Ian Dunt
@iandunt.bsky.social
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Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
New Origin Story: on our fetish for self-categorisation & the obsession with the introvert-extrovert binary. Do these terms mean anything? Are they scientifically valid? Where did they come from? All will be answered in a story of psychoanalysis, neurotic conflict amd super-weird sex stuff.
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Gregory Norminton
about 6 hours ago
8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas⊠4%.
grid.iamkate.com
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John Oxley
about 15 hours ago
This is the sort of phrasing you use in a legal letter you *really* relish writing.
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Rob Williams
about 6 hours ago
Today at 6pm - our movie GAME at
@princecharlescinema.com
Come and see our biggest and potentially last Screening/Q&A. Apparently we have
@iandunt.bsky.social
hosting the Q&A so we should be professional.
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ZoĂ« GrĂŒnewald
about 6 hours ago
The two stars in the bottom left-hand corner are a perfect touch
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Lewis Goodall
about 15 hours ago
For all of the excitement in Westminster around the Danish model of social democracy the Danish Labour Party is heading for its worst election result since 1901. Theyâll likely remain in power but the red bloc wonât have a majority. Meanwhile radical left and right parties gain.
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I'm chairing the Q&A at a special screening of Game at the Prince Charles tomorrow night. One of the best films of 2025 at the best cinema on earth. It's a vicious bit of psychedelic rural horror that'll absolutely ruin you. Come along
share.google/d1Q4ZYhBpihg...
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Game Film Times and Tickets | The Prince Charles Cinema
Browse film times and buy tickets for Game at The Prince Charles Cinema
https://share.google/d1Q4ZYhBpihgBS5zU
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It's been months and I still find the Your Party name funny. Every headline looks insane. My party won't stand for Holyrood? How can you tell?
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This is magnificent.
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Dr Simon Ubsdell
1 day ago
Very clever and entertaining guest post. Well worth a read.
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James Murray
1 day ago
Lots of big delivery challenges remains, but taken in conjunction with the Warm Homes Plan, the clean power mission, planning reforms, and today's news of new energy bill discounts on windy days, the government's long term green economy and energy security plans are making some real progress.
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James OâBrien
1 day ago
When Australian broadcasters discussed the terms of the deal Boris Johnson âsecuredâ for the UK by contrast, they collapsed in fits of giggles. I will dig out the clip today.
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The great
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writes a guest post for Striking 13: Trump thinks he's Don Corleone but he's now discovering the limit of his power
iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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The deep, deep stench of corruption.
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Ursula von der Leyen
1 day ago
After almost a decade of work â we can say: we did it. We have concluded the EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement. And it is such a win for both sides â
link.europa.eu/x33M9C
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2 days ago
NEW The US guided missile attack on a school in Minab in Iran looks like a war crime By me, at
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Pippa Crerar
2 days ago
Strongest words yet from Keir Starmer on UK role in Iran conflict: "This is not our war, and we are not getting dragged into this war."
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We sold out of Origin Story live show tickets, but they've just released eight seats (where do they find these things?) if you want to sneak in at the last second
www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/choose...
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Choose seats | Bloomsbury Theatre
https://www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/choose-seats/486114AGHSQSCVVQRBBRLTLVPRHLDDRJG
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Warren Wells, AICP
3 days ago
How can this go on for another 3 years?
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Fair enough. The ideological capture of supermodels is also why I had so much trouble dating then in my 20s.
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Felix Meller
2 days ago
I first read these and thought, âthese proposals are so stupid and harmful to the economy that they will surely be reversed within a year or twoâ then I remembered Brexit and thought âshitâ.
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sianushka.bsky.social
2 days ago
Iâve been interviewing low paid migrant people about what the changes would mean for them, itâs horrifying.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
2 days ago
Its biggest & most regressive reform for 40 years but it was obvs produced on back of an envelope within 2 months with media headlines in mind Due to scale of significant asylum reforms in same week, only now emerging just what a chaotic unworkable mess the draft package is for work, women,children
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The lunatic quality of these proposals is persistently underestimated. They are far, far worse than people recognise.
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Giles Wilkes
2 days ago
"So far, there is little sign that either Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, or Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, want a new fight over Brexit, which is now widely unpopular with voters, including among many Leave supporters."
www.ft.com/content/b031...
In a day of otherwise rubbish news
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Keir Starmer to bring forward EU rules legislation in Kingâs Speech
Some Labour officials hope bill will provoke Brexit dispute with Tories and Reform UK
https://www.ft.com/content/b0316ac9-e013-41f8-985d-5394284ff397?shareType=nongift
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Liam Byrne MP
2 days ago
1/. NEW: The Guardian reports our research uncovered a ÂŁ170m âmedia-political complexâ behind Britainâs populist right. This isnât just funding politics. Itâs funding influence.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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Funding for populist-right âmedia-political complexâ exceeded ÂŁ170m in five years, research finds
Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/23/funding-for-populist-right-media-political-complex-exceeded-170m-in-five-years-research-finds
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He was designed by god for Sunday afternoons
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Precisely this. It is the worst possible tesponse to the crisis. She is either too stupid or too dishonest to remain party leader.
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This is apparently an actual journalist asking questions in the White House but in a moment he'll pop in a phone box and come out dressed as Superman.
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THE NERVE
3 days ago
The story of 'woke' FOr years. mainstream conservatives and even centrists rounded on progressive culture as though it were a threat to society. Now they see where the real threat lay Writer and critic
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
examines the meaning of one of the defining terms of our age.
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My mate's kids call his phone/wallet case a Boomer Flap and I'm sorry but that's what it's called now.
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3 days ago
48 hours to open the Straits, which Trump also says US donât need to have opened, in a war he has already said US has won, and in a situation where he demands help from countries which he also insists US does not need.
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Lawrence Freedman
4 days ago
While attention naturally focuses on Iran the war in Ukraine continues. Russia may be in the early stages of a spring offensive and so far it is not going well. I explore in this post (ÂŁ/free trial),
samf.substack.com/p/has-the-ru...
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Has the Russian offensive in Ukraine stalled?
Will they make any progress with their spring campaign?
https://samf.substack.com/p/has-the-russian-offensive-in-ukraine
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Cat Neilan
4 days ago
I know people are sceptical about journalism right now but this is the kind of story that takes weeks to get to the bottom of. I hope people see the value in what we do
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This is not me. Please report and block if you've a moment.
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Rob Davies
4 days ago
This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Batesâ Men Who Hate Women
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/
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Anne Applebaum
4 days ago
To tilt Hungarian election, the Russians proposed staging an assassination attempt
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt
To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed âthe Gamechangerâ â a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/21/hungary-election-interference-russia-orban/
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Tom Roberts
4 days ago
Fundamentally what Timothy said, Muslim prayer in public spaces is an act of domination, is so indefensible that every defence is stuck pretending he didn't say that and trying to start a discussion about something else, crucially, Kemi then can't stop herself also saying something hard to defend!
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Hard to be optimistic about anything at the moment, but there is one positive development I suppose. Donald Trump has made the strongest possible case for why countries must turn their back on fossil fuel. And they seem to be listening.
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Katie Martin
4 days ago
Me on this week's shitshow in UK gvt bonds and why it matters. 300 free clicks innit -
as.ft.com/r/0bbdc86f-b...
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Iran war raises the risk of a bond market shock
[FREE TO READ] Wild swings in UK gilts point to strains that will hurt government finances and jack up borrowing costs for us all
https://as.ft.com/r/0bbdc86f-bc3c-47a2-8e18-e1f6fa454035
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Daniel Bayley đșđŠ
5 days ago
Itâs worse than Idiocracy, we donât have cryogenic freezers.
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nilay patel
5 days ago
Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
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Jonathan Portes
7 days ago
Once again this is deliberately misleading from Mahmood. Treating the public and Labour MPs like fools in order to try to justify a policy that is simultaneously economically damaging, politically counterproductive, and morally wrong.
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Utterly the wrong call. Step by step, this embroils us in an immoral, illegal, illogical war.
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I would not recommend this if you want to start your weekend on a high
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Jesus wept.
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5 days ago
A few thoughts on earned settlement after a busy week. (1) Govt is going through consultation after over 200,000 people responded, far higher than other consultations of this type. This means there is still a lot up for grabs to shape the policy, including transitional measures.
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Duncan Weldon
5 days ago
A sensible 10 point mitigation plan from the IEA.
www.iea.org/news/new-iea...
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Cynan Houghton
5 days ago
The populism-dampening magic of Australiaâs preferential (instant runoff) voting system. If US presidential elections had this system weâd have been in a vastly different world for the last 26 years.
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How Australia killed populism
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