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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 6m

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137. Jacinda Ardern: Why I Stepped Down as Prime Minister of New Zealand

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 11m

If you can cope with the Eton polished turd, Stewart. The Leading interview with her is really interesting.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1h

"The policy unfolds as planned."

Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 11h

Starmer 19/20. Unfortunately, he chose to embrace the brexit lies instead.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe Reeves should go Total Thatcher:

Top rate tax: 60%
Lower rate: 30%
Corporation tax: 34%
VAT: 15%

Windfall taxes

Join the Single Market.

A fitting centenary present.

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 14h

NEW EPISODE: The story of how eco activists end up rubbing shoulders with oil barons and tech businesses at #COP climate summits.

Insight from Josh Appignanesi whose new film "Colossal Wreck' is out next week.

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Byline Podcast: Inside The COP Climate Summit

Film maker Josh Appignanesi takes us inside the COP Climate Summit in conversation with Adrian Goldberg. Josh's new film, "Colossal Wreck' about his participation in Cop 29 in Dubai last year, is b...

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 12h

I was in a meeting yesterday warning that if we lose the ECHR we are Royally Fucked. I think people think it could never happen - but remember everyone said that about Brexit. Let’s not be as stupid as then.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 12h

"PM", "control."

Sorry, you've lost me.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 12h

At the time of the Rayner panicshuffle, I heard several well placed Westminster bubbleheads suggest the whole point of it was to get Mahmood the HO gig.

If true, this ugliness is who they are. A labour government dragging us towards ethnonationalism, shocking

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 12h

Endless screaming.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 12h

"Fix the foundations," "no more sticking plaster policies."

Yeah, right.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 13h

"Mustn't grumble."

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 13h

Hmm. PPE, Oxford. Future cabinet minister.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
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It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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David Deans @deansofcardiff.bsky.social · 1d

The Welsh government started talking about the budget on Monday in apocalyptic terms, raising the spectre of mass redundancies because of statutory cuts if it cannot get a deal.

It has ended Tuesday with both big Senedd opposition parties ready to talk

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

The loss of Adrian Chiles hangs heavy.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely fascinating.
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Yallidarity (w/Nathan Evans Fox) [Introducing Antifascist Dad Podcast]

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

Actual lol.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson got an 80 seat majority, actually. The 19 campaign was chuffin pitiful. The worst I've ever been involved in.

Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

If I can't have heads on spikes I'll settle for mahoosive piss taking.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

Looks ideal (apart from the individuals bit).

All my stuff, but I'm disgusted at the British establishment elite's ability to protect itself from consequence.

Part of me is very Yorkshire on this:
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Vengeance

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Are we living through another wave of fascism? I met a Holocaust survivor who fears we are.

More here.

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Fascism in Britain

My meeting with a Holocaust survivor

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 1d

Reform’s former Welsh leader, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Russia.

The people of Wales deserve full transparency about foreign interference in politics.

Those interviewed by counter-terrorism police in connection with the case should be publicly named.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

That's a pass.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1d

Mutti must be getting bored by now.

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