Paddy Blewer
@padsky.bsky.social
British / Irish "liberal cosmopolitan" comms guy with a post soviet, MENA, energy, cap markets and geopolitics background. Like sport and food too. I’m not Claude Rains but I am a cynical idealist from South London. https://about.me/paddy.blewer
Amongst a myriad of others. From AiM to FTSE250 hardly any of them did it right. A story of failures, rescues, bullshit and hubris
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Amongst a myriad of others. From AiM to FTSE250 hardly any of them did it right. A story of failures, rescues, bullshit and hubris
Good for you. I love seeing the team come together. Sometimes I'm prouder of the other kids than my own - although I'm always a proud Dad. Hope your son enjoys it as much as my kids have and contine to.
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Good for you. I love seeing the team come together. Sometimes I'm prouder of the other kids than my own - although I'm always a proud Dad. Hope your son enjoys it as much as my kids have and contine to.
Wow. that's offensive
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Wow. that's offensive
Laughing at the foreign name. Oh how sophisticated. Shows they're a bit scared about him though.
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Laughing at the foreign name. Oh how sophisticated. Shows they're a bit scared about him though.
A successful campaigner has to do this. However there's a massive difference between insurgent campaigning and effective governance
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A successful campaigner has to do this. However there's a massive difference between insurgent campaigning and effective governance
Because he gives them what they want. No one buys papers anymore so it's all about clicks. Car crash farage is perfect
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Because he gives them what they want. No one buys papers anymore so it's all about clicks. Car crash farage is perfect
I have been and remain a "small r" republican. I've been to the Louvre and Hermitage and there were plenty of tourists there. "Paddy the Republican" means something else, rather more complicated.
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have been and remain a "small r" republican. I've been to the Louvre and Hermitage and there were plenty of tourists there. "Paddy the Republican" means something else, rather more complicated.
yup. my first game was at old Den, Milwall. Didnt go back for a few years.
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
yup. my first game was at old Den, Milwall. Didnt go back for a few years.
You go to a match with your kid, and you come back alone? It's heartbreaking. Me and my old man only went to a few matches due to hooliganism, him playing and me being more interested in other sports, but I look back on those days fondly and do it with my kids. The thought makes me cry
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
You go to a match with your kid, and you come back alone? It's heartbreaking. Me and my old man only went to a few matches due to hooliganism, him playing and me being more interested in other sports, but I look back on those days fondly and do it with my kids. The thought makes me cry
why can't they go after them and take their pensions?
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
why can't they go after them and take their pensions?
(4) What I find so upsetting is that a liberal democracy. The liberal democracy, appears to be operating like a dictatorship. "The whole point of terrorism was to terrorise people" The terror is top down. There's something chilling about it.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
(4) What I find so upsetting is that a liberal democracy. The liberal democracy, appears to be operating like a dictatorship. "The whole point of terrorism was to terrorise people" The terror is top down. There's something chilling about it.
(3) this is not to say that what went on in long running COIN wars was not horrific. See the recent Panorama investigation into UKSF in Afghan. But. They tend to be bottom up - infantrymen lacking effective command and control doing terrible things.
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
(3) this is not to say that what went on in long running COIN wars was not horrific. See the recent Panorama investigation into UKSF in Afghan. But. They tend to be bottom up - infantrymen lacking effective command and control doing terrible things.
(2) the stuff I know best around moral catastrophes (Ulster / Chechnya) were different because they didn't have either the videogame aspect, or the seemingly direct involvement of higher political authority.
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
(2) the stuff I know best around moral catastrophes (Ulster / Chechnya) were different because they didn't have either the videogame aspect, or the seemingly direct involvement of higher political authority.