Chris Carnall
@cjcarnall.bsky.social
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Interests include History, Words and Language, Politics, Space, and the Green Bay Packers! Lay Minister in the Church of England.
Interests include History, Words and Language, Politics, Space, and the Green Bay Packers! Lay Minister in the Church of England.
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The ability to communicate and appreciate this country's rich cultural heritage is SO useless and overrated.
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The ability to communicate and appreciate this country's rich cultural heritage is SO useless and overrated.
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Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
October 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
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Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New deputy leader candidates, same fucking misogyny.
Like, it's a CREEPY sentence for a piece of political analysis to even contain, but to choose it as the TITLE is next-level incel shit.
Like, it's a CREEPY sentence for a piece of political analysis to even contain, but to choose it as the TITLE is next-level incel shit.
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New deputy leader candidates, same fucking misogyny.
Like, it's a CREEPY sentence for a piece of political analysis to even contain, but to choose it as the TITLE is next-level incel shit.
Like, it's a CREEPY sentence for a piece of political analysis to even contain, but to choose it as the TITLE is next-level incel shit.
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How Chris Mason reports Reform v How Chris Mason reports Labour.
September 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
How Chris Mason reports Reform v How Chris Mason reports Labour.
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We may scoff at the shenanigans in the US or in Latin America but all you need in the UK to get away with corruption on a grand scale is a plummy accent and the confidence that comes from a private education.
EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
We may scoff at the shenanigans in the US or in Latin America but all you need in the UK to get away with corruption on a grand scale is a plummy accent and the confidence that comes from a private education.
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The BBC has always bent towards the status quo. But since Brexit it’s top journalists - who like Mason & Kuenssberg think they’re celebrities - have fawned over the protagonists of that ‘exciting story’: the rise of hard right populism. They’ve stopped being journalists & become celebrants.
I have never been so disappointed in a BBC piece. Breathless admiration is, as far as I knew, not the role of the BBC’s political editor when describing a party political conference. Description+detail yes, rigorous examination of the conference content, yes. This, absolutely no, in my opinion.
Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before
The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The BBC has always bent towards the status quo. But since Brexit it’s top journalists - who like Mason & Kuenssberg think they’re celebrities - have fawned over the protagonists of that ‘exciting story’: the rise of hard right populism. They’ve stopped being journalists & become celebrants.
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What a choice for those on the left. A hopelessly cowed Labour Party that can’t articulate what it wants & panders to the far right. A breakaway socialist party cosying up to some of the dodgiest politicians in the UK. Or Hypnoboobs.
Here’s a characteristically well sourced @siennarodgers.bsky.social feature on the founding of Corbyn’s new party www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Inside The Founding Of Jeremy Corbyn's New Party: 'End This Horrible Power Struggle'
The trials and tribulations of founding a new party on the left. Can they unite? What challenges lie ahead? Sienna Rodgers reports
www.politicshome.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
What a choice for those on the left. A hopelessly cowed Labour Party that can’t articulate what it wants & panders to the far right. A breakaway socialist party cosying up to some of the dodgiest politicians in the UK. Or Hypnoboobs.
Sounds about right 😮💨
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
September 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Sounds about right 😮💨
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Parliament should be sovereign to make its own decisions, unrestricted by busy-bodies in Brussels or any foreign power... except obviously the Trump administration which can and should dictate UK social media due to its own unimpeachable free speech record.
September 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Parliament should be sovereign to make its own decisions, unrestricted by busy-bodies in Brussels or any foreign power... except obviously the Trump administration which can and should dictate UK social media due to its own unimpeachable free speech record.
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Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
September 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
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Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words
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Credit to Ed Davey for this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Credit to Ed Davey for this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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30th August 2025 05.12
August 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
30th August 2025 05.12
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A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford.
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
An open letter to Nigel Farage - Bishop Steven's Blog
Bishop Steven writes an open letter in response to Nigel Farage MP's immigration policy which was launched in Oxford this week.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford.
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
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I'm no Lib Dem but it must be frustrating to observe the fan worship of Nigel "Four MPs" Farage.
The party will play a vital role in the next General Election as the home of sensible ex Tories and as a potential coalition partner.
The party will play a vital role in the next General Election as the home of sensible ex Tories and as a potential coalition partner.
August 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm no Lib Dem but it must be frustrating to observe the fan worship of Nigel "Four MPs" Farage.
The party will play a vital role in the next General Election as the home of sensible ex Tories and as a potential coalition partner.
The party will play a vital role in the next General Election as the home of sensible ex Tories and as a potential coalition partner.
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. England goalkeeper Gordon Banks catches a dog (1965). 📷 google images
August 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
PHOTO OF THE DAY. England goalkeeper Gordon Banks catches a dog (1965). 📷 google images
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There have always been Trumps, as there have always been Johnsons and Farages. None are particularly complex or interesting characters. What needs understanding is how the barriers that shut them out have collapsed, and why - in the case of the first two - established parties have knelt before them.
August 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
There have always been Trumps, as there have always been Johnsons and Farages. None are particularly complex or interesting characters. What needs understanding is how the barriers that shut them out have collapsed, and why - in the case of the first two - established parties have knelt before them.
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There were Trumps in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and so on.
But they were checked, balanced, blocked.
And therein is the failure this time.
But they were checked, balanced, blocked.
And therein is the failure this time.
August 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
There were Trumps in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and so on.
But they were checked, balanced, blocked.
And therein is the failure this time.
But they were checked, balanced, blocked.
And therein is the failure this time.
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Bin the Blue Labour defensive identity bullshit, bin the "these people have a point actually" which just encourages the worst racists and narcissists, you were elected because you were supposed to be offering something more positive. Do it.
August 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Bin the Blue Labour defensive identity bullshit, bin the "these people have a point actually" which just encourages the worst racists and narcissists, you were elected because you were supposed to be offering something more positive. Do it.
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As Putin’s word mean nothing and Trump’s word means nothing, how can any agreement between them possibly mean anything?
August 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As Putin’s word mean nothing and Trump’s word means nothing, how can any agreement between them possibly mean anything?
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The Land of the Free’s public seems remarkably content to toe the line and eat the authoritarian shit their President feeds them when told to, but I didn’t think they’d also be happy to watch their Leader of the Free World be publicly owned by a foreign dictator on US soil.
August 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The Land of the Free’s public seems remarkably content to toe the line and eat the authoritarian shit their President feeds them when told to, but I didn’t think they’d also be happy to watch their Leader of the Free World be publicly owned by a foreign dictator on US soil.
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This is pure Trumpery from the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary. He’s trying to turn violent rioters and their instigators into “political prisoners” as Trump did with the Capitol rioters (which led to the death of a friend of the family).
We’re importing tyranny from the US
We’re importing tyranny from the US
Former Conservative Attorney General diagnoses the current Conservative Shadow Home Secretary a ‘rabble rouser’ over his comments on trial by jury
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is pure Trumpery from the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary. He’s trying to turn violent rioters and their instigators into “political prisoners” as Trump did with the Capitol rioters (which led to the death of a friend of the family).
We’re importing tyranny from the US
We’re importing tyranny from the US
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