Alex
@alexchauhan.bsky.social
I suppose there should be something here.
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Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
This is nice.
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Epping & International Day of Peace 2025
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September 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is nice.
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Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
Masterful thread. Bravo!
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Masterful thread. Bravo!
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Hey BBC, I've got a great idea for a show if you want to appeal more to Reform voters…
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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A mate just sent me this
June 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A mate just sent me this
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Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
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This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
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Well, the news looks like the end of War Games when Joshua /WOPR cycles through all the possible conflicts.
I hate this timeline.
I hate this timeline.
April 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Well, the news looks like the end of War Games when Joshua /WOPR cycles through all the possible conflicts.
I hate this timeline.
I hate this timeline.
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![Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.
BECKY [on phone]:
Yeah, hiya...
2
BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.
3
BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?
4
[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility
5
BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.
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VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?
BECKY:
Becky
PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -
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PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -
TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…
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PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
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BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?
TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiei7pigtocoghwiww3vhhm4lj2os2ifvc7yzggcj7jn6gresjpdkq@jpeg)
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New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain’s parties cater to a voter who is, often literally, dead
To understand British politics, one must understand Dead Man
www.economist.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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It’s not the biggest thing but surely everyone realises it’s ’claimed’ not ‘revealed’ with these people.
More than 50 countries have approached the White House to begin trade talks, President Trump’s top economic adviser revealed
More than 50 countries contact US to get tariffs revised
www.thetimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
It’s not the biggest thing but surely everyone realises it’s ’claimed’ not ‘revealed’ with these people.
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Three minutes from me on why the Trump tariff “Brexit dividend” idea is the weirdest take of the year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98A...
Why Brexit has NOT saved Britain from Trump's Tariffs
YouTube video by The News Agents
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April 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Three minutes from me on why the Trump tariff “Brexit dividend” idea is the weirdest take of the year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98A...
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.
March 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.
This should be widely shared. Please watch, Ruth Ben-Ghiat is excellent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
www.youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This should be widely shared. Please watch, Ruth Ben-Ghiat is excellent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
'Grand Canyon,' (1907) demonstrates William Robinson Leigh's European training fully realised through the depiction of distinctly complex American subject; a superb draughtsman with a strong sense of line and composition.
March 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#FieldworkFriday: When a rising sandstorm turns your last measurements of the workday into a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" set …
Southern Jordan, 2010.
Southern Jordan, 2010.
November 24, 2024 at 8:00 PM
#FieldworkFriday: When a rising sandstorm turns your last measurements of the workday into a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" set …
Southern Jordan, 2010.
Southern Jordan, 2010.
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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
February 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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"...his most dangerous opponents, Reform and Farage, have indelibly linked themselves with the source of the chaos- a revanchist America under Trump, with its petty obsessions, and frenzied delusions." Sound analysis of Starmer's new opportunities by @lewisgoodall.com
These are dark days. But for Starmer, the collapse of the old order is a moment of political promise. He can use it to remake his premiership and the continent: new political space has unfolded before him in every direction.
Will he seize it? New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Will he seize it? New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Europe’s darkest moment could be Starmer’s biggest opportunity
The collapse of the old order is a moment of political possibility. Starmer must seize it.
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"...his most dangerous opponents, Reform and Farage, have indelibly linked themselves with the source of the chaos- a revanchist America under Trump, with its petty obsessions, and frenzied delusions." Sound analysis of Starmer's new opportunities by @lewisgoodall.com
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This article only vaguely acknowledges that my copywrited work - amongst that of thousands of other writers - was stolen. It wasn’t ’given away’, they stole it, sometimes from pirated copies.
Some useful words for future discussions:
Theft.
Illegal.
Immoral.
Cheats.
Some useful words for future discussions:
Theft.
Illegal.
Immoral.
Cheats.
The Guardian view on AI and copyright: creativity should be cherished, not given away | Editorial
The Guardian view on AI and copyright: creativity should be cherished, not given away | Editorial
Editorial: The government’s consultation was weighted towards big tech. Now is the time for a rethink
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This article only vaguely acknowledges that my copywrited work - amongst that of thousands of other writers - was stolen. It wasn’t ’given away’, they stole it, sometimes from pirated copies.
Some useful words for future discussions:
Theft.
Illegal.
Immoral.
Cheats.
Some useful words for future discussions:
Theft.
Illegal.
Immoral.
Cheats.