Andy M
@andyjm68.bsky.social
British, European, Progressive. 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇪🇸🇪🇺
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As a side note, I resent Phillips' assertion that back in the 1970s and 1980s white school kids like me were routinely racist. It is absolute bollocks. We weren't. We knew how fucked up racism was back then as much as we do now.
The "I'm no apologist for Farage, here's some apologism for Farage" column that everyone knew Trevor Phillips would write is a monument to bad faith and whataboutery. It's so tedious and predictable.
Is Nigel Farage racist? There’s a more urgent question
Reform leader’s schooldays were a different age and pale compared with the failure to protect minority children today
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
As a side note, I resent Phillips' assertion that back in the 1970s and 1980s white school kids like me were routinely racist. It is absolute bollocks. We weren't. We knew how fucked up racism was back then as much as we do now.
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Think the thing about bullying at school - and that's what we are talking about with Farage with added racism - is a lot of people know *that* person from school. They either grow up and change for the better or they start a far right party with racist immigration policies and continue to be a c*nt.
December 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Think the thing about bullying at school - and that's what we are talking about with Farage with added racism - is a lot of people know *that* person from school. They either grow up and change for the better or they start a far right party with racist immigration policies and continue to be a c*nt.
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Currently listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social who is ripping Nigel Farage to pieces.
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Currently listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social who is ripping Nigel Farage to pieces.
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Tice steps up for Farage over past racism claims – and gets nothing in return | John Crace
Tice steps up for Farage over past racism claims – and gets nothing in return | John Crace
You could call it an act of friendship, except Nige sees Dicky less as a friend and more as a useful idiot
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Tice steps up for Farage over past racism claims – and gets nothing in return | John Crace
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It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.
When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.
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You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
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As a minority you ALWAYS remember being verbally abused.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
As a minority you ALWAYS remember being verbally abused.
This is a savage beauty: ‘Gullis wears the perpetual expression of a man who has just been cut up by a Honda Accord’ 👌
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is a savage beauty: ‘Gullis wears the perpetual expression of a man who has just been cut up by a Honda Accord’ 👌
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BBC complaint form. Bias is top of their list. Took two minutes as drop down lists are well ropey.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
BBC complaint form. Bias is top of their list. Took two minutes as drop down lists are well ropey.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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It is not normal for the media to dictate who stays and who goes in politics by hounding someone out of office.
It is not normal for the media’s national pastime to be How to bring down my own Country’s government.
This isn’t a step too far it’s a world too far.
It is not normal for the media’s national pastime to be How to bring down my own Country’s government.
This isn’t a step too far it’s a world too far.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It is not normal for the media to dictate who stays and who goes in politics by hounding someone out of office.
It is not normal for the media’s national pastime to be How to bring down my own Country’s government.
This isn’t a step too far it’s a world too far.
It is not normal for the media’s national pastime to be How to bring down my own Country’s government.
This isn’t a step too far it’s a world too far.
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is superb 👌
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is superb 👌
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They didn’t break the Manifesto.
What they continue to break is the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest.
And soon the gap between Landlords and Tenants.
And the gap between Worker and Boss.
That squealing sure is deafening.
What they continue to break is the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest.
And soon the gap between Landlords and Tenants.
And the gap between Worker and Boss.
That squealing sure is deafening.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
They didn’t break the Manifesto.
What they continue to break is the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest.
And soon the gap between Landlords and Tenants.
And the gap between Worker and Boss.
That squealing sure is deafening.
What they continue to break is the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest.
And soon the gap between Landlords and Tenants.
And the gap between Worker and Boss.
That squealing sure is deafening.
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Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
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A government not weighed down by fear would adopt a Who Governs strategy, saying the right wing press cannot be allowed to run Britain. This government won't do that. The weakness is so destructive.
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A government not weighed down by fear would adopt a Who Governs strategy, saying the right wing press cannot be allowed to run Britain. This government won't do that. The weakness is so destructive.
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On World AIDS Day, we remember all those we've lost to HIV/AIDS related illness and unite in our battle against the virus.
We’ve committed to zero new transmission of HIV in the capital by 2030. We’ll continue to work with partners to tackle the stigma of getting tested and treated.
We’ve committed to zero new transmission of HIV in the capital by 2030. We’ll continue to work with partners to tackle the stigma of getting tested and treated.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
On World AIDS Day, we remember all those we've lost to HIV/AIDS related illness and unite in our battle against the virus.
We’ve committed to zero new transmission of HIV in the capital by 2030. We’ll continue to work with partners to tackle the stigma of getting tested and treated.
We’ve committed to zero new transmission of HIV in the capital by 2030. We’ll continue to work with partners to tackle the stigma of getting tested and treated.
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If I were Rachel Reeves I would simply ask Laura K and Nick Robinson why they were repeating right wing talking points found on X as a basis for their questions. Stop being defensive.
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If I were Rachel Reeves I would simply ask Laura K and Nick Robinson why they were repeating right wing talking points found on X as a basis for their questions. Stop being defensive.
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It's the lack of courage of the Labour government that's most disappointing.
Get on the front foot and defend tax rises, immigration etc. Stop following polls and focus groups.
Get on the front foot and defend tax rises, immigration etc. Stop following polls and focus groups.
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It's the lack of courage of the Labour government that's most disappointing.
Get on the front foot and defend tax rises, immigration etc. Stop following polls and focus groups.
Get on the front foot and defend tax rises, immigration etc. Stop following polls and focus groups.
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What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
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What this Reeves lying nonsense very obviously boils down to is immense disappointment on the right that the budget did not tank the markets. They wanted a Truss moment causing huge problems for millions of people but didn’t get one. They are patriots, apparently.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
What this Reeves lying nonsense very obviously boils down to is immense disappointment on the right that the budget did not tank the markets. They wanted a Truss moment causing huge problems for millions of people but didn’t get one. They are patriots, apparently.
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Media before the budget: Reeves leaving only 9 billion headroom is a massive risk to our economic stability
Media after the budget: she had 4 billion quid left over, loads of dosh why did she lie about having to put taxes up.
Papers - ok it's what they do. Broadcasters, though? No excuses.
Media after the budget: she had 4 billion quid left over, loads of dosh why did she lie about having to put taxes up.
Papers - ok it's what they do. Broadcasters, though? No excuses.
November 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Media before the budget: Reeves leaving only 9 billion headroom is a massive risk to our economic stability
Media after the budget: she had 4 billion quid left over, loads of dosh why did she lie about having to put taxes up.
Papers - ok it's what they do. Broadcasters, though? No excuses.
Media after the budget: she had 4 billion quid left over, loads of dosh why did she lie about having to put taxes up.
Papers - ok it's what they do. Broadcasters, though? No excuses.
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.