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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can assure Conor that the rest of us are also tired of this stupid conversation which would end if he and his mates fucked off back to the pit they crawled out of.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Must just be a coincidence that two of Reform's main donors have been convicted of money laundering related offences (Delo and George Cottrell).

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.

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I too have a 10-year plan – but unlike Burnham's, mine works

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

All you can do with the right-wing press is ignore it and get on with the job. Never try to appease these ghouls and their sundowning readership. They’re the people who thought Liz Truss was a good idea

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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"I can't be bought by anyone" is actually a hilarious statement by someone who is paid for Cameo statements.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Fucking hell the standard of the debate on that asylum hotel protest is appalling. Broadcasters and politicians bending over backwards to defend and justify the actions of the protestors. Not even a hint of the bravery required to stand up or challenge far-right ideas.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I truly hate being this person, but HOW, really how can it be #r4today headline news that Nigel Farage has claimed if he was king we’d all be twice as safe & happy ffs 😫 what are you doing?

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It remains, along with the welfare cap, the undisputed worst policy of my lifetime. Piling on future costs and present misery for zero benefit beyond a few Sun and Mail page leads.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 09/07/2025

Opinion | "Musk says he is building an alternative to mainstream information. In fact, he is replicating his own radicalisation process in the form of an advanced system", writes @iandunt.bsky.social‬ trib.al/RHnq4tj

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is because a) Sunak decided to arbitrarily reject a load of applications in order to hit a backlog target. And b) the Home Office has hired lots of inexperienced people to try and reduce the backlog in the last year.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is how "This side says X, but the other side says Y" balance ends up distorting journalism. Instead of being based on the journalist's own independent, impartial analysis this question really just ventriloquises a partisan opposition stance and gives the impression the BBC fully agrees with it.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

When the Labour Party returned to office in 1997, a shocking 27 per cent of British children were living in relative poverty. Three terms of carefully targeting benefits and tax credits later, that proportion had almost halved. By 2010, even though the number of children in Britain had increased, the number growing up in poverty had fallen by nearly a million. It was one of the Blair and Brown governments’ signature achievements.

It’s been largely undone: by 2023, the figure stood at 22 per cent before housing costs, and 30 per cent after. Much of this reversal can be attributed to a single, ruinous policy: the two-child benefit cap, introduced in 2017, which stops families from claiming certain benefits for more than two children regardless of need. The Tories ostensibly introduced the policy to send a message to parents about responsibility, as if no family’s finances ever took an unexpected turn for the worse, or as if punishing children for the actions of their parents is OK. But everyone knew it was also there to save money. No British politician ever lost votes by punishing welfare claimants.

Which is why, even though it’s widely agreed to be the single biggest step it could do to address child poverty and the generational problems that result, the government has absolutely no intention of scrapping it. “If they still think we’re going to scrap the cap then they’re listening to the wrong people,” says the inevitable anonymous source. “The cap is popular with key voters, who see it as a matter of fairness.”

Note the way that decision is justified there. There is no attempt to push back on the argument – made by such hotbeds of social radicalism as Barnardo’s, Save the Children and Citizens Advice – that this will push a record number of kids into poverty right around the time the next election rolls around; no attempt to justify it as a policy at all. The cap is popular with “key voters”; that is enough. This isn’t governing. It’s campaigning.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It is fascinating the way you can take money from hungry children or disabled people without consequence, but try to limit the amount that goes to rich pensioners and everything implodes.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

For for the West of England mayoralty More in Common have: Lab: 23% Con: 21% Reform: 18% Green: 18% LD: 15% It is genuinely absurd to have an election with that kind of spread decided by first past the post. Unjustifiable.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

If your best argument against doing something is polling, then you have no argument.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Deranged. Will secure the collapse of a significant part of the UK university system, at a time when there is a lot of money to be made out of it, for no political return. If the case is explained properly most will not mind foreign students coming.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

My "no nuclear winter" announcement sure is raising a lot of questions already answered by my announcement.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

As an aside to the whole “pointing at Liz Truss getting something hilariously laughably wrong *again*” thing (which I - of course - encourage), has anyone teased out the point that his economics are the antithesis of the ones she was espousing (to her inevitable detriment) all those 33 months ago

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is embarrassing. They didn't secure anything. The Trump administration used an idiot equation to decide rates and implemented it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘It could’ve been much worse’: how UK avoided a bigger blow from Trump tariffs

No 10 has been criticised for ‘sucking up’ to Donald Trump, but believes its defensive strategy has been vindicated

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/04/2025

The markets when they realise the people running the US economy think an equation with two variables is a good methodology for starting a thirty-front global trade war through a half-trillion dollar tax increase:

media.tenor.com

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat

Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat and chuckles "I'm in danger."

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The UK exports £360bn of goods to the EU, on which we now struggle with big non tariff barriers, compared to £60bn to the US. Imagine looking at this sh1tshow and thinking it vindicates Brexit in any way.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory

Trump said he talked to Lee Iacocca, deceased, about his tariff plan

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I don't know what you have to be huffing to think in 2025 that letting far right authoritarians get away with crimes is "good for democracy"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/04/2025

there's apparently now a view in every right-leaning British publication that nothing ought to be done about the far right, ever - they should be able to say whatever they want and do whatever they want, yet remain untouchable, and it's becoming increasingly hard not to parse it as outright support

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Seriously, if you worry that upholding the law might be politically bad for the 'optics‘, and could give a boost to the people you want nowhere near power, you have already given up on the principles you claim to be defending.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

You have to appreciate the efficiency though. 'Woke Putin' accomplishes so much stupidity with so few words, it's a kind of idiot masterpiece.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 31/03/2025

Europe is such a tough place to do business. Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Putting a drunk racist TV host in charge of the Pentagon was a bad idea? Astounding.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Imagine negotiating with Putin and then coming out and telling everyone what bastards the Canadians are. Imagine having a brain so broken that this sequence of events is even thinkable.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Russia demands to keep captured territory The new Private Eye is out now

A photo of the front cover of issue 1645 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "On shelves now." The headline reads "RUSSIA DEMANDS TO KEEP CAPTURED TERRITORY" in bold white text on a red background. The cover features a photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting at a desk, speaking on the phone with a smirk. A speech bubble adds dialogue, with Putin saying, "Including the White House."

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

His boss is literally firing out executive orders trying to shut law firms that oppose him and saying critical journalism is illegal. The hypocrisy is just wild (and kind of the point).

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/03/2025

If these people are willing to disrupt a trading relationship as economically valuable as that with Canada, with a close ally, over a completely made up problem, and in violation of a treaty they themselves negotiated and signed, there is no move so stupid you can rule out their doing it.

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