Andrew Naughtie
@andrewnaughtie.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, Edinburgher. US Politics and other stuff besides.
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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EXCLUSIVE 🚨 A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
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Exclusive: the error at the heart of Trump’s BBC attack
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
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November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀
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The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
On a constant loop. Radio 7.
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On a constant loop. Radio 7.
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A great point. If you read the UK press, spend time on X and fall prey to elite radicalisation, you can very easily fool yourself into thinking you represent the silent majority when in fact you are an increasingly extreme minority. It's funny when conservatives scold liberals about their "bubbles"
This latest defeat may exemplify a broader ecosystem/bubble problem for the right: so used now to preaching to the converted in media outlets and online that it struggles to understand how this language (the NT as run by or capitulating to "woke terrorists") might be received by the median member
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A great point. If you read the UK press, spend time on X and fall prey to elite radicalisation, you can very easily fool yourself into thinking you represent the silent majority when in fact you are an increasingly extreme minority. It's funny when conservatives scold liberals about their "bubbles"
“All that is solid melts into goo”
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“All that is solid melts into goo”
These people are at the pupal stage of full-blown biological racism.
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
Lucy White advocates deporting 4th generation British citizens to 'ancestral homelands' if guilty of serious crimes
"Whether he’s a 2nd gen, 3rd gen or 4th generation migrant, he’s proven that he cannot integrate into a civilised society"
White is a GB News contributor + Restore Britain supporter
"Whether he’s a 2nd gen, 3rd gen or 4th generation migrant, he’s proven that he cannot integrate into a civilised society"
White is a GB News contributor + Restore Britain supporter
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
These people are at the pupal stage of full-blown biological racism.
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
At the moment, they’re using genealogy as the measure of belonging. That’s a strategic way of distancing themselves from the one-drop rule and the vocabulary of eugenics – the same taboo that did for Keith Joseph in 1974. 1/
There’ll be a Claudia Winkleman nexus revival show one day called Come Traitor Piano Strictly, with an attached mini-show called Come Traitor’s Casio Jive. And we will all melt into air.
Tempting, but the real patient zero in this conversation is in fact “Strictly Come Dancing”
I still blame Goalhanger for this sort of thing. The Rest is _______ when ______ makes no sense has normalised this kind of non-sequitur nonsense
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There’ll be a Claudia Winkleman nexus revival show one day called Come Traitor Piano Strictly, with an attached mini-show called Come Traitor’s Casio Jive. And we will all melt into air.
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Ban X in the UK. It's a misinformation factory.
Grok appears to have started offering this false account about eye-witnesses by generating its view from false rumours on X. It began by saying there wasn't evidence then picked up rumour and misinformation and amplified it
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x.com/grok/status/...
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Ban X in the UK. It's a misinformation factory.
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Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.
Of all my 2016 analysis bugbears, this is the hair trigger. It’s inane to analyse this section of the speech without including the *immediate next section* in which she comes out with almost exactly the “unheard anxiety” thesis Klein et al have been pushing ever since. 1/🧵
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Of all my 2016 analysis bugbears, this is the hair trigger. It’s inane to analyse this section of the speech without including the *immediate next section* in which she comes out with almost exactly the “unheard anxiety” thesis Klein et al have been pushing ever since. 1/🧵
Deliverance
We need a Severance spinoff that's just people opting into 9 hours a day of not knowing who Trump is.
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Deliverance
Outing myself as a 1963-89 fundamentalist to flag the many omens that the show is facing a Season 22-26 level collapse:
- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
1/
- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
1/
The Piper regeneration is I think, in a crowded field, the single stupidest decision that has been made in Who. Either don‘t do the last minute edits and have the option of regenerating Gatwa offscreen, or just have his face glow and cut to credits.
Doctor Who Producer Confirms What's Holding the Show Up
We're not going to hear anything about when Doctor Who might return for a while, guys.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Outing myself as a 1963-89 fundamentalist to flag the many omens that the show is facing a Season 22-26 level collapse:
- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
1/
- The return of botched McCoy plot points and characters
- Redundant fan service (see: Attack of the Cybermen)
- World-building nobody asked for (Cartmel masterplan)…
1/
Isn’t the premise of a “rules-based order” that you need rules because you *can’t* trust people to be nice to each other?
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
October 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Isn’t the premise of a “rules-based order” that you need rules because you *can’t* trust people to be nice to each other?
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I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/
October 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/
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You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
With “change”, I always wonder what would move the needle furthest and fastest: promised general change (has run dry), a promised *specific change* with credibility, a concrete policy to make it happen, the rollout of said policy, and people *feeling* change whether or not it’s empirically real. 1/
It is still early days, and fragmentation helps, but this is on many measures the worst start for any govt in polling history. Only govts dealing with economic collapse come close. This govt was elected to deliver change. Voters have made clear their patience on delivery is already running out /ends
October 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
With “change”, I always wonder what would move the needle furthest and fastest: promised general change (has run dry), a promised *specific change* with credibility, a concrete policy to make it happen, the rollout of said policy, and people *feeling* change whether or not it’s empirically real. 1/
“I leaned over, tapped her on the cleavage with a pastry fork, and I said: ‘My mother gave birth to twins in an unheated wash house and then go straight up and finished the mangling, so think on.’” RIP indeed.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“I leaned over, tapped her on the cleavage with a pastry fork, and I said: ‘My mother gave birth to twins in an unheated wash house and then go straight up and finished the mangling, so think on.’” RIP indeed.
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Me for the i Paper again, this time on the continuing emergence of a fascist US - unveiled by Hegseth, visibly high on cruelty fumes, and Trump, who’s cognitively crumbling day by day.
But like the two men heralding this new order, states that rule by cruelty and terror are brittle things.
But like the two men heralding this new order, states that rule by cruelty and terror are brittle things.
🔎 Analysis | The second Trump presidency is the pubescent stage of a fast-growing fascist government
Read more: trib.al/x06f8Qb
Read more: trib.al/x06f8Qb
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Me for the i Paper again, this time on the continuing emergence of a fascist US - unveiled by Hegseth, visibly high on cruelty fumes, and Trump, who’s cognitively crumbling day by day.
But like the two men heralding this new order, states that rule by cruelty and terror are brittle things.
But like the two men heralding this new order, states that rule by cruelty and terror are brittle things.
Not the main point, but you have to love the idea that the US Census asks if you’re “English” because the institutions of the American state have a world-leading grasp of ethnic and racial nuance.
Praise for Matthew Goodwin, declaring Shabana Mahmood can't be English, from Britain First leader Paul Golding
October 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Not the main point, but you have to love the idea that the US Census asks if you’re “English” because the institutions of the American state have a world-leading grasp of ethnic and racial nuance.
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
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Miliband says it's 'possible' government should come off Elon Musk's X social media platform
DO IT
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
DO IT
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
September 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Miliband says it's 'possible' government should come off Elon Musk's X social media platform
DO IT
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
DO IT
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
V good. The question I’d ask is: in what scenario in which Burnham *doesn’t* become leader do he and the current No. 10 *both* end up better off?
Given the degree of serendipity or machination that’d be needed to get Burnham in, I struggle to see how this can possibly be a positive-sum game.
Given the degree of serendipity or machination that’d be needed to get Burnham in, I struggle to see how this can possibly be a positive-sum game.
September 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
V good. The question I’d ask is: in what scenario in which Burnham *doesn’t* become leader do he and the current No. 10 *both* end up better off?
Given the degree of serendipity or machination that’d be needed to get Burnham in, I struggle to see how this can possibly be a positive-sum game.
Given the degree of serendipity or machination that’d be needed to get Burnham in, I struggle to see how this can possibly be a positive-sum game.
“The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run”
This from the build-walls-and-eliminate-rights mob.
There’s an essay to be written about how it’s Afrikaner nationalism, not Nazism, that makes the best parallel here. Working on it.
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run”
This from the build-walls-and-eliminate-rights mob.
There’s an essay to be written about how it’s Afrikaner nationalism, not Nazism, that makes the best parallel here. Working on it.
There's something ironic about the Far Right adopting an anti apartheid song, written by a gay black man, as their anthem.
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Something inside so wrong: Labi Siffre tells Tommy Robinson to stop using anti-apartheid anthem
Exclusive: UK singer, 80, says it is ‘absurd’ as a ‘positive atheist, homosexual black artist’ for far right to claim his work
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run”
This from the build-walls-and-eliminate-rights mob.
There’s an essay to be written about how it’s Afrikaner nationalism, not Nazism, that makes the best parallel here. Working on it.
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run”
This from the build-walls-and-eliminate-rights mob.
There’s an essay to be written about how it’s Afrikaner nationalism, not Nazism, that makes the best parallel here. Working on it.