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Douglas Murray

@hairyscotsman.bsky.social
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He/They. Cis. Global Citizen. Wordsmith. Anti-nationist. Anti-othering. 13th Age artificer guy. The only thing to hate is hate itself. #GTTO #TTRPG

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Douglas Murray @hairyscotsman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
exactly this. if we can no longer broadly agree, as a social unit of social creatures, that human endeavor and human dignity have worth and are in fact likely the point, why bother? what is this world we are constructing. why is anyone even walking around and going anywhere
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It remains a world historical error that Barack Obama openly embraced the household analogy & oversaw fiscal austerity that not only caused a Lost Decade & helped bring authoritarians to power, but also didn't finance all the things when real interest rates were negative: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform figures, including Farage, had ignored police requests to not speculate about the identities of the five suspects, who have since been confirmed as British men in their 20s.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now that you've had this explained to you by several people I expect you'll be correcting the record and ensuring people understand Burnham is capitulating to racist mobs?
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Vala Selene 🏳️‍🌈 @vala.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The vast majority of British journalists got rid of all their integrity a long time ago. No surprise there.
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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Immigration must be dealt with" but no words at all in support of immigrants. Anywhere.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my wife routinely cannot go outdoors for a few days at a time anytime the regular-as-clockwork race riots crop up. and yet my main takeaway from the interview is where he says immigration needs to be "dealt with". you know, the same thing the racists keep saying about people like my wife
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Andrew McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The bit where he says he agrees with them on evrything and they should just trust Labour to do all the racism they want.
Immigration needs to be dealt with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just watched The Guardian podcast where Marina Hyde is asked why she picked JK Rowling as her dream Prime Minister and she just dodges the question saying, “Oh, I don’t want to get into a whole thing.” Such a coward’s trick from someone who markets themselves as a straight talker.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/09/2026
It's entirely legitimate for someone to believe what the author here believes, of course. It's just...not really centre-left thought. At all. It's far, far closer to old school conservatism, is it not?
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"men fucked up. Are women to blame?"
An article titled "twice as many men are single than married today. Are women to blame?"
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
this is the move. i am bringing a silly straw and the decade-old exhumed corpse of golfer and noted rick santorum enthusiast arnold palmer and i will drink embalming fluid from his husk as i answer questions about a time i exceeded the expectations of a difficult client & I DARE YOU NOT TO HIRE ME.
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RV 🇸🇩 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had the misfortune of having Harman as my MP when I lived in London. She was fucking useless. The most overrated politician. The day she shuts up forever won't be a day too soon. We were one of the highest Remain constituencies in the country & she said to the press that her constituents 1/
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is barbaric. There is no reason for women to be dying from ectopic pregnancies in the U.S. in 2026. Not one.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they really think we are all idiots
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 26/09/2026
We have a great relationship with @philosophynow where they sometimes syndicate our stories. Here is a recent one, "Amazing Times at the Pub Agora" where they did just that! buff.ly/VT2cTzq
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us.
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ZÖMBY WOOF @steveshark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In Times Square now people do the polka Dominance! Submission. Radios appear This New Year's Eve was the final barrier Dominance! Submission. Radios appear We took you up and we put you in the back seat Dominance! Submission. Radios appear
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Blue Oyster Cult - Dominance and Submission (lyrics)
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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RV 🇸🇩 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lisa Nandy. Asleep at the wheel.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Using Al doesn't 'save time' ... it saves YOU time, and then everyone else has to waste THEIR time wading through endless slop, triple checking every claim, re-reading things six times because it barely makes plausible sense" keirangoddard / IG
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2026
⚠️ "I think it is absurd that when we're talking about individuals being made to feel unsafe where they live" 🚨 "When we're looking at boats being slashed on camera, children chanting into megaphones, "Let them drown." You guys are just saying, "Well, it's about the small boats.""
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kids drinking iced coffee at interviews is not the cause of mass youth unemployment…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Ancient Romans enjoyed an afternoon watching people being thrown to wild beasts or burned alive or crucified. And this chap identifies with that... while dubbing other people "barbaric"
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pandering to racists in her position of high office is structural racism and therefore I am comfortable in calling her racist.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Dear Diary, I'm still furious about Burnham's plan to tackle disinformation. Doesn't he know that one man's disinformation is another man's essential stream of bollocks and lies to spread hatred and division in order to fuel his rise to power?"
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow Rory Stewart. Just wow. What a horrible misrepresentation of how it all works and why it doesn’t. Put asylum seekers in prisons? Refuse to share the responsibility for this human tragedy with our European neighbours who are accepting more refugees than us already? Fgs. What’s wrong with you?
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Why don't refugees stay in France?
They do and France actually receives a much larger number of asylum claims than Britain - around 167,000 in 2023, compared to 67,000 in the UK.
Those who arrive in France often choose to remain there and a relatively small proportion of the asylum seekers intend on moving on to the UK.
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if you go in for an interview and they don't offer you water or coffee they're an employer who'll treat you like shit
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never forget that Frank Oz believes the stress of dealing with Disney's initial, relentless attempts to buy his creations is what killed Jim Henson. "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick," he told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
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Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of?
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hudcrauf.bsky.social @hudcrauf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Disgraceful by Kemi Badenoch. A new low
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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thought maybe updating bluesky would fix the bug where reacting to messages or simply opening the chat whisks you two billion miles up the chat. NOPE
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The horrific conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have not only been confirmed, but data also shows that there were several sailors who attempted suicide, not just the one that they wanted to punish. This is how the MAGA regime treats our military.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I randomly re-watched Network earlier this year and was blown away by prescient it was – looking forward to reading this!
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I really hate the phrase “economically inactive” as if pensioners and others who can’t or don’t work aren’t literally contributing to the economy by buying stuff like food and goods and paying VAT on it etc
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.
Dear Ms Dollimore,

The recent behaviour of a mob of organised men committing acts of public disorder, crimes, inciting racist violence, and yesterday actually slashing a rubber dinghy in the Channel with two RNLI rescuers still aboard it, needs urgent, visible action from our government, and from the police.

If Palestine Action can be proscribed as a terrorist group for causing property damage, then this gang of thugs has already gone much further. Local news in Gosport (link to the story provided below my signature), reports that a child in just such a mob was singing "let them drown" over a megaphone there, yesterday.

RNLI staff are suffering horrific harassment and assaults, and in some areas no longer feel they can work at all, which endangers everyone at sea. Our ports have been vandalised at Portsmouth and Dover.

Enough is enough. We either take action, or we cede this once inclusive, secular country to the hands of a narrow group of men, the leaders of which claim to be Christian (it is no brand of Christianity I recognise), who want this island to be only for white, violent, straight men in balaclavas to do with as they see fit. This isn't a British ethos: this is the ethos of every Russian mercenary. It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Acute food insecurity' is the new phrase for 'starvation', which is, ironically, too unpalatable to use these days apparently... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🇺🇸‼️ A network of Russian agents supplying Russian software to the Secret Service has been uncovered in the US, - NYP The CEO of an American technology company, Lee Reiber, is charged with concealing Russian control over a company that received a US Secret Service contract to supply software. 1/3
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As I lay in bed with PEM, always grateful to my colleague @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for helping bring M.E. into mainstream attention. The way people with M.E. are ignored and actively harmed by medics who have been trusted to help them is a hidden scandal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Uroš @slowriot23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I honestly feel sad seeing this. Hard to imagine I used to really love this guy and think he's the coolest. What a dick.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
Every conversation I’ve had with my MAGA relatives for the last ten years distilled into three sentences.
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Ohm's Resistance @a-nobodyuser.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Orwell had the last word on this
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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