Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I once interviewed a pre disgrace Jeffrey Archer at a Tory event at Inverurie Mart. His opening gambit was 'John Major is a bastard you know'. I reminded him the interview was on the record and he was unperturbed, saying Major was tough, a real bastard... forever putting a fictional spin on events.. 120
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Greens disappearing up their own antisemitic Corbynite arsehole is a joy to behold. 010
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Free child care for the super rich paid for by the taxpayer..yup ..that'll do it. The Tories are on the way back...#Tonedeaf 010
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026She might have improved at #PMQs but judging from yet another car crash interview l,this time on the Today programme, Kemi Badenoch's broadcast interview skills haven't. 000
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026You just know that if they were in Germany in 2026, the Reform UK crowd, Farage, Tice, Jenrick..would all be in the AfD. Yusuf tho might struggle to get a membership card. 010
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Stephen Cooling there...If he lived on the same street as Paddington, he'd be demanding that the wee bear be deported back to Peru immediately...having first whacked him with his stick. 020
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026New Tory shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith tells Laura Kuenssberg how he remembers how he did his homework by candle light during the Winter of Discontent...no....that would have been during the three day week in 74 when Edward Heath was PM. There were no power cuts in 78. 051
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nadine Dorries @ChannelFourNewsstatic.klipy.comMan's Exasperated FacepalmALT: Man's Exasperated Facepalm 000
Reposted by Mike ElrickSam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Incredible moment in the doc when Farage’s right-hand man Dan Jukes lists several foreign donors who’ve given money to the party via their kids. It’s not just one or two backers - it’s a huge conspiracy cooked up by the party to break the law. It’s bigger than we even thought 441316431
Reposted by Mike ElrickChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46694603996
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Excellent . .watching the Channel 4 News exclusive on Reform..and the party's policy chief James Orr describing the Electoral Commission as useless.. 130
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One of my fav films currently on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Powell and Lombard are superb. And it's a great script. 010
Reposted by Mike ElrickParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Currently somebody in Thailand can immediately influence British politics by simply paying £5 million... 852535756
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Marvelling at Call My Bluff chair Robert Robinson's 1978 comb over...#BBC4 000
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My god... it comes to something when you find out you are twenty years older than the new Scotland mens football team manager... 000
Reposted by Mike ElrickDavid Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"Well, first of all, I'm dead." 3033057
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Rewatching I Claudius...I'd forgotten how full on episode 9: Hail Who? is...the fall of John Hurt's Caligula.....TV just wouldn't make this now. 020
Reposted by Mike ElrickRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 14/08/2026There's a truth in here, but Farage can't see it. Far from being a kangaroo court, the Parliamentary Standards system is incredibly forgiving. If Farage had put his hands up at the start and said "honest mistake, guv, misunderstood the rules", he'd probably have got away with an apology. 1211620
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I will say only one thing after the death of academic Jason Arday. Compare and contrast how the media covered the death of journalist and polemist Rod Liddle and how it covered Arday in the last few weeks. 040
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The bizarre sight of Nigel Farage running scared of his own by-election victory. #Noshow #TWATO 010
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Beyond the Reform true believers and unreconstructed racists, does anyone seriously think Nigel Farage is a Prime Minister in waiting? I don't think he does. 040
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You can tell from the demeanour of Tice and 30p Lee in broadcast interviews this morning that after Farage's 'victory' in Clacton, the wheels are coming off the Reform bus. 020
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Laurence Fox got 347 votes in Clacton...346 locals thought...you know what...I'll go with Fox ...fking hell. 040
Reposted by Mike ElrickRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 271158565
Reposted by Mike ElrickDr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is a dreadful development in our politics, which is bound to see dodgy & illegal lobbying now go unnoticed. And I say this as someone who, 20 years ago, was included in the register of MPs’ staff interests, when I worked for an MP. I never begrudged my inclusion on the register. 22544275
Reposted by Mike ElrickBen Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The Guardian: Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill - Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comGreenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drillIsland’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling 024
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Rewatching I Claudius, you realise just how good Brian Blessed was as Augustus.. 030
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Joshua BoneHill-Paine invites Kemi's shadow cabinet to his Somerset home to discuss tackling extremism. 010
Reposted by Mike ElrickChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line. 42651181
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Some pundits (Iain Dale) believe that Kemi Badenoch hasn't put a foot wrong as leader of the opp...well, defending her party's selection of an ex-neo Nazi as a candidate in Somerset I would suggest doesn't display the best judgement. 000
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Watching the 1972 Mastermind final on BBC4 and one of the general knowledge questions was 'who is the under secretary of state at the Foreign Office?' jeez.. 010
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026With news of talks between Lowe and Farage - not since the Rome-Berlin Axis protocols were signed in October 1936 has there been such larks... 000
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026From the John Simpson Guardian Review of the new Robert Service book on the August coup that removed Gorbachev. 000
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Watching The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil #BBC4 120
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Have spent Sunday morning watching Theirs Is The Glory..the Arnhem battle film made a year after the event with veterans. Terrific stuff. @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 110
Mike Elrick @elrick1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Infantino's position is untenable after UEFA's unanimous decision to boycott the World Cup over his plan to allow investors to take over the Cup. 000
