Jon Will Chambers
@jonchambers.co.uk
Mostly looking for safety from the algorithms. #Eurovision obsessive and #F1 fan. Designer, writer and campaigner working with people and organisations to make the world a better place.
Started to play this and within 3 seconds knew this was Swedish written and produced. BORING! Do something new. I beg. #Eurovision
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This is my fave, lyrics are ace, production is amazing and something I'd love to write on.
HOWEVER, this should be a trio, and I really worried f the mix is wrong and she does too much on stage this could fall flat on stage HARD!
This is my fave, lyrics are ace, production is amazing and something I'd love to write on.
HOWEVER, this should be a trio, and I really worried f the mix is wrong and she does too much on stage this could fall flat on stage HARD!
Đurđa — Dominos | MONTESONG 2025 🇲🇪
YouTube video by Montesong
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November 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Started to play this and within 3 seconds knew this was Swedish written and produced. BORING! Do something new. I beg. #Eurovision
Nothing ever changes. Which is why the way government and the Labour Party communicates needs to. We can moan about state of the media as much as we like - but let’s fight fire with fire. Every center-left donor who gives half a million quid thinks they’re god. GB News loses *50* million+ a year.
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Nothing ever changes. Which is why the way government and the Labour Party communicates needs to. We can moan about state of the media as much as we like - but let’s fight fire with fire. Every center-left donor who gives half a million quid thinks they’re god. GB News loses *50* million+ a year.
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Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
A graduate tax at this rate would have been dead on proposal. Yet, it's been created by stealth and is a huge drag on young people.
Spot on. The terms of the plan 2 loan are utterly usurious. Notably the budget has not frozen just the threshold for repayments at a marginal rate of 9%, dragging more and more graduates into it, but it also freezes the interest of those loans which is as much as 6.2%! Which is ridiculous!!
I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A graduate tax at this rate would have been dead on proposal. Yet, it's been created by stealth and is a huge drag on young people.
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
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Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*
The cap didn’t work to disincentivise people from having more kids. It just ensured they grew up in abject poverty. Right decision. One that should have been made in the first budget as a key argument about who is actually poor and who isn’t - not now.
The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, benefitting more than half a million families.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The cap didn’t work to disincentivise people from having more kids. It just ensured they grew up in abject poverty. Right decision. One that should have been made in the first budget as a key argument about who is actually poor and who isn’t - not now.
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Steady hands on a sinking ship. Today’s budget was for two audiences: fractious backbenchers and our fiscal overlords. A few progressive tweaks, but ultimately, a missed opportunity for substantial reform and the change this country needs.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
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@theleaduk.bsky.social
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The Lead's budget verdict: technocratic tweaks to a broken system
Lifting the two-child benefit cap is welcome, but Rachel Reeves' tax and spend plans fall far short of the financial shake up this country needs
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November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Steady hands on a sinking ship. Today’s budget was for two audiences: fractious backbenchers and our fiscal overlords. A few progressive tweaks, but ultimately, a missed opportunity for substantial reform and the change this country needs.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
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@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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First budget: 'Our infrastructure-led recovry plan will bear fruit very quickly or we go into the election delivering painful budgets'
Second budget: 'Magic will happen or we go into the election delivering painful budgets':
Second budget: 'Magic will happen or we go into the election delivering painful budgets':
Rachel Reeves doubles down on wishful thinking
A government that can’t make tough choices now is unlikely to do so on the eve of an election
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
First budget: 'Our infrastructure-led recovry plan will bear fruit very quickly or we go into the election delivering painful budgets'
Second budget: 'Magic will happen or we go into the election delivering painful budgets':
Second budget: 'Magic will happen or we go into the election delivering painful budgets':
That’s what happens when you create a budget designed purely for that purpose…
I see the most important thing about the budget is what it means for Rachel Reeves’ career prospects and not… what it means for the economy.
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
That’s what happens when you create a budget designed purely for that purpose…
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The amount of shit this government caused itself just contradicting all the obvious things it would have to do in the lead up to the last election for the sake of a uselessly massive majority...
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The amount of shit this government caused itself just contradicting all the obvious things it would have to do in the lead up to the last election for the sake of a uselessly massive majority...
You can’t buy a house. Now they don’t want you to save. The triple lock will certainly be gone by my retirement. And apparently this is for the long term? Pull the other one. It’s been sticking plasters since day one. The centre is on the ropes and looks out of road.
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
You can’t buy a house. Now they don’t want you to save. The triple lock will certainly be gone by my retirement. And apparently this is for the long term? Pull the other one. It’s been sticking plasters since day one. The centre is on the ropes and looks out of road.
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"Labour are concerned that raising Income Tax or NI will cut spending power, so instead they will just bring more of your income under NI and have you pay tax on that instead. No, this is not the same because shut up."
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Labour are concerned that raising Income Tax or NI will cut spending power, so instead they will just bring more of your income under NI and have you pay tax on that instead. No, this is not the same because shut up."
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"Rachel Reeves believes strongly in getting the public investing, to move away from ISAs into stocks and bonds, she is also going to remove the tax relief from the most common form of investment held: DC pensions."
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"Rachel Reeves believes strongly in getting the public investing, to move away from ISAs into stocks and bonds, she is also going to remove the tax relief from the most common form of investment held: DC pensions."
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The government’s stated number one goal is growth.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
If the Government do go ahead with the mooted plan in here to (effectively) remove workplace pensions from salary sacrifice schemes I am genuinely a little in awe of how bad their "growth strategy is."
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The four audiences Reeves’ ‘high-wire’ Budget must satisfy
Chancellor needs a lot to go right if she is to somehow reconcile interests of Labour MPs, markets, business and the public
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The government’s stated number one goal is growth.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
The amount of pressure the Chancellor is piling on employers because of her manifesto pledge is going to test the limits of their commitment to growth. Job numbers already down, unemployment up. Really don’t see how this plays out in her favour.
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The amount of pressure the Chancellor is piling on employers because of her manifesto pledge is going to test the limits of their commitment to growth. Job numbers already down, unemployment up. Really don’t see how this plays out in her favour.
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In a more sensible and serious world, Mark Kelly would take Pete Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In a more sensible and serious world, Mark Kelly would take Pete Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
1.3 million views for a racist AI video on X that’ll have generated them a load of cash and yet progressives hanging out on Bluesky apparently still the problem. 🙃
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
1.3 million views for a racist AI video on X that’ll have generated them a load of cash and yet progressives hanging out on Bluesky apparently still the problem. 🙃
Can we go back to when this government lacked purpose cos it was better than this.
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Can we go back to when this government lacked purpose cos it was better than this.
Tommy Robinson backing Labour policy while apparently us vaguely centre left people are the problem. Right ok. Sure.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Tommy Robinson backing Labour policy while apparently us vaguely centre left people are the problem. Right ok. Sure.
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We must bring Mark Carney back across the Atlantic. By force if necessary.
Here the Justin Trudeau to Mark Carney transition for the Liberals in Canada is a warning to anyone declaring Labour already dead. A party ruthless enough to chuck out a blunderingly unpopular leader with a replacement that has better policy and politics instincts can rapidly turn things around.
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We must bring Mark Carney back across the Atlantic. By force if necessary.