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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Went for a little walk while it's not raining and spotted 2 MPs already. Darren Jones and Anneliese Dodds (I think). Lots of suits and lanyards walking about. #LabourConference

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just to make the point, I don’t think Shabana Mahmood is appeasing the far right because she thinks it’s electorally sensible. She’s doing so because she believes what they believe.

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Liam Blizard @blizard.io · 18/09/2026

We've gone from people going "I'm not racist, but..." to "yeah, lol, actually I am racist as fuck, and quite proud of that fact too"

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You’ll notice that as ever, the annoying dirty hippies called the War On Terror correctly and all the smart, Sensible important people dived into it with both hands giving everyone the finger and screaming insults, and now it’s just another One Of Those Weird Things That Happened.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘Can I just shock you? I’m actually very right-wing.’

Now I’ve left Today, I can finally say what I really think…
AMOL RAJAN

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The other day I just felt the urge to take up golf. I'm 41. Anyone else experience this?

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Imagine you get to Heaven and it's basically a work do. Gutted.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Which is to say: the Labour Party supported an actual genocide as a way of wiping away a stain and suspicion that sections of the Labour Party deliberately spread against itself, as a way of winning back power for its most right wing faction. Which sounds pretty “who goes to prison first”, to me.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Nao Santa Maria at The Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool. A replica of Christopher Columbus' ship from his first expedition across the Atlantic in 1492.

A replica of a 15th Century ship with the former Mersey Ferry Daffodil, One Park West building and St John's Beacon in the background

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am surrounded by Kents. (I am in Kent on a work thing)

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

King Charles told me the public keeps eating his prime ministers so l asked how many prime ministers he has and he said he just goes to the parliament and gets a new prime minister afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prime ministers to the public and then his son started crying.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

an eight year old child would read Chris Mason's articles and feel condescended to

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DAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHniel @djbarc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Centrists: Give him a chance. He might not be a cunt. Burnham: I'M A WHOPPING GREAT CUNT

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Going from “Getting caught setting private investigators on the Sunday Times and trying to report them as Russian stooges”, to “inexplicably pardoned then given a Times column to knife his pals and promote a new PM” and then “oh wow, uh, Head of government policy unit” is quite the career path.

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Josh Simons is expected to lead Downing Street's head of policy unit under Andy Burnham, Labour allies say.
The former MP for Makerfield resigned from his seat in May to give the former Greater Manchester mayor a path to return to Westminster and challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the leadership

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They were obsessed with crushing the left and that meant they didn’t actually spend much time thinking about what they were actually going to do. This is post hoc rationalising of their fuckery www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Labour failed to prepare for power, admits PM's ex-aide McSweeney

In his first-ever interview, Morgan McSweeney tells the BBC the party did not deliver quickly enough in office.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If England win tonight they'll face Mexico next. The two countries in this world cup where I've had the best Mexican food.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

James Bond (Roger Moore) would love this

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

it's always cute when Americans are like "LOL. Europe. we put aircon in ancient buildings ALL THE TIME it's easy." then you look and they mean sticking window units in some wooden buildings younger than my wardrobe.

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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Concealing your plans to scythe benefits from the public is not “moderate”. Nor is joining culture wars on the side of hateful, cruel reactionaries, or conniving in war crimes and genocide, vastly expanding what counts as “terrorism” or creating spurious pretexts to arrest thousands of protestors.

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Seeing some of the embarrassingly hateful reactions to Starmer's resignation today, I thought it was worth resharing this....

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What a fucking idiot. I bet most of them have 🇬🇧 tattoos.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It looks a bit like Mandelson set up deals that committed us to buying a zillion pounds worth of AI services, and a lot like a) these guys have no ideas that aren’t “shove money at Nazi tech dorks” and b) they’ve bet everything that this will work wonders, despite there being no reason to believe it

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Make her the next SecWar/SecDef/SecPeace(?)

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

¡Vamos, Málaga! (I am in Málaga, Spain)

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Similarly, the reason the Labour Right, a tiny cadre of the most odious and uninspired careerists you could hope to never meet could completely retake and reshape the party in their own image despite having no internal or external constituency is purely that they had (Mandelson's) media clout.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What distinguishes the UK from the US and many similar countries is that our entire media-political class were educated in the same institutions, live in the same city, and are increasingly inter-related. It is the civic equivalent of incest, and has similar results on institutional heredity.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Is everyone enjoying the heat wave? I spent the last 5 days dressed like this: (I'm off for 3 weeks now tho wooo)

A man wearing black heavy duty work trousers, a black polo shirt and safety boots.

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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It is 90°F in the North of England right now.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Like, I can see why professional politics pundits would far prefer it if we paid no attention to the man behind the curtain and just listened to the booming voice of the Wizard of Oz. But I am saying, the guy behind the curtain is the actual story here.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Just went past a petrol (gas) station and here's where we are at in the UK

Based on the current exchange rate of $1.36 per £1 (as of May 10, 2026), 158.5 pence per litre js approximately $8.18 per US gallon.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The strategy of rhetorically punching core supporters in the face going as predictable for the Labour Party

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Ian King @twoht.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I said to a Labour doorknocker last night, "Your home secretary LITERALLY told people like me to fuck off a fortnight ago, and now you're here asking me to vote for you?"

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Yes, people should instead do what Tom did: secretly concoct a ludicrously fraudulent scandal with some colleagues pretending to have been bullied that you turn into a slow burn BBC propaganda bullshit extravaganza, intended to decapitate your own party? In a year that ends with The Brexit Election.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

We said: If you go as hard as you can on flags, crackdowns and racism, you will get walloped by the far right and repel your own supporters, and make the country far more needlessly cruel and horrible in the process. And, what’s happening now?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Quick lads, get the sixty foot flags out and announce another migrant crackdown. You can still win em back

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My point here being: Wingnut welfare - most of it from the US, not Hungary - is so deeply embedded that it’s basically the sun rising in the morning, just not a thing that’s seen as remarkable and only becomes problematic when it’s too brazen.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

You see a lot of “why did Sir Keir pick McSweeney” but the truth is that Sir Keir is Derek Zoolander: a beautiful, clueless, incurious oaf that bad people could use to assassinate the Prime Minister of Micronesia.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

How many submarine captains is it now that have torpedoed their careers for shagging?

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Can I challenge this cunt to a straightener? As a former Royal Navy sailor, I propose we follow old Navy rules: first one to die, loses.

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Mark Allerton @markaallerton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

What Americans sound like right now

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I have the book and have just looked through the references. There are 12 in total for the entire thing. 5 are to Matt Goodwin’s own Substack, 3 include a reference to ChatGPT in the UTM, and 1 Telegraph article quotes… Matt Goodwin. It’s the academic equivalent of sniffing your own farts.

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