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This isn’t my full time job. Just happen to be politically curious/engaged (damn you Brexit). Centrist Dad & proud to be so. Just because I’m anonymous doesn’t mean I’m any less responsible. Honesty is an underrated quality in politics.
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Macron’s face. 😂😂

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

submitted 4 days ago • 145 comments

Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.

submitted 9 days ago • 195 comments

Checked Twitter and my whole feed was about whether or not Keir Starmer broke lockdown rules in 2020. Would feel like biggest story in UK if you just read that site. And I just hadn't even heard an echo of it? Whether in media or on here? That site must do weird things to Tory attack lines.

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I wanted to share this quote from Prime Levi: "Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.... (1/3)

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Matt Gaetz calling Trump to check tariffs don't apply to illegal goods from Colombia.

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

The (unloved) Brexit consensus across the Westminster parties is wobbling. Why Ed Davey's speech calling for a UK/EU customs union is a big moment. Me on Substack open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 42 days ago • 53 comments

Well, well, well...🙄

submitted 41 days ago • 918 comments

Labour were ahead by this point in the 2010-2015 cycle. And as we all know Ed Miliband went on to be triumphant in the following general election.

submitted 44 days ago • 9 comments

Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

submitted 43 days ago • 74 comments

I’m scarcely a great fan of Starmer, but these papers are now ranting about him to the extent it’s becoming nasty, obsessive and damaging to our national interests, if not also our way of life and values.

submitted 55 days ago • 57 comments

“In London, everyone is different. But that means anyone can fit in.” Beautifully put. Thank you, Paddington. ❤️

submitted 58 days ago • 54 comments

ONE MILLION ASYLUM SEEKERS I see Nick Timothy is now at the stage of simply making up numbers... archive.ph/xk7fK

submitted 59 days ago • 22 comments

How bad do editing standards have to be that a number this wildly wrong doesn't get picked up.

submitted 57 days ago • 17 comments

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

submitted 58 days ago • 208 comments

Don’t recall there being much outrage when Conservative Downing Sts in every administration of last 14 yrs doled out honours to scores of backbench MPs basically for just being MPs. We should have far fewer political honours but the thrice elected Mayor of London is a weird place to start.

submitted 58 days ago • 94 comments

If I put #fbpe or #followbackfriday into a skeet does anything happen? Does it matter that its Sunday? Would like to share more, doe that make me sad, or just keen to see Bluesky work?

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

submitted 90 days ago • 113 comments

Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration. And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/

submitted 91 days ago • 105 comments

Check my new Bluesky Starter Pack Google Form forms.gle/TnvM4nj7ebMe... Fill the form to be added to a Start Pack. You must be following me on Bluesky and have #FBPE on your profile.

submitted 96 days ago • 65 comments

Spot on. Comprehensive pedestrianisation should be far higher up the agenda in our cities than it is. Nearly wherever cars go, cities get worse. Nearly wherever they’re removed, those urban spaces flourish.

submitted 93 days ago • 73 comments

I for one am amazed that Keir Starmer, five months after winning a 170 seat majority, has not called a fresh election after acceding to a random petition. Shameful stuff. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-s...

submitted 94 days ago • 284 comments

Hello everyone! It seems there is a lot going on here these days, so I decided to come and see it for myself. From today on, follow my activities here too!

submitted 98 days ago • 610 comments

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

submitted 100 days ago • 3193 comments

Colin from Portsmouth is actually real 😮🤣

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

#FBPE is not a cheap tool to get more followers; it's a sign of solidarity among progressives in their fight against populism & hatred. We support the EU and democratic values and cooperate with other movements. Ultimately, it's not the hashtag but the content of one's timeline that is important.

submitted 101 days ago • 27 comments