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Miranda Green

@greenmirandahere.bsky.social

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Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · Nov 25

erm ... hello?

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 1h

until a dementia or stroke or other such rainy day hits you (ie something that the NHS and insurance delight in branding as not requiring 'healthcare' but requiring high levels of daily care) you ain't seen rain my friend!

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 2h

This is great ICYMI

Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 3d

In which I explore the history of socialism in America from Eugene Debs to DSA and the Milwaukee ‘sewer socialists’ to Zohran Mamdani on.ft.com/47quBib

Will Zohran Mamdani’s rise mark a new dawn for American socialism?

[FREE TO READ] Tens of thousands of volunteers mobilised by the Democratic Socialists of America are working to elect a torchbearer for a beleaguered US left

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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 1d

Would your speech make a professional’s top 10?-It wasn’t quite what we were expecting. Gathered at the graveside after a cathartic funeral service, all eyes were on…
www.ft.com/content/24a0... @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Would your speech make a professional’s top 10?

Lists of hits and misses often feature when talking shop, but for public speaking such rankings raise the stakes

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 1d

spent a lot of my 13th and 14th years dressed like this

MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d

+1:
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Woody Allen pays glowing tribute to Diane Keaton

The pair worked together on eight films including the Oscar-winning Annie Hall and Manhattan.

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks David - I think the ritual does help though it's tough on the day - I was so delighted to see readers sharing genuinely well meant advice in the comments on the piece as well - I love the guy who did the whole thing as a 'just a minute' monologue because his relative had love R4 comedy!

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely piece from @greenmirandahere.bsky.social I'd never come across "hatch, match and dispatch" before. The two most stressful speeches of my life were delivering my father's eulogy and being the "father of the bride". Would your speech make a professional’s top 10? - on.ft.com/3KHZsyZ via @FT

Would your speech make a professional’s top 10?

Lists of hits and misses often feature when talking shop, but for public speaking such rankings raise the stakes

on.ft.com

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 4d

very amusing I'm sure *pursed lips*

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 4d

if you're all going to start talking about the Traitors I'm going to go off in a huff

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 4d

yes that's also true! Just because someone is laughable doesn't mean they aren't bloody dangerous

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 4d

pretty bloody unhealthy outcome if you ask me if it were to happen on that basis

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 4d

well, what's the point though? www.ft.com/content/ea7e...

‘Bring on the BBQ swans!’ Who needs satire when politics is beyond parody?

Puncturing the dignity of those in power is a long comic tradition but too often they do a better job themselves

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 4d

Future scholars will struggle to understand the political importance and ideological subtleties of frogs in early 21st century American politics

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is one of the most depressing sub plots of this series of our lives - let's hope the Thiel antichrist stuff as well as the Glasman stuff is a double-headed MacGuffin is all I can say with my hopeless screen mixed metaphors

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 5d

signed up Polly

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 5d

v good this (obvs)

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 5d

Thatcher once said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and New Labour, because she forced her opponents onto her agenda. Today's new right begs to differ.

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The battle to dismantle Blair’s Britain

Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 5d

A great bit of myth busting on graduate vs non-graduate unemployment from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/ea9e...

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 6d

Enjoying the camera cutting to Jenrick

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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 7d

We want your questions! And hopefully you want our answers. Ask anything. www.ft.com/content/b355...

Submit your questions: Can the global economy withstand new shocks?

Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s Tej Parikh and Martin Sandbu on Thursday October 9 at 1pm BST

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 8d

so what? it's about autumn - leaves falling - and Wendy Cope is/was (not sure but she's great - recommend) a Brit doing a pastiche of another pompous genre of Brit with these Strugnell poems

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 8d

Just found out that today is mid-autumn day in the Chinese calendar - happy mid autumn day folks 🍂- I can feel a Strugnell haiku coming on ... poetryarchive.org/poem/strugne...

Strugnell's Haiku - Poetry Archive

Strugnell’s Haiku (i) The cherry blossom In my neighbour’s garden – Oh! It looks really nice. (ii) The leaves have fallen And the snow has fallen and Soon my hair also….. (iii) November evening: The m...

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 11d

In memoriam...

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11d

glorious!

Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11d

Really enjoyed this New Scientist piece on the huge significance for human self-regard of Jane Goodall's work: "vital to undermining the view of human exceptionalism and superiority that had prevailed www.newscientist.com/article/2498....

How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals – and the world

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 13d

Also - plse fill in the online form! say the increasingly panic-inducing messages from the hospital, all of which come from No Reply numbers or email addresses and none of which contain and link that works

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 13d

gotta love the Nash family and in all their moods