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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 1h

This reminds me of the fact that being pro-death penalty was the factor most strongly correlated to support for Brexit, that and having a preference for well done steak.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16h

This illustrates not just the hypocrisy but the self-defeating nature of Trump's policies. Under MAGA doctrine, he enacts protectionism, trashes the alliance with Europe, and demands Europe take more responsibility for its own defence, and then finds it has consequences the US dislikes.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 21h

I appreciate that certain people may genuinely think FPTP is a superior system over and above the fact that it has served their parties well in the round, but I wonder how that will change if fragmentation becomes embedded like in the Netherlands.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saw something in the news, wanted to make the something about himself, inserted himself into the news cycle, and then when they were released is doubling down on that because it keeps him in the news. Classic Donald pattern tbh

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is excellent from @stephenkb.bsky.social on one of my biggest concerns: the slow erosion of our shared reality as media fragments and people operate entirely seperate bubbles. We see the consequences of this in the States. A framented polity that can't agree on first principles is ungovernable

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Keep Our Kids Safe! [for 60 days]

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still, at least all the people urging drastic reductions in migration will congratulate the government for enacting their policy preferences, acknowledge this inevitable trade-off and not make opportunistic attacks on the government for having lost control of the public finances.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Curtice identifies a key red flashing light in the MRPs - Labour are falling furthest in seats where Labour are first and con, ref or Nat are second. Labour therefore do a lot *worse* than uniform swing would predict (having done much better than uniform swing in 2024)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Only Die Linke can save Germany from Fascism 2.0, the proof of concept for this theory is their ability to win a quarter of the vote in Berlin tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...

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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can anyone explain to me why this article doesn't mention anywhere that small boat crossings are down 42% from last year? That doesn't mean it's not an issue 781 people arrived in one day. But it seems like the sort of context a reputable news source might mention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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No 'switch' to stop small boats, Lucy Powell tells BBC

Labour's deputy leader was speaking to BBC local radio ahead of the party's annual conference

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good on Badenoch to get you so perplexed by the first statement you don't even engage with her intention to fight a winter election in the middle of a potentially major international energy crisis on a platform of slashing financial support from the state

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Again, Grassley seems full on panicked about this which should tell us that things are apocalyptically bad for Republicans in Iowa rn

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We've seen this a lot with Trump, when question of law enforcement becomes corrupted by political gamesmanship, even if it comes from good intentions. 'Arresting/prosecuting him will only make him stronger'. Maybe, but not enforcing the law equally also has a whole range of toxic downstream effects.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are lots of things Democrats must do to restore the rule of law & democracy in the months & years ahead. But high up the list is that Musk & everyone involved in DOGE must face serious legal consequences for perhaps the most unprecedented violation of Article I of the Constitution in 🇺🇸 history

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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this whole clip is so good

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If Putin accepts, every European leader (at least) should boycott the event. The G20 no longer serves the useful purpose it had during the global financial crisis, when it was founded, so nothing that matters will be lost by not being there.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As much as I vehemently disagree with JRM on most issues, I do have to respect that he has some consistent principles (see also his stance on Shamima Begum) which may be a low bar, but it's still one many of his peers fail to clear.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

It remains shocking watching it in real time as commentators and news reporters try to impose coherence and summarise his ramblings.

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“The Ukrainians could bomb oil refiners and jack up the cost of diesel right before my party faces a major election” would be the kind of consideration a non-moron would consider before they nuke their ability to influence Ukraine by withdrawing aid

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Dominance is the arrogance of the hegemon", "diversity confers advantage", "Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep co-operation in the full range of strategic capabilities", an effective pitch of free movement and North Atlantic Erasmus+, I mean, holy good *HELL*...!

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I suspect that for Nandy and her cohort, 4x GE defeats, Brexit and the loss of Labour hegemony in Scotland have engendered a profound loss of confidence to the extent that even something as evidentally absurd as this gets parsed as 'reasonable concerns'

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Should have guessed that the thing that would eventually kill off the right's interest in grammar schools would be non-white kids doing too well in the 11+.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One thing that I marvel at in a very literal sense of the word is the current version of the GOP's coalition-building abilities. This is a very big tent.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is going to generate a lot of discourse (which is obviously the explicit intention) but would be really helpful to know what % of eligible voters in H&SP aren't sufficiently fluent in English.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Got a job in a bank 3 months before Bear Stearns went belly up, got a job in UK-EU affairs just as Brexit was taking off as a concept, and now, to complete the hat-trick, I've decided to embark on a teaching career just as the government embarks on a massive curriculum shakeup.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Never a days goes past that I don't give thanks for being able to live in the Golden Era of Free Speech

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is maddening that "Russiagate was a BlueAnon feverdream" has become conventional wisdom across much of the political spectrum when the public record all but confirms the maximalist interpretation of Russiagate.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You’ll never guess what the call to action is? Is it use their massive majority to? … no not that

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I find fascinating/terrifying is do they really not understand, or do they understand but don’t know what to do and don’t want to admit it? It’s an important distinction, but the failure of much of the mainstream means no one seems capable of interrogating what they really think.

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And now another £36m. Two crypto billionaires. £72m to one political party in two days. More than every UK political party received combined last year. This isn’t healthy political participation. It’s a flashing red warning about the power of extreme wealth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record

Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.

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What Evera @velvet-demon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No co ty nie powiesz.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What I find fascinating about this is that it suggests that there are people who will accept everything up to a certain point - ICE death squads, threats to annex neighbouring countries, flagrant corruption etc - but then one specific thing will be the final straw.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"attempting to erect some conservative intellectual scaffolding" is just a great turn of phrase

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As a somewhat Westminster-adjacent person between 2011 and 2025 there was no shortage of insidery anecdotes on how Truss was problematic for whole host of reasons (on top of what was just plainly obvious anyway) but a) she wasn't unique b) her ministerial performance record was at least OK.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It still melts my brain that the then PM and then Home Secretary felt compelled to issue commentary on Kirk's murder in real time.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Can't help but think that if this were a Labour council, there would be a lot of coverage and commentary around their contempt for sacred British traditions www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Curbs on vertical drinking in Soho pubs to go ahead as Khan criticises council’s ‘breathtaking arrogance’

Exclusive: London mayor accuses council of ‘ignoring’ responses to a consultation

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Pakistani cricket team hotel incident has reminded me of the time when a paediatrician was mistaken for a paedophile and forced out of her home. Really not a good thing that disinformation fueled vigilantism appears to be on the rise again. www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/...

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Doctor driven out of home by vigilantes

Self-styled vigilantes attacked the home of a hospital paediatrician after apparently confusing her professional title with the word “paedophile”, it emerged yesterday.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/09/2026

"How could Rubio rationalize keeping a high school student in a makeshift prison camp that was meant for the 'worst of the worst'? The answer is stupider and more enraging than you could possibly imagine."

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Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins

America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Even setting aside the synagogue attendance issue here, if you reverse engineer the logic here, it really is that what Israel does barely matters, if at all, its others' responses to that which generate anti-semitism, a position that is inherently absurd.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Obviously I really want Polish-German relations to be positive but it is kind of darkly funny that after 2 decades of being called a German agent who hates Poland, Tusk could now seize and wield the anti-German cudgel against the nationalists over their ties to AfD www.politico.eu/article/alte...

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Far right’s rise in rapidly re-arming Germany gives Poland cause for concern

“Only idiots or traitors” in Poland could celebrate successes of German far right, says Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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We are invited to giggle at Musk and his goons' cluelessness on how state institutions function, but the laughter abruptly stops as the human cost of halting USAID payments is counted: the estimated 14mn people who, we are told, will die due to USAID cuts, 4.5mn of them children under five.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A frequent frustration of mine is that when politicians are asked about Musk the questions allow them to hide behind euphemisms whereas what would be revealing would be to read this out verbatim and ask them to comment

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reminder that Harry thought that UK MPs who maintained friendly relations with European political figures during Brexit were essentially guilty of treason, now here is validating and amplifying calls for direct foreign interference in UK governance

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I get the whole exercise is about going through the motions but even so this list is bizarre. Hitting back at the UK government by sanctioning 11 UK MPs, of whom only 2 hold the government whip? There are also plenty more Labour MPs with views that are in broadly same space as Burgon & Shah?

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