Edward
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Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
August 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Labour needs to stop treating its large core vote in London as a weakness rather than a strength.
Few remember now but the Tories used to lead in London under Thatcher/Major. Changing that is *a political success*.
Few remember now but the Tories used to lead in London under Thatcher/Major. Changing that is *a political success*.
July 17, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Labour needs to stop treating its large core vote in London as a weakness rather than a strength.
Few remember now but the Tories used to lead in London under Thatcher/Major. Changing that is *a political success*.
Few remember now but the Tories used to lead in London under Thatcher/Major. Changing that is *a political success*.
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Quite how did we end up with European and North American politics dominated by unrealistic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs?
Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.
Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.
June 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Quite how did we end up with European and North American politics dominated by unrealistic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs?
Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.
Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.
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Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found.
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
Our weekend read - by @joshih.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
Our weekend read - by @joshih.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...
Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found it
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
manchestermill.co.uk
May 23, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found.
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
Our weekend read - by @joshih.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
Our weekend read - by @joshih.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...
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Most of governing is picking losers. So idea that no-one can ever lose out is pretty fatal for good governance. www.economist.com/britain/2026...
March 13, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Most of governing is picking losers. So idea that no-one can ever lose out is pretty fatal for good governance. www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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well I went to watch Kind Hearts And Coronets for the first time tonight and 75 years' worth of critics and cinemagoers absolutely had it right, it *is* just fantastic
March 13, 2026 at 8:23 PM
well I went to watch Kind Hearts And Coronets for the first time tonight and 75 years' worth of critics and cinemagoers absolutely had it right, it *is* just fantastic
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BREAKING: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm they hit a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov using British/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
BREAKING: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm they hit a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov using British/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
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Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
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After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
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Also economically. The argument is explicitly 'New Labour's economic approach was wrong'. Okay, Keir...what is yours? Do you have one?!
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Also economically. The argument is explicitly 'New Labour's economic approach was wrong'. Okay, Keir...what is yours? Do you have one?!
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I am hardly a natural Rayner cheerleader, but genuinely furious that she's gone. Laurie Magnus's verdict confirms she acted on advice, she just missed the disclaimer saying she should get extra advice. Not just an honest mistake - a mistake literally anyone could make. There but for the grace etc...
September 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I am hardly a natural Rayner cheerleader, but genuinely furious that she's gone. Laurie Magnus's verdict confirms she acted on advice, she just missed the disclaimer saying she should get extra advice. Not just an honest mistake - a mistake literally anyone could make. There but for the grace etc...
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The actual data being presented shows immigration is falling significantly. But if the visuals that precede it are "busy hospital", "MIGRATION CRISIS", and "full small boat" (in scary washed out colours) the opposite message has already been served up, absorbed, and is hard to dislodge. ~AA
August 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The actual data being presented shows immigration is falling significantly. But if the visuals that precede it are "busy hospital", "MIGRATION CRISIS", and "full small boat" (in scary washed out colours) the opposite message has already been served up, absorbed, and is hard to dislodge. ~AA
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Whatever your politics "Labour right the ship, Reform falls back, and they get a fairly comfortable second term" would be a great outcome for sending those currently tweet-wanking about civil war even more mad.
August 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Whatever your politics "Labour right the ship, Reform falls back, and they get a fairly comfortable second term" would be a great outcome for sending those currently tweet-wanking about civil war even more mad.
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WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
July 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
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Feels like a bit of a narrative violation that Britain's HDI only overtook Canada and the US in the past 10 years. I'd guess driven by life expectancy?
July 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Feels like a bit of a narrative violation that Britain's HDI only overtook Canada and the US in the past 10 years. I'd guess driven by life expectancy?
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I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
May 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
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MASSIVE legal verdict just in for festivals in London parks.... Questions over whether Mighty Hoopla and Field Day and can go ahead this month.... residents won legal challenge arguing they need planning permission... implications for all other London parks.
www.londoncentric.media/p/mighty-hoo...
www.londoncentric.media/p/mighty-hoo...
Mighty Hoopla: Victory for anti-festival campaigners
Plus: The Italian businessman ordered to fill his Mayfair basement with concrete and the messy battle over LTNs in the capital.
www.londoncentric.media
May 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
MASSIVE legal verdict just in for festivals in London parks.... Questions over whether Mighty Hoopla and Field Day and can go ahead this month.... residents won legal challenge arguing they need planning permission... implications for all other London parks.
www.londoncentric.media/p/mighty-hoo...
www.londoncentric.media/p/mighty-hoo...
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Given its mythology in current Labour strategy, you wouldn't think that percentage of people voting BNP in Barking and Dagenham actually went up between 2006 and 2010.
May 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Given its mythology in current Labour strategy, you wouldn't think that percentage of people voting BNP in Barking and Dagenham actually went up between 2006 and 2010.
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Macron, Merz, Starmer and Tusk, together, en route tonight for Kyiv
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May 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Macron, Merz, Starmer and Tusk, together, en route tonight for Kyiv
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this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch
May 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch
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In 1985, Margaret Thatcher's government decided against holding a parade for #VEDay - it was deemed too 'triumphalist' and likely to damage relations with West Germany.
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May 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In 1985, Margaret Thatcher's government decided against holding a parade for #VEDay - it was deemed too 'triumphalist' and likely to damage relations with West Germany.
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