Jenny Stokes
@jennyms.bsky.social
Here for information and news. Too much of an amateur to post much myself.
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High-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If you want consistent high-quality journalism, you need some kind of subsidy.
ANY billionaire could set up the WaPo as a high-quality journalism outlet, accept that it's not going to make money, & simply subsidize it. Nothing stopping them.
ANY billionaire could set up the WaPo as a high-quality journalism outlet, accept that it's not going to make money, & simply subsidize it. Nothing stopping them.
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
High-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If you want consistent high-quality journalism, you need some kind of subsidy.
ANY billionaire could set up the WaPo as a high-quality journalism outlet, accept that it's not going to make money, & simply subsidize it. Nothing stopping them.
ANY billionaire could set up the WaPo as a high-quality journalism outlet, accept that it's not going to make money, & simply subsidize it. Nothing stopping them.
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Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.
And worryingly, as you highlight, it would be extremely naive for us to assume the well funded right wing “think tanks” haven’t already worked out exactly how to dismantle what protections remain at blitzkrieg speed, should they gain power.
January 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.
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The relationship will probably improve after Trump, but whoever replaces Trump in the White House and by whatever means, they won’t be turning back the clock to the good old days.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The relationship will probably improve after Trump, but whoever replaces Trump in the White House and by whatever means, they won’t be turning back the clock to the good old days.
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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My Sunday Times piece: Mainstream political parties are under pressure but they are the ones who have had to deal in office with economic reality, rather than the fantasies peddled by the populists:
Don’t fall for political parties selling economic snake oil
www.thetimes.com/article/63d1...
Don’t fall for political parties selling economic snake oil
www.thetimes.com/article/63d1...
Don’t fall for political parties selling economic snake oil
Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems have all had the dilemma of how to balance the books. But Reform UK and the Greens just wish that away
www.thetimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My Sunday Times piece: Mainstream political parties are under pressure but they are the ones who have had to deal in office with economic reality, rather than the fantasies peddled by the populists:
Don’t fall for political parties selling economic snake oil
www.thetimes.com/article/63d1...
Don’t fall for political parties selling economic snake oil
www.thetimes.com/article/63d1...
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A smart friend has drawn my attention to this.
Be honest: if you had been asked to guess how countries had seen the workers' share of GDP change since 1995, would you have guessed the outlier?
Roll up with your explanations.
Be honest: if you had been asked to guess how countries had seen the workers' share of GDP change since 1995, would you have guessed the outlier?
Roll up with your explanations.
June 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A smart friend has drawn my attention to this.
Be honest: if you had been asked to guess how countries had seen the workers' share of GDP change since 1995, would you have guessed the outlier?
Roll up with your explanations.
Be honest: if you had been asked to guess how countries had seen the workers' share of GDP change since 1995, would you have guessed the outlier?
Roll up with your explanations.
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The reason why protest is essential to political change is that only when people *see* the scale of discontent do they realise they are not alone, and that the tide can turn.
April 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The reason why protest is essential to political change is that only when people *see* the scale of discontent do they realise they are not alone, and that the tide can turn.
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I tried to articulate something that I thought was missing from most assessments of Blue Origin's all-women stunt flight: that its message was profoundly sexist. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I tried to articulate something that I thought was missing from most assessments of Blue Origin's all-women stunt flight: that its message was profoundly sexist. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK
Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking
YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS
Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking
YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS
Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
April 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK
Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking
YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS
Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking
YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS
Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
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The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
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This is an outstanding and important piece on a legal-political struggle at the heart of the uK polity. A must-read.
One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly.
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
April 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is an outstanding and important piece on a legal-political struggle at the heart of the uK polity. A must-read.
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
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Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.
February 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.
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Great update on the latest for nasal and inhaled vaccines in States from @erictopol.bsky.social . These are also known as mucosal vaccines and because they target the places where bugs get in/try to live there is hope (and evidence) they will give more durable immunity. 🧪 🧵
A Covid Nasal Vaccine Update
Now 6 Ongoing Clinical Trials in the United States
open.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Great update on the latest for nasal and inhaled vaccines in States from @erictopol.bsky.social . These are also known as mucosal vaccines and because they target the places where bugs get in/try to live there is hope (and evidence) they will give more durable immunity. 🧪 🧵
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There is no evidence at all that parents working from home causes their kids to miss school, this whole article is based on one man's hunch. Odd.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
WFH parents ‘make children think school is optional’
Adults used to get dressed and leave for work. Now they wear slippers and stay at home. The impact on pupils is clear, warns Sir Martyn Oliver, head of Ofsted
www.thetimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
There is no evidence at all that parents working from home causes their kids to miss school, this whole article is based on one man's hunch. Odd.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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The curious thing about billionaires defying the rule of law and the orders of the court, is that their wealth depends entirely on enforceable legal rights: contract, property, and so on.
Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.
Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.
February 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The curious thing about billionaires defying the rule of law and the orders of the court, is that their wealth depends entirely on enforceable legal rights: contract, property, and so on.
Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.
Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.
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Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
December 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
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One benefit of living where I do, is that my community - friends, kids friends, teachers, shop assistants, hairdresser - includes a lot of people who live in new-build houses. The huge majority of whom - despite whether I personally like their design - are really happy in them. 🧵
December 6, 2024 at 9:06 AM
One benefit of living where I do, is that my community - friends, kids friends, teachers, shop assistants, hairdresser - includes a lot of people who live in new-build houses. The huge majority of whom - despite whether I personally like their design - are really happy in them. 🧵
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City Hall station, New York. This Art Nouveau metro station was closed on December 31, 1945
It gets regular maintenance to guard against things like water damage & vandalism but it's unused because the new subway trains are too long for the platform
Once or twice a year, railfan groups give tours.
It gets regular maintenance to guard against things like water damage & vandalism but it's unused because the new subway trains are too long for the platform
Once or twice a year, railfan groups give tours.
November 26, 2024 at 12:58 AM
City Hall station, New York. This Art Nouveau metro station was closed on December 31, 1945
It gets regular maintenance to guard against things like water damage & vandalism but it's unused because the new subway trains are too long for the platform
Once or twice a year, railfan groups give tours.
It gets regular maintenance to guard against things like water damage & vandalism but it's unused because the new subway trains are too long for the platform
Once or twice a year, railfan groups give tours.
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Coverage of European relations and public spending outlook makes me think UK is still on the bad timeline despite the election. Let’s not be contemplating a single-term perceived failure and the election of a radicalised Tory party unfit for office in 2029, shall we?
August 29, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Coverage of European relations and public spending outlook makes me think UK is still on the bad timeline despite the election. Let’s not be contemplating a single-term perceived failure and the election of a radicalised Tory party unfit for office in 2029, shall we?
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Women got the right to vote 104 years ago this week.
Billionaire Peter Thiel says that's a bad thing, claiming the U.S. has been in decline ever since "the extension of the franchise to women."
Thiel spent $15M to elect JD Vance because he believes Vance shares his values.
Billionaire Peter Thiel says that's a bad thing, claiming the U.S. has been in decline ever since "the extension of the franchise to women."
Thiel spent $15M to elect JD Vance because he believes Vance shares his values.
August 19, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Women got the right to vote 104 years ago this week.
Billionaire Peter Thiel says that's a bad thing, claiming the U.S. has been in decline ever since "the extension of the franchise to women."
Thiel spent $15M to elect JD Vance because he believes Vance shares his values.
Billionaire Peter Thiel says that's a bad thing, claiming the U.S. has been in decline ever since "the extension of the franchise to women."
Thiel spent $15M to elect JD Vance because he believes Vance shares his values.