Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 12/09/2026£35m from a convicted money launderer who lives in Hong Kong. Multiple police and parliamentary inquiries into Reform UK funding. Absolutely nothing to see here. 0133
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Spare me the ‘tributes’ and ‘regrets’. Too late. I did write to The Times last week criticising its coverage of the Arday affair and lack of coverage of larger scandals in the university sector. Not published of course. 021
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Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The VC of the Uni of Greater Manchester has just been sacked for misuse of over £1m of university funds. Hardly a mention in the media. Not black so not newsworthy. 2393148
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Saw the Aurora play last year - I think there is an additional intensity when they play from memory. I’m a jazz musician, who needs dots? 😁 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Burnham will give Labour its Liz Truss moment. Remember when he was campaigning for the leadership - hopeless on issues outside his health ministerial brief, particularly economics. A changed politician since then? Really? In recent weeks the more exposure that he’s had, the lower his ratings. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Really depressing. Abuse of Starmer is the latest aspect of the politics of resentment. 010
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I remember seeing Burnham in the hustings for the Labour leadership . Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. His supporters say he’s now a changed politician. 🤔 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Of course Blair got close to another US president, following him into the second Iraq war. That went really well, 601,000 excess deaths according to research published in The Lancet. I don’t normally agree with Corbyn, but he got it about right on Blair: a man in denial. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Now we will discover Streeting’s primary motivation - fixing the NHS or advancing his own career. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It’s Brexit v2.0. Early to see the full analysis but appears a strong correlation between areas that voted Leave and Reform. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 21/04/2026We know the right wing media will always ways want to take a Labour government down. Who leaked the vetting debacle to The Guardian, whose scoop it was? 040
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Is that the same Simon Case who resigned on health grounds before he was sacked? 🤔 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Of course Robertson’s juxtaposition of defence spending with the ‘welfare economy’ is a typical Tory attack line. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Hopefully, someone is pointing out to US military personnel that obeying orders is not a legal defence. Some of us remember the trial and conviction of William Calley after the My Lai massacre. 120
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Vance’s complaint that the EU is interfering in the Hungarian election is beyond satire. 040
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Watching Sky News in the UK. Interesting that they have not redacted the ‘f’ word or ‘bastards’ in Trump’s recent crazy post but they have completely deleted the blasphemous sentence. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Is there something in the water at University of Kent ? Furedi, Goodwin…,, 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 16/03/2026According to The Guardian account, a five year old boy, blind and with learning disabilities, lethally shot in the face. With total impunity. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 16/03/2026NATO was created for the mutual defence of its member states, not to follow over the top any country that started a war of choice. 091
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Nothing released yesterday that wasn’t already reported in the New Statesman a few weeks ago. 010
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The 1962 Liberal by-election win was supposedly the end of the two party system. Extrapolations from by-election results are very dubious. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Compare with Laura Kuhnsberg’s hostile interview with Bridget Phillipson. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I think we should give the appropriate respect to the person named by New Statesman as the 43rd most influential right wing political figure in the UK. 😀 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The Guardian today wallowing in psychobabble about the Labour leadership rather than any serious political/policy analysis. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Correct decision by the NEC. Burnham’s performance in the shadow cabinet showed he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Only reinforced by tactical naivety this weekend. 020
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Johnson’s speech was like an undergraduate essay - desperately name checking every reference that he thinks will please his tutor. Mentions of Churchill, Thatcher etc, but none of course of Harold Wilson - the Labour PM who resisted US pressure to get involved in Vietnam. 031
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Trump’s performative foreign policy is intended to distract from his domestic failure. Expect another escalation when the next cache of Epstein files are due. 010
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 08/01/2026No comparison between Channel 4 News and the anodyne, self-censoring BBC news (and its hopeless website). 010
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The politics of distraction from domestic woes, paid for with the lives of other people in far away places. 040
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 03/01/2026We now see the lengths Trump will go to distract from his dismal domestic performance and sex scandals. Where is the Bertolt Brecht for our times to write a contemporary equivalent of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, the rise of gangsterism in US politics? 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 03/01/2026No sympathy for Maduro but this emboldens Putin, Xi and other authoritarians who have no respect for the rule of law or sovereignty of other nations. 030
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Yet again Trump professes to believe a foreign head of state rather than his own intelligence agency. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Reminds me of the joke: A Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a pub. The bartender says, “What’ll you be having Andy?” 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The arrests are a complete abuse of the MCA 88 legislation. So much for free speech. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The usual sycophantic BBC coverage of the visit is in progress. 020
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 08/09/2025She’s caught the Trumpian virus of random capital letters. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 31/07/2025This is horrifying: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comThe mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in GazaIsrael controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in 020
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Apologists for the Israeli government invariably describe Israel as a liberal democracy, when of course it is described by many reputable authorities as an apartheid state. 020
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Meanwhile, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy obsesses about the BBC not censoring anti-IDF chants at Glastonbury. 040
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 05/07/2025www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j... Of course, Nandy has nothing to say about the BBC refusing to show Gaza: Doctors Under Attack.theguardian.comLisa Nandy questions lack of BBC sackings over Gaza war documentaryCulture secretary says BBC must ‘get a grip’ in wake of film featuring son of Hamas official and Bob Vylan Glastonbury row 010
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Having Googled the incident, my memory could have played tricks. The attack on Eysenck was in 1973 at the LSE, whilst at Sussex there was a sit-in to oppose the visit of US historian Samuel Huntington. Happy days. 010
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 21/06/2025I was an undergraduate at the University of Sussex in the early 1970s. When Eysenck visited to give a lecture a fellow student punched him in the face for being a racist. I didn’t approve but I think we’ve known about Burt and Eysenck for a long time. 110
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 18/06/2025….and of course he needed an excuse to leave the G7 meeting. Alongside leaders of any capability he just looks a buffoon. 000
Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Why is it never called out by the mainstream media that Israel has nuclear weapons? It’s the hypocrisy…. 010
