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Gabriel Milland

@gabrielmilland.bsky.social

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Mainly research for strategy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Aggro-centrist. Bristol City FC.

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Ariel Zellman @arielzellman.bsky.social · 1m

Remarkably, as with every previous ceasefire in this war, Hamas is working hard via continued blatant violations, to encourage Israel to "break" its side of the agreement. 3/3

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 35m

It's still pretty poor in comparison to Seumas Milne - who also did PPE at Balliol. The Economist records: "As an undergraduate he was so committed to the Palestinian cause that he spoke with a Palestinian accent and called himself Shams, Arabic for sun."

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

Marchesini. Decent choice. But not easy to find in supermarkets.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

I bet Samuel tells everyone at Oxford he's from South London.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

If it wasn't so vomit-inducing it would be a potential sitcom

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

"Workshopping". I do love the idea of the most middle class people in the world commandeering the college boathouse or whatever to come up with slightly twee demands for a death cult to commit mass murder.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

Williams celebrated the “noble resistance in Palestine and in Gaza” and then launched into his chant, telling fellow protesters: “I don’t want to yap for too long, but a chant that we’ve been workshopping in Oxford that maybe you guys want to join in."

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2h

What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 17h

Brilliant

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

www.theguardian.com

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 17h

"We're saving God."

Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 17h

"He and Clegg, the former deputy prime minister who at the time was a senior executive at Meta, invited leaders of six tech companies to dine with Poppy Gustafsson, who was the government’s investment minister responsible for persuading firms to invest in Britain."

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The Telegraph @telegraphnews.bsky.social · 18h

🔴 Texan soldiers ridiculed online for their size by critics who question how physique fits with new military fitness regime

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 19h

Okey-dokey. Legal crack it is, then.

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 20h

Actually, considering the views of just one stakeholder group and saying "we must therefore do that" is a much more childish response.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 21h

Okey-dokey. Crack for all it is then.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 22h

I think both things need to happen. But I also think that quite a lot of Green support is probably quite low-information.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 22h

That is precisely why attention should be drawn to things like their drugs policy. Serious attention needs to be applied to some very un-serious positions they have.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 23h

That's a lot of people who apparently want to legalise the sale and distribution of crack cocaine.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 23h

Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 23h

Putin must be in line for some kind of environmental prize for his achievements in rapidly decarbonising Russia.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 23h

The oil depot in Feodosia is still burning.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

When you ride in a Tesla, you ride with Yaxley-Lennon.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Not serious people.

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

Lol, actually wild stuff to say on today of all days when it's pretty good news all round.

The Guardian live page update from today:

Referring to the post from Steve Witkoff this morning (see 9.53am), Badenoch said:

■ I was not born yesterday. I think it is actually very sad that the government is having to beg people to send tweets to say something nice about Jonathan Powell.

The American ambassador to Israel has actually criticised the government, saying they are delusional for saying that they have anything to do with this peace deal.

I think that that is quite tragic, the way that the UK's reputation is falling under this Labour government.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Social media sees huge decline in tweeness as major internet outage strikes UK.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Mobile internet down too. Not even 2G here in SE1.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Vodafone seems to have had a catastrophic outage. My fibre broadband is down, but worse Vodafone's website is inaccessible and calling its phone number gets a "this phone is switched off" message...

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