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peterjukes.bsky.social
Dramatist wrenched out of fiction 10 years ago by the fierce urgency of fact (& Murdoch crimes). Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social - myself here
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Notice how nobody talks about 'Christian' grooming gangs when discussing the long history of child sexual abuse in care homes and sports clubs. Funny that.

Trump ‘Reamed Out’ Hegseth for Flop Birthday Parade: The president wanted a “menacing” military parade but got the opposite instead, Michael Wolff tells The Daily Beast Podcast. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reamed...

The former official compared [DOGE] to the science-fiction novel “Ender’s Game,” by Orson Scott Card, in which a team of children who are invited by the military to play an elaborate video game are unknowingly operating actual weapons of war www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ten Years on from the Gilded Escalator Just as I start working on Book Three of my Trojan Horse Story, we hit the tenth anniversary of the moment it describes - Trump announcing his candidacy open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Ten Years of Evil (and Redemption) How I spent the last decade... open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Ten Years of Evil (and Redemption) Awesome, eye-opening and very personal account from @therickwilson.bsky.social ten years on from that gilded escalator. Fighting Trump has cost Rick and his family a lot. But boy has he earned so much respect open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

🔴Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos Nigel Farage’s band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...

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This is what they call an epic fail

How Fiction Paved the Way for Putin's Expansion Some background reading material for what will most likely be Book Four of the Trojan Horse open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Wow. This is certainly worth 17 minutes of your time. And when you watch it, think about what Farridge and his lot are now doing, or trying to do, with the Local Authorities they won recently.

Who’s got our data? Palantir? DOGE? They want to control us.

Inside DOGE’s chaotic takeover of Social Security DOGE members used the agency for political aims, directing Mr. Dudek to cancel important contracts in Maine after the state’s governor, a Democrat, clashed with Mr. Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Maybe if the UK government read this piece regarding Palantir and the words of its CEO they would back away from allowing this company access to our NHS!!!!

I see a lot of Conservative right wing Brexiters pointing out a number of factors behind British economic decline. Quite amazingly they omit the biggest factor, and the one they were responsible for. Brexit @anthonybarnett.bsky.social

The head of Palantir, one of the gleeful profiteers from Trump’s police state ““There’s a revolution. Some people get their heads cut off,” Karp said. “We’re expecting to see really unexpected things, and to win.”  www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @MotherJones

No need to say much more than Peter has, except emphasise that Thiel and proteges Yarvin and Vance are very dangerous tools used by Thiel, a man never to be trusted McSweeney and Glasman are playing with the devil

Why does it matter that Lord Glasman had his portrait painted with the extremist Peter Thiel Protégée Curtis Yarvin? Because Glasman has claimed that the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is a Blue Labour ally subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/73/b...

As @nafeez.bsky.social has revealed, Yarvin is obsessed with the ‘negro problem’ and in this report he gleefully uses the N word. “Yarvin… pulled out his iPhone to show Glasman that he’d hacked the chatbot Claude to get it to call him by the N-word.” I wonder how Glasman reacted?

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(A few weeks later, on a trip to London, I watched him break down while giving a similar speech to a member of the House of Lords) Ava Kofman on Dark Enlightenment Thiel guru Curtis Yarvin Which member of the House of Lords? @nafeez.bsky.social ? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Why Tech Bros Love Putin and Hate the EU Yarvin “has encouraged Trump to let Putin end the liberal order “not just in Russian-speaking territories—but all the way to the English Channel.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Peter Thiel to Curtis Yarvin “One of our hidden advantages is that [the left] wouldn’t believe in a conspiracy if it hit them over the head (this is perhaps the best measure of the decline of the Left). Linkages make them sound really crazy” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The spike of attacks in the US is connected to the UK - the Capitol Insurrection to last summer’s riots But just like this lame Ofcom report, the Prevent Review by William Shawcross constantly downplayed right wing violence. @nafeez.bsky.social’s work on it was censored by Tell Mama

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This is just ridiculous from @Ofcom - read James Bloodworth’s ‘Lost Boys’ for a deeper dive into the extremism of the Manosphere. Then get the July edition of Byline Times out in a couple of weeks that looks at the networked violence

British Establishment in "hey, not all fascists are bad" shock...

Given the track record of Ofcom's current chair, it's perhaps not surprising that the regulator would be weak on dealing with misogyny. But to use public funds to pay an agency to produce "research" downplaying the threat takes things to a new level... www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-of...

Want to see Regulatory Capture by the Extreme Right in action in the UK? This is a good example >

Amid growing concern over Ofcom's failure to deal with online harms, they've commissioned a report about the "manosphere" whose author suggests - based on interviews with just *39* participants - that "society has overestimated" the threat... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Today we remember the 72 people who burned to death in their own homes in one of the richest areas of one of the richest cities in the world. Solidarity with survivors and the Grenfell community in their ongoing fight for justice 💚 #Justice4Grenfell

The lying shits who posted it said “You won’t believe this guys. We’re having a day at Dover and the asylum seekers, it’s crazy. “They’re just all coming in, they are. They’re all just flooding in. Look, all the boats, it’s just asylum seekers everywhere.”

A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach. But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.

Four weeks to go to Byline Festival We’d love you to join us for a special weekend of talks, comedy, spoken word, film, workshops & music The festival that could change your life. Check out our speakers and full programme at bylinefestival.com

I'm hugely looking forward to this festival - I'll also be hosting Doughnut Economics Circus there, so come for the serious discussion, and for the Big Top fun too....

In 4 weeks these 4 great speakers will be on stage at Byline Festival. Just 4 of over 100 speakers & performers making Byline Festival an unforgettable weekend Join us to discuss, laugh, dance and change the world! Last cheap tickets & full programme bylinefestival.com

On 12 July at Byline Festival the Byline Times team @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news @StephenColegrave.bsky.social will talk about running a paper living in the Matrix 1 /25 panels, comedy, music.. Tickets bylinefestival.com

Well, there can be no doubt now that Putin is completely aware of his crimes in Ukraine

Trumpocracy is just war without end — war against American citizens, war unmediated in the Middle East or Ukraine. Who the hell voted for Trump thinking he would avoid war? He loves it. American carnage. Global carnage

Some replies to this suggest hacking voting machines en masse. Unlikely. But using tech to activate early voting in swing states would be legal and perhaps more effective?