Anna (ox_anna29 on X/Twitter)
@sci-anna.bsky.social
31, social democrat, Labour supporter, scientist, she/her, cat and fantasy lover
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WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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"BERNARD MANNING!"
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/989c0d4...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/989c0d4...
Exclusive: Farage reported to police over ‘election fraud’
Former campaign team member’s claim of overspending in Clacton is rejected by Reform UK
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"BERNARD MANNING!"
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/989c0d4...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/989c0d4...
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You'll be amazed to discover that a bunch of anonymous people that Nigel Farage says definitely do exist, have confirmed that he didn't say any of the things that lots of other people say on the record that he absolutely did
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
You'll be amazed to discover that a bunch of anonymous people that Nigel Farage says definitely do exist, have confirmed that he didn't say any of the things that lots of other people say on the record that he absolutely did
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Really interesting shift from Starmer basically saying Reform are beyond the pale of normal politics. An active threat, unlike Conservative Party
“If there is a Conservative government, I can sleep at night.” A right-wing populist Reform UK government, however, “is a different proposition”.
Starmer speaks to @zannymb.economist.com; note by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Starmer speaks to @zannymb.economist.com; note by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer
Britain’s prime minister understands the size of the moment. He just does not know how to meet it
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Really interesting shift from Starmer basically saying Reform are beyond the pale of normal politics. An active threat, unlike Conservative Party
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Well done Emma Barnett on #r4today exposing the blatant antisemitism of Richard Tice, MP (and deputy leader of Reform) - he called the Jewish man abused at school by Nigel Farage with the foulest of antisemitic language a liar and said it was “lefty twaddle”…
A new low for Farage, Tice, and Reform…
A new low for Farage, Tice, and Reform…
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Well done Emma Barnett on #r4today exposing the blatant antisemitism of Richard Tice, MP (and deputy leader of Reform) - he called the Jewish man abused at school by Nigel Farage with the foulest of antisemitic language a liar and said it was “lefty twaddle”…
A new low for Farage, Tice, and Reform…
A new low for Farage, Tice, and Reform…
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
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Labour: let people use nectar points to buy baby formula, it'd be slightly cheaper
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy.
I wish I was making this up.
I wish I was making this up.
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Labour: let people use nectar points to buy baby formula, it'd be slightly cheaper
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
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I often boast about being the national schoolboy public speaking champion in my youth. Just in case anyone at the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Spectator etc is preparing a humiliating exposé, I would like to clarify that it was the 1988 English Speaking Union National Schools Public Speaking competition.
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I often boast about being the national schoolboy public speaking champion in my youth. Just in case anyone at the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Spectator etc is preparing a humiliating exposé, I would like to clarify that it was the 1988 English Speaking Union National Schools Public Speaking competition.
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This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
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Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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Mason's misinformation was the top news item for two days. Not a bulletin went by on national TV or Radio in which he didn't put in a shift. Today he is NOWHERE to be found, of course.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Mason's misinformation was the top news item for two days. Not a bulletin went by on national TV or Radio in which he didn't put in a shift. Today he is NOWHERE to be found, of course.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
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Keir Starmer admitted that Brexit has badly damaged the UK’s economy.
“Every analysis makes it clear that the deal we have has harmed our economy. That’s why we have rebuilt and reset our relationship with the EU, and I’m proud we’ve managed to do that,”
“Every analysis makes it clear that the deal we have has harmed our economy. That’s why we have rebuilt and reset our relationship with the EU, and I’m proud we’ve managed to do that,”
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Keir Starmer admitted that Brexit has badly damaged the UK’s economy.
“Every analysis makes it clear that the deal we have has harmed our economy. That’s why we have rebuilt and reset our relationship with the EU, and I’m proud we’ve managed to do that,”
“Every analysis makes it clear that the deal we have has harmed our economy. That’s why we have rebuilt and reset our relationship with the EU, and I’m proud we’ve managed to do that,”
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No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The general position of journalists in that Starmer Q&A appeared to be: The economy has been doing better than expected and so the Chancellor did not have to increase income tax, breaking a manifesto pledge, as feared, therefore, THE CHANCELLOR MUST RESIGN. 😵💫
I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The general position of journalists in that Starmer Q&A appeared to be: The economy has been doing better than expected and so the Chancellor did not have to increase income tax, breaking a manifesto pledge, as feared, therefore, THE CHANCELLOR MUST RESIGN. 😵💫
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I feel like I'm going mad here. It was about a policy she didn't even proceed with! Who fucking cares??
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I feel like I'm going mad here. It was about a policy she didn't even proceed with! Who fucking cares??
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Sorry if this is a silly question, but were the OBR forecasts always going to be made public at some point?
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sorry if this is a silly question, but were the OBR forecasts always going to be made public at some point?
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Honestly the completely weird Budget coverage is mostly a sign of how pretty much any attack can stick when you’re unpopular enough.
Of course Rachel Reeves didn’t brief the full Cabinet on Budget details weeks in advance! No chancellor ever does! It would immediately leak!
Of course Rachel Reeves didn’t brief the full Cabinet on Budget details weeks in advance! No chancellor ever does! It would immediately leak!
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Honestly the completely weird Budget coverage is mostly a sign of how pretty much any attack can stick when you’re unpopular enough.
Of course Rachel Reeves didn’t brief the full Cabinet on Budget details weeks in advance! No chancellor ever does! It would immediately leak!
Of course Rachel Reeves didn’t brief the full Cabinet on Budget details weeks in advance! No chancellor ever does! It would immediately leak!
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"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
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this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform
You know when a famous person dies and you're surprised because you'd assumed they must already be dead? That, but for Nadine Dorries defecting to Reform.
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform
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Exactly - in response to previous governments' decade+ of attritional attacks on UK fiscal capacity, which was repeatedly exposed by *real events*, RR created a tiny bit of fictional headroom for the end of this Parliament. That's the exact opposite of 'pessimism'.
Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?
Suggestion Rachel Reeves exaggerated fiscal pressures is absurd
Chancellor was instead far too optimistic about public finances and government’s ability to secure cuts
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Exactly - in response to previous governments' decade+ of attritional attacks on UK fiscal capacity, which was repeatedly exposed by *real events*, RR created a tiny bit of fictional headroom for the end of this Parliament. That's the exact opposite of 'pessimism'.
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It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
It's hardly a massive difference.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
It's hardly a massive difference.
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All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started