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Ex journo & diplomat, current Comms Manager in the public sector . When I think of it, I'll put something wry here.
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Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

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As an EU source said to me “Israel has killed several birds with one stone, and the biggest win is to distract from the horrors of Gaza”. And it’s worked.

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This is so cynical but you know people will fall for it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Five things to remember about war:

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Reform MP adopting Trumpian tactics. Unless we're careful, this is our future: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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This is *very* exciting news.

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The pace and scale of the EV revolution is huge, and yet still somehow under-appreciated. A technology that has dominated for over a century is on its way out and it is taking millions of barrels a day of oil demand with it. www.businessgreen.com/news/4515116...

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Why is AI so weird.

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The Stick Man at #1 is the right answer. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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America, 2025 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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This is so sad.

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Thoughts on local authority DOGE with @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social here “Perhaps Donald Trump is already regretting his enthusiastic embrace of Musk and DOGE. Nigel Farage may well come to do the same” www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/doge...

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The way Blue Sky threads works where you see the initial message then replies about twelve messages down but not what's in-between often looks like this: "News just coming out that a man has been shot by armed police in central London"... Gap Gap "That's why I love chocolate ice cream sundaes!"

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There's something very disturbing watching what's happening in the US with the constant backdrop of news about the unstoppable rise of Reform and Farage. It's almost like we can see our future.... and people have decided they like it.

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Heck of a story. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

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So British DOGE's search for wasteful spending discovered that... councils need more money to update their IT systems? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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This would all be a fascinating experiment if it didn't impact local people: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Really?

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