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Ian Williams

@iangwilliams.bsky.social
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Writer, occasionally contrarian, militant Menshevik!

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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 18h
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Norwegian 12-year olds: “British English is cringe”
American English has become the norm. 'This affects how young people speak English and what they think about the English language,' says researcher.
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bogwoppitt59.bsky.social @bogwoppitt59.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can we put the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in charge of the EU, NATO and UN Security Council, since it seems to possess the last spine standing?
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Because that's the universe that bred the Orcs! :)
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well some of them. The rest joined CDU!
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Benon Sevan died yesterday after spending his last years in exile in his native Cyprus as a pillar of the local Armenian community. A life long UN staffer with extensive experience, he was impatient with bullshit and bureaucracy (do I repeat myself?). ianwilliams.info/posts/benon-...
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Benon Sevan A scapegoat for protoMAGA!
It is sad news about Benon Sevan who died yesterday  after spending his last years in exile in his native Cyprus as a pillar of the local Armenian community. A life long UN staffer with extensive expe...
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Good Wars - Bad Intentions?
To everything there is a season - but Nazi apologetics disguised as historical fact-checking never go out of fashion! The promiscuous canards from conservative apologists have an intellectual (if one ...
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Such a brilliant film - they could not/would not make it now! Your MIL was witness to History!
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'2 year suspended sentence and 200 hours community service/unpaid work' "Imagine the carnage if this guy was brown!......" via We Demand UK
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Intriguing the conjunction of Israeli flags with the St George's (crusader) cross. Weren't they the zealots who massacred Jews from Norwich to Jerusalem pairing with this currently pogroming in the West Banks and Gaza? With friends like this Palantir has no need for enemies!
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤔Quick survey (England Only); Who do you support the Green Party or Labour? Green Party… press Repost Labour Party… press Like
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This 👇
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But the over-riding problem for Labour is clearly ending the triple lock for UK pensions! :)
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Millennium. Trump and the Cooperative Commonwealth.
I also came across  Upton Sinclair's Millennium which I had not even heard of before. It is pertinent and amusing. Set in 2000 but conceived in 1907,  it posits a Pleasure Palace in Central Park,  100...
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As the Pfizer building droops and buckles at the hands of the developers, it's an ironic memorial to their money-grubbing attempts to make the non-union edifice longer, straighter and stronger. Should they have tried mixing Viagra in the concrete? Or remembered "the Union makes us strong?"
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ah, that's what happened to the quantum whale in Hitchhiker's Guide!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks to all who extended birthday greetings on Monday! www.youtube.com/shorts/07lka...
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Bring Out Your Dead | Monty Python and the Holy Grail #montypython #montypythonandtheholygrail
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But apart from that he's OK! :)
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mark Seddon unearthed this clip after we discussed the forgotten history of Britain's interventions in Yemen, Aden 🙂 Mad Mitch in Aden 1967 youtube.com Mad Mitch in Aden 1967 .
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The same voice in his head that told him there was popular demand for a sports stadium to replace the Kennedy Center! People are saying!
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Much easier to break the seven seals on raising taxes and NI constitutions for the rich.
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everyones' feasts, Nobody's fasts- The hedonist atheist creed!
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Men of Irony at West Point. Space Force, Star Ship Troopers etc | Ian Williams
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Leftist vandals trample on grass!" :)
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We should all be disgusted of the White House Press Corp. No one walked out No one told Trumpy to go fuck himself. No one said mean things to Trumpy after he chopped down another pillar of American Democracy. No one asked for proof any of them published 'fake news'. No one did anything. Sad.
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Polanski as a leader has every right to have an opinion on issues. And what it is more, anyone who is not a "gotcha" heresy-hunting sectarian would recognize that his opinion marries reality with principle. When the UN overturned the Zionism is Racism res, I reported, like Galileo. "It still moves."
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why people don't trust the media! luciantruscott.substack.com/p/white-hous....
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White House press corps misses an opportunity to stand up to tyranny
This is what the White House press room could have looked like after MS NOW, CNN, and Politico reporters were turned away at the security gate of the White House today.
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He is the Walrus. Trump's geopolitical MysteryTour continues! lnkd.in/gApykX_i
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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He is the Walrus. Trump's geopolitical MysteryTour continues! | Ian Williams
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Xi who must be obeyed, Versus he who would not understand the orders! youtu.be/xn77NWzueHw
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Xi Meets Trump: The Chips Are Down
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Xi who must be obeyed, Versus he who would not understand the orders! youtu.be/xn77NWzueHw
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Xi Meets Trump: The Chips Are Down
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Xi who must be obeyed, Versus he who would not understand the orders! youtu.be/xn77NWzueHw
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Xi Meets Trump: The Chips Are Down
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If we were a real country, we'd invoke the 25th Amendment. If we were a real country, Trump and McConnell would spend the rest of their days playing parcheesi with each other, and neither would have any idea who was winning. If we were a real country, Trump would be a joke, not a President.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My granddad, Gordon Louis Briggs, died this morning, just a couple of days before his 95th birthday. He was a difficult man and I didn’t always have an easy time with him but I will miss him still.
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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This administration would be so funny if it wasn’t so historically embarrassing and destructive. America deserves serious leaders.
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Daniel come to judge! Here come the judgement! Judge Saylor comprehensively takes a hatchet to the malignant anti-intellectual, anti-press and anti-foreigners MAGA plans on visas! www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Breathing Smoke on 9-11 | Ian Williams
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Tariff on Foreign Perspectives www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/us-p...
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US Plans to Restrict Foreign Journalists Trigger Rising Protests
restrictions on foreign journalists based in the US.
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And Ted Cruz could still see the glory of the emperor's new clothes regardless of the reality he is well aware of!
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Only Marmite for those who don't care that she dismissed & covered up child sex abuse on her watch, that she smeared socialism & weaponised fake anti-semitism to protect her lower tax rate. Hell has a penthouse prepared for this one. 🤮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘I am seen as a Marmite figure’: Margaret Hodge on political battles, victories, errors – and regrets
At 82, the politician and anti-corruption champion is indefatigable. She discusses fighting the BNP, tackling antisemitism, and why, with her new memoir, she’s reclaiming the word ‘battleaxe’
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They should have given him the IgNobel Peace Prize! ianwilliams.info/posts/us-sci...
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US Science Immigration policy silliest yet. | Ian Williams
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The reality is “The Blackshirts” got escorted by the Police… This is being choreographed!! youtu.be/uDe18KJqRi8?...
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'Far Right are treated with kid gloves'
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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The US Admin's War on Foreigners - and the Press | Ian Williams
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Part Two: How I Visa Rule Changes Could Harm Journalism Here and Abroad
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Another epidemic of invertebracy at UN! www.wrmea.org/north-americ...
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Wannabe Secretary Generals Tiptoe Through the MAGA Minefield
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2026, pp. 60-61 United Nations Report By Ian Williams FOR PALESTINIANS, the U.N. is simultaneously the wo...
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Ian Williams @iangwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Attempted Blackshirt putsch in Dover implicitly condoned by Weimar/Burnham regime.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026
My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”
A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum
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