TrueGoode
@truegoode.bsky.social
Socialist not Sociopath
'Cosmopolitan North', England.
'Cosmopolitan North', England.
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Today, Germany is hosting the international North Sea Summit in Hamburg.
Guests include heads of state and government & energy ministers from 🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇪🇮🇸🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴, as well as the EU and NATO.
The focus is on expanding cross-border cooperation on supplying energy to Europe.
Guests include heads of state and government & energy ministers from 🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇪🇮🇸🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴, as well as the EU and NATO.
The focus is on expanding cross-border cooperation on supplying energy to Europe.
January 26, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Today, Germany is hosting the international North Sea Summit in Hamburg.
Guests include heads of state and government & energy ministers from 🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇪🇮🇸🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴, as well as the EU and NATO.
The focus is on expanding cross-border cooperation on supplying energy to Europe.
Guests include heads of state and government & energy ministers from 🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇪🇮🇸🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴, as well as the EU and NATO.
The focus is on expanding cross-border cooperation on supplying energy to Europe.
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This is worrying - Reform UK are grooming pensioner veterans into far-right thinking.
I’m at a Nigel Farage/Reform event in London where they are launching “Veterans for Reform”. A perhaps obvious crossover but there’s a few hundred people here - a big political crowd to draw on a Monday morning.
January 26, 2026 at 11:31 AM
This is worrying - Reform UK are grooming pensioner veterans into far-right thinking.
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1/ I've been thinking a lot about the US "This is not who we are" discourse. Trying to think through it.
Note: This is all so far out of my lane my car may as well be in a nearby lake, so just skip this thread if you're looking for actual expertise or wisdom.
Note: This is all so far out of my lane my car may as well be in a nearby lake, so just skip this thread if you're looking for actual expertise or wisdom.
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM
1/ I've been thinking a lot about the US "This is not who we are" discourse. Trying to think through it.
Note: This is all so far out of my lane my car may as well be in a nearby lake, so just skip this thread if you're looking for actual expertise or wisdom.
Note: This is all so far out of my lane my car may as well be in a nearby lake, so just skip this thread if you're looking for actual expertise or wisdom.
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The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation
Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here
christinapagel.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
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I'll be talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' at Harrogate Forum on Thurs Feb 26th, 10am, St Paul's Church Hall. Book due out that day, can be preordered from bookshops or websites. www.harrogateforum.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I'll be talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' at Harrogate Forum on Thurs Feb 26th, 10am, St Paul's Church Hall. Book due out that day, can be preordered from bookshops or websites. www.harrogateforum.org
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Maybe party decisions should not be made to suit the personal ambitions of a guy who had a chance to return to parliament two years ago but chose not to and has suddenly changed his mind now the top job is in play? Maybe that guy isn’t worth spending £££ and risking a major by-election over?
January 26, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Maybe party decisions should not be made to suit the personal ambitions of a guy who had a chance to return to parliament two years ago but chose not to and has suddenly changed his mind now the top job is in play? Maybe that guy isn’t worth spending £££ and risking a major by-election over?
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TikTok USA, now owned by Trump cronies: State Propaganda
The idea that Trump’s administration is pro-Free Speech is utterly risible.
The idea that Trump’s administration is pro-Free Speech is utterly risible.
BREAKING: With no explanations. TikTok has throttled or frozen individual videos criticizing ICE and simply disabled entire accounts whether the video pertains to ICE or not - and not even offered spurious explanations or notices #TikTokCensorship
January 26, 2026 at 12:02 PM
TikTok USA, now owned by Trump cronies: State Propaganda
The idea that Trump’s administration is pro-Free Speech is utterly risible.
The idea that Trump’s administration is pro-Free Speech is utterly risible.
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Scotland opposes new North Sea drilling, preferring instead to see more investment in green energy.
They have their heads screwed on, ignore the siren calls of Big Oil, Farage and right wing media,
Labour are right to stick to their election promise of no new oil.
buff.ly/RY7a6X4
They have their heads screwed on, ignore the siren calls of Big Oil, Farage and right wing media,
Labour are right to stick to their election promise of no new oil.
buff.ly/RY7a6X4
January 26, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Scotland opposes new North Sea drilling, preferring instead to see more investment in green energy.
They have their heads screwed on, ignore the siren calls of Big Oil, Farage and right wing media,
Labour are right to stick to their election promise of no new oil.
buff.ly/RY7a6X4
They have their heads screwed on, ignore the siren calls of Big Oil, Farage and right wing media,
Labour are right to stick to their election promise of no new oil.
buff.ly/RY7a6X4
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Seventeen breaches of disclosure rules by Farage with exactly zero consequences.
The excuse?
He's far too busy, important, overwhelmed and confused by computers.
This, however, isn’t a one-off failure - it’s a system that now treats confusion and busyness as mitigation rather than misconduct.
The excuse?
He's far too busy, important, overwhelmed and confused by computers.
This, however, isn’t a one-off failure - it’s a system that now treats confusion and busyness as mitigation rather than misconduct.
Nigel Farage and the Politics of Incompetence and Incapacity
From Boris Johnson to Nigel Farage, how confusion, busyness and bluster replaced accountability.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Seventeen breaches of disclosure rules by Farage with exactly zero consequences.
The excuse?
He's far too busy, important, overwhelmed and confused by computers.
This, however, isn’t a one-off failure - it’s a system that now treats confusion and busyness as mitigation rather than misconduct.
The excuse?
He's far too busy, important, overwhelmed and confused by computers.
This, however, isn’t a one-off failure - it’s a system that now treats confusion and busyness as mitigation rather than misconduct.
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The news is mad. Dystopian. Surreal.
The US President is unhinged & dangerous.
Putin’s being left to his own devices.
A Dane said ‘fuvk off’ in Parliament & it felt appropriate
Macron’s being tough…in aviators.
Netanyahu and Putin have been invited onto a board of peace. Ditto Blair
Help
The US President is unhinged & dangerous.
Putin’s being left to his own devices.
A Dane said ‘fuvk off’ in Parliament & it felt appropriate
Macron’s being tough…in aviators.
Netanyahu and Putin have been invited onto a board of peace. Ditto Blair
Help
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The news is mad. Dystopian. Surreal.
The US President is unhinged & dangerous.
Putin’s being left to his own devices.
A Dane said ‘fuvk off’ in Parliament & it felt appropriate
Macron’s being tough…in aviators.
Netanyahu and Putin have been invited onto a board of peace. Ditto Blair
Help
The US President is unhinged & dangerous.
Putin’s being left to his own devices.
A Dane said ‘fuvk off’ in Parliament & it felt appropriate
Macron’s being tough…in aviators.
Netanyahu and Putin have been invited onto a board of peace. Ditto Blair
Help
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The High Court has allowed Nadhim Zahawi's lawyer's appeal against the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal's finding of professional misconduct.
It’s very surprising, and concerning. Quick thread.
It’s very surprising, and concerning. Quick thread.
January 20, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The High Court has allowed Nadhim Zahawi's lawyer's appeal against the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal's finding of professional misconduct.
It’s very surprising, and concerning. Quick thread.
It’s very surprising, and concerning. Quick thread.
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Last week we reported that a small number of tax barristers were facilitating tax fraud, by issuing false opinions backing "tax avoidance schemes" (in reality: fraud)
We've a response from the Bar. Full report here:https://buff.ly/9hTfRFN
...or thread below.
We've a response from the Bar. Full report here:https://buff.ly/9hTfRFN
...or thread below.
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January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Last week we reported that a small number of tax barristers were facilitating tax fraud, by issuing false opinions backing "tax avoidance schemes" (in reality: fraud)
We've a response from the Bar. Full report here:https://buff.ly/9hTfRFN
...or thread below.
We've a response from the Bar. Full report here:https://buff.ly/9hTfRFN
...or thread below.
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Once more, a tax on the wealthy fails to collect the expected revenue. Le Monde says it was a "resounding fiscal fiasco".
And once more, proponents say that's because it wasn't stringent enough; opponents say it was doomed from the start.
But possibly they're both wrong...
And once more, proponents say that's because it wasn't stringent enough; opponents say it was doomed from the start.
But possibly they're both wrong...
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Once more, a tax on the wealthy fails to collect the expected revenue. Le Monde says it was a "resounding fiscal fiasco".
And once more, proponents say that's because it wasn't stringent enough; opponents say it was doomed from the start.
But possibly they're both wrong...
And once more, proponents say that's because it wasn't stringent enough; opponents say it was doomed from the start.
But possibly they're both wrong...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Yesterday's Sunday Times devoted almost all of its travel section to promoting tourisk to the USA.
1. Haven't they read the news (often in their own newspaper) about the shitshow that's today's America?
2. US tourism must be In deep doo-doo.
3. It'll be a long time before it comes back
1. Haven't they read the news (often in their own newspaper) about the shitshow that's today's America?
2. US tourism must be In deep doo-doo.
3. It'll be a long time before it comes back
January 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Yesterday's Sunday Times devoted almost all of its travel section to promoting tourisk to the USA.
1. Haven't they read the news (often in their own newspaper) about the shitshow that's today's America?
2. US tourism must be In deep doo-doo.
3. It'll be a long time before it comes back
1. Haven't they read the news (often in their own newspaper) about the shitshow that's today's America?
2. US tourism must be In deep doo-doo.
3. It'll be a long time before it comes back
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This is who they are…
Make no mistake, Reform UK are coming for us, funded by billionaires, by Putin and by MAGA and the consequences will make Brexit look like a picnic.
Make no mistake, Reform UK are coming for us, funded by billionaires, by Putin and by MAGA and the consequences will make Brexit look like a picnic.
January 26, 2026 at 8:03 AM
This is who they are…
Make no mistake, Reform UK are coming for us, funded by billionaires, by Putin and by MAGA and the consequences will make Brexit look like a picnic.
Make no mistake, Reform UK are coming for us, funded by billionaires, by Putin and by MAGA and the consequences will make Brexit look like a picnic.
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Really looking forward to being back presenting @Moneybox after a five week Xmas/NewYear break (I know, I know!). With top stories from its brilliant production team. More later. Don’t miss it @BBCRadio4 midday or on @BBCSounds from this afternoon.
January 24, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Really looking forward to being back presenting @Moneybox after a five week Xmas/NewYear break (I know, I know!). With top stories from its brilliant production team. More later. Don’t miss it @BBCRadio4 midday or on @BBCSounds from this afternoon.
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Russia’s response to peace talks is to bomb a hospital in Kharkiv.
January 24, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Russia’s response to peace talks is to bomb a hospital in Kharkiv.
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"1 in 5 pupils are getting a SEND diagnosis..the vast majority then trip into the benefit system because they get child disability allowance allowance.'
This is completely false from Milburn. He's supposed to be reviewing this issue and he's just making things up. Inexcusable.
This is completely false from Milburn. He's supposed to be reviewing this issue and he's just making things up. Inexcusable.
January 23, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"1 in 5 pupils are getting a SEND diagnosis..the vast majority then trip into the benefit system because they get child disability allowance allowance.'
This is completely false from Milburn. He's supposed to be reviewing this issue and he's just making things up. Inexcusable.
This is completely false from Milburn. He's supposed to be reviewing this issue and he's just making things up. Inexcusable.
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“You are more a Prosecco person, I think” may just very well be the most devastatingly middle-class insult ever committed to text.
All of this happened under a Waitrose champagne listing.
The internet in Britain remains completely undefeated.
All of this happened under a Waitrose champagne listing.
The internet in Britain remains completely undefeated.
"You Are More a Prosecco Person, I Think"
An online champagne review delivers the most brutal class takedown imaginable.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 9:35 AM
“You are more a Prosecco person, I think” may just very well be the most devastatingly middle-class insult ever committed to text.
All of this happened under a Waitrose champagne listing.
The internet in Britain remains completely undefeated.
All of this happened under a Waitrose champagne listing.
The internet in Britain remains completely undefeated.