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a (very timely) reminder of the legacy of germany’s partition:

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Duty done in 6 mins 41 seconds. You can book here to donate a pint of the red stuff www.blood.co.uk

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If anyone brings up the increase in autism diagnoses, here's a useful graph and article www.psu.edu/news/researc...

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

The illegal trade of lion and leopard parts is growing in Senegal and threatening the lion's survival across West Africa, reports Annika Hammerschlag for AP News.

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

because "free speech"

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

This is exactly why we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it at pace and with urgency. We need share the truth & the facts far & wide - & then, at the earliest opportunity, send those truth twisting & lying charlatans, wherever we find them, packing

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

The art of the deal

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

As always, fair, critically evaluated and clear. Thank you, @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social 👍🏻

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

submitted 14 days ago • 1064 comments

ICMYI watch @jdportes.bsky.social fiercely shut down this line on Sunday Morning Live 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b57...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Brits feel Keir Starmer would make the best Prime Minister out of all the current main party leaders @yougov.co.uk

submitted 18 days ago • 70 comments

41 cases already.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve also spotted a skip! Great to see the return of the unsung yet brilliant economic @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social ‘skip’ metric. In both senses of the word 👏👍

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Chair of the UK Trade and Business Commission @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social says this is a “compelling report” and “an exciting moment” on @lbc.co.uk ⬇️

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This one is for all of those who said there was no point in Labour trying to deepen EU ties with the red lines in place. Economically, there's a lot to gain from regulatory alignment. Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

Hey the show is up on Apple Podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 21 days ago • 111 comments

How UK unlawfully pursued journalists who exposed the truth about a mass murder Two journalists showed collusion between NI police and loyalist paramilitaries The UK’s response was to spy on them, and then arrest them By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

The state of things.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Seriously asking, what is the just reaction, collectively for everyone on the planet, for one person whose actions are going to kill millions? He is the first Emperor of Necropolitics.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

"And due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire US-Canada trade war was accidentally swallowed by a small Fentanyl Czar."

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

not saying polls are meaningless but in December 1980 the Labour party had a 24-point lead over Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives

submitted 25 days ago • 17 comments

My Times piece today: The UK has some of the highest energy costs in the world, which are a big competitive disadvantage as the economy embarks on a new Industrial Revolution: Sky-high energy costs could not come at a worse time for Britain www.thetimes.com/article/7c74...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

My Sunday Times piece on the madness and potentially very damaging impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs on America’s main trading partners: Trump’s tariffs could wreck global trade as badly as Covid did www.thetimes.com/article/994c...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

My Sunday Times column invokes Morecambe & Wise to ask whether, while there were good ideas in the chancellor’s growth plans, they will fall foul of fiscal pressures and weak confidence: Reeves hits the right notes on growth — but are they in the right order? www.thetimes.com/article/ddc8...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

When something is a success, people like to associate themselves with it. So it's noticeable how quiet the Brexiters are. inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

submitted 27 days ago • 80 comments

🚨🚨 So five years since #brexit and I think it is time reshare Daniel Hannan's absolutely insane and delusional vision of grandeur and hubris that characterised the true engineers and believers of #brexit. Here comes the #brexit insanity No 1 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

submitted 28 days ago • 80 comments

WTAF is going on

submitted 27 days ago • 33 comments

Beware--there are more and more of these inauthentic accounts flooding to BlueSky now. They pose as climate doomers but are actually doing the work of polluters by attacking climate advocates and dividing the climate advocacy community. Block and report them when you encounter them:

submitted 29 days ago • 39 comments

Today’s article is live and it’s a deep dive into the Great Exhibition of 1851. Find out all about the origins of the idea… Learn who owned the brain behind the magnificent building. What was attending like and what did it cost? And have a peak at some of the 100,000 items that were on display. …

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, is a longtime conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist. He has an unusual talent for sounding reasonable, writes Benjamin Mazer for The Atlantic.

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While Trump lost badly among young men with actual economic anxiety, he won overwhelmingly among the ~60pct who worried "guys can have their reputation destroyed just for speaking their mind these days" youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/survey-results-young-mens-support

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Inside you there are two wolves. No, not wolves. Lungs. Inside you there are two lungs. Sorry, always get those mixed up.

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

And they're impounding funds in defiance of Congress's power of the purse.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

This unimaginably cruel policy will cause countless deaths, just as the world was beginning to make major progress against HIV/AIDS. Zero justification for this unconscionable barbarism. None.

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My Sunday Times piece: The labour market is cooling, which will ease pay pressures and allow the Bank of England to cut interest rates more than markets expect: More interest rate cuts loom as the job market softens www.thetimes.com/article/444d...