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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Translation: “My punitively performative, Thatcher-cosplay politics are deeply outdated…” I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch

The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just throwing this out there: I’m not sure that the FIA is an entirely competent organisation. #F1 #BahrainGP

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For pity’s sake. Can someone please remind Jacques Villeneuve why the VSC was invented: because Jules Bianchi suffered a fatal head injury racing round to catch the safety car while a car was being recovered. #F1 #SkyF1 #AzerbaijanGP

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For those who beginning to wonder whether Jacques Villeneuve actually knows what on earth he’s talking about, remember, at the Canadian GP last year he said Antonelli probably wasn’t good enough for #F1… #SkyF1 #AzerbaijanGP

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Former foreign secretary David Miliband says Brexit is “a unilateral declaration of political impotence” as he calls on prime minister Andy Burnham to rejoin the EU. Miliband is spot-on: the UK must rejoin the EU. Good piece in today’s #Mirror. Click below. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

mirror.co.uk

Brexit was 'declaration of political impotence' says David Miliband in PM plea

David Miliband has said Brexit was a 'unilateral declaration of political impotence' and called on Andy Burnham to seek a new formal relationship with the bloc

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Imagine denuding yourself of an identity and community that you have every right to because you are so untalented your only prospect of political career advancement is to side with small-minded ethno-nationalists. Quite sad.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

After 6 wonderful years, I’m becoming the Senior VP of InGen, the most interesting company in biogenetics. There are challenges, dinosaurs can be tricky especially when they escape. Some criticism is propaganda. Part of my role make the fences higher and make sure absolutely nobody else gets eaten.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A sprint race at Monaco…? FFS …its getting to the point where you wonder whether the powers-that-be in F1 have ever actually watched a Grand Prix.

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Keith Collantine @keithcollantine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Avoidably terrible" sums up the Madring neatly: bsky.app/profile/race... #F1 #SpanishGP #RaceFans

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Chain Bear F1 @chainbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Been crunching the numbers on today and after some intensive analysis I think I've concluded: If F1 want to build a new track, they should make it a GOOD one. That's where they went wrong. Easily done for a new sport with no money, I guess.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sublimely happy that there is a realistic chance of a talented mixed race lad with a Nigerian name representing the USA in F1 in the near future…

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Absolutely extraordinary… …Lando has taken a further step forward this year: total confidence and executing when it matters most. One senses Norris, Verstappen and Antonelli are the new triumvirate of F1.

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James @joc1991.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

FOM and the FIA adding another street circuit where passing is virtually impossible

Kimi Räikkönen with his left hand covering his left eye as he looks bored in a press conference

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yet again, it’s the satirists I feel sorriest for…

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Daniel Valente 🏎️ @f1guydan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All current drivers furthest win Kimi Antonelli - P19 Max Verstappen - P17 Fernando Alonso - P15 Lewis Hamilton - P14 Pierre Gasly - P10 Esteban Ocon - P8 Sergio Perez - P6 Lando Norris - P5 Oscar Piastri - P4 Charles Leclerc - P4 Valtteri Bottas - P3 George Russell - P3 Carlos Sainz - P2

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Chain Bear F1 @chainbear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Beginning to suspect this sport is being run by Americans

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Brundle to Clarkson: “You are the best automotive journalist in the world. I know that because you told me…” 😂

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"We've done nothing wrong but the people who did it have been sacked for (not) doing it," is quite the defence. And is it just me or Does. Farage. Get. Even. More. Comically. Staccato when he's straining his own enormous capacity for lying?

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The funny thing about this is not just how pathetic it is: it’s how naively apolitical it is! The way he names liberal hero FDR great alongside the man who set up the League of Nations suggests that he not only doesn’t think about political history, he doesn’t think about it as a conservative.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lake America

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am very much onboard with this newly bighearted Royal Family under the current King. Delightful tribute…

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Brad 🇨🇦 (🇲🇽🇧🇿🇬🇹 event) @frontrowbrad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Indycar getting the publicity they so desperately wanted

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Enjoying the juxtaposition of F1 hosting a fascinatingly strategic Dutch GP whilst IndyCar presents a fascist rally masquerading as a motor-race…

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So the #DutchGP has featured… - a great race with lots of wheel-to-wheel action - packed grandstands from Friday - one of the world’s great racetracks …no wonder #F1 has cut it from the calendar. More carpark track with empty stands and hospitality units full of vacuous American influencers pls…

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Worst motor-race in history incoming… 🤮

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Keith Collantine @keithcollantine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Terrific circuit, packed grandstands for Friday practice, so of course Formula 1 isn't coming back. What a shame. #F1 #DutchGP #RaceFans

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Keith Collantine @keithcollantine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Verstappen's implied threat he would walk away from Formula 1 if it did not fix its disastrous regulations and fake racing was the best hope it might correct its course. Now that hope is dead. www.racefans.net/2026/08/20/v... #F1

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Verstappen ends speculation over future by committing to Red Bull until 2030

Max Verstappen has signed a new deal with Red Bull which will keep him at the team until at least 2030.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And now the investigation into the £5 million secretly-gifted by an ‘economic migrant’ recommences. If nothing else has been achieved with this daft by-election, the idea that Farage is some sort of master strategist has been put to bed. It’s easy to look good when you’re getting free passes galore.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’ve done the research and I have been able to ascertain that Boris Johnson’s only positive contribution to public life is the insult “supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies…”

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Once again, I think we can all agree that the real story here is Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous resurrecting of Tory fortunes.

Manchester mayoral election results, showing Kemi Badenoch’s Tories in fifth place.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“…perhaps it is better to travel than it is to arrive.” Almost as if Nolan’s Odyssey took greater insight, not from Emily Wilson’s translation, but from this sumptuous reflection from one of my greatest intellectual heroes. youtube.com/shorts/dhVIS...

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Christopher Hitchens on The Odyssey

YouTube video by C-SPAN's Book TV

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Very sad… …from bohemian comic revolutionary railing against Christian prudery via Torquay-based hilarity and Judean People’s Front to the final destination: just another easily deceived octogenarian scared of the modern world. How tragically ordinary for a once extraordinary man.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Well that’s a 💩 take… …there is literally no F1 driver, nor many sportsmen for that matter, that this nonsense could be less applicable to. www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/20...

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Lewis Hamilton must stop blaming others for his silly mistakes

Briton should take responsibility for errors and restore focus on details after losing more ground in title fight with penalties in Hungary

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 23/07/2026

BREAKING: Canine delivers strongest bipartisan statement of the year.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

…urm, has Burnham just appointed an internationally respected statesman as Chancellor and a famed economic thinker as Foreign Secretary?

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Happy New Prime Minister Day… …comes around quicker every year.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Curse of the liberal, but I suddenly feel a rush of sympathy for Starmer. And yet, we mustn’t forget that he… -Assembled perhaps the most intellectually anaemic cabinet ever -Had no connecting vision for his agenda -Failed to engage with his own PLP -Delegated his entire economic platform to Reeves

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Steve Reed doing his best impression of LOTR’s Lord Denethor as the walls of Minas Tirith are encircled by the legions of Mordor… …or in this case legions of the ‘soft left’.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

You sense British politics is in a familiar triple pincer: between a national politics buffeted by global events, the centre’s inability to articulate constraints/tradeoffs and the tyranny of simple solutions. The irony being that populism is even less able to wield the levers of globalised power

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Nigel Farage: Reform election gains show historic shift in British politics

Labour and the Conservatives suffer losses at the expense of Reform across England.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I love listening to Buttigieg talk: a healing salve of intellectual nuance for my poor MAGA-addled synapses.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

- Deployment penalty for getting on throttle ‘too early’ in qualy - Irrefutably dangerous closing speeds between cars - The very real prospect of alienating the best driver in the world and losing him from the grid I’ve been open-minded, but it’s increasingly clear: #F1 is in serious trouble

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I’m not crying, you are… #F1 can be truly joyous sometimes

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

F1 getting called out for hiding replies by X is a bit like being accused of being tendentious by the editor of Der Stürmer. Not a good look for F1; and utterly naive given how much of the utterly legitimate criticism of the new regulations is coming from within the paddock itself.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I fully agree with both Norris and Verstappen. Hundreds of metres of idling, more than 60kph of super clipping with full throttle downshifts on a qualifying lap is not F1. The FIA must act - these PUs are currently not fit for purpose.

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William Brierty @williambrierty.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

More than 50kph of super-clipping and literal downshifts on full throttle! Horrifying. Unsustainable and a likely safety issue. The FIA must look to make changes for China. youtu.be/_-dHzTnuRcE?...

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Engine clipping in Australia is terrifying, FIA needs to do something

YouTube video by yelistener

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