Adam Drummond
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Head of Quant Research at Public First. Professional collector of other people's opinions
I feel like the current (don't pay them) position is already a pretty reasonable compromise between what they want (free money) and what I want (print the money out and burn it)
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Anoosh Chakelian
about 8 hours ago
Far from local, this civil unrest is symbiotic. Tommy Robinson from Luton encourages men from Belfast to ānot make peace with evil.ā Great piece by
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Belfast's violence, Britain's rage
Northern Ireland now may be parsable to an England that has long found it alien, weird and foreign
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/06/belfasts-violence-britains-rage
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Thursday Murder Club, Rivals, once again David Tennant is portrayed as a villain for being the only one willing to tackle the housing crisis
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Mine would be "Great British..." as a way of describing anything other than Bake Off. Because it annoys me
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3 days ago
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Not the definitive one but I watched the original Devil Wears Prada last night and it's fascinating how much of a different vibe the abusive boss stuff has now.
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I'd love someone to do World War Z as an anthology miniseries, documentary style, an old-school ~20 episode season with one episode per interview so you get the big bombastic events as well as the quieter moments.
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Daniel Knowles
7 days ago
I am the son of two police officers so I admit I am hardly unbiased here but I feel like the fact British policing has been hollowed out by massive budget cuts over a decade ought to be a larger part of the discussion than "DEI"
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Andy Cowper
8 days ago
Clear and outstanding by
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www.ft.com/content/aa94...
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What Henry Nowakās murder does ā and does not ā tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a āStephen Lawrence momentā but the failures in both cases differ
https://www.ft.com/content/aa945c97-9e39-4f4f-ade5-28f23c3e29eb?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone
#ProofOfCat
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8 days ago
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I am one of the people that it does please though: MPs have a responsibility to the whole country and when you're in government it's undemocratic to outsource the decision to party members
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10 days ago
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I have three theories about Badenoch's improved ratings: 1) Keep Kemi Quiet: purely vibes but the discourse has been about Farage and Labour so she's just been "the other one I suppose" and the off-putting stuff doesn't cut through
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10 days ago
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"If you don't choose something then you can't complain if you don't like what I've cooked"
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10 days ago
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Honestly this is the most relatable thing. I had to go to the office for something just after WFH was mandated and I took a hiking backpack's worth
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11 days ago
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"some people say it's super dangerous" as they walk past an Ole & Steen just sent me
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17 days ago
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depths of wikipedia
18 days ago
I like how wikipedia could only get a freely licensed photo of the political editor of BBC News by cropping this UK government photo
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Trish Greenhalgh
18 days ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years Iāve had SIX messages from people who saved a kidās life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesnāt 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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18 days ago
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Questions such as "do they know who he is?" and "are they fucking insane?"
21 days ago
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Damnit now I want this too
www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-bui...
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How to build a street bridge
Could London's bridges pay for themselves?
https://www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-build-a-street-bridge?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2797335&post_id=198048618&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=cxcl6&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
23 days ago
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A complete list of instances where I have heard from Lisa Nandy in the past year: Getting annoyed about that Rob Hutton article. Leadership speculation.
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My result for That Quiz people are doing came out differently to how I expected but I put that down to a) lots of questions are multiple issues that net out at neutral b) it's very American
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POLITICO Europe
26 days ago
Tommy Robinson, the far-right anti-Islam activist who will lead a march through London on Saturday, is broadly unpopular in Britain ā except among voters supporting Nigel Farageās Reform UK.
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1 in 3 Reform UK voters has a positive view of Tommy RobinsonĀ
The public believes many more people support the far-right activistās mass protests but are afraid to admit it, according to The POLITICO Poll.
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-in-three-reform-uk-voters-positive-view-far-right-tommy-robinson/
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
25 days ago
Public First asked about protests "against the actions of Israel in Gaza". 36% agree with idea behind protest 26% disagree 22% of Reform voters, 26% of Conservatives support in principle, with 53% of Labour (How to describe protest contested: framing could well shift results too)
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Well that's "rejoin" set back another decade at least
25 days ago
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Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone.
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25 days ago
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Minor gripe but my god the BBC news app is dreadful. The sheer number of clicks required to get to standard sections compared to how easy it is on literally any other app
26 days ago
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The optimistic take for the future of the GOP is that the party turns against Trump about 10 years after his death. The pessimistic take is that this never happens. The mid-range is that the optimistic take happens but it's towards the end of Don Jr's second term
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26 days ago
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Did Burnham look at standing for parliament in 2024 and get blocked? Because he chose to stand for reelection in 2024 when Labour were 20 points ahead nationally. That was the route from metro mayor to becoming leader and it sure seems like he chose not to take it
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27 days ago
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Owen Winter
28 days ago
The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Steve Akehurst
28 days ago
NEW: What exactly happened in the local and devolved elections in England, Scotland and Wales last week?
@persuasionuk.bsky.social
has some new polling out today which offers a first glimpse. Thread here on top line findings from each nation. š§µ
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Rebecca Montacute
28 days ago
We're looking for participants for some upcoming research - do you fit the bill (or know anyone who does)? - any shares much appreciated!
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A friend of mine there once said (paraphrasing) that they didn't like Succession because the constant backstabbing and rewards for incompetence reminded them too much of work
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29 days ago
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The public are wrong
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29 days ago
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Marie Le Conte
29 days ago
I'm not saying this because I particularly think he should stand for leader but it does feel Quite Interesting that Labour actually has this other mayor who's been successfully running a much bigger city for a longer period of time but for some reason no one's waiting for him to save the party
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It's that fun period where you can just text political people the names of random cabinet ministers and watch them scramble on their phones for a minute
29 days ago
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Abolish the London boroughs, or at least give huge chunks of their planning and transport powers to the GLA. It is a joke that it's taken 10 years and a Mayoral Development Corporation to pedestrianise Oxford Street. Govern our capital city like a city rather than 32 little fiefdoms
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Dylan Difford
about 1 month ago
š§µ/ Let's put Labour's local election results into perspective... They lost 58% of the seats they were defending, the 10th worst performance for any party in the last sixty years and the 5th worst for a govt. This compares to the Tories losing 48-53% in the locals prior to their landslide defeats.
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The equivalent of David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest is genuinely just a connection of SNL sketches about Hegseth and will have the same explanatory power
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about 1 month ago
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For context, Chris used to join Teams calls with a Starmer version of the Obama "hope" poster visible in the background
about 1 month ago
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The man has an MO
about 1 month ago
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And this, my friends, is why "do we prompt for minor party XYZ?" is a fraught question
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about 1 month ago
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Abysmal reporting pretending that cars don't have drivers
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about 1 month ago
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Looking forward to chucking these numbers into the FPTP random number generator
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about 1 month ago
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I too believe that it's probably best to focus on how people voted in the last election as opposed to the one before it
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about 1 month ago
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Tim Bale
about 1 month ago
Fascinating (I)
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In the Battle for Online Attention - Reform is Winning
New polling suggests social media is now a major campaign battleground, even if most voters are only watching from the sidelines.
https://publicfirsttech.substack.com/p/in-the-battle-for-online-attention
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How is it physically possible for the Mandelson appointment story to get dumber, I just don't understand
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about 1 month ago
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Counterpoint: no it isn't
about 1 month ago
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It's not the point but I remain irrationally annoyed to have sat through a 4 hour film about an architect and I only got to see one (1) building get designed (and one room I guess)
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about 1 month ago
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That Leia is potentially the most interesting character in the original trilogy but 1970s/80s sexism mean she's just a prop for Our Special Boys to win as a prize
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about 1 month ago
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Slightly diminish a book: The Viscount of Monte Cristo
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about 1 month ago
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