Terrie McCann
@terrie.bsky.social
Political type, dipping my toe into the exciting/terrifying freelance world, while trying to cram as much art and culture into my life as possible. Long-form thoughts on Substack (substack.com/@terriemcc), sometimes on Threads (@terrie.mccann)
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This is basically it: there is a huge values/identity point around immigration for social liberals that the govt has basically charged full on.
Theyve entirely misunderstood the depth of impact theyve had, viewing immigration views as some something you can triangulate against, not a moral stance.
Theyve entirely misunderstood the depth of impact theyve had, viewing immigration views as some something you can triangulate against, not a moral stance.
I probably would count myself as in the visceral dislike camp and I do think it's basically socially liberal voters who find the government's trappist (borrowing your phrase) approach to racism and incoherently belligerent approach to immigration to be morally wrong. That's what shifted me.
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is basically it: there is a huge values/identity point around immigration for social liberals that the govt has basically charged full on.
Theyve entirely misunderstood the depth of impact theyve had, viewing immigration views as some something you can triangulate against, not a moral stance.
Theyve entirely misunderstood the depth of impact theyve had, viewing immigration views as some something you can triangulate against, not a moral stance.
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The Conservatives and Reform are currently saying that UK free speech laws are so draconian that people are routinely jailed for bad takes, and yet also the only way to deal with Alaa’s social posts is to extra-judicially strip him of citizenship.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
December 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The Conservatives and Reform are currently saying that UK free speech laws are so draconian that people are routinely jailed for bad takes, and yet also the only way to deal with Alaa’s social posts is to extra-judicially strip him of citizenship.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
December 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
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Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan
Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
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I couldn't find the quote on a quick browse of Goodreads (I don't have my copy with me), but I did find this, which I think sums up what is so repellent and arid about Blue Labour and this government's view on class and aspiration more broadly.
December 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I couldn't find the quote on a quick browse of Goodreads (I don't have my copy with me), but I did find this, which I think sums up what is so repellent and arid about Blue Labour and this government's view on class and aspiration more broadly.
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I honestly cannot stop laughing
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I honestly cannot stop laughing
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Fascinating from Tom’s piece
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Fascinating from Tom’s piece
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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Sadiq gets a lot of stick (some entirely justified) but he’s been an utter zealot for clean air via ULEZ, been re-elected twice, and it’s meant fewer kids dying from asthma, and you can see the stars again.
And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sadiq gets a lot of stick (some entirely justified) but he’s been an utter zealot for clean air via ULEZ, been re-elected twice, and it’s meant fewer kids dying from asthma, and you can see the stars again.
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I know it. You know it. Robert knows it. Lewis knows it. Everyone knows it, but it is almost never verbalised. Actively working to see what pathetic angle you can use to bring down the Chancellor, by investigating her teen Chess tournament record, is NOT journalism. It is borderline psychosis.
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I know it. You know it. Robert knows it. Lewis knows it. Everyone knows it, but it is almost never verbalised. Actively working to see what pathetic angle you can use to bring down the Chancellor, by investigating her teen Chess tournament record, is NOT journalism. It is borderline psychosis.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
I’m a father of teen girls. I don’t want misogyny lessons for boys
The government is planning classes to combat prejudice against women. Andrew Billen isn’t sure it will work
www.thetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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Reims approved 2005 - opened 2011
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
What a fucking joke this country is. If we can’t build a tram faster than the late 2030s, we should just give up.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leeds-Bradford £2.5bn tram plan delayed after government review
West Yorkshire's mayor says she is confident the trams will be running
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reims approved 2005 - opened 2011
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
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The kind of person who would rightly go 'sorry, are you insane? What does a kosher delicatessen in Golders Green have to do with the Gaza war?' going 'well, look, if someone from Afghanistan gets on a boat, you can't expect people not to start being racist towards black Britons', and vice versa:
Bondi attacks show old hatreds are flourishing again
A permissive environment has been created in which Israel is conflated with all Jews, everywhere
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The kind of person who would rightly go 'sorry, are you insane? What does a kosher delicatessen in Golders Green have to do with the Gaza war?' going 'well, look, if someone from Afghanistan gets on a boat, you can't expect people not to start being racist towards black Britons', and vice versa:
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Ooph.
(This would be even more existential than the loss of the Red Wall or the loss of Scotland, by the way)
(This would be even more existential than the loss of the Red Wall or the loss of Scotland, by the way)
Huge new poll puts Plaid ahead of Reform with Labour and the Conservatives on just 10% each. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/bombshell-...
Bombshell polling for Wales
If this is correct we are seeing a seismic shift
willhaywardwales.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Ooph.
(This would be even more existential than the loss of the Red Wall or the loss of Scotland, by the way)
(This would be even more existential than the loss of the Red Wall or the loss of Scotland, by the way)
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It will be interesting to see how loudly ministers trumpet this win.
The govt tends to soft-pedal its more left-wing measures, as if hoping no one will notice.
It has a story to tell about workers' rights, rental reform, green investment & public ownership, but seems curiously reluctant to tell it
The govt tends to soft-pedal its more left-wing measures, as if hoping no one will notice.
It has a story to tell about workers' rights, rental reform, green investment & public ownership, but seems curiously reluctant to tell it
NEW - The Employment Rights bill has finally passed, after a tortured time in the Lords.
Christmas cheer for ministers and trade unions
Christmas cheer for ministers and trade unions
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It will be interesting to see how loudly ministers trumpet this win.
The govt tends to soft-pedal its more left-wing measures, as if hoping no one will notice.
It has a story to tell about workers' rights, rental reform, green investment & public ownership, but seems curiously reluctant to tell it
The govt tends to soft-pedal its more left-wing measures, as if hoping no one will notice.
It has a story to tell about workers' rights, rental reform, green investment & public ownership, but seems curiously reluctant to tell it
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BREAKING: Labour's landmark Employment Rights Bill has PASSED both Houses of Parliament. Its new rights will be transformational.
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
BREAKING: Labour's landmark Employment Rights Bill has PASSED both Houses of Parliament. Its new rights will be transformational.
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
The number of times I've used the word "stalemate" at various events over the last few weeks...
Latest analysis - applying a bucket of ice to the fizz-fuelled SW1 leadership frenzy
The truth is no one has a plan
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The truth is no one has a plan
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
With Starmer’s enemies short on options, Labour MPs have to make do with gossip
Efforts to get PM to spend more time with his MPs appear to be bearing fruit – and few in the party see a clear path for a leadership challenge
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The number of times I've used the word "stalemate" at various events over the last few weeks...
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the only thing I'll say about the meta-ethics of posting and which platform is that purely as a matter of realpolitik every political party and government not aligned with Elon Musk's at this point very explicit politics should be trying to degrade twitter's importance in the information ecosystem
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
the only thing I'll say about the meta-ethics of posting and which platform is that purely as a matter of realpolitik every political party and government not aligned with Elon Musk's at this point very explicit politics should be trying to degrade twitter's importance in the information ecosystem
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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🔴I wrote about far-right attacks against refugee charities and why some are choosing to leave the sector to protect themselves. It's awful but understandable.
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
When it's time to move on
It's toxic out there
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🔴I wrote about far-right attacks against refugee charities and why some are choosing to leave the sector to protect themselves. It's awful but understandable.
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
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Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for: