Declan Lynch
@declynchwriter.bsky.social
Journalist, Sunday Independent. Author "Tony 1O"
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“A life in conservative politics is a shabby, grifting thing; that movement is a sweaty and stupid scrum of influencers and opportunists and true-blue sociopaths scrabbling for monetizable attention or one of the lucrative public-facing sinecures funded by reactionary billionaires.”
Outstanding piece by @davidjroth.bsky.social on the conservative perpetual grievance machine.
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“A life in conservative politics is a shabby, grifting thing; that movement is a sweaty and stupid scrum of influencers and opportunists and true-blue sociopaths scrabbling for monetizable attention or one of the lucrative public-facing sinecures funded by reactionary billionaires.”
Richard Hughes resigns over budget leak, and not for selling Luis Diaz?
NEW: Richard Hughes resigns from the OBR over budget leak.
Along with BBC leadership, a recent resurgence of people in public service jobs taking responsibility.
Along with BBC leadership, a recent resurgence of people in public service jobs taking responsibility.
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Richard Hughes resigns over budget leak, and not for selling Luis Diaz?
You always reach a point in the brilliant writings of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social when you realise this is what American journalism at this moment should be like, and instead it's mostly bog-standard corporate hackery. And that's the "good" stuff.
"I've written two books about the nexus of government and organized crime. As a result, I live under a double bill of apprehension: They'll catch me too early, and you'll catch on too late."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...
The Red, White and Blue Screen of Death
On the day the internet died, and the zombie internet returned.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You always reach a point in the brilliant writings of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social when you realise this is what American journalism at this moment should be like, and instead it's mostly bog-standard corporate hackery. And that's the "good" stuff.
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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Lastly, from my fave Randy album "Good Old Boys" RS
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RON SINGS "LOUISIANA 1927" BY RANDY NEWMAN
YouTube video by Rawnboy
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November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Lastly, from my fave Randy album "Good Old Boys" RS
youtu.be/FxrJIJBTOvE?...
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Always loved this one from his Little Criminals album RS
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RON SINGS "TEXAS GIRL: AT THE FUNERAL OF HER FATHER" BY RANDY NEWMAN
YouTube video by Rawnboy
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November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Always loved this one from his Little Criminals album RS
youtu.be/AB-j69EjvgA?...
youtu.be/AB-j69EjvgA?...
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“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn…”
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn…”
Really the only problem that Liverpool have at the moment is that the other team scores every time they cross the halfway line. Otherwise fine.
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Really the only problem that Liverpool have at the moment is that the other team scores every time they cross the halfway line. Otherwise fine.
We're going to win the Champions League.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We're going to win the Champions League.
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
Visited the Stasi museum in Berlin over the weekend. There was a red briefcase in which Stasi chief Mielke had blackmail on his own leader Erich Honecker. Putin started out as a KGB man in East Germany. For sentimental reasons, maybe he keeps the Trump stuff in a red briefcase too.
During Soviet control of east Germany, the regime used a network of citizen informants and spies—Staatssicherheit, or “Stasi” for short. Hundreds of thousands of East Germans willingly participated, informing on their neighbors, coworkers—even family members.
Imagine if they’d had the internet.
Imagine if they’d had the internet.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Visited the Stasi museum in Berlin over the weekend. There was a red briefcase in which Stasi chief Mielke had blackmail on his own leader Erich Honecker. Putin started out as a KGB man in East Germany. For sentimental reasons, maybe he keeps the Trump stuff in a red briefcase too.
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My kids have measles, I lost my job, and I'm going to die because RFK Jr. cancelled the clinical trials that might have cured my cancer. But at least I know there won't be any same-sex couples in the next Frozen movie.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My kids have measles, I lost my job, and I'm going to die because RFK Jr. cancelled the clinical trials that might have cured my cancer. But at least I know there won't be any same-sex couples in the next Frozen movie.
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392,000 followers on X.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
392,000 followers on X.
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As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes, it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all.
Brexit was their weapon of choice.
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Brexit was their weapon of choice.
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It
Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain
bylinetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes, it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all.
Brexit was their weapon of choice.
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
Brexit was their weapon of choice.
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
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Nails it.
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nails it.
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A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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@declynchwriter.bsky.social ‘take up a role’
NEW: Paschal Donohoe is resigning as MInister for Finance, and as a TD, in order to take up a role with the World Bank in Washington. Announcement expected after this morning's Cabinet meeting. @virginmedianews.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@declynchwriter.bsky.social ‘take up a role’
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Wondering if anyone else saw this about ten days ago cos it seemed surreal : guy on one of the psycho business channels, maybe Bloomberg, says he doesn't like Bitcoin or crypto or that stuff but because the President and family are big into crypto "I'll go with the corruption".
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Wondering if anyone else saw this about ten days ago cos it seemed surreal : guy on one of the psycho business channels, maybe Bloomberg, says he doesn't like Bitcoin or crypto or that stuff but because the President and family are big into crypto "I'll go with the corruption".
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This pretty much offsets their neutrality in WWII, for me
Ireland have just knocked Viktor Orban out of the World Cup.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This pretty much offsets their neutrality in WWII, for me
Good poet Yeats, but he was wrong when he wrote No Second Troy. Not only did Troy Parrott score the second, he got the third too.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Good poet Yeats, but he was wrong when he wrote No Second Troy. Not only did Troy Parrott score the second, he got the third too.
Ireland have just knocked Viktor Orban out of the World Cup.
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Ireland have just knocked Viktor Orban out of the World Cup.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.