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hannahfearn.bsky.social
Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent. Find me in The i Paper, Observer, The Lead, Yahoo etc and on Oh God, What Now? and The Bunker pods https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
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A solid argument

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🚨 NEW EPISODE: Trump rips up 80 years of security co-operation and Europe panics. What happens when America lines up with a despot like Putin? 🚨 With @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & Dr Julie Norman of @ucl.ac.uk 🚨 Listen: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Five years!

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Jeez

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Thank God someone is willing to say it plainly

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It’s a particularly disquieting week. If you want to hear our next episode early, it’s out now on Patreon. @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and guest Julie Norman consider the new security landscape. Sign up to listen early: www.patreon.com/posts/122696...

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Sorry @richardosman1.bsky.social, I’m team Marina on cool. Putting Brett in the same category as Stephen Hendry? No. Be serious 😎

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

This is not an intellectual point, bur I wanted to state that I am frightened by the situation in the US and I am becoming even more anxious by the extent to which most people I know IRL (ie: not politics addicts) are entirely unmoved

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If nothing else, it's clear that all those Americans who used to bang on about how having guns meant they could protect themselves from tyranny were talking absolute shite

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Reminder to the Tories: a very large percentage of your voters are not on Twitter - and a large proportion of the ones you seek to gain certainly aren't there, they're watching Farage nail TikTok. The comms incompetence across the two main parties at the moment is driving me to distraction.

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A lot to unpack here, but I think an underrated problem with what Badenoch is saying is that the Liberal Democrats ARE on Twitter. Like so many people left on X she simply has not noticed how degraded and filtered her information environment has become.

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🚨OUT NOW🚨 JD Vance put on a hateful, trollish performance at the Munich Security Conference. Will his culture war insults and support for the European far-right signal the end of the Atlanticist dream – and is Ukraine now doomed? All that and more in our latest episode! linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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It's interesting that conversation about the benefit cap is happening again. As this piece makes clear, it's one of the reasons there was little practical (thought lots of moral) value in removing the two-child limit. I had hopes Reeves was preparing an overhaul. national.thelead.uk/p/hit-by-the...

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1) Delighted to hear Sadiq say it 2) Would be helpful if someone less divisive nationally than Sadiq could also say it

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It's not a living library. That's the main problem with it so far, limiting its use across many sectors. It's a living fantasist.

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