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Look, if he's going to go to all the trouble of building a new Banqueting House, we might as well put it to it's historically intended use... (Sorry, I realise this is an incredibly niche joke on a serious topic.)

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, the 11-state solution was a totally viable road to peace in South Africa, or something…

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 23h

Was going to make a joke about them naming it F-47 because that’s the year it’ll enter service, then I saw it’s called F-47 after Trump, and I’m not sure you need any more jokes than that.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 23h

Naja, “eine gewählte Linke Abgeordnete in die Fraktion lassen” scheint mir jetzt nicht ein berechtigter Grund zur Verärgerung bei den anderen Parteien.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Der SPD & Grüne geht’s darum einen besseren Deal aus ihrer Wahlniederlage zu verhandeln.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Dann müssen die SPD & Grünen die Hetzkampagne gegen die Linke richtig einordnen und die Sondierungen sofort wieder aufnehmen, richtig?

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

He claimed much later that he intended it to be stealthy, but as with most Nazi luminaries, he was making it up to look better in hindsight.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Horten actually chose the design because it was fuel efficient - they needed to try weird and wonderful designs because the RLM had set absurd range, speed and bomb load requirements.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Linke haben nicht dafür gerade zu stehen, dass die liberalen Parteien es nicht gebacken bekommen, den Fokus auf den Hauptkriegsschauplatz zu halten. Und schon garnicht mal Palästinenser, die unter Völkermord und Kriegsverbrechen leiden.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Geht doch lange nicht um den Koalitionsvertrag. Es geht darum, das die SPD & Grüne entscheiden wollen wer ein mitglied der Linken sein darf. (Viel anderes in dem Papier ist auch zu beanstanden.)

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Welche Partei würde es als Selbstverständlichkeit sehen, den Politikern anderer Parteien die Hoheit über ausschlussverfahren in den eigenen Rängen zu geben?

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m shocked, shocked, I say, to discover Britain is a party to a war it supports with intelligence, fighter screens and basing rights?!

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

To the extent that Patagonia banned a whole load of banks from ordering them.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is A Bad Thing, actually.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Didn’t he write the Sun’s slur-filled piece about the first gay kiss on Eastenders back in the 80’s…

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

Still not decided on the animals, right? I think it’s birds or some famous Europeans, right? I hope they do people for a change…

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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

Ah, fair point. Still a huge corp tax bill at £100m+! Wonder how much of the payout goes to HMRC via income taxes for the performers…

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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 · 06/10/2026

Wait til you find out which company provides twice as much revenue to British government as all North Sea Oil licences put together? (Hint: it’s OnlyFans…) 🤯

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

Part of the problem is that it’s not just this Israeli government though. The next one will likely win an election on a platform of “Bibi did was incompetent and corrupt. We’ll do what he does, but better.” Zionism, by supporting the state in its current form, is clearly what needs critiquing.

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

Also not sure the last time there was a general strike(ish) and major demonstrations all over the country because of housing policy in Britain!

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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 · 04/10/2026

That feels a bit unfair to Kaiserreich, which is “what if Germany won WWI, and then half the world had a utopian communist-syndicalist revolution that (in most games) peaks in a second, communist-syndicalism US Revolution?”

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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 · 30/09/2026

True, but that’s also a different cuisine from British-Indian food, which is an interestingly weird British-adapted form of Punjabi food cooked mostly by Bengalis. The old story about Chicken Tikka Masala coming from perplexed Brits asking “where’s the gravy” when confronted with Chicken Tikka, etc.

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Alasdair @ralasdair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No no, someone in Neukölln who voted Links said that maybe Germany should stop arming a genocide, so now we’re going to have weeks of talk shows about how antisemitic the left is… 🙄

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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

I find it interesting that masking is a predominantly American social/political symbol. In Europe, because Covid-denial and anti-masking/vax nonsense was so far outside the mainstream, it never caught on as a left-of-centre signifier.

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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

Chancellors constantly falling was one of the reasons he got in, so less than you think. The mechanism is easy enough, it’s just that the parties don’t do it.

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

They really really did this to themselves. Badly managed reunification, Hartz IV, Schuldenbremse, a decade of managed decline under Merkel, etc. etc.

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

I mean if you want a socially liberal party that will do financially conservative politics, you can just vote SPD.

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

In the end they beat them by about 8,000 votes. Which is still…not great for them.

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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

Good article that makes good points, but rather ignores that the majority of an immigrants income is likely to be spent in Britain, generating VAT, corporation tax, income tax on the jobs created, etc. etc. etc. Hard to model, but shouldn't be ignored, if we're trying to make an economic argument.

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

This seems like a great way to give every passing cop probable cause to make your day worse.

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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 · 18/09/2026

I just feel like there’s so many more interesting and unknown-ish stories you could tell, even about D-Day? The deception stuff, the mini submarines doing beach recon, 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

Meta really wasn’t keen on my calling Ed Sheeran a bootlicker.

A screenshot of an attempt to post a story (with a caption calling Ed Sheeran a boot licker for throwing Macklemore off his tour) on instagram. A pop up has appeared saying “this caption looks similar to others that have been reported”.

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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 · 12/09/2026

Manila was damaged from fighting, Warsaw was largely deliberately destroyed after the Uprising was put down…

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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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