Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026just when you thought it couldn’t get worse 43567187 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialIan Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's a mutually-beneficial arrangement for both Putin and Trump. Putin will blame Ukraine for his failure to supply the fuel and Trump will blame Ukraine for the failure for prices to fall and any mid-term disaster. It's a cynical ploy designed to squeeze Ukraine. 17017 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialEllie Reeves @elliereeves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026As Attorney General, we stand firmly behind the International Criminal Court and its vital work in holding perpetrators of international crimes to account. I disagree with the sanctions on the Court. I will continue to protect international law and defend its independence. 16926 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For the record. This really should be the end of his career. 6777 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 26/09/2026For UK politics, the English language is a curse as it lets our politicos obsess over American politics. As such, the US looms large, despite its alien political system and culture. After the UK lurched towards multiparty politics, Labour strategists looked to a country with only two parties. 3274 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When someone else expresses your worldview better than you can 14711 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialBrandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A lot of people in the mainstream media without infosec chops have helped sensationalize these escapes. Other infosec people have pointed out their experimental designs were flawed. Here we learn that they had reports they chose to ignore. 063 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2026And Now for Something Completely Different: A perspective on AI swarms from someone who actually knows something about collective behavior. 520050 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23733091337 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving? 5253372722 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So what is it, in your opinion (and wouldn’t it make sense to discuss that with Eryk, seeing he’s offering) ? 110 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Have to say I’m also getting curious as to whether you’re interested in a good-faith conversation with Eryk on this subject. I‘ e been trying to get there with my previous reply (which, as I’m new to the reply guy thing, I deleted twice because I can’t spell Marcus Hutchins) bsky.app/profile/brin... 010 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 18/09/2026PS And I think in this context your attacks on bsky.app/profile/eryk... are quite misguided. What he’s saying is a) obvious to cyber security experts when it comes to the Hugging Face thing, and b) much more nuanced than "It's not THAT bad, nothing ever happens, calm down"bsky.app 010 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 18/09/2026These people know what they’re talking about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran_... TL/DR: It’s not about being alarmist or not. It’s about a certain kind of alarmism (e.g. AGI is coming for us !) distracting from what’s really alarming.en.wikipedia.orgMarcus Hutchins - Wikipedia 100 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I realise that the discourse here tends to only allow for two sides of any given story, but I would urge you to check out this 14min video by cyber security expert Marcus Hutchins (Ciaran Martin who posted it established the National Cyber Security Centre at the UK’s GCHQ). bsky.app/profile/ciar... 230 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026"the public needs to have a stake" taxpayer dollars are so clearly the direction of travel here 1616752 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’ve only come across Cal Newport recently and like how he deconstructs the hype for non-techies like me, while techie friends tell me he’s legit. So genuine question: are you just making a general comment about blokes to camera, or are you criticising Cal Newport for anything in particular ? 000 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🤷 www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 34016 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAndrew Adams @andrewadams99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Labour has already reacted to the C4 News story about Reform's corruption, so it's not like the media team are asleep. Yet still no response to the vile racism directed at one of its council leaders by a senior Reform figure. It's almost like, as in Starmer's time, they don't care much about racism. 044 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Looks like the truthy bit has been around for a while and this might be it’s inventor 000 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If imperialism is driven by oligarchic power, then oligarchic power must be confronted. “Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires.” bsky.app/profile/annp... 35925 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialtimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Sooner or later, what your state system walks past without stopping, still less enables, is the reality of your state system, because a system is what it does. Those to whom that is done unchecked may have a far more acute perception of those realities than those convinced it’s an aberration. 0253 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026🤷 77814 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I don't believe Byline Times' extensive reporting on Cambridge academic - and Reform policy chief - James Orr has received a single piece of pick-up by other outlets 18789317 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 16/08/2026it's odd to me that the resistance to all this seems to be a one-man operation, and that one man is Sunder, but I thank him for his service. I just don't get how all this is allowed to fester, it's not like we can't guess the consequences 10547143 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Not only do I think he's lying that police advised him not to attend on safety grounds, I think it's a lie he used before back in 2016. He 'cancelled' a march on safety grounds but my FOI request to the Met showed this was a lie. 1921297 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Everyone’s got the wrong end of the stick on this being about humans, when it’s clearly about adult TOILETS *finally* being granted the right to challenge the gender they were assigned at birth. 052 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Everyone’s got the wrong end of the stick on this being about humans, when it’s clearly about adult TOILETS *finally* being granted the right to challenge the gender they were assigned at birth. 010 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/07/2026You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story 291091451 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialDan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Can I add one word: algorithmic Algorithmic platforms are publishers 2252 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialNick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Free publicity 33217 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026There really is a culture war underway (a front in a wider war). One side wants an internationally backed coup to repurpose the UK state for post-democracy. The other - most people - wants to rebuild & needs someone to lead them in opposing the others. Do that & you begin to win legitimacy (4/4). 1214 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAmy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com · 29/05/2026@rachel-rees.bsky.social interesting that this has gained traction here but the same post has only 38 views on X 👀 521721 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Sir Keir Starmer’s team was kept in the loop about Labour Together’s “indefensible” investigation into the background of journalists who had written critical pieces about the loyalist think-tank, according to newly released documents www.ft.com/content/9c56...ft.comKeir Starmer’s team was updated on think-tank’s investigation into journalistsPM’s former chief of staff among aides who received updates on probe in run-up to 2024 general election 1614474 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialNathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 14/05/2026And the new leadership rules are an overcorrection, in that they have incentivised the coalescing of a factionalised soft left/middle and thereby denied the liberal revisionist bit of the right an opening. 071 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialAlan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This really is astonishing stuff. And it's quite the irony that it's being accelerated by the climate change denying Donald Trump inadvertently implementing the biggest carbon pricing programme in the history of humanity. 813947 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialKenny Mathieson @kennymathieson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...bbc.co.ukStarmer: If you don't like Labour changes leaveLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said Labour has changed permanently under his leadership. 142 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 16/04/2026To be clear, I’m not saying the investigative work isn’t legit, but I don’t think this kind of tendentious reporting of it is. 000 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 16/04/2026And if you actually check the 2023 data for ALL such claims, i.e. including all the genuine cases, you’ll find that “in the UK 1,377 claims included sexual orientation as part of the basis for the claim (LGB asylum applications).” www.gov.uk/government/s...gov.ukAsylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation 2023 100 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Quote from much further down the same BBC article: “In 2023, the most recent year for which data is available, there were initial decisions on 3,430 LGBT asylum claims, and nearly 1,400 new asylum claims lodged on the basis of sexual orientation.” 100 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 16/04/2026BBC Quote: “The UK's asylum process offers protection to people who can't return to their home countries because they would be in danger, for example in countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh where gay sex is illegal. … This group now makes up 35% of all asylum claims, which topped 100,000 in 2025.” 100 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Then much further down the article we get closer to the real figure (which is that total claims based on sexual orientation in 2023, i.e including all the legit claims: 1,377) - but the article still muddles this in by adding initial decisions to the (rounded up) new claims figure for 2023. 100 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Agree and I think you’re being v. generous calling this legit reporting. Take the “migrants pose as gay” story that was top of the news yesterday. The very long article starts by leading readers to believe that there were over 35,000 claims in ‘this group’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukLegal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation findsThe BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system. 100 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-… 251301047140 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e... 34977033492 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialWill 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Believing insane things about Israel goes back decades for these people. As does lying 5258 0
brinkmanship.bsky.social @brinkmanship.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Whether or not inspired by auto-correct, this is genius ! > Blindes Huhn findet auch mal’n Koran < So apt in all manner of contexts (e.g. geriatric Islamophobia, teenage mutant Hamas fandom, etc.) Thanks 010 0
Reposted by @brinkmanship.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 23/03/2026This article getting a lot of attn for the (insane) goalpost-twisting, but it also implies that the *Israelis* did not really think through the Hormuz contingency? Can that be right? 2524041 0
