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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

This is about pub opening hours

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry but I don't think we should be encouraging celebrities to be traitors. What message is this sending to impressionable young people? You get ahead in this fallen world by lying? No thank you, sir

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

And others will enjoy it. Some young people do still enjoy going out. I don't understand the problem when it's not a flagship policy or one that cancels out another more popular policy. Seems like small beer

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8h

Not every policy is about targeting voters and I can’t imagine this one winning or losing anybody

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve honestly never heard that one

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 9h

Today alone I’ve read or heard three people use the phrase “Fast forward to…” and I’m begging the world to find a less cliched way to describe the passing of time. I’m sure it felt modern when cassettes first took off

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 10h

He can stand with uplifting non-racist campaign slogans such as parts of Britain are ‘shit holes where many people don’t speak English and live on the welfare state’. He’d get Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson’s vote.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe it’s not just the money, it’s also the hubris

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17h

This is the standard Green argument too though

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think being chippy, insecure and resentful is the same thing as self-hatred. I think she hates other people a lot more than she hates herself

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18h

I reviewed a book about why the UK nuclear industry has declined and there were many reasons but I swear the author didn't mention gender identity once

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18h

I don't see any evidence of that

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18h

The Chinese state seems to be able to keep a lot of plates spinning

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18h

There is nothing Badenoch cares more about than hating trans people so of course she has to throw that in and of course she does it in the crassest, thickest, most nonsensical way possible

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Stuart Wynne @stuwynne.bsky.social · 19h

Do what Dorian suggests and subscribe to @originstorypodcast.bsky.social. Firstly because it's brilliant and absolutely worth it obviously, secondly because if it ever goes away I'll be absolutely bereft and you wouldn't want that would you? Would you?!

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19h

If you're an Origin Story subscriber (or would like to be), part one of our first ever three-parter is now available for Patreon backers. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin begins today with Revolution. This season on socialism is a beast to research so every bit of support helps us out

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18h

I was so delighted to disover that

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 19h

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 23h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19h

If you're an Origin Story subscriber (or would like to be), part one of our first ever three-parter is now available for Patreon backers. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin begins today with Revolution. This season on socialism is a beast to research so every bit of support helps us out

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19h

Hey hey, it's time for the second and final part of Karl Marx. The struggle to write Capital and why it mattered. Bust-ups with Bakunin. Fame at last. His disastrous finances. And the fight to define Marxism after his death. We do the reading so you don't have to.

Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 19h

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Welcome back to Season Eight: The Story of Socialism as @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of Karl Marx and the birth of Marxism. Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#marx #karlmarx #marxism #socialism #podcast #new #episode #originstory

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 20h

"Our goal of making business more financially accessible" needs some unpacking

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21h

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 22h

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21h

I imagine Robert Jenrick is currently on his way to places like Plymouth and Chelmsford to complain that there are too many white faces and they are insufficiently diverse

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