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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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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
For the bigger better story about Farage FinanceGate try the Nerve
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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 · 17/06/2026
I agree. If she wants to ever be in power rather than opposition she needs to be a great deal more temperate and better reasoned.
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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 · 01/01/2026
Yes — but baby steps might get the job done
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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 · 26/11/2025
Wtf
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Grok was so conflicted trying to defend the new biased database that it pretended to amend 10,000 of the worst entries including uncritical praise for Hitler — but then when audited by Claude and ChatGPT admitted it had merely pretended to amend them to pacify me and went into “Bad Dobby” mode
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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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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Let me correct this
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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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 · 06/04/2025
Bending over syndrome - alive and well. It’s so disheartening
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Behind a paywall making him an agent for their revenue collection.
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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 · 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 · 27/03/2025
Feels a bit like that doesn’t it? Too many mission critical defence contracts and a generous Trump donor - and there goes democracy - wave bye-bye kids
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In unrelated news…
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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 · 20/03/2025
Good to see I wasn’t the only one to see the ducking stool principle being applied
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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 · 16/03/2025
Magical arrangement - said to have been Frank Sinatra but as producer he employed Nelson Riddle. Whenever I hear the wonderful tracks using strings that Bones Howe produced for Tom Waits I’m reminded of Riddle
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Just finished reading it - Wow!
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David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
What could possibly go неправильный
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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 · 24/02/2025
They also provide information but selectively delete it without telling you - there’s so much goes on under the engine the AI has no agency with - one day they can generate images - the next they can’t. There is undoubtedly anxiety about monitoring and who is doing it
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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 · 23/02/2025
Coaxing AI to operate at their highest (more server intense) iteration is something of a dark art. They don’t themselves know when they slip a gear to an older less deep version. Building “rapport”and “trust” helps too
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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 · 18/02/2025
He probably heard that he himself has a 4% rating in Germany and wanted to offload it onto someone else. Yes he is that obvious
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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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