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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Prime example of the rarely-spotted Benevolent Dictatorship

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

there would be significant room for a Labour Home Secretary to lead a reforming agenda with socially conservative vibes that could unite the party, it’s just that it’s on crime, not immigration

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've thought similar driving through France - places that are essentially large villages routinely have 5 a side pitches/tennis courts

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am no maiden aunt, but my word did I feel like I needed a bath after reading that. Five Stars

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ancient sub sim Silent Service 2 had an option for "historical torpedoes" and I soon learnt that if enabled, you may as well surface next to your target and throw stuff at them, for all the good it would do you

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James Hopkins @jamesw91.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

There's a grim irony that the main benefactors of the Iran War going pear-shaped will be the opposition parties who idiotically cheered it on. Doesn't exactly help that Starmer would rather blame businesses than argue 'prices are going up because of the war that these morons wanted us to fight in'

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

That YouTube clip of Sir Nicholas Winton, but at the end of it the audience gets put on a bus?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

British politics was doomed from the day that Gordon Brown was forced by the media to apologize for calling a bigoted woman a bigot *in private*.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Labour had 9.7 million voters in July 2024. 2 million (20%) now don't know, but haven't chosen a rival. These prefer Lab & centre-left to right 2.6 million to centre/left (27%) 900k Labour to LD (9%) 800k Labour to Green (8%) 900k across others (9%) 800k Lab 2024 to Reform (8%) A sliver to Cons

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

At some point Labour is going to have to deal with its base being urban, multicultural, and in many cases educated. If they solve the current graduate unemployment crisis and the dearth of entry level jobs there would be political dividends for years but the party is incapable of considering this.

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

That is definitely A Middlesbrough Shirt

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Trump is an imbecile but he has the basic cunning of every successful bully and every successful fascist: he knows who is weak and who is strong. He will not send his thugs to attack the groups who are popular, but the groups who are vulnerable. Your choice is whether to defend them or not.

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 01/05/2025

Twitter was like a zoo where both sides thought they were the visitors.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

He was going for a West Country accent, sounds a bit Somerset to me - I thought he was OK, a little broad maybe, but very harsh to be in this thread. The Shire is loosely based on Warwickshire/Worcestershire, but W/country is often the default "Yokel accent"

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Warne - I was vaguely aware of cricket, but had never seen anything like the drift, drop & spitting turn that he got out of a heavy cricket ball. I've never fallen out of love with it, and will still watch any wristspinner going - truly a game within a game.

Australian legspinner Shane Warne mid-delivery

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So much of British political strategy seems to rest on the notion that the median elector is a temporarily-embarrassed Reform voter, who we must continue to hoodwink out of their natural preference of voting for Nigel Farage

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This has been really striking - only a couple of years ago, r/United Kingdom was firmly left of UK centre, now Reform-adjacent. Could happen organically, but seems very unlikely, especially given the site demographics

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We as teachers simply can't repeat the point enough that examinable outputs (essays etc) are actually the means not the end. They're tools we use to get people to intelligently process information. AI completely defeats the points of not just the essay... but being in education *as a whole*.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

What strikes me about the CEO killer is not his specific beliefs but the fact that he was a very recognizable type of young male ideology tourist. He was a This Explains Everything addict, whether the "this" was as benign as Michael Pollan or as malignant as Peter Thiel and the Unabomber. >

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The people saying this are broadly just addicted the drama of recent years and only understand politics through the prism of the Tory party. The Labour Party mechanism doesn’t work in the same way and even if it did there’s no equivalent discontent or political split in the current Labour party.

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I would be far more concerned about the prospect of Conservative resurgence if they showed any sign of listening to the saner voices in the party - as it is, it may take another election defeat & at least one more leader

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

So many other ways Starmer could hit Cons record of tripling net migration to 720-900k without inaccurate hyperbole of open borders (echoing Robert Jenrick). His chaotic inheritance of an asylum hotel backlog is from a botched fantasy attempt to ban asylum, obvs not from an "open borders" experiment

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm not sure I'm who you're asking, but there's still a lot of videos being posted on twitter that you just don't get here, Robelinda being an prominent example. Also a fair few accounts (mostly Indians) that do technical analysis that I'm reluctant to give up on

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/11/2024

not seen it mentioned elsewhere so: my theory is that Elon has become obsessed with Britain because he's essentially stopped sleeping due to drugs and/or madness but for like six hours of his nights Americans are sleeping so Brits are the one English-speaking timezone awake and posting

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Good grief. Even when you're aware of the extent of gerrymandering in the abstract, seeing how openly it's been adopted is still a bit shocking

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A feathered visitor left a calling card - hopefully not too hard a bang, happy to say that he flew straight off afterwards

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Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

My policy on fireworks: Nov 5th - laudable, subsidised; cherubic youngsters eating municipal hotdogs & waving free sparklers Other Dates - 2-3yr stretch in the salt mines, depending on how the 5 Year Plan is looking

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James Barišić 🇭🇷 @james.barisic.fr · 05/11/2024

The most important question in British politics is this: There are 120 Labour MPs holding government positions. There are 121 Tory MPs. Assuming the Tories appoint a shadow for each government officeholder, which one Tory MP will be the backbencher?

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