Ant McIver
@antmciver.bsky.social
I wonder if in years to come, americans will look back on the trump era in the same way the UK looks back on Jimmy Savile. What is obvious in hindsight, and to those who payed attention at the time, falls into some sort of wider societal blind spot?
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I wonder if in years to come, americans will look back on the trump era in the same way the UK looks back on Jimmy Savile. What is obvious in hindsight, and to those who payed attention at the time, falls into some sort of wider societal blind spot?
This Democrat only Epstein investigation, to deliberately and corruptly frustrate the will of Congress, surely this is going to land Bondi et al in jail eventually?
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This Democrat only Epstein investigation, to deliberately and corruptly frustrate the will of Congress, surely this is going to land Bondi et al in jail eventually?
I sincerely hope that the BBC and UK government tell Trump to fuck off.
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I sincerely hope that the BBC and UK government tell Trump to fuck off.
I know I'm a bit old to be on ticktock, but has anyone else noticed the tsunami of AI content that has appeared over the last week or so.
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I know I'm a bit old to be on ticktock, but has anyone else noticed the tsunami of AI content that has appeared over the last week or so.
Just worth a reminder that 'Prince' Andrew was always "just Andrew Windsor", and that he was always "no different to a commoner", as the BBC put it. Like all hierarchical structures, monarchy and nobility are entirely imaginary and only exist in our minds.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just worth a reminder that 'Prince' Andrew was always "just Andrew Windsor", and that he was always "no different to a commoner", as the BBC put it. Like all hierarchical structures, monarchy and nobility are entirely imaginary and only exist in our minds.
I think it is generally under reported that when the @libdems.org.uk are the established alternative, they consistently beat Reform.
Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I think it is generally under reported that when the @libdems.org.uk are the established alternative, they consistently beat Reform.
What's striking over the last decade is the online dominance of people who were once laughed off as nutters, who are now 'influencers' with seemingly unlimited financial resources, with seemingly vast support for their theories and delusions. It really can't be good societally in the long run.
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
What's striking over the last decade is the online dominance of people who were once laughed off as nutters, who are now 'influencers' with seemingly unlimited financial resources, with seemingly vast support for their theories and delusions. It really can't be good societally in the long run.
Everyone is wanking off Trump over his 'peace deal', but isn't it exactly the same as Biden's deal last January? The one Trump and Netanyahu sabotaged because it was politically convenient. We are living in an Emperor's New Clothes fever dream.
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Everyone is wanking off Trump over his 'peace deal', but isn't it exactly the same as Biden's deal last January? The one Trump and Netanyahu sabotaged because it was politically convenient. We are living in an Emperor's New Clothes fever dream.
The absolute guff being written and broadcast in the UK about Trump's 'peace deal' is so detached from reality it beggars belief. Just the latest chapter of the Emperor's New Clothes.
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The absolute guff being written and broadcast in the UK about Trump's 'peace deal' is so detached from reality it beggars belief. Just the latest chapter of the Emperor's New Clothes.
If Andy Burnham is the answer, you are asking the wrong question in my opinion.
September 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If Andy Burnham is the answer, you are asking the wrong question in my opinion.
A large part of the problem with British politics and discourse is the complete capture of journalism by a very narrow demographic. To become a mainstream journalist requires parental wealth to go through a succession of unpaid internships and of course nepotism.
September 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A large part of the problem with British politics and discourse is the complete capture of journalism by a very narrow demographic. To become a mainstream journalist requires parental wealth to go through a succession of unpaid internships and of course nepotism.
@lewis_goodall1 Whether the speculation about the Charlie Kirk assassin being a 'groyper' turn out to be true or not (seems credible), an in-depth investigation into this group would be fascinating. People are living in weird and terrifying alternative online realities.
September 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@lewis_goodall1 Whether the speculation about the Charlie Kirk assassin being a 'groyper' turn out to be true or not (seems credible), an in-depth investigation into this group would be fascinating. People are living in weird and terrifying alternative online realities.
It's just weird that Starmer and labour's leadership initially thought they could brazen out the Mandelson revelations. Why waste political capital defending the indefensible, when anyone with a functioning brain cell could see he'd have to go in the end?
September 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It's just weird that Starmer and labour's leadership initially thought they could brazen out the Mandelson revelations. Why waste political capital defending the indefensible, when anyone with a functioning brain cell could see he'd have to go in the end?
@newsagents.bsky.social Does Norway's election suggest that Labour should ditch Starmer, and bring back Gordon Brown to defeat Reform?
September 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
@newsagents.bsky.social Does Norway's election suggest that Labour should ditch Starmer, and bring back Gordon Brown to defeat Reform?
Bit of an odd hostile interview on @newsagents.bsky.social last night with Nick Clegg.
September 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Bit of an odd hostile interview on @newsagents.bsky.social last night with Nick Clegg.
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The BBC need to get better at challenging Farage's lies.
August 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The BBC need to get better at challenging Farage's lies.
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social re: migrant hotels - the gov could pass emergency legislation to give itself sweeping planning powers. Then compulsory purchase land to build large asylum reception centres. Seeing as they care so deeply, it seems reasonable to build them in reform constituencies?
August 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social re: migrant hotels - the gov could pass emergency legislation to give itself sweeping planning powers. Then compulsory purchase land to build large asylum reception centres. Seeing as they care so deeply, it seems reasonable to build them in reform constituencies?
Is it just me, or is the new online safety bill one of the dumbest pieces of legislation ever enacted?
July 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Is it just me, or is the new online safety bill one of the dumbest pieces of legislation ever enacted?
Here's a letter I wrote to my local newspaper about super-in junctions in 2011. More true today than it was then, they are appalling illiberal legal instruments that have no place in a democratic society.
@lewis_goodall1
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/letters...
@lewis_goodall1
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/letters...
Judges are treading a dangerous path
Sir – While the actions and peccadilloes of philandering football players can hardly be claimed to be in the public interest, I am nonetheless…
www.worcesternews.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Here's a letter I wrote to my local newspaper about super-in junctions in 2011. More true today than it was then, they are appalling illiberal legal instruments that have no place in a democratic society.
@lewis_goodall1
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/letters...
@lewis_goodall1
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/letters...
@steverichards.bsky.social I think you guys were being far too pessermistic about the NHS on yesterday's pod. It obviously has its problems but it still consistently ranks as one of the best in the world. Also the focus on rolling out weight loss medication could be utterly transformative.
June 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
@steverichards.bsky.social I think you guys were being far too pessermistic about the NHS on yesterday's pod. It obviously has its problems but it still consistently ranks as one of the best in the world. Also the focus on rolling out weight loss medication could be utterly transformative.
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🚨 Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says hearing the Conservatives complain about the UK-EU deal "is like listening to a backseat driver who previously crashed the car".
Keir Starmer agrees that yesterday's deal is a "first step", with annual summits to "take cooperation further step by step" with the EU.
Keir Starmer agrees that yesterday's deal is a "first step", with annual summits to "take cooperation further step by step" with the EU.
May 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🚨 Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says hearing the Conservatives complain about the UK-EU deal "is like listening to a backseat driver who previously crashed the car".
Keir Starmer agrees that yesterday's deal is a "first step", with annual summits to "take cooperation further step by step" with the EU.
Keir Starmer agrees that yesterday's deal is a "first step", with annual summits to "take cooperation further step by step" with the EU.
Politics over the last 10 years has been a grotesque race to the bottom, as one prime minister after another panders to the same small group of bigoted floating voters.
May 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Politics over the last 10 years has been a grotesque race to the bottom, as one prime minister after another panders to the same small group of bigoted floating voters.
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social I love the podcast, and appreciate Reform gains and Lab/Tory loses the main story, but do you not think the Lib Dem gains for 7 elections in a row now is worthy of more analysis? I'd say in the long term, they are doing far more damage to the Tories than Reform.
May 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social I love the podcast, and appreciate Reform gains and Lab/Tory loses the main story, but do you not think the Lib Dem gains for 7 elections in a row now is worthy of more analysis? I'd say in the long term, they are doing far more damage to the Tories than Reform.
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BBC Laura Keunssberg 'No other party has done what Reform has done'. A simple google search tells otherwise. Lib Dems in 2019 spanked both main parties, and also Brexit Party. Mainstream Media Righr Wing bias needs to be addressed. BBC needs a Polish style purge of Right Wingers
May 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
BBC Laura Keunssberg 'No other party has done what Reform has done'. A simple google search tells otherwise. Lib Dems in 2019 spanked both main parties, and also Brexit Party. Mainstream Media Righr Wing bias needs to be addressed. BBC needs a Polish style purge of Right Wingers
I think we should have a bluesky sweepstake on how many of Reform's new councillors make it to the end of their term, without being forced out due to scandal or corruption?
May 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I think we should have a bluesky sweepstake on how many of Reform's new councillors make it to the end of their term, without being forced out due to scandal or corruption?