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Chris Creegan @chriscreegan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s National Coming Out Day. I wrote this post six years ago. Political trends across the globe in the intervening years, not least in the United States, make it, and the words of Harvey Milk who I quote, even more relevant today. We’re not there yet.
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Coming Out - An Act of Repetition

Because the personal is still political

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

none of you are free from sin

Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention they knew for sure that Charlotte or Francesca was a traitor and didn’t know which one!

Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe how many people you see complaining about Jake and Leanne voting off Francesca in UK3 “just to get a bigger prize pot”.

Like Tamar have you ever watched the show? The faithfuls have zero information and are paranoid about everyone!

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

I have to stop reading people’s opinions about The Traitors on the internet, because I end up wondering if I’m watching the same show as them.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

I have to speak my truth:

I wish people on The (Celebrity) Traitors would just spell each other’s names correctly

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Then maybe now would be a good time to clarify your position on the UK's commitment to NATO and its allies.

In particular, whether you still support collective security as currently envisaged by Article V.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

One of the big strategic choices I discussed in this week's post on Labour's budget options.

samf.substack.com/p/staying-al...

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

Melinoë be like

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2d

Only really, really crap bosses - I mean epically bad bosses - publicly blame junior staff for mistakes. Good bosses take ownership of them and then work internally to ensure they do not happen again. Absolutely shameful stuff here.

Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 2d

Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 2d

Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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david alexander @davidalexander.bsky.social · 4d

but i can and will say stuff like holy shit way to diminish your accomplishments here and for what?

Taylor Swift says she's not playing the #SuperBowl
Halftime Show because "I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field."
"Like, [professional football] is violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. I am, [for] the whole season, locked in on what that man is doing on the field. Can you imagine if he's out there every single week, putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I'm like [she puts on a ditzy voice and face], 'I wonder what my choreo should be? I think we should do two verses of "Shake It Up," into "Blank Space," into "Cruel Summer," that would be great!' This has nothing to do with Travis — he would love for me to do it. But I'm just too locked in."
Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/ taylor-swift-explains-why-shes-not-playing-super-bowl-halftime-fallon-1236541829/

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

that line is always funny because did she not say that in the same interview, or at least the same time period, as when she said maternity leave is too generous

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

Feels borderline impossible to get through a politics podcast without someone saying the Tories are regicidal, but they’ve got a leader most of them didn’t support to begin with, who is unpopular and ineffective, who has no serious agenda, and the bar to keep her is “she announced a fake tax cut”.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

And what changed the mood music was, what, one single PMQs where she managed to have a consistent line of questioning, and a conference where she’s completely U-turned on her entire declared approach to policy formation and defended straightforward racism from a member of her shadow cabinet?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

hmmmmmmmmmmm

surely the point of being a digital native and being Online is to be able to sniff out stuff like this

not sure the BBC gets to put this on our people

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: A false claim about Euan Blair found its way into Have I Got News For You.

It was from an X post seen almost 3m times - and it was wrong.

Production chief blames a "digital native" culture.

A very online media class drinking in social media = danger:

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

independence thermometer at half mast

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

Is there ever not a Big Number 10 Shake-Up on the go?

(Also, re: the screenshotted paragraph, if the departing advisers understood exactly what Keir is trying to do, then they’ve got lightning in a bottle, because I don’t think anyone else does.)

Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 2d

This doesn't seem encouraging.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One special adviser said: “Carys and Muneera were the finest policy minds in that building, and understood exactly what Keir is trying to do. Their departure leaves an enormous hole, and people fear this is part of a wider pattern of a progressive clear-out.”

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

Bridget Phillipson says “I’ve never said that, for example, there’s no money left to pay for [scrapping the two-child cap]”. Well, maybe she didn’t literally say that. But she was happy to do the media round scolding welfare rebels and linking it to the cap a few months ago.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

the complete lack of interest in Emily Thornberry’s deputy leadership campaign suggests they won’t

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 2d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappelle. How have they reacted?

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

Not quite sure why people putting the 14 words on signs get a ruminative essay on how the saltire has been used www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The battle for Scotland's flag: Why the right has adopted the saltire

The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different cause.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 3d

Worth remembering that Labour MPs sat on their hands as the British Government basically did the same to our international development ministry at around the same time - what little money is still in the "international aid" budget is overwhelmingly spent in the UK

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 3d

I would die for Alan Carr

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 3d

oh that’s Charlotte I think

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