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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My personal highlight of The Traitors was Ross Kemp trying to immediately assert himself as being James Blunt's equal as bossy army man

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I see you thought this sounded as unmissable as I did

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's maybe be a quite good Final Destination movie in a premise where the death spares someone innocent in the chair, they get executed the second time, and then for the rest of the movie death slowly take out everyone who worked to defy him

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've had the opportunity to block a lot of terminally online weirdos with a severe case of poster's brain though, so that's something

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know there's a lot of UAE diplomacy stuff atm means Burnham has quite a hard needle to thread, but really it doesn't need Burnham, the Premier League should be able to do it themselves

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This would be quite a good time to make that a proper rule

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@blurbfly.bsky.social @bendunnell.bsky.social I think it's very sad that we can't have a good faith discussion about the politics of immigration with people who mostly agree with each other, but I hope the screengrabbing and making stuff up makes you feel very superior behind your computer screens

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You learn something new every day! Hopefully that works retroactively, thank you

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A very persuasive response. Anyway, we're clearly not getting anywhere so let's leave this. Again, have a nice day.

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ben, I have no interest in spending all day dealing with people I've not engaged in conversation being rude at me. Please grow up.

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can you delete this please? I've tried to end this conversation amicably, but now you're trying to start a pile-on because I've had the temerity to disagree with you. You're a professor for goodness sake.

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a bit of a tell that you haven't spent much time in India and are only imagining a romanticised version if you don't. Indeed, it's quite a colonial way of looking at the world (see, we can all infer that the people who disagree with us are racists if we want, but it's not helpful).

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But it can also be acknowledgment that immigration from culturally similar and economically developed countries imposes different costs to immigration from culturally distant and less developed countries. I think that's something we need to be honest about in any discussion about immigration

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, you decided to involve yourself before you've had a coffee, so that's on you. But that's not true. Seeing a difference between EU and non-EU immigration *can* be racist of course (it certainly is for some people, though I think disproportionately online)...

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think that's a bit of a reach tbh, but you're perfectly welcome to find it icky if you want. The need for concessions is decided entirely by political arithmetic. If there was a national majority for liberal immigration rules, we wouldn't be having this conversation. But alas, there isn't

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(Anyway, muting this now, I don't envy your mentions column. Have a nice day)

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok. I agree that's a perfectly reasonable, logical and defendable position. But it's one that makes rejoin politically impossible, because rejoin will need support from the large chunk of the population who don't have such liberal views on immigration

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would like you to tell me the specific sentence where Andy Burnham says he prefers white immigration

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Firstly, the "brown/white" thing is entirely liberal people choosing to interpret Burnham's words that way, he says nothing of the sort. Secondly, if the argument that "European integration is easier to manage than non-European immigration" is morally objectionable, rejoin is dead in the water

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think your approach of "convince people to come around to your argument by patronising them" is going to work as well with me as it is with the public

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let's role play. You're Andy Burnham, you know that to have any chance of rejoin (with Schengen) working, you need consensus across the political spectrum, including the centre-right. What's your pitch to them?

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Where does Burnham do that?

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're making a (perfectly valid) technical policy argument, but Burnham's trying to build a narrative. He's selling the public vibes, not detail.

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, personally I'm such a metropolitan cliché that I'd have the most liberal immigration policy humanly possible. But I also recognise that politics is the art of actually getting things done. There's no rejoin without a centre-right consensus that favours it.

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He at no point says "white", that's entirely your inference

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Calling the British public racist is really going to work to persuade them to rejoin the EU, of course

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kindly, if you think this is pandering to racism/xenophobia then you're so far away from the public on this that your judgement is impaired. This is Burnham trying to frame the argument in a way that meets a lot of voters where they are, and he does it well imo

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm watching The Mandalorian and Grogu and it's remarkable how much it suffers from the terrible decision to have Rotta the Hut speak English (and to have Jeremy Allen White, of all people, do the voice)

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sham City could stick you know

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Re the England game - in a world where people increasingly can't trust their eyes or believe in a shared reality, I very strongly believe we shouldn't let broadcasters surreptitiously replace real pitchside ads with fake digital ones

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can feel the desperation in that tweet. Polanski simply doesn't have an answer for a Labour government doing Labour things (the answer should be "we need to do more and we need to do it faster" imo)

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's now some obvious "we need to further, faster" white space for the Greens to position themselves if they want to keep their new metropolitan voters. Becoming the party of pensioners is not it

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is absolutely dogshit stuff. Polanski has no answer for a Labour government actually doing left-leaning things. His goose is cooked

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone please teach Andy Burnham how to speak from his diaphragm when he does the loud bellowy bit. Suck your belly button in towards your spine Andy!

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Actually laughed out loud at the Thursday VAT bill announcement

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As distinct from that square-mile institution, Poet's Day (Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday)

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a powerpoint monkey with a zone 2 ex council flat, I'm sort of grateful to inflation for masking just how much I've been shafted by the other great economic shocks of this decade (COVID and AI destroying white collar work)

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Actually we changed our minds again, Rey is *not* Palpatine's daughter"

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm reading about the Buffalo Bills' new stadium. The taxpayer paid $850m to it, the average game ticket is $610, and season ticket holders at the old stadium had to pay a one-off fee of $750- $50,000 for the *right* to pay *more* money and buy their new season ticket. Seriously, WHAT IS THE USA?

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This article is poor and riddled with factual errors. I'm fed-up of football journalists totally ignoring the Fan-Led Review, and the lower and non-league clubs that lobbied to have an alcohol pilot included as a financial lifeline to stop them going bust www.theguardian.com/football/202...

theguardian.com

Burnham’s booze ruse is a non-starter: just keep doing your drinking in the pub | Barney Ronay

The prime minister, a life-long football fan, was just restating a personal opinion about having a drink in the stands, not trying to make policy

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a huge management failure that the FA has a strategy around training age group teams to play possession football (literally called "The England DNA") that the senior team coach doesn't believe in. If Tuchel doesn't buy into the strategy, he shouldn't be in the job inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

inews.co.uk

Tuchel’s plan to stop England choking - and the architect behind it

Anthony Gordon also weighs in with his new-found 'educated view' from Spain

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's not the headline of this Man City affair, but the likelihood of someone (Brighton?) sneaking through the chaos and pulling a Leicester has definitely increased

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the last time I thought about Emili Sandé, we were still in the EU

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Emili Sandé? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time"

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Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(John Bishop explaining a BBC gameshow format to a rapt Tom Cruise is *incredible* though, what a show)

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