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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2h

Hunt being treated as a serious commentator on economics shows that British political discourse is broken.

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 3h

Number 1. Wait until you are obviously going to lose then fuck over your successors by doing a ludicrous unfunded cut, relying (correctly) on them to be too chickenshit to say "well obviously that is just stupid and a trap for us we are not going to fall for so we will reverse it"

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3h

We're going to see a lot more of this. Reform splashing huge amounts of crypto-billionaire cash outside of the regulated election period (where spending caps apply)

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3h

I couldn't see the connection between the discussion of high energy prices with the idea that we are obsessed with cheap goods.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3h

I hope the article is more sophisticated than this summary.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4h

Just the founder of ACT for America urging British voters to "to take your country back" As Matt Goodwin might say "can't you see what's happening here?".

Brigitte Gabriel

Why hand your country to a citizen of a failed Islamist state who fled Somalia's collapse...only to swear on the Quran in the Commons?

Britain once ruled the waves. Now it hands Parliament seats to refugees from places that can't govern themselves, all so the guilt-ridden Left can atone for Empire.

Somalia collapsed under clan warfare and radical Islam. The UK's answer? Import the same culture and put it in power.

Give your pence and then go take your country back.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4h

Disregard for the natural environment was a badge of honour for Reeves and Reed, Hopefully things will change but the destruction of peatland in Cheshire isn't a hopeful sign www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes

Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4h

Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 5h

Oh man, they're going to be USELESS at parties now

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 5h

I believe he ought to try this for real, as AI has now demonstrated that it's perfectly safe

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4h

I enjoyed it too but that detail niggled me at the time, and has ever since☹️

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5h

Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Exclusive: Nigel Farage calls on Labour to rule out pacts with Green Party
After Polanksi’s party calls Zionism racist, former Labour minister says: I’m no fan of Reform leader but he’s right here

Labour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma
Reform UK’s leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning. I must have read a different account of what the head of MI5 said.

Telegraph headline

A Brexit rebuke from MI5 is the humiliation Burnham deserves.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17h

Rishi Sunak swore on the Bhagavad Gita. Suella Braverman used the Dhammapada. Forty per cent of MPs in 2024 chose to affirm rather than swear an oath on a religious text. It all counts. It is all part of the British political tradition.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 6h

This is the correct response to how Goodwin phrases so many of his social media posts.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 6h

I’d forgotten he moved to Wolves after Blackburn. Big money signing for the Wanderers who was hopeless in his first season but then came good in 1996-97.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 6h

It did. There has never been anyway of getting between the two without going to Stockport

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 7h

Have to take them when you find them. This season is going to be tough. That was the most extraordinary game and Bolton were a great team back then with McGinlay and Blake up front.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 7h

Awful. You can see why the CPS went for the charge of murder.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 8h

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 7h

I think you mean Super John McGinlay. Got to love the accuracy of AI 😉

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 18h

This really is a major change.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21h

It’s all just so tawdry and embarrassing this administration. Scary and dangerous because of the power wielded but also tacky and pathetic. A formerly great country soiling itself every day, revelling in mediocrity and incompetence

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19h

Cameron would be right up there in my list of the worst post war PMs but he did get some things right.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19h

Battle you say? One of the best matches I’ve ever attended @andywestwood.bsky.social

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20h

The new White House press secretary. 🤦‍♀️

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20h

Again, a constitutional order that cannot immediately remove a leader behaving like this is not really worth saving. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20h

Wasn’t the point I was making. He got a lot of things wrong but he also got some things right, including the case for remaining in the EU. He didn’t sell it well but, again that’s a different point.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20h

In Robert Harris’s Precipice he refers to Asquith taking a train from Macclesfield to Alderley Park, but there has never been a direct line between the two. At which point, someone is going to produce a timetable showing that was a service running between the two via Stockport 😬

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20h

More from the superb article by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Some of us remember how Cameron was mocked in 2016 when he argued that leaving the EU would damage our security. This piece has aged like warm milk www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Trump and Putin are two greedy despots who recognise no boundary between national interest and self-enrichment. They see law not as a restraint on government but as an instrument to be wielded by powerful leaders against perceived enemies. Their approach to domestic politics is gangsterish, based on networks of patronage and tribute. Their view of foreign affairs is imperial, based on the belief that strong states have natural title to territory in their immediate vicinity, and that big countries can trade in the fate of smaller ones like casino chips.
It is as obvious to Trump that Moscow has a seigneurial right over Ukraine as it is that he should be allowed to decide who governs Venezuela and who sells its oil.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 23h

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 21h

We need to take comfort where we find it.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 21h

The very same. For work related reasons I visited Knowsley Hall. Fascinating place.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h

Great piece with truth bombs for both sides.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22h

Chas and Albert Lee are the bedrock of forgotten Brit-country supergroup Head Hands And Feet, whom I like a lot.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22h

"It is not our lack of guts that stops us threatening to kill unarmed men for the crime of being on a boat. It is Jenrick’s lack of humanity that means he can." Back in @theipaper.com, where I really need to ask for a new byline pic

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Robert Jenrick has confused cruelty with courage

Jonn Elledge: The Reform politician thinks he's brave to say what he does – he's actually just got no humanity

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve added some more detail to my OP.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 22h

And they’re also distantly related to the Stanleys of Knowsley, one of whom was executed in Bolton during the Civil War for his role in the “massacre of Bolton”. earlofmanchesters.co.uk/the-earl-the...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 22h

Spot on. He’s just a racist.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a development of Farage’s “just asking questions”.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22h

My Trade Secrets today. Unfair Chinese competition may exist but it’s not the main reason the EU’s car industry is screwed, and tariffs won’t fix it on their own. Companies need to move faster and leave the internal combustion era behind.

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How not to revive Europe’s auto industry

The electric vehicle market shows how legacy EU companies continue to fail when it comes to countering Chinese competition

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 22h

You were saying? He's become very fond of ending posts with questions like this.

Matt Goodwin

A Falklands War veteran has said the dinghies used to smuggle illegal migrants across the Channel should be 'shot'.

He says, 'One machine-gun blast is all it would take... then they would get the message. I just want them to bugger off.'

What do you make of his comments?

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