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@bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Politics, power, propaganda - explained without the spin. Author of Bear Necessities of Politics and Power and editor of BearlyPolitics.co.uk 🐻

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · Sep 2

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If you’re looking for my longer form posts, you can now find them on bearlypolitics.co.uk.

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Welcome to Bearly Politics! I'm The Bear, your slightly exasperated guide to the strange world of modern politics. Here, I attempt to tackle the absurdities of power, with claws sharpened by satire an...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4h

You are not wrong.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4h

Once again, the Telegraph seems shocked that the EU is acting like… the EU.

This is exactly what sovereignty looks like when you’re on the outside.

Ruthless EU has just taught Starmer a painful lesson
Steel tariff threats are a reminder of how Brussels really feels towards post-Brexit Britain

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 4h

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 6h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4h

When Kemi Badenoch called for a British version of ICE, is this the sort of thing she had in mind?

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4h

Just another day of Reform making things up as they go along.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5h

Pochinoccio strikes again.

Reform UK’s @SarahForRuncorn has removed a video about Runcorn Boxing Club after lying about her helping getting funding for them.

Statement by the club has shown her to once again have made up things about representing her local area.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4h

He’s doing what with bears?

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12h

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him.

Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4h

And would have avoided this mess.

HAR
Star
Starmix
"When Labour negotiates,
Britian loses"
Keni Budench

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 6h

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13h

Ag, shame.

Tesla shares fall as new lower-cost cars disappoint

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15h

I’ve never saved an owl - though I absolutely would, given the opportunity.

What I have done is accidentally mouth a pigeon.

A rat of the sky, startled by a passing runner, flew into my face and its wing went right into my mouth.

Spent the next week convinced I was going to die of bird plague.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 16h

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets.

But we wanted to “take back control.”

Congratulations - we’ve taken it all the way back to the 1970s.

British steel faces 'biggest crisis in its history as EU imposes 50%
tariffs
The European Union has said it has no choice but to protect its own industry from a glut of cheap Asian steel diverted to the continent by President Trump's tariffs

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 16h

Over a week since I left X.

I did miss it a bit over the weekend, but, the positive impact has been immense.

Who knew walking away from a place where you got called a “filthy communist” or “sick homosexual” multiple times a day could be so good for your mental health.

an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

Alt: an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18h

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18h

Project 2025: The Manual for Making America Obey Again (Part 1)

Heritage Foundation’s playbook for Trump 2.0 shows what happens when authoritarian ambition meets bureaucratic precision.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18h

I sort of feel like “no shit, Sherlock” doesn’t quite cover it.

Of course this is what’s happening!

Nigel Farage
GB News's US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience
White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18h

It’ll be years!

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 19h

Regardless of how private or thoughtfully you say racist things, they still remain racist and it’s right to be called out on them.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20h

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 19h

It sounds fantastic!

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Everlast2 @everlast2.bsky.social · 19h

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 19h

Oh god, how I would have loved to see that!

Pray tell though, your favourite bar sounds just as intriguing!

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 19h

She says the best advice she can give is chilled butter or just buy some.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 20h

Too much fascism talk this week, so I wrote about my imaginary wife instead today.

She's a pastry chef named Lottie and my barber thinks she's real.

Short Back, Sides, and a Web of Deceit

A simple haircut, a sharp pair of scissors, and one panicked lie that became a years-long domestic sitcom starring my imaginary wife and two very inconsistent children.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick is a potential case study for the hypothesis that quite a few Conservative MPs and Spads whose brains have been marinated in Right wing American social media are increasingly being sucked into a civil war mindset that has embedded itself among many leading MAGA Trump figures.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21h

Or is it more than that?

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

open.substack.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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