Ni le soleil ni la mort ni les Etats Unis ne se peuvent regarder fixement.
28.02.2026 10:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@stefanstern.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
Ni le soleil ni la mort ni les Etats Unis ne se peuvent regarder fixement.
28.02.2026 10:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But it is another example of how Reform boost turnout for progressive parties. They are so profoundly toxic. When you put it alongside the Tories losing their deposit, the right have a serious problem.
27.02.2026 04:48 โ ๐ 559 ๐ 98 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 15
You got to feel for Matt Goodwin.
Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.
Well.
27.02.2026 07:08 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0In the future we will all just go on each others'/our friends' podcasts what with AI doing all the work and everything.
24.02.2026 12:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Was a great pleasure to go on Dave Cohen's excellent new "Shakespeare Mindset" podcast to talk about ambition (and my book on that subject). Give it a listen!
podcasts.apple.com/gr/podcast/t...
In the future we will all just go on each others'/our friends' podcasts what with AI doing all the work and everything.
24.02.2026 12:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My friend Stefan Stern is on my friend Dave Cohen's podcast talking about Shakespeare and Macbeth (neither of whom I know personally). It is very much worth your time (and buy their books too!) podcasts.apple.com/gr/podcast/t...
24.02.2026 12:21 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Pad up Weldon, you're opening.
24.02.2026 11:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Was a great pleasure to go on Dave Cohen's excellent new "Shakespeare Mindset" podcast to talk about ambition (and my book on that subject). Give it a listen!
podcasts.apple.com/gr/podcast/t...
Cuddly Green party latest - let the birthding ladies suffer and even die, it's what Mother Nature wants - total sense of humour failure on this one and I know whereof I speak before you ask - H/T just about everyone sharing this nib (Oct 3rd 2025, Gdn www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...)
24.02.2026 10:33 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 5Does he...does he have a bit of a problem with sums?
24.02.2026 07:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Essential reading from @mgemancipation.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/frdhfirs...
I was comparing this Josh with another who has been in the news recently.
21.02.2026 19:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.
21.02.2026 19:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1The voice of reason.
21.02.2026 19:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0my god I need to wake up Friday morning to the news that Matt Goodwin is not an MP, I can't bring myself to feel strongly about who wins but I really, really need him to lose
21.02.2026 19:07 โ ๐ 1894 ๐ 149 ๐ฌ 72 ๐ 25I wish I was notorious.
21.02.2026 18:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Does Pizza Express deliver to Sandringham?
19.02.2026 22:20 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
There's a slight Murder on the Orient Express element to the Epstein revelations.
[Spoilers]
It was all of them.
#epstein
This is a really interesting and helpful piece about working with AI by @benansell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/benansel...
I think it must be irritating for moderate Cons that the LDs can apparently "lie low-ish" for years and yet still be the most effective non-Tory option come election time in loads of seats.
19.02.2026 08:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Reform has announced that only British nationals will be eligible for benefits.
Millions of taxpayers and their families with no support. Which is outrageous.
Including millions of EU citizens. Which would tear up the current Brexit agreement. Or would EU citizens be exempt?
Pretty chaotic.
Still there!
15.02.2026 20:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
What on earth would Citizen Smith say?
GAIL's Bakery Tooting Broadway share.google/vZfbA2wCKPqW...
That's true and yet he stil seems permanently nervous about losing support to the ultra extremsists - hence no real apology for the schoolboy racism, for example.
14.02.2026 22:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Fascinating detail here from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social on Sunak and Brexit:
14.02.2026 13:30 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 3I believe so. It was an attempted two-for with C word. Good to see you on Wed!
13.02.2026 14:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0