Peter Moore
@petejmoore.bsky.social
🇺🇲🇬🇧 - British-American former rail worker, US pollster, and father to an autistic child. He/him.
This makes me sad as once upon a time I forgot my British passport and was allowed in with minimal fuss upon providing my card for the Staines Blockbuster and a Labour Party membership card
Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport
Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport
New border controls require ‘certificate of entitlement’ to attach to second nationality passport that costs £589
Dual British nationals have been warned they may be denied boarding a flight, ferry or train to the UK after 25 February unless they carry a valid British passport.
The warning by the Home Office comes amid scores of complaints from British people living or travelling abroad who have suddenly found themselves at risk of not being allowed into the country.
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www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
This makes me sad as once upon a time I forgot my British passport and was allowed in with minimal fuss upon providing my card for the Staines Blockbuster and a Labour Party membership card
I was once discussing a friend from the west country who was marrying a Frenchwoman with a very sceptical old bloke from Avignon. He became much more optimistic about their union when I revealed she was from Normandy.
(Worth noting here that a very big difference geographically / culturally is that while the UK is distinctly Northern European, France is both Northern European and Mediterranean)
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 AM
I was once discussing a friend from the west country who was marrying a Frenchwoman with a very sceptical old bloke from Avignon. He became much more optimistic about their union when I revealed she was from Normandy.
As someone who submits comments to planning consultations, one functional YIMBY move would be to not email people who have commented on one plan about every other consultation that you then open up for comment.
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
As someone who submits comments to planning consultations, one functional YIMBY move would be to not email people who have commented on one plan about every other consultation that you then open up for comment.
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It's internet brain. This tilt is a lot more real (though by no means overwhelming) elsewhere, but they don't get that the British public is by the standards of the 2020s actually one of the most left wing in the developed world.
The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 2:31 PM
It's internet brain. This tilt is a lot more real (though by no means overwhelming) elsewhere, but they don't get that the British public is by the standards of the 2020s actually one of the most left wing in the developed world.
They say men have trouble making connections but I just made friends with two Belgian men as we watched a gravel barge be unloaded at the asphalt plant in Erith
February 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
They say men have trouble making connections but I just made friends with two Belgian men as we watched a gravel barge be unloaded at the asphalt plant in Erith
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It is a very good piece but I suspect, a bit like with phone hacking, the problems caused by 'finding out' would be much greater than not, at least for our current crop of the rich and powerful
Fantastic piece by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social:
How much did the Epstein poison infect Britain? Starmer had better find out, and fast | Gaby Hinsliff
Serious questions need to be asked about Mandelson, Andrew and what the PM knew when. The credibility of UK politics is on the line, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:11 AM
It is a very good piece but I suspect, a bit like with phone hacking, the problems caused by 'finding out' would be much greater than not, at least for our current crop of the rich and powerful
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btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
Ah man I felt this in my bones
[me, living in the body bequeathed by the person who used it while it was in its 20s] What did that guy do to this thing?
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Ah man I felt this in my bones
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it's just so much easier to fit all my eggs in this one basket
January 28, 2026 at 9:15 PM
it's just so much easier to fit all my eggs in this one basket
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nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre
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one kind of weird aspect of this is that a relatively diverse federal agency has been sent to a very white city by white nationalists to do ethnic cleansing, where they're executing white people in the street
January 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM
one kind of weird aspect of this is that a relatively diverse federal agency has been sent to a very white city by white nationalists to do ethnic cleansing, where they're executing white people in the street
Australians nod approvingly
wish that instead of having to campaign for a political candidate you could volunteer to purely campaign against someone
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Australians nod approvingly
If I am allowed to indulge in wishful thinking: You do have to wonder how Reform will fare in the UK if the next election occurs as the US government is embarking on a massive purge and suppression of MAGA
I now think the prevailing currents have turned quite firmly against Reform in the UK. That plus a bit of an improvement in external circumstances might be quite important for Starmer et al despite their dreadful performance.
January 27, 2026 at 9:06 AM
If I am allowed to indulge in wishful thinking: You do have to wonder how Reform will fare in the UK if the next election occurs as the US government is embarking on a massive purge and suppression of MAGA
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The whole world is watching Minneapolis
January 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The whole world is watching Minneapolis
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Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.
Excellent article!
Excellent article!
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.
Excellent article!
Excellent article!
It would be kinda funny if they had to go to Philadelphia to get the violence they are clearly craving, but then get no swing behind them because most of America will go "well, what did they expect going *there*"
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 AM
It would be kinda funny if they had to go to Philadelphia to get the violence they are clearly craving, but then get no swing behind them because most of America will go "well, what did they expect going *there*"
Among all the risks of immigration politics today, this one is true across borders: The actual things that have to be done to achieve the ends that people say they want are not, in fact, popular.
“Stephen Miller’s mass deportation methods are turning immigration, an issue Mr. Trump owned in 2024, into a political liability for Republicans in 2026.
Americans don’t want law enforcement shooting people in the street or arresting five-year-old boys.” - WSJ ed board www.wsj.com/opinion/time...
Americans don’t want law enforcement shooting people in the street or arresting five-year-old boys.” - WSJ ed board www.wsj.com/opinion/time...
Opinion | Time for ICE to Pause in Minneapolis
Alex Pretti made a mistake, but he wasn’t a ‘domestic terrorist.’
www.wsj.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Among all the risks of immigration politics today, this one is true across borders: The actual things that have to be done to achieve the ends that people say they want are not, in fact, popular.
Because prior episodes of American chaos pre-date the nationalisation of American politics lots of Americans fairly enough assume that the splits and conflict this time will once again be horizontal, of a federal government facing off against state government(s)
It's why if Dems win the mid-terms there is a non-trivial risk of Trump declaring the Senate and House to be illegitimate and sending Bovino and his DHS goons into Congress
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
January 25, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Because prior episodes of American chaos pre-date the nationalisation of American politics lots of Americans fairly enough assume that the splits and conflict this time will once again be horizontal, of a federal government facing off against state government(s)
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My NEC/
My back/
Burnham project goes off track
My back/
Burnham project goes off track
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 PM
My NEC/
My back/
Burnham project goes off track
My back/
Burnham project goes off track
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The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not.
Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.
Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.
January 25, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not.
Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.
Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.