Dave Andress
@davidandress.bsky.social
Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Outwith the pandemic, this is the highest UK unemployment in a decade, having risen steadily for more than three years now.
But someone will be along to blame the wokes shortly.
But someone will be along to blame the wokes shortly.
UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens
Latest official data ahead of the Budget later this month shows it is the highest rate since 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Outwith the pandemic, this is the highest UK unemployment in a decade, having risen steadily for more than three years now.
But someone will be along to blame the wokes shortly.
But someone will be along to blame the wokes shortly.
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Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other:
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness'
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...
www.politicshome.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other:
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.
I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.
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Something from me on the dangers of A.I for historians and the neverending cycle of job cuts www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Something from me on the dangers of A.I for historians and the neverending cycle of job cuts www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...
"Leader of the free world" currently orchestrating a system of mass arrests by masked militias...
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"Leader of the free world" currently orchestrating a system of mass arrests by masked militias...
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The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
Someone on UK minimum wage, full-time 37 hrs a week, pays about 15% of their gross income in tax & NI.
On median wage, they will pay over 20%, almost £7000 a year.
Rishi Sunak, declaring £2.2 million of income, paid 23% tax on it, because it was mostly "capital gains"...
On median wage, they will pay over 20%, almost £7000 a year.
Rishi Sunak, declaring £2.2 million of income, paid 23% tax on it, because it was mostly "capital gains"...
Laws are bent for the rich.
Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% – 45% plus national insurance contributions (NIC).
Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%, no NIC .
Dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%, no NIC.
All income must be taxed at the same rate.
Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% – 45% plus national insurance contributions (NIC).
Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%, no NIC .
Dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%, no NIC.
All income must be taxed at the same rate.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Someone on UK minimum wage, full-time 37 hrs a week, pays about 15% of their gross income in tax & NI.
On median wage, they will pay over 20%, almost £7000 a year.
Rishi Sunak, declaring £2.2 million of income, paid 23% tax on it, because it was mostly "capital gains"...
On median wage, they will pay over 20%, almost £7000 a year.
Rishi Sunak, declaring £2.2 million of income, paid 23% tax on it, because it was mostly "capital gains"...
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All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
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Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
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This is the ‘protecting women’ crew and a chaperone and co-promoter of the Pink Ladies rally in Belfast.
We’ve had to black out SA references and disgusting and abusive language.
We stand with journalists.
We’ve had to black out SA references and disgusting and abusive language.
We stand with journalists.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This is the ‘protecting women’ crew and a chaperone and co-promoter of the Pink Ladies rally in Belfast.
We’ve had to black out SA references and disgusting and abusive language.
We stand with journalists.
We’ve had to black out SA references and disgusting and abusive language.
We stand with journalists.
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It's funny to see people like Larry Summers flailing about, spending their lives calling for students to think critically and then being outraged when students use their critical thinking skills about Israel
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It's funny to see people like Larry Summers flailing about, spending their lives calling for students to think critically and then being outraged when students use their critical thinking skills about Israel
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Knuckledusters, but pink - feminism far-right style
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Knuckledusters, but pink - feminism far-right style
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Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
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I’d like to bury these disruption labs in an ideas sandpit.
Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I’d like to bury these disruption labs in an ideas sandpit.
OTOH we can teach kids in primary school things it took the greatest geniuses of their age years of study to work out.
You ever think about how we’re born knowing absolutely nothing and we have to spend literally our whole lives learning — AKA catching up on at least the outlines of what everyone who came before us either did or figured out — and if we’re lucky, we get to add a little bit to that, and then we die?
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
OTOH we can teach kids in primary school things it took the greatest geniuses of their age years of study to work out.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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such a good demonstration of how AI agglomerates knowledge through predicting text: this is every single bean recipe that you’ve ever seen in your life, all at once, complete with 1/8 spoon of cinnamon (just trust me)
I am obsessed with this guy in the Rancho Gordo FB Group who decided to spend hours working with AI to figure out "the best" bean recipe instead of.....looking at actual recipes
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
such a good demonstration of how AI agglomerates knowledge through predicting text: this is every single bean recipe that you’ve ever seen in your life, all at once, complete with 1/8 spoon of cinnamon (just trust me)
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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.
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
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
on.ft.com
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.
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
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whatthetrans.com/trans-allies...
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
Trans Allies Systematically Intimidated Inside Tavistock – What The Trans!?
whatthetrans.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
whatthetrans.com/trans-allies...
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
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Would just like to point out that Anna Waehre, the researcher here mentioned as guilty of grievous research ethics violations targeting trans minors was a panelist in a SEGM conference last year with a large number of other abuse apologists.
Vi har avdekket at forskerne fikk avslag på fritak fra taushetsplikten og fra å innhente samtykke til forskning fra pasientene - tre ganger.
De gjennomførte forskningsprosjektet likevel.
De gjennomførte forskningsprosjektet likevel.
Forskere felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner
– nå er de klaget inn igjen
Forskerne som er felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner, har også tidligere villet forske på den samme gruppen.
www.forskning.no
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Would just like to point out that Anna Waehre, the researcher here mentioned as guilty of grievous research ethics violations targeting trans minors was a panelist in a SEGM conference last year with a large number of other abuse apologists.
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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Great letter in the Herald. I can confirm the abuse feminists get from transphobes is worse and more threatening than what I get from anti-abortion men www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2560...
Why I went unmasked at the pro-trans rights rally last week
TO the writer of the letter regarding masks at protests (“Two rival protests. Which group is really comfortable with its identity?”, November…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Great letter in the Herald. I can confirm the abuse feminists get from transphobes is worse and more threatening than what I get from anti-abortion men www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2560...
I mean, yes, but if you don’t understand that every ideology is a worldview, that the conviction that one’s views *explain reality properly* is very widely held, and hard to shift, what do you understand?
"They are so convinced their politics isn’t really politics, but just some default setting shared with much of the country..."
True of so many commentators on the Right.
True of so many commentators on the Right.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I mean, yes, but if you don’t understand that every ideology is a worldview, that the conviction that one’s views *explain reality properly* is very widely held, and hard to shift, what do you understand?
If I were a talented novelist, I might write a series of books set in a world where we got just a bit further towards cooperative socialism post-1945, and managed to stick there.
People would read them, and weep.
People would read them, and weep.
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
If I were a talented novelist, I might write a series of books set in a world where we got just a bit further towards cooperative socialism post-1945, and managed to stick there.
People would read them, and weep.
People would read them, and weep.
What is “digital-first”? The TV signal is digital, a lot of the radio signal is too, the websites definitely are, so…?
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
What is “digital-first”? The TV signal is digital, a lot of the radio signal is too, the websites definitely are, so…?