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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 4h

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner has intervened in a series of criminal prosecutions currently before the courts of England and Wales.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/policing-p...

Policing protest prosecutions

Council of Europe human rights commissioner seeks to lay down the law

rozenberg.substack.com

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 13h

Unbelievably, literally the day after I posted this, my son has come home clutching a letter for a £4,600 trip to Kenya. He’s pretty upset I have said no

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 1d

Inexplicably, my son’s very standard state school - in a mixed area, not a particularly affluent one - arranged a £4K trip to Kenya last year. I keep meaning to do a story on the astonishing escalation of the school trip.

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1d

I know they just do this to wind people up, but Christ on a bike.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 3h

Most central banks purchases are NOT in the official data. The World Gold Council has them in its 'unreported' series (reproduced by the ECB, the Fed, everyone)

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 10h

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents

A leading expert on U.S.-India relations who has advised successive U.S. administrations has been arrested and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information, including over a thousand pages of top secret and secret documents at his home, court documents showed.

www.reuters.com

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 10h

Nooooooo. This is exactly the wrong direction: it needs reducing, NOT increasing

Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 13h

aheblog.com/2025/10/14/c...

Cost-effectiveness thresholds under political pressure: where are the health economists

There have been occasions I've disagreed with Chris's take on some matters
Im 100% with him on this one

Cost-effectiveness thresholds under political pressure: where are the health economists? - The Academic Health Economists' Blog

The UK government is reportedly preparing to raise NICE’s cost-effectiveness threshold by 25%, as a bargaining chip to avoid US pharmaceutical tariffs. It’s time for health economists t…

aheblog.com

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 16h

Lincoln must be spinning

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 19h

As it should be. And it’s only what China did. I hope they’re aggressive enough with it

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 20h

Bloomberg: EU considering forcing Chinese firms to hand over tech to European companies if they want to operate locally. as part of a legislative proposal called the Industrial Accelerator Act - expected in November

EU Considers Forced Tech Transfers for New Chinese Investments

The European Union is considering forcing Chinese firms to hand over technology to European companies if they want to operate locally, in an aggressive new push to make the bloc’s industry more competitive.

www.bloomberg.com

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 21h

Another way to view that is that men haven't evolved at all or only slightly whereas women have as the times have changed - which by the way is how evolution is supposed to work whether we're talking about plants or humans

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 21h

And I kinda expect the Conservative members to just have bad faith or economically illiterate arguments but the Libdems haven't covered themselves in glory either.
Also, do they actually engage with anything of substance or do they just rot their brains on Twitter and newspapers opinion pages?

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 21h

You have very good people giving evidence & patiently explaining in terms that an educated 10y old would understand & then you have various members of the committee not listening at all & just being walking examples ‘but it might work for us meme’

No wonder the county is in the state it is

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 1d

IFS Director @helenmiller.bsky.social will be giving evidence to
the Treasury Select Committee this morning on the Chancellor’s tax options alongside @danneidle.bsky.social, @arunadvani.bsky.social and @ruthcurtice.bsky.social.

🖥️ Watch from 10am here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

Parliamentlive.tv

Treasury Committee

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 21h

Some very useful stuff here on a topic where there’s a lot of froth and bad research.

Basic truth is Gen Z men in the UK are simply not more right wing - in attitudes or voting behaviour - than older generations. They are less.

Most of the intra-gen divide is young women getting more progressive.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

🧵/ Our major new study on young men, masculinity, and misogyny questions the extent to which Gen Z men are really more likely to hold misogynist views than older generations of men

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

It's like 'stop the steal' or any of the other many articles of faith Trump/maga demands.
Even in failure they have no original ideas

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

Philipp, with the (depressing) thought of the day 😔

Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 1d

Good article by
@fsaraceno.bsky.social, including the argument that Europe has so far failed to refocus on domestic growth drivers, including public investment as a lever for a revival of private investment: fsaraceno.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Draghi Report, One Year Later: Europe Still at the Starting Blocks

One year after the Draghi Report, Europe remains trapped in a cycle of low productivity and weak investment

fsaraceno.wordpress.com

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

Whilst IBCS is subject to ITAR, there's still no fully equivalent European system. With IBCS you can get input from various US & European radars and shooters and this is very good when you've got so many different systems in Europe.

Tough choice for Germany, Denmark and UK

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 1d

Poland's Ministry of National Defence has conducted the first successful European live-fire test of the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), developed by Northrop Grumman, during the Iron Defender exercise in Ustka.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=62966

Poland conducts first European live-fire test of IBCS system

Poland's Ministry of National Defence has conducted the first successful European live-fire test of the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), developed by Northrop Grumman, during the Iron Defender exercise in Ustka.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

Not just Canada with this predicament: continue ordering just F-35 or accept mixed fleet

Things could get interesting (also because of SAFE money) : European 4.5 generation fighter jets might get a look in, specifically Saab's Gripen E.

www.twz.com/air/time-is-...

Time Is Running Out For Canada’s Fighter Decision

Officially, at least, Canada is still considering whether to buy more F-35s, but arguments for a mixed fighter fleet are becoming harder to justify. Officially, at least, Canada is still considering w...

www.twz.com

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 5d

Moldova’s quiet push for Transnistria’s reintegration: a new chapter unfolds eualive.net/moldovas-qui... A must-read by Sergiy Sydorenko, chief editor of our parner European Pravda

Moldova’s quiet push for Transnistria’s reintegration: a new chapter unfolds

As Moldova edges closer to the EU, Transnistria’s reintegration could mark a historic step toward ...

eualive.net

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 1d

She'll be fine

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

Yes AND the right has really run with some canonical things associated w/leftist organizing — they regularly reference Alinsky, for example. The learnings don’t seem to go in the opposite direction.

@himself.bsky.social’s post (linked in Matt’s tweet, which I also read today) is worth a read.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

It would be a great idea for the left to learn right-wing organizing techniques.

This doesn't happen because left elites cannot distinguish between ideological deficiency and political prowess.

They wrongly suppose that bc righties have dumb policy ideas, they must have stupid organizing ideas.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-the-l...

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 1d

The electricity system is the largest commodity supply chain in the world that doesn’t feature storage. Every technology benefits from storage (esp Solar/Nuclear).

Top 1% of peak hours are 8% of your bill. Top 10% of hours are 40% of your bill
Batteries provide more tools to flatten out peaks.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

Are you at least in a bed and not sitting on chairs? Hope as well that you don't get to spend all night in ED just for morning specialty team to discharge you in the morning with outpatient follow up.
It's a Monday night, good luck

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

So the breach at Land Rover is linked to it using the same company for cyber/security (Tata Group) as have M&S and Coop and others.

How many correlations are acceptable before accepting there's causation there?

www.ft.com/content/49a4...

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

Also, over the past 23y lots of progress in reducing some of the causes of dying before the age of 70 but also increase in some others (like diabetes).

This is still huge given that in those 23y (2000-2023) world population grew by 2 billions

alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 1d

File under what humanity can do when it puts its mind to it:
Covid went from leading cause of death in 2021 to last within 2y

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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