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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto

PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It would be quite 'something' if, after all the talk of leaving the EU to create CANZUK, there ends up being CANZEU without the UK

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It would be analytically helpful and less irritating if more Brits looked at emerging frameworks between the EU and Canada from the perspective of Canadian strategic interests rather than whether they save the British from their delusional blunders. Ottawa is not doing this to save London..

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026

There's an argument for calling them masked thugs, because that is factually true. There's an argument for calling them pathetic cosplaying loser incels, also true, and laughing at them damages their tough-guy self image and hurts recruitment. There is no argument for calling them protesters.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Currently somebody in Thailand can immediately influence British politics by simply paying £5 million...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s smart, actually, that European leaders are not trying to move political conversation away from this guy’s platform. It has huge upsides, definitely.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Two things. One of the main exploitation methods of those spreading misinformation is to take normal scientific arguments over details and suggest they imply doubt over an entire subject. The second, what is ‘at best’ supposed to imply other than that the idea that long covid itself is a lie?

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

i get it, we are all fucking irony poisoned, no longer allowed to feel good about anything, everything has to be either 100% good or it's all shite but i had some discussions last night with people, and the relief from the pent-up anger and frustration of the past sixteen years is palpable

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Anca B. @b-anca.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I was born in a Romania that was only beginning to learn how to breathe freedom. Even though we were geographically part of Europe, back then we didn’t feel that we truly belonged. 🧵 📷Octav Ganea, Bucharest, March 15 2025, "EuRo Manifest"

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

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Anca B. @b-anca.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

For me, as an Eastern European, the USSR meant occupation, repression, loss of freedom, and hunger, not emancipation. When the Western Left ignores these experiences, it reproduces the very exclusion it claims to criticize.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This won't kill this technology, it just makes pharma a sector dominated by European, Chinese and Indian corporations

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Founding Fathers were total idiots just like the rest of humankind. And like the idiots they were they left broad avenues through which any malign idiot could drive a coach and four if they were so disposed. But you’re not allowed to say that.

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Are we seriously still at the stage of dictating what the EU “should do”? And these are supposedly enthusiasts for closer alignment. God help this benighted country.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

UK governments of the 2000s and 2010s managed to buy short term "world-beating" status for British universities through a tuition fees and student loans bubble whose subsequent deflation has destabilised the sustainability of UK higher education. A practical and moral policy failure

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Also could everyone stop comparing the loss rate of UK Prime Ministers with Italian politics? Despite all its many problems, since 2015 the Italian political scene has been a paragon of stability compared to the chaos enveloping the UK.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

11. This story is being spun as one bad apple. That awful man went off-piste and betrayed the national interest. Yes, he did, and he did it secretly in his disgraceful dealings with Epstein. But in other respects he undermined democracy with the full backing of the government. It was the policy.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 20/01/2026

🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Europe is heading to a point where Atlanticism becomes equated with Appeasement

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

That most voters don't seem to care is a significant indicator of the growing divergence between the wider public's image of the UK's place in the world and the continuing aspirations of UK media and political elites to retain some final vestige of great power status

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

There was a time when I'd have cared deeply about the BBC. But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone. Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

With a collapse of social norms no constitution can act as a total barrier on the road to disaster But a written constitution can provide enough legal speedbumps to slow momentum and give more time for a defence for democracy Without one the UK system gives a fascist leader a smooth speedway

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It’s beyond pathetic. The mainstream media, on the whole, is comprised of feckless cowards and shameless hypocrites.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The Tomahawks were never going to Kyiv. Moscow will not get its new Yalta. A Budapest summit will end as another loud diplomatic farting noise that doesn't help Zelensky, Orban or Putin. A lot of people need to get used to how useless America will be in a post-American world

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know… www.nokings.org#map

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading:

"NO TYRANTS
INDIVISIBLE
LONDON UK"

Below this heading, the event details are listed:

Date: Sat, Oct 18

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK)

The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled “RSVP” in white text.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Translation: British coach drivers routinely overstay unlawfully in Schengen.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A truly anomalous event here, where someone in the political class is facing the consequences of their actions. An absolute impossibility in the UK or USA.

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

BBC headline signed Chris Mason at Farage conference: “Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before.” Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?” Fuck you, BBC.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“It just could not happen in Britain.” It’s hard to express the fury that sentence generates inside me.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Responses to the latest Russian drone incursion over Poland show how in hyperactive social media discourse the ability of personalist autocracies to move faster than other systems generates a comms advantage that masks long term structural impact of moves initiated by democracies

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I may have said it before, but my God, I hate that man. Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too. Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The thing that makes it hard for me to feel too bad about Rayner is that New Labour and New-New Labour politics is largely based around doing exactly this sort of stuff to people on benefits who don't even have the time or money to get the right legal advice...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.

We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Brexit stoked the belief among the UK Right that pursuing a maximalist agenda is a path to victory. The surrender of much of the UK political establishment to Brexit delusions encouraged the UK Far Right to move more quickly to seize control of the Conservatives and impose their agenda on Britain

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The anti-Eastern European xenophobia of the years building up to Brexit in the 2010s was always going to flip viciously against other social groups once the decline in East European migration accelerated after Brexit

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/08/2025

"Why I took the courageous decision to accept a huge salary with stock options from Zuckerberg after torching my political career, and what I learned about how not everyone in big tech is a perfect person - but crucially not so imperfect that my working for them would be a black mark against me."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

maybe its too blunt of an object but i will go to my grave thinking a big part of why we got here is a refusal to say dumb people and dumb ideas are dumb. we were too polite, and instead we said "that's an interesting take" when we should have said "shut the fuck up, you absolute dumbass."

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