Graham Jeffery
@grahamjeffery.bsky.social
Researcher, academic, teacher, occasional musician. Prof in Arts & Media Practice at the University of the West of Scotland. Personal views, nothing to do with my employer! https://linktr.ee/grahamjeffery
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Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
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BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
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"BiBiCorp is too left wing"
Yolande Knell reports on the dire food situation in Gaza without mentioning Israel once.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"BiBiCorp is too left wing"
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Neo-conservatism, which now dominates on both sides of the Atlantic, is an exercise in concluding "this is an unknowable mystery" in response to extremely well-understood events.
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Neo-conservatism, which now dominates on both sides of the Atlantic, is an exercise in concluding "this is an unknowable mystery" in response to extremely well-understood events.
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Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
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1p on Income Tax would raise 20 times this, cost the average person around £30 a month at most, and, crucially, not risk collapsing one of our most valuable sectors.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
1p on Income Tax would raise 20 times this, cost the average person around £30 a month at most, and, crucially, not risk collapsing one of our most valuable sectors.
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More things UkLabour Know; but can’t admit ( becuase Bannon & Glasman , McSweeny & Starmer won’t let them)
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
More things UkLabour Know; but can’t admit ( becuase Bannon & Glasman , McSweeny & Starmer won’t let them)
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We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
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The only guarantee of peace in Europe is a Ukrainian victory over russia.
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The only guarantee of peace in Europe is a Ukrainian victory over russia.
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#COP30 - “Our elementary school kids are reading textbooks that are more science-based and in line with reality than the [draft] text we have here, where we are supposed to fix this problem” says Juan Carlos Monterrey, climate envoy for Panama
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Cop30 live: summit president warns ‘everybody will lose’ if countries fail to cooperate
André Corrêa do Lago issues plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries far from reaching agreement on scheduled final day
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#COP30 - “Our elementary school kids are reading textbooks that are more science-based and in line with reality than the [draft] text we have here, where we are supposed to fix this problem” says Juan Carlos Monterrey, climate envoy for Panama
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers
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Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
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AI empowers the worst people to write more emails and create more Excel sheets and, ultimately, take up more of everyone else's time.
We've lost about a year's progress at work trying to implement it.
We've lost about a year's progress at work trying to implement it.
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
AI empowers the worst people to write more emails and create more Excel sheets and, ultimately, take up more of everyone else's time.
We've lost about a year's progress at work trying to implement it.
We've lost about a year's progress at work trying to implement it.
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thus far AI has empowered my boss to:
- write more pointless emails that waste everyone's time
- create public facing content that is more confusing and worse and undermines faith in our service because it reads like ChatGPT
- waste six months pursuing meaningless trends he identified w/AI
- write more pointless emails that waste everyone's time
- create public facing content that is more confusing and worse and undermines faith in our service because it reads like ChatGPT
- waste six months pursuing meaningless trends he identified w/AI
every tech guy I know is reading the same LinkedIn posts and talking like this on every call and it's worked out for exactly none of them
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-boss...
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-boss...
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
thus far AI has empowered my boss to:
- write more pointless emails that waste everyone's time
- create public facing content that is more confusing and worse and undermines faith in our service because it reads like ChatGPT
- waste six months pursuing meaningless trends he identified w/AI
- write more pointless emails that waste everyone's time
- create public facing content that is more confusing and worse and undermines faith in our service because it reads like ChatGPT
- waste six months pursuing meaningless trends he identified w/AI
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Yes, this was always the ultimate destination and it’s where all those Sensible people who have been hectoring us for years are likely to end up, if they don’t pull out of their collective nosedive.
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I don't think Danny Kruger is being taken seriously enough - this is far more extreme than anything the Conservatives were allowed to get away with. He is effectively saying that being anti-racist and being trans are contrary to British national identity and his party is leading the polls.
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Reform are so dangerous and this headline doesn't do it justice. I also think a piece like this should start with the politician's core views just to emphasise the urgency.
Are we talking about empire? But he's moving into an explanation of how economics and migration are only part of the problem. The real issue, the real poison, the real fight is actually with the progressive left. The flag-waving is, yes, a deliberate hostile response to what Reform sees as "dangerous and transgressive ideas".
. These fall under "the
panoply we call 'woke"", he explains, "a word that trivialises quite a substantial set of ideas that are not to be treated flippantly.
Everything from BLM [Black Lives Matter], to trans, to the Palestinian agenda, to DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] in the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hyjbx4hnlxe5il24ydnn4sr/bafkreidgivmslziichdhjujcnjsdwdknjy4ur7uy7djdmuht74jawy67am@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yes, this was always the ultimate destination and it’s where all those Sensible people who have been hectoring us for years are likely to end up, if they don’t pull out of their collective nosedive.
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The stuff she said about lower grade immigrant workers not being “net contributors” really annoyed me.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
Yes, our Labour Home Secretary really did just post this on Twitter.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The stuff she said about lower grade immigrant workers not being “net contributors” really annoyed me.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Migrants didn't cut council funding.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.
Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.
Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Migrants didn't cut council funding.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.
Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.
Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.
endless self-owns by this government cos they'd rather listen to the austerity/fascism/techbro bullshit peddlers rather than acknowledging that the UK has incredible soft power assets that could actually do some good in the world - ditto, the wholly avoidable destruction of the universities
Also incl National Audit Office film on effect+handling of cuts to #BBCWorldService +resulting drop in its audience. “ #Russia + #China are filling the gaps by spending between £6bn and £8bn on expanding their global media activities” See: www.bbc.com/news/article... When will we stop self-harming?
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
endless self-owns by this government cos they'd rather listen to the austerity/fascism/techbro bullshit peddlers rather than acknowledging that the UK has incredible soft power assets that could actually do some good in the world - ditto, the wholly avoidable destruction of the universities