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Tommy Farrell
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A Level Maths Teacher at Cronton Sixth Form College.
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iandunt.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch wins: Eight thoughts on the new Tory leader
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Kemi Badenoch becomes Tory leader: Things are about to get very, very weird
Eight thoughts on the Conservative leadership result
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November 2, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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preachypreach.bsky.social
EPIC LOLS! HOW I BECAME LEADER OF THE TORY PARTY WITH YOUR HELP!
November 2, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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publicsectorlawyer.bsky.social
By Robert Saunders.
November 2, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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crookedfootball.bsky.social
"One ‘reformer’ suggested that as long as men drank in moderation – no more than four litres a day – ‘wine was no more harmful, and markedly more beneficial, than bread.’ "
Julian Barnes · La Chasse au Pinard: Drinking for France
At the beginning of the 20th century, the French ‘drank substantially more than any other people in the world’. But...
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October 31, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Bushy Park
October 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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paulmainwood.bsky.social
US Election: Humans are very bad at thinking about bimodal probability distributions, especially with lots of correlation amongst the parts. Twelve days out, I think that's exactly what we've got.
Complete with squeaky-bum predictions.
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October 25, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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pmsmith.bsky.social
Here’s a Simon Jenkins housing column that makes sense - because it’s about him, rather than by him.

(It’s by @jonnelledge.bsky.social)

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Nimby Watch: Why no one should listen to Simon Jenkins
For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re taking a look at the work of Simon Jenkins, perhaps the most high-profile Nimby in Britain… Where are we going this week? The pages of The Guardian. Tha...
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October 24, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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cesigno.bsky.social
idea of selling data to American fascists is worrying, but preventing that by making your records illegible to doctors treating you is like resisting gentrification by shitting in your front garden
October 21, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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October 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
In the last week, Labour hit a crucial milestone on getting rid of hereditary peers, unlocked £1bn funding for social housing insulation, initiated plans to regulate buy-now-pay-later lenders and started to coalesce around an HS2 replacement. Barely any chat about this at all.
October 18, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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profmarkelliott.bsky.social
New post | The new Attorney General on the rule of law publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/10/17/t...
The new Attorney General on the rule of law
Earlier this week, the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, delivered the 2024 Bingham Lecture, entitled ‘The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism’. Although not a party political speech as such, he was evi…
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October 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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If you have read or shared The Atlantic article on college reading, I beg you to read this piece by a high school teacher interviewed for the piece.
The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
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October 6, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Particularly good 'Ask Shrimsley' by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social this week. I particularly enjoyed "Nothing would induce me to actually read these either but reviewers describe them as “raw”, which usually suggests a degree of self-analysis."
Ask Shrimsley: I’ve borked Britain. Is it time to write my memoirs?
Yes, please do. Everyone is dying to know why it wasn’t your fault
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October 5, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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🔥🔥🔥 "If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, they could ask for an introduction from Lord Frost - whose spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius." 😱😱😱 ~AA
Post from Robert Pestor: There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius. Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same way at roughly the same time if Sunak had somehow won the election. The transfer was being negotiated on the recent Tory government’s watch - including by Cleverly as foreign sec and then by Cameron - and the deadline was in effect set by Washington. I am told that Pres Biden wanted the deal done before the 5 November election. Biden wanted certainty about the future of the US military base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia, just in case Donald Trump were to win the election. For confirmation that the deal was clinched on a timetable and in a style to suit the US administration, see Biden’s statement that “it is a clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome longstan Post by Robert Peston cot'd: "Biden pointed out that the agreement between the UK and Mauritius meant the US had secured “the effective operation of the joint [military] facility on Diego Garcia into the next century.” It is therefore curious Tugendhat should describe the transfer as “leaving our allies” exposed when the UK’s most important ally, America, has welcomed it. And Cleverly’s denigration of Starmer as “weak, weak, weak” for formalising it seems eccentric when the negotiations with Mauritius were in full swing when he was in the cabinet. As for Liz Truss’s assertion that Boris Johnson is to blame, I am told that Johnson was the last PM to wholly oppose giving up sovereignty over Chagos, and that the talks did not start properly till she was PM. If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews was the lead official negotiator on this."
October 4, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
I'm gathering that Bluesky is less interested in long science threads 🧪, but I need you all to know the majesty that is the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum:

It can 'feed' on sunlight;

gives birth to live, pregnant clone-babies;

needs to be bacterially infected to survive.

Photo by Shipher Wu.
Pea aphids extracting sap from the stem and leaves of garden peas. One large and two small green-colored insects feed on a green stalk. The background is a flat black. Shipher Wu (photograph) and Gee-way Lin (aphid provision), National Taiwan University - PLoS Biology,
August 15, 2023 at 1:08 PM
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The most undiscussed fact in British politics: the average personal tax rate is at its lowest since 1975. ifs.org.uk/articles/how...
September 30, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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davekidneys.bsky.social
I mean, @iandunt.bsky.social isn't wrong, but it is a bit harsh to come straight out and say it.
Screenshot of a substack, text reads "What's the solution? Plainly it is to fiddle with the rules in a way that is too boring for most people to notice. But it's not too boring for me or you, of course. Our lives have so little meaning that we are prepared to take time out to understand these things. We are so fundamentally broken as people that we sometimes enjoy it. "
September 27, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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"The UK’s clampdown on international students and overseas skilled workers will cost business more than £40bn and provide no overall benefit to society, according to government estimates of the policies’ impact" - on.ft.com/3ZGs8O4 via @financialtimes.com
Overseas student and worker curbs will cost UK business £40bn, say official estimates
Home Office assessments come as new Labour government presses ahead with curbs on immigration
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September 28, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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alexgathomas.bsky.social
Tom Hamilton @tomhamilton.bsky.social articulates why this was the bit of Starmer’s speech that landed with me
September 24, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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t0nyyates.bsky.social
Someone I wish was here and making a very good point on the other place.
September 23, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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philipstephens.bsky.social
Interviewer: Did you break the donations rules?
Minister:No
Headline: Minister forced to deny breaking anti-sleaze rules.
September 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
It just seemed like news that Trump was raving in Nassau County about driving out people who came from "the Congo....Africa..the Middle East...Asia," and then it seemed even more like news that none of the coverage mentioned it defector.com/where-racism...
Screenshot of text: The former and would-be future president continued: They're coming from the Congo, they're coming from Africa, they're coming from the Middle East, they're coming from all over the world—Asia! A lot of it coming from Asia. And what's happening to our country is we're just destroying the fabric of life in our country, and we're not going to take it any longer, and you got to get rid of these people. Give me a shot. This was spectacularly racist, explicitly racist against the majority of all the nonwhite people on Earth, the most racist thing I'd seen a presidential candidate—Donald Trump included—say in my lifetime. It was a barrage straight out of a Ku Klux Klan rally: Congo! Africa! Middle East! Asia! We're not going to take it any longer! Get rid of these people! Screenshot of text: I would have said it was obviously shocking, except both shock and obviousness have become tenuous concepts in American politics. When I went to look up references to the quote after seeing it go by on social media, I began to worry that the original poster might have made it up for clout; I saw no mention of Trump talking about "the Congo" last night on Google News or in major reporters' Twitter accounts. But I went to C-SPAN and there Trump was, saying it. The Nassau County crowd—in what the New York Post recently reported that U.S. News had rated the safest community in the country—cheered as Trump vowed to drive out the immigrant crime menace. "November 5 will be your Liberation Day," he told them.
September 20, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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The UK's post-2010 nuclear new building programme has failed. Plan was to build 18 GW of new generation capacity, roughly doubling output of the ageing AGR fleet. But now only 3.2 GW of capacity is under construction, late & over budget.
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Revisiting the UK’s nuclear AGR programme: 3. Where next with the UK’s nuclear new build programme? On rebuilding lost capabilities, and learning wider lessons – Soft Machines
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September 21, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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britishfuture.bsky.social
'No, Nigel Farage, you do not speak for the silent majority'
Reform UK claims to say what ‘everyone really thinks’ – but a new opinion poll by from British Future & Ipsos shows that nothing could be further from the truth, writes @rentouljohn.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...
No, Nigel Farage, you do not speak for the silent majority
Reform UK claims to say what ‘everyone really thinks’ – but a new opinion poll shows that nothing could be further from the truth, writes John Rentoul
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September 21, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Farage and his mortifying dimwit entourage represent no-one but themselves iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-and...
Farage and his mortifying dimwit entourage represent no-one but themselves
Reform is holding its annual conference today.
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September 20, 2024 at 8:01 AM