Ian Dunt
@iandunt.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
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I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
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A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
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Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.
Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.
December 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.
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Recommended by @iandunt.bsky.social I just rewatched Bronowski's Ascent of Man 'Knowledge or Certainty' episode on iPlayer. From 1973 it is still very relevant today. If you can, you should watch it. Masterly.
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Recommended by @iandunt.bsky.social I just rewatched Bronowski's Ascent of Man 'Knowledge or Certainty' episode on iPlayer. From 1973 it is still very relevant today. If you can, you should watch it. Masterly.
Podcaster/music types: I need a new mic for home recording. Any recommendations? I'm paying with my own money (disgusting) so the best bang for your buck for good quality would be nice.
December 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Podcaster/music types: I need a new mic for home recording. Any recommendations? I'm paying with my own money (disgusting) so the best bang for your buck for good quality would be nice.
New addition to the list of phrases which irrationally annoy me: 'right in the feels'. I do not hear it so much as it grates down my spine.
December 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
New addition to the list of phrases which irrationally annoy me: 'right in the feels'. I do not hear it so much as it grates down my spine.
Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.
What the fuck have i just watched
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What the fuck have i just watched
My first ever Ask Me Anything: With some chat about wealth taxes, the Middle East, The Manic Street Preachers, fit blokes, drugs and beauty in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/ask-me-any...
Ask Me Anything: The Bastard Answers
Your questions answered.
iandunt.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My first ever Ask Me Anything: With some chat about wealth taxes, the Middle East, The Manic Street Preachers, fit blokes, drugs and beauty in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/ask-me-any...
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It is good to see @theguardian.com support Meg Russell on limiting prime ministerial appointments to the House of Lords.
Read her blog post from July 👉 constitution-unit.com/2025/07/01/1....
Read today's editorial 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....
Read her blog post from July 👉 constitution-unit.com/2025/07/01/1....
Read today's editorial 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It is good to see @theguardian.com support Meg Russell on limiting prime ministerial appointments to the House of Lords.
Read her blog post from July 👉 constitution-unit.com/2025/07/01/1....
Read today's editorial 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....
Read her blog post from July 👉 constitution-unit.com/2025/07/01/1....
Read today's editorial 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....
Feeling pretty good about my new personalised Adidas. It's how they'd want to be remembered.
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Feeling pretty good about my new personalised Adidas. It's how they'd want to be remembered.
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Big jump in outstanding asylum appeals - nearly 70,000 waiting to be heard at the end of September. More than the initial decisions backlog. 60 weeks the average time to disposal.
37% of disposals now due to withdrawals - presumably as the Home Office realises how bad the decisions were.
37% of disposals now due to withdrawals - presumably as the Home Office realises how bad the decisions were.
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Big jump in outstanding asylum appeals - nearly 70,000 waiting to be heard at the end of September. More than the initial decisions backlog. 60 weeks the average time to disposal.
37% of disposals now due to withdrawals - presumably as the Home Office realises how bad the decisions were.
37% of disposals now due to withdrawals - presumably as the Home Office realises how bad the decisions were.
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I know someone who went in as a visitor a few months ago who was asked if they voted for Brexit and if they are a Christian.
Currently thinking I have made my last trip to America.
Currently thinking I have made my last trip to America.
This is an insane account of the experience of trying to enter the US.
This is almost exactly what my friend said! "I'm here because I have no choice; nobody else I work with wanted to come here."
We were quizzed on our jobs and incomes, our status as self-employed people, our families back home, and asked to show evidence of how we'd support ourselves for 5 weeks.
We were quizzed on our jobs and incomes, our status as self-employed people, our families back home, and asked to show evidence of how we'd support ourselves for 5 weeks.
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I know someone who went in as a visitor a few months ago who was asked if they voted for Brexit and if they are a Christian.
Currently thinking I have made my last trip to America.
Currently thinking I have made my last trip to America.
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Latest monthly visa application figures are out.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Latest monthly visa application figures are out.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
This is an insane account of the experience of trying to enter the US.
This is almost exactly what my friend said! "I'm here because I have no choice; nobody else I work with wanted to come here."
We were quizzed on our jobs and incomes, our status as self-employed people, our families back home, and asked to show evidence of how we'd support ourselves for 5 weeks.
We were quizzed on our jobs and incomes, our status as self-employed people, our families back home, and asked to show evidence of how we'd support ourselves for 5 weeks.
December 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is an insane account of the experience of trying to enter the US.
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A strong OBR is in everyone’s interests
In our latest comment, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social tells us why replacing Richard Hughes with someone seen as more compliant to the government’s views would bring a high cost to the government and the country www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/stro...
In our latest comment, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social tells us why replacing Richard Hughes with someone seen as more compliant to the government’s views would bring a high cost to the government and the country www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/stro...
A strong OBR is in everyone’s interests | Institute for Government
The chancellor should appoint a strong chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility to replace Richard Hughes.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
A strong OBR is in everyone’s interests
In our latest comment, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social tells us why replacing Richard Hughes with someone seen as more compliant to the government’s views would bring a high cost to the government and the country www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/stro...
In our latest comment, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social tells us why replacing Richard Hughes with someone seen as more compliant to the government’s views would bring a high cost to the government and the country www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/stro...
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Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.
My policy when Trump got in again was to avoid the US, at least until he's gone. When we fly to Guatemala next week, it'll be through Madrid.
Im travelling to new york next week and already had to provide my social media handles to them
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My policy when Trump got in again was to avoid the US, at least until he's gone. When we fly to Guatemala next week, it'll be through Madrid.
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Frankly, I’m up for this.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Frankly, I’m up for this.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
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A list of 34 new House of Lords appointments has just been published.
Our Director, Meg Russell, wrote a thread last week about the problems related to these appointments.
She highlighted that Keir Starmer is one of the most proliferate appointers of peers.
Read the list (and the thread below) 👇
Our Director, Meg Russell, wrote a thread last week about the problems related to these appointments.
She highlighted that Keir Starmer is one of the most proliferate appointers of peers.
Read the list (and the thread below) 👇
December 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A list of 34 new House of Lords appointments has just been published.
Our Director, Meg Russell, wrote a thread last week about the problems related to these appointments.
She highlighted that Keir Starmer is one of the most proliferate appointers of peers.
Read the list (and the thread below) 👇
Our Director, Meg Russell, wrote a thread last week about the problems related to these appointments.
She highlighted that Keir Starmer is one of the most proliferate appointers of peers.
Read the list (and the thread below) 👇
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This man deserves a medal from the Kremlin for his unstinting pushing of Russian propaganda from even before the start of the full-scale invasion that he assured us would never take place
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This man deserves a medal from the Kremlin for his unstinting pushing of Russian propaganda from even before the start of the full-scale invasion that he assured us would never take place
Imagine the right-wing reaction if Starmer or Biden had proposed something like this
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Imagine the right-wing reaction if Starmer or Biden had proposed something like this
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The border inspector’s 2022 description of Home Office data as “inexcusably awful” remains undefeated
The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The border inspector’s 2022 description of Home Office data as “inexcusably awful” remains undefeated
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the jeans analogy reminds me of the family court researcher who pointed out there was a better system for tracking how long a tin of beans was on the shop shelf than how long a child was going through court
The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the jeans analogy reminds me of the family court researcher who pointed out there was a better system for tracking how long a tin of beans was on the shop shelf than how long a child was going through court
The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...