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Chris Shaw

@thechrisshaw.bsky.social
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Media, Economics, Politics. Former commercial lawyer. Europhile.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
When Boris Johnson overrode security service advice in order to give Evgeny Lebedev a peerage, Keir Starmer (rightly) demanded a full investigation. Now we learn Starmer did exactly the same thing with Peter Mandelson. news.sky.com/story/no-10-...
news.sky.com
No 10 appointed Mandelson despite security concerns, Sky News understands
Number 10 say developed vetting was done by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the normal way.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“The current attrition rate of senior figures from the government is running at one a week” - WAIT FOR IT! - “this autumn.” Filed eleven days into autumn. I’m running out of pejoratives for Mason. How can someone this mediocre end up in a position meant for the best political journalist in the UK?
Starmer is losing senior figures at the rate of one a week
Sir Keir Starmer stares impassively at the camera against a backdrop of a union flag
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Chris Mason
Political editor
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The current attrition rate of senior figures from the government is running at one a week this autumn.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
In which two people who actually know what they're talking about demonstrate that the idea that the UK could somehow abandon the ECHR without blowing apart the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement is complete and utter b*ll*cks. ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
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The European Convention on Human Rights and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement - UK in a changing Europe
Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald explain the relationship between the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the European Convention on Human Rights.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does… www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Nigel Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home
A BBC investigation raises questions about how the Reform UK leader's partner paid for a home in his constituency.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It seems madly heavy handed to ban Labour politicians outright from being landlords, but my god they don’t exactly help their own case inews.co.uk/news/labour-...
inews.co.uk
Labour super-donor Lord Alli evicted young family - then hiked rent by £1,000 a month
The Labour peer's eviction of a family with young children from their home in north London would be outlawed from next year under his party's Renters' Rights Bill
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David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
🇩🇪🇺🇦 If Ukraine surrenders, the war could end tomorrow, but then Putin will attack us the day after tomorrow, so this is not an option, — Merz
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
P&O Ferries’ long-overdue accounts have finally been filed. They reveal the chief executive’s pay soared in 2023. In the same year the company lost £91 million, despite having fired 786 staff to cut costs www.itv.com/news/2025-07...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Ron DeSantis attack/fundraising email has already gone out.
RON Restore Our Nation email: Title: They Betrayed the Voters. We're Fighting Back. "Elon Musk stood tall and took the hits to lead the fight on DOGE cutting wasteful government spending and exposing bloated gov't programs. The media attacked him. The Left panicked. But now? Even Republicans in Congress are backing down. They're fully funding programs like USAID and abandoning their promises to make real, long-lasting cuts to the woke left's spending habits. Governor Ron DeSantis isn't backing down." followed by a request for money.
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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We did not have any of this drama when Joe Biden’s clone was president.
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
It just gets better and better 😂 "The owner of Britain’s first Reform pub has said he regrets Brexit and would ‘probably have voted Remain’ if he’d known everything about leaving the EU." www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/owner-o...
thelondoneconomic.com
Owner of Reform pub says he regrets voting for Brexit
The owner of Britain's first Reform pub has said he regrets Brexit and would 'probably have voted Remain' if he'd known everything about leaving the EU.
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Rats in a sack 😂 "Reform’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, has quit after being embroiled in a row with one of the party’s MPs." www.thetimes.com/article/1a09...
thetimes.com
Reform chairman Zia Yusuf quits party
Resignation comes after a row with Sarah Pochin, Reform’s newsest MP
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Rats in a sack 😂 "Reform’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, has quit after being embroiled in a row with one of the party’s MPs." www.thetimes.com/article/1a09...
thetimes.com
Reform chairman Zia Yusuf quits party
Resignation comes after a row with Sarah Pochin, Reform’s newsest MP
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Musk’s reign of incompetence and cruelty is over. Now fuck off inews.co.uk/opinion/musk...
inews.co.uk
Musk’s reign of incompetence and cruelty is over. Good riddance
He waded into Doge without the slightest idea what he was doing
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🧵 Andrew Bailey is right ✅ we must reverse Brexit damage! Brexit has clearly damaged UK growth by raising trade barriers which hurt productivity and delivered 4% hit to GDP. UK-EU reset on food checks and energy are welcome but more is needed to minimise damage. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
BOE’s Bailey Urges Closer EU Trade to Reverse Brexit Damage
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has urged the government to strike a deeper trade deal with the European Union to improve growth and “minimize negative effects” of Brexit.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Simon Cowell thinks we should have a second Brexit referendum - do you agree? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Simon Cowell wants a second Brexit referendum - do you agree
Simon Cowell believes the UK should hold a second Brexit referendum, saying the public didn't really understand what they were doing in 2016. Do you think a new vote would provide clarity, or just dee...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Chat GPT's interpretation of UK economic growth inside and outside the EU I guess that makes Labour's policy of keeping the UK outside the EU Single Market the blockers to economic growth
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Top Tory and shadow home secretary Chris Philp admits Conservative Government had no plans to deal with asylum claims when Spaffer Johnson and Useless Frost were negotiating their "oven-ready" Brexit catastrophe. news.sky.com/story/leaked...
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Leaked recording reveals top Tory knew of flaws in post-Brexit plan to return illegal migrants
In response tonight, the Tories insisted that Chris Philp was not saying the Tories did not have a plan for how to handle asylum seekers post Brexit.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
One is tempted at this point to ask Macron whether he will be happy with Russia invading EU member states as long as fishing quotas with the UK are unchanged. I suspect this is just a little bit of EU drama, because no partnership with any country is possible on this basis.
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Economists warn UK faces 'immediate and violent' sterling crisis if Reform wins next election. www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...
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Economists warn UK faces 'immediate and violent' sterling crisis if Reform wins next election
The UK faces an “immediate and violent” sterling crisis if Reform wins the next election and stays good on its pledge to cut taxes, economists have warned.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Migrants.... are overall more likely to be in work and have slightly higher wages. It follows almost automatically that their short-term impact is to boost, not reduce, GDP per capita. Indeed, that’s exactly what the ONS says.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes
The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Very ashamed today of Starmer/Labour's comments about 'island of strangers' and 'incalculable damage'. It's the job of the government to leave the country in a better place than they found it, not to appeal to the base instincts of a nation in order simply to carry on governing.
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Trump still buys Putin's picture of innocence. www.thetimes.com/article/930a...
thetimes.com
Trump still buys Putin’s picture of innocence
Easily flattered, the US president’s acceptance of a portrait from the Kremlin does not bode well for Ukraine peace talks
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
They deserve better. And honestly the British public deserves better than to be constantly lied to by a political class which attacks immigration and then makes damn sure it continues because the economic consequences of the alternative would be disastrous.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
One week until the UK-EU agenda. Probably time for plenty of media pieces about last minute haggling, but the EU has put out a preview and... it looks remarkably similar to what I've been predicting since February. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/...
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EU-UK summit
The first EU-UK summit since the UK’s withdrawal from the EU will be an opportunity to demonstrate a common stance in working together for peace and security in Europe and to establish a new strategic...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Not once have we had a government which is willing to openly state the benefits of immigration to our society and our economy, the way that diversity has made us a wealthier and culturally richer country. Not once. And yet we're constantly told that we've been living in an experiment of no borders.
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
When only one half of the job swap works according to expectations...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Given the extent of shared UK-EU interests annual summits are essential. Thicker political ties below this are also important.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Trump may as well call his network of companies “Snake Oil Inc” and it seems people will still fall for it. Read this article and it seems that Scaramucci nailed it when he said “This is the golden age of ­corruption in America,” observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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How the US president and his clan ushered in a new golden age of corruption | The Observer
The presidency and personal gain now go hand in hand – and no one has been able to do anything about it
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Chris Shaw @thechrisshaw.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Here is the view of The Economist, which is not known for its left wing views, on Farage's Reform Party "manifesto"...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Zuckerberg and Musk are crushing news organisations like Byline Times. But we’re not taking this laying down Don’t Switch Off, Fight Bac #BigTechFightBack subscribe.bylinetimes.com/six/
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We could cure much of the care staff shortage and save money on accommodation by letting asylum seekers work whilst they waited for a decision. Vast majority want to do so. Only fear of upsetting Farage prevents them contributing.
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Dan Johnson | London, U.K. Lawyer = English Solicitor 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @danrjohnson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I see that “Agent Krasnov” is ‘on manoeuvres’ (yet again) - seeking to benefit #Putin’s #Russian Mafia State. #America, ‘this’ is Truly Shameful = Something needs to be done about your traitorous #POTUS.
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Dan Johnson | London, U.K. Lawyer = English Solicitor 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @danrjohnson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
#Reform Watch = It’ll drive them insane to fully see the moronic cretiny of the Faragists! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Lib Dems launch ‘Reform watch’ to monitor party in local government
Exclusive: Ed Davey says Labour and Tories too scared of Reform threat to hold Nigel Farage’s party to account
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Dan Johnson | London, U.K. Lawyer = English Solicitor 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @danrjohnson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
#Trump “Loves The Uneducated” = Let’s try and address some #legal education. apnews.com/article/trum...
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America's legal system is confusing. Here are some of the common terms used in the Trump lawsuits
It may feel like you have to attend law school to understand the American legal system. However, that is not the case.
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The Fucking Bitch of the Welsh 🫘 @welshaspossible.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
For fuck's sake Yvette, if we'd wanted Farage we'd have fucking voted for that toad-faced, fascist little wankstain. You're Labour! Do your fucking job and represent working people! Jesus! How is this so hard to understand?
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 11/05/2025
If Reform win in 2029, Labour might as well shut up shop. It's simple and stark: they will NEVER be forgiven. People will always know that it was a self-inflicted loss by some of the most blinkered stubborn people ever to enter politics. And gifting Britain a far right government is intolerable.
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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
(Weakest not in economy but in will, obviously). - Trump is destroying 80 years of international rule of law, and the UK is complicit in the destruction, and I wouldn't be proud of that. - The long term problems the UK had, have been made worse by Brexit. 2/
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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz is taking no prisoners: - Bargaining needs to be done in strength. The UK could have got much better deal if it had worked together with the EU bargaining. - The UK did exactly what Trump wanted. Take the weakest country first (hello UK), then take the next. 1
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The great British age of rage began with Brexit motivating people to vote stop people coming over here. Brexit lost vital powers which controlled our borders BUT the wealthy millionaires who knew Brexit would open opportunities are now billionaires thanks to power of xenophobia.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
... a THIRD party promoting the same idiotic xenophobic theories? I absolutely despair of a Labour party foolish enough to head down this road. It's cowardly gibberish and will end in catastrophe for Labour and disaster for the UK.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Dumb on so many levels. Demographically: there simply aren't enough Britons to staff the care sector, especially with a growing elderly population. There never will be. Economically: the UK only has ANY kind of GDP growth because of immigration, so ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I mean, if this isn't fascism then what is it?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Yvette Cooper explains why Labour wants to bring net migration to the UK down I remember when Labour would make the case for migration, explaining how as tax payers they would contribute to the system, and with our aging population they are a benefit to society, not a burden
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
BREAKING: “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
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Cllr Salman Shaheen @salmanshaheen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Well at least one new #Reform councillor hasn't resigned over a scandal, a split with #NigelFarage or connections to Nazis. This one just realised he'd actually have to do some work.
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Reform councillor in Nottinghamshire quits one week after election
Desmond Clarke was elected in the Newark West division in Nottinghamshire last week.
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