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Jim Jim

@jimminycrickets.bsky.social
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Foreign policy, internationalism, and any opportunity to learn something new.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i really am not convinced the Telegraph isn’t a massive satirical art piece
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Glory to Ukraine
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yesterday, someone wrote to me that truckers need diesel, and nobody cares about the genocide of Ukrainians as long as truckers get their diesel. I came back to tell him the fantastic news that russia will save American truckers for several groundbreaking hours. But he blocked me. 🤕
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The party has also said it would look closer at whether parents' earnings and savings should be factored into welfare payments for their children" So according to the Tories, it's wrong to means-test benefits for boomers... but totally fine to do so for their adult children children.
bbc.co.uk
Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s
The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026
This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Deep-seated contradiction always at the heart of criminal justice policy: - We have good evidence of what works for rehabilitation & that's what reduces reoffending & increases public safety. - But the public want offenders punished & believe harsh punishment deters. Regardless of the evidence.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 05/08/2026
As the US government has given signals it would support a Moroccan invasion of Spanish territory to punish PM Sanchez, Rabat has been increasingly emboldened. Despite being an integral part of Spain, Ceuta & Melilla are not covered by NATO's article 5 because they're not in Europe or North America.
politico.eu
Spain sweats over its isolated territories in Africa
There are increasing doubts over who will have Madrid’s back if Morocco makes a move on the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 05/08/2026
Europe's reaction to the events of last week (including Denmark blaming Spain for the incursion) has signalled to Morocco, and the world, that Europe would not be united in the event of an attack on an EU member state's territory.
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Jim Jim @jimminycrickets.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Apropos of nothing but stop deifying awful people when they happen to die.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/08/2026
The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'
The Times full page - ‘Brilliant, provocative, inimitable’
Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, combined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit, writes Alex Farber
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/08/2026
"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
londoncentric.media
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 31/07/2026
The truth is that the Italian government is using a migration crisis as a pretext to challenge Spain’s domestic policy through threats that have no basis in EU law. But by pretending that it can unilaterally suspend Schengen, Italy questions the legal order that makes the European Union possible
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We're cutting an internationally important part of British scientific infrastructure for the sake of £2.8m a year. That's essentially loose change. We are not a serious country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation
theguardian.com
Water firms in England and Wales ‘leak five times what hosepipe ban would save’
Greenpeace UK says 2.87bn litres lost daily, a fifth of all water pumped through network
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Jim Jim @jimminycrickets.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#TDF2026 if you’re leaning in at the side of the road and generally being a dick, just know I wish nothing but the worst for you and your family
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Belgian Red Devils @belreddevils.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Overturn this! 😎
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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
At present living standards are expected to be worse at the end of this Parliament than the start, there are 100,000 additional people who are unemployed, and we are about to enter a period of spending cuts across most departments, it's astonishing he doesn't grasp the electoral consequences of this
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 01/07/2026
Nothing will satisfy anti-immigration campaigners. So we should give them nothing.
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David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is an ugly policy. If an asylum seeker has a legitimate case then they shouldn't have to pay for being held, particularly when they're not allowed to work. If they don't have a case then they won't be able to pay and should be deported. The Home Office has a very serious culture problem.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Asked about likening Bridget Phillipson’s policy of imposing VAT on private schools to the Gestapo, Badenoch says she sticks by her words as both “put ideology before the welfare of children”. I mean, that’s one criticism of the Gestapo, I suppose.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Meanwhile, UK political debate is focused on the so-called "net zero zealotry" of Ed Miliband
newscientist.com
If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sounds like communism
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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
So wonderful that @CBeebiesHQ is celebrating #Windrush Day by featuring my book ‘Coming to England’ read by David Olusoga on #CBeebies #BedtimeStories ❤️
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
BBC cutting back its foreign network, in this case in CEE/Balkans. Governments spend countless billions on soft power. Can you imagine the cost of the BBC having a stringer in the Balkans vs the benefits it brings not just to BBC viewers but also Britain? Completely mad.
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Guy De Launey @guydelauney.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Starmer’s reign will go down as one of the most disappointed social democratic periods in history. Gifted a massive majority (solely) by the disproportional electoral system, he squandered it chasing illusionary “lost voters” while abandoning and alienating his real voters.
theguardian.com
Starmer expected announce departure on Monday as growing numbers of MPs back Burnham for PM – UK politics live
The prime minister reportedly close to announcing when he’ll stand down and set out a timetable for leaving No 10
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Banning kids under 16 from social media is a terrible idea. First of all, it doesn’t work. Second of all, the idea is that you’re going to introduce all of social media to someone at age 16 and expect that to go well
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Strictly in terms of numbers, one lone cohort of 16-17 year olds can't decide an election or generate a transformational mass movement. But piss off a whole generation whose first experience of the state between age 7-17 is it taking stuff away and you get a cumulative effect over a decade
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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Since defence spending’s recent peak in the mid-80s non-pensioner welfare has grown from around 4.8.% of GDP to 5.1% now. Importantly, non-pensioner welfare is now about the level of the mid-90s, below its global financial crisis peak, but has seen some rise from its level immediately pre-pandemic.
chart showing that ince defence spending’s recent peak in the mid-80s, non-pensioner welfare has grown from around 4.8.% of GDP to 5.1% now. Importantly, non-pensioner welfare is now about the level of the mid-90s, below its GFC peak, but has seen some rise from its level immediately pre-pandemic.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Can we finally get an apology from all the oh so sensible commentators who have spent the past ten years insisting Nigel Farage isn't part of the far-right
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Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It's easy to bash the Treasury here. But it's the Treasury's job to make the sums add up, so that we meet the fiscal rules, etc. The core problem is the government *as a whole* has committed to spend 3%, then 3.5%, of GDP on defence but doesn't want to pay for it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There last few weeks shows how deeply principled and decent people can be, even when going through the most terrible pain. Their grace stands in stark contrast to those who would exploit their suffering for political gain.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’m sorry but this analogy doesn’t even work. The Nazis didn’t storm the beaches, we did. They came by land.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
How you can you write the first sentence here without realising that it completely nullifies the second?
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 04/06/2026
Imagine the media reporting on the far right as they do on "illiberal leftism" 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
No there will not be an early election. A man with 400 seats will not risk half of them three years early to satisfy columnists’ belief in mandate fairies.
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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"The decline in people coming to UK shown by immigration stats is not a shock. Migrants are not numbers on a spreadsheet. This drop reflects our lives and the hostility we face and more migrants leaving the country. It shows families ripped apart and lives destroyed."
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Fr Jonathan Bish @frjonathanbish.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The UK being 2nd in the Climate Change Performance Index should be seen one of this government's long term legacies. One of these things that nobody has shouted much about, but a sign that things have actually got better on one of the most important issues of our day.
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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7
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