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robert-the-cat.bsky.social @robert-the-cat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Unai "I always shake the other coach's hand" Emery: straight down the tunnel.

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robert-the-cat.bsky.social @robert-the-cat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

So, Mr Neville, is Rosenior's masterplan in the room with us now?

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robert-the-cat.bsky.social @robert-the-cat.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I fear we won't finish this game with 11.

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robert-the-cat.bsky.social @robert-the-cat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This is brilliant. Especially the "Beetlejuice principle".

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Here @johnspringford.bsky.social sets out what you need to know about the latest dangerous silliness on the GFA.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr

Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

NEW Who has control over "legitimate" coercive and lethal force? How President Donald Trump is forcing perhaps the most basic question in constitutional law Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/who-has-co... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/08/9394/

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Who has control over "legitimate" coercive and lethal force?

How President Donald Trump is forcing perhaps the most basic question in constitutional law

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London. "The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view." open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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They hate London because it is beautiful

Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.

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robert-the-cat.bsky.social @robert-the-cat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Intense first half. Team doing us proud. Can we keep it going?

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robert-the-cat.bsky.social @robert-the-cat.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Well, that's wiped the smile from Martinez's chops.

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robert-the-cat.bsky.social @robert-the-cat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Refereeing masterclass in incompetence from Darren England today.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

NEW By me Thinking about a revolution Some things are changing rather fundamentally and the way we think should perhaps change too Includes Monty Python, Yeats, and C.S.Lewis Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/thinking-a... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/03/thin...

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Thinking about a revolution

Some things are changing rather fundamentally and the way we think should perhaps change too

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

America has turned on its triends
Trump's abandonment of his country's allies is real and will endure
Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. Those who thought America was a friend or ally, notably Ukraine and Nato, are dropping once safe assumptions to cope with a world in which America is an unabashed predator. Countries that were treated by Washington as adversaries, notably Vladimir Putin's Russia, are suddenly America's friend.
There were hinge moments in history when the US displayed its character as global leader, such as Dwight Eisen-hower's repudiation of Anglo-French imperialism in the 1956 Suez crisis, or
Ronald Reagan's 1987 exhortation to the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. They defined the world's idea of America. Trump's assertion this week that Ukraine "should have never started" the war is the dark version of those. His account of Russia being provoked to invade Ukraine came straight from Putin's talking points. So too was JD Vance's Valentine's Day speech in Munich in which the US vice-president identified liberal democracy as Europe's real threat from within.
These moments will live in infamy.
What do they tell us about what is com-ing? First, there should be no doubt that Trump's contempt for allies and admiration for strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump's instincts were curbed by the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is the real article. It is entirely possible that figures like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, or Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, still believe in the US-led alliance that each once championed. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Each displayed fealty to Trump's predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Uk…

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