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David Knopfler

@davidknopfler.bsky.social
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Singer songwriter and founder member of Dire Straits.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
George Cottrell through his lawyer at Carter Ruck - the same lawyer who also acts for Nigel Farage - flatly denies the claim & any relationship with Abramovich’s son. Three separate sources say otherwise & @bylinetimes.bsky.social has another.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
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Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich
Source reveals convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked as a young man for the now-sanctioned oligarch after becoming friends with his son. Report by Carole Cadwalladr
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Meanwhile in an alt [right] reality
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Last push petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
So they are going to investigate foreign interference but are excluding the most important evidence - a central smoking gun - the referendum
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Must have been something I said about the founding chair of GB News
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Institutional MAGA Racism
The far-right “Great Replacement Theory” is a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts white populations in Western nations are being deliberately and systematically replaced by no...
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The lone and level sands…
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A sea anemone has a reach of up to one centimetre an hour - which is considerably more than Elon Musk’s X grants to me if I post on X … just pointless
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
9,342 - that’s how many times you could wrap dollar bills round the world to match how much money Donald Trump cost shareholders and their associated pension plans with his tariffs announcement.
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Another must read from the ever excellent Carole Cadwalladr open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Introducing #InstaFacism
The new axis of edgelord strongmen & how to WhatsApp a Russian spy
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Sale of X and professional conflicts
Elon Musk’s “sale” of X (formally Twitter and his own company) to xAI (also his company) in conjunction with his oversight role at the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( with his DOGE apparatchik...
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If a company with say 140K employees and some powerful links to defence contracts faced a 30% stock drop, what tools might the Fed theoretically use to stabilize it?
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Who stands to gain from crippling the UK? Was a bad actor responsible for the substation fire that has closed Heathrow - and probably for days? Where are the triple redundancies for an event like this? BIG lessons will need to be learned!
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Political Sadism and Defying the Power of Cruelty www.commondreams.org/opinion/defy...
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Political Sadism and Defying the Power of Cruelty | Common Dreams
It’s easy to be an asshole, especially under duress, while compassion takes practice and intention. If we recognize our own capacity to be cruel, we can opt to counter it or at least refuse to nourish...
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Has Peter Mandelson, our ambassador to the US divested from Global Council yet, as he said he would? Is this a professional conflict of interest or just real Politik? Or as I suspect - a bit of both?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
And as Jeff Bezos, owner of the blushing Washington Post, announces that they are, from here on in, going to sidestep politics in their editorials, the irony of their slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is clanging like the bells of the Notre-Dame
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Are you now or have you ever been a non-supporter of MAGA? Musk’s new digital McCarthyism inquiry, where non-compliance gets you blacklisted
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Make it stop H Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: Donald Trump “looks forward to watching the game tonight — and we look forward to the United States beating our soon-to-be 51st state, Canada."
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Pres Trump: ‘I think Europe has given $100bn [to Ukraine] and we’ve given, let’s say, $300bn plus.’ The most reliable figures show the EU has given $138bn to Ukraine, while the US has given $114bn. In 2024 Europe and Canada provided nearly 60% of NATO’s security aid to Ukraine.
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Even Grok doesn’t support Trump’s obvious lies: “The war in Ukraine was started by Russia when it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. This invasion is widely recognized internationally as an act of aggression by Russia against a sovereign nation.”
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
For avoidance of any doubt regarding the Paris meeting Monday
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Emergysse What if all the six tech leaders were standing on Trump’s podium because they were all nudged to do so by their respective AIs? Asking in response to an unconscious prompt.
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Trump announces on his own pet social media channel that he was honoured to be unanimously elected as chairman of the Kennedy Centre. What he doesn’t mention is that he purged all 18 democrat board members to achieve this. That’s one way to win an election. The supine failures of anyone and everyone playing along with Trump will be honoured by history with the same respect accorded to the Vichy Government of wartime France.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
How utterly dysfunctional that in Trump’s Oval Office there isn’t an aide capable of addressing a poor little boy’s urgent need to pee. He tried telling both the primary adults there, his Dad and the President - and neither of them knew how to handle it or even seemed to care
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Which AI would you most trust?
Here is some mad, North North Westerly, whimsy, as you might say, if offering AI a prompt: All the different AI’s seem to have different personalities:
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
What is the official webpage for the Dept of Government Efficiency? I can only get either a page that seems like an official page but is a front for crypto and another where it says I am blocked - doge.gov - any idea what’s going on?
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It will be an infuriating exercise in hearing Labour and conservative gaslight but at least Green, SNP and LD will have an opportunity to counter their gross misleading of Parliament with a few facts
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's over 100,000! That means a debate in Parliament. Let's keep it rolling.
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Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Anyone else finding the idea of the world’s richest man using his muscle and legalised bribes to the Trump campaign, to illegally prevent the poorest in America getting money they are legally entitled to by acts of congress, utterly unpalatable
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Have Musk’s six musketeers been arrested yet?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/02/2025
The world’s richest man who no one elected just walked into the US Treasury, stole your Social Security number, and Trump let him. You deserve to know why this is happening - call your member of Congress and Senators (202) 224-3121 and ask why.
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
With the FBI neutered - which US organisations can still look at domestic wreckers and investigate them in a fireproof way that unelected billionaires can’t f**k with?
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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AI data Manipulation and Associated Risks
My chat today with AI (named as NR in this instance)
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 02/02/2025
“Journalists have spent months agonising over how not to normalise Trump. I have a variation on this theme: Please do not normalise Rupert Murdoch,” writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...
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The lies and smears from Murdoch’s news empire cannot be ignored
Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please ...
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
You know what to do
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If I were adept at creating a cartoon I’d be celebrating the fifth anniversary of Brexit with an image of Boris Johnson in Union Jack shorts repeatedly punching himself in the face while chanting all his ridiculous slogans while the EU looked on shaking its head in pity
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Heathrow needs four runways not three - but a moratorium on more flights - it would clean up the London skies from planes stacking
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
With the terrible tragedy over the skies of D.C., it’s time to prioritize safety. Trump must end the hiring freeze on air traffic controllers and restore the aviation safety advisory committee he dismantled on Jan 22.
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