If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

genuine quote: "When I announced my divorce, I didn’t do it in a breakdown video. I did it in partnership with OSEA – a skincare brand I genuinely love. The tagline was simple: Glowing Through Divorce" followed by "These are the collaborations that resonate most, because they aren’t manufactured"

Unsurprising. I read these articles and they came across to me like Cohan was trying to drive the bonds to zero just to prove that he can. His coverage of Musk's X buy was also weird; he kept claiming X would run out of money when it was obvious Musk would just put more in nypost.com/2025/10/08/b...

Might try watching the next 10 ep season of something as 20 half hour episodes, with a major cliffhanger every second week

AI trained on its own outputs

Finally, proof that the supply curve slopes upward

Governor Lisa Cook being proven right on a Friday night is PLEASING me, my homegirls, and the ancestors. #blacksky

Good Gorning Vietnam

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

New rivers of blood quote just dropped (definite improvement on the previous one)

I keep desperately trying to figure out if there’s a strategy or a rationale for all this, or even a reason to hope things might get better. The straw I’m clutching at today is: people talking so much about migration now that they’ll be bored and other issues will be salient in 4 years. If only.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

V. interesting. The "island of strangers" speech happened serendipitously (in one sense) during a panel survey. Paper uses this natural experiment to see the effect of such migrant-sceptic interventions on individual perceptions and voter intentions. Upshot: it harmed Labour for no obvious benefit.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

giorgio has die :(

It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! 🥹 In 15 days, #TheDoubleTax is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16: annagifty.com! #booksky #blacksky

Q: What is Bluesky’s business model? A: Bluesky doesn’t need a business model. It was founded by the billionaire Bluford Skynard. He filled this site with slightly problematic posts as a riddle. Whoever replies to each one with a minor quibble will solve the puzzle and inherit his fortune

And who will be responsible for finding out what they are?

If you've ever tried to get all the toothpaste out of a tube, you know what a fool's errand this is. The closer you get to the end, the more effort you put in for less reward, and you still never succeed. (not to mention the climate denial) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can I have a “correlation or causation” please? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not sure how I got this in one but it just felt right. Unzoomed #590 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

What’s got a better ring to it, Taliban Nigel or Taliban Farage?

Does “deal was floated” mean “Altman tried to sell deal and failed” or “minister tried to buy deal and failed”? I suspect the former, but we should probably be told

Vertical for the key 16-29 voter demographic, horizontal for 0-15 and 30+

If Trump didn’t have to resign or face any consequences for being convicted of falsifying business records, Lisa Cook doesn’t have to resign for whatever (imaginary) offence they manage to cook up

Looking forward to new “heated debate” podcast series, Will & Gles.

Unfortunately this will have the predictable effect of dragging planning reform, a relatively non-partisan, technocratic pro-growth policy, into the nightmarish mess of the migration “debate”. Wait for the first Reform poster: “look who they’re putting in YOUR back yard”

By the end of this presidential term, Donald Trump's birth will be closer to the end of the US civil war than to the present day

I mean I wouldn't turn it down

Ofcom can apply for a court order to block X in the UK, but also has the power to fine it up to 10% of its global revenue, a penalty that could be as high as £50,000

Russian national guard to be deployed to DC

Can Trump speak Russian? Trump and Putin appeared to engage in a friendly discussion on their way to the summit without the presence of interpreters, leading many to wonder about the American leader’s proficiency in the Russian language (not to mention his propensity to be friends with dictators)

So he is a good economist after all

And now in 2025, the A303 has almost reached the same terrifying speeds

@dryohanjohn.bsky.social @reallymccoy.bsky.social

Clearly this data is fake and the head of the FBI must be fired

Not the heron we deserve…but the heron we need

The markets go up because the markets know that when something bad happens, the markets will go down, and it will stop happening. Irrational expectations

I don't quite understand the economics of this. Heathrow turns over about £4bn/year with profit of £700m - they want to spend 12+ years of revenue or 70 years of profit on expanding capacity by 50%? (and is the company paying for it themselves? Or asking for a state contribution?)

A lot of "it's understandable, this does look like a weapon, he shouldn't be carrying it on his belt" in the replies. This argument does make it understandable that the police stopped him to ask questions. His answers made it clear that he had not committed a crime. So why did they caution him?

@dkthomp.bsky.social Derek, I avoid talking to people because I'm scared THEY will be boring. Do you also cover this in the podcast

Ahhhhhhhhhhh FUCK IT

Interesting chart that (with other context in thread) suggests the main difference between party supporters isn’t that they disagree on individual issues, but that they differ on which issues matter most. Big implications for how to campaign if so.

When you say “rarely”, BBC, exactly which other presidents do you have in mind? Or did you actually mean “never” but you thought it might sound like you had an opinion?

“Like Hunter Biden but without the baggage” is reminiscent of “like a Samsonite factory but without the baggage”

I understand justice matters but the reopening of cold cases is surely going too far now

The simplest solution would be to make today’s retirees poorer

While political attempts to shut down culture are indeed scary, it seems clear that shows will now start to incorporate as their own independent entities and license their content temporarily to networks. When the network doesn’t want them any more, they’ll go to audiences direct.

If you can’t use Grok for this, what is the point of it