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Just pointing out that the UK has the highest pension and minimum wage we ever had. Also the highest level of regulatory protection.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Just pointing out that the UK has the highest pension and minimum wage we ever had. Also the highest level of regulatory protection.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
Because it is rarely mentioned when everyone talks about how terrible everything is.
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All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
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If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
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This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
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I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
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November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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"It's the finest place to live on Earth!"
@mrjamesob.bsky.social defends London from 'racists and freak shows'.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social defends London from 'racists and freak shows'.
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"It's the finest place to live on Earth!"
@mrjamesob.bsky.social defends London from 'racists and freak shows'.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social defends London from 'racists and freak shows'.
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It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
Lobbyist at firm with close ties to Tories will help select Ofcom chair
Appointment of Michael Prescott as interviewer follows move to give Paul Dacre chance to reapply
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
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The right wing has forced out a right winger from the BBC for not being right wing enough and will now talk more about the BBC not being right wing enough in right wing papers and right wing talk shows that hate the BBC for not being right wing enough
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The right wing has forced out a right winger from the BBC for not being right wing enough and will now talk more about the BBC not being right wing enough in right wing papers and right wing talk shows that hate the BBC for not being right wing enough
He incited an insurrection. Fullstop. All that panorama did was give a cliffnotes of a long rambling tirade.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXG...
BBC boss Tim Davie resigns over Trump documentary edit
YouTube video by LBC
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
He incited an insurrection. Fullstop. All that panorama did was give a cliffnotes of a long rambling tirade.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXG...
@shinrobjira.bsky.social IT'S HAPPENING
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
@shinrobjira.bsky.social IT'S HAPPENING
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You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…
The other side of the story is important in a world where the media and certain political factions are constantly trying to manipulate you into hating someone.
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The other side of the story is important in a world where the media and certain political factions are constantly trying to manipulate you into hating someone.
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When the far right invents or exaggerates bad behaviour by their foes - see ‘cancel culture’; threats to free speech; anti-fascist violence; financial corruption; cronyism etc - they do so to preemptively excuse their own far worse & blatant abuses in exactly the same spaces.
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When the far right invents or exaggerates bad behaviour by their foes - see ‘cancel culture’; threats to free speech; anti-fascist violence; financial corruption; cronyism etc - they do so to preemptively excuse their own far worse & blatant abuses in exactly the same spaces.
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i don’t normally endorse block lists (i’m on some, weirdly lumped in with people i myself have blocked) but i don’t see how blocking all these accts with one button is bad.
most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.
most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
i don’t normally endorse block lists (i’m on some, weirdly lumped in with people i myself have blocked) but i don’t see how blocking all these accts with one button is bad.
most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.
most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.
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Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
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One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.
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A foam head performance -->
Behind the on-set puppetry in ‘How to Train Your Dragon’.
Read the excerpt from issue #39 of @beforesmag.bsky.social.
beforesandafters.com/2025/10/07/a...
Behind the on-set puppetry in ‘How to Train Your Dragon’.
Read the excerpt from issue #39 of @beforesmag.bsky.social.
beforesandafters.com/2025/10/07/a...
October 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A foam head performance -->
Behind the on-set puppetry in ‘How to Train Your Dragon’.
Read the excerpt from issue #39 of @beforesmag.bsky.social.
beforesandafters.com/2025/10/07/a...
Behind the on-set puppetry in ‘How to Train Your Dragon’.
Read the excerpt from issue #39 of @beforesmag.bsky.social.
beforesandafters.com/2025/10/07/a...
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I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.
October 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.
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Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.
October 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.
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Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.