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Peter Jordan
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Walking, meditation, transport, geography.
Digital professional. Product mgmt, digital analysis, findability, search, content strategy.
""if Labour cannot meet these challenges, it will look every bit as compromised and small as the man who, at the time of writing, was still nominally in charge."

No punches pulled.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
February 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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BBC News presenter asking Chris Mason whether McSweeney going means the heat is off Keir Starmer and Mason gave a waffling answer which ended with ‘I think the key question now is whether or not McSweeney’s departure means the heat is now off Starmer’
February 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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“Anyone could tell you that people are overwhelmed, that the attention economy is struggling with inflation issues, that what we need is more calm technology. But it’s not what we are building.” (by @spavel.bsky.social)

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-circul...
The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Cat by torchlight.
February 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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From France with love - The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde. Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
February 6, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Good afternoon and please use alt text. BlueSky can even be set to require it before you post an image.

Settings > Accessibility > Require Alt Text Before Posting
February 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.

A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 12:37 PM
BBC2 broadcasting boring Curling when there's Freestyle skiing on iPlayer
February 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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So you had a dual stitch up — the Russian/American oligarchs around Farage and Johnson, and the Russian/American oligarchs around Mandelson. Leave or remain, they didn’t want their contacts investigated. So Brexit went ahead.
Lots of things are beginning to make sense now. Given Mandelson’s role in the People’s Vote, and his proximity to Epstein and his MAGA/Russian ties, no wonder they dismissed @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Cambridge Analytica/Vote Leave and our joint investigation into Russian interference
February 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I'm gonna say it - not impressed with the BBC's own intro coverage of the #Winterolympics - seems to be aimed at morons.
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
What a great question!
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Palantir is the bastard child of military-industrial intelligence gathering, co-founded by Peter Thiel, a self-described conservative libertarian

Starmer’s visit to Palantir arranged by Mandelson, Yet no official record kept: no minutes. Just a handshake, a quiet word, & for many a growing unease
'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions'
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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On 14 January Wes Streeting said that waiting lists had fallen three times faster in 20 areas of the country where crack teams had been deployed. We’ve looked at this claim and have questions. 🧵
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Waiting lists cut 3 times faster in highest joblessness areas
Waiting lists in 20 areas in England fall 3 times faster than the national average thanks to experts deployed by government to help supercharge NHS care.
www.gov.uk
February 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Been with the DWP for 16 years. The official figure for fraudulent claims, approx. 2.2%, is, in my experience, broadly accurate. Just wanted to point that out to frothing, raging Daily Mail and Sun readers who think it's closer to 100%.
February 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Parking charge notice scam.

I received a letter today addressed to Registered Keeper [my car's reg] [my address]. The letter itself has no personalisation, time stamp, or photo evidence.

A 🧵 1/n
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Listening to Wendy Morton MP on parliamentlive.tv. Actually impressed.
Parliamentlive.tv - Commons
parliamentlive.tv
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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It'll be interesting to see how much mention Peter Thiel's relationship with Mandelson, and in turn Epstein, gets in the documents HM Gov is preparing to release. Especially so, considering the invasive nature of Palantir's contracts with our institutions. How were they won?
February 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Starmer — a prosecutor with a huge majority, coming in after years of sleaze and mendacity — could have weaponised the corruption of his opponents to incredible advantage. Instead he will be ruined by the living avatar of corruption in his own party. To not see that coming is a serious skill issue.
February 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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The 'freedom Brexit gave us' - what rancid garbage from a ridiculous rancid rightwing shitrag.
Every single time Britain exercised a Brexit freedom, we ended up poorer or in a worse situation as a result.

Just look at immigration under Boris Johnson, the dreadful NZ and Australian trade deals, the plight of our farmers, the loss of funds to the poorest regions, etc. etc.
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
February 2, 2026 at 8:50 AM
5 Classes you took at university

1. Atmosphere, weather and climate
2. Man, land and time
3. Perceptual geography
4. Introduction to psychology
5. Web design and development
5 classes you took in university

1. Food and Famine in the Roman World
2. Athenian Democracy
3. Christianity before the Edict of Milan (=early Christianity)
4. Greek Comedy
5. Introduction to Comparative Linguistics

I think about something to do with one of these pretty much every day.
5 classes you took in university

1. Introduction to Byzantine History
2. Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Cultural History
3. The Reformation in Mecklenburg
4. German literature of the Crusades
5. NT Greek
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I've always thought that when a new UK govt takes office, the second thing the new PM hears is "Prime Minister, the UK is utterly dependent on the US for its security." Now this is in plain sight.
January 31, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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The BBC must hate itself so much to get quite so involved in its own destruction.
Konstantin Kisin has since posted on his own Youtube channel saying he 'dropped truth bombs on Question Time'.

Clearly 'alternative truth' bombs.

The video has had over 400k views and counting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AN1...
January 31, 2026 at 11:41 AM