Sascha O'Sullivan
@saschaosullivan.bsky.social
Host, Westminster Insider, POLITICO Europe
sosullivan@politico.co.uk
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Shabana Mahmood looking to Denmark for solutions on migration is v interesting.
Crucially, Denmark *is* a signatory to the ECHR (the thing everyone says the UK must leave in order to deport migrants).
One key diff (along with re-unification rules) the v low level of appeals
Crucially, Denmark *is* a signatory to the ECHR (the thing everyone says the UK must leave in order to deport migrants).
One key diff (along with re-unification rules) the v low level of appeals
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Shabana Mahmood looking to Denmark for solutions on migration is v interesting.
Crucially, Denmark *is* a signatory to the ECHR (the thing everyone says the UK must leave in order to deport migrants).
One key diff (along with re-unification rules) the v low level of appeals
Crucially, Denmark *is* a signatory to the ECHR (the thing everyone says the UK must leave in order to deport migrants).
One key diff (along with re-unification rules) the v low level of appeals
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"My colleague is not racist, they are insane" is a curious defence.
Danny Kruger just told Nick Robinson that Sarah Pochin’s remarks weren’t racist because she was “driven mad” not by seeing Black and Asian people on TV but by their “over-representation”. Robinson didn’t ask what’s so maddening about over-representation. Is there a rule adverts have to reflect life?
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"My colleague is not racist, they are insane" is a curious defence.
Zack Polanski will be (hypno) dancing around the kitchen with numbers like this
Latest Polling by @YouGov
🟣 Reform 27%
🔵 Tory 17%
🔴 Labour 17%
💚 Green 16%
🟠 Lib Dem 15%
This is the LOWEST Labour
has ever polled with YouGov.
This is the HIGHEST @greenparty.org.uk has ever polled with YouGov.
4 parties within 2 points of each other for second place.
🟣 Reform 27%
🔵 Tory 17%
🔴 Labour 17%
💚 Green 16%
🟠 Lib Dem 15%
This is the LOWEST Labour
has ever polled with YouGov.
This is the HIGHEST @greenparty.org.uk has ever polled with YouGov.
4 parties within 2 points of each other for second place.
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Zack Polanski will be (hypno) dancing around the kitchen with numbers like this
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"The book contains no interviews with Jewish members."
Gobsmacking.
Gobsmacking.
Paul Holden’s The Fraud poses as fearless investigation
In truth, it is denial: distortion, omission and conspiracy-minded wish-thinking aimed at a left still unwilling to face the Corbyn years, writes Adam Langleben, Executive Director of Progressive Britain
In truth, it is denial: distortion, omission and conspiracy-minded wish-thinking aimed at a left still unwilling to face the Corbyn years, writes Adam Langleben, Executive Director of Progressive Britain
All 'The Fraud' proves is that part of the left has learned nothing
Paul Holden’s The Fraud poses as fearless investigation. In truth, it is denial: distortion, omission and conspiracy-minded wish-thinking aimed at ...
www.politicshome.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"The book contains no interviews with Jewish members."
Gobsmacking.
Gobsmacking.
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Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign.
Turn out was just 16%
Turn out was just 16%
BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign.
Turn out was just 16%
Turn out was just 16%
I didn’t know how badly I needed to see the post-shear glow
Good morning from Seven Hills, NSW, Australia, where at 7 am, Saturday, October 18, it is a pleasant 16°C. Shearing, vet check, teeth to toes time of year. Have a great day, keep smiling, talk later. 😀
October 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I didn’t know how badly I needed to see the post-shear glow
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Not really the main point for these witnesses statements but this is unbelievably low grade stuff to be passing on.
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
October 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Not really the main point for these witnesses statements but this is unbelievably low grade stuff to be passing on.
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
A level students currently don’t know how to read long books
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A level students currently don’t know how to read long books
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It is autumn 2023: an embattled prime minister, a year into his tenure, who wants to change the UK’s China policy is struggling with the fallout of an alleged spying case
It is autumn 2025: you’ll never guess what has happened now!
Today’s newsletter:
It is autumn 2025: you’ll never guess what has happened now!
Today’s newsletter:
Westminster’s Sinoscepticism complicates Keir Starmer’s China ambitions
Row over alleged spying case will hinder Labour’s attempts to rebuild ties with Beijing
www.ft.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It is autumn 2023: an embattled prime minister, a year into his tenure, who wants to change the UK’s China policy is struggling with the fallout of an alleged spying case
It is autumn 2025: you’ll never guess what has happened now!
Today’s newsletter:
It is autumn 2025: you’ll never guess what has happened now!
Today’s newsletter:
Currently, the Green Party has roughly only 20,000 fewer members than the Conservatives
What incredible news to inspire us as Parliament returns from conference season - the Green Party has officially reached 100,000 members!
The Green surge is here, and we're not slowing down. Join today to make a fairer, greener future for all.
join.greenparty.org.uk
The Green surge is here, and we're not slowing down. Join today to make a fairer, greener future for all.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Currently, the Green Party has roughly only 20,000 fewer members than the Conservatives
ChatGPT tells man to be intereted in women’s interests and he gets more dates 🙃
this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!
October 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
ChatGPT tells man to be intereted in women’s interests and he gets more dates 🙃
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perfect autumn sky 🍁
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
perfect autumn sky 🍁
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Been to Manchester central complex many times for conferences and rarely has the main hall been so light on outside exhibitors. Lots of padding with empty stands put up by central party
October 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Been to Manchester central complex many times for conferences and rarely has the main hall been so light on outside exhibitors. Lots of padding with empty stands put up by central party
🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism is already over?
w/ Deputy PM David Lammy
Lucy Powell
@alistrathern.bsky.social
@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
@noahkeate.bsky.social & @ecasalicchio.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
w/ Deputy PM David Lammy
Lucy Powell
@alistrathern.bsky.social
@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
@noahkeate.bsky.social & @ecasalicchio.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism over already?
Host Sascha O’Sullivan goes behind-the-scenes of Labour Party conference in Liverpool, talking to senior politicians and advisors as she tries to hunt for Keir Starmer’s ideology – once…
www.politico.eu
October 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism is already over?
w/ Deputy PM David Lammy
Lucy Powell
@alistrathern.bsky.social
@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
@noahkeate.bsky.social & @ecasalicchio.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
w/ Deputy PM David Lammy
Lucy Powell
@alistrathern.bsky.social
@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
@noahkeate.bsky.social & @ecasalicchio.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
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Not the greatest backdrop to a make-or-break party conference ...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
Tory Civil War Erupts As Theresa May Slams Badenoch's Plan To Scrap Net Zero Target
The former prime minister joined other senior Conservatives in condemning the party leader.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Not the greatest backdrop to a make-or-break party conference ...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
A small reminder of where original story of swans/migrants came from… a 2003 story later corrected to admit there was no evidence
www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...
No PCC probe into 'swan eating' story
4.15pm: The Press Complaints Commission has been branded 'disgraceful' after deciding not to force the Sun to apologise for claiming asylum seekers had poached and eaten swans. Ciar Byrne reports.
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A small reminder of where original story of swans/migrants came from… a 2003 story later corrected to admit there was no evidence
www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...
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My favourite variant of this is when you add in queerness:
“He spend 50 years living in a remote hut with his close friend, where they preserved and catalogued the most extensive collection of ferns ever assembled in Britain”
“He spend 50 years living in a remote hut with his close friend, where they preserved and catalogued the most extensive collection of ferns ever assembled in Britain”
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
September 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My favourite variant of this is when you add in queerness:
“He spend 50 years living in a remote hut with his close friend, where they preserved and catalogued the most extensive collection of ferns ever assembled in Britain”
“He spend 50 years living in a remote hut with his close friend, where they preserved and catalogued the most extensive collection of ferns ever assembled in Britain”
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It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Farage claims he can save *£230bn* by excluding foreign nationals from welfare bill
Did Dr Evil come up with this number
Did Dr Evil come up with this number
September 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Farage claims he can save *£230bn* by excluding foreign nationals from welfare bill
Did Dr Evil come up with this number
Did Dr Evil come up with this number