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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1h

Big if true

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22h

applications are still open if you are interested in working with me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on the Unhedged newsletter

main task is to try and make me look clever and to compensate for my woeful inability to make nice charts

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, if your job is trying to shape policy

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

Janen Ganesh is just Liz Jones for people that max out their ISA allowance.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Matt does nail it, tbf. Worth every penny of his bajillion pound salary

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

🤐

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

No nobody has ever said I look like Janan Ganesh before

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Spoken like a coward who owns cutlery

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

A loyal soldier

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

Watching someone stride into a lift, displacing a pushchair, and then stride onto an escalator at the next floor is just so aggravating. It’s not a luxury transport option for you to take when you don’t feel like walking down the other end of the platform

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s world class content

henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 1d

JG once stated in print that he didn't own cutlery or crockery for a year because he never ate a single meal in his home, if we're talking deranged things

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Derangement derangement

Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 1d

I reckon we should stop calling not liking stuff "derangement", it is quite normal to not like some things

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Good on Ganesh derangement

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Not really imo

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Good on Ganesh derangement

Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 1d

Nor my obsession with *other people's* sometimes lively reactions to the FT's Janan Ganesh, who I think is great btw

What is it about Janan Ganesh?

I'm a Janan fan — but the FT columnist sure divides opinion

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to the desperate “HIT LES” era

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Just very struck by the fact they’re not a limited partnership. Skin in the game. A woke Slaughter and May

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant read on the lefty lawyers who actually run Britain

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

Law is politics by other means. Wrote about Leigh Day, the law firm that love suing the government www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Because I think they’re the most effective at what they do

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

Law is politics by other means. Wrote about Leigh Day, the law firm that love suing the government www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty damning. Is there anything that Starmer is actually good at on the domestic stage? substack.com/@geoffmulgan...

Eric Morecambe and the challenge of good government

Some of the right people, not necessarily in the right roles

substack.com

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Simply not what the piece says

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

politicians choosing not to be political is precisely the problem I identify in the piece

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

don't think that's a reasonable reading of it

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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece on how campaigning lawyers changed British politics

An underrated aspect of judicial review is it fuels centralisation. If campaigning lawyers convince a judge to give every mayor and council in the country a new statutory duty, local democracy dies a little more.

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

Law is politics by other means. Wrote about Leigh Day, the law firm that love suing the government www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Matthew Aldridge @mpaldridge.bsky.social · 2d

"As Kanye West, an economist of sorts, put it: 'I’m tryin’ to right my wrongs/But it’s funny them same wrongs helped me write this song.'" www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Meet the real opposition

From ambulance chaser to ministerial Range Rover chaser

www.economist.com

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