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Mainly research for strategy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Aggro-centrist. Bristol City FC.
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Badenoch is urging this government to "say sorry" for a delay in the inquiry? Just wait until she finds out which party was in charge of children's social care while much of the abuse was taking place...

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

A fascinating listen on the Israeli perspective. Yonit Levi and @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social's podcast featuring a long interview with Haaretz's Amos Harel by Yonit. pca.st/episode/b0b9...

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There are many, many things to enjoy in this bonkers story but the phrase “openly picnicing” is perhaps the finest part. (Via Gloucestershire Live) www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

A theory. There may be much in it. Wouldn't pass muster in the Household Division, though.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

I'm no expert on military drill. No, really. I'm not. But this is the world's shittiest marching.

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

Read and follow ABSG

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

This is beyond parody. The head of Reform’s “DOGE team”, which is supposed to be identifying local government waste, now wants to hire expensive vanity cameramen to allow Reform politicians to posture online.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Reminds me a bit of that Corbyn festival.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Update: Gov. Walz confirms that Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed. Officials are “cautiously optimistic” that state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife will survive their injuries.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Noteworthy for the first time I've seen "quitting ECHR not enough". The Right's opinion-industrial complex has ratcheted itself onto the full load-them-onto-cattle-trucks phase.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Yes.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Lyse Doucet said more in 120 seconds than everyone else in the Ten package put together.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

People are joking about this but it genuinely *is* the sound of Derby.

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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Patrick is right, of course. The fabric of place matters hugely to people. But last week I had to kill an hour in Esher town centre. The buckle on the stockbroker belt. England's answer to Beverley Hills. Massive wealth, both foreign and domestic. And it's a bit of a dump these days.

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Politics: The entire opposition (except the small Jewish-Arab communist party) supports the strike. Even Mansour Abbas, head of Islamist party doesn’t oppose it and calls on Arab citizens of Israel to listen to safety instructions by authorities (important because it’s a low trust audience).

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