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Terrie McCann
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Political type, dipping my toe into the exciting/terrifying freelance world, while trying to cram as much art and culture into my life as possible. Long-form thoughts on Substack (substack.com/@terriemcc), sometimes on Threads (@terrie.mccann)
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batariangal.bsky.social
"What was your favourite game of 2025?"

Keir Starmer - *sincere answer about spending his limited time with his kids playing Mario Kart, delivered as if he just googled it*

Ed Davey - "I still love a bit of Wii Sports"

Kemi Badenoch - "My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive"
December 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
I couldn't find the quote on a quick browse of Goodreads (I don't have my copy with me), but I did find this, which I think sums up what is so repellent and arid about Blue Labour and this government's view on class and aspiration more broadly.
“What Dad taught me above all else, and did so utterly unconsciously, was why people like him became Tories. He had been poor. He was working class. He aspired to be middle class. He worked hard, made it on his merits, and wanted his children to do even better than him. He thought – as did many others of his generation – that the logical outcome of this striving, born of this attitude, was to be a Tory. Indeed, it was part of the package. You made it; you were a Tory: two sides of the same coin. It became my political ambition to break that connection, and replace it with a different currency. You are compassionate; you care about those less fortunate than yourself; you believe in society as well as the individual. You can be Labour. You can be successful and care; ambitious and compassionate; a meritocrat and a progressive. These are entirely compatible ways of making sure progress happens; and they answer the realistic, not utopian, claims of human nature.”
December 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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alexisconran.com
Fascinating from Tom’s piece
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.

Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
I know it. You know it. Robert knows it. Lewis knows it. Everyone knows it, but it is almost never verbalised. Actively working to see what pathetic angle you can use to bring down the Chancellor, by investigating her teen Chess tournament record, is NOT journalism. It is borderline psychosis.
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM