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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

One my favourites so far this year.

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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Random poll where brits express their desire for some foreigners to pay for their stuff.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Another example of where I think of France. If you live in France you are French.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This applies as much to the private sector as the public, btw.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Just finished @samfr.bsky.social excellent “failed state”, it is a kind of modern Austrian critique, reminiscent of the “calculation” and “knowledge” problems. That a centralised stated (or central planning) cannot cope, indeed it is almost impossible to be successful.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It is still a democracy. The US does not lack for voting. It is the other stuff, the liberal and constitutional bits that are fraying. Those are difficult to understand, unlike “voting” which continues broadly unchanged.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I’m half way through your book, and here is an example of the dysfunction you describe. No doubt a lack of bandwidth means they don’t know what to replace it with, or have failed to meet a deadline and are running around with hair on fire.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It is shaping up to be a great season on socialism. Also interesting to hear @iandunt.bsky.social hinting at the Austrian critique of socialism (the Economic Calculation debate) through the lense of the role of middlemen. It’s all about information.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 15/09/2025

Elon Musk is a deeply irresponsible man and all party leaders should call him out.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Agree. So this morning @libdems.org.uk waffling on about how Reform’s plan would work, or not work as the case may be. Rather than just stating that is it cruel.

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Ed Davey’s reborn Lib Dems are on a 100-year high with 72 MPs and a shot at becoming the conscience of progressive Britain. So why do Reform get all the coverage? Listen to our conversation with the Lib Dem leader here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yes! This! It is such an obvious way to start to simplify the moronic level of complexity we have.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Oh my gosh. “My skill is keeping a straight face when someone tells me something, and inside I’m thinking: fucking hell.” All the way down.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Just listened to @newstatesman.com “who really owns Britain’s houses”. Disappointing that it was perpetuating the under occupancy myth. The UK has one of the lowest levels of empty properties and second homes in the Western World. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Who really owns Britain's houses? | Susan J. Smith interview

Podcast Episode · The New Statesman | UK politics and culture · 02/08/2025 · 43m

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Great article today. School makes you do things you are not good at and bases status on that, while also being a crucial formative period. Also sprinkled with Ian's excellent self deprecating humour "I am shit at every sport. I mean genuinely every single one." LOL.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Scores of murdered children haven’t changed anything. I very much doubt this will.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Ossification. That’s the word.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Yes. Capitalism is about profit and loss. The loss is as important as the profit, to deter bad management and creditors lack of due diligence. For better or worse TW is in the private sector, so it must now face the consequences of insolvency.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“If FIFA lets Trump keep the orbital award for good, it is likely to end up in the National Archives.” No, it will end up in his toilet in Mara Lago. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-g...

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Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica

Trump took every opportunity to make the new, expanded soccer tournament all about himself.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Agree, we need to stop moaning about their coverage and just take it to them.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

On every post about our borked planning system, people always pop up on the replies saying planning isn’t the problem, but rather nefarious developers are hoarding land. This is an example of H L Mencken’s principle: “for every complex problem there is an answer which is clear, simple and wrong”.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Yet another version of “taking back control”, but not thinking through who is going to exercise the powers that were taken back.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’d hoped when the German government changed we might see less procrastination.

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Ilanit (illy) @imanor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Also, written constitutions never cover everything. The US constitution doesn’t have a “loser must concede clause” nor does it provide for a “supreme court police” that we can call when the executive ignores its orders. All constitutions are unwritten.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is correct. There is absolutely not point trying to win any sort of argument. They don’t listen. They don’t want to listen. They just want the grievance.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Everyone obsessing about fish

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025

INCREDIBLE MOMENT. Sir Simon Fraser pleads with media to elicit "a deeper conversation" about trade-offs, the role of Brexit in the UK's position, and challenge Reform arguments "rather than accept them simplistically". Sky News cuts in to read out the latest tweet from Farage. 🤣~AA

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 17/05/2025

Too many lives in the LGBTQ+ community have been blighted by discrimination and hate. Liberal Democrats will always stand up against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. And we'll fight for fair society where everyone’s rights and dignity are upheld. #IDAHOBIT 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️ 💜 💙 🏳️‍⚧️

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is very important. Labour is so much better placed in 2029 if it able to hold on to some of its vote against the SNP. The moronic FPTP system means the 20-30 seats can turn on just a few percent here and there.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The first example of the huge volatility that was to come (and is still with us): the SNP landslide and the LibDem collapse.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A couple of issues with this: the state housing also needs planning permission and is subject to the same laws as private built housing. And you have to dial that graph back and at least include the interwar period. In short, we need as much building as possible by everyone.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I mean she was a Lib Dem…. The journey is almost comically bizarre.

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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 23/03/2025

The threat of insolvency at Dundee University. The whole university system is in an existential crisis with even the big brand names deeply affected. Yet, it plays out almost completely out of the public eye.

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