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Nick Cohen

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British journalist and author Read me on Substack https://nickcohen.substack.com/

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Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · yesterday

Jeremy Hunt fought like a lion, a great expense, to hold his seat. Wakes up, sees Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell are persona non grata in the party, but this guy is not. Presumably goes straight back to sleep. Wild.

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2d ago

I do think fundamentally if your impulse a decade ago was "no, they're just racists" you would have had a better read, and practical response than anyone trying to understand "economic anxiety" and "hygiene factors."

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d ago

Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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NG@ng1978.bsky.social · 3d ago

London Falling really is a gripping read. Didn’t realise that Reform treasurer and property developer Nick Candy named his son Cayman, and a spokesman had to say that he wasn’t named after the tax haven but after the Porsche Cayman. So that’s alright then. These people are just so tacky.

Dr Anna Clark@drannaclark.bsky.social · 5d ago

A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration" Reform plan to make next week Immigration Week It could finally be the moment for broadcast media to notice the > 75% drop in net migration since 2024. There is also a 42% drop in boat crossings

Bloomberg: Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration Reform UK party is planning to hold multiple press conferences on immigration to turn public attention to the issue, despite the number of migrants arriving in the country nearly halving from the same time last year. A total of 14,200 immigrants have arrived in the UK via small boats so far this year, down 44% compared to the same period last year, with the Home Office and National Crime Agency increasing seizures of small-boat engines and improving enforcement cooperation with the French. The issue of immigration threatens to be riskier territory for new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is already facing disquiet from backbench colleagues over reforms proposed during his predecessor's tenure.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 4d ago

I reserve the right: A) to laugh at the Tory party because they're awful and the Tories failing is funny B) to be deeply alarmed about the collapse of the centre right and rise of the far right We can't have every election be a game of Russian roulette with our democracy

Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 4d ago

On both sides of the pond you get responses like this to people correctly saying “hey given that liberals can’t win every election forever, we really need a non-extremist right of centre party here” because they can’t see past the ends of their noses.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

It cannot be said often enough that England and Wales in particular no longer possess many universities as governed from the c1960s to the c2000s. Many are now debt vehicles squeezed for remaining value by creditors and their proxy representatives. You have to see these things clearly.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 4d ago

Brexit the key bit of this, because ultimately it racked off a bunch of people who might vote for us, failed to deliver for the people who liked it, and almost no one on the right has done the thinking about that.

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 4d ago

What I find troubling about Badenoch's polling is that, when she faced a really serious test of her judgement over the War in Iran, she failed it spectacularly - and blamed British Muslims. And it's had almost zero effect on her reputation. That says something about us, not just her.

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Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · last wk.

🧵Looked quite a bit over past week at appeal of Burnham, what about Badenoch, whose approvals have risen significantly since a low last Autumn, when barely 10% of voters gave her a gross positive approval, to over 30% and higher net approval than Farage, Polanski & Davey.