Never stop talking about Brexit. It’s behind so much of what is going wrong with our country, and we can and should constantly use it to bash the Reform clown car

The one man most singularly responsible for the rise in small boat arrivals is Nigel Farage Brexit caused the UK to leave the Dublin Regulation, which allowed us to return people to the 1st EU country they arrived in The call is coming from inside the house nation.cymru/opinion/why-...

Your regular reminder that platforming or reaching out to the right in the name of pluralism won’t work because its politics are explicitly that of the exclusion and eradication of people who disagree with it www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

The one man most singularly responsible for the rise in small boat arrivals is Nigel Farage Brexit caused the UK to leave the Dublin Regulation, which allowed us to return people to the 1st EU country they arrived in The call is coming from inside the house nation.cymru/opinion/why-...

This is essentially a 5,000-word version of me Tapping The Sign: Why are we not being told the full story behind things that are genuine crises? Why are we platforming cosplay fascists for clicks? And what can we do about it? medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Instead of platforming the crocodile tears of Israeli officials over the UK recognising Palestine, how about you tell us what those officials have actually done Like seeking to eradicate a people. These aren't politicians, they are monsters www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Apart from these GenAI slop machines being utterly useless, why is it their makers and boosters are so consistently rapey? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Agreed. We also need to message the economic suicide this would be. Imagine the legal battles, the lost labour, the insane and pointless cost of the paperwork, not to mention all these lives ruined needlessly How about "Fascist says he'd charge taxpayers to remove taxpayers"

A convicted fraudster who is Nigel Farage’s charge d’affairs has literally just written a book called How to Launder Money So I’m asking again why the BBC and ITV don’t say the thing when they uncritically platform Reform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The figures behind this swivel-eyed nonsense have been retracted and discredited by the very idiots who made them up Why are we reporting this as if it is a normal politician saying this, not some gangster Nazi whose charge d'affairs is a convicted fraudster? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This would cause untold social, psychological and economic misery to thousands of families, and for what? You’re essentially saying “I will charge the taxpayer to deport taxpayers” at this point Why are we continuing as if this isn’t completely unhinged? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“It’s not stupid to be worried at new tech being injected into you” unless said tech has been exhaustively safety tested, which is has, so it is www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Yet another vulnerable young person who took their own life after using ChatGPT OpenAI should be sued to oblivion www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Man who has stolen €125 billion apparently can’t afford to lose €1 billion The last time the ruling scions of France hoarded this much wealth to so much poverty and social decline, they got tarred and feathered chased out of the country www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Hard to imagine any other leader of any mainstream party (except Corbyn, who media across the spectrum immediately dismissed as a crank) who would join the front line of a protest calling for fair taxation of polluters Fair play @zackpolanski.bsky.social

This was a predictable announcement that focused largely on the hostages, as individual human beings, relegating the Palestinians 2 a anonymous suffering blob. This recognition of a contingent Palestinian state - req demilitarization & reform - is imperial handwaving bsky.app/profile/eura...

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

Regular reminder that state recognition isn’t a biscuit you get for being nice. Making it contingent on another state continuing a genocide is cynical politicking that implies statehood is a negotiable outcome rather than an immutable right www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hey @bbc-politics.bsky.social asking again why yesterday you were still covering the anti-Muslim march from a week ago, while you didn’t even mention the Tax The Rich march which literally started on your doorstep yesterday This is a choice. Who’s making it for you?

A convicted fraudster who is Nigel Farage’s charge d’affairs has literally just written a book called How to Launder Money So I’m asking again why the BBC and ITV don’t say the thing when they uncritically platform Reform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hey @bbc-politics.bsky.social asking again why yesterday you were still covering the anti-Muslim march from a week ago, while you didn’t even mention the Tax The Rich march which literally started on your doorstep yesterday This is a choice. Who’s making it for you?

The BBC this morning was still covering the far right march *from a week ago* Meanwhile, not a mention on their site (let alone the 6 or the 10) of a Tax The Rich march which set out from literally outside its HQ TODAY

lol straight after the tobacco comparison I saw this one. My biggest problem with the techbro billionaire sector is not that they are such losers. It is that they are so rapey. bsky.app/profile/patr...

It's a good day to delete Meta from your life

All of these tech slop offering are ran and juiced by fucking perverts Zuckerberg, Altman, Musk etc Tell me you’re Epstein adjacent without telling me etc www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Funny thing about Bassem Youssef is that he openly supported Sisi’s coup and blamed the Muslim Brotherhood as its own supporters were being massacred in the streets of Rabaa, of seeking “blood for publicity” This is never ever mentioned when covering this guy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The prime minister sat next to the CEO of Blackstone, a vampire fund that regularly donates millions to Israel; the leader of the opposition sat next to Sam Altman, the largest grifter in corporate history What it tells us is our democracy is bought www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

By @patrickgaley.bsky.social on the breakdown of the social contract, via the unspoken rules of cycling protest coverage.

Thanks Brian! None of this is immutable btw. We can change how we tell stories and give people the full picture

Thanks for that Patrick - very well written and something other journalists should read and take note of. My level of frustration reading it became almost palpable.

I wrote about the genocide, about the danger in Not Saying The Thing, and uncritical Far Right Platforming. It's about speaking to the structures and motives that are driving apparently organic social trends, and how telling a fuller story can appropriate proper blame. medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Say The Thing: why and how fascism is being mainstreamed across the board, and what to do about it. Read and share Patrick's morally and factually unassailable essay.

Yes, it's a genocide. No, these protests are not really about immigration. And, no, Reform isn't inevitable. We all need to Say The Thing more. The public deserves it, and the deniers and nativists deserve it, albeit for rather different reasons medium.com/@patchgaley/...

I am contributing to public and media messaging to help cut the Far Right off at the past and to ensure the genocide remains front and centre as the most important topic in our marketplace of ideas Have a read, give this a share. Hope you find some of it helpful! medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Any editor worth their quality control salt could have seamlessly added "incorrectly" to the standfirst, and do some actual public service journalism

In which I debunk the received wisdom that Reform are inevitable, that the Far Right must be courted for votes not treated as the entitled fringe it is, and that these nativist agitators are acutally concerned about immigration medium.com/@patchgaley/...

I wrote about the genocide, about the danger in Not Saying The Thing, and uncritical Far Right Platforming. It's about speaking to the structures and motives that are driving apparently organic social trends, and how telling a fuller story can appropriate proper blame. medium.com/@patchgaley/...

I wrote about Gaza, the Far Right, and the weaponisation of Words Not Said. It's about the structures and movements driving apparently organic, popular anger, and how we can better communicate a truer version of the world that appropriates proper blame. medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Tech bros - the ultimate capitalists - hailing Soviet level taxpayer subsidisation of their business models is not the flex they think it is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the justification for red carpeting the Offender in Chief: We spend £150 bn to pollute ourselves to death to reorganise societies according to plausible AI lies that automates and ultimately erase human capital The Labour Party www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

To which I say, well, then: fuck off you slop content snake oil creep Not sure where torching through our carbon budget by boiling lakes to rephrase the Internet was in your manifesto @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

According to the same report, the world would need to spend $500B/year just to keep production constant! If we allocate that money instead to alternatives, we’d be well on the way to fixing the problem.

Many stats surprise me when it comes to the inherent inefficiencies in powering our economies with fossil fuels, but this one stopped me in my tracks: "90% of all upstream investment is used to offset supply losses at existing fields" Talk about good money after bad www.iea.org/news/decline...

Mining and extractive industry are the biggest killers of land defenders globally, according to Global Witness' annual reporting. There is also a growing but as yet unquantifiable assault on environmental defenders in Gaza and the West Bank amid Israel's genocide globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

#BREAKING🚨 At least 146 environmental defenders were killed in 2024. That means @globalwitness.org has documented more than 2000 defender deaths since 2012. But there are signs of communities fighting back in the name of nature Please share this vital work 🙏 globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

90% of the UK newspaper market is controlled by three companies: DMG (Daily Mail et al), News UK (Murdoch), and Reach (the Mirror, Express). This also translates to a huge share (~40%) of online reach.

Isaac Herzog, for whom Keir Starmer literally rolled out the red carpet last week, has just been named in a UN report concluding that Israel is committing #genocide and its officials are instigating attrocity crimes in #Gaza. This image will haunt our prime minister in infamy forever

Not that we needed it to be official but it is NOW OFFICIAL: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. If anyone, in government or not, conducts themselves according to the rule of law, it is incumbent on them to say this out loud: Israel is a genocider www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Fond memories of the Economist, at about the time this chart begins, telling me that it wasn't possible or even a priority (hi, Bjorn Lomborg!) to switch to renewable energy.