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Mark Robinson
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Aspiring urban fixer - was UK High Street Czar -think tank wonk - #ABI survivor - OSP student @lsepbs.bluesky.app

Writing about later life learning and being a padawan "pracademic" https://markisalwayslearning.substack.com .. more

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 9h
FFS

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 11h
Just cancelled my ChatGPT subscription, largely to appease my daughter - there are worse motivations.

@profgalloway.com

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Resist and Unsubscribe | No Mercy / No Malice
Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was arrested today. Targeting journalists is not about enforcing the law, but shaping reality. History reflects a brutal truth: When you begin arresting journalists, ...
www.profgalloway.com

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 19h
There is hope.

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d
Does he wear a gilet?

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d
Brilliant work, as always by @footworktrust.bsky.social.

Community first!
footworktrust.bsky.social Footwork @footworktrust.bsky.social · 1d
🎉 Announcing the People & Place: Camden community innovators!

🏘️ These 9 groups & individuals are transforming Camden’s neighbourhoods by bringing buildings & spaces to life.

💪 They join our 2026 support programme, in collaboration with @camdencouncil.bsky.social

Meet them & their project ideas ⬇️
People and Place: Camden | Footwork Trust
A programme in 2026 for community innovators who are transforming Camden’s neighbourhoods by bringing buildings and spaces to life.
www.footwork.org.uk

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d
I now feel seen.

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d
I salute you.
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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d
Nope.

The axis of the world is far too tilted in the direction of this generation already, lets sort out Student Loans if their is any spare cash.

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d
I think South London needs to show them how to do it properly @chadbourn.bsky.social?

Anyone North of Balham is NFI is the only rule.

This rules out anyone from Clapham.

Especially Clapham.

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Footwork @footworktrust.bsky.social · 1d
🎉 Announcing the People & Place: Camden community innovators!

🏘️ These 9 groups & individuals are transforming Camden’s neighbourhoods by bringing buildings & spaces to life.

💪 They join our 2026 support programme, in collaboration with @camdencouncil.bsky.social

Meet them & their project ideas ⬇️
People and Place: Camden | Footwork Trust
A programme in 2026 for community innovators who are transforming Camden’s neighbourhoods by bringing buildings and spaces to life.
www.footwork.org.uk

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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 2d
"The cheek" of it: Our member Julia Davies responds to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments that the "UK has been colonised by immigrants"

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 2d
Oh look!

We’re talking about immigration again!

Instead of corruption money & pedos permeating our politics! 🤩 Brilliant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZk...
Finally! A chance to talk about IMMIGRANTs & not corruption!
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 2d
My latest Substack has very little to do with retail property, despite this excerpt. Sorry placemakers.

It's far more interesting.

Honest.

open.substack.com/pub/markisal...

@lsepbs.bsky.social

#OSP #Orgpsy

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 2d
Andy knows!

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 2d
I think he may have screwed the Old Trafford MDC’s chance of getting government backing.

Shame.

🤣🤣🤣

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 2d
@alexpodyssey.bsky.social is clearly our very own modern-day Prometheus. Repeatedly flaying himself (sometimes until 4:00am, I hear😉) to exhaustion, to spread his exquisite knowledge.

Μπράβο.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 08/02/2026 · 1h 28m
podcasts.apple.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d
Or is it that our economy and tax-base has been hollowed out by ex-pats?

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 3d
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 5d
President Lee of South Korea just blasted the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry for spreading “fake news” about millionaires leaving the country.

Sound familiar? That’s because it was based on the same junk stats used to scare the UK public away from wealth taxes.

🧵1/5

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Tax Justice Network 🔜🔵UN tax talks @taxjustice.net · 5d
HUGE WIN💥

Korean President Lee has become the first head of state to call out the “millionaire exodus” myth, citing our research with @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social debunking it.

Korea's tax authority published data contradicting the myth. taxjustice.net/press/korean...
Korean president cites TJN takedown of millionaire exodus myth, demands end to anti-democratic “fake news” against wealth taxes - Tax Justice Network
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung condemned1 the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry over the weekend for spreading “fake news” about millionaires supposedly leaving South Korea due to inheritan...
taxjustice.net

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 5d
@davidolusoga.bsky.social I'm four episodes into the excellent Chernobyl podcast series and you have yet to reference the “Russian underpants”
joke.

Which, for our generation, was the first cultural reference that everyone remembers!

Is social/cultural rigour not important to you 🤷‍♂️🤣

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
This study employed critical discursive and rhetorical psychology to analyse the discourses drawn upon to justify an arguably violent protest outside a previously disused hotel in rural Ireland, wher...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 6d
This guy is good, who is he!?

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 6d
ChatGPT: Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 6d
Richard Burgon.

Simple.

(that works on at least two levels)

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 6d
Even the bond vigilantes don’t like the fiscal rules.
Top UK government bond investors have urged Rachel Reeves to relax Treasury constraints on borrowing by development corporations in a bid to streamline big projects such as the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and boost growth. In a letter last month, companies including Legal & General and Aviva warned the chancellor that her self-imposed fiscal rules are making it harder to buy land and convert it into new towns and big housing schemes.

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 7d
Even allowing for @anandmenon.bsky.social reaction. Nope, I still can't support the USA.

Publically.

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 7d
Per @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk: 'Reform has gobbled up a large chunk of the right-leaning youth, this is reallocation within an already shrinking bloc [...] rather than a far-right surge, the youth vote in the UK shows a remarkable opposite trend: a surge of progressive voting, including among young men'

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 7d
We need to get Palantir the fuck out of all UK Gov systems, as much of a risk as Huawei.

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 7d
He’ll end up with Lowe on his current trajectory.