Stephen McGann
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Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog:
https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
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Jack Bernhardt
about 17 hours ago
I'm probably going to let my kids have social media when they're 14, as long as it's with a meal at a nice restaurant
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I'm a sceptic, but this is a worthwhile read.
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Social Media Ban: Responses to 10 common objections
And six ways in which we could tackle broader social media harms.
https://www.edrith.co.uk/p/social-media-ban-responses-to-10?fbclid=IwY2xjawSeCf1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBiN2prVWtDNUZxRFlUVjJac3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqkceQ0eRbZY4gl80opxEzc5sHDYaZg0VbcvD9ElnUzMxLd83XlQ9IttXGG1_aem_sWaI9IAPiLKcFuTLBdv8Ew
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martha shearer
1 day ago
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
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I just love this. Surprising and profound.
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Oh, and it's still not 'soccer'.
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The government know perfectly well who *should* be banned from involvement in UK social media. But that would take a little more courage than legislating against school-age victims.
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An effective law is one that has a cat's chance in hell of actually working and doesn't make everything worse. Otherwise it's just sparkling commsbollocks.
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Well, the PMs mission to alienate every age demographic moves on apace. Probably the only slice of public guaranteed to be progressive voters in a few years time have now had their phones snatched off them...
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Star City is a great watch. A 'Better Call Saul' kind of swerve. Very little relation tonally to For All Mankind, but better for it. Good scripts and performances all round.
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Gabby HC
2 days ago
Guys, if I make one of my silly little observations about ways some people behave & it doesn't apply specifically to you - a person I don't know - and I forgot to add the caveat 'not you, obviously, you're special' in my limited character count, you can just imagine I whispered it x
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦
3 days ago
I put this into What3Words and now I’m stuck in a nuclear bunker in east Mongolia
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Dan Hon
5 days ago
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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4 days ago
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Christopher is loooooong boy.
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Ernst Röhm, distracted by sight of a face-eating leopard approaching. 1933. Teachable moment to media fetishists of Ein Britisher Volk: 'One of us' is a goalpost on castors to them. If you don't know who the next 'foreigner' will be, then it's you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
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Night of the Long Knives - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
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And 14 years since I followed her example and did the same! :-)
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We can either drift back towards the flawed but functioning rules-based order a short ferry ride away, or else vanish down a grotesque far-right plughole in isolation. I've always found a little swallowed pride preferable to terror and bestiality, but each to their own.
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I'm happy to belong to a place that for millennia has experienced several seasons in one day, and yet still manages to be surprised when the weather changes.
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One of the smaller consolations of age is knowing which columnists to avoid reading, on account of the time spent being proportionately more valuable and irrecoverable.
15 days ago
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hehehehe!
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Emily (C) ✨🇳🇱
16 days ago
Captain, my Captain 🫡
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There's a lot on here about reading and its signalled virtues. About libraries and their value. For my family, it sat at the end of the street. Someone's gift. An open door. We were a bit too lowly for these affectations that now gild literacy in an age of clicks. That open door was gift enough.
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The Door That Was Always Open
On Carnegie, curiosity, and who really owns your attention
https://open.substack.com/pub/joemcgann/p/the-door-that-was-always-open?r=rthpp&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
17 days ago
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Otto English
17 days ago
This sounds like the worst aftershave ever
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Laundered cash - the gargantuan dark matter of our global financial system. The unknowns that the authorities seem content to remain so.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash?
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/john-lanchester/squillions
18 days ago
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LATEST: Scientists invent a method to produce a tiny electrical charge from each retailer email requesting 'customer experience' feedback or a comparison site rating. Global energy crisis averted.
18 days ago
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INT. JEFF BEZOS'S OFFICE. DAY.
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Bill Murray's 'Blown Up, Sir!' in Stripes
ALT: Bill Murray's 'Blown Up, Sir!' in Stripes
https://static.klipy.com/ii/d7aec6f6f171607374b2065c836f92f4/2e/7c/ZCS3pyPG.gif?hh=270&ww=480&mp4=S5S47Fk6hINMCkQs&webm=kYK9l1uFroXfStGMXpV
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Heidi Temple-Stephens
19 days ago
My husband just said 'I organised our battery drawer last night'. Woo steady on, Casanova. I've written enough romance novels to know where this is heading.
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Sir Michael Take CBE
20 days ago
Why can’t the young people of today dress like this? If they did they’d get a job and be able to afford a house.👍
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Odd This Day
19 days ago
Happy 8th birthday to this, from
@orkneylibrary.bsky.social
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Back at the Hoose to watch 'Suffolk Fishermen Behaving Badly' :-)
19 days ago
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The path from Eighties popster to bond villain is worryingly narrow. One persian cat short of world domination.
20 days ago
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The extent to which you make excuses to stay is the extent to which Musk was correct about you.
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If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why? | Jonathan Liew
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/still-on-x-ask-yourself-why-platform-twitter-malign-actors-misinformation
20 days ago
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Fisherman's Pi?
21 days ago
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Waiter, there's not enough internet in my slop.
22 days ago
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Joe McGann
23 days ago
New post. Please read and share
open.substack.com/pub/joemcgan...
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The Threshold
What Do We Mean By Meaning?
https://open.substack.com/pub/joemcgann/p/the-threshold?r=4dmpe&utm_medium=ios
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The Bear
23 days ago
The Right: “We just really want migration reduced to sustainable levels.” Migration promptly falls off a cliff edge. Also the Right: “NO! NOT LIKE THAT!” Instead of celebrations, we got fannywobbles - and that tells you everything you need to know about the decades-long migration debate.
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The Great Migration Fannywobble
Net migration collapsed, the right got what it wanted, and somehow they became even angrier.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-great-migration-fannywobble
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Trish Greenhalgh
24 days ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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For the unpatriotic, those are: Paddington, Winnie the Pooh, Rupert and Sooty. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM.
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Wil Eelsing
27 days ago
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No, we wouldn't want to reopen the political issue that's been a national disaster and that most people hate, because that might be a national disaster, and most people might hate it.
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I got "Anarchist Rotarian" if you must know.
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Twlldun
about 1 month ago
Guardian are running a list of the 100 best “is Britain now ungovernable” articles next weekend
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Or, by the looks of it, as soon as the acid has cleared out of his system...
about 1 month ago
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I'm enjoying the "Top 100 Bluesky responses to a top 100 cultural list bait of all time, of all time."
about 1 month ago
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At risk of stating the obvious, many of the politicians of the last decade have enjoyed positive approval before contact with high office, followed by plummeting ratings afterwards. The trick is not to be the sum of desperate hopes, but an earner of grudging respect. Punch-in-the-mouth management.
about 1 month ago
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All of this.
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Britain isn’t ungovernable. It’s just been badly governed
Short-termism and poor choices are to blame for the country’s political predicament
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/7171b702-4bad-4695-90fb-4f8e0cbc99d8
about 1 month ago
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“The eyes are the nipples of the face” Anna Faris - 2008
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Sathnam Sanghera
about 1 month ago
This leadership shit, even now, is still not as important as the fact that FIVE MILLION QUID HAS BEEN PAID TO THE LEADER OF ONE OF OUR BIGGEST POLITICAL PARTIES
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
about 1 month ago
Bread and SirKeirses
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This is the charge. Not personal malice, like plenty of others display. A failure to match the hard trade-offs with the necessary honesty. Any PM who finally turns the tide must be the sin eater for a decade and more of collective delusion. That's the chalice. If you dare not drink, then pass it on.
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Britain needs a prime minister in the real world. That’s not Keir Starmer
As a leader, Starmer was meant to be rigorous. But he turned out to be just as flimsy as his predecessors
https://open.substack.com/pub/thenewworld/p/britain-needs-a-prime-minister-in?r=rthpp&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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