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For unknown reasons the Number 10 media team still doesn't have anything official on Bluesky so I spent 15 mins vibe-coding up this which automatically shares @andyburnham.bsky.social 's Instagram and TikTok posts. @unofficialandy.bsky.social #AndyBurnham Please share away!

A public service for those of us who don’t use Instagram or TikTok

If you put together the season posters for Reacher they tell the story of a large man who can't remember where he put his keys.

I’d have disobeyed my grandmother and looked it in the mouth.

I would have reluctantly taken the Trojan Horse, but only if it came with the receipt. That said, before it even went that far, I would have impressed on them my preference for gift vouchers.

This is a very good, useful and timely piece. But talk of "introducing the Burnham lot to the MIS" strikes a wrong note for me. Knowing some of Burnham's economic advisors, I can assure you they don't need introducing to industrial strategy, they've been thinking deeply about it for some years.

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/indu... I've written a long blog introducing the Burnham lot to the Modern Industrial Strategy (MIS2025) that it's their honour to wrestle with. Lots to say....0/

The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

✍️ The Most Important Trainer You've Never Heard Of... The story of how an obscure sneaker that didn't even carry the logo of the company that made it, helped to change the world - in ways we're still reckoning with even today... An essay👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

Finally read the story, really good stuff from @jayboller.bsky.social racketmn.com/minnesotas-o...

Long overdue for The Spectator's Islamophobia to come under the microscope. Excellent piece from Peter Oborne here doing just that. It is now, he writes, just "an upmarket version of GB News" (same owner, of course)

There is, of course, Charles Joseph Minard's map of Napoleon's Russian campaign, which, in depicting the size of his forces from invasion to retreat, could be seen as an illustration of War and Peace. It was first published in 1869, the same year as the novel.

OMG I could spend weeks and months here!

HULK SMASH! (but not actually the blooming Marvel Universe) Seriously I love Reacher. Justice is served. Bad guys get what they deserve.

WHAT IF A MAN WAS LARGE: THE SHOW RETURNS seriously please watch this show it’s so fun

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Wise 👍😂

3/ if you’re interested I can expand… I’m not sure people have explained why RE makes 1/ harder sufficiently (supply side rather than old demand side forecasting) possibly due to expert baseline ignoring obvious points. And in 2/ eg the challenges of inverter-based DC RE sources not touched on! 🤷‍♂️