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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2h

Genuinely outstanding news, even if this news story can apparently only report on it by cramming it full of every objection imaginable. People should be able to drink as late as they please. And by 'people' I mean me.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

www.theguardian.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11h

Perhaps not the main point but I always hate it when people view it as a sign of failure when poorer countries grow faster. There is absolutely no intrinsic reason why Poland should have lower income than the UK or any other EU country forever, and that means it will have to grow faster sometimes

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 3h

Yay! He's really proved himself at L1 level.

AFC Wimbledon @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social · 6h

AFC Wimbledon have today secured the services of Isaac Ogundere until 2027, with the defender signing a contract extension which includes the option of a further year ✍️

#AFCW 🟡🔵
🔗 www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2025/oc...

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Ian King @twoht.bsky.social · 6h

Pleased to confirm that my words are in @wsc.co.uk this month, I barely even need you to guess on what subject.

Photo of a magazine, a blue smoke going off behind the goal of a football pitch.

Text reads:

"A rare meeting between the acrimonious Enfield clubs emphasised how their paths have diverged"

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 6h

There's a touch of the Liz Truss about Kemi Badenoch. Both in the tax cut paid for by fantasy figures and also a belief there's This One Special Trick The British State Doesn't Want You To Know About! that will somehow solve everything.
Be rude to some civil servants and the UK's problems vanish!

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 10h

If I were the leader of the opposition a year after an election, facing an unpopular government, I would simply focus my energy on criticising the current government's policy record rather than constantly bemoaning the last fifteen years of policymaking, in which I was intimately involved.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 10h

People should have their copyright infringed so that a handful of companies can pursue a business model that causes a massive bubble to be created, meaning an even smaller handful of companies are able to make huge amounts of money, and a small amount of people are able to become insanely wealthy?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16h

The uber-rich have never been much into integration. The essence of the Public Schools is separation from the oiks.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 11h

Good for you. I keep seeing the nonsense he peddles about owners and running a club via social media and remembering what he did to Crystal Palace, a case I worked on myself with the then Palace Supporters Trust. He's a gobshite who's reinvented himself and talks crap for clicks.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

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"APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

YouTube video by talkSPORT

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

🚨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 · 22h

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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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸💙🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller states that tЯump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 1d

“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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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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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Football Supporters Association Australia (Inc) @fsaaustralia.bsky.social · 13h

In a Snapshot 🧐

1. Establishment of a formal supporter consultation process.

2. Unified approach to supporter culture and game advocacy

3. Formalised partnership with external stakeholder engagement.

Full report: tinyurl.com/mf68pxum

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AFC Wimbledon @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social · 13h

🗞️ REPORT: Youthful AFC Wimbledon side triumph in nine-goal thriller against Cray Wanderers to secure London Senior Cup progress.

#AFCW 🟡🔵
www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2025/oc...

Report: AFC Wimbledon triumph in nine-goal thriller to secure cup progress

www.afcwimbledon.co.uk

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 11h

I teach at a football business university. We have a really impressive track record of getting students into work almost immediately after graduation. I presume we're one of those institutions on the hit list, if not specifically then type. If they're getting into work that's got to be a plus!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13h

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 12h

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12h

China is ofc a country well known for it's excellent record on women's rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 12h

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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