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The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump. A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Something that isn't remarked on enough is the way that quite a lot of the praise for the Trump-like crushing of equalities programmes is based on pure, old-fashioned snobbery.

submitted 36 days ago • 21 comments

I think if my last two jobs were Director of Comms at the IEA and Telegraph columnist, I wouldn't be so sniffy about "well-paid sinecures."

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

“Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.” - Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943)

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

🔥 Asked by Nick Timothy which flags the Home Office planned to fly from its buildings, Diana Johnson told him: "We have advised that there should be no change from the arrangements in place under the previous government, whatever they may have been." www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

She's really good at the minister for the Today programme stuff, which is part of why she was a good shadow foreign secretary and it was so reflective of both her and Starmer's slightly odd understanding of opposition and her strengths to make her shadow levelling up for a brief disastrous period.

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

The great strength of the Brexit campaign was that it was all things to all people. To moderates it promised the customs union. To radicals Singapore on Thames or zero immigration. Made it a very effectice campaign but also a terrible basis for action. Whatever you did betrayed one form of Brexit

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

Sad to hear about Tony Slattery. This was an excellent interview with him… (from five years ago) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

It's not as if Reeves' persona is "frivalous clown". She couldn't come across as any more sober if she was running an AA meeting.

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

This is the colleague that the likes of Cleverly, Badenoch & Jenrick are refusing to defend...

submitted 51 days ago • 133 comments

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Why #sophiefromromania is leaving Twitter- welcome to BlueSky new followers!

submitted 52 days ago • 116 comments

How it started/how it’s going

submitted 52 days ago • 18 comments

Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 231 comments

Tim's research is always fascinating - and this is particularly so. Not a huge amount of surprises here, Reform are very much who they appear to be. The overly online element also isn't a suprise - but I suspect that, and economics, present a real weakness.

submitted 54 days ago • 13 comments

"Reform UK members look a bit like Tory members, only more so – and occasionally much more so." Me for @politicshome.bsky.social on the sociology, ideology, psychology, and political activity of Reform members - based on our Party Members Project survey.

submitted 54 days ago • 28 comments

really quite apoplectic about all the mainstream Tory figures in Britain who backed Musk essentially as a way to own the libs and who will now suffer no consequences from staying silent as their ally behaves like a fascist, and a direct danger to senior female politicians

submitted 54 days ago • 17 comments

If Musk and Trump are still working together in a year's time I'll be astonished. There's no way someone with Trump's fragile ego can tolerate the amount of attention Musk is getting.

submitted 69 days ago • 92 comments

Very grateful for the support 🙏🏾

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

. @lewisgoodall.com @vicderbyshire.bsky.social this is an appallingly patronising discussion on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social - please do not assume that these #WASPI campaigners speak for all women in that age group. the Ombudsman rec was a lot of money for not much benefit for individuals.

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

Oh, it really really is. One of the best documentaries I have seen in a long time. And an incredible way to explore the impact of WW1 and 2 on the human and individual level...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Big step. Now time for government departments to follow suit.

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

Yesterday was "government should be risk taking and embrace failure" day. Today is "Treasury will exert iron control over every penny of spending and second guess every decision" day. No contradiction at all.

submitted 79 days ago • 21 comments

The people saying this are broadly just addicted the drama of recent years and only understand politics through the prism of the Tory party. The Labour Party mechanism doesn’t work in the same way and even if it did there’s no equivalent discontent or political split in the current Labour party.

submitted 81 days ago • 68 comments

We're a news cycle away from Gregg Wallace being baptised in the Thames by Russell Brand aren't we?

submitted 88 days ago • 17 comments

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

submitted 90 days ago • 561 comments

Just re-read this in the Times thing on Reeves' cv. What a load of horseshit. The LSE Masters is notoriously hard and hard work. Has been since 1990 I'd say which is as far back as my memory goes. It is a huge step up from undergrad.

submitted 90 days ago • 28 comments

In Britain they’d be about a quarter of the way through planning permission by now, confronting a gaggle of local retirees with too much time on their hands who never wanted a cathedral there anyway.

submitted 90 days ago • 57 comments

It's astonishing in how many areas the last government's response to difficult problems was just to abandon governing: to stop processing asylum claims, stop setting realistic budgets, ignore critical warnings from the prison system, and ultimately scuttle the ship by bringing forward the election.

submitted 91 days ago • 46 comments

Four years since I first posted this on the other place and my life became much stranger.

submitted 93 days ago • 11 comments

The speech also featured one of my favourite Badenoch rhetorical quirks, where the speech is set up to then describe a specific success and there just…isn’t one.

submitted 93 days ago • 11 comments

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

submitted 96 days ago • 75 comments

Well they should pull their finger out and change this. Obviously. Unless they think that making people wade through pornography, racism and lies to obtain government communications on X is sensible or proper.

submitted 98 days ago • 16 comments

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

submitted 100 days ago • 471 comments

Farmers may wish to raise with Fox the point that a major cause of “farmers’ grievances” - for which she was a cheerleader - was a hard Brexit that raised trade barriers to farmers exports to the EU and left farm support payments in the hands of the Treasury, with rather foreseeable effects.

submitted 100 days ago • 9 comments

Food is a massive trigger for some on the right. I once got trolled for about six months because I dared to write a piece that talked about avocados in the post-Brexit supply chain and they totally lose their shit if you explain how national dishes came to be. It's really quite fascinating.

submitted 100 days ago • 121 comments

Always so disappointing when MPs let nonsense like this go out in their name. It just makes them all look terrible. Of these 26 days, a hypothetical prime minister Rishi Sunak or Kemi Badenoch would have done 24 of them at least.

submitted 101 days ago • 69 comments

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

submitted 102 days ago • 161 comments

Inevitably the same people who lost their shit over Starmer receiving a free concert ticket are now losing their minds because he turned down free membership of a golf course.

submitted 103 days ago • 261 comments

I’m no expert but if you don’t want to be investigated for inciting racial hatred, be careful not to incite racial hatred…

submitted 103 days ago • 139 comments

I’ve made a starter pack of lobby (ish) journos - those reporting on UK politics Give me a nudge if you think you should be on it and I missed you! go.bsky.app/H3jDVJb

submitted 104 days ago • 64 comments

Right! So! I spent two months in the US this year and I observed their attitudes towards everything from sex and sports to friendships and work. These are my highly scientific findings: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/out-of-the... (free to read!)

submitted 104 days ago • 70 comments

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

submitted 104 days ago • 650 comments

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

submitted 105 days ago • 693 comments

Guardian to close more than 80 accounts on Twitter - with approximately 27 million followers - as it quits Musk's 'disturbing' platform. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

submitted 106 days ago • 44 comments

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submitted 106 days ago • 539 comments