Rory Lawless
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Rory Lawless
@rorylawless.com
cantore's shin pad

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Glasman represents a long standing Labour tradition of North London intellectuals who think they understand the working classes which in his case is to think they are racists who must be pandered to (the Tony Benn version was more romantic if just as wrong)
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Is that why they called it the Big Beautiful Bill 😳
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Just got home from a screening of Frankenstein in 35mm at the wonderful AFI Silver. It was a really well made telling of the story with a great performance by Jacob Elordi.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Ted Lasso! Can you hear me?

Ted Lasso. Ted Lasso, your girls took a hell of a beating! Your girls took a hell of a beating!

#NWSLPlayoffs
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It: Welcome to Derry/Londonderry
October 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
YouTube video by Harvard Business Review
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Watching @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social for the first time in 3 or 4 years, why is it so bright now?
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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In her new book Independent, former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre writes that party infighting, bias and disloyalty drove her to leave the Democratic Party. n.pr/3LkEZjO
Karine Jean-Pierre on why she left the Democrats — and calls herself independent
In her new book Independent, former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre writes that party infighting, bias and disloyalty drove her to leave the Democratic Party.
n.pr
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I posted a package using the “Royal Mail Tracked 24” service on Saturday. Today, I received an email that said it will arrive tomorrow (Thursday). They do say “next working day” is an “aim, not a guarantee” but 4 working days is stretching things somewhat.
October 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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As in, "should we do affirmative action" and "is affirmative action legal" are two separate questions that basically nobody else except americans tries to answer by punting to the second one
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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one of the weirder american traits is immediately taking any complex philosophical questions to "what has the supreme court said about this". like whether free speech covers covid misinformation or whether affirmative action is good is a deeper question than "is this legal"
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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"one more quick analysis"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Very much enjoyed @ppfideas.bsky.social "Films of Ideas" @ Regent Street Cinemas on Thursday. It was my first time watching the film Rosa Luxemburg, which was excellent on its own. The addition of the podcast recording with @leaypi.bsky.social was fascinating and really helped provide context.
October 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Cheung finished with this moving song:

“You pushed away the severe storm.
You made us believe, C̶o̶m̶r̶a̶d̶e̶ ̶K̶i̶m̶ ̶J̶o̶n̶g̶-̶i̶l̶ President Donald Trump.
We cannot live without you.
Our country cannot exist without you!”
🇺🇸 The White House has lashed out at the Norwegian Nobel Committee after it awarded the peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and overlooked US President Donald Trump.
➡️ u.afp.com/Sm6b
October 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Is this totalitarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Business analyst, data scientist, data analyst
Editor in chief, city editor, features editor
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I arrived back in the UK this morning and was startled to discover the entire economy has reoriented around the production and sale of flags.

#ukpol #flags #vexillology #ANationOfVexillologists
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Rosemonde Kouassi saved Sunday.
October 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

A moment for THAT Rosemonde Kouassi game-winner 🎥
October 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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perennial reminder that most other countries don’t regularly shut themselves down
September 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM