Daniel Hall
@hall68.bsky.social
Twitter refugee, enjoy geeking out on films, music (rock, progressive, electronica: analogue > digital) and politics (left of centre and passionately European). #LUFC. My ‘high elbow catch’ and ‘mid-foot strike’ are a life’s work
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Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
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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...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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...
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🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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If you could go back in time would you kill Baby Grok?
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If you could go back in time would you kill Baby Grok?
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I have to translate this.
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
ideia de jogo: second person shooter
sua namorada dispara nas coisas enquanto vc leva a mochilinha dela com as munições e itens de cura
sua namorada dispara nas coisas enquanto vc leva a mochilinha dela com as munições e itens de cura
June 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I have to translate this.
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
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The cartoon Monkey Dust should be spoken of as one of the great cultural satires of our generation, like the day today, instead it's forgotten about completely
June 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The cartoon Monkey Dust should be spoken of as one of the great cultural satires of our generation, like the day today, instead it's forgotten about completely
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We need to talk about the UK's trade and growth. I've just published a new piece with @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social on what's happened to UK trade since the pandemic and Brexit, and what it means for growth. The picture isn't pretty.
A thread (with many charts):
www.cer.eu/insights/per...
A thread (with many charts):
www.cer.eu/insights/per...
A perfect storm: Britain's trade malaise, weak growth and a new geopolitical moment
The UK is facing its most severe trade challenge in decades – and at the worst possible time.
www.cer.eu
May 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We need to talk about the UK's trade and growth. I've just published a new piece with @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social on what's happened to UK trade since the pandemic and Brexit, and what it means for growth. The picture isn't pretty.
A thread (with many charts):
www.cer.eu/insights/per...
A thread (with many charts):
www.cer.eu/insights/per...
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At last, someone who understands how tariffs are going to make America great again!
xkcd.com/3073/
xkcd.com/3073/
Tariffs
xkcd.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
At last, someone who understands how tariffs are going to make America great again!
xkcd.com/3073/
xkcd.com/3073/
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🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”:
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
March 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”:
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
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Hi All, just released this free post outlining the Black Sea Ceasefire and how the Trump and Putin governments have basically tried to box Ukraine (and Europe) in. It was (another) betrayal of Ukraine where the US pretended to be friendly, but knifed it in the back.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back
And The Ukrainians Know It
open.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hi All, just released this free post outlining the Black Sea Ceasefire and how the Trump and Putin governments have basically tried to box Ukraine (and Europe) in. It was (another) betrayal of Ukraine where the US pretended to be friendly, but knifed it in the back.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Was discussing #severance with a friend yesterday and he pointed out that the last episode literally took place in a ‘cold harbour’ and I was like, “ohhhh yeaaaah!” 🤯
March 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Was discussing #severance with a friend yesterday and he pointed out that the last episode literally took place in a ‘cold harbour’ and I was like, “ohhhh yeaaaah!” 🤯
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(2/3) The UK government is doing its best to live up to this commitment, but the US is effectively siding with Russia in undermining it. Instead of seeing its sovereignty preserved, Ukraine is being pressured to accept a lopsided peace agreement without real guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(2/3) The UK government is doing its best to live up to this commitment, but the US is effectively siding with Russia in undermining it. Instead of seeing its sovereignty preserved, Ukraine is being pressured to accept a lopsided peace agreement without real guarantees.
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Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
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OMG
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
OMG
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Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...
February 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...
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If everyone routinely refers to Trump/Musk America as the Nerd Reich, this will glide into pole expression for expression of the year & become their unshakable Mark of Cain. Repost/like if you agree
February 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
If everyone routinely refers to Trump/Musk America as the Nerd Reich, this will glide into pole expression for expression of the year & become their unshakable Mark of Cain. Repost/like if you agree
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No, not embarrassing. “Embarrassing” is Trump’s servility to Putin. But this is enraging - trying to extort valuable resources from the country he is happy to betray. And it’s a warning to Europe: Trump’s US can no longer be regarded as a reliable ally, as I wrote: www.cer.eu/insights/tru...
February 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
No, not embarrassing. “Embarrassing” is Trump’s servility to Putin. But this is enraging - trying to extort valuable resources from the country he is happy to betray. And it’s a warning to Europe: Trump’s US can no longer be regarded as a reliable ally, as I wrote: www.cer.eu/insights/tru...
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To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.
February 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.
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Trump / Ukraine: Phillips was right. The piece below was very prescient, worth reading again.
Hi All, I released this post to subscribers a few months ago, about what Europe could do for Ukraine or its own security if Trump did exactly what we are seeing now. I've taken off the paywall--as I think its important enough that anyone should read it who wants. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
What Europe Can do in a Worst-Case Scenario
Helping Ukraine under a Trump Plan
open.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Trump / Ukraine: Phillips was right. The piece below was very prescient, worth reading again.
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This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.
February 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.
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Hi, I’m here now.
November 17, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Hi, I’m here now.