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Peter Arnott

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A playwright without a theatre is just a poet with a split personality. For permissions etc, Brennan Artists. www.brennanartists.com

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 16h
"We don't need evidence when we blow boats up in the Caribbean..." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail
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@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social @gmcgiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
IS IR PLAUSIBLE THAT AGENTS OF A FOREIGN STATE, FUNDED AND PROVIDED WITH PLAUSIBLE IDENTITIES WOULD, RATHER THAN TRAVEL NORMALLY, RISK THEIR LIVES AT GREAT EXPENSE ON ILLEGAL SMALL BOAT CROSSINGS?? LONG MAY FARAGE REMAIN STUPID AND OBVIOUS IN HIS APPEALS TO THE INTELLECTUALLY STRESSED.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"War is God's way of teaching people geography." If He could get round to history as well, that woud be nice.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The rich are as stupid as everyone else. #356
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He has been looking foward to wiping us out and going to Mars for SO long...
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"End of History"
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A place to start this project of "saving Britain" might be to note that nowhere does the article mention Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. And it only actually mentions one place outside England by name. (New York, btw) None so blind as those will ot see www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain
The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Garn!
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first solution is rarely the final one.
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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ChristmasGifts 🎁
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's a crash course in an historical understanding of the Thirties all right...
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the nineties in Scotland we hadn't invented spelling or running water either...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, I'll be damned. They finally found a spine.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The classic formula is to Vote Republican because they promise to hurt "other people"and then Vote Democrat when you suddenly realize that "other people" inclcluded YOU.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Higher education is good, actually.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hatred and Fear are obviously quite FUN as there's no actual grounds for either or them.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If the proprieters...and the other journalists...let him. So, yes.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do we have your attention? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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German Art Institutions Prepare for a Fight as Far Right Looks to Take Power
As the Alternative for Germany party seeks to control a state government for the first time, its push for “patriotic” art has drawn comparisons with Nazi policies.
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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The two £36mn contributions from crypto billionaires turn out to be an excellent investment. Here's what Nigel Farage has promised them in return. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Reform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaks
Exclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Gulf States have made the lurching discovery that they have been paying fealty to a paper tiger. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/w...
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Rebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great argument. Dems “aren’t sufficiently harnessing public anger over AI data centers to argue for a clean-energy future…aren’t stamping themselves as the only party that wants AI’s gains broadly shared in a truly egalitarian way…and aren’t talking enough about Donald Trump’s role in all of it.”
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15/09/2026
"If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider."
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/comm... But, this means that Britain's wealth was BUILT on the exploited labour of kidnapped Africans. That can't be right, surely?
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Freedom-loving Britain was at the heart of the 18th century slave trade – and this register proves it | William Pettigrew
Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He knew
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You'd have thought so...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Isn't Reform UK the party that said it would consider applying retrospective legislation to Indefinite Leave to Remain a couple of months ago? Got to love that they're prepared to invoke ECHR when it's them that needs it.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who would have thought that the nation state would be the last kine of defence against the bad guys?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc)
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This 👌
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Storm Troopers with Smart Phones. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Number of UK anti-migrant vigilante groups surges in last 18 months
Exclusive: Many ‘use community protection as a cover for racist thuggery’, raising concerns about fresh disorder
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Mass literacy is a recent phenomenon. So is mass democracy. We simply don’t know whether one can survive without the other.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"If only you'd surrender a war you haven't lost, it would make our life...and stealing your stuff...MUCH easier!" kyivindependent.com/ukraines-ref...
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Ukraine's refusal to give up territory to Russia stalls peace deal, Trump envoy says
"Ukraine right now does not want to do that," U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Protecting Our Women" is about PROPERTY, not women's rights. White men have a licence to rape.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now let me think...
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wind Power looking AWFULLY good all of a sudden...
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And we have a winner!
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thing is "War on Terror" doesn't actually MEAN anything. "Terror" is not a place or a movement, even. It's how I am feeling when I feel scared. That's why it has no rules: it's narcissism. It's using real guns on real people till I feel better. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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‘War on terror’: How 9/11 changed the language of conflict
The events of September 11, 2001 spawned a new lexicon which effectively sanitised the erosion of human rights.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is, as ever, excellent.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He still got £36m from from some crook in Hong Kong, so he's FINE !
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As is Lawrence of Arabia, which, despite many people hating it for perfectly good reasons, is another of the high points of British post-war cinema IMO
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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump 'remembers the Falklands Islands as a young boy, a very young boy'. He means the conflict. He was 36.
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tee Hee
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