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Andrew Perchard
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Parent, husband and historian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇳🇿

‘What force or guile could not subdue… Is wrought now by a coward few, for hireling traitors’ wages.’

Political science 39%
History 12%
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After 31 December 2025, I will be leaving BlueSky along with most other social media platforms, in a bid to detechsify. Those wishing to contact me for professional reasons can do so via my institutional email which can be found online.

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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com

My annual complaint about the dire covers of festive classics… what makes insipid boy bands think they can do justice to Run Rundolph Run? Not acceptable!

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Fantastic picture. I didn’t see this when I came to write Aluminiumville.

Shocked I tell you. Shocked.

‘Regulator’ is doing some heavy lifting. The OfS is a blunt weapon in the culture wars so it comes as little surprise it was ineffectual when oversight was genuinely needed.
Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says
Office for Students accused of ‘glacial’ response to allegations of fraud, bullying and mismanagement
www.theguardian.com

Worth reading this piece by @peterjukes.bsky.social from earlier this month and reflecting on the Russia Report as well to consider who is pulling Johnson’s reins: bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

That looks like a frame from The Seventh Seal 👌
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 20th August 2024.

Reposted by Andrew Perchard

Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.

Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.

Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.

Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to repay £148m
In a ruling, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation
www.independent.co.uk

Géricault’s Raft of Medusa & Auden’s Refugee Blues:

… Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.

Once we had a country and we thought it fair,
Look in the atlas and you'll find it there:
We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now.

Reposted by Andrew Perchard

The BBC is a mess, but it’s our mess, and we must defend it from a low-life like Trump

It is for the British people to deal with the BBC over its editorial failings, not some foreign president, whose moral universe puts him on the level of a bag of garbage

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
BBC is a mess but we mustn’t let Donald Trump destroy it
The BBC may be bad, but we need to defend it as the alternative would be far, far worse, argues Neil Mackay
www.heraldscotland.com

Just so I grasp this, the ardent Brexiteer wants Gary Lineker to defend her, Yaxley-Lennon etc 🤔😆😆😆

For an example of just how Trump’s claims of reshoring US industrial capacity are going stacked against his privileging of Big Tech’s demands: aluminiumtoday.com/news/alcoa-s...
Alcoa: Smelters will struggle to compete with data centres on energy
US aluminium producer, Alcoa, has said data centres represent a threat to any future smelters, due to energy costs.
aluminiumtoday.com

Here’s hoping but I’m not that sanguine this’ll happen, especially if he’s still consulting the TBI!

This is an absolute disgrace. Rewarding those driving institutions into the ground. Long overdue action needed by UK and territorial departments and Devolved Administrations @ukparliament.parliament.uk @premnsikka.bsky.social
Vice-chancellor bonuses growing despite sector funding crisis
Universities defend decision to award some vice-chancellors larger bonuses than last year, with one private institution giving boss over £100K
www.timeshighereducation.com
'Nottingham Trent University – which reported a £2 million deficit – paid its departing vice-chancellor Edward Peck a bonus of £66,000 in his last year in the job....Peck...received a total pay package of £435,000 in 2024-25 – up from £407,000 the year before.'
Vice-chancellor bonuses growing despite sector funding crisis
Universities defend decision to award some vice-chancellors larger bonuses than last year, with one private institution giving boss over £100K
www.timeshighereducation.com

A Muslim Australian lies in a bed riddled with bullets to save his fellow human beings and this is the despicable hatred that flows forth.

Ah part of the MAGA Anschluss; the JD is a giveaway

Who is this rocket?

Wait what is happening. I’m wondering what I’m drinking…

Both but I’ll leave this conclusion to @frankcogliano.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 😉

The AI story continues to fascinate. The characteristics pointing to crude government capture to mask market and technology failure and the servicing of eye watering debt. This will not end well for any of us!
What are credit default swaps and why are investors watching Oracle's?
A growing debt pile means Oracle has become a bellwether for sentiment towards AI.
www.reuters.com

The HSE does not issue these notices lightly. Expect to see more of these issued to principals and VCs.
HSE Confirms Material Breaches at University of Birmingham Following Union Safety Concerns
Multi-Year Campaign by UCU Safety Representatives Leads to Formal Enforcement Action Over Work-Related Stress Management Failures We want to share with you some significant news. On Thursday, 11 De…
birminghamucu.org

Reposted by Andrew Perchard

‘Stakeknife spymaster living in luxury in France’

In 2003, I unmasked the highest placed spy for British intelligence in the IRA: Stakeknife. As the ‘final report’ into his crimes is published I turn the spotlight on the military intelligence chief whose team ran him

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
How can there be an ending to the Stakeknife saga when no-one has heard from Kerr?
Our Writer at Large Neil Mackay unmasked IRA leader Freddie Scappaticci as the spy Stakeknife in 2003. As the ‘final report’ into Stakeknife’s…
www.heraldscotland.com

Some editorial oversight wouldn’t go amiss @heraldscotland.bsky.social 😉🤦🏻

RIP Stanley Baxter
www.heraldscotland.com

Wishful thinking… 😉

We’ve moved beyond an unreliable ally stage and into the realms of a hostile power!