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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wieso sind die Wahlen zum Ministerpräsident in Deutschland geheim? Die Unterstützung einer Regierung ist ein hochpolitischer Akt, der von den Wählern beslohnt oder bestraft werden sollte.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Climate change will kill more Britons and damage the economy more than enemy missiles this century. Yet somehow, everyone pretends it’s too expensive to do anything about, while spaffing billions on imaginary missile defence systems.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pedro Sanchez is the best (in lots of ways) left of centre politician in Europe right now.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This. Global liberalism has failed to respond to demographic and economic crisis and fascism is appearing in a number of advanced economies, precisely because they are advanced economies and capital is actively supporting fascism (just like the last time…)

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Funny how the cops suddenly ban masks when there’s a counter-protest. Where was the mask ban when uniformed paramilitaries threatened the RNLI?!

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The replies under this are very Bluesky. Anyway, this would be positive and frankly more of a legacy than anything Starmer did. He should do it.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Germany is where a minor sourcing error in your 20-year old PHD kills your political career, but ZDF can dub Gazan children “being killed” by the Israelis as “starving” and nobody cares.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎶 It was back in nineteen forty-two I was a member of a good platoon We were on maneuvers in-a Louisiana One night by the light of the moon The captain told us to ford a river That's how it all begun We were -- knee deep in the Big Muddy But the big fool said to push on 🎶

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you want a learning Berlin voting Left, it’s the same as everywhere else. People want ideas and action. Centrist parties need to learn that you can Just Do Stuff.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good news from Berlin. Interesting polling miss in the run up too - polls had The Left and CDU neck and neck. In the end the Left won 25% to 18%.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Candidates doing videos in other languages is going to be the new "Obama-style Campaign Emails" isn't it? Mamdani did it and won, so they'll all try. It's all over the Berlin election, the centrists sniggered when Polanski did it, but then do it themselves, etc. etc.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Canada and the EU building a closer alliance is great. But it feels a bit…off that the white settler colony that genocided its indigenous population is the one that’s getting a sweetheart deal.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran is a boot licker. That is all.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I got arrested for blocking the highway in 2003. Glad to see that if only I’d worn a black balaclava, the coppers would’ve let us block that military base for as long as we liked.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

These people literally have one single idea. To an idiot with a hammer, everything looks like a money-supply problem.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Could not have happened to a nicer, etc. etc.

Screenshot of a tagesspiegel Headline: Update / Verdacht der Bestechlichkeit: Durchsuchungen bei Berliner SPD-Spitzenkandidat Steffen Krach

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Labour really will be the handmaidens of fascism in Britain. A great shame on a once great party.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very weird to see a politician of the right not sound like the need an extended stay in a mental health facility.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So Tommy Robinson is getting prosecuted for conspiracy, right?

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Isn’t this also a massive police intelligence failure? This was surely planned online and I can’t imagine fascist goons have great opsec.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Multi-year jail sentences on the extinction rebellion precedent for all these guys, right? Right? Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover

Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Guys, why are we not using all this advanced technology for childcare? I want someone working on a humanoid robot that calculates 500000 times a second to be able to accurately spoon smashed dragonfruit into a wriggly babies mouth.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s so shameful, the British, Australian and Canadian governments will…continue to supply Israel with weapons and intelligence. Oh.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So the British government could stop the illegal US war of aggression against Iran more or less at will, but chooses not to.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Those disposable barbecues must be heating up the climate more than we thought if that’s the solution.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Broke: American Civil War Woke: British Civil Wars Bespoke: Spanish Civil War

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Worth noting this is the legacy of all of America’s illegal wars of the last 80 years coming home to roost. Trump just couches it in more egregious terms than Democrats or mainstream Republicans do when they start wars of aggression.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

More crimes against humanity from Trump’s regime. Yet no government in Europe is speaking out about it. Awful. www.nbcnews.com/world/rcna59...

nbcnews.com

Cuba plunges into darkness as electric grid collapses

The power crisis is driven by ⁠fuel shortages and severe U.S. sanctions.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The awful attack on Berlin’s CSD will let all the usual types mask the fact that if you’re going to be attacked or harassed at a CSD in (especially east) Germany, it’s overwhelmingly likely to be by right-wing white men, not Islamists, and certainly not people of Muslim heritage in general.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Andy Burnham’s first choice as PM will be whether to continue to take part in an illegal war of aggression and abetting war crimes. (Don’t hold your breath. It took Blair years to become a war criminal, Burnham looks to do it within a week.)

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Like, if I had Elon Musk’s money, we’d be 10 seasons into the 25-season prestige TV adaptation of the Patrick O’Brian novels…

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Kind of mad that CNN has simply given up describing tariffs correctly. Canada aren’t “already paying” US import taxes the US levies on US customers and companies importing goods from Canada…

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The only thing between us and Reform being largest party in 2029 is Farage’s grift and the hope that 5% of the electorate vote for the even worse fascists instead, because it certainly isn’t Andy Burnham, on this showing.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Every time I see this, it makes me so incredibly angry. Not because of who she is, but because of what it means for Burnham’s premiership.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Didn’t watch England (in Japan, so the time zones are bad), but did they really sit back and try to defend a draw? Hasn’t the entire World Cup shown that simply doesn’t work?

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Burnham’s bottled it. Another small step in the descent to fascism.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Dear authors, please stop narrating your own audio books. You may be a great writer, but let the professionals do the narrating. I’ve had to give up a number of audiobooks because the quality of the narration is just not good, and it’s always authors reading their own work.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

One of the things I enjoy about living in a big city is thinking “oh, Morocco must have won their World Cup game, don’t think Berlin’s resident Canadians would be driving around in their cars beeping their horns madly 3 minutes after the game finished…”

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Whatever you think about the USA today, few other countries could've brought forth John Brown, Eugene Debs, Oliver Law, Franklin Roosevelt, MLK, Pete Seeger, Huey Newton, Bernie Sanders, John Lewis and David Graeber. There's a great culture there, even cast in shadow as it currently is.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Prediction: Die Pfilicht eine AU Bescheinigung ab dem ersten Tag der Krankheit zu haben wird nicht die Zahl der Fehltage verringern, tendenziell sogar andersrum.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Gibt es eigentlich irgendeinen Grund weswegen Privatpersonen in Deutschland Schusswaffen besitzen dürfen sollen? Nach Stade erst recht.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Steve Clarke’s resigned. Responsible for some of my best and most frustrating experiences watching Scotland, sometimes in the same match. In the end, I’m glad he’s gone, but still…

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Worst thing about Scotland going out the World Cup is that the British TV doesn't even have to pretend to be interested in a team other than England any more...

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just discovered Radio 4 LW went off air for the final time last night! Growing up abroad, it was always a strange feeling being able to get very quiet, crackly British radio just on the edge of its range…

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Listening to Julian Jackson's A Certain Idea of France. Fascinating, long, detailed book. de Gaulle was a magnificent arsehole. Reprimanding heroes of the Resistance at their first meeting after the Liberation for wearing the wrong kind of ribbon was a bit much, though...

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It is becoming ever clearer that the only future for European social democratic parties is to become the leader of the left-liberal voting bloc by standing up to the fascism that's becoming ever more prevalent. Unclear to me how many social democratic functionaries have actually grasped this.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

When (rather than if) Burnham caves to the far-right and vested interests and demotes the only cabinet minister with actual ideas, it will essentially be the end of his modernising project before it’s even begun. He will, like Starmer, be stuck in the past where the far-right need mollifying.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

ALL trains in Germany suspended because of an issue with the radios. Gosh.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The weird, coincidental love affair between the Tartan Army and Major League Baseball is one of my favourite random stories of the World Cup.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For the Starmer administration, “tough choices” somehow always meant “what I’ve been itching to do for years and think the bond markets/imaginary working class racists would like me to do”.

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