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@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @therestpolitics.bsky.social Congratulations on 400 episodes! I think I’ve listened to pretty much all of them & thoroughly appreciate your insights every week. Thank you! 🙏

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The stages in a Donald Trump deal: 1. Lie about something being a problem 2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem 3. Say you won't reverse what you've done 4. Reverse what you've done 5. Say "Art of the deal"

submitted 33 days ago • 51 comments

Adolescence. Will these dangerous teenage boys all end up in cells? The new Private Eye is out now

submitted 41 days ago • 32 comments

Not fun geopolitical times to live through but, as history teaches us, this era will pass and better people will rise.

submitted 81 days ago • 129 comments

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

submitted 90 days ago • 2055 comments

Say what you like about the Americans, but they know how to stage an inauguration.

submitted 112 days ago • 14 comments

Spending time online can leave you with a warped view of the world and that's a shame. Good people have always outnumbered bad people and things generally get better. Hold onto that x

submitted 120 days ago • 71 comments

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

submitted 129 days ago • 196 comments

It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job.

submitted 128 days ago • 142 comments

2016: Nigel Farage, "The worst case scenario, economically, is better off than where we are today" 2025: The Independent, "Five years on, the true cost of Brexit" ➡️ £27 billion drop in exports to the EU in 2022 ➡️ 15% long term hit to UK trade (OBR) ➡️ 3.6 million more migrants after Brexit

submitted 128 days ago • 22 comments