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Scottish Polish British Ukranian European Londoner. Retired comms director. Addicted to politics, history podcasts and foreign language films. Child of a Polish WW2 vet worried about the rise of populism.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
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One of the worst atrocities and one of the least discussed.
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.

If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.”

The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Important thread
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.

Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The #bbc must stand up to Dementia Don.

For so many reasons.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Anyone going to @therestpolitics.bsky.social tonight know if it’s starting at 7.30 or 8 as I’m getting mixed messages.
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Having a Trump supporter from a US media org criticising our #BBC on #R4Today is beyond the pale. What an overblown hypocrisy fest this is. The chairman needs to apologise once, get rid of political appointees and tell politicians to FO.
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Gary Lineker for DG
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.

The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.

The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions. #Orban shoujd be thrown out of the #EU. The ‘leadership’ in Europe needs to show some leadership. Слава Україні🇺🇦
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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So the train attacker incident in the UK has a simple lesson for the USA. A lot of people had some bad injuries but to date nobody has died, because this deranged person had no access to firearms.
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“There’s a Boris shaped hole at the heart of British politics” says Guto Harri on #GMB. WTF.
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Sultana’s comments are so offensive on so many levels. You can’t “both sides” Putin & Zelenskiy. You can’t speak over the voices of Ukrainian workers who are on the frontlines fighting for democracy & workers rights.

It is Putin and his acolytes who benefit from this war.
We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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New York, be careful about Mamdami. We Londoners elected a Muslim mayor and now we have a lower murder rate, higher GDP and have air that we can finally breathe.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Adil Ray, "What else has Trump been changing at the White House?"

Julian Clary, "His underwear?"

Adil Ray, "What kind of underwear do you think he wears?"

Julian Clary, "Padded and absorbent"

#HIGNFY
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Really feel like this has become a political witch hunt now to try and oust another working class woman from the Labour front bench team.

Feels like someone has 'got to' these vulnerable abuse survivors and exploiting them for political gain.

None of it sits right with me.
Four survivors call for Jess Phillips to quit as row deepens over grooming inquiry
They say they will rejoin the inquiry if Jess Phillips quits, but sources say she has the government's full support.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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'In some ways, this is a quintessentially British outcome. Brexit is becoming a bit like the weather. Something we moan about with quiet, understated resignation'. Me on the Government's new language on Brexit www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...
Bringing up Brexit won’t save your Budget, chancellor…
By pinning the UK’s economic woes on the damage done by leaving the EU, and therefore Nigel Farage, Rachel Reeves is playing a clever game – but don’t raise your hopes that we’re on our way back into ...
www.independent.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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When Kemi Badenoch dies, she should donate her body to science.
Geneticists will want to research how anyone can exist without the shame and self awareness genes.
#PMQs
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
@philippesands.bsky.social What a brilliant and fascinating hour at #WimbledonBookfest. Your talk and passion for the rule of law was so excellent I’m suggesting @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social interview you for their #Leading pod. #TheRestisPolitics #38LondresStreet
October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM