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astromaker.bsky.social
Excellent interview with Helen Joyce of Sex Matters on Woman's Hour today.

From 09:43 to 26:45
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Woman's Hour - Isabel Allende, Sex Matters, Julia Gillard, P Diddy trial - BBC Sounds
Best-selling author Isabel Allende on her new novel, My Name Is Emilia Del Valle.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
Colossal stupidity on show here but actually hugely revealing about Trump's cancerous view of the world. He can't grasp the concept of mutual benefit. Everything in his life - from relationships to business - must have a winner & loser.

What a tragedy of a man.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 4
Trump: "We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we're essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we're saving hundreds of billions of dollars. It's very simple."
May 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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theguardian.com
The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted | Sonia Sodha
The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted | Sonia Sodha
Last week’s ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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pkrugman.bsky.social
In my Substack post this morning: "Does anyone doubt that when inflation rises, [Trump will] dismiss it as “fake news”?"

I only got to be prescient for a few hours ...
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Apr 18
Trump: "Prices are coming down, not going up. Only the fake news says they're going up. The only thing that's even are interest rates and if we had a Fed chairman that understood what he was doing, interest rates would be coming down. He should bring them down."
April 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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sonia-sodha.bsky.social
Trans people have the same protections in law as other groups but men cannot opt into legal protections reserved for women however they identify, and that is how it should be. The end.
April 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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anandmenon.bsky.social
This is a fascinating, must read piece on what a European force in Ukraine should consist of
March 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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annettedittert.bsky.social
Starmer literally having Zelenskyy’s back today while trying to build bridges.

Somehow a huge relief to watch Starmer doing this so incredibly well.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Mar 1
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer walks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to his motorcade after their meeting in Number 10
March 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social
Come and see, indeed.
The protagonist from the Byelorussian WWII film “Come and See”
February 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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garrykasparov.bsky.social
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
jimsciutto.bsky.social Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · Feb 28
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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davidfrum.bsky.social
Vance mistook Ukraine for the Republican congressional caucus
February 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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ldfreedman.bsky.social
Latest from @samfr.bsky.social looks at the shared influences on the far-right in Europe and the US. They appear to be working more together yet those who wish to develop their appeal to voters look to distance themselves from the more extreme and from Trump/Musk. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...?
Fault Lines
How Trump and Musk are exposing fractures in the global right-wing alliance
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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thestudyofwar.bsky.social
Ukraine did not misuse or lose half of the aid the United States has provided.

Ukraine repeatedly invited Putin to negotiate in early 2022. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
February 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
French President Emmanuel Macron:

"Russia has produced a considerable war effort, with the result that Russia today invests 10% of its gross domestic product in arms production. In France, it's 2%. And we've almost doubled our budget since I've been here.
February 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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machete.gay
As a former energy industry professional, this is an EXCELLENT article that details exactly why Canadian crude is such a vital part of the oil supply and CANNOT be replaced by US production.
edconway.bsky.social Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · Feb 2
✍️Despite being the world's biggest oil producer, America is v reliant on Canadian oil. And getting MORE reliant, not less.
So what happens when tariffs get imposed on Canada?
The answers are quite unsettling, for the American people... and for everyone else edconway.substack.com/p/america-st...
America still needs Canadian oil. Here's why
And why the tariffs on Canada could plausibly lead to America doing deals with considerably more shady countries. A dive into the weird and wonderful world of heavy oil
edconway.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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womensportfeminism.bsky.social
Oh please.
'Because the undifferentiated genitalia that males and females share very early in fetal development are “phenotypically female”, you could argue he just made everyone legally female.'
Just no.
Phenotype = interaction of genotype with environment.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
The confusing and vague executive order underscores how complex sex is and why it’s hard to reduce it into a neat binary
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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geoffreyharris.bsky.social
Barely more than 6 months now until we all get to celebrate Daniel Hannan day!
What Britain looks like after Brexit Daniel Hannan Jun 21, 2016 "It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn’t just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours. The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country. Older industries, too, have revived as energy prices have fallen back to global levels: steel, cement, paper, plastics and ceramics producers have become competitive again." "Now, the UK has again become a centre for world shipping. Shale oil and gas came on tap, almost providentially, just as the North Sea reserves were depleting, with most of the infrastructure already in place. Outside the EU, we have been able to augment this bonanza by buying cheap Chinese solar panels. In consequence, our fuel bills have tumbled, boosting productivity, increasing household incomes and stimulating the entire economy. During the first 12 months after the vote, Britain confirmed with the various countries that have trade deals with the EU that the same deals would continue. It also used that time to agree much more liberal terms with those states which had run up against EU protectionism, including India, China and Australia. These new treaties came into effect shortly after independence. Britain, like the EFTA countries, now combines global free trade with full participation in EU markets. Our universities are flourishing, taking the world’s brightest students and, where appropriate, charging accordingly. Their revenues, in consequence, are rising, while they continue to collaborate with research centres in Europe and around the world." "Unsurprisingly, several other European countries have opted to copy Britain’s deal with the EU, based as it is upon a common market rather than a common government. Some of these countries were drawn from EFTA (Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are all bringing their arrangements into line with ours). Some came from further afield (Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine). Some followed us out of the EU (Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands). The United Kingdom now leads a 22-state bloc that forms a free trade area with the EU, but remains outside its political structures. For their part, the EU 24 have continued to push ahead with economic, military and political amalgamation. They now have a common police force and army, a pan-European income tax and a harmonised system of social security. These developments have prompted referendums in three other EU states on whether to copy Britain. Perhaps the greatest benefit, though, is not easy to quantify. Britain has recovered its self-belief. As we left the EU, we straightened our backs, looked about us, and realised that we were still a nation to be reckoned with: the world’s fifth economy and fourth military power, one of five members on the UN Security Council and a leading member of the G7 and the Commonwealth. We recalled, too, that we were the world’s leading exporter of soft power"
January 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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edconway.bsky.social
🚨How worried should Rachel Reeves be about rising bond yields?
😨How worried should the rest of us be?
😱And is this a repeat of 2022 (or even worse)?
After all, UK 30yr govt bond yields are now at the HIGHEST level in more than a quarter century.
📽️My 4min explainer👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mDx...
Long-term borrowing costs hit new high | Ed Conway analysis
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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twlldun.bsky.social
How it started/how it’s going
January 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Terrific by Sam as usual. I'd only add that the best thing going for the Conservatives is that the Liberal Democrats visibly have no interest in occupying the centre-right slot (and perhaps electorally speaking they couldn't anyway) which does I think put a hard floor on the Tory vote.
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jan 5
New post just out:

"Will Reform Kill the Tory Party?"

With Badenoch struggling and Farage getting huge amounts of coverage what are the chances that, after 200 years, the Conservatives could stop being the main party of the right?

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
Will Reform Kill the Tory Party?
According to betting markets Nigel Farage is currently favourite to be Prime Minister after Keir Starmer.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
I think part of the answer is that we forget how discontented people were then. Loads of column inches in the 30s and 70s taken up with complaints that democracy had failed etc...
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Dec 29
I've also been thinking about this.

Life is hard for many people, but we are nowhere near the conditions of the 1930s or even the '70s.

For all their faults, democratic states provide services today beyond the imagination of most generations.

So we need a deeper analysis of democratic discontent.
davidheniguk.bsky.social David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · Dec 29
Based on my Sunday reading so far the big question of 2025 shouldn't be Trump, but why there is so much dissatisfaction around the world when more people than ever (including the dissatisfied) have more than ever.

So many possible answers, yet so little curiosity about the question.
December 29, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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reshetz.bsky.social
Being 10 lines down, amidst your worst crashout (yet) which is so bad you had to pull out the voice modifier, and still remembering to endorse russian propaganda is crazy work
December 29, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
Based on my Sunday reading so far the big question of 2025 shouldn't be Trump, but why there is so much dissatisfaction around the world when more people than ever (including the dissatisfied) have more than ever.

So many possible answers, yet so little curiosity about the question.
December 29, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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tomcalver.bsky.social
NEW: Is the NHS still good value for money?

Billions of pounds are being ploughed into Britain’s health service — with little noticeable improvement in health since 2019.

Critics say the NHS has become bloated and inefficient. Is it?

@thetimes.com

🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/1130...

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December 29, 2024 at 11:25 AM