John O’Farrell
@johnofarrellni.bsky.social
Writer. Trade union activist. Old punk. Eater. Cine bore.
Two brilliant pieces (if I may say as someone who was absurdly proud of writing for The New Statesman…)
Betcha the new Editor gets him back, maybe as their version of Prospect Mag’s brilliant ‘Prisoner’ column before D Goodhart went mad…
Betcha the new Editor gets him back, maybe as their version of Prospect Mag’s brilliant ‘Prisoner’ column before D Goodhart went mad…
April 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Two brilliant pieces (if I may say as someone who was absurdly proud of writing for The New Statesman…)
Betcha the new Editor gets him back, maybe as their version of Prospect Mag’s brilliant ‘Prisoner’ column before D Goodhart went mad…
Betcha the new Editor gets him back, maybe as their version of Prospect Mag’s brilliant ‘Prisoner’ column before D Goodhart went mad…
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YES
"Most dishes can be improved with the addition of bacon."
"Most dishes can be improved with the addition of bacon."
February 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
YES
"Most dishes can be improved with the addition of bacon."
"Most dishes can be improved with the addition of bacon."
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How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer?
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
February 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer?
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
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"Betrayed. First Zelensky, and soon us? The radical rejection of the US by its allies" – today's cover of the German Der Spiegel
February 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Betrayed. First Zelensky, and soon us? The radical rejection of the US by its allies" – today's cover of the German Der Spiegel
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I'm so naive. When I imagined Fascism taking over an old friend I expected rallies and concrete. I should have realised it would just be banal sour pettiness.
February 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm so naive. When I imagined Fascism taking over an old friend I expected rallies and concrete. I should have realised it would just be banal sour pettiness.
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"Over the past half-century, an anti-democratic movement has coalesced in the United States. It draws on super-wealthy funders, ideologues of the new right, purveyors of disinformation and Christian nationalist activists." Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes? (Gift Article)
There can be no appeasement. None.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"Over the past half-century, an anti-democratic movement has coalesced in the United States. It draws on super-wealthy funders, ideologues of the new right, purveyors of disinformation and Christian nationalist activists." Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
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We would love to create a starter pack of bookstores in Europe people can visit on their travels.
Please recommend your favourites and we will get it going.
Please recommend your favourites and we will get it going.
February 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We would love to create a starter pack of bookstores in Europe people can visit on their travels.
Please recommend your favourites and we will get it going.
Please recommend your favourites and we will get it going.
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Old hack here who covered Belfast Agreement alongside @telegraphnews.bsky.social NI Corr Toby Harnden, who could school Henry on difference between the B/GFA & Johnson’s Irish Sea Border/ Windsor Framework
Lord Trimble loved DT’s news coverage, while often despairing the op-eds
Plus ca change
Lord Trimble loved DT’s news coverage, while often despairing the op-eds
Plus ca change
February 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Old hack here who covered Belfast Agreement alongside @telegraphnews.bsky.social NI Corr Toby Harnden, who could school Henry on difference between the B/GFA & Johnson’s Irish Sea Border/ Windsor Framework
Lord Trimble loved DT’s news coverage, while often despairing the op-eds
Plus ca change
Lord Trimble loved DT’s news coverage, while often despairing the op-eds
Plus ca change
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Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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Putting together a -very- small stack of books that have been banned (in the U.S.) for a customer
January 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Putting together a -very- small stack of books that have been banned (in the U.S.) for a customer
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“The South Africa into which Musk was born in 1971, and to which Thiel moved as a child from Germany, was led by a prime minister, John Vorster, who had been a general in a fascist militia three decades earlier that allied itself with Hitler.”
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“The South Africa into which Musk was born in 1971, and to which Thiel moved as a child from Germany, was led by a prime minister, John Vorster, who had been a general in a fascist militia three decades earlier that allied itself with Hitler.”
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The euphemisation of far right politics over decades has led to the inability to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute and fascist politics fascism
The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
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The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
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January 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The euphemisation of far right politics over decades has led to the inability to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute and fascist politics fascism
The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
1/
The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
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Via Giulia, Rome
January 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Via Giulia, Rome
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Sunset from Ponte Luis 1
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Sunset from Ponte Luis 1
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Ponte Luis 1 in Porto
January 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Ponte Luis 1 in Porto
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Ponte de Arrabida in Porto
January 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Ponte de Arrabida in Porto
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Ponte Vecchio in Florence
January 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Ponte Vecchio in Florence
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Roman bridge at Salamanca
January 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Roman bridge at Salamanca
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NEW
How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing
Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing
Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NEW
How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing
Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing
Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Frankie Quinn took this around 2000 for a profile in Fortnight Magazine, written by Eamonn Hughes.
January 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Frankie Quinn took this around 2000 for a profile in Fortnight Magazine, written by Eamonn Hughes.
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Driving growth in the UK economy is vital, but not at the expense of workers' rights.
The Employment Rights Bill aims to fix issues like last-minute shift changes with no compensation—leaving workers unable to plan their lives.
More here:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The Employment Rights Bill aims to fix issues like last-minute shift changes with no compensation—leaving workers unable to plan their lives.
More here:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Frasers Group says two-thirds of retail staff are still on zero-hours contracts
MPs examining plans for legislation were told 11,500 staff on the contracts, which do not guarantee weekly shifts
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Driving growth in the UK economy is vital, but not at the expense of workers' rights.
The Employment Rights Bill aims to fix issues like last-minute shift changes with no compensation—leaving workers unable to plan their lives.
More here:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The Employment Rights Bill aims to fix issues like last-minute shift changes with no compensation—leaving workers unable to plan their lives.
More here:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This rebuttal from @the-tuc.bsky.social has this under-reported nugget:
"Polling for TUC shows broad support for the bill among Reform voters, polled by Opinium:
* 77% supported a real living wage
* 57% new protections against unfair dismissal
* 69% day 1 sick pay
* 63% a ban on fire and rehire"
"Polling for TUC shows broad support for the bill among Reform voters, polled by Opinium:
* 77% supported a real living wage
* 57% new protections against unfair dismissal
* 69% day 1 sick pay
* 63% a ban on fire and rehire"
Farage criticised for claim workers’ rights bill could spell end of pub banter
Farage criticised for claim workers’ rights bill could spell end of pub banter
Unions accuse Reform leader of being ‘on the side of bad bosses, zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire’
Labour and trade unions have criticised an attack by Nigel Farage on a proposed law aimed at protecting workers from sexual harassment – which the…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This rebuttal from @the-tuc.bsky.social has this under-reported nugget:
"Polling for TUC shows broad support for the bill among Reform voters, polled by Opinium:
* 77% supported a real living wage
* 57% new protections against unfair dismissal
* 69% day 1 sick pay
* 63% a ban on fire and rehire"
"Polling for TUC shows broad support for the bill among Reform voters, polled by Opinium:
* 77% supported a real living wage
* 57% new protections against unfair dismissal
* 69% day 1 sick pay
* 63% a ban on fire and rehire"
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A highly controversial opinion was submitted to the Court of Justice of the EU today.
⚠️ It calls for the axing of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive 🤯
"This opinion, if confirmed, would be a huge blow to working people and their trade unions."
www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
⚠️ It calls for the axing of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive 🤯
"This opinion, if confirmed, would be a huge blow to working people and their trade unions."
www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
www.etuc.org
January 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A highly controversial opinion was submitted to the Court of Justice of the EU today.
⚠️ It calls for the axing of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive 🤯
"This opinion, if confirmed, would be a huge blow to working people and their trade unions."
www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
⚠️ It calls for the axing of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive 🤯
"This opinion, if confirmed, would be a huge blow to working people and their trade unions."
www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
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every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further
Rogan interview with Zuckerberg that dropped this morning is something to behold. basically him dumping years of anger at the media, the government, social discussion
clearly all pent up for years and now allowing himself to do it because of Trump coming to power
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...
clearly all pent up for years and now allowing himself to do it because of Trump coming to power
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...
Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg
YouTube video by PowerfulJRE
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January 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further