I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger. He also spoke publicly for the first time about why he brought down Boris Johnson, comparing it to "cleaning the sewers" (Free to read) www.thetimes.com/article/5177... - ThreadSky

joshglancy.bsky.social • 20 days ago

I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger.

He also spoke publicly for the first time about why he brought down Boris Johnson, comparing it to "cleaning the sewers"

(Free to read)

https://www.thetimes.com/article/5177bf66-6227-4ee4-af29-8e95fc7c43fe?shareToken=29387cae153fb43707b03b8c7a92d969

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kenhooperuk.bsky.social•20 days ago

Cummings is a piece of shit

realjohncarvill.bsky.social•20 days ago

As is Glancy, tbf.

philjdore.bsky.social•20 days ago

I think there's only one person on the planet who believes it was Dominic Cummings who brought down Boris Johnson, and that one person is Dominic Cummings.

ajred.bsky.social•20 days ago

Once, right, Dominic Cummings went go-karting for the first time ever, right, and the guy running the place pulled him over and went, "oi, no professionals".

annie1957.bsky.social•20 days ago

What a deeply unpleasant narcissist

creativeblock.bsky.social•20 days ago

Behave.

kennystewart.bsky.social•20 days ago

annettesjl.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well you shouldn't have. Stop it.

jayrussell.bsky.social•20 days ago

He's still just a lying BS artist. No reasonable person would trust this schmuck to fasten velcro.

officer-blackavar.bsky.social•20 days ago

He's a fantastist. This is just so much horseshit. He's so desperate to be thought of as one of the great men of history it's sad. The whole read made me cringe.

rthrtylr.bsky.social•19 days ago

“(Free to read)”

No you’re alright mate.

4242bb.bsky.social•20 days ago

Does someone with these values deserve your time @joshglancy.bsky.social? Let alone the public exposure?

patrickcherry.bsky.social•20 days ago

As always, ultra confidence and self-belief, but no acceptance or awareness of the downside risks of all his 'utopia' and the quite reasonable difficulties of big change.
The world doesn't need this arrogant narcissist.

lindamortimer15.bsky.social•20 days ago

The “brave” Dominic Cummings who ran away to Barnard Castle when Covid hit London either because he couldn’t cope with his own 4 year old or couldn’t cope with Covid

pingu1.bsky.social•20 days ago

He, Musk, and Trump share the belief that the world needs a few people of “talent”, rather than consultation and humility. Top down Great Man instead of bottom up grassroots. It’s dangerous.

pingu1.bsky.social•20 days ago

I’d go so far as to say that “talent” and “geniuses” are dangerous BECAUSE they know they are smart, and are fooled into thinking solutions to people problems are like solutions to engineering problems: that control is _possible_, and therefore should be in the hands of brilliant “controllers”.

kestrus.bsky.social•20 days ago

The government absolutely should be made of people who are there on merit, but that includes motivation for being there - too many go from wanting to serve to wanting to hold power for the sake of it.

No point being in power if you don't know what to do with it.

pingu1.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sure but the most important thing is that they represent their constituent not that they are personally brilliant. “Brilliant” people are too often deluded into thinking their expertise is universal.

liamk.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yes, but... none of those people are actually "brilliant".

pingu1.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hence the scare quotes

dinnersready.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's vile.

msbluewednesday.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s a pity he helped dirty them first 🙄

oneliamceltic.bsky.social•20 days ago

That was a great read, thank you.

mrpmharrison.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just get over him already. He's not that interesting.

marianzelman.bsky.social•20 days ago

Jesus what a dilettante

docmartincohen.bsky.social•20 days ago

Cummings on Brexit: "Leave and then just sit there changing nothing is obviously moronic."

That is, however, EXACTLY what the Leave promise was. Leave, yes, save dosh and nothing else would change. Cummings is vain and mouthy, but he had then and has now no ideas.

hankwankford.bsky.social•20 days ago

You gave the unelected, incompetent, nasty, bitter, pathalogically lying, failure that is Dominic Cummings, a platform from which to voice his irrelevant revisionist account.

WHY, Josh, why?🤔

countrywol.bsky.social•20 days ago

In 1937, you'd have had to speak to Himmler, wouldn't you? Oh no, you'd be out of work.

When are you going to leave your employer, who are (to me) sliding down a Reform/ARC hole?

I think I know a word for you, and Lord Finkelstein, but I can't use it. I can think it, though.

Clock; ticking.

henrygjeffreys.bsky.social•20 days ago

Great interview Josh.

joshglancy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you!

marciapowell.bsky.social•20 days ago

Won’t read. Why give him this oxygen to spout his alternate nonsense to Johnson yet totally equally bullshit nonetheless. These people need to be buried. Not analysed.

henrygjeffreys.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why are you telling me this? I don't care.

marciapowell.bsky.social•19 days ago

Climb down from your self importance. I was responding to Josh. If you’d have looked you’d have seen that.

shakeystephens.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's really not

henrygjeffreys.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's a fascinating insight into an influential and bizarre man.

shakeystephens.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's not

chinahousebrief.bsky.social•20 days ago

A man desperate for relevance.

A 53-year-old whose only "achievement" in life is enabling the UK's biggest foreign policy disaster since World War II.

But the saddest thing about Cummings is that Elon Musk is everything he wants to be, but isn't.

timmokx.bsky.social•19 days ago

Hey don't be like that!
He got that siberian airline flying, right?

discofornow.bsky.social•20 days ago

He did fuck all. He is a person who tried to destroy the UK from within because he is aligned with Russia

jayanne.bsky.social•14 days ago

Boris sacked Cummings .
Boris was PM
Cummings an unelected SPAD .
Now unemployed , surviving by pontificating.

sumarumi.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why are you feeding his ego by giving him undeserved attention?

fatboyfat.bsky.social•20 days ago

There’s a bloke in Brum city centre who loudly tells anyone who’ll listen that he invented bread.

Same energy.

phillchater.bsky.social•20 days ago

His responses come across as entirely deranged. Just as bad as Boris: just a different flavour.

hammerrich.bsky.social•19 days ago

I don’t think Cummings brought down Spaffer Johnson
I think Spaffer Johnson’s overall attitude and response to many things did, with the Pincher episode the final act

Cummings is trying to remain “relevant”
Best to ignore

eileenk.bsky.social•18 days ago

NOT free to read

Just gives The Times clicks

nigellasknicks.bsky.social•20 days ago

Calls Sue Grey a “HR Nazi” and then showers praise on an *actual* Nazi. Remarkable.

the-wayfarer.bsky.social•19 days ago

I can't be arsed to read it. Did he explain why he's such a wanker?

ajs1977.bsky.social•20 days ago

"I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger"

What the f**k for.

perfectcircle77.bsky.social•20 days ago

Fantasist whose opinions are no more relevant than mine, quite frankly. He will only be remembered as being the guy who drove to test his eyesight. Stop giving him oxygen.

redwall.bsky.social•20 days ago

Everything he touched has gone pear shaped, and he thinks he's the "talent" laughable if it wasn't so tragic.

mikey32132.bsky.social•20 days ago

Good description "trying the impossible".

admiralbooth.bsky.social•20 days ago

Political journalists need to stop platforming the irrelevant gobshites who make their lives easier.
The modern Machiavelli was outmanoeuvred by the PM’s wife, maybe you should’ve thought about that before interviewing him?

mikechannon.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yesterday's man, talking about old news. Zero reason to interview him!

badger5000.bsky.social•20 days ago

UGH

philllaws1981.bsky.social•20 days ago

He didn't
Johnson promoted a sex pest to the whips office and his cabinet resigned en masse in protest

joemuggs.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why?

ianm-hull.bsky.social•20 days ago

Deluded

mackemfox.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why give him the oxygen, he is a multiple failure....

offastyke.bsky.social•20 days ago

My opinion of him hasn’t changed. A fantasist and a narcissist who just wants to break stuff. I find toddlers who have discovered mirrors for the first time more interesting.

shakeystephens.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's one big club isn't it

britishpictures.bsky.social•20 days ago

Who are you going to try to resurrect next? Crippen?

jojoblueskywalker.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh for the love of god.

Dominic Cummings is just Temu Elon Musk.

Allowing him to revise his personality is just hyping him up to be Elon Musk’s next sock puppet in the UK.

clatch.bsky.social•20 days ago

"This place needs a clean proclaims giant puddle of liquid shit."

richardwillcock.bsky.social•20 days ago

Free to read? You couldn’t pay me to read about that twat.

realjohncarvill.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yuck. I don't know which one of you is more repugnant.

robminto.bsky.social•18 days ago

It's all a bit 'Business Secrets of the Pharaohs' with Cummings, isn't it?

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