Salma

The Cotswolds is having a ✨moment✨If you holiday there you might bump in to the VP. Have your questions ready! Is it really turning into the Hamptons of England?

#cotswolds #vacation #vp @skynewsrss.bsky.social

@skynewsrss.bsky.social Sunday Morning with Trevor Philips. What’s your thoughts on this?

#BobGeldof #Gaza #HumanitarianCrisis

Talking through today’s headline on @skynewsrss.bsky.social #PressPreview

#SkyNews #Putin #PeaceTalks #RussiaUkraineConflict

The whole pod is utterly captivating.

Stunning.

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Growth is slowing, this is bad news for the economy and possibly bad news for your pocket, if the government decides to put taxes up to pay for the shortfall. @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social

This should be fun! Anyone on here coming along?

📍Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
📅 July 9th 2025
⏰ 7:30pm til 9pm
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Banner for an IfG event titled 'Spads under Starmer: How can Labour’s special advisers do the job well?' on Tuesday 15 July at 13.00-14.00 Speakers: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor at the Sunday Times and co-author of Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer Salma Shah, Special Adviser to Sajid Javid (2014–19) Sam White, Special Adviser to Alistair Darling (2004–10) and Chief of Staff to Keir Starmer (2021–22) The event will be chaired by Tim Durrant, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.

EVENT: Since July 2024 more than 100 special advisers have been appointed by Keir Starmer and his ministers.

So how can Labour’s spads do the job well? Join us on 15 July with @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social @ommasalma.bsky.social @samwwhite.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/spads-...

I mean it makes sense. #skynews #trump

Some Sunday thoughts..

The Matt Forde Focus Group | Episode 2: The Political Silver Bullet @bbcsounds.bsky.social @matt-forde.bsky.social listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I join @bethrigby.bsky.social & Harriet Harman on the latest episode of Electoral Dysfunction 🎙️
Listen to the full episode now wherever you get your podcasts @skynewsrss.bsky.social

I’ve had a kombucha, buckle up! 🥤Listen to All The Small Things on BBC 5 Live: Matt Chorley

Conservatives need to resist short term, reactionary policy proposals.

It’s here!!!

Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 15/03/2025 · 59m

S1E1: Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower

Most of what you think you know about the story of Narcissus, is wrong. This isn’t a tale of pride or vanity.

Let @sturdyalex.bsky.social take you on a journey.

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We asked the unthinkable on Quiet Riot this week:

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Yes, pour, ye warblers! pour the notes of woe,
And soothe the Virtues weeping o’er his bier:

The man of worth—and hath not left his peer!
Is in his “narrow house,” for ever darkly low.

Thee, Spring! again with joy shall others greet;

Me, memory of my loss will only meet.

How can ye charm, ye flowers, with all your dyes?

Ye blow upon the sod that wraps my friend!

How can I to the tuneful strain attend?

That strain flows round the untimely tomb where Riddell lies.

For the #BurnsNight crew: Sonnet on the death of Robert Riddell

NO more, ye warblers of the wood! no more;

Nor pour your descant grating on my soul;

Thou young-eyed Spring! gay in thy verdant stole,

More welcome were to me grim Winter’s wildest roar…

Why do dentists always make you feel like a child that’s been naughty? Is it an upselling technique?

Five years ago tonight

The apprentices making £100,000 while they get a ‘free’ degree Students whose employers pay their tuition fees while they combine work and study are graduating with enough money to put down for a house or car

Will this break the middle-class stigma?
The apprentices making £100,000 while they get a ‘free’ degree

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John Curtice tells The Times that Reform need to be much broader than immigration to avoid a ceiling effect from their polarising reputation. James Frayne suggests it is a general reputational risk [that hampers their reach, a key FPTP issue]

(Times)

Party like it’s 1899: the young, wealthy women still attending debutante balls Opulent celebrations of well-born women became déclassé under Elizabeth II, but the tradition is making a comeback

The new elite dating circuit?

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Authors put pen to paper amid demise of handwriting Bestselling British authors, like Philip Pullman and Julia Donaldson, hand-write the opening to their most famous books to encourage people to value handwriting

Writing offers a clarity that typing simply cannot.

Authors put pen to paper amid demise of handwriting

www.thetimes.com/article/fdb6...

Meet the Rees-Moggs: Jacob the TV star revels absurdly in his poshness The man described as a “haunted Victorian pencil” is going down the Kardashian route

Cannot wait!!

Meet the Rees-Moggs: Jacob the TV star revels absurdly in his poshness

www.thetimes.com/article/0bbc...

The UK did not have an "open borders" policy. It had a very liberal policy to non-EU work and study visas after Brexit & a draconian and ineffective asylum policy with a welcoming policy towards Ukranians & Hong Kongers.

The high numbers were partly by accident, partly be design

I loved being on! Thanks x