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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 14h

There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 15h

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 1d

Equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors of power over a decade... OpenAI is making us dumb _and_ destroying the environment

OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn - on.ft.com/4pZsGcF

OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn

Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 2d

"... when Netanyahu finally made it to the White House on September 29 — days after Trump had already presented his peace plan to Arab leaders — the president handed him a phone receiver and listened in as Netanyahu humbly apologised to Qatar’s prime minister"
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How Trump cornered Netanyahu into signing up for peace

Israel’s prime minister has encountered the first US president he cannot easily outmanoeuvre

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 3d

Stewart Lee on immigrants
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Stewart Lee Coming Over Here!

YouTube video by Brexit Sham

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 3d

"_The Hack_ is playing to half-empty houses. There is no sign – so far, anyway – of the slow-building outrage that turned Mr Bates vs the Post Office into much more than a drama." No-one cares about the phone hacking scandal anymore
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Last call for the phone-hacking scandal – but is anyone s...

ITV’s The Hack tells how Rupert Murdoch’s reporters intercepted voicemails. Will the story’s loose ends ever be tied up?

observer.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

Finally, an article that at least touches on teaching quality and staff workload issues. Not that it suggests any viable alternatives to the current state of play. (And for 'colleges' in the headline, read 'universities', a telling choice of nomenclature.

Grade deflation, overcrowding and ‘chaos’ as colleges scr...

Russell group hoovers up international students to stave off budget deficit fears

observer.co.uk

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 4d

Hitchcock eat your heart out

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 6d

FT article about how OpenAI has been valued at $500bn, making it the most valuable start up ever... immediately followed by video on the "graduate jobpocalypse", where grads can't find employment anymore ... hmm, transfer of wealth anyone?
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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 6d

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 6d

Russian missile upgrade outpaces Ukraine’s Patriot defences... "Ukraine’s ballistic missile interception rate improved over the summer, reaching 37 per cent in August, but it plummeted to 6 per cent in September," considered a "game changer" for Russia going into winter
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Russian missile upgrade outpaces Ukraine’s Patriot defences

Kyiv’s interception rates fall as enemy strikes dodge US interceptors in final seconds

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SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · 7d

SHAFR Election results are here! Congratulations to the newest members of our leadership team.
#SHAFR

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 7d

"In 2019, experts at Kings College London estimated that without further action it would take 193 years for London to meet legal [pollution] limits, but City Hall said Sir Sadiq has achieved this aim in nine years" thanks to ULEZ
www.lbc.co.uk/article/sadi...

Sadiq Khan hails Ulez success as London under limit for toxic pollutant for first time | LBC

The mayor of London has hailed the success of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) as new Government data revealed that the capital has met legal limits for toxic nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution for th...

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 7d

"If the Obamacare tax credits are allowed to lapse, ... prices will go up for an additional 20 million people. The CBO has projected that 10 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 as a result of the health cuts in the new tax law."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Shutdown Enters First Full Day With No Hint Either Side Will Give

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 7d

"Harris emerges from this book as humorless and foul-mouthed. But politics is not a nice business... [H]owever,... after 320 pages, the reader is left with no real clue about what Harris thinks or believes."
Richard Aldous is not a fan of Kamala's book
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

107 Days, Zero Ideas

Kamala Harris’s new book proves she fell far short of being the candidate Democrats needed.

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 9d

Watched One Battle after Another lwst night. It's great - after so much Netflix TV Marvel universe slop, it was just wonderful to go to an actual cinema and watch an actual film by a genuine filmmaker who loves and understands the movies. Wonderful!

Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 9d

'The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the “fear of missing out”, few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.'
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America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides

FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggests the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 12d

The terrorism case against Kneecap was thrown out after the chief magistrate ruled "that the case should not proceed because it not had been brought within the statutory time limit."

Why do the words 'piss up' and 'brewery' spring to mind?
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Terror case against Kneecap rapper thrown out over technical error

Member of controversial rap trio had faced charges after allegedly displaying Hizbollah flag during London concert

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14d

Uruguay, y'all. I been sayin.

He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again?

Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 15d

Retrospectively changing the rights of people to stay in the UK isn't fair, isn't right and is certainly not the British way.
To Farage they are,"low skilled migrants."
To the majority of Brits, they are our friends and neighbours, working as teachers, carers and in small businesses.
A short video 👇

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 14d

Great review of the Taubmans' _McNamara at War_.
They argue that McNamara's late-in-life mea culpa over Vietnam "was just as motivated by his mania for authority as everything that had come before it," seeking "retrospective mastery over what had eluded him and why.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

Robert McNamara Loved Efficiency. Then Came the Vietnam War.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 15d

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Simon Hall @simonhallwriter.bsky.social · 15d

It is US publication day for Three Revolutions! You can find out more by listening to the @theresthistory.bsky.social bonus episode (if you're not already, sign up for membership) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/three-revo...

Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World|Hardcover

The gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever.From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao&#8...

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Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social · 15d

"Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four, said George Orwell. By that standard, the US is hurtling towards unfreedom... In the post-Kirk world, two plus two equals five."
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America’s accelerating exit from itself

After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16d

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

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Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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