Indy
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If you want a guess as to what Kevin Warsh -- who throughout the Obama years was a devout hawk -- told the President to win the job of Fed Chair, I think this clip might give you a sense of it. (This is from late October.)
January 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Obviously the arc of the TBI very much determined by the ambitions and character traits of Blair himself. Yet at the same time this is partly an effect of a world where only the ultra-rich fund things and the internet has hammered grassroots funding models.
these institutions also become self-sustaining. why does Tony Blair need to take money from central asian and middle east dictators? to sustain the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which employs hundreds of people. What does it do? It promotes central asian and middle east dictatorships.
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Obviously the arc of the TBI very much determined by the ambitions and character traits of Blair himself. Yet at the same time this is partly an effect of a world where only the ultra-rich fund things and the internet has hammered grassroots funding models.
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'importantly, the survey suggests that the old model—more engagement equals more trust—is not enough. The public lack tools to evaluate competing narratives. The engagement agenda must be extended to interpretation literacy.'
Opinion: Science must reimagine public engagement in era of uncertainty.
Our best defence against AI and algorithm overload is truly understanding science, writes Roger Highfield.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Our best defence against AI and algorithm overload is truly understanding science, writes Roger Highfield.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Science must reimagine public engagement in era of uncertainty - Research Professional News
Our best defence against AI and algorithm overload is truly understanding science, writes Roger Highfield
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:01 AM
'importantly, the survey suggests that the old model—more engagement equals more trust—is not enough. The public lack tools to evaluate competing narratives. The engagement agenda must be extended to interpretation literacy.'
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Why the total fertility rate falls for a while when women have children later, even though everyone ends up with the same number -- in one chart.
January 30, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Why the total fertility rate falls for a while when women have children later, even though everyone ends up with the same number -- in one chart.
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We're looking at setting up the Society for Hopeful Technologists as a co-operative society and I'd love to speak with folks or find examples of folks who have experience of running membership orgs that are also coops societyforhopefultechnologists.org
Society for Hopeful Technologists
For everyone who wants technologies to work for people and planet.
societyforhopefultechnologists.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM
We're looking at setting up the Society for Hopeful Technologists as a co-operative society and I'd love to speak with folks or find examples of folks who have experience of running membership orgs that are also coops societyforhopefultechnologists.org
Cuts should not necessarily be off the table, but there's no sign of an actual strategy here.
UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts.
Major cuts will hit UK science facilities and government research grants for physics and astronomy over the next four years, Research Professional News can reveal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Major cuts will hit UK science facilities and government research grants for physics and astronomy over the next four years, Research Professional News can reveal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks £162m cost savings, with existing projects facing axe
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Cuts should not necessarily be off the table, but there's no sign of an actual strategy here.
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That these cases are still occurring with great regularity and apparently minimal effort to resolve them expeditiously suggests that the core problem lies in the Home Office, rather than necessarily the government of the day.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘I’m part of this country’: Windrush man left homeless by Home Office inaction
George Campbell, 69, slept in bus station as officials questioned his right to live in the UK after hospital stay
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:55 PM
That these cases are still occurring with great regularity and apparently minimal effort to resolve them expeditiously suggests that the core problem lies in the Home Office, rather than necessarily the government of the day.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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However this is quite interesting because I think it shows a high level of discernment. People are right to have low confidence in this because very few available tools assist people with provenance, security, risk assessments - this isn't a skills issue but a tooling one
January 28, 2026 at 6:45 AM
However this is quite interesting because I think it shows a high level of discernment. People are right to have low confidence in this because very few available tools assist people with provenance, security, risk assessments - this isn't a skills issue but a tooling one
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"MANCHESTER MADE ME! (actually I grew up in St Albans and now live in Kent but Definitely Maybe is certainly one of my favourite albums)"
January 27, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"MANCHESTER MADE ME! (actually I grew up in St Albans and now live in Kent but Definitely Maybe is certainly one of my favourite albums)"
Matt Goodwin: "I was the first in my family to go to university and that's why I joined a party whose policy is to prevent people going to university."
I mean it's fair in a way, seeing how Matt turned out, but it's also a reminder of how completely tiresome British politics has become.
I mean it's fair in a way, seeing how Matt turned out, but it's also a reminder of how completely tiresome British politics has become.
January 27, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Matt Goodwin: "I was the first in my family to go to university and that's why I joined a party whose policy is to prevent people going to university."
I mean it's fair in a way, seeing how Matt turned out, but it's also a reminder of how completely tiresome British politics has become.
I mean it's fair in a way, seeing how Matt turned out, but it's also a reminder of how completely tiresome British politics has become.
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Hang on, Goodwin's dad "ran the Greater Manchester health authority"?
January 27, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Hang on, Goodwin's dad "ran the Greater Manchester health authority"?
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Babe, wake up- they’re rewriting the second amendment finally
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Babe, wake up- they’re rewriting the second amendment finally
It’s a reminder of how completely unserious our nation is that we have a live illustration of where this leads in Minnesota and yet everyone pretends a Reform government is just an ok idea.
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 8:02 AM
It’s a reminder of how completely unserious our nation is that we have a live illustration of where this leads in Minnesota and yet everyone pretends a Reform government is just an ok idea.
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About 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago - @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows
Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:23 AM
About 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago - @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Question for the hivemind: does anyone know which of the Iran-watching/analyzing users on formerly-Twitter have any presence on Bluesky
January 26, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Question for the hivemind: does anyone know which of the Iran-watching/analyzing users on formerly-Twitter have any presence on Bluesky
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“Seven years after the government apologised for the errors that led to thousands of people being wrongly categorised as illegal immigrants, individual Windrush cases continue to emerge...” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘I’m part of this country’: Windrush man left homeless by Home Office inaction
George Campbell, 69, slept in bus station as officials questioned his right to live in the UK after hospital stay
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:55 PM
“Seven years after the government apologised for the errors that led to thousands of people being wrongly categorised as illegal immigrants, individual Windrush cases continue to emerge...” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I see once again we’re doing “it was political correctness gone mad that turned these voters and commentators into racists and nazis.” 🧐
January 26, 2026 at 6:53 AM
I see once again we’re doing “it was political correctness gone mad that turned these voters and commentators into racists and nazis.” 🧐
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I still think there’s an interesting article to be written on BBC News Online and why it was created and how it was created and why - in my opinion - it is not very good
BBC News online was one of the worst ideas ever. It wasn’t supposed to be actual journalism. It was intended to be a “neutral copy of the wires” linking out to other versions of the story on other websites. But the links never turned up. And neither did the journalists
January 25, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I still think there’s an interesting article to be written on BBC News Online and why it was created and how it was created and why - in my opinion - it is not very good
I note that this is a bit of a theme now, Labour have also proposed pushing back various council elections because of costs.
Not inherently unreasonable, but when your main competitors portray you as arrogant, bureaucratic, status quo defending, possibly not a great look.
Not inherently unreasonable, but when your main competitors portray you as arrogant, bureaucratic, status quo defending, possibly not a great look.
It is true - Labour's NEC has blocked Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton and Denton.
I'm told there was a very clear majority against allowing him to stand due to concerns about the cost of a mayoral by-election in Greater Manchester.
I'm told there was a very clear majority against allowing him to stand due to concerns about the cost of a mayoral by-election in Greater Manchester.
January 25, 2026 at 12:12 PM
I note that this is a bit of a theme now, Labour have also proposed pushing back various council elections because of costs.
Not inherently unreasonable, but when your main competitors portray you as arrogant, bureaucratic, status quo defending, possibly not a great look.
Not inherently unreasonable, but when your main competitors portray you as arrogant, bureaucratic, status quo defending, possibly not a great look.
Very much a Project 2025 situation here. Reform are telling us what they will do, but millions will vote for them on the reassurance that Reform are lying about their intentions, with the media cheerfully supporting that notion.
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Very much a Project 2025 situation here. Reform are telling us what they will do, but millions will vote for them on the reassurance that Reform are lying about their intentions, with the media cheerfully supporting that notion.
Interesting to consider that blocking Burnham may actually result in Starmer polling even less well as the accusations of cowardice mount.
Record setting achievement in prospect.
Record setting achievement in prospect.
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Interesting to consider that blocking Burnham may actually result in Starmer polling even less well as the accusations of cowardice mount.
Record setting achievement in prospect.
Record setting achievement in prospect.
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every Labour/Green ad should just be footage of the US with "Do you want this here?" overlaid
(unfortunately, i suspect the Home Office under Labour *does* want it there. much like the Home Office under Tories or really, any government)
(unfortunately, i suspect the Home Office under Labour *does* want it there. much like the Home Office under Tories or really, any government)
that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
January 24, 2026 at 6:42 PM
every Labour/Green ad should just be footage of the US with "Do you want this here?" overlaid
(unfortunately, i suspect the Home Office under Labour *does* want it there. much like the Home Office under Tories or really, any government)
(unfortunately, i suspect the Home Office under Labour *does* want it there. much like the Home Office under Tories or really, any government)
I see once again Britain is going to have to learn the "Alan Milburn just makes up things to suit his beliefs" lesson.
"1 in 5 pupils are getting a SEND diagnosis..the vast majority then trip into the benefit system because they get child disability allowance allowance.'
This is completely false from Milburn. He's supposed to be reviewing this issue and he's just making things up. Inexcusable.
This is completely false from Milburn. He's supposed to be reviewing this issue and he's just making things up. Inexcusable.
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I see once again Britain is going to have to learn the "Alan Milburn just makes up things to suit his beliefs" lesson.
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It's like a jive bunny mega mix of past moral panics.
"NEET young people, social media, generational benefit families, strivers not skivvers, anarchy in our schools, the young are swinging the lead, there's too much of that mental illness about, it's for your own good" <Ah yeah! sample>
"NEET young people, social media, generational benefit families, strivers not skivvers, anarchy in our schools, the young are swinging the lead, there's too much of that mental illness about, it's for your own good" <Ah yeah! sample>
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It's like a jive bunny mega mix of past moral panics.
"NEET young people, social media, generational benefit families, strivers not skivvers, anarchy in our schools, the young are swinging the lead, there's too much of that mental illness about, it's for your own good" <Ah yeah! sample>
"NEET young people, social media, generational benefit families, strivers not skivvers, anarchy in our schools, the young are swinging the lead, there's too much of that mental illness about, it's for your own good" <Ah yeah! sample>
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this