Michael Gollop
michaelgollop.bsky.social
Michael Gollop
@michaelgollop.bsky.social
European. Liberal. Pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela. Protect the only planet we have. [All comments in a personal capacity] #FBPE #FBPR #Resist
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Another recycled Tory with a toxic record, and not exactly an appointment (note: not an elected party office - does Reform ever do that?) calculated to appeal to a Welsh electorate, even in these unusual political circumstances.
February 5, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Shakespeare: always a man for all seasons ..
February 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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There’s literally past ministers and Tory MPs standing next to you.
February 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Name them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.
OK this makes me extremely angry. Has everyone forgotten the massive profiteering from thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths?? The unconstitutional suspension of parliament to force through an act of nationalist destruction that cost our children their future??
“It’s potentially the biggest political scandal of this century”

As MPs force Keir Starmer to publish files about Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador Skys Beth Rigby provides a detailed summary of how we got here
February 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Imagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning?

No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!
February 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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“This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.
www.newyorker.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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On BBC2 tonight there’s a programme with guess who, Laura Kuenssberg called “Reform: Ready to Rule?”
Once again the BBC platforming Farage & his party!!😤🤬
Will it ask searching questions? Hold them to account? Unlikely!!
I assume an hour programme profiling the Green Party or Lib Dems will follow?🤔
February 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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That would be Will Lewis. Knighted, inevitably, by Boris Johnson.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Musk once again displaying his trade-mark billionaire contempt for society's well-being.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Elon Musk calls Spanish PM a ‘tyrant’ over plan to ban under-16s from social media and curb hateful content
Pedro Sánchez says urgent action needed to protect children from ‘digital wild west’, drawing anger from owner of X
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 8:42 PM
"A tough call for Keir Starmer as he tried to work out how he let Morgan McSweeney persuade him that Mandy would make a great ambassador to Washington .... Harriet Harman observed that he had been untrustworthy since the 1990s. Possibly since birth"
John Crace
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandy wonders where it all went wrong as Labour throws him to the wolves
Mandelson tried to explain as everyone from Harriet Harman to Robert Jenrick lined up to condemn him
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Me:

“What about the fact that Trump was found guilty in a civil court for sexual abuse…was that not enough for you to withdraw your support?”

Now listen to the response from Andrea Jenkyns of the Reform Party…
February 2, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Why isn't this a major news story?
February 2, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government".
More brilliant FT reporting
www.ft.com/content/91e8...
Mandelson told Epstein JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK government over banker tax
Then business secretary advised sex offender on how Jamie Dimon should lobby chancellor
www.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Of course he would! He’s pragmatic & wants the best for all Europeans 😊

Speaking in an interview with British political magazine The New Statesman, Sánchez said Spain “misses” the UK as part of the European project and would support its return should the country decide to pursue EU membership again
Spain says it would welcome UK back into European Union
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said his government would welcome the United Kingdom back into the European Union, marking a notable softening of tone in post-Brexit relations and…
euroweeklynews.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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As events in America are now showing, democracies are only as strong as their weakest point. And right now, the weakest point in our own democracy is the continued rise of one Nigel Farage

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage's Plans to Put Our Democracy on ICE
What is happening under Trump could very quickly happen in the UK too
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
implausibleblog on Instagram: "Carole Cadwalladr, "My ongoing frustration with Nigel Farage he is seen as this English figure, wears tweed, goes to the pub, we se…"
Carole Cadwalladr, "My ongoing frustration with Nigel Farage he is seen as this English figure, wears tweed, goes to the pub, we see him through this lens""He has received almost no journalistic scrutiny throughout his entire career till very recently""He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure""He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right""What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together""It was the first real political campaign in the UK run through these online platforms""They ran a mock, blasted through electoral law, data law, and we're living with the consequences of that""Our constitution changes, the shape of Europe changed, our national security changed""And here is Nigel Farage in this pole position now, to potentially take power and we're not understanding the consequences of that""If you look at what Trump is doing in the US, the way he had a plan of what to do in office""Farage is now working with the same people""There is going to be an all out assault in the same way on the rule of law and our institutions"Zack Polanski, "It's already happening"Carole Cadwalladr, "The stakes of that are unfelt by most people, it's an abstract""We have to see what is happening in America and learn those lessons"
www.instagram.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home.

inews.co.uk/opinion/rejo...
Rejoining the EU is the only way to stop Trump
It is time to return home
inews.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 10:54 AM