Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Will the AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt I've taken the paywall off the post I wrote last year about how memories of WW2 are being distorted by them and other radical right parties. "Never again?" samf.substack.com/p/never-agai...samf.substack.comNever again?Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order 10302117
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals. 391642616
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not. 642896902
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I do have real contempt for fellow Jews like Phillips and Wallis Simons who are quite happy to endorse the worst people in society until it's explicitly targeted at us. Both because it's hypocritical but also because it's so fucking stupid. You don't need to read many history books... 1746349
Reposted by Ed KiernanKent Current @kentcurrent.news · 10/08/2026Conservatives, Reform and Restore Britain are fighting a rural Dover by-election, featuring John Cleese, AI cliffs and a debate over counties on envelopes. Plus the rest of the week across the county.kentcurrent.newsThree versions of the right fight for the White CliffsPlus a £50,000 toilet saga, Greens and Reform against solar farms, a delayed Leas Lift and the battle over a Walmer sauna. 072
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A lot of the older members of the right-wing columinist set starting out on the left (the Living Marxism crew for starters, but plenty of other too - Peter Hitchens was a trot). I wonder if all the youngsters doing racism for the Telegraph will one day be radical leftists.... 2818218
Reposted by Ed KiernanEd Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Without passing judgement, I'll also note that not a single other outlet, local or national, has reported on the shambles around the anthem. 1112
Reposted by Ed KiernanEd Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I've read Private Eye since I was a teenager. Slightly giddy that someone there has been reading our work. 3307
Reposted by Ed KiernanKent Current @kentcurrent.news · 05/08/2026If you missed it at the time, here's the full story:kentcurrent.newsThe anthem, the loophole and the American subtitlesPlus missing KCC documents reappear, another Tunbridge Wells water failure, a £7m sewage fine and a fight over ancient woodland near Maidstone 072
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Chris Philp is the political equivalent of a stain on your carpet. Don't know how it got there; can't get rid of it; mostly forget about but when you notice it you get irritated all over again. 471006153
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026My post on Burnham's initial moves, changes to Number 10 and cabinet appointments. Being better at politics, and having a clear theory of power, is a start but only if it's service of an agenda that works. samf.substack.com/p/a-theory-o...samf.substack.comA theory of powerBurnham's cabinet choices and changes to No. 10 3636
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026One of Truss's worst legacies is to give the lobby an obsession with small moves in gilt prices. 1161099
Reposted by Ed KiernanEd Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 17/07/2026If you've woken up thinking 'I wish I could read 3,000 words on the process of local government reorganisation in Kent', then oh boy do I have the post for you. 084
Reposted by Ed KiernanKent Current @kentcurrent.news · 17/07/2026Every council in Kent and Medway is being abolished. In April 2028, four new authorities will take responsibility for bins, roads, planning, schools, social care, and more. That will affect who makes decisions about your area and how much council tax you pay. The map is settled. Little else is.kentcurrent.newsFour new councils and a lot of unanswered questionsFour authorities, fourteen councils to unwind, and less than two years to build a new system of local government 073
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It's interesting how much of this stuff is coming from within Reform. Not a happy ship. 1323359
Reposted by Ed KiernanKent Current @kentcurrent.news · 15/07/2026Hi @dailymail.co.uk - Define 'exclusive'. 192
Reposted by Ed KiernanJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 13/07/2026Feel like true crime colliding with 24 hour political commentary is the cross breeding of two terrible media pathologies. 829625
Ed Kiernan @ekiernan1974.bsky.social · 03/07/2026#BBC intro to the Egypt Vs Australia WC match in Dallas was outstanding 000
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Some astonishing bollocks here. The fairness doctrine was abolished in 1987, and by the end of the decade Rush Limbaugh was already the biggest name in American news media. Roger Ailes who set up Fox (and worked for Reagan and Bush) was made President of CNBC in 1993. 99806209
Reposted by Ed KiernanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026What I like about this is the suggestion he was hiding his opinions while at Ofcom. 1125242
Reposted by Ed KiernanEd Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Good morning from today’s full Kent County Council meeting. We’re once again in the tiny public gallery because press have been once again banned from the chamber itself. Was also instructed not film or photograph the meeting by KCC staff, which is definitely not legal. It might be a fun one. 1194
Reposted by Ed KiernanLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 19/05/2026Very kind of Robert Jenrick to perfectly tee up Max WIlkinson. 😎 715269
Ed Kiernan @ekiernan1974.bsky.social · 17/05/2026If the human race survives long enough we will discover how to time travel. Which mean there are people from the future here now among us! Is it you? 000
