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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah I couldn't be an academic

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

stonewall was so powerful that the brick travelled back in time and caused the UK's Sexual Offenses Act of 1967.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I wonder how soft this disappointment is though - remain is a different prospect to rejoin, after all

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The casual antisemitism among leftists is really something to behold. Something go wrong? THE J...excuse me...THE ZIONISTS MUST BE INVOLVED.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"He had the opportunity at the Brighton conference to demonstrate a different kind of authority, generated from within, expressing conviction derived from a stable core of belief, made compelling by courage. It is the stuff of which leadership is made. Polanski doesn’t have it."

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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr

A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have never seen it post a quote from him

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still haven't seen a single person be able to defend or explain why you'd vote against this amendment or why it was unacceptable. It's the smoking gun as to exactly what the Zionism is Racism motion aims to achieve.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is remarkable how badly the Russians treat their troops.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 05/10/2026

don't worry zack you only need people who Way Too Online to vote for you, no-one else matters

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Polanski is fundamentally not up to the challenge of bridging the divide in the party because his entire model of politics is one where there’s an obvious good side and obvious bad side to every issue.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So much online politics is this dynamic, in which an anonymous person, purportedly a Green supporter, cannot recognise that the person they are berating a former Green councillor and parliamentary candidate who was literally a leadership candidate six years ago.

obseyxx.bsky.social
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Made over 50 replies yesterday
So of course you can point towards a long history of calling Labour etc "antisemitic" and "extreme" for supporting Zionism and it's not a position you've just pulled out your ass to defend these attacks now, right?

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I am not and have never been a Labour member or supporter. I am, for the time being at least, a Green member.

I hope that explains my greater involvement in one of these things than the other.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

It will be funny if the Greens and Reform fall back under the weight of their own incompetencies, combined with tactical herding when the election comes, and so three years of "oooh, fragmentation" becomes "And it turns out it was all a dream".

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

You're only ever a recession or an inflation spike away from your opposition gaining power, so you have to want them to respect the broad norms.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the sort of shit that happens when you don't have a peerage system.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But Sophie, have you considered that instead of relying on “well-organised conservative parties”, we instead rely on “interpersonally unpleasant progressives who have never won a single election” win every election in the future?

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For crying out loud, the solution to everything is not 'directly elected mayors', an office which is only a year older than I am (I'm 25) and which sits uneasily within the British constitution

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one of my favorite Chinese religious beliefs is that there's a prominent deity called the Horse King, who is the protector of equines, especially for draft labor. Sometimes around the late Ming, a conviction arises that the Horse King is *Muslim* - and therefore you sacrifice lamb, not pork, to him.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh I hadn't seen any video tbh. I can't imagine that we'd do anything like that at work, it's clearly a safety risk to have someone duct taped to their seat no matter how unpleasant they are

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the suggestion in the article is that they did the duct taping

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Devolution created a natural experiment here and we have the results. bsky.app/profile/tom-...

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It strikes me that those arriving on small boats are probably those whose asylum claims would be looked on the most favourably by a random selection of the public, as opposed to the number of claims that are apparently from people whose visas have expired.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is that supposed to make us feel better? That we have politicians so deeply incompetent as to not see that there is a problem and that they can't distinguish between the problem and outright racism?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The Falklands have long been core to Argentine identity, appearing on posters and graffiti across the country." - deeply odd country

ft.com

Milei dials up Argentina’s claim to Falklands

Domestic politics, oil drilling and UK-US tensions drive libertarian leader to amp up sovereignty dispute

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Jack @nothingbutflowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For a moment I thought this was Ed Davey

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In hindsight what's so remarkable about Thatcher was that she had a remarkable ability to hold the Tory coalition together, retaining the confidence of the right while anchoring them to a viable governing project that moderates were willing to participate in.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What about her children with the Crown Prince?

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think your analysis of his tweet is correct, but I thought some of the other replies etc were more ad hominem attacks. I suppose that's what I was getting at. Sorry if I'm being a bit aggro and causing any disturbance. I don't mean to.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I haven't said you aren't! I suppose I was just thinking there seems to be a lot about him this morning on my timeline and it surprised me. And I thought I would say some things publicly on a saying things publicly platform.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fair point, although I did specifically comment on the amount of discourse - it seems disproportionate. At any rate, while I think it might be unnecessary, it's still fun and personally, I have nothing better to do right now.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As you didn't share it, you can't blame me for not knowing? And yes, it's a long post, but all it is, from my point of view, is him rambling because he can. It's not super substantive. And yes, it would be wrongheaded even if it were a cheap shot.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well, I wouldn't go that far. At any rate, he's just getting in a cheap shot, I don't think this particular tweet is deeper than that. It's superficial. I don't think there needs to be masses of discourse about a tweet, I guess.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"This is like explaining cheese to the Taliban." - Me, in the coming months, to increasingly baffled colleagues.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don't think describing him as "unhinged" is helpful. He seems in possession of all his faculties even if his positions might be considered weird within Labour, the left, or indeed any wing of politics as they are rather unique. But I think unhinged does him a disservice

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He's making a superficial and snide comparison about "no deal is better than a bad deal" because it makes him feel good to do it. Given his positioning, I would argue he's fully on Canada's side here. I'm just not seeing it but maybe I'm blind!

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I can see him saying he understands Trump's appeal to a certain segment of American society, but that's far from being a Trump supporter himself. Admittedly, I don't keep tabs on everything he tweets, but I think you're reaching

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There's nothing in that tweet that evidences it, I can't recall anything he's said on the podcast that would support that, although I haven't listened to today's episode but it's not ostensibly about anything American.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Like, he's just (proudly) contrarian, he seems like a perfectly nice guy who would probably be interesting to chat too, I don't understand the hate

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Aren't scared" to do what? Make a superficial comparison that falls apart on closer inspection?

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I find that they cover interesting topics?

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nothing inherently wrong with that?

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Terrible, anyway he’s not allowed to drive again for four years. So you can tell the court took it very seriously.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the mechanism behind this is that if you don't do your homework you don't learn the topic

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If I had written to a journalist telling them not to publish a legitimate piece of reporting, prior to Arday’s resignation, explicitly on the grounds that they should not want to “line up alongside” the bad guys, I’d be quite quiet about having done so.

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thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Stats4Cranks was always suspect but she's gone totally off the rails in the last few years

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Delighted to find out that the Milk Marketing Board had their own coat of arms. The cow in the Palisado Crown at the top is a particularly nice touch. Disappointingly generic logo, though - should have gone with something like "Praesentem mulge, fugientem quid insequeris".

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