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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One implication of this caricature is that the government that lost power in 1979 somehow didn't champion Western values. Given that it was the last UK government led by a veteran of the war against Nazism, I don't find that very persuasive.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Full respect to the person at the Communication Workers' Union for turning their stand at Labour conference into a New Order tribute

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Misread this as Duncan coming over all

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For anyone here who's 50 or over, or who knows anything much about recent UK history, this is surely reminiscent of one thing. And it's not something I remember being called 'protest'.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

At last we have a PM with a theory of power. But does Burnham's theory cut it? Really chuffed my piece on this, based on a paper for @futuregovforum.bsky.social, is the cover of this month's @prospectmagazine.co.uk Nice nod in the @theguardian.com too www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah no - we have a newer Tom Holland - that's why the elder one has to make his name superlative:

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Chuffed to see these two pieces on the page:

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In which AI struggles to understand the word 'never'; loses.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Absolutely enormous sparrow spotted over south London

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This morning's Politico London Playbook newsletter is 'presented by TikTok'. So there's a cheery message from the sponsors about how TikTok is great for society...but then this:

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So as with this morning's one, you get the awkward spectacle of them reporting on tech firms juxtaposed with messaging from...another tech firm.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In the UK they send out a daily email newsletter called London Playbook which is tbf quite useful & widely read. Lately it's been 'presented' for a week at a time by vrs tech firms, inc. Plntr and Instagram. (This week it's Amazon.) They get to insert a para about why what they do is good.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Nice mention of my Radio 4 series in the Telegraph today. Next episode coming up at 1.45pm.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Er, you can stop your boss demanding you use AI, by changing who employs you. (Which you could do much more freely if you weren't dependent on employment for decent healthcare.)

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sometimes research just straight up smacks you in the face. From the start of Susan Lawrence Davis's 'Authentic History' of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1877 (1924):

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Am I missing something, or has the Politico pun tombola finally exploded under the relentless pressure hose of News?

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Haven't looked at this in decades.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Bleakly revealing that McFadden's response to Simons' resignation is all risk aversion and processology - two of the reasons the government is in this mess: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Will the UK radical right break thru? While we wait...my book on how the US right got lost in its own nightmares is out in paperback! With thanks to: @fotoole.bsky.social @jamesrball.com @rickperlstein.bsky.social @oliverbullough.bsky.social @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @notjessewalker.bsky.social

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

London's jumpiest stairs. (Please do not jump on the stairs.)

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

1974 laughs like the woman spitting coffee in the gif

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Never ceases to entertain me that they named that after the British version of The Day After

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Reform's generous donors have kindly funded a leaflet explaining that Ed Miliband is behind the closing of the Strait of Hormuz. And that what Britain needs is that guy who thought the Truss-Kwarteng budget was brilliant.