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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 23m

But, crucially, also good at watching sports and enthusiastic about giving advice to professional athletes

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 1h

general vibe of bluesky is "shit at PE"

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 4h

I always assumed it was what you graduated to after you were too old for using The Benches.

But we never actually used it. Maybe for safety reasons; maybe we simply did not deserve The Apparatus. Who knows

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 19h

(And to be clear it’s understandable there is confusion about who does what- this stuff isn’t really ever taught!)

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 19h

Agree and would add a lack of understanding about what level of govt does what- so often the things that pop up in MPs’ inboxes are things that are in the gift of the local council and not MPs! And equally, local councils are blamed for things that are the result of funding envelopes set centrally

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 1d

The (v helpful) staff at the station confirmed to me that I absolutely should have been allowed to travel and tried contact the train to track my luggage but couldn’t. They said I would get a call from them when it got to the end station. Of course I never did and luggage was never found.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 1d

Explained the situation and he said i couldn’t get the train. I showed him the statement on the train company’s own website saying people could get any of their trains. He refused to accept it and said no dice. So I didnt travel. Train left. Then I realised I’d left luggage on train in the scramble

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 1d

ARGH. A couple of years ago trains going north were messed up, so train company said anybody with tickets north could get on any of their trains. I did. Announcement on train said only people with tix for that specific train could travel, so I hopped off train to find train manager on the platform…

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme

An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking

fullfact.org/technology/d...

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact

Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

fullfact.org

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

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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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 5d

100% would rather clean that up than slobbery mashed banana

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 5d

It’s just picking things up off the floor and then, once they’ve started weaning, cleaning the high chair, the floor, the wall, the baby, and yourself. Endlessly.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific. Thoughts with Jewish friends.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

I think a lot of this is primarily about what many of us in the media now rewards. I chaired quite a few fringes at Labour conference, and at all of them I walked away impressed by the quality of all the MPs and their contributions.

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 6d

People talk about getting a "better" political class with little agreement on what that means. I suspect the best change would be getting more people who are seriously interested in policy and government. Surprisingly few MPs actually are.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 6d

This is my issue with politics lately. Basically, every announcement assumes the reader has an utter lack of curiosity or knowledge to the point that it's just meaningless chaff.

The government's immigration policy is now the exact policy they dismissed when Kemi suggested it in spring.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 7d

Say what you will about GOV.UK, but this kind of thing (which is, to be clear, an absolutely outrageous political statement to make on an official government website) would never happen

Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 7d

This is not appropriate.

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Sam Macrory @sammacrory.bsky.social · 7d

🎧🎧Listen now!

Brilliant analysis of Starmer’s speech and the Labour conference with @drhannahwhite.bsky.social @cathhaddon.bsky.social @alexgathomas.bsky.social and guest @sophiestowers.bsky.social of @moreincommonuk.bsky.social

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 7d

I swear train ticket pricing is just based on throwing a dart at a board of large numbers and laughing at customers

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 7d

Needed to change some train tickets- simply to get the same trains as already booked on, just on a different day- and am changing them quite a way in advance and apparently the train company thinks it can charge £104 for the new tickets, on top of what I've already paid for the original tickets

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Marc Geddes @marcgeddes.uk · 8d

🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SPARK)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in the politics of the UK, Scottish, German or Bavarian parliaments to join the UKRI-funded research project, ‘Studying Parliaments an...

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 7d

Incredibly useful thread from @chanret.bsky.social for anybody contemplating a PhD

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 7d

Time for an explainer on how to get funding for a PhD in the UK (1/n)

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 7d

When in doubt, watch Taskmaster or Parts Unknown

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 8d

Name your Comfort TV Show.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 8d

Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Department

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth to military leaders: "Good morning and welcome to the War Department. Because the era of the Department of Defense is over. You see, the motto of my first platoon was 'those who long for peace must prepare for war.'"

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 8d

Looking after a kid is an absolutely brilliant exercise in staying very humbled on a daily basis

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 8d

Was feeling v organised having made baby’s breakfast, folded laundry, and gone shopping so I could make her lunch; so treated myself to coffee which I haven’t been able to have for a couple of weeks after an illness.

Instantly dropped my coffee on the floor AND forgot a vital ingredient shopping

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Gemma Tetlow @gemmatetlow.bsky.social · 9d

As trailed in the papers earlier, Reeves's speech did roll the pitch for tax rises in the Budget - pointing to 14 years of weak growth creating a fiscal problem and the foolhardiness of simply ignoring fiscal constraints (she said there was "nothing progressive" about that)...

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