Fascinated by this train wreck of a column. Wrong, but wrong in myriad ways. A worldview that despises Britain, revels in its supposed failures, fantasises about completely implausible US sanctions on Britain & has no coherent view of geopolitics. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01... - ThreadSky

shashj.bsky.social • 93 days ago

Fascinated by this train wreck of a column. Wrong, but wrong in myriad ways. A worldview that despises Britain, revels in its supposed failures, fantasises about completely implausible US sanctions on Britain & has no coherent view of geopolitics. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/08/starmers-britain-is-about-to-become-an-international-pariah/

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canlug.bsky.social•92 days ago

atpgeo.bsky.social•93 days ago

This dangerous and cynical world we live in; such people can't see bigger pictures. The Telegraph is just dancing to Musk's tune. We need unity but appear to welcome division. I am deeply disturbed by everything that is happening just now. Big players are blind to ordinary morality.

digitaldesert.bsky.social•93 days ago

It was written by a Liz Truss fanboy, so we shouldn’t be surprised that it comes off like a rotted head of lettuce.

fargaman.bsky.social•93 days ago

Without even opening up the link, I know it's that Heath loon that wrote it

thomaswpenny.bsky.social•93 days ago

I bet Musk retweets it.

londondiscuss.bsky.social•93 days ago

Imagine "the global right wing vibe shift" being in a serious newspaper. I can't. Did some intern on Trump's team write that?

suezw.bsky.social•93 days ago

The article is such a ridiculous mess I think it must be real. AI couldn't have parodied it like that.

sergejanus.bsky.social•91 days ago

The Telegraph, in other words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

jaynegallaghe20.bsky.social•93 days ago

Liking spicy Shashank.

mslesleysmith.bsky.social•93 days ago

I knew without looking from your description it would be Alistair Heath

tacops.bsky.social•93 days ago

They’re totally on brand, then.

suezw.bsky.social•93 days ago

Yelling "Don't you know who I am?"

sulda.bsky.social•93 days ago

Telegraph has not been known for being reasonable for a while😅

garethjones.bsky.social•93 days ago

Checks author... yep, an amazing record of being wrong.

suezw.bsky.social•93 days ago

Is there something toxic in the water in Conservative clubs these days?

eidsville.bsky.social•93 days ago

I don’t much favor Starmer, or how he raised to become the party leader.. but after 14 years of cruel incompetence of the Tories, the discontent and push back against him worries me. The standards of which right wing government is held upon is so freaking low compared to a left leaning government.

miskaknapek.bsky.social•93 days ago

The right is somewhat upset they lost power, and are particularly less inclined to go without a fight. Alas, right wing US style 'debate', ie lying, is catching on in Europe too.

bickj.bsky.social•93 days ago

‘Despises Britain’ sums it up perfectly. The party of Disraeli, Churchill, even Thatcher, has now been reduced to a bunch of spineless, obsequious Quislings who rather than standing up for Britain and being proud of our nation want to make us a vassal state of a loudmouth foreign thug.

ciaranm.bsky.social•93 days ago

But apart from that Shashank…?

shashj.bsky.social•93 days ago

10/10, would hate-read again.

popgirlnatowave.bsky.social•93 days ago

Maybe there should be an equivalent article in the Economist, but like incoherent in ways that are cool, kinda like the article about how Canada should join the EU.

blorkers.bsky.social•93 days ago

Ha ha

tjmarsden.bsky.social•93 days ago

It's something that Labour, and points further left, sometimes lose sight of - when asking a country to entrust the leadership to you it does help if you seem to at least like the country, at least a bit.

It's a huge gamble the right is taking, betting the farm on Musk's whim. It deserves to fail.

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