Eunice Goes
@eunicegoes.bsky.social
Political scientist at @RichmondUniLdn. Interested in parties and ideologies and quite a few other things. More of a fox than a hedgehog.
Wonderful to see a Vieira da Silva in @adamtooze.bsky.social’s Chartbook. As the picture shows, her paintings are amazingly intricate and beautiful.
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Top Links 998 Is India-EU a big deal? Mexico's slow growth. Debord on the Spectacle and MLK: "by all means keep moving”.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
adamtooze.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Wonderful to see a Vieira da Silva in @adamtooze.bsky.social’s Chartbook. As the picture shows, her paintings are amazingly intricate and beautiful.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...
@beccagold.bsky.social makes an excellent case for more explicit defences of the good life and of joy and beauty by Labour politicians.
renewal.org.uk/articles/pro...
renewal.org.uk/articles/pro...
Progressive politics, trust, and the ‘good life’
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The Starmer administration has been widely criticised for failing to articulate a positive vision of change. In ...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:13 AM
@beccagold.bsky.social makes an excellent case for more explicit defences of the good life and of joy and beauty by Labour politicians.
renewal.org.uk/articles/pro...
renewal.org.uk/articles/pro...
Great piece by @neilwarner.bsky.social in the latest and fabulous issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social. As he says, the social-Democratic left has much to gain from a more robust anti-oligarchy narrative.
renewal.org.uk/articles/ant...
renewal.org.uk/articles/ant...
Anti-oligarchy as anti-fascism
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Progressive responses to the rise of the far right have often been confused due to a tendency to overemphasise its dis...
renewal.org.uk
January 30, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Great piece by @neilwarner.bsky.social in the latest and fabulous issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social. As he says, the social-Democratic left has much to gain from a more robust anti-oligarchy narrative.
renewal.org.uk/articles/ant...
renewal.org.uk/articles/ant...
Islington rocks! www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/...
Humiliation for Melania Trump as just 1 person attends London film premiere
A later showing of the £29m documentary was 'twice as successful' with 2 attendees
www.mylondon.news
January 29, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Islington rocks! www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/...
It’s thanks to stale and generic advice such as this that Starmer finds himself in a black hole of unpopularity.
Leaving aside the fact that talk of ‘national renewal’ is the oldest trick in the books, the circumstances of De Gaulle’s
era are so different www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Leaving aside the fact that talk of ‘national renewal’ is the oldest trick in the books, the circumstances of De Gaulle’s
era are so different www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Britain needs a Gaullist leader
The Labour Party must become the voice of national renewal
www.newstatesman.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:05 AM
It’s thanks to stale and generic advice such as this that Starmer finds himself in a black hole of unpopularity.
Leaving aside the fact that talk of ‘national renewal’ is the oldest trick in the books, the circumstances of De Gaulle’s
era are so different www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Leaving aside the fact that talk of ‘national renewal’ is the oldest trick in the books, the circumstances of De Gaulle’s
era are so different www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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We finally got gun-control.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 5:47 PM
We finally got gun-control.
Something to look forward too. Tiago Rodrigues’s play, which has become an international sensation, is coming to the @nationaltheatre.org.uk! 😊
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Something to look forward too. Tiago Rodrigues’s play, which has become an international sensation, is coming to the @nationaltheatre.org.uk! 😊
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Breaking: Matt Goodwin says his internal polling has him up by 814%.
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Breaking: Matt Goodwin says his internal polling has him up by 814%.
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🚨🚨 #NATO SG Mark #Rutte is to my mind massively undermining European #unity and efforts to build up their #defence and #security in what I see as a statement which only plays in the hands of #Putin and #Trump. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-defense-nato-mark-rutte-us-politics-threats-gdp/
Europe can’t defend itself without the US, NATO’s Rutte warns
The EU should stop dreaming of creating a European pillar for NATO and continue to build ties with the U.S. despite Trump, the alliance secretary-general said.
www.politico.eu
January 27, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
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God, tired of working in mysterious ways:
January 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
God, tired of working in mysterious ways:
Yeah, Morgan McSweeney, The Genius, managed again to tell the world that his boss Keir Starmer is weak. Exactly what we need now. 😱
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race by Labour ruling committee
Decision likely to set off ferocious row between Keir Starmer loyalists and allies of Greater Manchester mayor
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Yeah, Morgan McSweeney, The Genius, managed again to tell the world that his boss Keir Starmer is weak. Exactly what we need now. 😱
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
An US president who kills US citizens (so far no one in the Trump circle has condemned those killings; ICE is pursuing a federal mandate) is not planning to hold free and fair elections any time soon.
January 24, 2026 at 9:02 PM
An US president who kills US citizens (so far no one in the Trump circle has condemned those killings; ICE is pursuing a federal mandate) is not planning to hold free and fair elections any time soon.
This 👇🏼 is the significant statement by Ed Miliband.
After all the briefings from Morgan McSweeney on how the Starmer troopers on the NEC would block Burnham.
After all the briefings from Morgan McSweeney on how the Starmer troopers on the NEC would block Burnham.
Ed Miliband tells the Fabian Society conference: “I very much hope the local party will have the option of selecting Andy Burnham as the candidate”.
January 24, 2026 at 8:38 PM
This 👇🏼 is the significant statement by Ed Miliband.
After all the briefings from Morgan McSweeney on how the Starmer troopers on the NEC would block Burnham.
After all the briefings from Morgan McSweeney on how the Starmer troopers on the NEC would block Burnham.
This 👇🏼 is a quite significant intervention from Ed Miliband.
Miliband ally tells me: “Ed wants the party to unite under Keir’s leadership and believes that bringing our best talents onto the pitch can help achieve that.”
January 24, 2026 at 8:19 PM
This 👇🏼 is a quite significant intervention from Ed Miliband.
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Acho que isto fica 75-25.
Sondagem da Católica mostra que António José Seguro vence com 70% e consegue ir buscar mais de metade dos votos que Cotrim Figueiredo, Gouveia e Melo e Marques Mendes obtiveram na primeira volta.
Seguro esmaga Ventura na segunda volta com 70% e pode igualar recorde de Soares
Sondagem da Católica mostra que António José Seguro vence com 70% e consegue ir buscar mais de metade dos votos que Cotrim Figueiredo, Gouveia e Melo e Marques Mendes obtiveram na primeira volta.
www.publico.pt
January 23, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Acho que isto fica 75-25.
Absolutely outrageous and dangerous lie made by Trump. He seems determined to humiliate his allies and destroy NATO. But even more outrageous is the suggestion that non-US soldiers should be those on the frontline fighting American wars.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump prompts outrage with claim Nato troops avoided frontline in Afghanistan
UK MPs and veterans condemn US president’s comments and highlight his avoidance of military service in Vietnam
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Absolutely outrageous and dangerous lie made by Trump. He seems determined to humiliate his allies and destroy NATO. But even more outrageous is the suggestion that non-US soldiers should be those on the frontline fighting American wars.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Simple corrective: don't use AI
Essentially if a scientist used OpenAI to synthesize or aggregate data for something that got patented, OpenAI would then entitle itself to that scientist's IP. Despite the fact that their platform can only exist through the IP theft of billions...
Copy paste this to IP of every user, everywhere
Copy paste this to IP of every user, everywhere
January 23, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Simple corrective: don't use AI
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So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Karoline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.
January 22, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Karoline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.
It’s always so reassuring to receive emails from the UK Home Office which simply tell you they have no idea whatsoever that you’re no longer part of the EU settlement programme because you’ve become a naturalised citizen since 2021… Such competence at keeping updated records…
January 22, 2026 at 1:15 PM
It’s always so reassuring to receive emails from the UK Home Office which simply tell you they have no idea whatsoever that you’re no longer part of the EU settlement programme because you’ve become a naturalised citizen since 2021… Such competence at keeping updated records…
Well, until next time he sees a wind farm or looks at a world map.
Breaking News: President Trump dropped his threat to impose tariffs on European allies as part of a pressure campaign to gain control of Greenland.
Live Updates: Trump Drops European Tariff Threat Over Greenland After NATO Meeting
nyti.ms
January 21, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Well, until next time he sees a wind farm or looks at a world map.
I’ve finally read Mark Carney’s speech to the Davos crowd and agree it’s an incredibly luccid speech that offers a pragmatic and positive view of how middle and also small nations can navigate the new unruly word order www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carney says the old world order 'is not coming back' in Davos speech
Canada's prime minister said powerful countries are using economic weapons to pursue their interests, while affirming support for Greenland and Nato.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I’ve finally read Mark Carney’s speech to the Davos crowd and agree it’s an incredibly luccid speech that offers a pragmatic and positive view of how middle and also small nations can navigate the new unruly word order www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
According to the @newsagents.bsky.social Whigish-Dunkirk Spirit view of the history of WWII the Soviet Union played no role whatsoever in the liberation of Europe from Hitler. But it turns outs this is a pretty established historical fact.
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Trump's Greenland shakedown: 'Say no and we will remember'
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 21/01/2026 · 30m
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January 21, 2026 at 6:13 PM
According to the @newsagents.bsky.social Whigish-Dunkirk Spirit view of the history of WWII the Soviet Union played no role whatsoever in the liberation of Europe from Hitler. But it turns outs this is a pretty established historical fact.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...