Catherine Miles
@cathmiles.bsky.social
Freelance charity fundraising consultant, helping charities grow income and develop their teams www.catherinemilesconsulting.com
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things you only hear in this show #thetraitors
January 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
things you only hear in this show #thetraitors
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An 'expert' is just another word for someone who knows what they are talking about.
Bari Weiss’s CBS News directly attacking academics, subject matter experts, in the promo for her new CBS Evening News.
January 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
An 'expert' is just another word for someone who knows what they are talking about.
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I hope the secret traitor’s Alan Carr.
January 1, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I hope the secret traitor’s Alan Carr.
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The public are nowhere near as consumed with anti-immigrant hatred as the political class believe, but if only one side is making an argument (and has most of the press onside and sets the agenda for the broadcasters) then what do you expect? www.ippr.org/articles/the...
Reclaiming Britain: The nation against ethno-nationalism | IPPR
Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to progress” that deporting black and brown people living
www.ippr.org
December 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The public are nowhere near as consumed with anti-immigrant hatred as the political class believe, but if only one side is making an argument (and has most of the press onside and sets the agenda for the broadcasters) then what do you expect? www.ippr.org/articles/the...
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I had a long thread written out but the app closed and it's deleted so here are some mostly-formed thoughts: it's a mixture of their central problem (lack of a clear mission), unforced errors (WFA) and a failure to recognise the information environment they're operating in
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I had a long thread written out but the app closed and it's deleted so here are some mostly-formed thoughts: it's a mixture of their central problem (lack of a clear mission), unforced errors (WFA) and a failure to recognise the information environment they're operating in
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You have until midnight to apply to be the next BBC Director General.
December 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You have until midnight to apply to be the next BBC Director General.
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Bit naughty of me really, as 2025 was the year I finally gave up listening to Today. I'd been tuning into it since around 1982 (with gaps when we lived abroad, obvs) but this was the year I just could take it any more--partly because of the paper reviews and how Fleet St seemed to drive its agenda.
Wonder whether this will come up in Theresa May's conversation on violence against women and girls with Queen Camilla on the Today Programme? Not holding my breath.
Theresa May defends Boycott's knighthood despite his assault conviction
The former PM said she thought her honours list was "appropriate", and revealed she is considering writing her memoirs.
news.sky.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Bit naughty of me really, as 2025 was the year I finally gave up listening to Today. I'd been tuning into it since around 1982 (with gaps when we lived abroad, obvs) but this was the year I just could take it any more--partly because of the paper reviews and how Fleet St seemed to drive its agenda.
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"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
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The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
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Brother and sister in law have invited both families and thus I have been relegated to this classic #DuvetKnowItsChristmas arrangement in their downstairs office/music practise room. Had to lobby to get a lamp 😂
December 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Brother and sister in law have invited both families and thus I have been relegated to this classic #DuvetKnowItsChristmas arrangement in their downstairs office/music practise room. Had to lobby to get a lamp 😂
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Come on over to blue sky just for #duvetknowitschristmas
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Come on over to blue sky just for #duvetknowitschristmas
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I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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This year we’ve been upgraded to “The Annexe of Estrangement”.
Apart from a model shark on the bed and an excess of gym equipment, all is looking good.
But what the hell is going on with the pumpkin summoning charm on the other side of the room? And who needs 5 freezers?
#duvetknowitschristmas
Apart from a model shark on the bed and an excess of gym equipment, all is looking good.
But what the hell is going on with the pumpkin summoning charm on the other side of the room? And who needs 5 freezers?
#duvetknowitschristmas
December 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This year we’ve been upgraded to “The Annexe of Estrangement”.
Apart from a model shark on the bed and an excess of gym equipment, all is looking good.
But what the hell is going on with the pumpkin summoning charm on the other side of the room? And who needs 5 freezers?
#duvetknowitschristmas
Apart from a model shark on the bed and an excess of gym equipment, all is looking good.
But what the hell is going on with the pumpkin summoning charm on the other side of the room? And who needs 5 freezers?
#duvetknowitschristmas
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Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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We've banished my brother to the office.
No curtains? No problem. Gaffer tape and black card has done the job.
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
No curtains? No problem. Gaffer tape and black card has done the job.
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We've banished my brother to the office.
No curtains? No problem. Gaffer tape and black card has done the job.
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
No curtains? No problem. Gaffer tape and black card has done the job.
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
December 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
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Harsh but fair. (Source: www.ft.com/content/11a8...)
December 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Harsh but fair. (Source: www.ft.com/content/11a8...)
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Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
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Bonus anniversary content: it’s ten years since this winning name/title combination on BBC News
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Bonus anniversary content: it’s ten years since this winning name/title combination on BBC News
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The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
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Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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December 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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Ozzy so wide now
(Comparison pictures by Sophie Fischer)
(Comparison pictures by Sophie Fischer)
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Ozzy so wide now
(Comparison pictures by Sophie Fischer)
(Comparison pictures by Sophie Fischer)
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I used to work at a right-wing paper and something that concerns me is the decline in the quality of the actual reporting. It was always editorialised, sure, but there is a lot more “go and find stories to fit the line” now. The grounding in reality was always important as it tempered editorial
It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I used to work at a right-wing paper and something that concerns me is the decline in the quality of the actual reporting. It was always editorialised, sure, but there is a lot more “go and find stories to fit the line” now. The grounding in reality was always important as it tempered editorial
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"we are seeing party switching largely confined within those blocs, plus to that most wonderfully mysterious category of Don’t Know."
Don’t Knows are vastly underpriced in the majority of psephological analysis, as BTW is the migration of 'Labour voters' to 'Hero voters' from 2015
Don’t Knows are vastly underpriced in the majority of psephological analysis, as BTW is the migration of 'Labour voters' to 'Hero voters' from 2015
'The so-called ‘hero voters’ Labour targeted in 2024 did not actually turn out for them in any great numbers. So not only are Labour fighting the last war, they are fighting it with a battle-plan that didn’t actually work. It’s Labour’s very own winter invasion of Russia.' 👏 @benansell.bsky.social
Bloc Parties
In a world of bloc politics, what's a good offensive strategy?
benansell.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"we are seeing party switching largely confined within those blocs, plus to that most wonderfully mysterious category of Don’t Know."
Don’t Knows are vastly underpriced in the majority of psephological analysis, as BTW is the migration of 'Labour voters' to 'Hero voters' from 2015
Don’t Knows are vastly underpriced in the majority of psephological analysis, as BTW is the migration of 'Labour voters' to 'Hero voters' from 2015
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BBC News editorial, though not its management/ lawyers, ‘both sides’ its very own defence to an extinction-level legal threat.
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC declares it will fight the US President but should it?
As the US president follows through on his threat to sue the BBC, what are the options for the corporation?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
BBC News editorial, though not its management/ lawyers, ‘both sides’ its very own defence to an extinction-level legal threat.
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...