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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 20h

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

www.theatlantic.com

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Sue!

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks - would have been my first time! Looks amazing

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I’ve not watched either! Thanks!!

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I’ve been meaning to watch the second series. Great shout

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I love this show

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for all the recommendations!!

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

Worst thing about getting sick for me is since I had long covid a few years ago *every time* I get a bug that causes fatigue I get this existential fear that the chronic fatigue is back

I’m sure am not only one

Here’s a piece I wrote a while back on it democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

We need to talk about Long Covid

I am one of the lucky ones: I made a full recovery

democracyforsale.substack.com

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

Supposed to be flying to Krakow this morning for the Unsound music festival.

Instead am lying in bed with day number 5 of what feels awfully like Covid, but isn’t showing up as Covid

Am in market for TV/podcast recommendations, if anyone has any? Thanks!

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Tory conference, having watched most of it on GB News:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

In 1923, Scottish minister John White wrote “The Menace of the Irish Race". This could have been lifted straight out of it

Stephen Daisley knows all this - not least as I wrote about it in a book he reviewed - but prefers to crack on with the same narrative 100 years later

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 2d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d

Reform conference was the same

Feels under reported on but a sizeable amount of politicos (and I think voters) think IMF-style crisis is coming fast. Assume it’s a meme somewhere?

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

It’s striking how many Tory fringe events I’ve been at where people have confidently predicted a major fiscal or markets crisis for the government in the next 12ish months. I have no idea if that has any credibility, but it’s notable how much perhaps misplaced confidence it gives some Conservatives.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

I must admit I didn’t 😬

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 5d

I think his radicalisation started when he couldn’t even get his name into the podcast he hosted with Robbie Savage and Andrew Flintoff: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

From ping-pong champ to Nosferatu in just a few short years.

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 5d

no wait I've found a better one

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

Matthew Syed’s ‘journey’ has been grimly fascinating

Been following it ever since he wrote a column endorsing the Great Replacement ‘Theory’

Wild what passes for ‘public intellectual’ in Britain

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5d

The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

Badenoch actually has the effect of making Farage seem like a serious politician

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

Someone who spends way too much time on X? (Semi serious)

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

The Conservative Party has now completely lost the plot

Surely there’s a space for a centre right party opening up in Britain?

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 6d

Batshit.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6d

The honour was all mine! Thanks so much, Emily

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6d

Some Sunday evening reading from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on Tony Blair and Larry Ellison, two men whose influence is being brought more and more to bear on the UK:
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the-tony-blair-institute-larry-ellison-peter-kyle-starmer

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?

democracyforsale.substack.com

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 6d

Honored to have this conversation with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social - Britain’s most effective journalist on covering dark money, concentration of power and corruption…answer to ‘how fucked are we?’ was something along the lines of ‘more than we should be’

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6d

Can watch full video with @emilybell.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale’s YouTube channel

Starts with my killer opening question: ‘how fucked are we?’ 😂😬

youtu.be/5lXeFzrYwI8?...

How Trump is breaking the free press | Professor Emily Bell

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6d

Can watch full video with @emilybell.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale’s YouTube channel

Starts with my killer opening question: ‘how fucked are we?’ 😂😬

youtu.be/5lXeFzrYwI8?...

How Trump is breaking the free press | Professor Emily Bell

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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