#itchyboots the therapeutic water cooler video.Tajikistan 🏍️ youtu.be/ab4OKvONUMo?...

This is important. Clive Lewis has said he'd stand down to make way for Andy Burnham. Nice to know that some of them still put the country ahead of their private ambitions. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

RIP Jamal. You deserved better.

Delighted to have won the Rybczynski Prize with @joelsuss.ft.com at the Society of Professional Economists for our essay on The value of text as data. More here on.ft.com/4n2TVBq

One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia. As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards. Now government policy

ABSOLUTELY VILE - Starmer must go...

This is the world youtu.be/WfF6Jm4c7pc?...

‘So I urge you to oppose these proposals […] And to challenge dehumanising far-right rhetoric and its adoption in policy.    Because that is what is really tearing our country apart.    And stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all of our rights tomorrow.’

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

as the Labour government still has not grasped, no matter how hard an anti-immigration policy it enacts, Brexitists will never say that it is hard enough, and will always demand something even more extreme. @chrisgrey.bsky.social

The Four Orchids of the Tabletop

Oh my

⚡️Incredible dossier by French Sovietologist/historian Françoise Thom, exploring the 🇷🇺Soviet/Russian angle of late financier Jeffrey Epstein‘s sordid activities and connections to late mogul Robert Maxwell in detail. This looks far greater than mere „kompromat“ gathering... A long read, but worth it.

Give us wealth taxes, you cowards. @novaramedia.com

Brand collaborations: a shortcut to relevance in China Mercedes × McDonald’s collaboration work Mark Tanner at ChinaSkinny chinaskinny.com/blog/mcdonal...

Light catching some honesty in the studio and rain drops on the window tonight

Been dwelling on this image for a few days. Initially did a “like” but really it should be an RT or whatever it’s called here!

Anyone who ever sent an email to Epstein.

My gluten free heroes in Box Hill #gf

Is it simply mischief in the Labour Party to oust Starmer now to avoid the clamour for Burnham? “My leadership opportunity is now or never”

Just figure out how to love life, how to trust it, how to stand in awe of it,how to enjoy it. Stay alert & be aware-life has a way of drawing you in,of insisting upon your involvement. The 🌎 , with all its wild and clamouring demands, will find you soon enough www.theredhandfiles.com/eighteen-poe...

Tree. Lake. #ballarat

80% or so of the homeless have been homeless for eight months or less and it's usually due to a fiscal shock like job loss or (in America) disability. There's your 4 in 5.

Everyone in Brussels is fluent in English, well-read and well-informed. They *know* what London’s game is and see their silly tricks a mile off. The UK is in for an absolute spanking until it grows up and stares harsh reality in the eye.

I don't honestly see how even an SPS agreement is possible because there are a load of SI's that have gone through the UK parliament to lower standards on things I thought would be important to an SPS agreement. 🤷‍♂️

@radek-sikorski.bsky.social talking to @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social Leading youtu.be/Fy3-L3pCadM?...

How much do you know about swallows? youtube.com/shorts/0to1T...

Michael Pettis on China / Chinese economy youtu.be/ZdaqVbIOOuA?...

Harraga 🔥 #wordoftheday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harraga

Understanding tropical cyclones @bomact.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R-m...

WORD OF THE DAY. Excellent. To give up spreadsheets for forty days.

The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved. Wonderful piece.

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking style of strong colours and bold design #Womensart

Decoloniality / Decolonization in the Twenty First Century: What, Why, Where, Whom, What For? #pdf journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/Th...

Watch to the end

Patti Smith youtu.be/lgamJ5SQlIg?...

Organise, don’t agonise buttondown.com/artefacts/ar... @willsh.bsky.social on 🔥 >> @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @keithedwards.bsky.social

Dare to imagine a different way.

so many unintentional funnies in here. Just so gloriously ridiculous, the fever dream of people who have overdosed on money ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

🤖 analysis of the finance and physics of the struggle to deliver MBS’s Neom project. 🤖 As ever, leaders incomprehension that other folk will simply stump up funds for a PIF. #risk chatgpt.com/s/t_690cc896...

@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social is this video truly you speaking? I find it hard to believe. The intonation and style does not gel. Your thoughts? youtu.be/GRXKavRIBN8?...

Bluesky as a social media channel is not working. This evening culled 40+ accounts that have not posted in months. SM is dying.

Masala chai bubbles 🫧

Donald Starves Children #marytrump #marytrumpmedia #snap #shutdown

One of the many reasons extending settlement qualification period to 10 years is a terrible idea. Precarious status makes it harder to get training, better jobs, etc. The policy is economic as well as social self harm. on.ft.com/49vTQC8

@shelleyr.bsky.social Yuuf on your radar? In your town on November 6th. www.songkick.com/concerts/427...

Posting this from September now since Conde Nast is merging Teen Vogue into Vogue and cutting the politics section. www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...

Happy Monday folks, and it'll be an even happier Wednesday when I do this talk!

This from @lewisgoodall.com