Guy Stallard
@guystall.bsky.social
Keen supporter of Living Wage Foundation The Foundation has had such success in reducing working poverty I am also a great supporter of hybrid working. All comments personal and nothing to do with my employer or the charities I support
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NEWS:Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, clever dog, said when interviewed “moi did le wakey wakey of mes parents when moi thought moi had had enough sleepy bobos. Moi was mistaken so moi went back to doing les sleepy bobos. Mes parents should learn from moi et juste do les sleepy bobos anywhere et anytime.”
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
NEWS:Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, clever dog, said when interviewed “moi did le wakey wakey of mes parents when moi thought moi had had enough sleepy bobos. Moi was mistaken so moi went back to doing les sleepy bobos. Mes parents should learn from moi et juste do les sleepy bobos anywhere et anytime.”
😂 or when he thought he remembered you were a colleague of @danneidle.bsky.social
I was walking through an upmarket area of London and I saw Nadim Zahawi walking towards me, and I felt so tired of seeing his face, and he crossed the road when he saw my HMRC briefcase
February 13, 2026 at 8:14 PM
😂 or when he thought he remembered you were a colleague of @danneidle.bsky.social
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He's been ploughing this furrow for a long time.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
He's been ploughing this furrow for a long time.
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This illustrates nicely a point I've come back to a few times: Trump was unusually reliant, for a Republican, on lower income voters in 2024. They believed he would help them. He hasn't. And that's a big reason why his approval ratings are so bad.
Trump approval is now sharply correlated with voters' perceived financial positions, a pattern which holds among his own voters.
February 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
This illustrates nicely a point I've come back to a few times: Trump was unusually reliant, for a Republican, on lower income voters in 2024. They believed he would help them. He hasn't. And that's a big reason why his approval ratings are so bad.
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These people always wobble when pressed on the specifics.
They want to live permanently in a world of simple, high-level vibes/generalisations.
They want to live permanently in a world of simple, high-level vibes/generalisations.
February 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM
These people always wobble when pressed on the specifics.
They want to live permanently in a world of simple, high-level vibes/generalisations.
They want to live permanently in a world of simple, high-level vibes/generalisations.
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I went into London the other day after sunset. Amazingly, I didn't feel under threat at any time.
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 PM
I went into London the other day after sunset. Amazingly, I didn't feel under threat at any time.
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You’ve got to hand it to Trump, he has a gift for gathering all the worst people in the world in his cabinet. It’s going to be a new Marvel movie, A***holes Assemble!
Keystone Kop Kristi Noem fired a Coast Guard pilot bc she forgot her blanket on his flight, then had to reinstate him bc there was no one else to fly her home...& other things KKKristi gets up to while she's not busy torturing immigrants in concentration camps, per WSJ.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
You’ve got to hand it to Trump, he has a gift for gathering all the worst people in the world in his cabinet. It’s going to be a new Marvel movie, A***holes Assemble!
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In the get a goddamn move on department:
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves: “The future of our economy, security, resilience and defence is bound with Europe. Closer alignment isn't about choosing sides - it's about geography. “
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves: “The future of our economy, security, resilience and defence is bound with Europe. Closer alignment isn't about choosing sides - it's about geography. “
February 13, 2026 at 8:52 AM
In the get a goddamn move on department:
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves: “The future of our economy, security, resilience and defence is bound with Europe. Closer alignment isn't about choosing sides - it's about geography. “
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves: “The future of our economy, security, resilience and defence is bound with Europe. Closer alignment isn't about choosing sides - it's about geography. “
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No mention, of course, of Ratcliffe's completely wrong population figures.
It's just 'hard to argue with the data'.
It's just 'hard to argue with the data'.
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 AM
No mention, of course, of Ratcliffe's completely wrong population figures.
It's just 'hard to argue with the data'.
It's just 'hard to argue with the data'.
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Echo chambers are powerful things.
The White House is making a lot of strategic mistakes lately — my theory is that none of them have a good understanding of the electoral conditions right now because they're all just trying to perform their loyalty to Trump for followers on X and Fox News
Whoa. Two vulnerable House Rs in Michigan have still not commented on Trump's threat to block Detroit-Windsor bridge, per Michigan Advance.
Trump/MAGA miscalculated badly, assuming people would thrill to this idiocy because it hurts Canada and a state that didn't vote for Trump (see my piece below)
Trump/MAGA miscalculated badly, assuming people would thrill to this idiocy because it hurts Canada and a state that didn't vote for Trump (see my piece below)
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Echo chambers are powerful things.
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My sense is that the Wanting-Trump-To-Die Club is a large one but with a rather shy membership.
February 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
My sense is that the Wanting-Trump-To-Die Club is a large one but with a rather shy membership.
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Spare a thought for the people of Cornwall and South Devon.
February 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Spare a thought for the people of Cornwall and South Devon.
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Brexiters never paused to consider that companies were simply not going to set up a UK-only production line alongside the EU one. It's also why the 'Norway' scares were overblown – we were going to resemble Norway, in part, no matter what Johnson/Frost wanted.
And so here we are. With added damage
And so here we are. With added damage
February 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Brexiters never paused to consider that companies were simply not going to set up a UK-only production line alongside the EU one. It's also why the 'Norway' scares were overblown – we were going to resemble Norway, in part, no matter what Johnson/Frost wanted.
And so here we are. With added damage
And so here we are. With added damage
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Coming up for ten years since the EU referendum.
My symbol for Brexit? The tethered bottle top. A product of EU law, it still exists in the UK despite Brexit. Yes, it affects us even though not in a Norway-style EU relationship.
Just the realities of trading/mass production.
Funny old world.
My symbol for Brexit? The tethered bottle top. A product of EU law, it still exists in the UK despite Brexit. Yes, it affects us even though not in a Norway-style EU relationship.
Just the realities of trading/mass production.
Funny old world.
February 12, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Coming up for ten years since the EU referendum.
My symbol for Brexit? The tethered bottle top. A product of EU law, it still exists in the UK despite Brexit. Yes, it affects us even though not in a Norway-style EU relationship.
Just the realities of trading/mass production.
Funny old world.
My symbol for Brexit? The tethered bottle top. A product of EU law, it still exists in the UK despite Brexit. Yes, it affects us even though not in a Norway-style EU relationship.
Just the realities of trading/mass production.
Funny old world.
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The EU's Ursula von der Leyen: “One Europe, one market, we want to be there at the end of 2027.
“The pressure and the sense of urgency is enormous. And that can move mountains.”
“The pressure and the sense of urgency is enormous. And that can move mountains.”
February 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The EU's Ursula von der Leyen: “One Europe, one market, we want to be there at the end of 2027.
“The pressure and the sense of urgency is enormous. And that can move mountains.”
“The pressure and the sense of urgency is enormous. And that can move mountains.”
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If Russian propagandists are fantasising about joining forces with America to fight Europe there is something fundamentally wrong with America.
Russian propagandist Solovyev fantasizes about a large-scale war in Europe,with the idea of a "united Russian-American army"fighting the EU:
"I don’t rule out the possibility of a war unfolding in the European theater of military operations -a united Russian-American army against the army of the EU
"I don’t rule out the possibility of a war unfolding in the European theater of military operations -a united Russian-American army against the army of the EU
February 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
If Russian propagandists are fantasising about joining forces with America to fight Europe there is something fundamentally wrong with America.
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If rationing within the NHS is your definition of right-wing the the Attlee government was right-wing.
I said this government is *more* left-wing that any one since 1979. Nothing you've written in this thread refutes that in any way. It could obviously be more left-wing than it is.
I said this government is *more* left-wing that any one since 1979. Nothing you've written in this thread refutes that in any way. It could obviously be more left-wing than it is.
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 AM
If rationing within the NHS is your definition of right-wing the the Attlee government was right-wing.
I said this government is *more* left-wing that any one since 1979. Nothing you've written in this thread refutes that in any way. It could obviously be more left-wing than it is.
I said this government is *more* left-wing that any one since 1979. Nothing you've written in this thread refutes that in any way. It could obviously be more left-wing than it is.
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Imagine thinking even for a second that Bear fucking Grylls could do a better job in a wildly complex geopolitical envrionment that a seasoned diplomat who already had a track record with the administration.
February 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Imagine thinking even for a second that Bear fucking Grylls could do a better job in a wildly complex geopolitical envrionment that a seasoned diplomat who already had a track record with the administration.
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Presumably Jim Ratcliffe, who colonised Monaco, excludes Man Utd's multi-national squad from his claim that Britain has been "colonised by immigrants."
February 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Presumably Jim Ratcliffe, who colonised Monaco, excludes Man Utd's multi-national squad from his claim that Britain has been "colonised by immigrants."
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CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
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Trump is either lying or delusional or both: "Those crazy windmills. They're made in China. They're made in China but not used by China. Let's look for a couple of wind farms in China. See if you can find one."
February 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Trump is either lying or delusional or both: "Those crazy windmills. They're made in China. They're made in China but not used by China. Let's look for a couple of wind farms in China. See if you can find one."
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It's an awful word to use etc... but if you look at what he goes on to say his argument is primarily that we can't afford so many people not working. Though it's very confused because immigrants work at a higher rate than others. It's not clear what cultural claim he's making.
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
It's an awful word to use etc... but if you look at what he goes on to say his argument is primarily that we can't afford so many people not working. Though it's very confused because immigrants work at a higher rate than others. It's not clear what cultural claim he's making.
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Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
February 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
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Rep. Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in the audience of Pam Bondi's House DOJ hearing to stand if they have still been unable to meet with the Department of Justice.
All of the survivors in the room stand.
Jayapal then asks Bondi to apologise to them. She refuses.
All of the survivors in the room stand.
Jayapal then asks Bondi to apologise to them. She refuses.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Rep. Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in the audience of Pam Bondi's House DOJ hearing to stand if they have still been unable to meet with the Department of Justice.
All of the survivors in the room stand.
Jayapal then asks Bondi to apologise to them. She refuses.
All of the survivors in the room stand.
Jayapal then asks Bondi to apologise to them. She refuses.
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Looser fiscal policy; more regulation; employee rights; higher taxes on wealthy; rail renationalisation; higher minimum wage; 2 child limit..
Quite a list. I'd argue it's the most instinctively economically left wing govt since 1979.
Quite a list. I'd argue it's the most instinctively economically left wing govt since 1979.
February 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Looser fiscal policy; more regulation; employee rights; higher taxes on wealthy; rail renationalisation; higher minimum wage; 2 child limit..
Quite a list. I'd argue it's the most instinctively economically left wing govt since 1979.
Quite a list. I'd argue it's the most instinctively economically left wing govt since 1979.