@polseoglompa.bsky.social
Kruger seems to really believe that "woke" is the enemy. Thought most "thinkers" on the right would be smart enough to realise that a few mouthy student types are:-
1. Not an existential threat to family & county.
2. Will probably grow out of it anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
1. Not an existential threat to family & county.
2. Will probably grow out of it anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Kruger seems to really believe that "woke" is the enemy. Thought most "thinkers" on the right would be smart enough to realise that a few mouthy student types are:-
1. Not an existential threat to family & county.
2. Will probably grow out of it anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
1. Not an existential threat to family & county.
2. Will probably grow out of it anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the jailing of the party's former Wales leader for accepting pro-Russian bribes
news.sky.com/story/starme...
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the jailing of the party's former Wales leader for accepting pro-Russian bribes
news.sky.com/story/starme...
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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The first Thatcher govt had a majority of just 43.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The first Thatcher govt had a majority of just 43.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
Thatcher, like Starmer, was not a natural orator, but she recognised that the battle of ideas mattered.
She saw it as part of her job to go out & win the argument: to shape public opinion, not just react to it.
That's almost wholly missing today.
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BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
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“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”
You might think controlling GB News gives you huge influence over UK politics – especially on the right. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as we reveal in this week's issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”
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Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
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A story that’s attracted surprisingly little attention in our media:
Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A story that’s attracted surprisingly little attention in our media:
Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...
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[the "britcard" branding comes from a think tank report in June, not the government's announcement which is happening tomorrow]
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
[the "britcard" branding comes from a think tank report in June, not the government's announcement which is happening tomorrow]
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Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like
September 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like
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statistic of the day
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
statistic of the day
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Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!
The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Elon Musk addresses the ‘unite the kingdom’ march crowd via video link – UK politics live
Met Police believe 110,000 people attending rally, with one group in Whitehall throwing projectiles at officers
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!
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This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
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Hours after Putin spoke to Trump
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
July 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Hours after Putin spoke to Trump
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
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Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.
I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
May 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.
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If I say to you 'I want a pony in my flat, but I don't believe that I will have to clean up its shit, spend anything on feeding it or in any way change my lifestyle to accommodate it', which is essentially what the voters Downing Street obsesses over say about immigration, should you get me a pony?
May 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If I say to you 'I want a pony in my flat, but I don't believe that I will have to clean up its shit, spend anything on feeding it or in any way change my lifestyle to accommodate it', which is essentially what the voters Downing Street obsesses over say about immigration, should you get me a pony?
Mutes all references to trans. A lot of absolutist thinking on all sides making the whole debate needlessly toxic.
April 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Mutes all references to trans. A lot of absolutist thinking on all sides making the whole debate needlessly toxic.
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Would be a shocking violation of our values to go soft on hate speech online in order to get a US trade deal
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
April 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Would be a shocking violation of our values to go soft on hate speech online in order to get a US trade deal
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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“Take back control of our laws” so American fascists can decide them for us…
I don’t think so.
Just imagine if the EU demanded this of us.
Intolerable for it to even be on the table.
Intolerable to be at this table at all, frankly.
Another Brexit humiliation.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I don’t think so.
Just imagine if the EU demanded this of us.
Intolerable for it to even be on the table.
Intolerable to be at this table at all, frankly.
Another Brexit humiliation.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
April 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“Take back control of our laws” so American fascists can decide them for us…
I don’t think so.
Just imagine if the EU demanded this of us.
Intolerable for it to even be on the table.
Intolerable to be at this table at all, frankly.
Another Brexit humiliation.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I don’t think so.
Just imagine if the EU demanded this of us.
Intolerable for it to even be on the table.
Intolerable to be at this table at all, frankly.
Another Brexit humiliation.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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That Brexit benefit lasted exactly a week. Well.
The UK now has the same 10% tariff as everyone else despite running a trade deficit with the US.
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
That Brexit benefit lasted exactly a week. Well.
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What do they put into the water in Whitehall that leads all governments to succumb to Brexity cod-Churchillian delusions about the special relationship and prostrate themselves before Washington? Besides, any deal the UK did agree would be calculated to split the West and so pure mischief by Trump
Just how did the UK ending up getting the exact same US tariffs as other countries according to the formula?
So many delusions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So many delusions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It could’ve been much worse’: how UK avoided a bigger blow from Trump tariffs
No 10 has been criticised for ‘sucking up’ to Donald Trump, but believes its defensive strategy has been vindicated
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What do they put into the water in Whitehall that leads all governments to succumb to Brexity cod-Churchillian delusions about the special relationship and prostrate themselves before Washington? Besides, any deal the UK did agree would be calculated to split the West and so pure mischief by Trump