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Juli @julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 17h

‘Lessons from Enoch Powell to Robert Jenrick on race rhetoric’ Dominic Sandbrook www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Juli @julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 17h

Robert Jenrick: *Look, I hope you didn’t mind me saying that thing the other day, about how much I dislike being somewhere with no other white faces*

Our Week: Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick’s WhatsApps* @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is set to blame Nigel Farage for tax rises in the Budget, saying he delivered Brexit with “easy sloganeering” and then walked away

Reeves will say that without Brexit, the economy would be stronger and taxes lower - and that Farage is to blame

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 18h

Actually since Sparta is the model for British boarding schools and Machiavelli the model for the contemporary Conservative Party maybe we are more than halfway there.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 18h

What with all this the UK should emulate Dubai stuff, following hot on the heels of Singapore model, are there any other niche authoritarian city states we could go for? Brunei? Machiavelli’s Florence? Ancient Sparta?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Give up satirists.

Move to Saudi or something.

You're not needed any more.

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Philip Taylor @philipjtaylor.bsky.social · 18h

No one in their right mind would have thought Hunt's NI cuts were anything more than an empty gesture. Tory Central office had known for at least two years that they were going to lose the election and he'd never have to live with them. Labour were mad to adopt them for the sake of a few more seats

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20h

Really? Did anyone who was paying attention actually believe that Hunt's cuts to NI were affordable? And if the OBR's assumptions about productivity have always looked optimistic, why base your fiscal strategy on them?

Reeves and her ministerial colleagues privately grumble that the OBR could and should have reviewed its productivity forecasts earlier. If it had done so while the Conservatives were still in power, Jeremy Hunt's pre-election cuts to national insurance contributions might have looked unaffordable.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 18h

The Right are doing this because they want you to believe there is a systemic problem with free speech in this country.

But there isn't.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

There is no systemic free speech problem in Britain that needs fixing. There are some tricky fine lines between free speech and incitement – a balancing of rights – as has been the case for a *very* long time and was the case here. Nothing more.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 18h

The Populist Right are desperate to signal that this one brave appeal judge is swimming against the tide of a system infected by 'Lefty Lawyers' – like the judge applied the law according to his own free speechy conscience.

He did no such thing.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 18h

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, it's still early June 2016.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 1d

Now do this with Putin!

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 18h

stop thinking right now

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

What a loser.

TIME Magazine: "Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize he shamelessly campaigned for."

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

It is also delusional thinking.
You think flattery is going to keep that man on your side in the long run?

Good luck.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

There is perverse thinking, and a step below that is thinking that a president that is illegally sending US military units into US cities should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22h

Horrifying. #Portland

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 20h

On the Gaza deal, crediting Trump - and the painful cost of his failure to act so much earlier. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump wants a prize for the Gaza deal. But the real question is, why didn't he do it earlier? | Jonathan Freedland

The ceasefire in Gaza happened when the US president lost patience, but how much horror occurred, how many people were killed because he delayed, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20h

I've been to Dubai for work a few times. It's like the world's biggest airport lounge. Utterly soulless. Can't imagine wanting to live there whatever the financial benefits. (That's before you get to the ethical issues...)

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 21h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

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The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social · 5d

Who was this professor of Greek and Wagner connoisseur? Was he the father of Brexit? Of Thatcherism? Of Reform?

Join Tom and Dominic as they explore the life and legacy of Britain’s most enduringly controversial politician.

🎙️: linktr.ee/restishistory
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The Rest Is History - Listen on YouTube, Spotify - Linktree

View restishistory’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social · 5d

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

In the 1960s, rising anger over immigration left many people disillusioned with established political leaders, whose careful rhetoric increasingly didn’t chime with the rising passions the issue conjured up. Enter Enoch Powell.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #bbcqt: "The immigrants haven't caused austerity."

"The same Thatcherite policies that you and your party support and the Conservative are what have caused the devastation in this country."

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

incidentally I enjoyed the interview on BBC News last night with a woman from the Nobel committee who pointed that so long as Trump was using the judicial system to go after his enemies and sending troops into peaceful cities, he probably wasn't a strong candidate for the Nobel peace prize

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