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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1h

I mean it fails as an understanding of the simple value and meaning of this one human life that is all any of us get on this benighted planet.

But it *also* fails as a basic analysis of where the British economy is thriving and how to support that for desperately-needed growth.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 19h

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 16h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1h

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 1h

“43 new emails”. 🫩 This since I last checked an hour ago. Of course not more than three are from humans. But they take time for a human to delete. Direction of travel: not good.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1h

Barely a squeak from the usual suspects on the free-speech right, of course, but this amounts to the most serious assault on free speech in living memory. We cannot accept a situation where hundreds of non-violent demonstrators are being arrested every weekend.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1h

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1h

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 9h

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2h

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11h

In 2037 it'll release a bargain-basement knock-off first-person-shooter in which the NPCs say how great Hitler was.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 17h

'Marx believed the world was f****d up.'

“This society produces religion, an upside down consciousness of the world because the world itself is upside down.”

Listen to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Marx is the latest episode of Origin Story 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22h

I'm guessing Robert Jenrick might be hard-pressed to see a black face if he walked round his own constituency of Newark for 90 minutes, given the ethnic minority population of its main town looks to be smaller than the white population of Handsworth. (Source: citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...)

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the great threads.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈. Once Trump Regime is buried and dead 🇺🇲 @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

I particularly recommend the moment she tries to remember whatever nonsense her BORDERS acronym stands for.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Extraordinary interview this. A 50/50 mixture of far-right policy proposals and laugh-out-loud idiocy.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch now responding to Jenrick's comments on skin colour. It's clear there is no level of comment on race which would make her take action, no matter how plainly discriminatory.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

He is a fantasist, a hysteric and a conspiracy theorist. The coverage of him really does deserve this tone and these labels rather than the mock seriousness he enjoys.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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James Moules @jamesmoules.bsky.social · 1d

I’m old enough to remember when a comment like this would have been a resigning matter…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for clipping this, lovely of you

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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