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Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
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🚨PSA - Netflix seems to be intending to take Call My Agent down in a few weeks - never has French revision pre-holiday been more entertaining - be off with you Duolingo and your dratted owl, which I have gone off even more since writing this in self improvement season www.ft.com/content/3a9d... -

🎶Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think 🎶 www.ft.com/content/9751...

Journalism, 1872.

echoes of late Blair - "the right thing to do" I mean, is it? the rebellion is about the policy itself not the rhetoric around the principles of getting people back into work - on which there is a huge degree of consensus and across party divides

everyone enjoying this PMQs as a good-tempered break from the permanent tension and horror - full credit to Rayner for being so likeable

From TACO to LACO?

Tbh I've had that kind of morning too #cusswords

"Biologist Matthias Stoefer said the high density of breeding larks in one of Germany’s largest solar parks in Brandenburg, north of Berlin, is astonishing. In his breeding territory mapping, he counted 178 spots within the solar park and surrounding areas."

It's not every day you see King Arthur Pendragon, a senior druid, pagan priest and head of the Loyal Arthurian War Band quoted in the FT - lovely solstice piece from Judith Evans, informal Stonehenge correspondent www.ft.com/content/0d17...

Not sure who needs this beyond me but here's Alfred Brendel making the piano sound like water - op 5 Adagio un poco mosso - www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgw...

So as per @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social I found The Ballad of Wallis Island a total and utter delight - Tim Key has a face you can't take your eyes off, they are all completely great and the slow pace is curative. Plus the best joke about rice pudding you will ever hear. Possibly the only one but still.

My FT article www.ft.com/content/4601... on why centralizing infrastructure investment via gilt financing will curtail growth and place greater pressure on the public finances. Instead the Chancellor can unleash billions in investment for large-scale projects using public corporations financed by

2 offerings - 📻 FT Political Fix on whether the plan set out in the spending review by Reeves can deliver for Labour with @stephenkb.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social and me - and www.ft.com/content/2355... @chrisgiles.ft.com on a "blizzard" of figures www.ft.com/content/3247...

FT explainer on the 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩to watch for in the next few days on.ft.com/3FTugdZ

Can Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear sites? https://www.ft.com/content/171a378f-92b6-4a1f-b5ec-d01e7b33feea

This simply shouldn't be allowed.

OK @katie0martin.ft.com and @robarmstrong.bsky.social I think I've got it - "Trump's gonna have fun fun fun till the markets take the T-bills away" - ?????????????????

It is extremely funny to me that London has ended up in a position where you can get great signal on large parts of the underground and absolutely nothing above it.

Fun fun fun - my favourite - crazed in an entirely good way open.spotify.com/track/4T5SR1...

These awards recognise the razor-sharp political analysis and unrivalled insight of the panel each week: @georgewparker.bsky.social, @robertshrimsley.bsky.social, @pickardje.bsky.social, , @greenmirandahere.bsky.social, @annasophiegross.bsky.social, @stephenkb.bsky.social & more 💪

Fascinating new paper from @philipjcowley.bsky.social et al - wittily written up by said prof in your soaraway @ftweekend.com Illuminates Labour's dreadful "invest for change" problem www.ft.com/content/820c...

Some listeners received a weird 'explicit content' warning on the weekend Not Another One - sorry all - we decided to discuss Sue Gray's Sh1t List one year on and some sort of ghost in the machine took umbrage - idiotic when you think of the actual internet ordure open.spotify.com/episode/7aRf...

Fascinating new paper from @philipjcowley.bsky.social et al - wittily written up by said prof in your soaraway @ftweekend.com Illuminates Labour's dreadful "invest for change" problem www.ft.com/content/820c...

Think this just accidently summed up the next three years - shall we all bunk off and go to the movies?