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Miranda Green

@greenmirandahere.bsky.social

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Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · Nov 25

erm ... hello?

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

very amusing I'm sure *pursed lips*

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

if you're all going to start talking about the Traitors I'm going to go off in a huff

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

yes that's also true! Just because someone is laughable doesn't mean they aren't bloody dangerous

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

pretty bloody unhealthy outcome if you ask me if it were to happen on that basis

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

well, what's the point though? www.ft.com/content/ea7e...

‘Bring on the BBQ swans!’ Who needs satire when politics is beyond parody?

Puncturing the dignity of those in power is a long comic tradition but too often they do a better job themselves

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 2d

Future scholars will struggle to understand the political importance and ideological subtleties of frogs in early 21st century American politics

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is one of the most depressing sub plots of this series of our lives - let's hope the Thiel antichrist stuff as well as the Glasman stuff is a double-headed MacGuffin is all I can say with my hopeless screen mixed metaphors

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

signed up Polly

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

v good this (obvs)

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3d

Thatcher once said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and New Labour, because she forced her opponents onto her agenda. Today's new right begs to differ.

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The battle to dismantle Blair’s Britain

Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2d

A great bit of myth busting on graduate vs non-graduate unemployment from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/ea9e...

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoying the camera cutting to Jenrick

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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 5d

We want your questions! And hopefully you want our answers. Ask anything. www.ft.com/content/b355...

Submit your questions: Can the global economy withstand new shocks?

Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s Tej Parikh and Martin Sandbu on Thursday October 9 at 1pm BST

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 5d

so what? it's about autumn - leaves falling - and Wendy Cope is/was (not sure but she's great - recommend) a Brit doing a pastiche of another pompous genre of Brit with these Strugnell poems

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 6d

Just found out that today is mid-autumn day in the Chinese calendar - happy mid autumn day folks 🍂- I can feel a Strugnell haiku coming on ... poetryarchive.org/poem/strugne...

Strugnell's Haiku - Poetry Archive

Strugnell’s Haiku (i) The cherry blossom In my neighbour’s garden – Oh! It looks really nice. (ii) The leaves have fallen And the snow has fallen and Soon my hair also….. (iii) November evening: The m...

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 9d

In memoriam...

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 9d

glorious!

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 9d

Really enjoyed this New Scientist piece on the huge significance for human self-regard of Jane Goodall's work: "vital to undermining the view of human exceptionalism and superiority that had prevailed www.newscientist.com/article/2498....

How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals – and the world

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 10d

Also - plse fill in the online form! say the increasingly panic-inducing messages from the hospital, all of which come from No Reply numbers or email addresses and none of which contain and link that works

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 10d

gotta love the Nash family and in all their moods

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Sophie Harman @profsophieharman.bsky.social · 10d

Kindle has chosen Sick of It to be part of their 99p deal for October!

Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 10d

This i/v depressed the hell out of me for this line ...
Case is still able to make a living as a musician, even though the digital age has made it an uphill struggle. “I used to get royalty cheques that would see me through several months. I don’t get those now.” www.ft.com/content/c9ae...

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Mask Up Comments and Opinions @commentsandopi2.bsky.social · 10d

Worth reading to see who suffers the most when the retirement age is raised.
Hint: it's women, low paid workers, and those already out of work in their late 50s.
We need proper conversations about this in AoNZ
#nzpol

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11d

Delighted to see the commitment from the IFS @helenmiller.bsky.social to examining the differential impact on men and women of policy (this one on retirement age) ifs.org.uk/publications...

How do people already out of employment fare when the state pension age rises? | Institute for Fiscal Studies

This report studies a group disproportionately affected by state pension age increases: those who had left paid work before the state pension age.

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 11d

I'd forgotten this - excellent

Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 11d

Facebook memories reminds me that this was a year ago - undoubtedly the greatest political graphic of all time, taken from the 'Conservatism in Crisis' pamphlet released by Kemi Badenoch.

Two equilateral triangles side by side. The one on the left is labeled 20th century politics and is cut in half horizontally, with the smaller top half labeled 'right' and the larger bottom half labeled left. The triangle on the right is cut in half vertically, with the left side labeled right and the right side labeled left - this triangle is captioned 21st century politics.

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11d

ah yes local papers - those were indeed the days

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11d

a really daft piece by Andrew - as if he didn't bother to pay any attention - fair enough for ordinary mortals but not if you are going to pretend to be a knowledgable critic - Zack is a populist, they play by different rules - anyway here's my 2p-worth! open.spotify.com/episode/2YHL...

How do the Liberal Democrats become more relevant in a landslide parliament?

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