Graham Webster
graham68.bsky.social
Graham Webster
@graham68.bsky.social
History, politics, sport. Love my bike (no engine involved). Frustrated European. Trying and failing not to be a grumpy middle aged man.
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It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
March 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Trump is weak, compromised and corrupt. Even worse, he’s a traitor to America who’s shamelessly selling out our country to his puppet master Putin on a daily basis.

Any Republican in Congress who supports him at this point is just as much of a traitor. Fuck them all.
March 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
March 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Spot on. Comprehensive pedestrianisation should be far higher up the agenda in our cities than it is. Nearly wherever cars go, cities get worse. Nearly wherever they’re removed, those urban spaces flourish.
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
November 26, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️
November 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Palantir needs to be kicked out of the UK.

Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers
Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ ‘reoffending risks’
Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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Starmer said: "Labour's Manifesto for change is a plan to kickstart economic growth." So why won't he fix the thing that might actually make that happen?
Bank of England governor says Brexit has undermined UK economy
Andrew Bailey callls for relations with EU to be rebuilt as Trump plans US tariffs
buff.ly
November 15, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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New Rest is Politics - analysing the early Trump moves, looking at how the mood at COP has changed and trying to explain what is going on in German politics alastaircampbell.org/2024/11/339-...
339. Trump, the Middle East, and Ukraine
How will the president elect deal with the Israel-Gaza conflict? Does the US election result spell doom for Zelensky? What’s going on in Germany? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questi...
alastaircampbell.org
November 13, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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Well that is a nice 1-2-3 in the charts as Rory Stewart and I prepare to take The Rest Is Politics to the Democratic Party convention and tie up with our US sister podcast TRIP US for more chart-topping podcastery.
August 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social maybe get Rory to sign up…?
August 15, 2024 at 8:59 AM