Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialLeo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 02/06/2025The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record." 311017445 1K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialLeo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts sayNet zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point out 49680319 680
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialAlina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 11/03/2025 149210094945 21K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Muskrat's gonna love this one. 13282691958 8.3K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you." 893869782 3.9K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age. 229251386112 25.1K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialKai @underantares.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. —W.H. Auden 23817 38
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart. 20083202463 8.3K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say. 298168165419 16.8K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Ukraine represents truth. Russia represents lies. Every time we speak the truth, we support the war effort. Every time we reject lies, we help defeat the enemy. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...open.substack.comThe lies are the pointThe Ukraine war has never been entirely military, or even territorial. It is epistemic. 13675170 675
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialOh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Every accusation this irredeemable piece of human garbage makes is projection. Every single one. www.dw.com/en/ukraine-u... 2485 48
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialYrotitna @yrotitna.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Best comment on this I’ve seen so far is “rapist says Ukraine shouldn’t have worn such a short skirt.” 26222 62
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.social@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025If you’d asked AI to write a piece of Russian propaganda in the style of Donald Trump, this is what you’d get. Well done America, you’ve elected a Russian asset as your President. 441343362 1.3K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/02/2025A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three. 1862823561 2.8K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/02/2025Putin insisting on elections in another country, when he hasn’t had anything approaching a fair election in his own country in years. Yet more irony atop of irony. He has a long track record of interfering and manipulating elections to get an outcome he wants, in foreign countries and his own. 1972095 720
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/02/2025Victoria Derbyshire slams Trump's senior director for counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka on #Newsnight. He can't handle it. SG: "We stand with any nation that wishes to implement its sovereignty & which shares our values." VD: "But not the women killed in the maternity hospital in southern Ukraine?" 59469148 469
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialMark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Burger-eating surrender monkeys. 33210 32
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialLuke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Trump says he will begin negotiations with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Any "deal" will be scripted by Moscow: Russia keeps territory it has stolen, no Nato membership for Kyiv, US military assistance ends. In short, a recipe for betrayal and further war www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump says he has spoken to Putin and agreed to negotiate Ukraine ceasefireUS president says he called Russian leader and agreed to have teams start negotiations immediately 1412463 124
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12/02/2025cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu... 16422 64
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialTrades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 10/02/2025We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton. They weren’t happy. 1441017490 1K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025We need to banish the phrase "claimed without evidence" from journalism. Because 100% of the time it means "This public figure told this lie, but my news organization's conventions prevent me from saying it's a lie, even though it's an obvious lie." Calling a lie a lie ought to be the convention. 281186276 1.2K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025“You realise you’ll go down in history as America’s worst ever President?” “You think there’ll be historians any more?’ 1311614 116
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Between the tariffs, the idiotic threats to Canadian and Danish sovereignty, the destruction of USAID, and the undermining of NATO, it's hard to see what the Trump administration would have done differently in their first 2 weeks if their aim were to destroy US power and global influence. 19552151 552
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...snyder.substack.comThe Logic of DestructionAnd how to resist it 337108925188 10.9K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view. What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer). FFS. 781529406 1.5K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29/01/2025💥 NEW: Disgraced former government advisor Andrew Sabisky - who quit in a 2020 race science scandal - has built a hidden network of 60 Tory researchers, think tank staffers, and journalists to continue pushing politics in a more radical direction. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...investigations.hopenothate.org.ukUnravelling Westminster’s secret influence network | HOPE not hateAn ex-Tory aide linked to race science has created a group of political allies to craft policy in the shadows 39577 95
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialProf Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025After building a career pushing anti-vax views, Robert Kennedy said today (at his confirmation hearings) that all **his kids are vaccinated**. Don’t look at what he says (anti-vax is a lucrative position)- look at what he does. 312846 128
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/01/2025Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social ) 278113333867 11.3K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This is so inspirational. Saying the words to his actual face 681772337 1.8K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialNessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025anyway 63167605519 16.8K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/01/2025"Your sacred cities are made a wasteland ... Jerusalem a desolation". As the world's flagship democracy prepares to kneel before Donald Trump, here's some music by William Byrd: a composer who knew what it was to see the things in which he most believed laid waste. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWAy...youtube.comCivitas Sancti Tui - William Byrd - Tenebrae Choir, conducted by Nigel ShortYouTube video by Tenebrae Choir 54114 41
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Russia: Invades Moldova ‘92 Flattens Grozny ‘99 Uses polonium UK ‘06 Cyber attacks Estonia ‘07 Invades Georgia ‘08 Invades Crimea & Eastern Ukraine ‘14 Downs MH17 2014 Flattens Syria 2015-24 Uses Novicok 2018 Invades Ukraine more 2022-.. Trump: why does Ukraine want to be NATO? 461919519 1.9K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025We have to stop seeing news broadcasting as a traditional format for providing information. It's now just Reality TV based around trending topics: "Nigel is in the kitchen, slagging off Keir to Beth. ... Laura's in the bedroom, bitching about Rachel to Kemi." Understand that, and it all makes sense. 821067 210
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 12/01/2025A quick look on the racism site shows that Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick is apparently outraged at the delays in the criminal justice system. Y’know, the ones caused by the policies that he consistently supported. The ones that he was absolutely fine with when he was in government. 362046485 2K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialCelia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Today the National Trust launched a 10-year strategy with ambitious plans for nature & climate. Almost every paper reported positively - from the Mirror to the Express. Even the Mail. Only one outlet used the word ‘woke’ & framed climate as a ‘culture wars’ issue. The BBC. Why? California’s burning. 26557157 557
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...iandunt.substack.comA little bit of hope after a terrible weekA survival guide to the next four years. 1813040996 3K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2025thread 10606133 606
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Very well said. The man's a hypocrite. Musk’s war on America’s allies on.ft.com/4fLUf2Y 22412 24
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The Trump philosophy, which is shared by the Tories, is easy to understand. Trash all the social ties that bind us together and accumulate as much wealth as possible. The rest of us are losers and merit nothing. 26432 64
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Boris Johnson, 2019: “awful lot of money & an awful lot of police time now goes into these historic offences...£60m I saw was being spaffed up a wall on some investigation into historic child abuse...what on earth is that going to do to protect the public now?” www.theguardian.com/politics/201...theguardian.comBoris Johnson under fire over remarks about child abuse inquiriesLabour criticises suggestion that investigating ‘historic’ offences is a waste of money 28750371 750
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/01/20252025: Chris Philp, "It is not true that the last government took no action" 2019: Boris Johnson criticised the police for investigating historic child abuse cases saying that that money is wasted: spaffed up the wall 21529228 529
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/01/2025maybe I’m missing something but seems curious that Nigel Farage hasn’t turned up for the House of Commons debate on grooming gangs 53832217 832
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialDavid Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Your reminder that neither the Conservative Party nor Reform UK called for a new inquiry into grooming gangs in their manifestos just six months ago. I won’t bother searching for editorials from the same period but I don’t imagine such calls were there either 9578180 578
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 06/01/2025This is a superb piece of writing and analysis by @stephenkb.bsky.social in which he takes apart Tory opportunism and pandering to Elon Musk over the grooming gangs and compares it to Farage’s consistent red line on Tommy Robinson. Compulsory reading.ep.ft.comGood morning. I hope you were able to have a good restorative break. My thanks to Jim, Robert, Miranda, Lucy, Jen, Jude, Chris and Georgina for minding the fort while I was on holiday. 10230127 230
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/01/2025A cautionary tale for the rest of the world that should be studied for decades. The country that imposed economic sanctions on itself. 17497220 497
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/01/2025The economic cost of Brexit to the UK now exceeds what it paid into the EU over its entire 47 years of membership. A colossal, unprecedented act of economic self-harm sold to a nation by grifters and snake oil salesmen. 24899415 899
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Amazing how many Brexiters who wanted to take back control from unelected bureaucrats and foreign billionaires - are suddenly totally in thrall to an unelected billionaire, huh 261248261 1.2K
Reposted by @nelgodfrey.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Of course the right wing howler monkeys have gone nuts at Sadiq Khan being honoured. Didn’t hear a peep when it was Charlotte Johnson, Shaun Bailey, Hannan, Coffey, Cameron, Frost… You know…*actual* failures, non-entities, losers and liars who’ve done untold damage to our democracy and our country. 451267368 1.3K