Ian Marcus
@ianmarcus.bsky.social
Scotland. Family man, rugby fan ( 🏰 & 🏴 ), proud dad to 2 little people and a 5 year old sourdough starter. Haven't had enough of experts, there's something to be said for listening to people who know what they're talking about.
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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As an antidote to the constantly dreadful news, have some philosophical concepts:
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
As an antidote to the constantly dreadful news, have some philosophical concepts:
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Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
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We've complained to the Competition and Markets Authority about how US tech giants are, to maximise their profits, allowing pre-schoolers to access age-inappropriate apps.
You can add your name to our complaint here. goodlaw.social/cgtg
You can add your name to our complaint here. goodlaw.social/cgtg
It’s time for app stores to ban fake age ratings | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
June 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
We've complained to the Competition and Markets Authority about how US tech giants are, to maximise their profits, allowing pre-schoolers to access age-inappropriate apps.
You can add your name to our complaint here. goodlaw.social/cgtg
You can add your name to our complaint here. goodlaw.social/cgtg
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Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
June 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Lucky insomniacs. Only three more sleeps until Christmas.
May 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Lucky insomniacs. Only three more sleeps until Christmas.
Breaking : British & Irish Lions team named. Big names in, a few big names missing, all in all an impressive looking squad, can't wait for the tour to kick off.
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Breaking : British & Irish Lions team named. Big names in, a few big names missing, all in all an impressive looking squad, can't wait for the tour to kick off.
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Liz Truss being inspiring
April 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Liz Truss being inspiring
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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Financial markets 2, Lettuces 0
April 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Financial markets 2, Lettuces 0
Wife and son just landed a brilliant April's Fools on me. I'm living with evil geniuses.
April 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Wife and son just landed a brilliant April's Fools on me. I'm living with evil geniuses.
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
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While tensions in the world are rising, you might want to take a look at this account of the first day of the war in Ukraine by someone who lived through it.
Day one of war
On https://thro.be, Anonymous wrote: As all our leaders in the west continue to project weakness, a war in EU, Pacific and perhaps other regions now seems inevitable. I decided to make a short writing...
thro.be
March 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
While tensions in the world are rising, you might want to take a look at this account of the first day of the war in Ukraine by someone who lived through it.
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Here’s to another relaxing Sunday.
March 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Here’s to another relaxing Sunday.
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Wyoming Republicans have banned so-called “compelled speech” regarding pronouns. No one, they proclaimed, should be forced to use someone’s preferred pronouns. And yet, when Senate Chairman Tim French was addressed as “Madam Chairman”, he was not pleased. Not one bit.
Wyoming Bans Pronouns, Madam Chairman Objects When It Applies to Him
SMITE!
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February 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Wyoming Republicans have banned so-called “compelled speech” regarding pronouns. No one, they proclaimed, should be forced to use someone’s preferred pronouns. And yet, when Senate Chairman Tim French was addressed as “Madam Chairman”, he was not pleased. Not one bit.
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Amen. The Six Nations should get heat for making a stupid decision, but ultimately this all comes back to 14 years of a Conservative government breaking down the country and selling it off for scrap. The BBC is criminally underfunded, and live sport is the most expensive sector in modern TV.
Before too much blame is placed on 6N/CVC for lack of FTA 6N, consider that the BBC literally can't afford it any more. ITV likely would not be able to afford it by themselves either.
January 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Amen. The Six Nations should get heat for making a stupid decision, but ultimately this all comes back to 14 years of a Conservative government breaking down the country and selling it off for scrap. The BBC is criminally underfunded, and live sport is the most expensive sector in modern TV.
Welcome to the misinformation age.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't just bend the knee to Trump, he throws himself prostrate on the floor in front of the throne.
Darkness falls.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...
Darkness falls.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...
Meta Moves to End Fact-Checking Program
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. It is likely to please the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Welcome to the misinformation age.
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Today’s poem is called ‘Love is a Skin’.
December 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Today’s poem is called ‘Love is a Skin’.