Danielle Blake
@abradacabla.bsky.social
British social democrat, here for UK/US politics. Masochistic Arsenal, Fiorentina and SF Giants fan. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Yeah, the biggest mistake of the Craig years wasn’t killing him off, it was serialising his era so every movie was connected to the others. Bond and the concept of continuity (Tracy aside!) don’t mix.
the problem here is they want to keep Bond alive as a timeless character but also want to tell a long running story which rewards superfans with a strict continuity, and those two things are mutually exclusive, because timeless characters cannot live that way forever
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Yeah, the biggest mistake of the Craig years wasn’t killing him off, it was serialising his era so every movie was connected to the others. Bond and the concept of continuity (Tracy aside!) don’t mix.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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The collapse of Noah Smith from 'interesting writer whose occasionally a bit random' into 'complete idiot and mentalist' is one of the most clear cut cases of twitter-poisoning I've seen
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
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Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The collapse of Noah Smith from 'interesting writer whose occasionally a bit random' into 'complete idiot and mentalist' is one of the most clear cut cases of twitter-poisoning I've seen
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"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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Anyone on the left who thinks that the BBC falling would help their politics, here and abroad, is an unbelievable fool
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Anyone on the left who thinks that the BBC falling would help their politics, here and abroad, is an unbelievable fool
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This is already happening via cuts to BBC World Service and it's terrible. Killing off what is in many places the only local media that isn't Reach PLC is so obviously a terrible idea it's amazing it even needs to be said out loud
Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is already happening via cuts to BBC World Service and it's terrible. Killing off what is in many places the only local media that isn't Reach PLC is so obviously a terrible idea it's amazing it even needs to be said out loud
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Is anyone else also internally screaming about this BBC nonsense? I feel like someone's pumping hallucinogenic gas into my house. Nothing makes sense
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Is anyone else also internally screaming about this BBC nonsense? I feel like someone's pumping hallucinogenic gas into my house. Nothing makes sense
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“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
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IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.
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I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.
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BBC faces ‘existential’ threat after exit of top executives
Broadcaster’s deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society
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November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.
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“Farage wants to give taxpayer money to the Taliban and licence fee payer money to Donald Trump” should be repeated ad infinitum at every election until he dies. I don’t care how sad it makes Morgan
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
“Farage wants to give taxpayer money to the Taliban and licence fee payer money to Donald Trump” should be repeated ad infinitum at every election until he dies. I don’t care how sad it makes Morgan
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Robbie Gibb issue is just one case where Labour has left in place people appointed by the Tories : Arif Ahmed at OfS, Kishwer and Reindorf at EHRC. Real self-sabotage.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Robbie Gibb issue is just one case where Labour has left in place people appointed by the Tories : Arif Ahmed at OfS, Kishwer and Reindorf at EHRC. Real self-sabotage.
I said yesterday a smart government would use this attempted bullying of the BBC by Trump to shore the BBC up and reclaim the mantle of patriotism from the right and expose them for the Britain-hating charlatans they are. We do not have a smart government.
If Labour had any sense they’d use this to talk about how Farage & the Tories hate this country - people used to remember that voters hate politicians who do that
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I said yesterday a smart government would use this attempted bullying of the BBC by Trump to shore the BBC up and reclaim the mantle of patriotism from the right and expose them for the Britain-hating charlatans they are. We do not have a smart government.
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If Labour had any sense they’d use this to talk about how Farage & the Tories hate this country - people used to remember that voters hate politicians who do that
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
If Labour had any sense they’d use this to talk about how Farage & the Tories hate this country - people used to remember that voters hate politicians who do that
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Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
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What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
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Extremely funny that the gambling lobby is on the warpath about rising taxes on them and the threat of 'black market gambling' allegedly run by ... them
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Extremely funny that the gambling lobby is on the warpath about rising taxes on them and the threat of 'black market gambling' allegedly run by ... them
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Average UK person on the BBC: I like Strictly and The Traitors but the licence fee is too much and there's too many repeats
Average UK person on X on the BBC:
Average UK person on X on the BBC:
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Average UK person on the BBC: I like Strictly and The Traitors but the licence fee is too much and there's too many repeats
Average UK person on X on the BBC:
Average UK person on X on the BBC:
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Nobody actually fucking bothered to read this, did they
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Nobody actually fucking bothered to read this, did they
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Okay no, absolutely not. We are not doing "Jar Jar Binks is woke, actually"
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Okay no, absolutely not. We are not doing "Jar Jar Binks is woke, actually"
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet