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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 1d

The crew of the increasingly desperate Franklin expedition, frozen in the Arctic with dwindling hopes of survival: Is God here captain? Is any God?

The cruel Tuunbaq, mercilessly stalking the ice for its prey:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 4d

(Credit where credit is due - I pinched this off Reddit www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...)

God bless France

www.reddit.com

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 4d

It’s happened again

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 6d

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 19d

Keep seeing the meme (in response to @timharford.ft.com) that White British Londoners are no less anti-immigration than the rest of the country, they are just "outnumbered". It's not true:

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 19d

ban the box. No more screen time if we are to be so tasteless

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 21d

Fri is 50yrs since Fawlty Towers first aired. To mark the occasion we asked Brits: what is your favourite sitcom?

1. Friends
2. Only Fools & Horses
3. Big Bang Theory
=4. Gavin and Stacey
=4. Fawlty Towers
=4. The Office
=4. Modern Family
=4. Not Going Out

Full list: yougov.co.uk/entertainmen...

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 21d

Wearing Docs for the first time this autumn, walking like I’m doing through Monster Mash

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 23d

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2

Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Volume 33, Issue 2

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

renewal.org.uk

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 24d

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 24d

Disagree w her on plenty but the contempt for Diane Abbott demonstrated by a seemingly endless number of far lesser people than her is a long-running source of shame for Labour. A canker at the core of the party & emblematic of the underhanded way this clique have sought to run things

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 24d

Main concern obviously the vile content of these messages but someone whose entire role was contingent on intelligent decision-making opting to send this stuff on a work server says rather a lot about the calibre of people at the top of gov right now. If he’s the ‘best brain’ no wonder we’re cooked.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 24d

Whatever you think of these messages, the reality is this story and Paul Ovenden's subsequent resignation has provoked pure fury from long-serving Labour aides. Many saying they do not believe Starmer should have accepted his resignation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages

Departure of political strategy director Paul Ovenden is yet another setback for PM after Mandelson and Rayner exits

www.theguardian.com

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 24d

Good day for the markets?

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 27d

Periodically opening Strava to give kudos to everyone on my feed like an indulgent but distant patriarch

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 28d

Walking into Cable Cafe with a towel round my shoulders like Rocky

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29d

For both normative and 'it makes my job so much harder' reasons, I really think governments shouldn't appoint people where it is really hard to stretch out commentary on what they have done beyond 'obviously he has to resign'.

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 29d

I am genuinely beginning to think Starmer is entering July 2022 territory

a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 29d

if this is the position, keir starmer should resign

Steven Swinford & @Steven_Swinford
X.com
Keir Starmer is standing by Lord Mandelson despite new leaked emails showing he urged Jeffrey Epstein to 'fight for early release' after child sex conviction
The prime minister retains confidence in Mandelson and his position has not changed since PMQs this afternoon
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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 29d

Again wondering what the characters of Mamma Mia would think about Greece’s IMF bailout

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 29d

in a very, very strong field I think this might be the weirdest and most sexist bit of commentary on a female politician's appearance I've ever seen

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 29d

www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...

From the neoliberal community on Reddit: God bless France

Explore this post and more from the neoliberal community

www.reddit.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Sep 5

the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 5

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 3

It is possible to overpolice trivia and underpolice racial hatred simultaneously

ALabour government that remains mute on racist hatred can have no credibility with ethnic minorities & many others for talk about cohesion and British values until it finds a voice on racism

bsky.app/profile/sund...

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

If the X website is so broken that its complaints system is *routinely* defending unlawful racist abuse of "go home p__" then it urgently needs an EHRC intervention, and should be threatened with being shut down until Elon Musk is willing to operate his website *within* the laws of our country.

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · Aug 31

They call me Tony Benn because I’m the Postmaster General

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