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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 1d

You can now pre-order my book on New Labour for a mere fifteen quid! That's got to be a bargain... Details below. 👇

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

Our 2026 books available in this promotion:
The trouble with freedom by @melissa-geog.bsky.social
Useful Art by John Byrne
Lying abroad by Carol Chillington Rutter
AIDS in Soviet Russia by Rustam Alexander
New Labour, New Britain? by @gsoh31.bsky.social
Policing the beats by Lambros Fatsis

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 1d

All too true.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a few people did believe …

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 2d

We were right.

Michael Gove has admitted that the 🇦🇺 & 🇳🇿 trade deals negotiated by the Conservatives did not protect Britain’s farmers

“I felt that we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working”
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 2d

This puff story by zachkaram.bsky.social reads like it was written by someone from the Warriors’ publicity and comms team after a few too many.

NBA writers as a whole are addicted to the past. But one of the very few iron rules in sports is that old players get older.

An NBA dynasty reborn?

zachkaram.bsky.social

Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 2d

You know nothing about the crisis facing Scotland’s universities, or about the problems besetting primary & secondary education, if you think using savings from charging tuition fees on schools is a good idea.

Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 4d

What a pleasure it was for me to be at Madingley Hall to celebrate Chris Andrew as the founding figure of intelligence history. He has been my PhD supervisor, mentor and friend for thirty years. His generosity, unwavering commitment to his students and irrepressible enthusiasm are an inspiration.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 5d

And another primary school math teacher resigns in dismay.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 7d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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MK🌈 @leftypawprints.bsky.social · 7d

My undergraduate degree was in English. I had the chance to study English literature from all over the world, and it gave me so many skills and experiences that I still draw on in my teaching career.

I think Badenoch doesn’t like “Britian.”

#protectEnglish
#culture
#promosky
#britian

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 7d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 8d

Two years on from the 7 October attacks, the pain endures.

Release the hostages. Protect civilians. End the fighting. Let us deliver aid at scale.

There is a glimmer of hope for change. We must take it.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10d

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians.

Ta.

"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing."
Nigel Farage
"[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts."
Boris Johnson
"Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary
[surplus."
Jacob Rees-Mogg
"Milei is the template."
Kemi Badenoch
"Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer."
Richard Tice

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 9d

If you just give up on the things you believe in, if you assume your vision of disaster is inevitable, you might be right.

But this is a little irresponsible isn’t it?

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 10d

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10d

The Russian drones operations reveal two things that Europeans seem unable to admit to themselves. The first is that they are unwilling/incapable of stopping these operations and seem helpless to keep them from multiplying. The second is that the US government doesnt care and will not help Europe.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 11d

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 11d

New book on the history of intelligence and international relations.

www.eyrolles.com/Loisirs/Livr...

L'essor du renseignement moderne. une histoire mondiale de... - Librairie Eyrolles

Recrutements d’espions à l’étranger, campagnes de désinformation sur les réseaux, exécutions extrajudiciaires, agences techniques procédant à des écoutes dans le monde entier : les déclinaisons du...

www.eyrolles.com

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14d

Hello All, Just released this piece on what might be happening in White House perceptions and intelligence about Russia and Ukraine. I've been talking to people who know more than I, and one senior Republican said “He (Trump) is like a spurned lover at the moment.” open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

What The White House Seems To Be Hearing About Russian Power

Plus: Does Trump Have Hurt Feelings?

open.substack.com

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 15d

The fact is that practising something over and again until when does it almost without thinking is an important ingredient ingredient in the construction of an effective jumpshot. Combining it with CLA is arguably the best of both worlds.

Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 15d

I think that one doesn’t have to agree that there is no such thing as muscle memory in order to derive huge benefits from a Constraints Led Approach (CLA). I have never understood the almost religious insistence that muscle memory does not exist.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 15d

But I have never been entirely persuaded that there is no such thing as “muscle memory”. It all comes down to how one defines muscle memory. Much of the research upon which this argument is based defines muscle memory so narrowly that becomes almost an impossibility.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 15d

This to me is one of the most interesting debates in Basketball. I have known one of the high priests of CLA, Alex Sarama, for years. I’ve learned a truly enormous amount from him.

What is ‘the CLA?’ Inside the revolutionary coaching method quietly fueling the world’s best athletes

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