Jonathan Schulster
@jschulster.bsky.social
11 years (co)piloting Europe's 1st Mars mission.
RE Himalayan motorcyclist, part-time photographer, ex-Brit, Jew, rocket scientist by day (for not much longer)
RE Himalayan motorcyclist, part-time photographer, ex-Brit, Jew, rocket scientist by day (for not much longer)
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If I asked you which country has the most progressive tax system in the developed world — where high earners hand over an especially large share of their income relative to the average worker — what would your answer be?
The answer is in fact Britain. on.ft.com/4a5jIFc
The answer is in fact Britain. on.ft.com/4a5jIFc
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
If I asked you which country has the most progressive tax system in the developed world — where high earners hand over an especially large share of their income relative to the average worker — what would your answer be?
The answer is in fact Britain. on.ft.com/4a5jIFc
The answer is in fact Britain. on.ft.com/4a5jIFc
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Janan Ganesh | The Labour government will deteriorate from here on.ft.com/4r5aL4Z #FTEdit
The Labour government will deteriorate from here
Starmer and Reeves are unfit and their likeliest usurpers are worse
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Janan Ganesh | The Labour government will deteriorate from here on.ft.com/4r5aL4Z #FTEdit
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Savage piece by Janan Ganesh in the FT on Labour - and the UK’s - predicament. In short, Starmer and Reeves are rubbish - every possible replacement is worse.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Savage piece by Janan Ganesh in the FT on Labour - and the UK’s - predicament. In short, Starmer and Reeves are rubbish - every possible replacement is worse.
From Janesh Ganesh comes perhaps the best analysis of 2025 on just how bad this @uklabour.bsky.social government really is: Starmer the coward, and Reeves the rank average. Desperate times for the UK
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
From Janesh Ganesh comes perhaps the best analysis of 2025 on just how bad this @uklabour.bsky.social government really is: Starmer the coward, and Reeves the rank average. Desperate times for the UK
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"What he does is he shames," says Emily Maitlis
"He finds the easiest response is just to shame women into silence or hope that he's shaming women into silence"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/quie...
"He finds the easiest response is just to shame women into silence or hope that he's shaming women into silence"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/quie...
Quiet piggy: ‘Trump finds the easiest response is to shame women into silence’ | The News Agents
The president has had two public outbursts against female reporters in the past week, showing a leader unravelling on live TV. Is the Epstein Files pressure finally getting to him?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"What he does is he shames," says Emily Maitlis
"He finds the easiest response is just to shame women into silence or hope that he's shaming women into silence"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/quie...
"He finds the easiest response is just to shame women into silence or hope that he's shaming women into silence"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/quie...
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He lived until 1980. A "misunderstood victim and hero" in his own mind to the end, and when he died, the obituaries in some quarters were downright gushing.
A truly appalling human being.
A truly appalling human being.
#OnThisDay 1943: wonderfully acidic Zec cartoon on the news that the British fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, was being released from prison on the grounds of ill-health...
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
He lived until 1980. A "misunderstood victim and hero" in his own mind to the end, and when he died, the obituaries in some quarters were downright gushing.
A truly appalling human being.
A truly appalling human being.
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position.
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position.
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now.
#ImmigrantsWelcome
#NotInMyName
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A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence
Labour has managed to pack so much failure into a single week that it becomes hard to remember all the details.
iandunt.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
www.channel4.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
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MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board
MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board
Boris Johnson’s appointee is accused of pushing claims of institutional bias at the corporation after shock resignations
MPs and BBC staff members have called for Robbie Gibb to be removed from the corporation’s board as outgoing director general Tim Davie hit out at the “weaponisation” of criticisms of the broadcaster.
In an online meeting with Davie, staff questioned the position of Gibb, Theresa May’s former communications chief who was appointed during Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
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The disturbing escalation of the assault on the BBC should be alarming to anyone who cares about truth, accountability and democracy.
Influential board member, Robbie Gibb, former GBNews adviser, Brexit endorser and previous owner of the Jewish Chronicle, is orchestrating this assault from within.
Influential board member, Robbie Gibb, former GBNews adviser, Brexit endorser and previous owner of the Jewish Chronicle, is orchestrating this assault from within.
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The disturbing escalation of the assault on the BBC should be alarming to anyone who cares about truth, accountability and democracy.
Influential board member, Robbie Gibb, former GBNews adviser, Brexit endorser and previous owner of the Jewish Chronicle, is orchestrating this assault from within.
Influential board member, Robbie Gibb, former GBNews adviser, Brexit endorser and previous owner of the Jewish Chronicle, is orchestrating this assault from within.
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
@thisisyourparty.bsky.social comparing themselves to Zohran Mamdani is almost as farcical as their inability to register as a political entity, choose a name or even a leader 🫣😉🤣🧐
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
@thisisyourparty.bsky.social comparing themselves to Zohran Mamdani is almost as farcical as their inability to register as a political entity, choose a name or even a leader 🫣😉🤣🧐
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What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage
Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Manchester synagogue victim died from single police gunshot wound, inquest hears
Manchester synagogue victim died from single police gunshot wound, inquest hears
Adrian Daulby sustained shot to chest as he attempted to prevent attacker from entering synagogue
A victim of the Manchester synagogue attack died from a single police gunshot wound as he held the building’s doors shut against a terrorist, an inquest has heard.
Adrian Daulby, 53, was described at his funeral as a “quiet man” who became a “tremendously strong hero”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Manchester synagogue victim died from single police gunshot wound, inquest hears
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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
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Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s
'My sin was having Parkinson's': Presenter left stranded
Mark Mardell was left feeling 'humiliated' after he was told he could not board a flight.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s
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Great piece with Mark Mardell on the Today programme about Turkish Airlines chucking him off a flight because of his Parkinson’s. Read the full grisly story here www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Great piece with Mark Mardell on the Today programme about Turkish Airlines chucking him off a flight because of his Parkinson’s. Read the full grisly story here www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1...
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I liked it when Left-wing parties were antifascist.
There is always money for war, never for the poor.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I liked it when Left-wing parties were antifascist.
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Up pops Katie Lam to outdo Robert Jenrick on the nastiness scale | John Crace
Up pops Katie Lam to outdo Robert Jenrick on the nastiness scale | John Crace
It’s hard to keep up with everyone the Tory MP tipped as a future party leader hates
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October 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Up pops Katie Lam to outdo Robert Jenrick on the nastiness scale | John Crace