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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 13h

Come for the delightfully vicious takedown of Starmer's former advisors, stay for the off-hand paragraph which may be the best explanation I have seen of Burnham's policy and rhetoric

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 13h

“Now” … as in 150 years later after being neglected. Not sure that Charles Barry is responsible for that.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

The US abandoning its European allies to cozy up with the war criminal from the Kremlin won’t be forgotten and can’t be fixed by a Democrat winning in 2028.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Talking to yourselves doth not a campaign make.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Something which will be weighing on the MoD’s mind given the Skynet 6 satellite contract is due to be awarded soon …

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Still hour-buikding, just getting paid for it now.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

-stares in having even the faintest idea what it’s like operating into Heathrow- Sure.

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

The US are not our ally anymore. How much longer will Europe ignore the signs? How many more times does Trump have to openly side with Putin before we get it? Four years into the war and two years into Trump II, what have Europe's leaders actually DONE to make Europe independent from the US?

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If I were cynical, I'd say this was helpful to anyone in UK govt wanting to push discussion on future relations with EU straight to re-accession, given the perils of rule-taking under any other model

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Me: “it’s only a Manchester overnight, packing should be easy” Also me: “how many books do I pack?!”

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

If Musk wants to intervene in the Russo-Ukrainian war for the benefit of Russia, he and his companies should be sanctioned like every other Putinist oligarch and their businesses.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is good from Andy Burnham. He's asking the Tories and the Brexit headbangers to explain what's so good about the UK's current deal with the European Union at a time when the country is broke, businesses & industry are struggling, and economic growth is stagnant #Brexit bsky.app/profile/best...

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

The BBC deserves better than Chris Mason.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

“Join the EU and stick it to Trump and Putin” … hmmmmm

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

German passport control continues to be a wonder of the modern world.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Because nothing says “sensible thinking” better than appeasing irredentist nationalism against the frequently expressed wishes of all the actual inhabitants of a place…

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

If you ask the Islanders, they firmly say no. Maybe those who live in the Falklands should determine what happens with their Islands instead of a pound-shop fascist and his useful idiot.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Did the police think about doing their job vis-à-vis the fascists, or must everything else accommodate them and their thuggery?

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Presuppositions of my 30s: staying in, going to bed early, and entering the comfort era. My 30s thus far: leaving a London club at half-3 for the hour-long treck back to the hotel. God, I hope I don’t change.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Mahmood: “fuck yeah, this is great!”

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Mahmood: “fuck yeah, this is great!”

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

What to do with a weekend off, I wonder …

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Restore is such a weird mix of fascism and random mad boomer Facebook shit.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

If you ask the Islanders - you know, the people who live there - they say no. How much the electorate care about a subject is not - and should never be - the factor that determines the sovereignty of the Falklands against the expressed wishes of the people who live there.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

The party of sound economic management and business …

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

I bet the privacy nuts/ libertarians will be aghast at private for-profit businesses accessing their data instead of the state…

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New post: Burnham has opened the door to a "rejoin" manifesto pledge. The politics make more sense than a lot of people seem to realise. I look at what it would involve at every step from pledge to referendum. There are significant barriers but it can be done. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

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The route back into the EU

Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Seems like politicians are finally catching up to the electorate - or at least willing to engage with opinion as it is instead of as interpreted at the bottom of a sand pit.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

The whiplash is just a bit much 🫩🫩

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Can’t travel on the running board of a bus or modern tram…

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Electric busses and trams are too modern and boring for my taste

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most striking of all is that this is explicitly a very *pro-politics* speech, a direct rebuttal to the anti-politics that is so widespread. And rightly so: politics can change things, it is an admirable thing to choose to engage in and a duty for us all to step forward and pursue.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

A fiscal cost the headbangers, bigots, and racists are never asked to justify or account for.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.

Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration significantly undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana Mahmood’s reforms, which have seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s such a pity that No 10’s previous occupant, despite being a human rights lawyer, chose total capitulation over legislation to restore the affect and spirit of Equalities Act. A shame that contemptible excuse for a political leader will never be able to atone for.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

All this to try and reason with the unreasonable, negotiate with the irreconcilable, and take seriously the bigoted. The sooner the current Home Secretary finds alternative employment, the better.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026

Yet another case of punching ourselves in the face to please irrational bigots. It’s especially stupid given that these irrational bigots have never been placated by such measures in the past & will never be content no matter how draconian the government acts.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

“The UK won’t be welcome” latest

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Would you say such a thing about Scotland, France, Germany, any Balkan state, or the US? Trying to portray England - a political and cultural entity that’s over a millennia old - as in some way fake or artificial is deeply strange.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

When political commentators have a collective fit over guilt yields and frantically try to find which govt policy is responsible (while also being blissfully ignorant of global events), he’s right.

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