Chris Arundel
@chrisarundel.bsky.social
Former BBC journalist and producer.
Travel, Science esp. Astronomy, Chemistry.
Happy product of European immigration.
I write to warn of the risk of fascism in the UK.
Speak English, Dutch, know some German
Travel, Science esp. Astronomy, Chemistry.
Happy product of European immigration.
I write to warn of the risk of fascism in the UK.
Speak English, Dutch, know some German
Top marks to Liverpool.
The most generous country on Earth.
The most generous country on Earth.
Scousers are the most generous people on earth
Liverpool top of fundraising platform's 'most generous city list' again
GoFundMe placed the city at the top of its annual rankings
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Top marks to Liverpool.
The most generous country on Earth.
The most generous country on Earth.
What will happen to Gary Lineker, if he tries to enter to report on the World Cup?
Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force
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US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
What will happen to Gary Lineker, if he tries to enter to report on the World Cup?
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Even before government says anything anyone with sense should stay away from the USA right now!
Should the UK government issue a travel warning for people intending to fly to the United States?
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Even before government says anything anyone with sense should stay away from the USA right now!
Should the UK government issue a travel warning for people intending to fly to the United States?
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Should the UK government issue a travel warning for people intending to fly to the United States?
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Unravelling the US trade deal would be absolutely the right thing. We should never be in a trade deal with a mafia kleptocracy like the USA.
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Unravelling the US trade deal would be absolutely the right thing. We should never be in a trade deal with a mafia kleptocracy like the USA.
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Come off it. The UK government, including the prime minister, says stronger stuff than this (IMV to an unwise degree) about China *all the time*.
Sorry but this is exactly the gotcha style of questioning that inevitably brings democracy into disarray. Governments can't actually say everything they want about foreign leaders because that is diplomacy. Headline either way. And unscrupulous leaders who don't care are the winners.
Keir Starmer’s spokesman refuses to criticise Trump for calling Europe a group of “decaying” nations led by “weak” leaders
Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”
Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Come off it. The UK government, including the prime minister, says stronger stuff than this (IMV to an unwise degree) about China *all the time*.
Planning to go see the World Cup next year? Maybe time for a rethink …
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Planning to go see the World Cup next year? Maybe time for a rethink …
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"The votes of the dead should not count for more than than the views of the young. Around 3.2 million Leave voters have died since the referendum. Six million young people have now reached voting age since 2016, and they are more likely to be pro-EU."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Pro-Brexit Majority Of 2016 'Has Literally Died Out', Polling Expert Reveals
The founder of YouGov said there is now an 8.1 million majority in favour of rejoining the EU.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"The votes of the dead should not count for more than than the views of the young. Around 3.2 million Leave voters have died since the referendum. Six million young people have now reached voting age since 2016, and they are more likely to be pro-EU."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
To beat the populists, politicians need to…
1. Fully understand the nature of the mortal threat facing the country.
2. Ditch convention, and devise an effective strategy to defeat it.
There’s no sign the government has even reached step 1.
1. Fully understand the nature of the mortal threat facing the country.
2. Ditch convention, and devise an effective strategy to defeat it.
There’s no sign the government has even reached step 1.
🔴The Government’s ‘Integrity Gap’ Is Leaving the Door Open for Nigel Farage
By offering Faragist rhetoric combined with a programme of managed decline, Keir Starmer’s Government has left a political vacuum which the Reform leader is now stepping into, argues Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social
By offering Faragist rhetoric combined with a programme of managed decline, Keir Starmer’s Government has left a political vacuum which the Reform leader is now stepping into, argues Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social
The Government's 'Integrity Gap' Is Leaving the Door Open for Nigel Farage
By offering watered down Faragist rhetoric combined with a programme of managed decline, Keir Starmer's Government has left a political vacuum which the Reform leader is now stepping into, argues Labo...
bylinetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
To beat the populists, politicians need to…
1. Fully understand the nature of the mortal threat facing the country.
2. Ditch convention, and devise an effective strategy to defeat it.
There’s no sign the government has even reached step 1.
1. Fully understand the nature of the mortal threat facing the country.
2. Ditch convention, and devise an effective strategy to defeat it.
There’s no sign the government has even reached step 1.
It’s not just the Brexiters in the Labour government then.
“Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s not just the Brexiters in the Labour government then.
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“Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s like watching a training film called “Political Incompetence 101”
“For decades, UK leaders assumed that the US would underwrite Europe’s security; that, as Washington’s closest ally, Britain would punch above its weight; and that British institutions would stabilise order, if not justice, in turbulent times. That world has gone”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Britain’s post-American drift: a crisis of purpose and power | Editorial
Editorial: US pressure over Ukraine has revealed Sir Keir Starmer’s limitations and a British state too hollowed out to shape events at home or abroad
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s like watching a training film called “Political Incompetence 101”
How did so much cowardice come to be concentrated in SW1A?
FFS. If the far right had been this lukewarm and timid, they'd never have got their Brexit! This isn't the time to say what CAN'T be done, it's a time to decide what you want and to fight to make it happen. It's time to grasp that politics is the art of the possible! Fortune favours the brave!
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Britain is stuck with a failed Brexit that neither citizens nor leaders want. Here are three ways to fix that | Stella Creasy
While those who defend the status quo and those who say ‘simply rejoin’ the EU are both wrong, there is a new mood and a clear opportunity, says Stella Creasy MP, chair of the Labour Movement for Euro...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
How did so much cowardice come to be concentrated in SW1A?
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The Clacton constituency needs to organise a recall now, and the other parties need to put up a neutral, universally respected joint candidate against him at the following by-election.
#FarageOut 🗳
#FarageOut 🗳
The allegations come from a former Reform councillor who served on Farage's campaign team.
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The Clacton constituency needs to organise a recall now, and the other parties need to put up a neutral, universally respected joint candidate against him at the following by-election.
#FarageOut 🗳
#FarageOut 🗳
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"In 2024, UK GDP per head at constant prices was 30 per cent below what it would have been if the trend rate of growth between 1980 and 2007 had continued." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The UK must do more than go on muddling through
We need to look at the causes of the country’s dire economic performance
giftarticle.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"In 2024, UK GDP per head at constant prices was 30 per cent below what it would have been if the trend rate of growth between 1980 and 2007 had continued." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?
And on Britain
Exactly. We are in grave danger.
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
And on Britain
Farage’s “Armoured Land Rover”
All perfectly normal
All perfectly normal
🚨 BREAKING: Farage facing police reports for falsifying election expenses.
A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl
• Undeclared campaign HQ
• Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending
• Missing receipts/misreported costs
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl
• Undeclared campaign HQ
• Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending
• Missing receipts/misreported costs
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Farage 'reported to police over claim of election fraud in Clacton'
Nigel Farage has been reported to the police over claims of falsified election expenses, it has emerged.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Farage’s “Armoured Land Rover”
All perfectly normal
All perfectly normal
What an appalling thing for the UK government to post.
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
What an appalling thing for the UK government to post.
The billboard image closely resembled German NS anti-refugee imagery from the 1930s. Nigel Farage posed proudly in front of it. It tells you all anyone needs to know about Nigel Farage.
Farage stood in front of a billboard during the Brexit referendum campaign, showing a crowd of black and brown faces apparently “invading” Britain
✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social
✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social
Nigel Farage has a race problem
The school stories, the admiration for Enoch Powell and comments about the “US Jewish lobby” all hang over Farage - and make him unelectable
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The billboard image closely resembled German NS anti-refugee imagery from the 1930s. Nigel Farage posed proudly in front of it. It tells you all anyone needs to know about Nigel Farage.
Priorities of the Labour Government:
Pandering to the Nigel Farage fanclub comes first …
… the country comes joint fifteenth.
Pandering to the Nigel Farage fanclub comes first …
… the country comes joint fifteenth.
BREAKING: Work & Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden rules out a customs union with the EU to promote economic growth
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Priorities of the Labour Government:
Pandering to the Nigel Farage fanclub comes first …
… the country comes joint fifteenth.
Pandering to the Nigel Farage fanclub comes first …
… the country comes joint fifteenth.
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I mean, we only have to look back a few years to understand why Farage won’t apologise for his Neo Nazi school days
Nigel Farage given standing ovation at German far-right AfD election rally in 2017
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Nigel Farage given standing ovation at German far-right AfD election rally in 2017
news.sky.com/story/farage...
Nigel Farage given standing ovation at German far-right AfD election rally
The former UKIP leader says the key poll challengers are refusing to discuss Brexit as it is a "huge embarrassment" to the EU.
news.sky.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I mean, we only have to look back a few years to understand why Farage won’t apologise for his Neo Nazi school days
Nigel Farage given standing ovation at German far-right AfD election rally in 2017
news.sky.com/story/farage...
Nigel Farage given standing ovation at German far-right AfD election rally in 2017
news.sky.com/story/farage...
More details of the appalling behaviour of Nigel Farage at Dulwich College. He hung around outside Friday prayers so he knew who to target…
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'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends'
YouTube video by LBC
youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
More details of the appalling behaviour of Nigel Farage at Dulwich College. He hung around outside Friday prayers so he knew who to target…
youtube.com/shorts/XHzg8...
youtube.com/shorts/XHzg8...
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The EU on a global scale, more or less.
Europe has a historic opportunity to create a new alliance of voluntary nations that believe in respecting international law and honouring their commitments.
Together, we are stronger.
Together, we are stronger.
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The EU on a global scale, more or less.
Given the state of the country, astonishing.
“When Labour came to power 18 months ago, it had the chance to reset the whole shape of the state, of taxation, and our relationship to it.
"Somehow it didn't have the confidence to do that"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
"Somehow it didn't have the confidence to do that"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
‘Labour had the chance to reshape the country – and didn’t have the confidence to do it’ | The News Agents
Rachel Reeves second budget continues to prove a headache for the chancellor – and the Labour government, with claims she misled voters before delivery. Whether true or not, what does this latest…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Given the state of the country, astonishing.