kieran garland
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actor. shambles. working for characters since 2002
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will be in The Upside Down for a bit Stranger Things now booking til April
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a bluesky politics poem
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Duille
1 day ago
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by:
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Chaminda Jayanetti
6 days ago
***My substack is live*** My first newsletter has just gone out - looking at how the Home Office managed to make things worse for refugees and put them at greater risk of homelessness, just as everyone said it would
chamindajayanetti.substack.com/p/the-home-o...
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The Home Office meets the housing crisis
Why make things better when you can make them worse?
https://chamindajayanetti.substack.com/p/the-home-office-meets-the-housing
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Jessica Elgot
2 days ago
Thoughts from a Labour MP: “We have to face up to the fact every single one of them is fucking useless. Andy’s strategy has been a disaster. Angela has bottled it. Ed clearly a hiding to nothing. Wes is AWOL. God knows what Catherine West is doing. I am not quite sure how we ended up here.”
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Matt Hill
8 days ago
Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.
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Sam Freedman
8 days ago
Our aid cuts have been just as severe. It won't kill as many people because we spent less to start with, and focused a bit less on health/food programmes. But we've got nothing to be proud of here.
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Ian Dunt
8 days ago
This'll be outstanding
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Chaminda Jayanetti
8 days ago
As I said last week, I'm starting a substack focused on social affairs, public services, policymaking etc - and I'll be launching it soon I've given it the unglamorous but self-explanatory name Policy Matters. Free for now, and for a while yet I imagine Sign up here!
chamindajayanetti.substack.com
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Policy Matters | Substack
News, comment and analysis looking at public services, policy choices, and the politics of poverty and inequality. By Chaminda Jayanetti. Click to read Policy Matters, a Substack publication. Launched...
https://chamindajayanetti.substack.com/
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Toby Buckle
26 days ago
as part of my research, i interviewed a large number of writers & editors who've argued that the trump movement is a fascist one & called for a robust response i'd like to thank everyone who took the time to talk to me
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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The radicalisation of the American liberal
How US liberalism found the will to fight Trump—and what we can learn from it
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-states/73041/the-radicalisation-of-the-american-liberal
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄
13 days ago
Had Hillary won, and gotten to pick 2-3 SCOTUS justices, you’d be living in a different country. Roe and the VRA would be intact. Citizens United would be gone. Political gerrymanders would be unconstitutional. Racial ones wouldn’t. Trans people would have a constitutional right to use the can.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote
12 days ago
May? June? This thing is staying closed till October unless the Iranian government is at high risk of being overthrown in a revolution.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
12 days ago
It does seem like a lot of the business analysts are refusing to recognize that the logic of war is rather different than the logic of markets and this is, in fact, a war - however indirectly waged at the moment. 'How long will the war last' - well the mean war duration is more than a year.
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Chaminda Jayanetti
12 days ago
Whatever you're expecting... it's not that
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Dorian Lynskey
14 days ago
Her comments are pure antisemitism. Kicking her out should be the easiest call in the world.
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is... is this inflation...?
17 days ago
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Jonathan Portes
18 days ago
“Much of the ideology peddled by the far right in the 1970s – then seen as way beyond the political pale – is now seeping into the mainstream.”
@kenanmalik.bsky.social
on today's threat from the far-right - not the NF/BNP, but the likes of Hannan, Yusuf and Jenrick
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Lev Parikian
19 days ago
I remain, Sir, Ever yours,
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Sam Freedman
19 days ago
This entire pointlessly destructive war so far has cost the US military around $60 billion, which is around twice the amount cut from USAID which saved millions of lives.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
19 days ago
But this war really has come to me with that "hard, set, stony quality, as if tomorrow has already happened." Iran will obviously close the strait. The strait will obviously take a long time to open. Energy markets will obviously be roiled for months beyond that. 3/
bsky.app/profile/bret...
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Josiah Mortimer
20 days ago
Politico: "Badenoch will speak to media around 10.a.m...to unveil her party’s new 'Plan for Drivers.' It includes the eye-catching plans to abolish 24-hour bus lanes to ease traffic congestion" Ludicrous policy. Buses are used by millions of people every day. This will make all their lives harder.
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Twlldun
21 days ago
It’s like sitting in the back seat of a taxi driving incredibly slowly towards a cliff and the taxi driver has turned around and is talking to you *and* he’s talking fucking nonsense
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Stephen Bush
20 days ago
One of the ways the current crisis feels exactly like March 2020 is there’s so much “the vibes are great!” chatter from the political class but the general public is going “no. The vibes are off”.
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GFC-level crisis incoming - fun!
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21 days ago
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
21 days ago
Really think the game being played with futures markets is leaving a lot of folks unprepared for the future which now seems functionally locked in. If supply is down 10m barrels a day, then demand will, eventually, have to conform and that is going to be unpleasant.
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Ian Dunt
22 days ago
Last week's live show, free for everyone. Then next week: SEASON NINE
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Sooz Kempner
24 days ago
Happy 80th Birthday to Tim Curry, a guy who treats every single part like it was the role he was born to play.
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Crockett Houghton
24 days ago
Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.
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Toby Buckle
26 days ago
what 350k will get you in carlisle, newcastle, edinburgh, & london
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Toby Buckle
26 days ago
"politicians need to be straight up with the public" ok, how's this - you cannot have the entire country look like midsummer murders & have a gdp per capita higher than bulgaria, that is not a type of economy that exists
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Dr Emma Salisbury
29 days ago
If you're wondering how the blockade is landing, this has been making its way around the naval nerds today
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Ian Dunt
about 1 month ago
Readers of Striking 13 have had a year's head start on the govt's plans to use statutory instruments to secure dynamic alignment with Europe. The newsletter acts like an editorial vehicle for me to call people a cunt, but sometimes I accidentally put news in it
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The hidden-away bill charting a course back to Europe
No-one wants you to look at the product safety and metrology bill. And there's a really good reason for that.
https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/the-hidden-away-bill-charting-a-course?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo
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Mujtaba Rahman
about 1 month ago
A great result this evening for Hungary, the EU and yes, Ukraine A disaster for Putin, MAGA and their far-right allies 🇪🇺🇭🇺
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Henry Mance
about 1 month ago
Marathon diplomatic talks that could have been an email
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
Though the real people that need to learn the lesson really are the median voters: THIS is why you do not put unserious fools in charge of the government. THIS is why 'he talks like me' (= he tells it 'like it is') is not a good qualification for president.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
We're watching a bunch of guys convinced that everyone who had their jobs before them were just stupid slowly discovering - without learning a damn thing - that there were in fact very good reasons why no one did the 'obvious' thing before them. This is why.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
For comparison, the JCPOA ('Iran Deal') payment that everyone in MAGA excoriates was $1.7bn. The $2m-per-ship toll regime on the Strait would generate at normal traffic something like $40bn *each year* for Iran (120 ships per day at $2m per split 50/50 with Oman).
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Dorian Lynskey
about 1 month ago
The long-running tension between climate-crisis Greens and conservationist NIMBY Greens. Do you want to reduce carbon emissions or do you want nice fields?
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦
about 1 month ago
was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands
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Toby Buckle
about 1 month ago
this is a really useful overview of the nuts & blots of the iran conflict
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
youtu.be/r4BEy1uKPE0?...
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Trump vs. the Ayatollbooth
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
https://youtu.be/r4BEy1uKPE0?si=J-7ohZUDXZHliBTH
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
Like I am looking at headlines right now and not one of them reads, "Oh shit, we might have just killed freedom of navigation, the foundation of the global economic order." They are all variations on 'both sides declare victory, ceasefire is fragile.'
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
My expectation for this war was 'everyone loses,' but to be honest, if those terms hold and Iran gets to pull in $40bn a year from the Strait to fund their proxies and build their nuclear program - if this is the deal - then honestly the Iranian regime simply...won.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
So the terms of the ceasefire, if they held beyond the end of hostilities, would be Trump giving Iran something like 25-Iran-Deals worth of cash *per year* in exchange for not limiting their nuclear program at all, apparently (they have not promised to give up the HEU).
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
On consideration, I think if the deal stands along the lines that have been reported, with Iran continuing to extract its tolls and without making any other concessions, I'd say this is probably the worst the United States has ever lost a war. Truly a shocking outcome, if it holds.
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B. A. Friedman
about 1 month ago
Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 1 month ago
My sinking gut feeling yesterday was that we had just witnessed America's Suez Crisis moment...and that feeling is not going away today.
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Friends of Pudding
3 months ago
a short thread of every Hamlet i have watched in 2026:
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Andrej
about 1 month ago
It'll be like all his isthmuses have come at once 😓
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