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Very good by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social. This country's deternination to consume its own young is both disgusting and, i suspect, self defeating.
Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
www.newstatesman.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Very good by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social. This country's deternination to consume its own young is both disgusting and, i suspect, self defeating.
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OBR have taken their fiscal report down. In other news I have safely and fully secured the barn door following the horse bolting incident from earlier today
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
OBR have taken their fiscal report down. In other news I have safely and fully secured the barn door following the horse bolting incident from earlier today
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
What a moment earlier today, hearing the leader of Democratic Belarus speak at the European Delegation to the UK.
I have Belarusian friends, so I followed the 2020 election that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya won very closely.
What she’s doing now is inspirational, and I hope history being made.
I have Belarusian friends, so I followed the 2020 election that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya won very closely.
What she’s doing now is inspirational, and I hope history being made.
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
What a moment earlier today, hearing the leader of Democratic Belarus speak at the European Delegation to the UK.
I have Belarusian friends, so I followed the 2020 election that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya won very closely.
What she’s doing now is inspirational, and I hope history being made.
I have Belarusian friends, so I followed the 2020 election that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya won very closely.
What she’s doing now is inspirational, and I hope history being made.
I picked a bad day to be on a 12-hour flight with no wifi, it seems…
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I picked a bad day to be on a 12-hour flight with no wifi, it seems…
I got some professional photos taken in Korea after getting my hair and makeup done especially, and I’m over the moon with the results!
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I got some professional photos taken in Korea after getting my hair and makeup done especially, and I’m over the moon with the results!
My favourite country in the whole wide world.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My favourite country in the whole wide world.
Made a very pointed change to my WhatsApp status. I’m in Korea, for crying out loud - don’t message me about work shit!!
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Made a very pointed change to my WhatsApp status. I’m in Korea, for crying out loud - don’t message me about work shit!!
In sad travel news, Pokémon GO is blocked in China, even when using a UK sim 🥲
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
In sad travel news, Pokémon GO is blocked in China, even when using a UK sim 🥲
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"I have had six landlords, nine flatmates, [and] two section 21 eviction notices....It is the first moment in my lifetime that I am aware of a piece of legislation materially impacting my life in a positive way. I think this is what enfranchisement is supposed to feel like."
The Renters' Rights Act may be the first law to improve my life
Labour should make more of a fuss of these long overdue reforms
www.newstatesman.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"I have had six landlords, nine flatmates, [and] two section 21 eviction notices....It is the first moment in my lifetime that I am aware of a piece of legislation materially impacting my life in a positive way. I think this is what enfranchisement is supposed to feel like."
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I think RRB is somewhere that Labour’s interest *now* is forcing other parties to go on the record in opposition, in that right now, the bill is bad for current renters (because of the transition period it will create), and its value becomes the “Reform will ban your cat” in 2029.
I am vaguely curious about how Labour have got themselves into a position where one of their landmark pieces of legislation, the Renter's Rights Bill, is finally law, and they have very little interest in promoting it to the point everyone's still talking about Reform!
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I think RRB is somewhere that Labour’s interest *now* is forcing other parties to go on the record in opposition, in that right now, the bill is bad for current renters (because of the transition period it will create), and its value becomes the “Reform will ban your cat” in 2029.
My MP has come off it, I’ve come off it, and we’re both all the healthier for it.
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My MP has come off it, I’ve come off it, and we’re both all the healthier for it.
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This is an *incredibly* good idea.
If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is an *incredibly* good idea.
Literally how I will go.
He died as he lived: muttering “I have right of way, arsehole!”
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Literally how I will go.
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Every city should do this.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every city should do this.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
Meanwhile I shall continue to stare fixedly ahead whenever they hope to be let in during heavy traffic.
I am very ill today and my bed has decided to break - not in a way I can continue sleeping in it. Help!
October 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am very ill today and my bed has decided to break - not in a way I can continue sleeping in it. Help!
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If your response to Jewish people being stabbed to death and mowed down by a car in Manchester is “Gaza” you’re a charlatan and an antisemite and you need to get in the fucking bin.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
If your response to Jewish people being stabbed to death and mowed down by a car in Manchester is “Gaza” you’re a charlatan and an antisemite and you need to get in the fucking bin.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
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Only the BMA could want to stop patients from being able to book an appointment online. Every practice needs more resources, of course, but the 8am scramble is hardly something doctors should be defending. God forbid the public has choice and control! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
GPs in England threaten action over online appointment booking plan
Doctors’ union says GPs will be overwhelmed by ‘triage tsunami’ and gives ministers 48 hours to take measures
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Only the BMA could want to stop patients from being able to book an appointment online. Every practice needs more resources, of course, but the 8am scramble is hardly something doctors should be defending. God forbid the public has choice and control! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The sheer hypocrisy of this.
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The sheer hypocrisy of this.
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election.
I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis.
I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers".
The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland
I mean, I’ll defend London until the cows come home, but ‘world leading nightlife’ is a stretch at best
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I mean, I’ll defend London until the cows come home, but ‘world leading nightlife’ is a stretch at best
Strikes were bound to cause chaos, but the way TfL have managed the disruption has been piss poor. Staff being downright rude to passengers just trying to get home, random route closures and no alternative directions… I could go on
September 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Strikes were bound to cause chaos, but the way TfL have managed the disruption has been piss poor. Staff being downright rude to passengers just trying to get home, random route closures and no alternative directions… I could go on
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Welcome to transfer deadline day for political obsessives.
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Welcome to transfer deadline day for political obsessives.
Times like today make me wish I had finished my dissertation on the role of Labour’s Deputy Leader
September 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Times like today make me wish I had finished my dissertation on the role of Labour’s Deputy Leader
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This is vile. I cannot see how anyone on the left at this time could think intimidating think tank workers and vandalising their workplace for having different politics is legit.
This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.
This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.
On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.
August 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is vile. I cannot see how anyone on the left at this time could think intimidating think tank workers and vandalising their workplace for having different politics is legit.
This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.
This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.