Peter Arnott
@peterarnott.bsky.social
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Peter Arnott
@peterarnott.bsky.social
· Jan 28
FACE
www.eigenproductions.co.uk
Links to filmed extracts of two plays of mine. Fine performances and direction, neither of which had anything to do with me.
www.eigenproductions.co.uk/face/#film
www.eigenproductions.co.uk/signalman/#f...
www.eigenproductions.co.uk/face/#film
www.eigenproductions.co.uk/signalman/#f...
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How did this happen? And how did this happen so secretly and swiftly? In docs viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures, and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns.”
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
How did this happen? And how did this happen so secretly and swiftly? In docs viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures, and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns.”
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
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The actual King of Clowns has died.
Philippe Gaulier, clown guru and mentor to theatre and comedy greats, dies aged 82
Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson
Master clown Philippe Gaulier, the influential founder of...
Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson
Master clown Philippe Gaulier, the influential founder of...
Philippe Gaulier, clown guru and mentor to theatre and comedy greats, dies aged 82
Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The actual King of Clowns has died.
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'The US crisis around ICE evokes the one sparked by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850'
'The US crisis around ICE evokes the one sparked by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850'
Professor emerita Marie-Jeanne Rossignol draws a parallel between anti-ICE activists, who whistle to alert immigrant communities of the arrival of agents, and the abolitionists who once posted signs identifying slave catchers.
www.lemonde.fr
February 10, 2026 at 3:13 PM
'The US crisis around ICE evokes the one sparked by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850'
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My three-year-old was reading ProPublica when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice orange man keeping little children in detention camps?" And when I told her "Because those dark little children were sent by the Jews to replace white children like you," she started crying.
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
My three-year-old was reading ProPublica when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice orange man keeping little children in detention camps?" And when I told her "Because those dark little children were sent by the Jews to replace white children like you," she started crying.
It was in Spanish?!?
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
House GOP launches Bad Bunny probe: 'Worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction'
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."During a Tuesday interview on Real America's Voice, Alford told the hosts that he and other House Repu...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
It was in Spanish?!?
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Stop giggling at the back...
The MP who can barely find his own constituency (and won't hold surgeries there), who sits in the gallery when he attends parliament so that he doesn't have to answer questions, is complaining that home working discourages 'hard work'... 🤣
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The MP who can barely find his own constituency (and won't hold surgeries there), who sits in the gallery when he attends parliament so that he doesn't have to answer questions, is complaining that home working discourages 'hard work'... 🤣
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Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home | LBC
Nigel Farage has called for an end to working from home culture, because he believes it gets in the way of ‘hard work’.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Stop giggling at the back...
The MP who can barely find his own constituency (and won't hold surgeries there), who sits in the gallery when he attends parliament so that he doesn't have to answer questions, is complaining that home working discourages 'hard work'... 🤣
share.google/wt5gMyo8wxxV...
The MP who can barely find his own constituency (and won't hold surgeries there), who sits in the gallery when he attends parliament so that he doesn't have to answer questions, is complaining that home working discourages 'hard work'... 🤣
share.google/wt5gMyo8wxxV...
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This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 AM
This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.
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This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
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If you're wondering why Canadians are nervous, it's never good to become the focus of the mentally unwell ruler of a larger nuclear armed neighbour
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 AM
If you're wondering why Canadians are nervous, it's never good to become the focus of the mentally unwell ruler of a larger nuclear armed neighbour
I'm looking at my watch.
NEW: Douglas Alexander has given his verdict on Anas Sarwar's future as Scottish Labour leader after he called on the Prime Minister to step down
Scottish Secretary gives verdict on Anas Sarwar's future as Scottish leader
www.thenational.scot
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I'm looking at my watch.
This post has been written by an amateur. My plays are written by a playwright who sometimes gets paid.
Fake and AI generated 'experts' are being quoted in articles in the UK press. "Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 28 experts do not exist".
pressgazette.co.uk/news/faces-o...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/faces-o...
Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media
New research from Press Gazette has uncovered a fresh tranche of likely fake and AI-generated experts making their way into UK publications.
pressgazette.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:23 PM
This post has been written by an amateur. My plays are written by a playwright who sometimes gets paid.
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She is insufferable. This woman thinks a white person doing Black face is fine, and once claimed Jesus was white! Is she aware the NFL is 70% Black, the NBA almost 80%?
It must be exhausting being Megyn Kelly, waking up everyday looking for something insignificant to be enraged about!
It must be exhausting being Megyn Kelly, waking up everyday looking for something insignificant to be enraged about!
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
She is insufferable. This woman thinks a white person doing Black face is fine, and once claimed Jesus was white! Is she aware the NFL is 70% Black, the NBA almost 80%?
It must be exhausting being Megyn Kelly, waking up everyday looking for something insignificant to be enraged about!
It must be exhausting being Megyn Kelly, waking up everyday looking for something insignificant to be enraged about!
That lovely authoritarian mix of legalism and brute racism...and indifference to humanity as such...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Israeli court blocks life-saving cancer care for boy, 5, due to his Gaza address
Palestinian boy has been in the West Bank since 2022 but is still registered as a resident in the strip where ban applies
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:20 PM
That lovely authoritarian mix of legalism and brute racism...and indifference to humanity as such...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Reform have nothing like the national organisation they need to make a serious fist of local elections.
Flyer through the door for the 2028 London mayoral election. Reform think their best strategy for the 2026 borough elections is to pretend they aren't happening.
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Reform have nothing like the national organisation they need to make a serious fist of local elections.
Woops.
New: The First Minister of Wales - Eluned Morgan - has backed Keir Starmer. There was speculation yesterday that Morgan might follow Anas Sarwar in calling for Starmer to go, but instead she said in a statement:
“I support the Prime Minister in the job he was elected to do.”
“I support the Prime Minister in the job he was elected to do.”
February 10, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Woops.
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This can be the site for breaking news, if journalists choose to break news on it. It is as simple as that. And that is not utopian. It is precisely what has happened the last week or so. If you weren't on BlueSky, you were late to each development.
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
This can be the site for breaking news, if journalists choose to break news on it. It is as simple as that. And that is not utopian. It is precisely what has happened the last week or so. If you weren't on BlueSky, you were late to each development.
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There's huge potential for further scandal and embarrasment here.
NEW
Three reasons why the Mandelson disclosure exercise will be a shock for the government
Ministers and officials usually are in control of disclosure exercises - but here they will not be - and why that matters
A detailed post by me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/three-reas...
Three reasons why the Mandelson disclosure exercise will be a shock for the government
Ministers and officials usually are in control of disclosure exercises - but here they will not be - and why that matters
A detailed post by me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/three-reas...
February 10, 2026 at 11:25 AM
There's huge potential for further scandal and embarrasment here.
Fight Fight Fight.
Despite positive/negative is starkly polarised between progressive and conservative blocs, both blocs have 30-33% in the 4-6 neither group on economy and culture
February 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Fight Fight Fight.
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Wes Streeting, having spoken to Wales and London, then forgot to phone the Scottish Branch manager to say the coup was off. And so did EVERYBODY else...one wee text message from Douglas Alexander or even Ian Murray could have warned Anas off...
It’s hilarious.
It has the feel of Sgt Wilson asking for a volunteer & Pike is left standing. Too unaware of his surroundings to react.
It has the feel of Sgt Wilson asking for a volunteer & Pike is left standing. Too unaware of his surroundings to react.
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Wes Streeting, having spoken to Wales and London, then forgot to phone the Scottish Branch manager to say the coup was off. And so did EVERYBODY else...one wee text message from Douglas Alexander or even Ian Murray could have warned Anas off...
Haven't past the paywall...but from a Scottish perspective, the idea that the coup was in any way led or thought up by Anas Sarwar is ludicrous..
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Haven't past the paywall...but from a Scottish perspective, the idea that the coup was in any way led or thought up by Anas Sarwar is ludicrous..
There is a profound sense of doom for the UK project...
Yes.
It's simple. Britain and its politicians are nowhere near making the case for Europe.
Guess there is a hope that Europe should 'understand' our predicament. But naive. Britain's predicament is Europe's risk.
It's simple. Britain and its politicians are nowhere near making the case for Europe.
Guess there is a hope that Europe should 'understand' our predicament. But naive. Britain's predicament is Europe's risk.
I am increasingly negative about the chances of a positive resolution.
The fundamentals that led to Brexit are still there - frustration with UKG, anti-Europeanism, poor jobs, ignorance, and populist-fascist voting - with the latter if anything stronger.
The UK must change.
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The fundamentals that led to Brexit are still there - frustration with UKG, anti-Europeanism, poor jobs, ignorance, and populist-fascist voting - with the latter if anything stronger.
The UK must change.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
There is a profound sense of doom for the UK project...
There was very nearly a coup...and no one thought to tell Anas Sarwar the coup was off. Unless he threw himself under the bus deliberately ...
Getting really tired of "this is all a media concoction"...
Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day.
I mean come on...
Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day.
I mean come on...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
There was very nearly a coup...and no one thought to tell Anas Sarwar the coup was off. Unless he threw himself under the bus deliberately ...
Wes Streeting, having spoken to Wales and London, then forgot to phone the Scottish Branch manager to say the coup was off. And so did EVERYBODY else...one wee text message from Douglas Alexander or even Ian Murray could have warned Anas off...
It’s hilarious.
It has the feel of Sgt Wilson asking for a volunteer & Pike is left standing. Too unaware of his surroundings to react.
It has the feel of Sgt Wilson asking for a volunteer & Pike is left standing. Too unaware of his surroundings to react.
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Wes Streeting, having spoken to Wales and London, then forgot to phone the Scottish Branch manager to say the coup was off. And so did EVERYBODY else...one wee text message from Douglas Alexander or even Ian Murray could have warned Anas off...
Par for the course.
it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Par for the course.