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David Kernohan

@davidkernohan.bsky.social
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Ex Whitehall Policy Manager

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I have nothing against cyclists. I just don’t think it’s OK for some to decide rules are for other people. And I find it baffling that so many cyclists who purport to be law-abiding want to make that argument." Now recorded for posterity in the New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...
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A lesson in empathy from arguing with cyclists on the internet
The logic seems to be that because some drivers don’t care about their safety, they shouldn’t care about anyone else’s
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really bad habit amongst my fellow people who cycle is to attempt to play down the misdeeds of other people cycling - Yes people in cars jumping red lights is potentially worse. No that does not excuse this behaviour
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This will be why Batshit Dorries was all over the media this morning with conspiracy theories about stings and the establishment trying to take down Nigel - Cretins
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Terrifyingly plausible - "We Haven't Done the Reading" with Zack and Kemi
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Raibeart Brus @raibeartbrus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It’s easy to look comfortable when you have Tielemans and De Bruyne beside you! 😜 …and, oh dear, Iran just scored! 😂
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The scale of Green and Lib Dem tactical voting here very encouraging for the next Genny Lec
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The limits of a UK political system that has refused for ten years to make hard decisions are reached. There are no easy answers. There is no magic money / growth tree. Leaders are going to have to make choices.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.
“A grieving family have asked us not to respond in the way that the leader of Reform has responded. They've asked us not to. They have lost their son in the most appalling circumstance. They make a simple plea of us as human beings to please not exploit that. That is their plea to us. 
“We all need to reflect on those words of Henry's father. My response, and the response of others to be fair, has been focused on the lessons to be learned so we can deliver justice. “His response has been to appeal for rage – rage. That's his response to a father who has lost his son and asked for that not to happen.
“Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don't is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”
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Doctor Why @doc-why.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Dan Neil is a good age at 24. He was club captain in their championship year, so potential leadership in the dressing room alongside Shankkand. Free transfer, so a risk that I'd be willing to take.
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Raibeart Brus @raibeartbrus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I would hope we’ve maybe learnt our lesson about picking up out of form, haven’t done anything, can’t be arsed players! 😜 That’s a ‘No’ from me then! 😁 #PlayFindlay
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The level of confidence that people seem to have in Burnham winning in Makerfield is giving me very 2016 vibes if you know what I mean
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Should read "UK economy continues to bump along the bottom after 20 years of stagnation - Levels of change basically unmeasurable/statistically insignificant"
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
god I'd love to have been a fly on the wall of that meeting between Starmer and Streeting! (because as a fly my life expectancy would be less than a month and the sweet release of death would save me from hearing more about this tedious fucking Labour political drama)
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Is this good?
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
They should be confronted with their defeat and humiliation at every opportunity and removed from power and prosecuted for war crimes and corruption at the earliest opportunity
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We’ve passed through the Back to the Future universe and have entered the Robocop universe
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Proof that the concept of the April Fools gag died along with the concept of objective truth in 2016
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Stop saying "vibe coding", please for the love of God
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy yard
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy yard
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Someone needs to add the Curb outro music to this ASAP
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The ‘we need to rethink our approach to the North Sea’ is dumbest conversation in UK politics Expensive to extract- much of it now owned by small producers - that goes into global market Good to jobs in Aberdeen, not much else *mad* we’re not talking about energy security + renewables every day
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Ed Whiting @edwhiting209.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I think about this quote from All The Presidents Men constantly- “The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand”.
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Check his hard drive
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Has anyone asked Macron about his sunglasses or are we all just going to ignore that?
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.
The Independent: Former London Zoo meerkat expert fined for glassing monkey-handler in row over llama-keeper.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Item 1 A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc.....Approved! Item 2 A bike lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg...Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Does anyone know if Richard Hughes is still in post as head of the OBR?
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Whoopsie 😑
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Napoleon complex and male pattern baldness is going to destroy liberal democracy
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A Potemkin State visit
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A vacancy opens for someone without a job who has things in common with Donald Trump.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/09/2025
You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
He’s finished (again)
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Sounds like Rayner's resigned.
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Does the madman theory of diplomacy still work when everyone knows the main protagonist is definitely 110% mad?
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Once again, not important in the grand scheme of things, but astonished how shit the graphics are on the US House feed
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Does Sir Beer Korma know how to get results or WHAT?
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I understand why it's like this, but I will never forgive the web for shifting to a form where the two paragraphs of information I need only exist as a ten-minute video.
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Lots of navel gazing amongst the commentariat following the locals - The fundamentals haven’t changed: If Labour can’t reverse our economic decline they’ll be a one term Government. Everything else is noise.
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
IT'S. ONLY. BEEN. 100. DAYS
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I appreciate some people will be sad about this - But really how can you possibly need more than 20 episodes of a podcast about heat pumps? bsky.app/profile/evan...
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We need more people on the political side of policy making to absorb the lesson: "Complexity is inherent"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This will appear in a few future history books as the perfect metaphor for current events....
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Buy American? Fellas, your MAGA hats are made in China"
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Absolutely absurd that we are still dishing out honours from the Rishi Sunak era - The whole rotten system needs upending
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@lonelyjoeparker.bsky.social 10 years ago according to FB - Feels longer somehow 😆
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David Kernohan @davidkernohan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Atlantic should have leaked a false story about it being Biden that shared air strike details with a journo and then pulled the old switcheroo once the MAGA twats had gotten all worked up about it - As it is the story is already fizzling out 😑
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