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mrroobkk.bsky.social
Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
Gabriel Gatehouse: www.ft.com/content/0f3e...
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June 20, 2026 at 12:28 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
The market failure beneath the manosphere: www.ft.com/content/a00c...
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April 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Social media is populist and polarising; #AI may be the opposite
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/3880...
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March 28, 2026 at 10:08 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Quit #ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism
@rutgerbregman.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2026 at 2:15 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Unpopularity contest
h/t @stephenkb.bsky.social
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February 23, 2026 at 10:24 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Perhaps we should all be banned from social media
@stephenkb.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/8c37...
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Perhaps we should all be banned from social media
Focusing only on under-16s obscures the lack of internet safeguards for everyone else
www.ft.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:02 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Liberals should mourn the passing world
Janan Ganesh: www.ft.com/content/3dd3...
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February 15, 2026 at 5:49 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
"Then came Trump, who often seems like he’s just had a rummage through #History’s dustbin, looking for something he might find rhetorically useful."

Greg Grandin: www.ft.com/content/4e0e...
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Trump, Venezuela and the doctrine that wouldn’t die
Long seen as defunct, the Monroe Doctrine is being invoked once again as a blueprint for assertive US foreign policy. Historian Greg Grandin charts the rise, fall and rebirth of an ambiguous creed
www.ft.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
"There have been seven prime ministers since the iPhone was invented and seven in the 42 years before that."

‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
@georgewparker.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/1995...
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‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
The Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tube | Yes, Minister: 1984 Christmas Special: youtu.be/sPwQ0PmK9lw?...
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The Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tube | Yes, Minister: 1984 Christmas Special | BBC Comedy Greats
YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats
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December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot
European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent ‘confusion’. Just don’t mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/30a4...
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December 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Why populism became popular
@timharford.ft.com: on.ft.com/48aHgae #TOK #KnowledgeAndPolitics #KnowledgeAndTechnology
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/49LNvCy
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November 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
"The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

#Orwell2+2=5 Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian
@manohladargis.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
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‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
How polarised is Britain?
@henrymance.ft.com: on.ft.com/4nzQXEx
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October 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
The truth about #Immigration
@stephenkb.bsky.social & @jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/3IxIcvo
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September 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Why progressives should care about falling birth rates
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com: on.ft.com/47iURMX
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August 31, 2025 at 5:06 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
The President Who Became a Prophet
@manvir.bsky.social: nyer.cm/SL7LuvN
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The President Who Became a Prophet
For many of Donald Trump’s followers, his appeal has an almost mystical dimension. What happens when the spell breaks?
nyer.cm
July 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
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Opinion | What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’?
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
@mmasnick.bsky.social: www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...
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May 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
Simon Schama: Trump’s war on knowledge
on.ft.com/4joXWhr
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Simon Schama: Trump’s war on knowledge
Attacks on Harvard and other universities are not just self-defeating — they are fundamentally un-American
on.ft.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
The identity politics of many Muslims, and critics of Islam, are deeply corrosive
@kenanmalik.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The identity politics of many Muslims, and critics of Islam, are deeply corrosive | Kenan Malik
Condemning them as ‘sectarian’ is only adding to the clamour that they have no place in the west
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
What happened to the Trump protests?
@adamgrant.bsky.social: on.ft.com/4ca5PET
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March 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
mrroobkk.bsky.social
#WeekendReading
Ash Sarkar's #MinorityRule: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...
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March 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM