JakeElJonson
@jakeeljonson.bsky.social
UK-based editor/proofreader. Fan of sci-fi/fantasy, 40K, music, guitars, cats, cricket, Chicago Cubs, Spurs. Pro 🇪🇺 🇺🇦, anti tyrants and populists.
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
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First Trump slashed funding for vaccines research now he's peddling dangerous nonsense about paracetamol.
The UK should take on Trump’s anti-science agenda and open our doors to US researchers.
The UK should take on Trump’s anti-science agenda and open our doors to US researchers.
September 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
First Trump slashed funding for vaccines research now he's peddling dangerous nonsense about paracetamol.
The UK should take on Trump’s anti-science agenda and open our doors to US researchers.
The UK should take on Trump’s anti-science agenda and open our doors to US researchers.
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Where to start…
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
![Two headlines in The Times today
US claims human rights have got worse in Britain
One extract:
The report takes issue with Britains hate speech laws in general but also specifically with "public space protections (sic] orders"
- used by local coun-
cils to ban certain kinds of behaviour within limited areas -
and "safe access
zones around abortion clinics. Both are personal bugbears for Vance.
Vance holds court to top Tories in the Cotswolds
J D Vance discussed free speech, the Ukraine war an the future of the British riel with members of the shadow cabinet over tea in the
Cotswolds on Tuesday afternoon
(Katy Balls writes).
The US vice-president met
Conservative politicians including Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, and George Osborne, the former chancellor, in the garden of Dean Manor, the grade Il listed, 18th-century property that Vance is renting for his summer break.
Visitors also included Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary; Laura Trott, the shadow education secretary; and Katie Lam, the 2024 intake Tory MP and former Home Office adviser. Also in attendance was Sir Paul Marshall, the owner of GB News and The Spectator.
The gathering was organised by Osborne, who selected a group of people he thought would be of interest to Vance. The meeting ran for 90 minutes with a wide range of topics discussed, including border control, how the Tory party can recover and the possibility of a centre-right government in 2029.
Afterwards, Osborne went on alone with Vance and the US Vice president's family friends from Ohio for dinner.
The gathering was part of a series of meetings Vance has undertaken while in the UK as he looks to further understand and learn more about British politics. Yesterday
morning he met Nigel Farage, the Reform UK party leader, for a breakfast meeting.
Speaking after the conversation, Farage told The Times: "Good to catch up with my old friend JD Vance this morning. Everything we discussed remains confidential."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicwaxbndr3g6wniegeohpfxywz7zhoj4bgsvmtxu75tvwz7gtlpi4@jpeg)
August 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Where to start…
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
A startling example of projection…
An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting.
And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together.
Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.
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🚨Reform UK have been out courting trade union votes this week, but when it really mattered, they consistently voted AGAINST workers’ rights.🧵👇
April 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🚨Reform UK have been out courting trade union votes this week, but when it really mattered, they consistently voted AGAINST workers’ rights.🧵👇
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Today, Trump showed that he cannot possibly play a serious role in any international negotiations.
Trump is simply an ignorant idiot.
Congratulations to Zelensky for exposing that clown!
Trump is simply an ignorant idiot.
Congratulations to Zelensky for exposing that clown!
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Today, Trump showed that he cannot possibly play a serious role in any international negotiations.
Trump is simply an ignorant idiot.
Congratulations to Zelensky for exposing that clown!
Trump is simply an ignorant idiot.
Congratulations to Zelensky for exposing that clown!
