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Portfolio career. Writing, journalism, tour guiding PR, PA, etc. Tweet as RobWilliams100 but the sky is bluer here. Still #FBPE Writes stuff, including for The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/profile/robwilliamsy

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · Nov 16

Well, a short bio of the good bits I'm Rob. Or Robbie. Did European Studies at university and feel like a luddite now. A big fan of more trams, and more electrified railways, good walks, hikes and bike rides, and #France. Think Belgium is criminally underrated. Take the occasional decent photo.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16h

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, but if you're saying those implausible and shallow Kemi Badenoch announcements constitute a good speech then you're part of the UK's political problem.

Same half-baked "tax cut good / international commitments bad" bearing no resemblance to well formed policy.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2d

1. This does not target the UK

2. This is clear evidence of being inside a customs union rather than floating alone

3. It was inevitable that Trump's actions at the head of such a large economy would result in dumping elsewhere.. Europe has to be able to take action to counter that.

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 1d

I do hope someone in government, or the wider Labour Party looks at the Government’s safe communications strategy. www.communications.gov.uk/publications.... It's difficult to see how continuing to use X for government communications is remotely consistent with those principles.

SAFE Framework: the 4 principles for HMG Brand Safety - GCS

The SAFE Framework introduces new standards for digital brand safety in HM Government advertising.

www.communications.gov.uk

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this piece about Stamp Duty over 15 years ago. I still think it's broadly true. #KemiBadenoch is, unsurprisingly, wrong. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rob Williams: Don't stamp out stamp duty

Rob Williams: Suspending or deferring stamp duty won't help ease first-time buyers' misery. In any case, we must let the housing bubble burst

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 2d

If you cannot afford a house or flat for £500,000 when you are on a £40,000 salary then abolishing Stamp Duty is really not the main problem

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 2d

Not just no problem, but built into the lovely AI model, I'd say

RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 2d

About 20 minutes after he joined the Tory coalition

RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 2d

Playing the world's smallest violin here...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 3d

The Tories deserve oblivion @mrjamesob.bsky.social. Unhinged, unpleasant, unaffordable, unbelievable

RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 3d

Abolishing Stamp Duty would cost the Treasury over £11 billion. Any future #Conservative government is a black hole of fiscal fuckwittery

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 3d

If the #Conservative Parry is between life and death, then Kemi Badenoch's speech should be the moment we put it out of its, and our misery

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if "European Studies", majoring in geography and French, was a "rip off degree"? I can translate maps. What can #KemiBadenoch do?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 4d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Also little noticed is that the safest Conservative seat is now Harrow East, where the large Hindu population swung heavily to the Tories

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 3d

I suppose you could mention Sharia law. It seems to excite these people...

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 4d

The death of the media grid: @peterhyman.bsky.social peterhyman21.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication

A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets

peterhyman21.substack.com

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking of your points about the Grid in Failed State @samfr.bsky.social

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 4d

The death of the media grid: @peterhyman.bsky.social peterhyman21.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

Revealed: How the No 10 grid strangles effective communication

A government ‘playlist’ of campaigns could cut through more powerfully than an old-style grid of worthy policy nuggets

peterhyman21.substack.com

RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 4d

An anonymous Tory MP got it right in 2016

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 4d

#Birmingham two weekends back. Fuck you Robert Jenrick

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 4d

"They want to run the country. They can't even spell it right."

@natashaclark.bsky.social hsa notecid a bti fo a blendur ni teh Troy Praty goodei bga...

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 5d

Have a look at Harrow. It's now got the safest Tory seat in the country - Harrow East - and quite a Hindu nationalist to right wing Tory swing...