Jack Kessler
@jackkessler.bsky.social
I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day. Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/ I like human rights and French cuisine.
How often do you find yourself chatting with ‘an other’ for an extended period, only to realise that they haven’t asked you a *single* question yet somehow you know where their kids go to school and what they think of their dermatologist?
Ask me anything
"Henry, do you drive?"
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This phenomenon is absolutely real. Makes conversation so unbelievably dull and is perhaps an underappreciated factor in people feeling isolated: if every conversation is basically a one-way performance, why on earth bother with them?
Jack Kessler@jackkessler.bsky.social · 12h agoWrote about the epidemic of people whose conversational style is to never ask you questions. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/ask-me-any...
I’ve stumbled upon a phase where my shoe laces keep coming undone. Talking multiple times a walk. Did this happen to anyone else on entering their late-thirties?
Wrote about the epidemic of people whose conversational style is to never ask you questions. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/ask-me-any...
Quite funny watching Ben Stokes act like's he's the first leader to mess up the succession planning.
Ben Stokes On Brook Not Getting Test Captaincy 🏴
YouTube video by For The Love Of Cricket
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Wrote about the epidemic of people whose conversational style is to never ask you questions. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/ask-me-any...
Revellers headed home, cleaners on the way to work — the night bus is the ultimate liminal space, where two entirely different days can be occurring simultaneously. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/the-243-to...
Already at the REACTS to the BREAKING HIS SILENCE stage of the discourse.
John Etheridge REACTS to Ben Stokes BREAKING HIS SILENCE on his England DEPARTURE!
YouTube video by talkSPORT Cricket
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saying this not as a dig to Paul but as a general point, but it does worry me that we've ended up in a world where the two options are seemingly "leftist bubble" or "oh hey the nazis are here" - surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc?
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d agoThe new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
A party that was actually anti-racist would be kicking this person out, not allowing them to run for the Governing Committee. There are many decent Greens who will be disgusted by this and I wish them all power fighting back against it. We know from experiance how hard that is.
Revellers headed home, cleaners on the way to work — the night bus is the ultimate liminal space, where two entirely different days can be occurring simultaneously. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/the-243-to...
How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else ft.trib.al/KvmNepY | opinion
How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else
The lesson from Manchester is that it takes time for public investment policies to show up in GDP
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Why does Andy Murray want to be a content creator? Look, I'm a longtime Murray fan and YouTube Premium subscriber, but I find the whole thing deeply disheartening.
Why does Andy Murray want to be a content creator?
Old sportsmen never die; they just start a YouTube channel
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Me: No, New Labour wasn't 'just like the Tories', look at the approach to public services, Europe, the role of the state etc YouTube algorithm:
Why does Andy Murray want to be a content creator? Look, I'm a longtime Murray fan and YouTube Premium subscriber, but I find the whole thing deeply disheartening.
Why does Andy Murray want to be a content creator?
Old sportsmen never die; they just start a YouTube channel
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One of the downsides of rereading Robert Caro after a decade is violently remembering what (or, to be precise, with whom) you were doing the last time Lyndon Johnson tore into poor Leland Olds.
Jeffrey Archer's greatest crime* is sheer sprawl. *literary crime, obviously, not perjury crime ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/the-446-pa...
Finding out from Alex's Bluesky is rough, but not as rough as when I *worked at HMT* and I find out the date via Gladstone [that cat's] Instagram story.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 5d agoBudget on 28th October, says John Healey on his socials
Great-grandparents but running an umbrella handle business in Austria and expanding to England because "it rains a lot there".
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
Jeffrey Archer's greatest crime* is sheer sprawl. *literary crime, obviously, not perjury crime ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/the-446-pa...
I present to you possibly the worst blurb ever written, for a new Adam Mars-Jones novel
Will Charles go for an early abdication?
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 6d agoLatest YouGov royal family favourability trackers (July 2026) William: 76% positive Catherine: 74% Anne: 70% Charles: 62% Edward: 53% Sophie: 51% Camilla: 43% Harry: 33% Beatrice: 30% Eugenie: 29% Meghan: 22% Andrew: 2% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
I wrote about the time I lost my dream job — now filed under the character building, showing vulnerability chapter of my memoirs. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/that-time-...
New substack: in wanting to reform social care, Andy Burnham risks bringing economics into politics: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/social-car...
Social care: the fight for economic thinking
Reforming social care isn't a left vs right issue: it's about economics vs prejudice.
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Just spotted this. It's misleading and unnecessary, who eats 5/6th of a bag?
