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annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 29m

This is absolutely why I would support Proportional Representation because I'm a hybrid Labour & Green voter (Greens on the whole at local elections & Labour at the General election).

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Alec Burrett @alecjburrett.bsky.social · 43m

Labour really hasn't broken every single promise it has ever made.

It's only broken one from its 2024 manifesto, on levels of investment. It's achieved 18, 19 are on track and 22 are in progress. Out of 85.

fullfact.org/government-t...

Government Tracker – Full Fact

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

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John Rob @dennisobell.bsky.social · 57m

Its a damned shame Gordon Brown wasn't able to play the media game back in the day when he was PM. I very doubt he would have been such an easy target for the rightwing media and maybe could have gone on for longer.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 41m

Two things can be true:
1. Very high marginal rates are bad
2. We shouldn't valorise or romaticise very well off people paying them

It is perfectly possible to redesign tax system so those on over £100k pay more on average, but never face ludicrous marginal rates likely to impact on their choices

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 3h

It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more

This tax trap is killing youthful aspiration

Little wonder the under-40s laud Margaret Thatcher: she valued hard work, unlike the rules that penalise them today

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 2h

🚨📸 PICTURED: Keir Starmer hosts former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown at No 10

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 2h

Y'days post: Populism and Economic Prosperity mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy. The evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.

Populism and Economic Prosperity

Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 4h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2h

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 1h

Can science explain emotions? – with Dean Burnett

www.rigb.org/explore...

Dean's talk on the science of emotions, for the Royal Institution.

#Emotions #Science #RI

Podcast: Can science explain emotions? – with Dean Burnett | Royal Institution

Dean Burnett combines his personal story with expert analysis to uncover how emotions make us who we are.

www.rigb.org

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Journalistic shorthand is net migration "currently stands at 430,000": that was the last figure (Jan-Dec 2024) in May 2025

It is a fact - not a prediction- that it is currently lower. (2025 data visa shows down again). I can predict that will obvs be confirmed on Nov 27th in data *to June 2025*

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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 3h

Shocked, SHOCKED that this person is doing this thing again

peterkellner.bsky.social @peterkellner.bsky.social · 4h

My latest Substack examines how flawed polling and flawed journalism are distorting the debate over assisted dying

kellnerp.substack.com/p/peers-beware

Peers beware

Flawed polling and flawed journalism are distorting the debate over assisted dying

kellnerp.substack.com

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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 1h

Find the news article about the paper on our website:
www.cais-research.de/en/news/the-...

#Misinformation

The Phase Model of Misinformation Interventions - CAIS

CAIS researcher Prof. Hendrik Heuer will present his paper on October 20, 2025, at CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway. In it, he examines which measures against misinformation are particularly effective, and...

www.cais-research.de

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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 1h

How to Fight Misinformation Effectively
Hendrik Heuer will present his paper "The Phase Model of Misinformation Interventions" on Oct 20 at #CSCW2025 in Bergen examining which measures against misinformation are most effective and their risks.
📖 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
@hheuer.bsky.social #CAIS

The graphic with the title "Solutions against Misinformation" shows which interventions can target misinformation in three phases (before creation, before detection, after detection), categorized by type (Educating, Labeling, Providing Evidence, Deleting) and by expert agreement.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1h

Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2h

In 2010, an interviewer told Neil Kinnock that the Labour Party "never used to understand aspiration".

Kinnock gave an absolutely brilliant answer that should be learned by heart by every Labour MP. (0.42 to 1.22)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhP...

Neil Kinnock goes berserk

YouTube video by Vadrigar

www.youtube.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 13h

Keir the OK, Kemi the Dreadful. My SKETCH of Today In Is The Middle East Actually Quite Simple?
thecritic.co.uk/keir...

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annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 15h

I've got scars on my wrist from being savaged by my late kitty (who was also a Tortie). Still miss the little madam every day.

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annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 15h

Then she'll be all cute again I bet (they know how to work us!)

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annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 15h

#EdMiliband approves UK’s biggest #solarfarm at Lincolnshire site | Solar power | The Guardian share.google/EOI13ASIRv75...

#cleanenergy
#climatechange
#UKPolitics
#LabourPolicy

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h

✅ Democrats have overperformed by an avg. of 15 pts across 42 Special Elections so far this year, winning 27 of them including *flipping* 3 GOP seats!

NEXT UP:
10/28: AL HD-12: Matthew Glover
11/04: 20+ races (various)

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

According to Goldman Sachs, 88% of US tariffs are being paid by American companies and consumers. Only 9% are being paid by foreign exporters.
#TrumpTariffs

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annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 17h

"The IMF’s chief economist, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, said many of the drivers of UK inflation were “temporary factors,” such as water bills and rail price rises."

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 17h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 19h

Great to speak at the @energy-uk.org.uk conference just now, about the tenuous relationship between many media headlines & reality

Here's a taster

#eukconf25

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19h

Both knife crime and homicides are falling in London. This is thanks to our record funding in the Met, targeted police action and vital prevention work through London’s VRU. But there is still much more to do, which is why we won’t let-up in our work to build a safer London for everyone.

A graphic reporting homicides fall by more than a third since 2019.

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