Andrew Naughtie
@andrewnaughtie.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, Edinburgher. US Politics and other stuff besides.
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Nobody needs to be on X. Nobody needs to see what’s on X. It’s a cesspit of racism, xenophobia and misinformation. And it refuses to comply with even the most basic of standards.
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Nobody needs to be on X. Nobody needs to see what’s on X. It’s a cesspit of racism, xenophobia and misinformation. And it refuses to comply with even the most basic of standards.
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Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
Party For You (Corbynite Continuity (Socialist))
Your Party members will be asked to choose between four name options this weekend: Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For the Many, with the result to be announced by Jeremy Corbyn at the end of the two-day conference on Sunday afternoon
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Party For You (Corbynite Continuity (Socialist))
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Clutching other people's pearls, more like.
I think maybe we should stop clutching our pearls and wait to see what lands. If the cost of finally introducing safe routes is the leaking of nasty proposals that will never see the light of day then isn’t that worth it?
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Clutching other people's pearls, more like.
Quite. Stay tuned for an upcoming panic about “anchor babies”, à la USA circa George W Bush.
The Starmer-Mahmood asylum/refugee policy is basically legislating to weaponise the Windrush deportations nightmare into a deliberate legal process. And for what? To close a polling gap?
The Starmer-Mahmood asylum/refugee policy is basically legislating to weaponise the Windrush deportations nightmare into a deliberate legal process. And for what? To close a polling gap?
And these measures don’t just harm migrants. They tear apart families — including long-settled migrant households and British families with loved ones abroad. The cruelty is systemic, not accidental.
🔗 theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
🔗 theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
How the UK’s immigration system splits families apart – by design
Barriers to migrants’ family life are embedded in the UK’s immigration system.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Quite. Stay tuned for an upcoming panic about “anchor babies”, à la USA circa George W Bush.
The Starmer-Mahmood asylum/refugee policy is basically legislating to weaponise the Windrush deportations nightmare into a deliberate legal process. And for what? To close a polling gap?
The Starmer-Mahmood asylum/refugee policy is basically legislating to weaponise the Windrush deportations nightmare into a deliberate legal process. And for what? To close a polling gap?
“Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry, and any of their accessories that I might be able to shift on Vinted.”
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
“Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry, and any of their accessories that I might be able to shift on Vinted.”
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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This is now outside the paywall, please do read and share
EXCLUSIVE 🚨 A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
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Exclusive: the error at the heart of Trump’s BBC attack
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is now outside the paywall, please do read and share
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the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀
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The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
On a constant loop. Radio 7.
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On a constant loop. Radio 7.
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A great point. If you read the UK press, spend time on X and fall prey to elite radicalisation, you can very easily fool yourself into thinking you represent the silent majority when in fact you are an increasingly extreme minority. It's funny when conservatives scold liberals about their "bubbles"
This latest defeat may exemplify a broader ecosystem/bubble problem for the right: so used now to preaching to the converted in media outlets and online that it struggles to understand how this language (the NT as run by or capitulating to "woke terrorists") might be received by the median member
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A great point. If you read the UK press, spend time on X and fall prey to elite radicalisation, you can very easily fool yourself into thinking you represent the silent majority when in fact you are an increasingly extreme minority. It's funny when conservatives scold liberals about their "bubbles"
“All that is solid melts into goo”
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“All that is solid melts into goo”
These people are at the pupal stage of full-blown biological racism.
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
Lucy White advocates deporting 4th generation British citizens to 'ancestral homelands' if guilty of serious crimes
"Whether he’s a 2nd gen, 3rd gen or 4th generation migrant, he’s proven that he cannot integrate into a civilised society"
White is a GB News contributor + Restore Britain supporter
"Whether he’s a 2nd gen, 3rd gen or 4th generation migrant, he’s proven that he cannot integrate into a civilised society"
White is a GB News contributor + Restore Britain supporter
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
These people are at the pupal stage of full-blown biological racism.
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
There’ll be a Claudia Winkleman nexus revival show one day called Come Traitor Piano Strictly, with an attached mini-show called Come Traitor’s Casio Jive. And we will all melt into air.
Tempting, but the real patient zero in this conversation is in fact “Strictly Come Dancing”
I still blame Goalhanger for this sort of thing. The Rest is _______ when ______ makes no sense has normalised this kind of non-sequitur nonsense
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There’ll be a Claudia Winkleman nexus revival show one day called Come Traitor Piano Strictly, with an attached mini-show called Come Traitor’s Casio Jive. And we will all melt into air.
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Ban X in the UK. It's a misinformation factory.
Grok appears to have started offering this false account about eye-witnesses by generating its view from false rumours on X. It began by saying there wasn't evidence then picked up rumour and misinformation and amplified it
x.com/grok/status/...
x.com/grok/status/...
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Ban X in the UK. It's a misinformation factory.
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Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
Of all my 2016 analysis bugbears, this is the hair trigger. It’s inane to analyse this section of the speech without including the *immediate next section* in which she comes out with almost exactly the “unheard anxiety” thesis Klein et al have been pushing ever since. 1/🧵
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Of all my 2016 analysis bugbears, this is the hair trigger. It’s inane to analyse this section of the speech without including the *immediate next section* in which she comes out with almost exactly the “unheard anxiety” thesis Klein et al have been pushing ever since. 1/🧵
Deliverance
We need a Severance spinoff that's just people opting into 9 hours a day of not knowing who Trump is.
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Deliverance
Outing myself as a 1963-89 fundamentalist to flag the many omens that the show is facing a Season 22-26 level collapse:
- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
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- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
1/
The Piper regeneration is I think, in a crowded field, the single stupidest decision that has been made in Who. Either don‘t do the last minute edits and have the option of regenerating Gatwa offscreen, or just have his face glow and cut to credits.
Doctor Who Producer Confirms What's Holding the Show Up
We're not going to hear anything about when Doctor Who might return for a while, guys.
www.denofgeek.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Outing myself as a 1963-89 fundamentalist to flag the many omens that the show is facing a Season 22-26 level collapse:
- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
1/
- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
1/
Isn’t the premise of a “rules-based order” that you need rules because you *can’t* trust people to be nice to each other?
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
October 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Isn’t the premise of a “rules-based order” that you need rules because you *can’t* trust people to be nice to each other?
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I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/
October 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/