The Bear
Editor of Bearly Politics. Author. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
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- A quick small update from my teaspoonless serviced apartment in Manchester. Long and short of it, I have a new job! Whoop whoop! 🐻
- So, sadly The Rest is Politics USA is well off my list of podcasts that I listen to. There is just no good reason for Anthony Scaramucci to have still been in contact with Epstein. I’m not implying that he did anything criminal, but these messages are from 2018, long after Epstein’s first arrest.
- I am in a serviced apartment in Manchester, which is beautiful and I love it, BUT… There are no teaspoons. And I am fully scandalised. I just made myself a cup of coffee with what looked like a ladle. A ladle! Would it be wrong for me to just go buy some teaspoons for the flat? Or overbearing?

- America is approaching a genuine inflection point: Phones, citizens and visibility on one side. State power, fear and authoritarian drift on the other. @claireaj.bsky.social brilliantly analyses where the US currently finds itself, and where we go from here. Well worth a read and a follow. 🐻
- A damned good question.