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A great piece by Josh Bland on why, in a world where the cult of personality is so prevalent, Harry Kane’s Ballon D’or win is a victory for quietly letting your football do the talking for you. Give Josh a follow and check out his football substack. It’s excellent. #BallonDor

Optimistic October - Day 27: Be kind to yourself today. Remember, progress takes time actionforhappiness.org/optimistic-o... #OptimisticOctober

Chancellor, sell me a bridge – this is great from Hannah Camilleri for @arguablymag.bsky.social on how infrastructure bonds can turn taxpayers into participants and help build popular opposition to Nimbyism. www.arguably.uk/p/chancellor...

NEW EPISODE Trump, Putin and The Mid Terms... Former UK diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social marks your card on the latest pod @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social Listen: pod.fo/e/6e7a5a Watch: youtu.be/L4Ln4R0O4Yk?...

🟡 MAGAZINE Saying the ‘Unsayable’: Russian Interference By @peterjukes.bsky.social Read below. ↓

I am about to launch a daily live stream on my dormant YouTube channel which could change the internet forever. However I need 50 subscribers to live stream, and I only have 42. Please rectify this immediately, and you could be part of history www.youtube.com/@maxrushden9...

🆕 It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world 💥 Are we actually already at war? 🤡 Who are the allies and who the foes? 🏳️ What does victory look like? With @sturdyalex.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social & @snellarthur.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4IVh... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Spider-Man: Sometimes I regret being bitten by a radioactive spider and being given all these amazing powers. It's so much responsibility. Dung Beetle-Man (doing a handstand and rolling a giant ball of turds with his feet): Shut the fuck up, Spider-Man.

Something I really admire about @quietriotpod.bsky.social is they summarise in a sentence what would take me a week to articulate. In this episode it's @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social : "Patriotism should be measured by how much you contribute to a country, not how loudly you insist it belongs to you."

🗳️ B-Side: The Last of First Past The Post We discuss electoral reform with @alexsobel.co.uk, Chair of the @appgfairelections.bsky.social. What it should consist of, how long it will take, and what sort of approval it may need. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/21NR...

This is a mistake from the chancellor. Capital gains tax reform could raise £19bn to help fund cost of living support for struggling households and improvements in public services.

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece ton convince people to follow you

Mark Zuckerberg trying to drink Guinness like a hoo-man.

The Social Reckoning isn’t as angry or as potent as a Facebook drama should be

I want the most FT content you have. Wait, that’s too FT www.ft.com/content/f01b...

🌅 GO TO WORK ON A POD 🌅 New episode with Russian Brexit interference, Trump’s dirty diesel deal, Greens in turmoil and more 🌅 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Much of the coverage today is absolutely nuts. The facts are on Wikipedia. The full Intelligence and Security Committee (Russia) Report is online. Tory media & politicians once again banking on their average consumer/voter being too daft/busy/blinkered to notice...

Definitely one for my "immigration doom loop" hypothesis!

Europe has ‘big decisions to make’ on Russian frozen assets with UK willing to work with the EU, Miliband says – Europe live

"Horrifying" (Daily Mirror) is the only Tuesday front-page to lead on Reform + asylum. It highlights Robert Jenrick saying Reform would order the Royal Marines to use "lethal force" against migrants. The paper calls this a "new low in British politics"

Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party calls the 'lethal force' proposal of Jenrick "disgusting and illegal". "Our armed forces are not going to start opening fire on unarmed civilians, and Reform are dragging their own reputations and credibility into the gutter by suggesting it"

It’s totally gonna save us from climate change, too, guys, go buy up a bunch of oceanfront property. In fact I have some to sell you right here!

Tuesday's front page: Burnham ready to sign new EU deal next month - as he attacks Brexit 'damage' Read more: trib.al/XexoAwP #TomorrowsPapersToday

As Farage bleats about a Russian hoax & calls our PM a liar - I urge you to read this from @bylinetimes.bsky.social from June 24. Let’s just say he would say that, wouldn’t he, given his cosy & lucrative relationship with Russia, who swore to undermine the EU? bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...

NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My post by-election review of the Holborn & St Pancras result for @news.sky.com Polanski's gamble fails - as the Burnham honeymoon rolls on news.sky.com/share/13596686

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.”

Excellent as ever in their analysis. You should listen to QR.

#PoliticsLive Has Bethell found his phone yet? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cutting welfare does not end need. IFS research found that after other benefits were cut, more people claimed disability benefits, shrinking the savings. The Health Foundation says cuts may worsen the nation's health, especially for the poorest. #bbcwato #PoliticsLive ifs.org.uk/news/cuts-no...

Overseas aid: it's already £7bn of their claimed cuts. Last week came another £2.5bn, leaving just £1bn a year in the pot. That is not trimming. It is abolishing UK aid in all but name. #bbcwato #PoliticsLive #wato www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stop peddling the lie that inheritance tax is double taxation. Majority of asset is property value, and increases in property value are NOT TAXED #politicslive

Optimistic October - Day 8: Make some progress on a project or task you have been avoiding actionforhappiness.org/optimistic-o... #OptimisticOctober

🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Finding the Right Energy to Tackle Our Existential Climate Dread By @johnmitchinson.bsky.social John Mitchinson finds an inspiring warmth in the reality-checking work of climate justice activist Mikaela Loach

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This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...

#ClimateEmergency #AMOC “It is irresponsible to wait for absolute certainty before preparing." Yes www.politico.eu/article/clim...

The head of Jewish Greens has said she might quit the party, amid growing anger among some members at Zack Polanski for his inaction over the party’s policy motion equating Zionism with racism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Zvyagintsev returns to filmmaking with a tale of Russian alienation, seeking to tie family dysfunction with compulsory military conscription Grand Prix winner at Cannes shows at the 70th BFI London Film Festival: dmovies.org/2026/05/20/m...

@quietriotpod.bsky.social I’ve just listened to Friday’s episode looking at Burnham’s Nation Care Service proposal and Triple Lock reform and wanted to come on here to sing its praises, but I can’t say it better than Georgie has below, so I’ll just say thank you for a truly wonderful episode.

Everytime you think they can't get any better another episode comes out and blows your mind! Beautifully personal and wonderfully patient when explaining a issue that people are determined to present as a full dismantling instead of the readjustment that it actually is.

This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

Man City's £854.5m revenue overstatement between 2009-10 and 2017-18 was more than the total revenues in that time of all but eight English clubs (the other 'Big Six' teams, Everton, West Ham and Newcastle) £854.5m in misstated revenue was 30% of #MCFC total revenue in period