Mike Reigns
@mikereigns.bsky.social
Democratic Socialism, guitar feedback and Liverpool FC.
Take my politics like my football: Red.
Take my politics like my football: Red.
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It’s very buoying to be able to be CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC for the future of progressive politics at the moment. I was told for several years by hands-on-hips Sensible Grownups that I was silly, deluded and ALSO DANGEROUS to still believe in socialism but I guess the left wasn’t dead after all.
"SIR KEIR STARMER and his Cabinet face losing their seats to Left-wing candidates, analysis shows.
"Labour’s 411-seat majority would plummet to just 126 seats if an election took place this summer, it suggests." [Sunday Telegraph]
"Labour’s 411-seat majority would plummet to just 126 seats if an election took place this summer, it suggests." [Sunday Telegraph]
September 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It’s very buoying to be able to be CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC for the future of progressive politics at the moment. I was told for several years by hands-on-hips Sensible Grownups that I was silly, deluded and ALSO DANGEROUS to still believe in socialism but I guess the left wasn’t dead after all.
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One of the most-quoted experts on racism on the left, here. Remember how I said at the time that the great authorities being quoted were themselves far right cranks with pretty horrible views?
@flyingrodent.bsky.social your mate - the Labour right's former professional antisemitism identifier - continues to drop the mask
September 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
One of the most-quoted experts on racism on the left, here. Remember how I said at the time that the great authorities being quoted were themselves far right cranks with pretty horrible views?
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"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
August 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
@adriantempany.bsky.social hi Adrian!! Tracked you down at last :)
June 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
@adriantempany.bsky.social hi Adrian!! Tracked you down at last :)
You should all follow this guy. He’s really, really good.
Today is my last day at Georgetown.
After 18 years of teaching history, and 12 years as a full-time professor in Germany and the U.S., it’s the end of my university career.
I will now try to make it as an independent writer and commentator - which is exciting and terrifying. Stick with me, please!
After 18 years of teaching history, and 12 years as a full-time professor in Germany and the U.S., it’s the end of my university career.
I will now try to make it as an independent writer and commentator - which is exciting and terrifying. Stick with me, please!
May 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
You should all follow this guy. He’s really, really good.
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Today is my last day at Georgetown.
After 18 years of teaching history, and 12 years as a full-time professor in Germany and the U.S., it’s the end of my university career.
I will now try to make it as an independent writer and commentator - which is exciting and terrifying. Stick with me, please!
After 18 years of teaching history, and 12 years as a full-time professor in Germany and the U.S., it’s the end of my university career.
I will now try to make it as an independent writer and commentator - which is exciting and terrifying. Stick with me, please!
May 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Today is my last day at Georgetown.
After 18 years of teaching history, and 12 years as a full-time professor in Germany and the U.S., it’s the end of my university career.
I will now try to make it as an independent writer and commentator - which is exciting and terrifying. Stick with me, please!
After 18 years of teaching history, and 12 years as a full-time professor in Germany and the U.S., it’s the end of my university career.
I will now try to make it as an independent writer and commentator - which is exciting and terrifying. Stick with me, please!
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Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Match of the Day host Gary Lineker expected to leave the BBC
It comes after he faced criticism for sharing a social media post about Zionism.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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They invented a machine where everyone could talk to each other, organise and say anything they liked to politicians, the press and celebrities so within fifteen years of its invention a very rich man bought it and changed it into a machine for repeating racial slurs and conspiracy theories.
May 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
They invented a machine where everyone could talk to each other, organise and say anything they liked to politicians, the press and celebrities so within fifteen years of its invention a very rich man bought it and changed it into a machine for repeating racial slurs and conspiracy theories.
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Spurs and Man Utd are on their way to Bilbao.
May 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Spurs and Man Utd are on their way to Bilbao.
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If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
UK Issues Travel Advisory for North Carolina & Mississippi
www.voanews.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
The thing is, he will deny the supreme court’s ruling & there will be an outcry, but in time that will subside & he’ll have more power. This is how a far right power grab works. The only thing that will stop this man i fear is a better aimed bullet than the guy who tried last time.
Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague
April 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The thing is, he will deny the supreme court’s ruling & there will be an outcry, but in time that will subside & he’ll have more power. This is how a far right power grab works. The only thing that will stop this man i fear is a better aimed bullet than the guy who tried last time.
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Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague
April 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague
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All this talk of a weak Premier League … a fundamental reason why Arsenal are so far behind Liverpool is because they’ve only won 18 of 34 games this season. 16 times, therefore, their opponents have been a match for them, or better. Which, I’d suggest, is an indication of a strong Premier League.
April 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
All this talk of a weak Premier League … a fundamental reason why Arsenal are so far behind Liverpool is because they’ve only won 18 of 34 games this season. 16 times, therefore, their opponents have been a match for them, or better. Which, I’d suggest, is an indication of a strong Premier League.
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ICYMI over the Easter break:
I wrote about how, just three months after Trump took power, constitutional protections now come with a disclaimer:
“Unless the regime decides otherwise.”
I wrote about how, just three months after Trump took power, constitutional protections now come with a disclaimer:
“Unless the regime decides otherwise.”
How the Republic Falls
Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.” Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America
thomaszimmer.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
ICYMI over the Easter break:
I wrote about how, just three months after Trump took power, constitutional protections now come with a disclaimer:
“Unless the regime decides otherwise.”
I wrote about how, just three months after Trump took power, constitutional protections now come with a disclaimer:
“Unless the regime decides otherwise.”
Starmer is absolutely appalling in front of the camera. Thin skinned, an obvious liar, forgetting what he said last week and quick to anger.
If he thinks Labour is tanking now, just see what two weeks of Sir Keir on TV does to the polling.
If he thinks Labour is tanking now, just see what two weeks of Sir Keir on TV does to the polling.
Starmer facing calls to adopt Trump-style media strategy and ‘not worry about mistakes’
Starmer told to adopt Trump-style media strategy and ‘not worry about mistakes’
The prime minister’s engagement with the media is rigidly scheduled, while the US president is known to take a more sporadic approach
www.independent.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Starmer is absolutely appalling in front of the camera. Thin skinned, an obvious liar, forgetting what he said last week and quick to anger.
If he thinks Labour is tanking now, just see what two weeks of Sir Keir on TV does to the polling.
If he thinks Labour is tanking now, just see what two weeks of Sir Keir on TV does to the polling.
These people simply don’t understand that the reason they get grief from the left on Twitter & now Bluesky is’t cos these platforms are full of unreasonably trolls. On the contrary it’s ordinary people making perfectly fair points but these MPs think it’s unfair that they should ever be challenged.
I mean get a grip. This channel used to be a better place than Twitter. Now this is the level of discourse.
Would you have done the same in the 1930s, Andrew? Put “jobs and livelihoods” first, and made a trade deal with Germany?
April 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
These people simply don’t understand that the reason they get grief from the left on Twitter & now Bluesky is’t cos these platforms are full of unreasonably trolls. On the contrary it’s ordinary people making perfectly fair points but these MPs think it’s unfair that they should ever be challenged.
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Just in: Sinn Féin has been banned from this year's Trans and Intersex Pride march in the wake of the David Cullinane comments. #Speirgorm
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Sinn Féin banned from Trans and Intersex Pride march
Sinn Féin has banned from this year's Trans and Intersex Pride march following comments by the party's spokesperson David Cullinane
dublinpeople.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just in: Sinn Féin has been banned from this year's Trans and Intersex Pride march in the wake of the David Cullinane comments. #Speirgorm
dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...
dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...
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Legalising weed? The voters are wrong. So it feels like the voters are only really right about a few things in the end actually, and they’re all really right wing
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Yes. And I know lots of politicians who do that (on a smaller scale) - I know I do, most recently to the legalise cannabis guy who came to my surgery
April 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Legalising weed? The voters are wrong. So it feels like the voters are only really right about a few things in the end actually, and they’re all really right wing
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Luckily for Labour the voters are never wrong when it’s they’re asking for more racism but unfortunately the voters are always wrong when they’re asking for nationalising public services and utilities
April 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Luckily for Labour the voters are never wrong when it’s they’re asking for more racism but unfortunately the voters are always wrong when they’re asking for nationalising public services and utilities
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Cory Brooker's first piss after he finally stops talking is going to be longer than the speech.
April 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Cory Brooker's first piss after he finally stops talking is going to be longer than the speech.
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The replies to this are all Reform voters who think he is a lying joke and people desperate to avoid a Reform government in 2029 who think he is a lying danger. Writing an anti-immigrant oped for the Daily Mail isn't winning anybody over.
March 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The replies to this are all Reform voters who think he is a lying joke and people desperate to avoid a Reform government in 2029 who think he is a lying danger. Writing an anti-immigrant oped for the Daily Mail isn't winning anybody over.
Just imagine if you’d agitated for Jeremy Corbyn, under who’s leadership things would have been far more to your liking.
The truth is, there is only one language that Labour speaks and that is the language of political pain. For so long as Keir Starmer thinks we'll all go crawling back to Labour at the next Election he will continue to court the Reform vote. We need to tell him we won't.
March 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Just imagine if you’d agitated for Jeremy Corbyn, under who’s leadership things would have been far more to your liking.
This is some fucked up shit.
March 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is some fucked up shit.
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But since we're on the subject: he was warning everyone about this cunt called Putin, a dangerous rightwing authoritarian who is the antithesis of everything he stands for, when Blair was saying Putin was a cool dude. Which really upsets these fanfic creatives for some reason.
March 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
But since we're on the subject: he was warning everyone about this cunt called Putin, a dangerous rightwing authoritarian who is the antithesis of everything he stands for, when Blair was saying Putin was a cool dude. Which really upsets these fanfic creatives for some reason.
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About five times a day I come across some post about how Corbyn loves Putin and would have given him everything in 2022 when he invaded Ukraine. NOW, quite apart from ANYTHING else, he was never PM, he hasn't been Labour leader for five years and you sound fucking weird writing fan fiction now.
March 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
About five times a day I come across some post about how Corbyn loves Putin and would have given him everything in 2022 when he invaded Ukraine. NOW, quite apart from ANYTHING else, he was never PM, he hasn't been Labour leader for five years and you sound fucking weird writing fan fiction now.