RoyM
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The moral panic about young men is the new version of “UKIP is winning over former Labour voters” (also a Goodwin argument). Both rely on anecdote more than data, and do significant damage to public understanding of the radical right. Young men are the second *least* pro-Reform group in the UK.
February 7, 2026 at 12:35 PM
The moral panic about young men is the new version of “UKIP is winning over former Labour voters” (also a Goodwin argument). Both rely on anecdote more than data, and do significant damage to public understanding of the radical right. Young men are the second *least* pro-Reform group in the UK.
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Could we maybe also ask his royal protection officers a few questions as well? Presumably their job is to keep the royals safe from assassination, not to stand by passively whilst their protectees brazenly break the law?
Keir Starmer calls on Andrew to testify in US over Jeffrey Epstein links
Keir Starmer calls on Andrew to testify in US over Jeffrey Epstein links
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles last year, features heavily in the latest tranche of the Epstein files
Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor should testify before the US Congress about his links to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The prime minister, who is in Japan for a meeting with its premier, Sanae Takaichi, was asked by journalists if the former prince should apologise to the disgraced financier’s victims and give evidence about what he knew about his crimes. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Could we maybe also ask his royal protection officers a few questions as well? Presumably their job is to keep the royals safe from assassination, not to stand by passively whilst their protectees brazenly break the law?
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There is profoundly disagreeing with govt policy (policy of two consecutive govts now), there is strongly airing those disagreements - then there is lobbying a foreign govt to pressure ours in changing foreign policy to further your political interests.
I'm not sure what else you can call that.
I'm not sure what else you can call that.
NEW: Understand Scott Bessent and Nigel Farage discussed Diego Garcia and Chagos during their dinner at Davos. US Treasury Sec believed to have credited Farage for getting this issue in the President’s in-tray and subsequent Trump stance.
January 23, 2026 at 10:03 PM
There is profoundly disagreeing with govt policy (policy of two consecutive govts now), there is strongly airing those disagreements - then there is lobbying a foreign govt to pressure ours in changing foreign policy to further your political interests.
I'm not sure what else you can call that.
I'm not sure what else you can call that.
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If you are in charge of a small team that makes administrative errors, why should we believe you are competent to run the much bigger team that is a government?
… including payments for promoting gold, presenting on GB News and from his friend George Cottrell, within 28 days.
Reform UK leader apologised for what he described as administrative errors by his team.
Reform UK leader apologised for what he described as administrative errors by his team.
January 21, 2026 at 11:16 AM
If you are in charge of a small team that makes administrative errors, why should we believe you are competent to run the much bigger team that is a government?
Man of the people update
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
January 21, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Man of the people update
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the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine
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The US backed the Chagos Islands deal last year. The news today, if it can even be called news, is that deals with the current administration aren’t worth very much.
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM
The US backed the Chagos Islands deal last year. The news today, if it can even be called news, is that deals with the current administration aren’t worth very much.
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I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole.
January 19, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole.
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Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.
How government engagement on X works. A wholly typical post and a wholly typical reply.
January 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.
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I actually managed to get my kid’s secondary school to come off Twitter and move to Bluesky last year. If any educational establishment is still using it for comms, this should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back
January 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
I actually managed to get my kid’s secondary school to come off Twitter and move to Bluesky last year. If any educational establishment is still using it for comms, this should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back
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Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
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my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
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Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'
John Swinney responds to Nigel Farage's 'racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren
www.thenational.scot
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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The more I think about the two child limit the crosser I get, and the more pleased that they ditched it. No one decides their family size this way.* Making ordinary people think that this is how other people act is incredibly divisive.
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The more I think about the two child limit the crosser I get, and the more pleased that they ditched it. No one decides their family size this way.* Making ordinary people think that this is how other people act is incredibly divisive.
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
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A big part of this, I think, and Labour's general failing is caring about the first 15% of people who were going Reform, not the second 15%.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
It is genuinely mortifying how the only people I see pointing Reform's links to Russia out are /not/ Labour.
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A big part of this, I think, and Labour's general failing is caring about the first 15% of people who were going Reform, not the second 15%.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
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god tier cameo casting
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
god tier cameo casting
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This thread collating the Sheffield Tribune’s brilliant investigation into the spivvy lawyer threatening Yorkshire leaseholders into handing over cash is worth reading before the story goes national.
Excellent and courageous investigative journalism.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This thread collating the Sheffield Tribune’s brilliant investigation into the spivvy lawyer threatening Yorkshire leaseholders into handing over cash is worth reading before the story goes national.