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Obviously not - even for Britain Blair’s farewell Labour conference speech was far better.

Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 29/09/2026

Until they fix it they’ll be limited to things that make reversible changes. Good for software but not for the real world.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 29/09/2026

A bizzarely naive column here. It’s trying to show that a far right triumph is not inevitable, but provides no evidence to show Le Pen would moderate in office as Meloni has. The French and Italian constitutions are completely different www.ft.com/content/7783... Why Europe’s centre will hold

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Why Europe’s centre will hold

The 1930s are not a good guide to the politics of the 21st century

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 28/09/2026

Every week brings more evidence that AI labs’ economic characteristics are those of a traditional industrial commodity. How are they going to pay for all that capex when they make the same prodding as their competitors? Another reason to read my piece from earlier in Sept

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Renew Europe @reneweurope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Freedom means the right to choose. Safe abortion is healthcare, dignity and bodily autonomy. On International Safe Abortion Day, we stand for the right to decide freely, safely and without shame. Stand with us. Defend the right to choose.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 28/09/2026

Wise blueskyers of Paris - I’m looking for good, non-extortionate and non-boring restos in Paris @columnist.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com I know you have excellent judgement, but others are welcome to chime in!

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 27/09/2026

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a fucking conquest of itself.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 27/09/2026

Top thread. It hints that in the modern world countries have relationships with each other, and we can debate and change the rules governing them, but invoking the magic word sovereignty doesn’t make them disappear.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 26/09/2026

Lots of people arguing about the Labour Party. The mid-20th century social class division is gone, and with it the Tory and Labour voter coalitions. You can try and squeeze it back in by aligning on blocs but you’d do better w an electoral system that allowed Britain’s complexity to be represented

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 26/09/2026

A number of reasons the Nordic model makes sense: - Manpower needs are real but limited - You get people who like what they’re doing - Training huge conscript armies is a masdive resource drain Finland, Baltics, Israel etc might need universal conscription but UK, Germany etc don’t.

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Alex Faludy @alexander-faludy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Pre-election, selected #Catholic dioceses received discretionary public grants via secret government decrees alongside #Fidesz linked groups .’ —My reporting for THE TABLET. www.thetablet.co.uk/news/pope-re...

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Pope receives Magyar as Hungarian Church gauges new government - The Tablet

Pope Leo XIV received Hungary’s Prime Minister Péter Magyar in a private audience at the Vatican, their first meeting since his election victory in April.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 24/09/2026

The brilliant @alexander-faludy.bsky.social is over here now. Follow him for all things Hungary and Religion

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 24/09/2026

The brilliant @alexander-faludy.bsky.social is over here now. Follow him for all things Hungary and Religion

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 24/09/2026

One’s immediate reaction is to fulminate: if we treated France the way you want to treat Ukraine the Nazis would still be in Paris — but she’d probably be happy enough with that.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Anyway, my masters is done and so I'm looking for more project work and potentially the right permanent job if it comes along. If you've liked the cut of my jib and think I'm right for something, or know someone who might - you can check my website. www.jmoxley.co.uk

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John Oxley | Writer, Strategist and Political Commentator

John Oxley advises on strategy, public affairs and communications, with a decade working alongside senior leaders in politics, law and business.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 24/09/2026

This is quite obviously untrue as the Austro-Hungarian empire has divine sanction in an unbroken chain of legitimacy from given by the Gods to the pontifex maximus. In this essay I will…

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 24/09/2026

In this configuration the Lib Dems become a party with a high proportion of safe seats. Interesting to see where they’re located, because MPs there will gain influence in the party over time

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 23/09/2026

Deserves a caption competition “You’re an unusual sort of human. We don’t have any of you on our podcasts”

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 23/09/2026

We learned the hard way in 2005 that extremism needs to be challenged within the identity community from which it comes. Back then the phrase “legitimate concerns” tended to refer to Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, this is going to be HILARIOUS. I'm just sad he didn't go for American Intelligence, given the punchline was already there.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 22/09/2026

An example of member states demanding the EU do more in difficult circumstances while refusing the funds. Germany and the Netherlands: If this budget is supposed to respond to radically different times you can’t treat it like the usual post GFC negotiation.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 21/09/2026

Jan 2021 - Self Coup Sep 2026 - Self Censorship

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 20/09/2026

Importantly Sikorski is delivering the kind of message Russians understand

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 20/09/2026

Enough of FIMI, this is FIDO Foreign Interference and Drone Operations

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 20/09/2026

I’ll expand my reply to this to a little thread. It seems that a lot of people in the AI world really believed (perhaps still beleive) they’re building general intelligence or super intelligence or whatever. There are also many people who are not exactly paid to beleive it but

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 19/09/2026

Just listening to an American national security podcast: there’s another British prime minister, the next one might be a cat or something - @number10cat.bsky.social - any comments?

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 19/09/2026

I understand this view but think it’s important it came from someone on the right.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 19/09/2026

Oh and he might rip it up when he feels the need for more drama

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 19/09/2026

These guys need to read Pariftt

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 19/09/2026

There was apparently a conversation between Arafat and Ho Chi Minh that went something like this HCM: So you want to throw the Jews out. YA: Yes HCM: Do they have anywhere else to go? YA: No. HCM: Well, you’re going to lose then.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 19/09/2026

I went to pay and they had one of those anti pilfering machines for cash. I put the coins into the note dispenser. The barman tried to open the machine but after too many tries the machine went into robbery lockdown mode, alarms klaxoning. I scarpered before the technician arrived to fix it.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 19/09/2026

Good piece. But just as Burnham can be seen as Starmer but able to communicate and set a political agenda, the Lib Dems could also benefit by sticking to their southern strategy but with a more charismatic figure at the front.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know that the paper is a static-incidence analysis - it’s an accounting exercise. But I don’t see how presenting data like this, without discussing that it’s the broader tax/benefit system that creates these outcomes (and is much the same for everyone), is helpful.

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My new piece reads the Houthi offensive through more than Iran, adding crucial context of the Saudi-UAE conflict and the rapid growth of transregional lines of conflict, featuring Somaliland, Eritrea and… Algeria. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/h...

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The Houthi Advance Is About More Than Just Iran

The Saudi-Emirati rivalry is driving moves across the region.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As Cathy Young explains here, bigotry, xenophobia, nativism, and white nationalism are not bugs in today's Republican party. They are features. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-republ...