The main @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social account also has a string of aliases which join in the harassment, the latest including @lorcantwomey.bsky.social and @martin-finnucane.bsky.social. Anyone who thinks this shouldn't be happening, please block and report. @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team 2/2

Literally poles apart

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

Fucking disgraceful. We should be culling peers, not increasing them.

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

In some ways this is a useful reminder that a lot of the talk of European security guarantees to Ukraine have the whole thing backwards. For more than three years Ukraine has been guaranteeing European security by fighting and degrading the Russian armed forces. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nothing is more symbolic of Europe's inherent weakness of resolve - EU and UK - than the failure of governments and institutions to leave X/Twitter en masse. It's easier to stay, so stay they do. Pathetic.

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

I just read a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social asking why people are still on blatantly Nazi Twitter and how this place really is the answer, and I thought he's right, I need to be checking in on here more so hello everyone.

NEWS! Keir Starmer's ‘Let me be crystal clear’s to be capped at fifty per speech newsthump.com/2025/12/02/k...

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Superb as always from @chrisgrey.bsky.social following the threads linking Brexit to: the UK’s particularly dire Covid pandemic, enemy (Russian) influence in UK politics, economic weakness (hence higher taxes and/or lower spending) and anti-immigration obsession devoid of compassion or common sense

Populist Right: 'We're not racist, we just want immigrants to integrate & contribute.' Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC. Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'

“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

She did lots of things but ‘ask’ wasn’t one of them.

Nationalism: what is it good for? Latest podcast with @jimpowerecon1962.bsky.social and @shanewriter.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0v7q...

open.spotify.com/episode/66Jo... Saturday podcast with @chrisbjohns.bsky.social

Latest podcast with @chrisbjohns.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3OKI...

Can I ever forgive the BBC for this? No. But that doesn’t justify what is happening now.

Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

If they try and raise 20bn through 10 such taxes it’s quite likely it ends up being 12 or 15 instead and then we end up back here again raising taxes again next year.

The easiest explanation of what’s happening to the billionaires is that , while wealth cooks everyone’s brains a little, unimaginable wealth deep fries your brain. And that social media has given us a front row seat to the process

This is such a good point from @conorsen.bsky.social. For the Greek statue avatar brigade this is when hubris meets nemesis.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The noise you hear is the collective swallowing of a thousand right whinge commentators' words www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I hope he is awarded the highest possible honour for saving lives.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Ireland’s next attacking frontier? The counterattack Why becoming a better transition team is imperative this November. Analysis ⬇️ www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Today, nine years since its launch, my (now fortnightly) Brexit & Brexitism Blog (as it's now called) had its 11 millionth visit. Many thanks to all who have visited, or who read posts via the email feed, and to those who have helped promote it. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com

Guess who Hegseth's Pentagon awards its biggest drone contract to....? Naturally one in which Don Trump Jr has a stake and sits on its board. Every goddam conflict of interest law is being vandalised daily by Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/4ced...

"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

A reminder that any moment of Trump being “pro-Ukraine” is rapidly corrected once Trump has had his latest instructions from the Kremlin. on.ft.com/4ooVl9l

Seven million patriots celebrated the real America today.

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense". Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

open.spotify.com/episode/5LvB... Thursday morning podcast with @chrisbjohns.bsky.social

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

I ❤️ Viz

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Paul Krugman reads and cites our pod & Substack, The Other Hand!!

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

Why the AI bubble is going to burst. Whatever intelligence is, they are using the wrong definition. Where is the killer app? The big question answered? cjpeconomics.substack.com/p/does-ai-be...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues. Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

This. The Tories, Reform UK Ltd & even Labour hate the actually-existing British economy, whose comparative advantage lies in higher education & the creative industries.

Dubai seems to have become the new Singapore for Brexiters, even as they flog the rest of us to show obeisance to 'British values'.