Reposted by Ian DuntRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2hZelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine. 64963042337
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8hI quite like the odds on 2028. I don't gamble but I think that's worth a bit of money. 8443
Reposted by Ian DuntSathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 8hDear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played 753557796
Reposted by Ian DuntJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 9hFT exclusive: the coup against Sir Ed Davey has begun... www.ft.com/content/523f...ft.comLib Dem MP launches attempt to topple leader Ed DaveyResignation of Treasury spokesperson Charlie Maynard comes amid frustration about centre-left party’s sagging poll ratings 309741
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10hWhat these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here. 630861
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13hThis is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it. 8323126
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13hThey definitely are gaining huge momentum, towards cult-like conspiracy and electoral oblivion. 1915313
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13hHolborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an... 6928946
Reposted by Ian DuntPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 17hNEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data 96749330
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast. 1081366249
Reposted by Ian DuntOrigin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ayn Rand, one of the most influential political novelists of the 20th Century, is the subject @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social are revisiting this week. Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp... 138621
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026God. We wasted an entire season of Origin Story telling the story of this word, when we could've just checked in with James here. 3237359
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"We charge you with genocide." Grim, inane and preposterous. One day these people will realise that words mean something and you shouldn't just string them together randomly to make yourself feel better. 1635235
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026So true. It's also the exact opposite effect to the Tories' other (more sensible) plan to get rid of stamp duty. Mangling the housing market just after adopting a policy which might help rationalise it. 820823
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Have they answered this question yet? Or are we to assume that it'll be paid for out of their magic money tree benefit cuts, which somehow serve to fund every other policy they announce. 3024643
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism. 45621156
Reposted by Ian DuntTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There’s a reason, when writing my first book on the Tories, that I insisted on the importance of “the party in the media” as an integral part of their milieu. 611321
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Very good and clear-sighted piece about what's going on with French bonds. It ain't great and the potential consequences would be ruinous for pro-Europeans paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-...paulkrugman.substack.comWhat’s the Matter With France?Is Europe’s #2 economy too big to save? 811837
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film. 4653083832
Reposted by Ian DuntAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the new Private Eye 562725983
Reposted by Ian DuntSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Suella is obviously entitled to describe herself in any way that she wants to. But what she's not entitled to do is to tell me I don't belong to the country I was born in" - Daniel Finkelstein. (It is to badly misunderstand this debate to mix these points up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sa...youtube.comWhy Suella Braverman’s Englishness Stance Is ‘Offensive’ | Danny FinkelsteinYouTube video by Times Radio 610013
Reposted by Ian DuntRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Polanski is a talented communicator as long as his audience is predisposed to like the message. His authority is solar-powered, activated only when the light of an enthusiastic crowd shines directly on him. If there is a risk of no applause, he powers down" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comZack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael BehrA toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr 2521241
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Badenoch speech: The Tory leader is having an argument with herself and she's losing inews.co.uk/opinion/bade... 18416112
Reposted by Ian DuntHenry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 07/10/2026Baffling decision by Press Gazette to call these jobs 'journalists'! 915731
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Did I miss how she said she was going to pay for the inheritance tax cut? 5620726
Reposted by Ian DuntJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026NEW - Kemi Badeoch says there will be no inheritance tax to pay ever on a family home. Interested to know how this affects the housing market. Asset-rich pensioners just got a huge (extra) incentive not to downsize. 3217744
Reposted by Ian DuntMatthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026starting to see an inversion of the 2019-24 dynamic.. progressives voters increasingly united on Brexit and happy to air the issues, whereas Conservative ones split and their leaders keen to not "reopen the debate... arguing with ourselves." Badenoch sounding rather like Starmer used to... 4549
Reposted by Ian DuntCameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If nothing else, I'm grateful to see this. I just hope it holds 6635
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The only reason you would hear this is if you're hanging out with a bunch of Neo-Nazis. 2832463
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The video feed for Badenoch's speech is very weird. 2411317
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not. 27552127
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Finally got around to watching Supergirl. People were quite down on it but I don't think they were anything like harsh enough. Whoever decided to put a rape plot into that film should be barred from contributing to any future movies. 10908
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026'I have chosen not to organise the book chronologically, but thematically.' Whenever I read this sentence in an introduction, my heart sinks. 252037
Reposted by Ian DuntStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Honestly her brain should be studied. Why is she incapable of going 'this nuts politician has said something nutty and vile?'youtu.beDoes Kemi Badenoch agree with Suella Braverman that she 'can't call herself English'?YouTube video by Good Morning Britain 1922034
Reposted by Ian DuntTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.bbc.co.ukKemi Badenoch: I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UKThe Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds. 32504120
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says. 4571575
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns. 67914184
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pisspoor response from a pisspoor leader, who clearly does not have the moral clarity or the conviction to prevent racism in his party greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/05/z...greenparty.org.ukZack Polanski reaction to Zionism is racism motion - Green PartyGreen Party leader Zack Polanski said: “Antisemitism and criticism of the Israeli state are, and must always be, completely distinct – blurring the line between the two is not only wrong but antisemit... 7964099
Reposted by Ian DuntPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged. 941345447
Reposted by Ian DuntSir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Being against bus lanes is absolute loser behaviour. 226141
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm sure this'll go down great at conference. I am absolutely not sure that scrapping an organisation called Natural England will go down so well at the election. 39566135
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Useful things are happening recently on the right, with prominent figures drawing a line under the racism: Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadhim Zahawi, now James Cleverly. Tentative sense of a social and moral norm being re-established. 3543567
Reposted by Ian DuntJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m afraid if this kind of motion falls, intention is pretty clear 818026
Reposted by Ian DuntPaul Evans @pauledevans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Now’s a good a time as any to deep dive on what is Zionism, rather assume you understand it. There’s going to be a butt-tonne of pontificating about it in the next few days, much of it it from people who are either bias, or ignorent. Let’s try not to be either…podcasts.apple.comZionism Part 1Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 10 July 2023 · 54min 66721
