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As a Probation Officer, this makes me endlessly happy and optimistic. Years and years of 'lock em all up' policies without a single thought for how we keep people from going back to prison, or what we do when the prisons are full. Very smart appointment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

James Timpson: Why Starmer hired key boss as prisons ministerwww.bbc.co.uk James Timpson has made a name for himself hiring hundreds of former prisoners.

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Study for a Portrait, by Francis Bacon, 1952, 📸 via @MenInBlazers

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Welcome to the new UK. Also, targeting map for the Lib Dems in 2029.

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Granted I’m a big prisons nerd, but still, it’s been a whole day, and I’m really surprised at how happy this has made me. A day on and I’m elated by it. (Timpson was also chair of the Prison Reform Trust.)

For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.

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Morning, Bluesky. Labour’s first Cabinet meeting is underway with a Starmer press conference afterwards. One interesting factor for me is three experts who were given ministerial jobs: Covid star Sir Patrick Vallance as Science minister, James Timpson at Prisons and Richard Hermer attorney general.

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Everything we’ve seen suggests the exit poll is underestimating the scale of Labour and Liberal Democrat gains and electoral efficiency, and overestimating Reform and the Conservatives.

UK general election live: Labour takes early seats, with a strong showing from Reform UKFinancial Timeswww.ft.com

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Two things: one, finishing above Tony Blair's 1997 haul is very much on as it stands. Two, and much more importantly, so too is Labour getting 420 seats.

Wildly extrapolating from Swindon South: better than projected by the exit poll, so thus far, all the results pointing to a bit better than the exit poll, a bit worse than the average of the MRPs for Labour.

UK general election live: Reform UK has cost the Tories seats, says exit pollsterwww.ft.com

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An important thing to understand about the UK's exit poll is that it is really accurate for predicting, e.g. 'the Liberal Democrats will win around 60 seats' but it isn't designed to spit out the *right* 60 seats, so really don't spend anytime looking at what those are:

UK general election live: Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK the big winners, according to exit pollwww.ft.com

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It's dogs at polling stations day!

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NEW Survation MRP: Labour on Course to Win 484 seats. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are in a close race to form the official opposition. Probabilistic seat count: LAB 484 CON 64 LD 61 SNP 10 RFM 7 PC 3 GRN 3 34,558 interviews conducted online and on the telephone

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Reposting this because apparently everyone was watching the football last night and not reading book reviews about child abuse, but you have no excuse today

I reviewed Lucia Osborne-Crowley's account of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial: a painful but important book www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – a voice for the powerlesswww.theguardian.com In this painful, candid book, a reporter with a history of abuse sits in on Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, identifying bias in all its forms and dramatising the lives of the victims

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On yesterday’s catastrophic SCOTUS decision overruling Chevron www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/o...

Opinion | Conservatives Took Another Big Step to Consolidate Power in the Supreme Courtwww.nytimes.com The court swept aside a precedent that endangers countless regulations — and transfers power from the executive branch to Congress and the courts.

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The Financial Times endorses Labour.

Britain needs a fresh startwww.ft.com The Conservatives have run out of road. Labour must be given a chance to govern

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Coal is dead in the UK. GB Railfreight made the final planned coal delivery by rail in the UK.The shipment was delivered to Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, as it prepares for closure on 30 September.

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Dead

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Me, seeing somebody being creepy in the comments...

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New post just out: It's by the god of election analysis himself Sir John Curtice, with colleague Lovisa Moller Vallgarda. They've built a system for classifying voters that offers fascinating insights into this election and the future of UK politics. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/m...

Mapping Voter Coalitionsopen.substack.com A guest post from Sir John Curtice and Lovisa Moller Vallgarda

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@ellyvintiadis.bsky.social @friderikespang.bsky.social @jowolff.bsky.social :)

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The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is going all out to welcome Taylor back to town.

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The most dismaying thing about those stupid election date bets is how petty it all is. Using your public role for a bit of personal advantage. Whenever you can . It's just grim.

Farewell Coriolanus Snow. A throwback to Donald Sutherland’s 2013 perspective on The Hunger Games.

Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution' | Movies | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com <p>The veteran actor who plays tyrannical president Coriolanus Snow in the blockbuster series talks about films as political activism – plus cinema villains and happy marriages</p>

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Another of the great mysteries of Stonehenge. Why did Ladybird revise this book in circa 1965 - removing the horizontal stone? They thus changed the scene from historically correct to incorrect. Artist: John Kenney

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I remain blissfully unaware of any bluesky drama, and intend to remain so.

@chadbourn.bsky.social From the East Anglian Daily Times: Dr Dan out & about campaigning with the Labour candidate for his own (until recently Tory) seat. What an election this is!

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More dog pics on Bluesky please! Got to take over all those cat pics currently on there!

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Today is the last chance to register to vote in the UK. There was a record-breaking 80k new registrants by 10am which bodes well. Spread the word.

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I found the responses to yesterday's @nora.zone prompt asking people to share facts about their job or hobby so interesting that I took them up on their custom feed idea. Do yourself a favor and check it out. You won't regret it.

Did You Know?

Feed by @edavis.dev

If you see a ribbon on a horse’s tail, it is not a decoration, it is communicating a message to you: red - beware, horse may kick so keep back; white - horse is for sale; green - youngster, may be first outing; pink - mare may be cranky or in heat. Yellow or blue - stallion (depends on country) 🐴

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

Roccapina, Corsica #SkySunday

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Just on this point for people who still hold a grudge: parties change all the time. The party of Starmer is not the party of Corbyn. The party of Corbyn was not the party of Blair. The party of Truss was not the party of Major. And so on. And the party of Davey is clearly not the party of Clegg.