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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland should be ruled according to the will of its people. Also on Substack: pontifex.substack.com

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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 20h
If a low crime country imports lots of people from a high crime country, crime will likely go up. Since people don't want to be victims of crime, this is bad. Therefore it makes sense for countries to be wary of importing people from higher-crime societies.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
But we're not all the same. Humans aren't fungible. E.g. the level of homicide varies widely between countries.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
My ideas on what the EU should be like: pontifex.substack.com/p/european-d...
pontifex.substack.com
European Defence Policy: how Europe could rule the world
a European Military Alliance would deter Putin and Xi, and could eventually become the most powerful geo-political entity
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I have always been pro-Europe but the EU is its own worst enemy at times. I voted to remain in 2016, but i don't know how I would vote in any future referendum.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The EU needs to interfere a lot less in what its members do internally, and be much more focussed on defence against external threats, both military and economic (e.g. Trump's tariffs). And remove vetoes -- foreign and military policy needs to be decided by qualified majority.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What's sad and maddening is that the EU is still a shit sandwich in that if you want to have the parts you like, you are required to accept things you don't like.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
According to Musk, Trump did it. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
telegraph.co.uk
Musk turns on Ukraine by limiting Starlink
Kyiv claims restrictions on critical communications devices were implemented without warning
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Labour promises electoral reform in their 1997 manifesto, and reneged. Why should I believe them ever again?
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The winner of the next election will be the bloc that is most united. So it'd be unsurprising if Reform and Tories are considering a pact. pontifex.substack.com/p/the-unity-...
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The Unity Election
the next government will be decided by unity, not ideology
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mark Carney’s speech to the European Parliament, calling for an “Alliance for the Future” between Canada and the EU. pontifex.substack.com/p/alliances-...
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Alliances 4: Alliance for the Future
Mark Carney's speech to the EU
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
No. (A>B) => ~(B>A)
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You say execution is bad because it is "vengeance" but you also claim that prison is "less merciful". Which is it? I suggest you make your mind up.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The sort of thing that could have come straight out of Der Sturmer.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The winner of the next election will be which one of the left bloc or right bloc is most unified. pontifex.substack.com/p/the-unity-...
pontifex.substack.com
The Unity Election
the next government will be decided by unity, not ideology
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Farage is a thin-skinned would-be tyrant.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Most would probably join Restore Britain.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A de facto indyref is the obvious way ahead, given that WM are unlikely to give us a section 30 one. (They are scared -- rightly so -- that they would lose.)
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nigel Farage seems to fall out with people rather a lot. it was the same when he led UKIP.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Totally agree, as I wrote back in 2021, Visa shouldn't have the power to shut down OnlyFans (or any other site), only a democratically elected govmt should have that power. pontifex.substack.com/p/should-vis...
pontifex.substack.com
Should Visa have the power to shut down OnlyFans?
Payment processors vs democracy
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Being too corrupt for FIFA takes some doing!
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
pontifex.substack.com/p/alliances-...
pontifex.substack.com
Alliances 2: Rasmussen's Alliance of Democracies
7 democracies to save the world!
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our democracy. Sign the open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...
actionnetwork.org
Dear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting system
Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our demo...
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Spelling "vial" as "vile" is simply vile.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Will Nigel Farage lose his Clacton constituency to joke candidate Count Binface? pontifex.substack.com/p/is-farage-...
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Is Farage losing his touch?
it looks like it
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Links 67: confirming my long-held belief that the UK ruling class is contemptible, weak, stupid, nasty, and above all incapable of governing in the interests of the country pontifex.substack.com/p/links-67-u...
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Links 67: UK cast adrift in an open boat
while Lloyds debanks the Canary
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
pontifex.substack.com/p/al-carns-f...
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Al Carns for PM?
or a place in a Burnham government
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
pontifex.substack.com/p/links-66-m...
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Links 66: Moscow burns!
plus the art of the deal, Iran edition
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A lot of people don't like the ruling class.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Labour are a large part of the ruling class. In fact it doesn't get much more ruling class than being a head of government.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Why was Starmer such an unpopular PM? And will Burnham do any better? pontifex.substack.com/p/why-was-st...
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Why was Starmer so unpopular?
landslide victory to resignation in under 2 years
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
After Burnham wins Makerfield, will he be the next prime minister? pontifex.substack.com/p/burnham-wi...
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Burnham wins Makerfield
while Tories win Aberdeen South
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Putin attacks Starmer's car and home pontifex.substack.com/p/russia-set...
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Russia sets fire to Starmer's car and home
Britain must respond forcefully to prevent future attacks
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
pontifex.substack.com/p/links-65-g...
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Links 65: gig economy terrorism
things I found interesting
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Agreed. People who chose to live near pubs and then complaining about noise, is absurd.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Defence secretary resigns in protest because Britain refuses to fund defence adequately. Maybe we should go the whole hog and replace our armed forces with a white flag? pontifex.substack.com/p/defence-se...
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Defence Secretary John Healey resigns
along with Armed Forces Minister Al Carns
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
That's because the authorities lean on relatives to get them to make such statements.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Perkwunos strikes again!
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Let us all remember she was outlasted by a lettuce.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Starmer comes across to me as a fool out of his depth.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
pontifex.substack.com/p/many-belie...
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Many believe anti-white racism by the police is endemic
and they find it intolerable
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Politicians should be panicking. Why aren't they? pontifex.substack.com/p/do-panic
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Do Panic!
Why aren't politicians panicking? They should be.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Who will win the Makerfield by election? And what will be the repercussions of that? pontifex.substack.com/p/makerfield...
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Makerfield by election poll
Burnham's the front-runner
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Something similar was done on ships during WW1.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Re compatible spare batteries, it would be good if batteries are mandated to be standardized types.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Anyone else? I'm advocating STV with topups, so the implied threshold is approximately that of the number of seats returned. pontifex.substack.com/p/is-single-...
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Is Single Transferable Vote the best voting system ever?
an ideal voting system
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I stand corrected -- I wasn't aware of that about Netherlands.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Netherlands has no threshold -- only the implied one from it electing 150 members.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Having an artificial threshold is a rather important part of a voting system! As well as being undemocratic because it discriminates against small parties.
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If you just had one big national list, then parties would be able to get elected on 1% of the vote or maybe a little less. This would make a big difference to small parties, particularly as they would get more votes (as it would no longer be a wasted vote).
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Ponti Min 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pontimin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Surely the easiest was to increase proportionality would be to scrap the 8 regions and have the 56 top up seats allocated nationally?
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