Kirsty Major
@kmaj0r.bsky.social
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Deputy opinion editor and writer at The Guardian. High brow, low brow, never middle.
Whole Foods will be replacing Queensway Market is awful awful news! It's such an amazing hub of independent traders and home to not one but two of London's best Malaysian restaurants
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The Pret cornichon crisis
Plus: Sadiq Khan vs TikTok, Whole Foods vs Queensway Market, and the curious row over a Labour mayoral candidate's purchase of an ex-council flat.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/pret-cornichon-shortage-pickle-jambon-buerre
about 9 hours ago
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Huge congrats to
@hettieobrien.bsky.social
on her new book! If you want to know who is behind the degradation of our public services, look no further than private equity. Hettie's done such a great job of making this hidden world accessible through her brilliant research, journalism and writing.
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Loved this by
@kmaj0r.bsky.social
: what happens when you cross Mr Beast with Nigel Farage?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage's sleeve | Kirsty Major
The Reform UK leader’s energy bill giveaway certainly grabs our attention – but it’s all a distraction from the real winners and losers, says Guardian deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/05/mr-beast-british-politics-nigel-farage-reform-uk-energy-bill-giveaway
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I wrote about Reform UK's use of MrBeast's tactics to win our attention and distract us from the real causes behind the energy crisis
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage's sleeve | Kirsty Major
The Reform UK leader’s energy bill giveaway certainly grabs our attention – but it’s all a distraction from the real winners and losers, says Guardian deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/05/mr-beast-british-politics-nigel-farage-reform-uk-energy-bill-giveaway
7 days ago
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Will Davies
8 days ago
grimly fascinating on the gamification of poverty alleviation by
@kmaj0r.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage's sleeve | Kirsty Major
The Reform UK leader’s energy bill giveaway certainly grabs our attention – but it’s all a distraction from the real winners and losers, says Guardian deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/05/mr-beast-british-politics-nigel-farage-reform-uk-energy-bill-giveaway
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Julia Carrie Wong
10 days ago
if I were on Artemis II I would simply not come back
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Interesting part of this at the end. We're chatting to AI instead of each on social media now other now. Just another layer of loneliness
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
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UK social media users less active on tech platforms due to rise of video apps
Ofcom research shows people also concerned old posts could affect personal or professional life
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/02/uk-social-media-users-less-active-on-tech-platforms-rise-of-video-apps
11 days ago
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The result of 15 years of cutting red tape has created a vast criminal network of illegal rubbish dumpers
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot
Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/01/organised-waste-crime-dump-uk-environment
11 days ago
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Laleh Khalili
14 days ago
Greedflation, where companies pump the economy for money in anticipation of future gains. From the Bloomberg newsletter.
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Comments under music videos on Youtube are (mostly) one of the last lovely places on the internet
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Great piece by
@chaykak.bsky.social
. Tech companies know AI i s anti-taste. To have taste is to discern. AI trained indiscriminately on data is not discerning
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In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste
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"Friendship & Social Skills suggests that if a toddler can understand that killing children is wrong, that is not a sign of the assertion’s naivety – but evidence of its elemental truth."
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Learn With Ms Rachel review – undoubtedly the TV event of the year for millions of us
The queen of children’s edutainment is back after four very long months, with her most extraordinary, envelope-pushing and moving special yet. Cue absolute relief for parents the world over
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/02/learn-with-ms-rachel-review-undoubtedly-the-tv-event-of-the-year-for-millions-of-us
about 1 month ago
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Frances Ryan
about 1 month ago
The Guardian’s positive action work experience is open for applications! There are (paid) schemes for disabled, BAME, and working class wannabe journalists. Because the media needs more people like us. Info here:
workwithus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...
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Positive Action Scheme
https://workwithus.theguardian.com/entry-level-opportunities/positive-action-scheme?mc_cid=ab3dd2a912&mc_eid=4d6947faa1
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Please share this with any working class young people you know who might like to try out a career in journalism
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Positive Action Scheme 2026 - Social Class
The Guardian believes there should be a better representation of our diverse society in the media and, to break down barriers, each summer we run a work-experience scheme for those considering a caree...
https://workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/editorial/london-united-kingdom/positive-action-scheme-2026-social-class/1018
about 2 months ago
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Really great work from
@londoncentric.media
. It's a crime that temporary accommodation, funded by council tax payers, is more lucrative than long term rentals
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Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation
Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-halts-mass-eviction-london-housing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1iqf2&triedRedirect=true&hide_intro_popup=true
about 2 months ago
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Come work with me
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
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Subeditor, Opinion
Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journ...
https://workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/editorial/london-united-kingdom/subeditor-opinion/1027
about 2 months ago
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I wrote about No10 welcoming the content creators
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How to win friends and influencers: Labour’s new social media strategy is a step into the future | Kirsty Major
There was a backlash when No 10 invited online content creators inside its doors. But in a fast-changing media landscape, this solves two problems at once, says deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/20/labour-no-10-influencers-content-creators-social-media
about 2 months ago
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Well worth listening to
@piercepenniless.bsky.social
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
and
@ethanshone.bsky.social
on Epstein and Mandelson
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: James Butler, Peter Geoghegan and Ethan Shone · On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-mandelson-and-the-private-life-of-power
about 2 months ago
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The renumeration from Insta for creators is shocking!
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
v kindly shares her insta income as someone with a huge following.
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Content Creation Has Become a Pyramid Scheme
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WHdHYSAIYU
about 2 months ago
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I loved commissioning and editing this essential piece by the v v good Oliver Eagleton
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‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning | Oliver Eagleton
In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right, says Oliver Eagleton, managing editor of Phenome...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/18/populism-defining-word-left-right
about 2 months ago
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Will Davies
2 months ago
These pieces by
@robtoes.bsky.social
are well worth reading
add a skeleton here at some point
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I am super proud of this 3 part series about digital politics by the brilliant Robert Topinka that I commissioned and edited. First piece here about how liberals misread the rise of the right content platforms.The illos by Antoine Cossé are so good
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How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka
In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/jan/30/digital-politics-liberals-internet-disinformation
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