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Every substantive Bluesky post by Chris Curtis, classified for substance and tone — each links out to the original on Bluesky. Back to the MP page.

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@chriscurtis94.bsky.social
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19 Jul 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“I've written about growth, why it needs to remain the number one mission of the government, and why I believe devolution will help. open.substack.com/pub/chriscur...”↗
10 Jul 2026Environmentcelebratory“Spent the day learning about how we are undermining the metropolitan bin elite, with the second highest recycling rate in the country.”↗
8 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentsarcastic“Has anyone tried to work out what Erskine May has to say about wearing a bin on your head?”↗
5 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentsarcastic“Currently messaging Tory friends to encourage urgent questions.”↗
23 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentsarcastic“It would clearly be bonkers if talks like this not to start as soon as possible. Appreciate the constitutional dilemma, but the civil service could just promise to do talks with any Labour MP that has more than 81 public nominees.”↗
6 Jun 2026Tax & Public Financesmeasured“Fascinating read from @yuanfenyang.bsky.social”↗
5 Jun 2026Transportcelebratory“More good stuff from government today on a Leeds tram. Good to see the argument is slowly being won!”↗
26 May 2026Technology & Digitalmeasured“This is, clearly, as aside from your point. But I think about it a lot with the current social media ban discourse. There is a certain irony that the new moral panic (albeit a panic I think is justified) is likely a big factor in stopping the previous one.”↗
26 May 2026Social Caremeasured“I remember thinking at the time that this felt like a positive side effect of an otherwise pretty scary phenomenon - one that was likely storing up problems for later. And well... here we are. 2/2”↗
26 May 2026Health & NHSmeasured“An early piece of social research I remember from YouGov days was on the surprise fall in teen pregnancies (think it's link below, but may be misremembering). The conclusion was that teenagers (especially male) were basically just more online / out socialising less. 1/2 news.sky.com/story/whats-...”↗
18 May 2026Transportsarcastic“If I hadn't been otherwise engaged I would have got "Build baby build Leeds a Tram" hats made.”↗
18 May 2026Transportsarcastic“Just arrived in Leeds for UKREiiiF. Beautiful city, but takes a bit too long to get from the station to the hotel. If only we had a way of solving that.”↗
16 May 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“One of the biggest misses in our (otherwise very accurate) 2017 YouGov MRP was sitting Cabinet ministers, many of whom significantly outperformed our estimates. It’s probably the reasons Amber Rudd managed to hold on in Hastings despite the model suggesting otherwise.”↗
14 May 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“Andy Burnham should be allowed to stand in the Makerfield by election. We can't risk another Reform MP, and we need all our best players on the pitch to bring about the change people voted for in 2024.”↗
12 May 2026Tax & Public Financesmeasured“Very much this 👇”↗
6 May 2026MP & Parliamentcelebratory“Very good from Joe and the team.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentsarcastic“Please please please please don't give Natural England ideas.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentsarcastic“You also don't get to do a whole thing saying "don't blame us for blocking the project, we are just doing our job" if you previously claimed that your job wasn't blocking projects.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentdefensive“I'm sure I will get barked at for being anti-nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. We should be doing far more to enhance nature across the country, but you can't achieve that through the creation of more deadweight bureaucratic crap.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentangry“Infuriating response from Natural England, showing just how broken our regulators and regulations have become. Until we fix this, we can't fix Britain. naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/03/h...”↗
30 Apr 2026Housing & Planningsarcastic“I’m not against the forest city concept. I just have the same reaction as when someone tells me Elon has reinvented the bus.”↗
30 Apr 2026Housing & Planningsarcastic“Extracting land values to build a city with hundreds of thousands of affordable homes with trees and green spaces. What a novel idea, I think, as I look out of the restaurant window.”↗
27 Apr 2026Economy & Jobs (General)defensive“I realise I sound like a whinging constituency MP, but I have sat in meetings with people who have said embarrassingly wrong and, at times, downright offensive things about MK. If they had bothered to open a spreadsheet they might actually learn something about the economic geography of the region.”↗
27 Apr 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“Milton Keynes is, by quite some distance the biggest economy in the corridor. It is the fastest growing, and is building significantly more homes than Oxford or Cambridge. It is purely snobbery, especially from government, that has led to the Cambridge focus.”↗
27 Apr 2026Economy & Jobs (General)angry“*sighs heavily* Almost every "Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor" event at UKReiif is just another opportunity for Cambridge to self promote, despite their appalling record of delivery. Once again, the entire project will be a failure if it ONLY focuses on Cambridge.”↗
8 Apr 2026Othermeasured“This is exactly why we need to take on the CIBABs. open.substack.com/pub/chriscur...”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“The good news is that a lot of these challenges are comparatively easy to fix, and DfT has recently announced a Taskforce to look at it. We just need to ensure it's serious about fixing these problems and not taken over by a load of CIBABs in DFT.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“And that leads us onto CIBAB's, pronounced like Kebab. The people whose answer to every proposal is, “Can’t it be a bus?” This is despite all the evidence that Trams support modal shift, have higher capacity, are permanent, support regeneration, are more accessible, and more reliable.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“5. The Department for Transport really doesn’t like trams For a range of cultural a historic reasons DfT have really gone off the idea of supporting Tram projects. A culture has crept in of putting barriers in the way, rather than learning from past mistakes and working out how to do them well.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“4. Overcentralisation The Transport and Works Act Order process means that all local schemes need to be signed off by DFT, is incredibly expensive and can take well over a decade. The government should just allow combined authorities to run there own approval processes for these schemes.”↗
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Sources & methodology
SourceBluesky / AT Protocol API · author feed. Each post links to the original on bsky.app.
VerificationOnly handles linked from the MP’s own published list are ingested. Self-declared or unverified handles aren’t included.
ClassificationEach post is LLM-classified for substance (vs reposts, social mentions, scheduling), then for tone (critical / measured / supportive) per target.
WindowThe 60-day summary above; the list covers all classified substantive posts.