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Into books, politics, the arts, SF, urban space. Civil servant, DfE; former Head of Policy,University of Sheffield.Personal views expressed. Same name on Twitter.
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Fuck Nazis, fascists and the right-wing. None of them stand for humanity and human progress.

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Daily bunny no.2871: "Surprise!"

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Daily bunny no.2872 must seek an alternate route

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Daily bunny no.2873 can never pass up a free drink

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Since catching Age of Ultron on TV over xmas I had an urge to re-watch the Thanos story arc. Finished Avengers Endgame tonight. Still think they they're great films. Sadly, the idiots in the dominance today are very much in the vein of Thanos, arrogant, stupid and murderous.

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Conclave was excellent. Gripping, looked great, great acting all round and such a good musical score.

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a history of Grabbit! The dumb joke I liked so much, I'm doing it 6 years later... (circa January 28th, 2019)

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Daily bunny no.2850 makes a friend

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Daily bunny no.2851 encounters some squatters

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Daily bunny no.2852 is playing a bit unsafe

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Daily bunny no.2853 goes out to look at the stars

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Daily bunny no.2854 is consulting an expert

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Daily bunny no.2855 finds a new place

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Daily bunny no.2856 examines things from all angles

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Daily bunny no.2857 is seeking some financial advice

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Daily bunny no.2858 has an unexpected dinner guest

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Daily bunny no.2859 is getting help

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Daily bunny no.2860 hosts a movie night

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Daily bunny no.2861 is a speed reader

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Daily bunny no.2862 finds a few felines

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Daily bunny no.2863 far from the coastline

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Daily bunny no.2864 is trying to keep dry

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Daily bunny no.2865 is seeing warmer climes

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Daily bunny no.2866 has excellent taste

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Daily bunny no.2867 is doing their weekly shopping

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Daily bunny no.2868 needs to fix the roof

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Daily bunny no.2869 is making a home

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Daily bunny no.2870 is an iPad kid

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One of the most horrifying stories to come out of this war of extermination. I posted the Hebrew reporting a few days ago, here it is in English. www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...

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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

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I was thinking earlier about how some people say it's perfectly reasonable to want to 'look after your own' - but interestingly that's only allowed if you're a white straight man. No one else is permitted to advocate for their own interests, or those of people like them. That would be 'divisive'.

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Eddie is giving me dirty looks, not sure if because it's past bedtime or he wants to be entertained.

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classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

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This article underestimates the number of job losses (already reported elsewhere to have exceeded 10,000) and employs the misleading adjective 'leading' universities (meaning what, to whom?), but if you've been living under a rock and need a quick introduction to the topic, you could start here.

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It’s shocking watching what’s happening in America and it makes you think we’ve been asking for decades, how does a state slide into fascism (because it seemed unthinkable), when we should have been asking the more pressing question, how do you stop it?

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Let’s deregulate the flammability of children’s pyjamas to improve growth says @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Eddie is not impressed with being harassed for a photo.

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Hundreds of job losses at big employers in our economically lagging regions, South Wales and North East England. The sectors have changed but the story is familiar.

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And numerous academic related, professional services jobs too. The effect on the towns and cities that are losing all of these jobs (academic and academic related) will be immeasurable. Universities are amongst the major employers in many places. The knock-on will cause even more job losses.

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On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...

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In case you missed it: Home Office to start converting eligible EUSS pre-settled status holders to settled status this month | Sonia Lenegan https://freemovement.org.uk/home-office-to-start-converting-eligible-euss-pre-settled-status-holders-to-settled-status-this-month/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=r…

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Daily bunny no.2847 brought a snack

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Daily bunny no.2848's goat has escaped

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Well Breitbart having access to the WH briefing room and being invited to ask the first question by WH Press Sec referring to them as a 'respected news outlet' is not frightening at all...

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I guess elections in Linz (Austria’s Birmingham, kind of) aren’t international news material, but the fact this has happened in a working class town while the far right (in blue) are about to take power on a national level is INTERESTING.

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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