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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13m

In 1923, Scottish minister John White wrote “The Menace of the Irish Race". This could have been lifted straight out of it

Stephen Daisley knows all this - not least as I wrote about it in a book he reviewed - but prefers to crack on with the same narrative 100 years later

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 33m

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Reform conference was the same

Feels under reported on but a sizeable amount of politicos (and I think voters) think IMF-style crisis is coming fast. Assume it’s a meme somewhere?

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

It’s striking how many Tory fringe events I’ve been at where people have confidently predicted a major fiscal or markets crisis for the government in the next 12ish months. I have no idea if that has any credibility, but it’s notable how much perhaps misplaced confidence it gives some Conservatives.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

I must admit I didn’t 😬

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 2d

I think his radicalisation started when he couldn’t even get his name into the podcast he hosted with Robbie Savage and Andrew Flintoff: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

From ping-pong champ to Nosferatu in just a few short years.

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2d

no wait I've found a better one

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

Matthew Syed’s ‘journey’ has been grimly fascinating

Been following it ever since he wrote a column endorsing the Great Replacement ‘Theory’

Wild what passes for ‘public intellectual’ in Britain

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d

The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch actually has the effect of making Farage seem like a serious politician

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

Someone who spends way too much time on X? (Semi serious)

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

The Conservative Party has now completely lost the plot

Surely there’s a space for a centre right party opening up in Britain?

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

Batshit.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

The honour was all mine! Thanks so much, Emily

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3d

Some Sunday evening reading from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on Tony Blair and Larry Ellison, two men whose influence is being brought more and more to bear on the UK:
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the-tony-blair-institute-larry-ellison-peter-kyle-starmer

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 3d

Honored to have this conversation with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social - Britain’s most effective journalist on covering dark money, concentration of power and corruption…answer to ‘how fucked are we?’ was something along the lines of ‘more than we should be’

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

Can watch full video with @emilybell.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale’s YouTube channel

Starts with my killer opening question: ‘how fucked are we?’ 😂😬

youtu.be/5lXeFzrYwI8?...

How Trump is breaking the free press | Professor Emily Bell

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

Can watch full video with @emilybell.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale’s YouTube channel

Starts with my killer opening question: ‘how fucked are we?’ 😂😬

youtu.be/5lXeFzrYwI8?...

How Trump is breaking the free press | Professor Emily Bell

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

youtu.be

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

‘The UK is a low budget version of the US’

So good to talk @emilybell.bsky.social about the growing nexus between authoritarian politics, big tech and the media.

Plus remembering the remarkable Conor Gearty

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/could-trum...

Could Trump’s war on the media happen here?

As Emily Bell says, billionaires and strongmen alike understand one thing: control the media, and you control democracy.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 3d

In Jeremy Corbyn’s day, Labour conference was practically a lobbyist-free zone. “There was no point in going,” a veteran consultant told @petergeoghegan.bsky.social. But that has changed...

Labour’s conference was thick with lobbyists

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to the party, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 4d

Much like Peter, I heard a lot of grumbling from 'business day' attendees being taken for granted ("we're a cash cow to be milked dry"), that ministers turned up late or the wrong ones were dispatched.

My favourite criticism though was the shit "built and carved" sandwiches

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d

My piece on the lobbyists at Labour conference also in @prospectmagazine.co.uk huge thanks to @aloner.bsky.social for all her help with it!

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

Labour’s conference was thick with lobbyists

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to the party, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d

A backbench Labour MP posed with the Premier League trophy.

Photograph snapped, she thanked the league’s reps: “Hopefully I’ll see you guys in parliament. Anything I can do to help, let me know.”

Me from Labour conference:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-and...

Labour's lobbyist friends

I went to Liverpool this week. I found lots of "Labour specialist" lobbyists, and barely a word on cleaning up politics.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 4d

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social surveys the lobbyists at Labour’s conference in Liverpool. Plus, @davidallengreen.bsky.social analyses a legal case on the Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’.

Labour’s lobbyist problem

Plus: a legal case about the PPE Covid ‘VIP lane’

prospectmagazine.substack.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5d

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to Labour, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors in Liverpool, writes @petergeoghegan.bsky.social.

Labour’s conference was thick with lobbyists

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to the party, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 5d

"Ahead of me, a backbench MP posed with the trophy. Photograph snapped, she thanked the Premier League reps: “Hopefully I’ll see you guys in parliament. Anything I can do to help, let me know.”"

Great piece from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5d

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to Labour, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors in Liverpool, writes @petergeoghegan.bsky.social.

Labour’s conference was thick with lobbyists

Public affairs firms, including those with ties to the party, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

Awfully sad news

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 5d

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

www.irishtimes.com

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