Phil Tinline
@philtinline.bsky.social
Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times' Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - The New Yorker)
https://tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Iron-Mountain
Last on Radio 4: Societal Collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppp
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - The New Yorker)
https://tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Iron-Mountain
Last on Radio 4: Societal Collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppp
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Bored in the kitchen? Here's some entertainment! @philtinline.bsky.social joins @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @boneyabroad.com It's 1967, and a group of writers pens a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem!
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December 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Bored in the kitchen? Here's some entertainment! @philtinline.bsky.social joins @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @boneyabroad.com It's 1967, and a group of writers pens a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem!
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Regardless of what you think of this policy, there is no such thing as a 'tax raid'. Except on someone suspected of tax fraud or evasion.
Thousands of farming businesses have closed in the wake of Labour’s inheritance tax raid, as the sector warned that irreversible damage had been caused despite the government’s recent climbdown
Record farm closures in run-up to inheritance tax U-turn
Rural communities are celebrating the climbdown on IHT but figures show thousands of farm closures since the policy was first announced last year
www.thetimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Regardless of what you think of this policy, there is no such thing as a 'tax raid'. Except on someone suspected of tax fraud or evasion.
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Happy holidays! Today, @philtinline.bsky.social joins @alexchurchill.bsky.social and
@boneyabroad.com to talk all about how in 1967, a group of writers penned a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem today!
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@boneyabroad.com to talk all about how in 1967, a group of writers penned a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem today!
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December 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Happy holidays! Today, @philtinline.bsky.social joins @alexchurchill.bsky.social and
@boneyabroad.com to talk all about how in 1967, a group of writers penned a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem today!
TV: tinyurl.com/45dxf4ut
Headphones tinyurl.com/yc847v3r
@boneyabroad.com to talk all about how in 1967, a group of writers penned a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem today!
TV: tinyurl.com/45dxf4ut
Headphones tinyurl.com/yc847v3r
As with Trump's attempt to sue our national broadcaster for $10 billion, this is a test.
Are you actually a supporter of free speech and our national sovereignty?
Or do you just say that for dollars?
Are you actually a supporter of free speech and our national sovereignty?
Or do you just say that for dollars?
If you were a passionate believer in sovereignty you'd be appalled by the implications of this. You would, wouldn't you?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner and others over social media rules
Thierry Breton, the former top tech regulator at the European Commission, says a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
As with Trump's attempt to sue our national broadcaster for $10 billion, this is a test.
Are you actually a supporter of free speech and our national sovereignty?
Or do you just say that for dollars?
Are you actually a supporter of free speech and our national sovereignty?
Or do you just say that for dollars?
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This was recommended to me (at Daunt Marylebone) as the book of the year! I bought it for a friend and looking forward to reading it myself.
December 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This was recommended to me (at Daunt Marylebone) as the book of the year! I bought it for a friend and looking forward to reading it myself.
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Whereas I wrote a piece about how every time a child lets go of a helium balloon, a finite natural resource is lost to the planet - with words by the writer of that In the Night Garden live show
The Epiphoni Consort - Precious Things: II. Helium
Listen to Precious Things: II. Helium on TIDAL
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December 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Whereas I wrote a piece about how every time a child lets go of a helium balloon, a finite natural resource is lost to the planet - with words by the writer of that In the Night Garden live show
Really enjoyed doing this:
Happy holidays! Today, @philtinline.bsky.social joins @alexchurchill.bsky.social and
@boneyabroad.com to talk all about how in 1967, a group of writers penned a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem today!
TV: tinyurl.com/45dxf4ut
Headphones tinyurl.com/yc847v3r
@boneyabroad.com to talk all about how in 1967, a group of writers penned a fake Government report so convincing that it's still causing mayhem today!
TV: tinyurl.com/45dxf4ut
Headphones tinyurl.com/yc847v3r
December 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Really enjoyed doing this:
Special Relationship Latest:
The State Department's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy thinks the Liberal Democrats are "foreign government officials".
The State Department's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy thinks the Liberal Democrats are "foreign government officials".
United States government strengthens the position of Liberal Democrats in UK politics
December 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Special Relationship Latest:
The State Department's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy thinks the Liberal Democrats are "foreign government officials".
The State Department's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy thinks the Liberal Democrats are "foreign government officials".
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This is a serious escalation of the supposed war against “censorship”: in the name of free speech, five people are now having their visas revoked and are facing deportation.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is a serious escalation of the supposed war against “censorship”: in the name of free speech, five people are now having their visas revoked and are facing deportation.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
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The infamous Larry David Superbowl ad for Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto exchange contains most of those 3 claims above: the ad aired in February 2022; 10 months later (November 2022), FTX collapsed as one of the biggest financial frauds EVER in US history.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"The World's Best Ads"
Nice to be asked to pick my books of the year by @alastairbenn.bsky.social for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...
Books of the Year 2025
Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2025.
engelsbergideas.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nice to be asked to pick my books of the year by @alastairbenn.bsky.social for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
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engelsbergideas.com/reviews/book...
All else aside, this is the kind of thing you get when you put someone who ran a newsletter in charge of a broadcaster that puts things out at specific times.
NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up.
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
All else aside, this is the kind of thing you get when you put someone who ran a newsletter in charge of a broadcaster that puts things out at specific times.
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at last we have an answer as to what happened to local crime boss Phineas "the Centipede" O'Sullivan in 1862.
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
at last we have an answer as to what happened to local crime boss Phineas "the Centipede" O'Sullivan in 1862.
What happened when my daughter let go of her new In the Night Garden helium balloon in about 2011 was that I tweeted about how unfair it was and the producer of the show - who it turned out was an old university friend - saw it and had a new one sent to our flat.
What happens to a balloon when you let go
It is a strong parental reflex to imagine that a child’s small moment of loss is training for a life of loss to come
By Kate Mossman
It is a strong parental reflex to imagine that a child’s small moment of loss is training for a life of loss to come
By Kate Mossman
What happens to a balloon when you let go
It is a strong parental reflex to imagine that a child's small moment of loss is training for a life of loss to come
www.newstatesman.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What happened when my daughter let go of her new In the Night Garden helium balloon in about 2011 was that I tweeted about how unfair it was and the producer of the show - who it turned out was an old university friend - saw it and had a new one sent to our flat.
Lib Dem 12-dimensional self-defeating vengeance strategy: at the next election, work to make sure the Conservatives win just enough seats to be junior partner in a coalition with Reform, which ends with said junior coalition partner as broken as the Lib Dems were in 2015.
You get a Con-Ref majority on that, no?
December 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Lib Dem 12-dimensional self-defeating vengeance strategy: at the next election, work to make sure the Conservatives win just enough seats to be junior partner in a coalition with Reform, which ends with said junior coalition partner as broken as the Lib Dems were in 2015.
What happens if they hold a general election and everyone comes second?
All I want for Christmas is First Past the Post Electoral Chaos
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 25% (-3)
LAB: 20% (+2)
CON: 19% (+2)
LDM: 15% (+1)
GRN: 15% (-2)
SNP: 3% (-1)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 21-22 Dec.
Changes w/ 14-15 Dec.
RFM: 25% (-3)
LAB: 20% (+2)
CON: 19% (+2)
LDM: 15% (+1)
GRN: 15% (-2)
SNP: 3% (-1)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 21-22 Dec.
Changes w/ 14-15 Dec.
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What happens if they hold a general election and everyone comes second?
Heads I win, tails you lose.*
*I mean, sorry, but it was right there.
*I mean, sorry, but it was right there.
Bet365 boss receives at least £280m in pay and dividends despite profit slump
Bet365 boss receives at least £280m in pay and dividends despite profit slump
Denise Coates’s gambling empire reports turnover of £4bn in year to March 2025, up from £3.7bn
Denise Coates, the billionaire boss of Bet365, a self-described “ultimate gambler” and Britain’s highest-paid woman, took home at least £280m in pay and dividends in 2025 despite a slump in pre-tax profits.
Coates’s Stoke-based gambling empire recorded turnover of £4bn in the year to March 2025, up from £3.7bn the year before. Pre-tax profits fell to £349m from £627m in the previous year. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Heads I win, tails you lose.*
*I mean, sorry, but it was right there.
*I mean, sorry, but it was right there.
Curious irony about Big Tech hiring ex-politicians: it underlines their quasi-governmental self-image, but who looks at Tony Blair, Nick Clegg, Rishi Sunak and George Osborne and thinks, 'Ah yes - the future!'?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker
OpenAI is the latest to make a political hire as big tech spreads its tentacles around the world. So what’s the attraction, asks author Chris Stokel-Walker
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Curious irony about Big Tech hiring ex-politicians: it underlines their quasi-governmental self-image, but who looks at Tony Blair, Nick Clegg, Rishi Sunak and George Osborne and thinks, 'Ah yes - the future!'?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fascinating piece on the conspiracy theory promoter Candace Owens, her Bullingdon Club alumnus husband, and the Scouser who oversaw Owens' conversion to Catholicism: provost of the Brompton Oratory, and a man with some (un)surprising views:
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
The First Couple of the New Right
Candace Owens, George Farmer, and the London church where old-world grandeur meets Digital Age grievance.
airmail.news
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Fascinating piece on the conspiracy theory promoter Candace Owens, her Bullingdon Club alumnus husband, and the Scouser who oversaw Owens' conversion to Catholicism: provost of the Brompton Oratory, and a man with some (un)surprising views:
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
Why are so many rich people so bad at being rich?
No grace, no charisma, no style or panache, no generosity of spirit, no breadth or depth, no greatness.
If they ever do get to live forever, how will they cope?
No grace, no charisma, no style or panache, no generosity of spirit, no breadth or depth, no greatness.
If they ever do get to live forever, how will they cope?
also that even more than in the past the rich and powerful are looking for sycophants who can tell them they're actually brilliant, a trend that has worsened ever since the rich got mad at ordinary people on social media telling them they were shit.
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Why are so many rich people so bad at being rich?
No grace, no charisma, no style or panache, no generosity of spirit, no breadth or depth, no greatness.
If they ever do get to live forever, how will they cope?
No grace, no charisma, no style or panache, no generosity of spirit, no breadth or depth, no greatness.
If they ever do get to live forever, how will they cope?
Just showed my daughter this, in the context of talking about how the 1990s press used to explain quite firmly that Es were bad.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2T...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2T...
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode HD
YouTube video by themosttogain
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December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Just showed my daughter this, in the context of talking about how the 1990s press used to explain quite firmly that Es were bad.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2T...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2T...
Elon Musk used to be a centrist.
Suddenly he's an extreme right-winger and his social media site is luring more and more people to similar extremes - thus increasingly discrediting them with the majority of voters.
CAN THIS BE A COINCIDENCE?*
Suddenly he's an extreme right-winger and his social media site is luring more and more people to similar extremes - thus increasingly discrediting them with the majority of voters.
CAN THIS BE A COINCIDENCE?*
I do think, though, that the further the take this stuff the worse it’ll be for them. For most people in Britain, multiculturalism isn’t some liberal abstraction, it’s their daily lives — neighbours, friends, family, the person who looks after their parents or their children
December 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Elon Musk used to be a centrist.
Suddenly he's an extreme right-winger and his social media site is luring more and more people to similar extremes - thus increasingly discrediting them with the majority of voters.
CAN THIS BE A COINCIDENCE?*
Suddenly he's an extreme right-winger and his social media site is luring more and more people to similar extremes - thus increasingly discrediting them with the majority of voters.
CAN THIS BE A COINCIDENCE?*
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This overtly racist group of Reform members who say blacks & Asians can not be Britieh is encouraged by the leadership not sacking Chris Parry taking it as a sign they can win argument within Reform to deport almost all non-Anglo migrants & try to persuade + fund UK-born blacks and Asians to go too
December 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This overtly racist group of Reform members who say blacks & Asians can not be Britieh is encouraged by the leadership not sacking Chris Parry taking it as a sign they can win argument within Reform to deport almost all non-Anglo migrants & try to persuade + fund UK-born blacks and Asians to go too
Very kind of the reliably splendid @jonnelledge.bsky.social to pick Ghosts of Iron Mountain as his Book of the Year on the last @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social of 2025 (at 34:05):
www.podchaser.com/podcasts/oh-...
www.podchaser.com/podcasts/oh-...
Oh God, What Now?
With Seth Thévoz and Ian Dunt, 704 episodes, 14 ratings & reviews. Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbear...
www.podchaser.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Very kind of the reliably splendid @jonnelledge.bsky.social to pick Ghosts of Iron Mountain as his Book of the Year on the last @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social of 2025 (at 34:05):
www.podchaser.com/podcasts/oh-...
www.podchaser.com/podcasts/oh-...
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Young people get a triple lock too: locked out of safe public spaces, then locked out of the job market, then locked out of buying a house
Cf this brilliant work by @peterhyman.bsky.social & Shuab Gamote for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social & @demos-uk.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-hyman-...
Cf this brilliant work by @peterhyman.bsky.social & Shuab Gamote for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social & @demos-uk.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-hyman-...
Inside the mind of a 16-year-old
At the next election, 16-year-olds will be able to vote for the first time ever. If politicians don’t help them now, despair will push them into the arms of populists
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Young people get a triple lock too: locked out of safe public spaces, then locked out of the job market, then locked out of buying a house
Cf this brilliant work by @peterhyman.bsky.social & Shuab Gamote for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social & @demos-uk.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-hyman-...
Cf this brilliant work by @peterhyman.bsky.social & Shuab Gamote for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social & @demos-uk.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-hyman-...