Steve Darrell
@stevejdrl.bsky.social
Vegan, Welshman living in England, I read, play wargames and watch rugby. Remainer/Rejoiner.
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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
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Kelly: This letter or anything that Hegseth says or does to me is in no way going to affect the way I do my job. His option is he can continue with this kind of bullshit or he can go take a hike. That's his options.
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Kelly: This letter or anything that Hegseth says or does to me is in no way going to affect the way I do my job. His option is he can continue with this kind of bullshit or he can go take a hike. That's his options.
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Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
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Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
apnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
apnews.com/article/fake...
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Physicians in the Trump administration are aligning themselves with anti-public health interests and policies.
High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
January 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Physicians in the Trump administration are aligning themselves with anti-public health interests and policies.
High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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STEWART: “Trump removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power — not THAT one, they’re actually friends (and quite frankly I think business partners)… not that one either…” 😬
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM
STEWART: “Trump removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power — not THAT one, they’re actually friends (and quite frankly I think business partners)… not that one either…” 😬
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The economy maths 👇
January 6, 2026 at 10:07 AM
The economy maths 👇
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The threat to court martial Senator Mark Kelly has been reduced to this petty, spiteful act - no doubt because this is what they think they can legally get away with.
Let's hope Kelly legally challenges this "administrative act" - for he did nothing wrong, merely setting out the applicable law.
Let's hope Kelly legally challenges this "administrative act" - for he did nothing wrong, merely setting out the applicable law.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action
January 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The threat to court martial Senator Mark Kelly has been reduced to this petty, spiteful act - no doubt because this is what they think they can legally get away with.
Let's hope Kelly legally challenges this "administrative act" - for he did nothing wrong, merely setting out the applicable law.
Let's hope Kelly legally challenges this "administrative act" - for he did nothing wrong, merely setting out the applicable law.
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I absolutely HATE it when Marjorie Taylor Greene makes sense.
January 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I absolutely HATE it when Marjorie Taylor Greene makes sense.
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The US operation to capture Nicolás Maduro may well be the moment when Western Europe realizes that the US has decisively abandoned the core values that united them for the past century.
The US capture of President Nicolás Maduro – and attacks on Venezuela – have no justification in international law
This may be the moment when Western Europe realizes that the US has abandoned the core values that united them for the past century, writes the head of Chatham House’s International Law Programme.
www.chathamhouse.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The US operation to capture Nicolás Maduro may well be the moment when Western Europe realizes that the US has decisively abandoned the core values that united them for the past century.
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This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
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How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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Message for Sir Keir and team: don't blame the civil service for your lack of direction
January 5, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Message for Sir Keir and team: don't blame the civil service for your lack of direction
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Thank you. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Thank you. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Company failures with unpaid tax and Covid loans dog Durham Doge designer bit.ly/4jpI1QY
Reform council leader’s firms collapsed owing £1.5 million
Andrew Husband, a former model, made it his mission to slash Durham council’s £1.5bn budget while presiding over companies with big debts
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January 4, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Company failures with unpaid tax and Covid loans dog Durham Doge designer bit.ly/4jpI1QY
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A little while ago I found a stack of early 70s Vogue magazines in a secondhand shop and challenged myself to write short stories around six of the adverts in them. This is what I came up with...
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The True Stories Behind The Photos In Some Of The Vogue Magazine Adverts Of The Late 1960s And Early 1970s
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January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
A little while ago I found a stack of early 70s Vogue magazines in a secondhand shop and challenged myself to write short stories around six of the adverts in them. This is what I came up with...
www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...
www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...
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Your fact of the day:
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain's Poor
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
bylinetimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Your fact of the day:
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
Well worth a read - not least for the determinedly pessimistic views of many in Washington & the west, despite the evidence.
Hi All, just sent out my free weekend update. Started with Russian strategy on the ground in 2025. By historical standards its a failure that should lead to defeat. Russian strength is flatlining, its casualties are up, and it took less than 1 percent of Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #166: The Russian Strategy Would Normally Be Seen As A Failure
Zelensky Chooses Budanov; Putin Says Jump, Trump Says "How High?"
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Well worth a read - not least for the determinedly pessimistic views of many in Washington & the west, despite the evidence.
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There’s going to be a motion of censure at the UN and Starmer is going to have a decision to make.
January 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
There’s going to be a motion of censure at the UN and Starmer is going to have a decision to make.
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A colleague of Farage's has literally gone to prison for taking bribes from Putin.
Reform voters, how much more evidence do you need that Farage is the enemy within and that he endangers us all?
Reform voters, how much more evidence do you need that Farage is the enemy within and that he endangers us all?
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
A colleague of Farage's has literally gone to prison for taking bribes from Putin.
Reform voters, how much more evidence do you need that Farage is the enemy within and that he endangers us all?
Reform voters, how much more evidence do you need that Farage is the enemy within and that he endangers us all?
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It's also such an easy political win.
Point to Musk donating to far right groups like Rupert Lowe's and his previous support for Reform and say they're being funded by a noncebot.
Point to Musk donating to far right groups like Rupert Lowe's and his previous support for Reform and say they're being funded by a noncebot.
If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.
January 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
It's also such an easy political win.
Point to Musk donating to far right groups like Rupert Lowe's and his previous support for Reform and say they're being funded by a noncebot.
Point to Musk donating to far right groups like Rupert Lowe's and his previous support for Reform and say they're being funded by a noncebot.
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Reminder that Reform UK featured a notorious antivaxxer as a keynote speaker at their recent conference. The UK is not immune from this weaponized idiocy.
A hearty congrats to RFK Jr., as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status after 25 years, with the most cases since the early 1990s.
Congrats to RFK Jr., As the U.S. Is Poised to Lose Its Measles Elimination Status After 25 Years
After a quarter century where measles was considered eliminated in the U.S., 2025's continuous outbreaks have us back at ground zero.
www.jezebel.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Reminder that Reform UK featured a notorious antivaxxer as a keynote speaker at their recent conference. The UK is not immune from this weaponized idiocy.