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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The English political right - whether it's Badenoch or Farridge at its head - is now nothing more than a Europhobic death cult whose only goal is to turn the UK into a client state of MAGA America. bsky.app/profile/13sa...

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Reform & Tory people" won't hear anything Labour says because if they're attracted by the current messaging of those two there's nothing Labour can say which will remotely appeal whilst trying to actually do some good.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The ".... cut your pension " claim would be a lie of course and an easily demonstrable one to floating voters at that. The people who determinedly believe it would never have voted Labour in any case one suspects.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@wallaceme.bsky.social Interesting article. Occurs to me that the cohort you describe would have been formatively reared during the 1979-97 era of government by parents who elected those successive Tory government promoting notions of individualism and acquisitiveness - transactional values indeed.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Have you tried the Readly app? RT is one among many publications available.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Think maybe things accelerated coincidental to the purge of the Tory moderates, maybe reflecting shifts of the Overton window. Or maybe influencing that shift.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The logical fallacy count is certainly much higher now than it once was.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Maybe so but over the 25+ years I've been reading it the editorials were regularly disagreeable and indeed at odds with much of the wider commentary. Nowadays its all much more of a piece. They seemed to have a clearout maybe 4 or 5 years ago when Philip Collins, for example, dispensed with.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well that was lost on this left leaning long term subscriber who read it precisely because it provided a range of views. If it weren't for Atherton writings on cricket and Carol Midgely I'd honestly never read it again.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Agreed, the Times deteriorated about 3 or 4 years ago. Whikst the editorials leaned to the right, a lot of the commentary brought balance. Now they mostly seem to be like Samuels or Melanie Phillips, vile.

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When a party is led by the avaricious, duplicitous and egotistical Nigel Farage and sees Trump's venal kakistocracy as its inspiration, people should not be surprised if it turns out to be a cesspit of sleaze.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The greatest strategic error he made was getting elected as an MP Loads of rules, scrutiny, duties, obligations etc without any real power. I didn't think he'd be able to stick it so if there's a recall I expect he'll duck out. Or advised on health grounds.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is this one of the polls Reform bought?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Quite, but a resounding defeat for the Tories & Reform will aid Labour.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First day of term and immediately the politicos are making up for a summer deficiency of drama stirring. My guess is this is probably a mutually agreed timing, Labour will hold the seat well and gets it done well ahead of GE. Also potentially deflating result for new Tory mayoral candidate Cleverly.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The irony of a pro EU piece illustrated with a JCB machine produced by a firm owned by a prominent Brexiteer ....

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Its a little bit surprising that somebody with Tim Martin's political leanings is introducing rules, welcome as they may be. Still won't persuade me to return to a Wetherspoon anytime soon though.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Does that mean trying to reach the unaware/don't care is pointless? There's a broader question of how to restrict availability of products which may pose a danger in the wrong hands or at the wrong time. If we accept a minority of unaware/don't care exists some other greater intervention is needed.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You underestimate the witless minority to whom the bleedin' obvious is a complete stranger. Obviously the other side is that the morons will be triggered by the alert into doing something moronic. But there's no enforcement capacity anyway so don't worry about the nanny state intervening too much 😞.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Totally agree that for urban use an SUV is totally inappropriate, there are other vehicles which can seat 5 -7 people without being like a tank. As an aside, a lot more people have camper vans/minibus type vehicles as their daily driver. A reflection of increased recreation time involving vehicles?

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Brazier seems like a guy who opted for Betamax.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Once upon a time local authority Trading Standards services were well enough resourced to look into matters such as this and take action as necessary. I recall a major sportswear manufacturer using the union jack liberally on their products which had actually been manufactured in the far east.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

But going against the USA isn't the primary factor when establishing a UK position. It might be the result but the PM has to consider may things. As I said there are really no good choices in this situation.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

USA isn't the world, I've no problem with goung against them. My point is if Burnham adopted the line you suggest publicly, what would be the benefit to the UK as a result Equally so if he took a pro Israel stance, what would be the consequences? No good choices, politically.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yes I can see that. On Gaza, I don't think there is a "safe" statement he can make, just as there wasn't for Starmer. By that I mean one which is in the best interests of the UK, politically.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Probably, Starmer was clearly less adept than Burnham on a surface level but I suspect we will find out in due course Starmer has far greater depth than Burnham.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As with most things forseeable harms and consequences are not regulated until the genie is out of the bottle. See vapes, escooters as examples where Government declined to get ahead of the curve so as not to stifle innovation despite there being some fairly obvious downsides that have come to pass.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You'd need the opposite of London salary weighting to reduce the house tax ie lower rate for London.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Apparently somebody drove past Farage with XTC's "Making Plans for Nigel" audible from the vehicle so they've been reported too.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Same, eventually qualified for CHC but the application process was horrendously obstructive. Another relative twice told didn't qualify for CHC despite that level of dependency.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Totally agree, they've turned politics into some kind of reality TV event and are hooked on the prominence the drama gives them. Self importantly trying to create the news instead of report it maturely and objectively without hyperbole.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

and is part of the Parliamentary constituency which includes areas of both Lancashire and Westmorland.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

From cheering the arrival of Burnham as better to questioning his judgement and motives didn't take long.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chagos with Ed Milliband! [Am I doing this right?]

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You deserved better Mr Jones, hope to see you rise again very soon.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Or we could just wait and review the 100 days ....

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ah, but you don't have column inches to fill with insight and analysis ....

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Incredible to say with a straight face "the long established aristocratic elite are right behind us and funding our fight against......the establishment."

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Truly an end of the pier show.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Mason just thrives on having political drama to speak about because his job should be reporting the mundane world that politics used to be, in the main. Post Brexit crises have made all the politicos ever hungrier for drama so they can offer hot takes instead of factual reporting.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Its Count Binface vs C**** Binjuice

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Farage is like and under pressure football manager talking up a friendly game against low league opposition as some sort of worthy test to validate his position. A win won't change anything.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Given the BBC have a largely sensible set of guidelines on the use of quant polling in news stories, including a ban on a poll being a story in itself, it's always so baffling they have next-to-no similar rules on what is ultimately rudimentary qual polling. It's an insane double-standard.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dominic Lawson recently recounted finding similar during an encounter.

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Danny Maxim @dannymaxim.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Krishnan Guru-Murthy posited but I've seen others speculating similarly.

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