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Maybe five eyes can be like the Sugababes with a constantly shifting membership or maybe it can be like the Prodigy who are soldiering on in top form without Keef. follow me for deep intelligence insight.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Just embarrassing. This is precisely what Montgomerie signed up to. Nobody has changed their position in any way.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Big Boys, what a beautiful series. The end will stick around with me. Brilliant writing

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and then the next day someone posts an article showing how this will play out in Europe up to 2100. major population falls without migration. note that immigration cannot come from other european countries, nor Oz or NZ as they have the same problem. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

📢 Come and join the IPPR Economy & Environment Team at an exciting time for the organisation 💫 We are recruiting a new Economist/Research Fellow to work on economic policies to boost and share the proceeds of growth 📩 Info on how to apply here: www.ippr.org/jobs/economi...

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If all the important conversations are happening within Trumpism, why should we be interested in your views on Labour? @dmk1793.bsky.social and @morganj0nes.bsky.social on the recent political interventions of Lord Glasman: renewal.org.uk/2025/02/16/t...

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.

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The anti fascist vanguard...

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This is a great piece - and not just because it opens with @duncanrobinson.bsky.social participating in @nestauk.bsky.social’s Visit a Heat Pump

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Reminder of this great role at the @suttontrust.bsky.social - applications close 2nd of Feb

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What questions do you have about heat pumps? My wonderful data scientist colleagues @nestauk.bsky.social have been analysing data from online forums to find the most frequently asked questions, and have tried to answer them here www.nesta.org.uk/report/what-...

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

Gorgeous day in Bude, sea air, dogs and Cornish beer

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One of the greatest line reads of all time. Tim Curry for Command And Conquer, clearly it was a one and done and he could barely stop laughing at the ridiculousness of the line. Perfection

submitted 45 days ago • 86 comments

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 45 days ago • 175 comments

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

submitted 45 days ago • 179 comments

Our CEO @raviguru.bsky.social is now on substack, writing about how to achieve social change ✏️ Read his first edition to find out about: ⚔️The overconfidence trap (anyone watching The Traitors?) 🏡 Why we should give installers free heat pumps Free to subscribe ⬇️

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

@bitglobal.bsky.social has entered the chat 👋 Give them a follow for the latest insights in applied behavioural science and evaluation ⬇️

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Column on how means conquered ends www.economist.com/britain/2025...

submitted 53 days ago • 12 comments

Applications close 11:59pm tomorrow for our Senior Policy Adviser in Housing 📢 You will: - devise arguments and ideas - shape the scope of work and lead significant projects - influence policy change Apply here: jrf.org.uk/careers.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

submitted 54 days ago • 113 comments

This is excellent (and timely given Meta news) on what's happened to our information environment.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoyed this, beautiful writing as ever.

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For @technologyreview.com's 10 Breakthrough Technologies package, I wrote a feature story about generative AI search, and why it's such a big deal. You can read it here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/06/1...

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

I giggled way too much at this.

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

In a few months when people wonder how Elon Musk developed such an outsize influence over British politics, it’ll be worth noting the contribution of push notifications like this from the national broadcaster.

submitted 57 days ago • 52 comments

Great role for a senior policy & influencing professional with Versus Arthritis 👇

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Last run of 2024 done. 50km shy of target due to no motivation in February / March. Less politics and more music in 2025. Still no better remedy for anxious monkey brain

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

No one actually watching or reading anything while media companies produce more and more is a common trend

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would bring greater social and economic benefits.

submitted 66 days ago • 22 comments

There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲 Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported. You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.

submitted 67 days ago • 205 comments

This is a great example of the kind of civic digital infrastructure we should be building if we could get our act together. A platform to make it really easy for people to run a library of things. Here is the Hackney Wick one: participate.libraryofthings.co.uk/hackney-wick

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

‘It’s a huge problem’: what’s gone wrong at the ONS and why does it matter?

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

If you wanted to identify a group of people morally entitled to financial compensation by the British state, then people trapped (in various ways) by leasehold and cladding post Grenfell would be near the front of the queue.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

If I were Labour I would appoint at least one person to a top job who really understood what extremism, conspiracy theories and the internet are doing to politics

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Nothing screams 'doing politics well' like spending TEN BILLION POUNDS to compensate a tiny fraction of people, many of whom simply don't need it, for a change with in most cases a 20 year run up.

submitted 75 days ago • 69 comments

On the 12 days of Christmas, my heat pump gave to me: 🦃 Enough energy to roast 2,900 turkeys 🥦 5 tonnes of brussels sprouts cooked to perfection 🍮 1,500 gallons of custard warmed and ready-to-eat 🎁 Let's unwrap the numbers on heat pump savings over Christmas ⬇️

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Humphrey Smith is a very, very odd man. Glad someone finally wrote about him. He's notoriously litigious so has escaped coverage for years. Fantastic piece. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

submitted 74 days ago • 28 comments

ARAGORN: You have my sword LEGOLAS: And my bow GIMLI: And my axe NIGHTCLUB CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT: Sorry but if you don't have your tickets there's nothing I can do

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional. It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...

submitted 82 days ago • 10 comments

British politics is quietly going through an insane period. The main parties are remarkably unpopular www.economist.com/britain/2024...

submitted 82 days ago • 26 comments

5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

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