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Alan Allport

@alanallport.bsky.social
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Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 11m
Imagine being so fucked up that you see your goal as creating a factory floor of children all of whom are going to grow up to despise you eventually.
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Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960.bsky.social · 20h
Thing is the US is so averse to actual casualties that Hegseth's jacked meat puppets will never actually see combat, which makes them kind of pointless apart from being kind of living Tom of Finland illustrations
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 3h
I understand all those words individually but I’ve never seen them organized jn that particular pattern.
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Andrew Cooper @rickynow.bsky.social · 4h
Well I've thought about this, then given up thinking about it.
Liam Gallagher on X making about as much sense as usual
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8h
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Sandy Hendry @sandyhendry.bsky.social · 4h
Klopp the Legend
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10h
From Writing In The Sand by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a celebration of the life of beaches in north-east England, 1973-98.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 5h
“Your call is important to us” I think takes it by a nose.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 6h
a) ‘Englishness’ is a social construction b) Suella Braverman can think whatever she likes about it c) No-one else has to take her seriously Thank you for coming to my Twat Talk.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h
Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.
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Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social · 19h
And we're off, with MOVIE NO. 102 in our chronological tour through the American movies of the 80s! This is a big one, an Oscars darling and one that has a lot to say about our story, and its title announces its emblematic status...from September 1980, it's Robert Redford's ORDINARY PEOPLE!
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 17h
“The death row inmate Christa Pike was in critical condition and receiving medical care, her lawyers said Thursday, a day after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her” (NYT) Genuinely unclear what the state is trying to do. Save her life so they can try killing her again when she’s, what, better?
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 20h
The grins on the faces of these fucking ghouls
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.
New York Times homepage link reading: 
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 22h
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 20h
Sign at El Alamein station, facing west, installed 2 July 1942.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 20h
An African-American like Nixon probably has family roots in the United States extending back to the 18th century if not earlier, which is at least as long if not longer than a Ulster reject twat like JD.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 22h
It’s perma-culture war and not actually very much of the bang-bang kind
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The American people tolerate the death penalty because they are addicted to the idea of vengeance, whether or not that makes any sense on moral or practical grounds.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Those losing their health benefits who were previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, & interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan — all of whom are in the country w/ the federal govt’s permission”
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U.S. poised to boot legal immigrants from Medicaid, including refugees and sex-trafficking victims
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status, including refugees and sex-trafficking victims, are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My death penalty position is that the state should not be in the business of deliberately killing its citizens and the fact that it’s also incapable of doing it humanely is just another level of the madness.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit.
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It's a beautiful sight.
This and 250,000 visa revocations.
U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“For twenty years, these men marched and fought, plundered and shagged their way across Europe.” The ever droll @jfb1066.bsky.social on Andrew Roberts on Napoleon’s marshals in October’s Literary Review.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No she’s not.
TLS: Mary Beard on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Authorities take woman to hospital after multiple failed attempts to kill her so that once she’s recovered they can try to kill her again” would be the most American headline ever if only she was also to be billed for the treatment.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Between October 2023 and April 2024, Israel dropped more explosives on Gaza than were dropped on London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined during all of WWII. The destruction of Rafah, which I believe is the city in this picture, did not begin until May 2024.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Delighted to announce that the Royal Historical Society has seen fit to honour me with an (checks notes) invoice.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Unwinder
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Generative Al has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
May 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Romeo Echo @romeoecho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pet Peeve Of The Day: Websites with a login page with a little checkbox that says "Remember Me", except they never, ever, ever seem to be able to "Remember Me"
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DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Few Highlights from 1980s Miners strike Mass unemployment and deindustrialisation 1981 inner city riots HIV Section 28 Poll Tax riots Housing crisis and right to buy Hillsborough Mad Cow disease Decimation of the welfare state NHS outsourcing / chronic underfunding
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Mind boggling” implies that there’s something mysterious about this when the explanation is in fact pretty obvious.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Britain now approaching Bermuda; BRACE FOR IMPACT
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Roses are red Rockefeller’s a Plaza
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are some absolute cunts out there but normally their cuntish instincts are kept in check by social disapproval. One of the things that the Balaclava Brigade (aided by politicians and the BBC’s ‘legitimate concerns’ narrative) have been able to do is mobilize and legitimize that cuntishness.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Side note on this: wartime Benzedrine and other amphetamines were produced in such gigantic quantities for the allies that students in the UK and Australia after the war used to take them routinely when cramming for exams.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How about drunks
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RIP Esther Rantzen. That’s Life! was a part of my childhood and in retrospect it was a very weird show - half of it exposes about orphan-crushing and the other half about vegetables that looked a bit like cocks.
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How the month started to how it ended.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*ADORE* this album
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I see Joyce Carol Oates is Having Opinions again
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Three of our nation’s best minds
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Three Stooges: Larry Hits Moe & Curly with Mallet
ALT: Three Stooges: Larry Hits Moe & Curly with Mallet
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How did that Roman Republic work out btw
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I heartily recommend jumping on Jeremy’s fascinating, thoughtful, amusing, surely-to-God-he’ll-never-finish-this bandwagon through *every single freaking 1980s film* now he’s hit an (early) milestone.
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hegseth has a lot of opinions about how to win a war for a guy who just lost one.
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Carol Shoshkes Reiss, Ph. D. @carolshoshkesreiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is becoming the case, and professionals have been leaving the country
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Opinion | A Jewish homeland – for right-wing Jews only?
The decision to stop two young Jews involved in "protective presence" activism from immigrating to Israel casts a disturbing shadow over Israel's claim to be the national home of all Jews
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