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My latest video, taking in the Beatles and Brexit, so if you like either/both, give it a watch: youtu.be/8rhSjDuIR5U?...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think I see a way through this "Ukrainian election" problem that is straightforward. Russia removes itself completely from all Ukrainian land, then Zelensky calls an election. There, problem solved.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Nick @nicktyrone.bsky.social is always worth a read (and nowadays a listen) nicktyrone.substack.com/p/was-brexit...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

When we look back on the 2020s in 30 years’ time, Zelensky will stand out as one of the very few brilliant and brave politicians across the world, with most of the rest being seen for the shallow, untalented, uncourageous fakes they are, across both right and left.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

My discussion of what is really holding the UK back from the rejoining the EU: youtu.be/myzkk4cNvrs?...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Brexit in a nutshell: Remainers: Brexit won’t solve any of the problems we face and in fact will make almost all of them a lot of them worse. Leavers: Brexit is the key to saving Britain. We leave and everything gets worse Leavers: Why is Britain in terminal decline now?

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Call me crazy, but I’m looking at Trump 2.0 as well as a lot of other things happening now and don’t see how “Let’s just be incredibly angry at absolutely everyone who doesn’t agree 100% with every single thing on our agenda” is working for the left as a theory of change.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"Brexit would have worked out perfectly if it hadn't been for Covid and Ukraine" is not that far removed from "Brexit would have worked perfectly if only nothing bad had happened in the world during a several years stretch."

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Badenoch’s policy around making it harder to get British citizenship is not only terrible, it is already backfiring on her massively. She’s properly hopeless.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The most empty phrase in British politics: “We must be willing to work with the European Union”. This is very simple: you either want to be part of the EU’s institutions again, or you don’t. Saying “willing to work with the EU” doesn’t mean anything whatsoever in real terms.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Five years on from Brexit, my most unpartisan, journalistic take of the whole thing is that Brexiters failed completely to win the peace. They worried so much about it being “betrayed” that they didn’t bother to try and change anyone’s mind once it had happened.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Brexit is five years old today. Hooray. Everyone in the country agrees it was the bestest thing ever now. Enjoy that total lack of political division in Britain. Smell the freedom.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

The Labour line that goes "Well, the EU doesn't really want us to rejoin anyhow" is both lame (they are clearly just trying desperately to placate their mostly pro-EU membership with this) and verifiably untrue.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

The very same people who thought a second EU referendum would have been the most undemocratic thing of all time are now calling for a military coup against an elected British government.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Whatever your politics, you have to appreciate that the Lib Dems setting themselves up as the anti-Trump, anti-Musk party is tactically wise. There is a decent sized space in British politics for such a party.

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

You don’t publicly reveal the sensitive details of a currently ongoing court case as it heightens greatly the chance of a mistrial being declared. This is basic stuff.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to understand how endemic cognitive dissonance is in 2024, look at all the Trump fans who never shut up about the WEF being an evil conspiracy, yet not blink an eye when Trump himself agrees to address Davos (online, but he’s still doing it).

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

With the Lib Dems now openly embracing a customs union with the EU, that opens up a huge opportunity for any party that embraces rejoining the single market. It could be either Labour or the Tories, if both weren’t so lost on this issue.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

The Conservative Party thought they could sit back and watch Labour fall apart in government, then waltz back into power next time with zero effort, zero reckoning for how they messed up. It seems they are going to have to learn the hard way that politics doesn’t work like that.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Even if upping trade with China wasn’t geopolitical unwise for Britain - which it most certainly is - the idea that it will make up for being outside the single market, having diminished trading relations with every neighbouring country, is insane.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

You could never possibly please the populist right on immigration. If every single non-white person was removed from Britain, they’d turn around and say, “Well, the Irish are still here, aren’t they?” For them, the point is to feel aggrieved, to be the eternal victims.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I genuinely don’t know what the sentence “Brexit was never implemented properly” actually means in real terms. What would implementing it properly look like? The Brexiters still don’t have an answer to this.

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Run of the mill American conservative commentators - not just the real nut jobs, mainstream US conservatives - are seriously discussing the merits of the US militarily invading Canada. It’s amazing how quickly the world can go mad.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Ed Davey and the Lib Dems should be very grateful to Elon Musk for not just spreading huge awareness of Davey and his party, but for amplifying their one key message ("We are THE anti-Trump, anti-Musk party in the UK").

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

There is a new kind of “patriot” emerging on here: someone who hates Britain with a deep passion because it is no longer British enough in their estimation. Who loves Britain in the abstract so much, they hate it in the concrete.

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

A Brexiter writes: “Poor Nick doesn't understand the difference between a once-in-a-lifetime REFERENDUM v GENERAL ELECTION”. Yes, I do - a general election is the core of our democracy, while a referendum is an abomination that doesn’t really matter.

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

For years, Remainers were told that they “can’t accept a democratic result and are therefore anti-democratic”. Yet the Brexiter right is now telling us the result of a general election - one that produced a massive majority - is somehow illegitimate and needs to be run again.

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Saying that Brexit has been “less traumatic than Remainers claim” is an admission that Brexit has been traumatic. Reminder that it was sold to the British public as a game-changer in terms of turning the country around. Brexit has failed on its own terms.

submitted 56 days ago • 27 comments

Amazing watching the American right figure out that Donald Trump doesn’t stand for anything, never did, he’s just a game show host after some power. The rest of us figured that out a long time ago.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

It has struck me for years that if the Tories are really that incensed about Sadiq Khan being mayor of London, they could try doing something novel such as running a candidate against him who is any good whatsoever and has at least a theoretical chance of winning.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

It does seem to me like whenever a minister of state is working class (or even lower middle class), their credentials are endlessly questioned, while if they are upper middle class, it doesn't matter if they are wildly unqualified for the job, no one raises an eyebrow.

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

Trump’s presidency is a mess already and he’s not even taken office yet. Impressive how quickly after the election MAGA melted down in front of our eyes.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

If Starmer did step down as prime minister during this parliament, a big issue in the ensuing Labour leadership contest would be our relationship with Europe. The candidate who came out as being the most anti-Brexit would have a good chance at being the winner.

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

I know this is weird, but I just find German fascism scary. Totally strange, I know, but there we are.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

May 2025 local election predictions: Labour stay about even, which will be written up as good for an unpopular government, Reform, Lib Dems and the Greens will all do very well, and the Tories will do absolutely abysmally, losing loads of seats.

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

The funniest thing that could happen this parliament would be for Boris Johnson to run for the Tories in a by-election and then lose. For him to lose to anyone would be funny, but funniest of all would be to the Lib Dems.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

“The EU can detect weakness in its dealings with Keir Starmer.” Yes, of course - he is in a weak position because we left the EU on terrible terms via the “oven ready deal” of Boris Johnson’s. That’s why Britain’s position with the EU is weak.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Boris Johnson has written a Mail article today likening the current Labour government to the crimes of Harold Shipman. Tasteless doesn’t begin to describe it. Still hard to believe he ever got to be prime minister of Great Britain.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

If Brexit was in any way good or had worked, no one, not even the most ardent and paranoid Brexiter, would be worried about its future because it would already be assured. They are only panicking now because it has so evidently failed.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

If it’s okay for Reform to take millions off foreign donors, then it’s okay for a campaign to rejoin the EU to take millions from donors outside the UK. You need one rule for everyone.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Brexit was a mistake. We all know it - some will admit it, others won’t. Yet.

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

That rubbish from Kemi Badenoch today about “Brexit freedoms” I believe counts as a national embarrassment.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

If you still think there is no way Nigel Farage could ever be prime minister, just look at how badly Kemi Badenoch is doing as Tory leader and then reconsider the possibility.

submitted 72 days ago • 5 comments

British politics in 2024 is a lot more amusing if you recall that 10 years ago, the whole point of having the EU referendum from the perspective of the Tory leadership was to eliminate completely the threat Nigel Farage posed to them.

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

I find it strange that Brexiters feel that with the EU, the most idealised version of sovereignty must be maintained by Britain - yet with the US, there seems to be no amount of sovereignty they wouldn’t be willing to surrender, including becoming the 51st state. I don’t get it.

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

There seems to be confusion on an important matter: even if for some reason Starmer ceased being Labour leader during this parliament, another Labour MP would become PM. It wouldn’t trigger a general election. Have we forgotten already the Tories had 17 PMs last parliament?

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

The British right thinks Starmer and his team are so incompetent they couldn’t run a warm bath, yet Labour will still somehow get a trade deal with America that would be unprecedented in the history of either country. Work that one out for me.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Badenoch plays so wonderfully into Farage’s hands I am genuinely wondering if it’s intentional. Could there be a plan to lay the track for Farage to become the Tory leader at some point during this parliament? The evidence certainly doesn’t refute the idea.

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

Rishi Sunak was a much, much better leader of the opposition than Kemi Badenoch is.

submitted 77 days ago • 7 comments