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Leo Hickman
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An extraordinary new column in the Daily Telegraph (no, that's not a typo!) by Ambrose Evans Pritchard. Yes, it includes two charts by Carbon Brief, sure. But stay for the concluding few paragraphs about the electoral suicide of climate denial...
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Lauren Leek
1 day ago
My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
https://open.substack.com/pub/laurenleek/p/britain-lost-14000-third-places-they?r=2mgxo2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Katharine Hayhoe
4 days ago
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-abstract/65/3/538/8196180?login=false
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Luke Tryl
3 days ago
With Starmer calling for deeper links with the EU a plurality of Brits agree. 37% think it is best for national security to align with the EU, 18% with Commonwealth/CANZUK countries and 14% with the United States.
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Jacob Aron
3 days ago
An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back
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Shaun Lintern
3 days ago
đš EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery. UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected
Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/measles-outbreak-london-vaccination-9b78p2kb2
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Dan Neidle
4 days ago
Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a ÂŁ2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company. Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.
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derek guy
4 days ago
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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Toby Nangle
5 days ago
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in
@alphaville.ft.com
Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
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Letters of Note
5 days ago
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Kate Marvel
5 days ago
I am so tired
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
6 days ago
BBC Newsnight points out net migration fell from 649k (year to June 2024) to 205k (year to June 2025) (Small boat arrivals up 5k to 41k) When only 1/6 people know it came down from record levels, the main bulletins should take 10 seconds to convey the context when reporting
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Waffle đ§
6 days ago
âIâve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddingsâ is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
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Damian Carrington
8 days ago
UK regulator
@ofcom.bsky.social
under fire after refusing to investigate âmisleadingâ GB News interview with Donald Trump - US president not challenged over false claims climate change is âhoaxâ - former Ofcom exec who drafted the code is âastoundedâ
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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Ofcom under fire after refusing to investigate âmisleadingâ GB News Trump interview
US president not challenged over false claims climate change is âhoaxâ and parts of London have sharia law
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/09/ofcom-investigate-gb-news-trump-interview
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Joe Scaramanga
8 days ago
I see we're back to "Johnson resigned because of a party" and not because he employed a known sex pest, lied about what he knew, and more than half his cabinet resigned as a result.
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Adam Drummond
9 days ago
Labour's structural position is bad (terrible inheritance etc + unwillingness to grasp certain nettles) but has been hugely damaged by an obsession with winning over people who will never vote for them, based on a misread of the 2024 election
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Financial Times
9 days ago
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff
ft.trib.al/cPjBd1p
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Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff
Exit of Mandelson protégé comes as Sir Keir Starmer seeks to stave off leadership speculation
https://ft.trib.al/cPjBd1p
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Ian Dunt
10 days ago
If you wanted to design an organisation to kill journalism, you would create something very much like Reach.
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James Murray
12 days ago
What fresh hell is this?
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ITV to screen in-game adverts for first time during rugby unionâs Six Nations
ITV will screen in-game commercials for the first time during the Six Nations opener between France and Ireland at Stade de France on Thursday
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/04/itv-in-game-ad-breaks-first-time-rugby-six-nations-television
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
10 days ago
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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
11 days ago
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous dayâs article about Tehran
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Janine Gibson
11 days ago
Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights giftlink thread. First the Weekend Essay "both Putin and Trump know that we live in a world where being able to impose your story is what matters". Peter Pomerantsev writes that Europe needs to change the story
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Putin isnât really winning. Europe needs to make that clear
[FREE TO READ] Behind Russiaâs victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the âmiddle powersâ must work harder on their own story
https://as.ft.com/r/1b2d55d0-8444-4410-8ead-f60c251b35ce
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Richard Jones
11 days ago
The way UK govt funds science is in the midst of a major transition, with creation of a much more direct link between government priorities & UKRI research funding. My attempt to set in context the biggest upheaval in UK science funding policy since the 1980s:
softmachines.org?p=3252
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UK science policy in transition â Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
https://softmachines.org/?p=3252
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Mark Chadbourn
11 days ago
If Starmer goes the last UK Prime Minister to complete a full term was David Cameron in 2015. So much for those who say proportional representation leads to instability.
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Paul
11 days ago
I hope the abyss in
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Andrew Gregory
11 days ago
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Wood burners may treble childrenâs exposure to pollution in homes, study finds
Research in Wales found that home, not outdoor travel, was largest contributor to childrenâs daily exposure
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/06/children-living-homes-wood-burners-exposed-pollution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Financial Times
12 days ago
Hodlers: an apology for the apology
ft.trib.al/7xAjxXu
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Hodlers: an apology for the apology
Number go upside-down
https://ft.trib.al/7xAjxXu
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Joanna Bryson
13 days ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Those of us focused on research can forget how much a university means to local economies and societies. 52% of people on this campus were local to its deprived town, many doing healthcare degrees. But the UK's insane migration policies killed the campus.
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âIf I think about what this means, I want to cryâ: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex Universityâs Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a âleft behindâ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/04/essex-university-southend-campus-closure-seaside-deprivation?fbclid=IwY2xjawPwNV5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeC6yhtTKv4DnW40Mhb1cZ37ea5jPqY81WJf6mQUW6V-I3YirPCTiEE1lBoqU_aem_JqryRwmpSMUHnclsxC5QXg
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Sarah Dougherty
13 days ago
I have thought of this quote a lot and shared it with lots of people. Helped me point out how car brained we have been guided to be: we have assumed it is a right to have a car wherever we want and gov should help us store it? Wrong. City spaces are meant for people not cars :)
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Robinson Meyer
13 days ago
If you ever want to feel like you live in âthe ruins of a once great civilization,â then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century â our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.
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Jim Waterson
14 days ago
the pitch is being rolled for a BBC/Channel 4 merger ahead of the next director generalâs arrival
www.thetimes.com/article/6c44...
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Jim Pickard
14 days ago
FT exclusive Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor discussed ways round restrictions on his making investments while an official UK trade representative and shared official documents from the role with Jeffrey Epstein, files released by the US Department of Justice show
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Former prince discussed with Jeffrey Epstein ways to get round investment rules
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared official documents while serving as a UK trade envoy
https://www.ft.com/content/6b2fcd1b-45c5-4611-affd-186483602a26?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a#myft:notification:instant-email:content
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Tom Haddon
14 days ago
Yep. Still valid.
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Duncan Robinson
15 days ago
Still such a remarkable quote
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Dan Neidle
16 days ago
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorganâs CEO on how to fight Labourâs 2009 bankersâ bonus tax - even suggesting he âmildly threatenâ the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
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George Eaton
16 days ago
Marginal tax rates for graduates with student loans â add interest and another 6% for postgrads. ÂŁ25,000: 37% ÂŁ50,270: 51% ÂŁ100,000: 71%
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Brendel
16 days ago
Itâs frankly insulting that the worlds worst people werenât meeting in a command center in a volcano wearing ceremonial robes but were all emailing on Hotmail accounts like âwant 2 atrosity? With wemen?â
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Stian Westlake
16 days ago
Thereâs been some concern and speculation in recent days about the future of curiosity-driven and applied research in the UK. This letter from UKRI CEO Ian Chapman provides some helpful context on whatâs really going on. I hope you find it useful.
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
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Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
https://www.ukri.org/news/open-letter-from-ian-chapman-to-research-and-innovation-community/
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Gabriel Milland
16 days ago
Someone who has no interest in football whatsoever sent this to me. It may be the greatest post-match interview ever recorded. From the man known to Bristol City fans as "Skeletor". The good stuff starts at about 1m30s.
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Swindon Town - Ian Holloway rages against football authorities - BBC Sounds
Manager on 3-1 home victory over Barrow (L2) and sanctions after Luton win (EFL Trophy).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0mycgj1?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Parody Nigel Farage
16 days ago
Our important work at Kent Council to spend ÂŁ600k on a car park to provide free parking for Reform councillors while staff have to pay, is all part of our 'We don't give a shit about anyone but ourselves' policy.
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Hetan Shah
17 days ago
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introducedâŠ
economist.com/britain/2026...
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Cormac Kehoe
17 days ago
I'm being sued for libel by a man who ran a rental arbitrage scheme involving some of London's priciest properties. The Londoner have been brilliant in standing behind me & refusing to give into this naked attempt at silencing the truth. Read below -
www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...
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The Londoner is being sued by a holiday let grifter. Weâre going to fight him in court
Mysterious emails, incessant demands and a fake lawyer â an editorâs note about a serious threat weâre facing
https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner-is-being-sued-by-a-holiday-let-grifter-were-going-to-fight-him-in-court/
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
17 days ago
The BBC is getting played here: if a contributor gets to flat out deny having his own words quoted to him on television (with the viewer not told the denial is untrue) then post about "dropping truth bombs". The mission to inform & counter misinformation is flailing if the editorial controls so weak
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Mark Chadbourn
17 days ago
Morning Bluesky.
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Jim Pickard
18 days ago
and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
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Katharine Hayhoe
21 days ago
New study finds that emphasizing collective efficacy (people's ability to catalyze large-scale change) is very effective in catalyzing behavioural change. As you can see from my pinned post, I'm a big fan of simple messages that can mobilize public support for climate action!
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A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy
Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/1/pgaf400/8439560?login=false
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Kit Yates
22 days ago
Bitterly disappointing that the UK has lost its Measles elimination status again. "UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established"
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UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake
UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/26/who-drops-uk-status-measles-free-rise-in-deaths-fall-in-jab-uptake
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Representative Seth Magaziner
22 days ago
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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