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Andrew Connelly

@connellyandrew.bsky.social
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Writer. Broadcaster. Shouter into the abyss. Presenter of Fortress Europe: tracking the EU’s violent borders open.spotify.com/show/3uh4hHdjFLxRo…

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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 01/10/2026
On rejoining the EU Support: 55% Oppose: 34% ... but on the conditions of single currency and Schengen membership Support: 35% Oppose: 43% via YouGov, Jun 2026 britainelects.substack.com/p/is-rejoin-...
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Is Rejoin happening anytime soon?
Ten years on from the EU referendum
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
jco deserves the nobel prize in literature for her tweets and every single last one of you knows it
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This will create opportunities for smuggling rackets to open new ventures from Kigali.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mad tale this one. www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...
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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Notification on the StenaLine ferry Holyhead-Dublin. So long, Common Travel Area.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The BBC will close every foreign news bureau rather than stop commissioning identikit chuntering podcasts.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They should bring back clickety-clack departures boards at airports and train stations.
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Overnight, a small ICE Air jet (max 16-18 passengers) landed in Yangon, Myanmar, marking the fourth deportation flight to the country. The flight originated in Mesa, Arizona, with the journey lasting approximately 24 hours.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For years migrants arrived on small boats expecting to be apprehended and intending to claim asylum. The increase in arrival of undetected crossings is a direct result of the hostile environment. Government policy is dissuading migrants from presenting to authorities.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes I think Chris Mason never wanted the political editor job, and each day performs this anti-writing as a protest.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Home Secretary has left the country undefended against mob rule.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Violent thugs are endangering the lives of rescue workers at sea, to create monetised content, and the government remains paralysed in case they may appear to be on the side of migrants.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Notification on the StenaLine ferry Holyhead-Dublin. So long, Common Travel Area.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Nazis bad. Liberals worse. I am very smart.” Matthew Syed. Trenchant commentator, thought leader, former table tennis player.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Grand Burstin Hotel fire in Folkestone is connected to anti-immigration extremism. In which case we have turned a very dark new chapter.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I simply don’t grasp the desire to compromise one iota with people like this. They have no desire to compromise with us, or with their clueless enablers and fellow travellers. They will not be merciful or understanding if they win. Every inch we give is a victory for them. Enough already, now.
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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When does a 'small boat' become a 'mega dinghy'? Now the nation cowers in fear awaiting the emergence of the 'ultra dinghy'.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This message would have more weight if it came with any acknowledgment of Labour’s role in fuelling anti-asylum seeker hysteria.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the ENTIRE refugee/boat people problem in the UK.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The UK does not allow people to apply for asylum outside of the country. You must be physically here. No serious attempt has been made to change this. Successive governments have just waited for people to show up chaotically, rather than design a fair system, and howled at the consequences.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform in Wales having quite a bad day. Announced in the last 5 mins: • Leader Dan Thomas steps down due to "personal reasons" (he was arrested). • Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd defects to Plaid, saying Reform are "far more interested in division, opposition and headlines than finding solutions"
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72m still doesn’t buy you good candidates, or policies.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 09/09/2026
Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house
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Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house
Evacuation orders were issued for 31 Malibu homes due to a massive and expanding sinkhole in the driveway of Nicolas Cage's property.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The boat brought to Portsmouth departed from Cherbourg due to increased fortification of the Calais-Dover route. Just as the small boats route emerged after fortification of French ports. There is still no way for people to lodge asylum claims outside of the UK, so this will continue.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s but a few hours since Trump lied about being evacuated from Ground Zero on 9/11 by firefighters but the scandal, which would have engulfed anyone else, has probably already sunk into the mist.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Equatorial Guinea police pull guns on migrants deported by Trump, witnesses say reut.rs/46emqVO
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EXCLUSIVE: Equatorial Guinea police pull guns on migrants deported by Trump, witnesses say
Police in Equatorial Guinea pulled firearms on migrants deported there from the United States, according to three witnesses and video ​footage shared with Reuters, intensifying concerns about the treatment and safety of people sent to the Central African nation under a U.S. deportation programme.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/09/2026
#BREAKING 12 countries including France, UK, Canada say to sanction trade with Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank
File photo shows an Israeli soldier on guard near the newly established Israeli settlement outpost in Beit Sahur, in the occupied West Bank, on August 14, 2026
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cops are very wary of intervening quickly if they do not enough have personnel, equipment, trained units and leadership to coordinate at hand. Same goes for why 12 gendarmes won't suddenly stop 100 - 200 people from jumping on a dinghy on a French beach Key issue is the intel failure beforehand
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
British fascists are attacking and doxxing the incredible volunteers of the RNLI. Donate now.
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yesterday #wato did an extensive soft interview with a Tommy Robinson supporter who “spontaneously” joined the Portsmouth mob and claimed everything was peaceful. The media are being played like a fiddle. www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Times is now doing ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts’
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The UK media’s near universal adoption of the absurd term ‘mega dinghy’ is symptomatic of the hysterical reporting around asylum that allows the far right to thrive.
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Curiously, the French translation of the Reform ‘agreement’ doesn’t say that France will take back small boat migrants intercepted in British waters.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If the Prime Minister can’t be bothered to comment on these wanton fascist mobs maybe someone could remind him how Manchester mobilised against blackshirts in 1934.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Matt Dathan, who reported this story, told Times Radio this morning: “I am surprised that it’s as low as 1% and it’s very hard for me to say whether that’s right…” But by all means let’s slap it on the front page regardless.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No arrests made in Portsmouth or Dover. Blackshirts egged on by an opposition party mired in corruption and given free rein to stalk the streets by the government.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If this was a Palestine demo they would already be bundled into police vans.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 04/09/2026
One thing that I love about the film is how it captures a very distinct social setting and milieu. Lunch at Rules. G&Ts at Mark’s. A champagne reception at Oswald’s. Pints in a Shepherd Neame’s pub in Westminster. Discussion of Black Velvets over oysters by the sea.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage will not be the next Prime Minister, Reform will not be the next government, these things were never going to happen outside of the media-driven fantasy that willed Farage into existence in the first place.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Looking forward to Matt Goodwin continuing to take on the New Elite.
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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The policy of treating the phenomenon of irregular movement as a solely criminal issue is precisely the same kind of politics as previous Labour and Tory governments and will generate the same results.
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