Ian Slater
            
            @iansslater.bsky.social
          
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          Scot and new citizen of Germany, living in Cologne. Trying to escape from political economy, passionate about music, interested in literature, photography, travel, and culture generally.
      
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      It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
        So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
        
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      Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
    
        
        
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      This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper
    
        
      UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
    
  
        
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      Dominic Cummings pushed for Covid tech contracts to be handed to a company run by a Trump-supporting billionaire after holding a secret meeting with him alongside Boris Johnson.
Officials were lobbied to ignore official procedures and bypass ministers in order to get the contracts signed
      
          Officials were lobbied to ignore official procedures and bypass ministers in order to get the contracts signed
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
          Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
        
          
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      Rob Jetten beats out Geert Wilders
    
      
          The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism
          Rob Jetten beats out Geert Wilders
        
          
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