Mark Pack

Mark Pack

@markpackuk.bsky.social

Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him

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Mark Pack
@markpackuk.bsky.social

Top author and newsletter writer @samfr.bsky.social joins @coryhazlehurst.bsky.social and I this week to talk about The Thick of It episodes ‘Rise of the Nutters’ and ‘Spinners and Losers’, and we end up wondering if the show has been misunderstood. politicalfictions.substack.com/p/the-thick-...

politicalfictions.substack.comThe Thick of It with Sam FreedmanTop author and newsletter writer Sam Freedman joins us to talk about The Thick of It special episodes ‘Rise of the Nutters’ and ‘Spinners and Losers’.

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Steve Akehurst
@steveakehurst.bsky.social

Brazil is also a warning to treat current Presidential polling in France with a bit of caution. If the rise of the radical right is a global trend, so is last minute counter movements & tactical voting against those same forces. Lula is unique but the pattern here isn’t!

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Lula pulls it off! Down with fascism!

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Rob Ford
@robfordmancs.bsky.social

I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

Mark Pack
@markpackuk.bsky.social

Not the most important point, of course, but "incisive" and "runtime: 235 [minutes]" seem rather at odds with each other.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

This seems like a big deal

showbiz411.comControversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone. Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it's gone

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Lib Dem Peers
@libdempeers.bsky.social

Today Mark Petterson took his oath and joined the team. Mark co-founded Warwick Energy in 2000 and has developed three offshore wind projects that are now in operation. They include Thanet, the world’s largest offshore wind farm when it came onstream in 2010.

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Lib Dem Peers
@libdempeers.bsky.social

Service personnel can spend years in single living accommodation. Julie Smith, Defence spokesperson, has won a change to the Armed Forces Bill that sets a military homes standard at least equal to the decent homes standard.

Mark Pack
@markpackuk.bsky.social

It's a very good question, and part of the answer is that some of the system moves very slowly but its lethargy doesn't get attention: lordseyeview.substack.com/p/why-does-s...

lordseyeview.substack.comWhy does so much of Whitehall move so slowly?Welcome
Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social

Things like that cracking down on aggressive parking charges or people playing loud music on a train are just… good steps. The real mystery is why no government has taken these steps before.

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Mark Pack
@markpackuk.bsky.social

And he could do just the same here in the UK - unless the Representation of the People Bill is both strengthened and passed.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.

wired.comElon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms PushElon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
Mark Pack
@markpackuk.bsky.social

And he could do just the same here in the UK - unless the Representation of the People Bill is both strengthened and passed.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.

wired.comElon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms PushElon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
Mark Pack
@markpackuk.bsky.social

Also in this episode a special treat for any fans of politics, cricks and continuity: @coryhazlehurst.bsky.social goes deep, deep, deep into whether the cricket scores heard briefly in the background make sense.

Mark Pack@markpackuk.bsky.social

Top author and newsletter writer @samfr.bsky.social joins @coryhazlehurst.bsky.social and I this week to talk about The Thick of It episodes ‘Rise of the Nutters’ and ‘Spinners and Losers’, and we end up wondering if the show has been misunderstood. politicalfictions.substack.com/p/the-thick-...

politicalfictions.substack.comThe Thick of It with Sam FreedmanTop author and newsletter writer Sam Freedman joins us to talk about The Thick of It special episodes ‘Rise of the Nutters’ and ‘Spinners and Losers’.