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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

they're wasting money for the sole purpose of being cruel and that in itself will cost us even more money, while they talk about more cuts because we're apparently struggling with money

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To put this in perspective: the infamous Soviet crackdowns on Hungary and Czechoslovakia killed fewer than four thousand people, and various left wing people who stood by the Soviets for doing it were regarded as despicable pieces of shit. This is worse than that, on a barely comprehensible scale.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, people like the woman in that clip being insulted, bullied and pushed around by comfortable, middle aged wankers has been the entire selling point of right wing politics for *at least* two decades. “We will harm people you irrationally hate and make them cry” is most of the sales pitch.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So yeah this is blasphemous and yeah it’s culty and yeah it’s deranged but I’d really like to focus on how fucking pathetic it is. Grown men like “yes he is my daddy and my god and my king” like my GOD what the fuck is wrong with your life that you fill it with this?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Once again, a sincere and heartfelt thank you to our recently departed Decent Pig—a Human Rights Lawyer, remember—for indulging and legitimising this utterly morally depraved behaviour, over and over and over again, for absolutely no reason or political gain.

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The operative word in "Protect our women!" is not "women" but "our".

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Though I think the phrasing is important. If the Q had mentioned violence towards police or RNLI the numbers would look very different. (Which is why the govt response should have focused on that).

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

People might be confused because they think of Labour as being a center-left party, but that's only in a European context. In North America, they'd be considered right wing or even far right.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have less sympathy than Barney does: yes, they are just people responding to the call of their horrible ruling class, yes their lives have been depraved with spite and hate. But ultimately, it’s up to you to not behave this way. Nobody can do it for you.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

1) This is an attack on infrastructure and they should throw the book at all of them. 2) This is an absolutely outrageous response from a Reform councillor and shows how deeply unserious they are.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes – it’s cynicism and catastrophising. A form of self-protection perhaps, preparing mentally for the worst. But it’s destructive, because by doing this these people encourage themselves and others to give up fighting. bsky.app/profile/outo...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i’d like to report a mass murder

Perhaps it has been his guilty conscience regarding his position at MIT along with a hubristic overestimation of his own capacity for individually grasping the essence of any global matter that led Chomsky to saddle himself with the task of producing counter-propaganda rather than searching for truth; perhaps it was the idea of himself as an American statesman trying to advise policy rather than an international organizer that led him to prioritize a friendship with someone who could provide access to figures like Ehud Barak and Steve Bannon over consideration for his victims. Whatever the case, Chomsky's lasting legacy will be the impressive feat of having combined the worst aspects of just about every leftist and progressive tendency: anarchists' lack of economic theory and class analysis, Marxist-Leninists' defense of state atrocities and insistence on viewing politics as a global chessboard, and liberals' elitist disdain for the masses' ability to be trusted with interpreting information.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An absolutely idiotic farce here, pure malice completely unchallenged. The kind of thing that could not happen in a country where even trace quantities of even performative liberalism remain in politics or media. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Almost half of terrorism arrests in Great Britain since 9/11 have been in past year

Increase coincides with proscription of Palestine Action last year which has led to thousands of arrests for allegedly supporting the protest group

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you’re old enough to remember the siege of Sarajevo, you’ll remember Serbian spokesmen telling journalists that the enemy was shelling its own civilians to make the Serbian army look bad. This is IMO quite a lot worse even than that.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/08/2026

beyond the bigotry i find this to be a completely bizarre worldview. what do you mean that the actual material forces of history are immaterial to your ideas of national development? are you fucking stupid? (the answer is yes)

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of many, many weaknesses of the last government was the decision that it was better to loudly cause problems for political point scoring than to try and solve them at all. The entire backlog, the massive uplift in salience and touchpoints, all due to a decision not to do their jobs.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

this comes up remarkably often, but entering every conversation—or 'debate'—as though we were de novo and hadn't already figured anything out is the literal exact opposite of the point and ethos of academia bsky.app/profile/noam...

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 22/08/2026

It seems a lot of the BBC’s output is just their reporters interviewing their editors, speaking as if they were experts on the subject. When did this strange practice begin?

A screenshot of BBC News episode featuring Brandon Jeffreys the BBC Education and Family Editor

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I feel like the only people insecure about having email jobs never actually had blue-collar jobs and don't realize that blue-collar work is completely unrewarding dogshit and get really worked up over it

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As I keep saying: there is a class of people who have absolutely radicalised themselves to very extreme political positions, completely taken leave of their senses. And we know about this because they write about it for a living, they can’t wait to tell us all about their new epiphanies.

((Dan Hodges))) @ @DPJHodges•4h
So on the asylum brochure debate someone posted something genuinely interesting. And apologies, I just lost your post so can't credit.
They said we should restrict asylum to women and children. And I think there's potentially something in that.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I do not understand how there is such little pushback against a worldview that has radicalised white English men to riot in the streets and the state to commit institutional violence against all migrants, so little condemnation of an attitude fundamentally at odds with basic human decency

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

To be very clear: if this was just “compliance with the law”, then there would be no need for a radicalised wingnut zillionaire to offer every wacko with free time on their hands funding to bring lawsuits against the NHS.

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Everyone has a £45bn AI government savings plan until they get punched in the head economist.com/britain/2026...

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

it's all so weaselly

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I've said this before, but I find it mind boggling how strict many schools are compared to when I was at school in the 00s/early 2010s. When I read about schools like the 'strictest headmistress' or whatever she's called, it sounds appalling, and completely disconnected from what me and peers had

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I like Lewis, I think he’s mostly pretty good and he is prepared to acknowledge very obvious things that his colleagues would not. And there absolutely is a stifling, absolutist dictatorial mindset in Britain. But it is comical to look at the last 15 years and pick out Covid 19 as your example.

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

liberals who value institutions and understand them to be a moral force in the world must learn the lesson that those institutions can't coexist with billionaires. no matter how high you think the walls are, sooner or later a bigoted crank with infinite money is going to go after them and crush them

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

so a friend on a mailing list I've been on forever said he couldn't understand why so many people had wanted Starmer to stand down when he was obviously so much better than those who came before. I did my best to explain

Starmer is not only incapable of making difficult decisions, he seems not to understand it's his job. I've had it from multiple sources that he gets angry when officials decline to say which course of action is better, even though sometimes it's not clear which is better, it's a trade off, or all options have risks. This is why there is no coherence to our immigration or tax policies.

Starmer refuses to meet MPs unless it's absolutely unavoidable. He doesn't like ministers who promote their own ideas but doesn't seem to have any of his own. He has utterly failed to articulate how he wants to change the country or what he thinks his government is for.

He has presided over policies that have taken rights from protestors, migrants, refugees and trans people. He has made speeches and pursued immigration reforms intended to impress the far right, who are never going to vote for him, while alienating his own voters.

He has seemed entirely disinterested in the fact the higher education system - which is a competitive advantage, a major export industry and a huge plank of regional economies, all at once - is collapsing.

And on multiple occasions when coked up racist thugs have been committing acts of violence and mass civil disorder on our streets, he has been, at best, reluctant to get in front of a camera and say these people are racist thugs who will be punished by the full force of the law. Pensioners who support the Palestinians, by contrast, he is happy to throw away the key.

Oh, and there's the small matter of last month's election results which suggest that under his leadership Labour is genuinely on course for extinction as a party less than two years after winning a huge majority.

Obviously this government's politics is much closer to mine than any of the Tory administrations since 2010, but measured in terms of ability to actually do many of the jobs that being prime minister involves - making decisions, managing his MPs, articulating a vision and then moving Britain towards it, running the fucking government - I think it is entirely possible to argue that Starmer is worse than any of his immediate predecessors except Truss.

Andy Burnham is, to put it mildly, a deeply flawed politician. It's possible this gets us nowhere. But I find it extremely hard to envision how rolling the dice could make things worse.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

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Starmer Out

Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Your now-monthly reminder that "normal" people in both the Early Modern Period and Middle Ages married at roughly the same age as we do, and that to the best of our knowledge *no* Western European society has *ever had* an average age at first marriage below 20 years old:

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As a migrant, I affirmatively do not care how much you spend on schools if you put Shabana Mahmood's immigration policies into practice. This is a logical and calculated stance that I am tired of pretending is somehow irrational.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Discovering Booze, Social Media and the gender of your preference at the same time sounds like a fucking nightmare that was only previously inflicted on Americans from god-bothering families during Freshers' week at a British university

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It’d be clarifying if we could get Julia to swap places with the type of person whose politics she espouses. That guy can go on Question Time to recite the spicier bits of Mein Kampf, while Julia goes to towns that have experienced devastating crimes and throws traffic cones at policemen.

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This is simply not true @Keir_Starmer.
You absolutely DO tolerate abhorrent scenes of violence like this attack. Just like you tolerate all the rapes and sexual assaults of women and girls by illegal migrants.
You - and most of the political class - decided long ago that these crimes are a price worth paying in return for achieving your multicultural, diverse, open bordered nirvana.
So don't pretend to be shocked and don't wring your hands in sadness. This is the predictable (and predicted) result of the policies YOU support.
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The horrific attack in Belfast last night is sickening.
I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets....

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Posting on the race riot promotion and coordination platform to condemn the race riots it promoted and coordinated. The only post any MP or PM should be making on that platform is announcing they're leaving it and why. Disgustingly milquetoast bullshit.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The argument for the BBC appears to be that we need a hypothetical BBC to protect against the risk of getting the kind of media which the BBC actually is

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