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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 02/10/2026

Gaby Hinsliff is right about a massive educational and upbringing blindspot: and it's bigger than more men speaking up. It's huge but fixable, and it's called power literacy. For more see lnkd.in/p/ebKS2W3Y #power #humanchess #hope #metoo

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 24/09/2026

'In your lifetime', because they're young and I'm not! It's a privilege next week to bring evidence- and reason-based hope from the book 'The Blindspot' to leaders in the Ubuntu Global Network, powered by IPAV, a social innovation organization based in Lisbon. www.ipav.pt #power #hope

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 29/07/2026

Some books about power are worth a thousand Kalashnikovs; many aren't. I'm talking about the dawn of power literacy and 'The Blindspot' from @eyebooks.bsky.social on Mon 3 Aug. Thanks to Pints of Knowledge for hosting at Effra Social in Brixton. www.tickettailor.com/events/pints... #humanchess

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 29/07/2026

Treat yourself to some hope! When some older men die off, some of their ideas about power need to die with them. Looking forward to talking about the dawn of power literacy for Pints of Knowledge on Mon 3 Aug at the great Brixton venue Effra Social. www.tickettailor.com/events/pints... #humanchess

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 20/07/2026

@andyburnham.bsky.social Preparing young people honestly, in a power-literate way, for the real world of work would be a national circuit-breaker - tackling disengagement, #metoo abuse, poor productivity and weak decision-making. www.eye-books.com/products/the-blindspot @eyebooks.bsky.social

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 15/07/2026

Church is in progress - ie 8pm till 9.45/10.15pm tonight - here am I in a pub with fabulous beers, great playlist, brilliant staff, 5 mins walk from London Bridge. Observing the faces of people (mainly guys) peering in the doorway, trying to find a pub for the night, has been priceless!

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 14/07/2026

The sting in the tail re @theguardian.com: not just a retired @BBC Today presenter but a white male, firing antique Establishment gunshot at presenters some of whom are female and/or not white. A Make Patriarchy Great Again pentafecta. www.simoncaulkin.co.uk/2026/07/13/t...

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The low blow that felled the High Pay Centre

The closure of the UK’s High Pay Centre is more sinister than it looks. Not just a hard luck tale, it reflects very British meekness in the face of Trump’s anti-woke business agenda.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 08/07/2026

Not just Binface / Farage ... 'The Blindspot' from @eyebooks.bsky.social analyses #power as #humanchess. It says the first power-literate generation is coming and joins up the Death Star canteen sketch, the Post Office Horizon scandal and @bellingcat.com. #lifeskills #hope

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 05/07/2026

1/7 Some writing experts swear by daily discipline combining routine with variety. I hope different pubs count - this is me with 15 years' writing output last Thursday in the legendary Brunel in Rotherhithe (SE London: Mayflower country to Americans). Let's take a walk ... @eyebooks.bsky.social

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 03/07/2026

There were 2 questions about structural privilege, power and ubuntu which we couldn't get to at Wednesday's launch of 'The Blindspot'. Here are our responses at humanchess.info/resources.html And clickable versions of all the references in the dead-tree book ... #humanchess #power #SkyBooks

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 27/06/2026

1/5 My book 'The Blindspot' which @eyebooks.bsky.social publishes this Wednesday develop 'human chess' as an idea to include as many as possible in a conversation about power which isn't dumbed down. This requires respecting scholarship's expert contribution to knowledge. #power #humanchess #hope

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 14/06/2026

Time travel lands us aboard a ship which bears some resemblance to the Titanic. The night is dark, windy and touched with ice. But in the C-suite the loudspeaker crackles, one of the Big 4 Entertainers picks up the microphone and reassurance is at hand. www.linkedin.com/posts/turn-t...

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 12/06/2026

Until Fri 19 Jun preorder and get a signed copy from @eyebooks.bsky.social. Treat yourself to some hope: discover why tomorrow's 17 year olds (yes, all of them) will understand more about power than today's elite leaders. www.eye-books.com/products/the-blindspot #power #hope #lifeskills

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 10/06/2026

A question so easy it may come from one of those cognitive functioning tests which Agent Orange aces on Tuesday afternoons - if you can tear down a country's liberty, why not a statue? newrepublic.com/article/2115... via @newrepublic.com

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Can Trump Really Tear Down the Statue of Liberty? His Lawyers Say Yes.

An administration lawyer made this shocking and cynical argument in court last week. That’s the position of an emperor, not a president.

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📘 The Blindspot by Douglas Board and Martin Henwood is coming in July 2026. Available to pre-order now. @boardwryter.uk www.eye-books.com/products/the...

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Who has more power: The person who gives you permission? Or the person who can punish you for using it? The Blindspot asks us to look again at where power really lives.

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Power isn't always the person who signs your payslip. Sometimes it's the people who can make your life impossible if you don't do what they want.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 29/05/2026

Out 1 July: why tomorrow's seventeen year olds will understand more about power than today's elite leaders. This is the dust jacket front cover and flap. Martin and I will sign all pre-orders up to Fri 19 Jun from eye-books.com/products/the-blindspot #humanchess #power #hope #lifeskills

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 26/05/2026

In preceding posts I've sketched about 85% of the content of the book on power which I have coming out on 1 July. It explains why tomorrow's seventeen year olds will understand more about power than today's elite leaders. For dessert (more) ... #power #humanchess #lifeskills #hope

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 22/05/2026

My 1 July book says something new and hopeful about power: tomorrow's seventeen year olds will understand more about it than today's leaders. This journey unfolds from the book's reasoned analysis of knowledge about power. In the picture's terms we stay focused ... #humanchess #power #lifeskills

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 19/05/2026

This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 19/05/2026

(1/3) My 1 July book on power is written with priest Martin Henwood (pic). Its backbone: 60+ true incidents, 40+ from our personal and professional lives - some on the public record, such as Susan Fowler's whistleblowing at Uber and the British PO Horizon scandal. #humanchess #power #lifeskills

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 18/05/2026

www.linkedin.com/posts/emmast... Leadership isn't a piece of cake. We need leaders who not only pass the coffee test but another one: what's the biggest success someone who works for you has had by trusting their gut or analysis against your advice? That's your size as a leader of leaders.

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Leadership revealed in how you treat others | Emma Stanton posted on the topic | LinkedIn

I always watch what someone does with the waitress. Not in a creepy way. In a diagnostic way. When I meet a senior leader for the first time, I'll suggest a coffee. And within five minutes I'll know...

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 16/05/2026

What kind of book should one write for a world on fire? I've done farce, satire and de-constructing elites, with two academic books before those. Looking back, only my first novel (MBA) was big enough to offer a glimmer of hope (fictional of course). On 1 July [continues ...] #humanchess

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 13/05/2026

I've been quiet for a while, but over the next 4 weeks will start laying out why I'm excited to talk about launching a book on power in London on 1 July. In the meantime I don't repost any old s--t against Agent Orange, much as I hate him. But this: www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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DC insider reveals what he just heard about the plot to oust Trump

I had dinner recently with a group of political operatives — sophisticated people who for years have been advising politicians and candidates. During dinner they shared with me their fantasy, which th...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"The disrespect shown by Trump was so embarrassing that Fox News attempted to gloss over the incident by airing footage of a previous dignified transfer during their coverage of yesterday’s dignified transfer."

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This Isn't About Politics or You or Me

This shouldn't be difficult.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 04/03/2026

Last four days of my Jo'burg summer, here at a cafe/bar in the city centre.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 18/02/2026

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?" Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 16/02/2026

Restore vs Reform. Thank you God. Thank you Musk. Never previously thought those sentences could follow each other, but we live in f---ing stupid times.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 13/02/2026

To be fair, it was her security blanket; and since she allegedly shares it with DHS #2 Lewandowski, who did the firing, it may have had some stains on it.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 11/02/2026

The upside here is a Brit (resident in Monaco) realises that colonisers drain resources. Brit elites have denied that for decades. So, born in Hong Kong that was a British colony for 150 years, I'm thinking ... OK Jim, come back in 150 years and tell me about it. news.sky.com/story/the-uk...

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'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 10/02/2026

A small British contribution: how to self-identify as a king. You add R to your name, short for 'rex', as in Charles R. Earlier in his life he was Charles P ('princeps', you got the idea). But Rx, you know, it works. #trumprx

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 09/02/2026

You have to wonder how that 14% compares with the White House, or ICE.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 07/02/2026

This is just superb, from @hartmannreport.com In Britain we have (maybe for a little while longer) the weekly pub quiz. Let's save Western democracy and the rule of law with a pub quiz question: how many Nixon underlings went to prison for Watergate? 40. www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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History shows Trump’s enablers are in for a mighty reckoning

Dear Trump Administration Official,I’m writing to you not as a political opponent, but as a historian who’s spent a lifetime studying what happens when democracies flirt with strongmen and otherwise d...

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Damn i remember some big lawsuits of broadcasters over editing of events showing WH figures

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 29/01/2026

"When it comes to immigration detention hearings in Minnesota federal courts ... of the 61 that came before judges last week, the Department of Justice and immigration enforcement lost all but one" As for anyone without legal representation .... www.rawstory.com/ice-26750577...

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 29/01/2026

If you're a Brit old enough to remember John Major's old maids bicycling in the morning mist, this has two big differences - @eddavey.libdems.org.uk actually does all the things he talks about, and what's happening in the US and other near-autocracies right now was unimaginable in 1993.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 28/01/2026

@gtconway.bsky.social We need not just to believe in afterwards, but to start building a national courthouse and detention complex for deNazification trials. In Minnesota, by public subscription. Sadly, far too many individuals it could be named after. Get it ready before the ballroom.

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 27/01/2026

This takes me straight to a poem which has never been far from my mind ever since someone sent it my way during covid. For anyone, especially but not only, in the US who is feeling the future 'dissolve in a moment' and who has woken up with sorrow.

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