This 100% open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This 100% open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...
@steverichards.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social guys much as I love ONNAO that conversation about Andrew let him off far too lightly. The issue is not has he been convicted, it’s, do the known facts disqualify him from the RF. His friendship with Epstein after his conviction was known; 1/2
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
@steverichards.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social guys much as I love ONNAO that conversation about Andrew let him off far too lightly. The issue is not has he been convicted, it’s, do the known facts disqualify him from the RF. His friendship with Epstein after his conviction was known; 1/2
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Nigel Farage's party unveiled a woman who had called for hotels with asylum seekers to be burned down as their favourite political prisoner. Perhaps the news outlets could quiz him on his feelings of responsibility for stoking violence?
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage's party unveiled a woman who had called for hotels with asylum seekers to be burned down as their favourite political prisoner. Perhaps the news outlets could quiz him on his feelings of responsibility for stoking violence?
100 times this.
Reform is not some unstoppable political force.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
Reform call Connolly "Britain's favourite political prisoner"
Soft on crime, soft on racism
We don't have political prisoners.
The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.
Soft on crime, soft on racism
We don't have political prisoners.
The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.
September 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
100 times this.
@lbc this presenter is seriously out of her depth.
August 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@lbc this presenter is seriously out of her depth.
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A government spokesman told the BBC, "Farage? Cunt's a nonce. You've only got to look at him."
August 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A government spokesman told the BBC, "Farage? Cunt's a nonce. You've only got to look at him."
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Oh you absolutely useless wankers
August 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Oh you absolutely useless wankers
@roberthutton.co.uk hey Rob, I’ve had a great idea for an episode: you should cover Conspiracy, the Branagh/Tuchi movie about the Wannasee Conference, no action, but an absorbing account of the origins of the “final solution.”
August 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
@roberthutton.co.uk hey Rob, I’ve had a great idea for an episode: you should cover Conspiracy, the Branagh/Tuchi movie about the Wannasee Conference, no action, but an absorbing account of the origins of the “final solution.”
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"This time I know our side will win" delivered with such utter confidence before armies had even set foot in Stalingrad is just an incredible thing to see
July 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"This time I know our side will win" delivered with such utter confidence before armies had even set foot in Stalingrad is just an incredible thing to see
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Taking Aunt Maud to the airport this morning. She's dolled up to meet the Moroccan waiter she's been sending money to for the last year.
June 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Taking Aunt Maud to the airport this morning. She's dolled up to meet the Moroccan waiter she's been sending money to for the last year.
@roberthutton.co.uk hey! Very excited for Das Boot. Who is going to be your guest?
June 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
@roberthutton.co.uk hey! Very excited for Das Boot. Who is going to be your guest?
Selected walks I did in 2025. Wendover to Tring. Wonderful. explore.osmaps.com/route/250719...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Selected walks I did in 2025. Wendover to Tring. Wonderful. explore.osmaps.com/route/250719...
@steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social Oh look. High electricity prices are not the result of net zero.
May 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social Oh look. High electricity prices are not the result of net zero.
Sad but true.
There's a line connecting Hunt's NI cuts and the electoral system for mayoral races and the BBC management and the EHRC. The Starmer/McSweeney theory of politics just isn't interested in naming, let alone undoing, Tory institutional capture
April 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sad but true.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
@steverichards.bsky.social Trump is Wilberforce, now Musk is Da Vinci!
Tim Montgomerie, "I think Elon Musk is a brilliant man"
"The Da Vinci of our age in many ways"
"Look at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter"
"You can't tweet 20 times in an hour on different subjects and know what you're talking about all the time"
"The Da Vinci of our age in many ways"
"Look at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter"
"You can't tweet 20 times in an hour on different subjects and know what you're talking about all the time"
January 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@steverichards.bsky.social Trump is Wilberforce, now Musk is Da Vinci!
Some useful recommendations on management books: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
The mythbuster: The five management books NHS leaders must read
Steve Black recommends his top five books on policy and strategy for healthcare leaders
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January 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Some useful recommendations on management books: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
A thread of shows I saw in 2026: The Producers at the Menier 4*
January 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A thread of shows I saw in 2026: The Producers at the Menier 4*
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heartwarming scene at the overground stop as some horrid old man repeatedly told a young woman to "put her fucking tits away" and four of us took turns to all tell him to fuck off
December 7, 2024 at 3:22 PM
heartwarming scene at the overground stop as some horrid old man repeatedly told a young woman to "put her fucking tits away" and four of us took turns to all tell him to fuck off
@steverichards.bsky.social A bit ugly. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
Here Turner describes Tim Montgomerie as "thoughtful and moral" - and then goes on to quote him saying he joined Reform to fight the "Islamification of Britain".
Times columnists absolutely fine with racism as long as it's the right sort of racism.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Times columnists absolutely fine with racism as long as it's the right sort of racism.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Suddenly Reform is starting to look plausible
If the PM doesn’t address concerns over scale of migration, Red Wall voters will reject his party as they did the Tories
www.thetimes.com
December 7, 2024 at 1:33 PM
@steverichards.bsky.social A bit ugly. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
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Best of luck :)
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Best of luck :)
November 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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To say thank you, I'll be giving away a 2024 General Election poster to one winner who reposts this (and is following) in the next 24 hours!
Best of luck :)
To say thank you, I'll be giving away a 2024 General Election poster to one winner who reposts this (and is following) in the next 24 hours!
Best of luck :)