Tom Watson
@tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social
Culture, politics, coffee.
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Powerful review of #DontLetitBreakYouHoney @onejen.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social by former MP @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social
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Jenny Evans and the cost of institutional cowardice
The inside story of how corruption thrives when power is unchecked
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August 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Powerful review of #DontLetitBreakYouHoney @onejen.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social by former MP @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social
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Lovely and wise words from @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social about Angela Rayner
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Angela Rayner's second act
Why the country still needs her voice and why Labour no longer needs a deputy leader.
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September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Lovely and wise words from @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social about Angela Rayner
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A big moment in tackling the UK’s skills crisis.
@MakeUK_ has published Skills for Success—a blueprint to fix apprenticeships and secure our economic future.
Read the full report: www.makeuk.org/make-uk-indu...
#UKmfg #IndustrialStrategySkills
@MakeUK_ has published Skills for Success—a blueprint to fix apprenticeships and secure our economic future.
Read the full report: www.makeuk.org/make-uk-indu...
#UKmfg #IndustrialStrategySkills
Make UK Industrial Strategy Skills Commission Report 2025
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April 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A big moment in tackling the UK’s skills crisis.
@MakeUK_ has published Skills for Success—a blueprint to fix apprenticeships and secure our economic future.
Read the full report: www.makeuk.org/make-uk-indu...
#UKmfg #IndustrialStrategySkills
@MakeUK_ has published Skills for Success—a blueprint to fix apprenticeships and secure our economic future.
Read the full report: www.makeuk.org/make-uk-indu...
#UKmfg #IndustrialStrategySkills
Bit choked by Gavin and Stacey.
December 25, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Bit choked by Gavin and Stacey.
Iain Archer presenting on Radio 4 right now. It’s wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, ABBA: Inside the Music
Exploring ABBA's songwriting and craft on the 50th anniversary of their Eurovision win.
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December 24, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Iain Archer presenting on Radio 4 right now. It’s wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Welcome to the House of Lords on here.
The House of Lords is now on Bluesky. Follow here for updates and content from the UK Parliament’s second chamber.
We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat.
We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat.
December 10, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Welcome to the House of Lords on here.
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ABBA Voyage is proving to be more than just a show—it's an economic powerhouse, bringing millions to Stratford and boosting jobs. A shining example of how our support for culture and creativity drives growth across London.
Abba Voyage gives £1.4bn economic boost - and may stay in London 'forever'
Executive producer Michael Bolingbroke said the Swedish pop group ‘chose the UK when they could have gone anywhere else’
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December 9, 2024 at 1:39 PM
ABBA Voyage is proving to be more than just a show—it's an economic powerhouse, bringing millions to Stratford and boosting jobs. A shining example of how our support for culture and creativity drives growth across London.
Uma is doing great work here.
BBC World Service reporting from Syria has been incredible - in this volatile world, their work is vital.
We know that when BBC steps aside, Russia is waiting in the wings to broadcast state propaganda
I spoke to Politics Home about the soft power 🇬🇧 holds👇🏾
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We know that when BBC steps aside, Russia is waiting in the wings to broadcast state propaganda
I spoke to Politics Home about the soft power 🇬🇧 holds👇🏾
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-mp-says-bbc-world-service-helped-ukraine-war-russia?previewkey=ee207e8b806fd58db414d1a7eec17a96
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December 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Uma is doing great work here.
This could work, but it also needs a psychologist involved, as it touches on themes of trauma and sacrifice.
I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
December 9, 2024 at 6:25 AM
This could work, but it also needs a psychologist involved, as it touches on themes of trauma and sacrifice.
No tyrant lasts for ever.
December 8, 2024 at 3:04 PM
No tyrant lasts for ever.
If you’ve not heard Mark Steel on desert island discs, you should. It’s about the most revealing episode I’ve ever heard. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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December 6, 2024 at 11:26 AM
If you’ve not heard Mark Steel on desert island discs, you should. It’s about the most revealing episode I’ve ever heard. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Guardian have missed the essential fact we need in this story. What’s on the other side of the window? Are they on the ground floor?
Chaos in Bahamas parliament as MP throws ceremonial mace out of window
Chaos in Bahamas parliament as MP throws ceremonial mace out of window
Incident comes after indictment of senior police officers on drug trafficking charges sparks debate over corruption
Chaotic scenes have broken out in the Bahamas parliament after the indictment of senior police officers on drug trafficking charges…
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December 5, 2024 at 9:19 PM
The Guardian have missed the essential fact we need in this story. What’s on the other side of the window? Are they on the ground floor?
Happy 90th birthday to the British Council, who open minds, doors and borders and promote human flourishing.
December 5, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Happy 90th birthday to the British Council, who open minds, doors and borders and promote human flourishing.
I’m happy with this.
December 4, 2024 at 2:53 PM
I’m happy with this.
Profile - Kim Leadbeater - BBC Sounds
The MP behind a bid to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.
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November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
I’m very sad to see Louise Haigh resign. She was a highly able minister who brought energy and clarity to the transport brief. Her contributions will be missed.
November 29, 2024 at 9:21 AM
I’m very sad to see Louise Haigh resign. She was a highly able minister who brought energy and clarity to the transport brief. Her contributions will be missed.
Possibly the best interviewer the BBC Today programme has ever had. The corporation will regret letting her go. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Mishal Husain to leave BBC
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November 27, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Possibly the best interviewer the BBC Today programme has ever had. The corporation will regret letting her go. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
You’re in my heart, you’re in my soul.
Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury 2025 legends slot: ‘I’m more than able to pleasure and titillate’
Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury 2025 legends slot: ‘I’m more than able to pleasure and titillate’
The 79-year-old pop veteran, fresh from UK No 1 album this year, will follow in the footsteps of Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie in much-loved Sunday teatime slot
Glastonbury festival has announced its first act for 2025, with Rod Stewart booked to…
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November 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM
You’re in my heart, you’re in my soul.
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This fella - Richard Dawson - has today released a brilliant cynical stab at the Xmas market… and I’m playing it TONIGHT! Of course I am! 👊💥 #rileyandcoe ⭐️
November 25, 2024 at 4:18 PM
This fella - Richard Dawson - has today released a brilliant cynical stab at the Xmas market… and I’m playing it TONIGHT! Of course I am! 👊💥 #rileyandcoe ⭐️
This first ten years of multiplex with kids are the hardest.
Took the kids to Paddington in Peru today. First family trip to the pictures and the first at all for the youngest. It’s genuinely brilliant going to the pictures. I got an enormous popcorn and they stuffed their faces. Excellent.
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 PM
This first ten years of multiplex with kids are the hardest.
I know I once had beef with jay over his utter contempt for Black Country chefs but I’m going to miss him in the Observer. I’d actually follow him to a new publication.
This week’s restaurant review: the Martlet inside the beautifully restored Rochdale Town Hall. The menu pays homage to greater Manchester classics with wit and professionalism. (Side note: these reviews will be
In the Observer until February)
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In the Observer until February)
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The Martlet, Rochdale: ‘A victory of professionalism’ – restaurant review
Civic pride meets glorious cooking at a remarkably fair price
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November 24, 2024 at 8:43 PM
I know I once had beef with jay over his utter contempt for Black Country chefs but I’m going to miss him in the Observer. I’d actually follow him to a new publication.
Brace yourselves. MPs will soon unveil their Christmas cards, featuring designs from local school competitions. The all-time winner? Former MP Michael Dugher’s entrant: an avant-garde kid who drew Santa nailed to a cross. Forget sleigh bells, that one rang alarm bells.
November 24, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Brace yourselves. MPs will soon unveil their Christmas cards, featuring designs from local school competitions. The all-time winner? Former MP Michael Dugher’s entrant: an avant-garde kid who drew Santa nailed to a cross. Forget sleigh bells, that one rang alarm bells.
There’s something almost transcendent about sitting in a 90-degree sauna, the gales whistling around the corners of your wooden box, as you gaze out at the snow.
November 23, 2024 at 11:30 AM
There’s something almost transcendent about sitting in a 90-degree sauna, the gales whistling around the corners of your wooden box, as you gaze out at the snow.
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Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”
November 22, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”