Ben Pummell
@benpummell.bsky.social
🌳 Working to address climate change. Modernism enjoyer. Own views.
Very impressive that we've managed to go from economic policy based on the whims of voters through election cycles, to the somehow even more short-termist approach of economic policy based on periodic projections from arms-length bodies. Truly it is a mystery why our economy fails to thrive.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Very impressive that we've managed to go from economic policy based on the whims of voters through election cycles, to the somehow even more short-termist approach of economic policy based on periodic projections from arms-length bodies. Truly it is a mystery why our economy fails to thrive.
Football club owners are a perfect antidote to imposter syndrome.
Nottingham Forest head coach Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties after just 39 days in charge.
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Ange Postecoglou sacked by Nottingham Forest after 39 days in charge
The 60-year-old was only appointed on September 9 after former coach Nuno Espirito Santo departed the club.
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Football club owners are a perfect antidote to imposter syndrome.
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What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If you were writing a political drama and wrote Stephen Miller as a character everyone would think you were being absurdly OTT.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller:
The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil.
They cannot imagine what they have awakened.
The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil.
They cannot imagine what they have awakened.
September 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
If you were writing a political drama and wrote Stephen Miller as a character everyone would think you were being absurdly OTT.
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So much of the commentary on Palestine today without much sense of the deep history. No this is unlikely to make much or any practical difference. But you can say this is a debt which has long been owed. The UK promised a Palestinian state a century ago when the British took on the mandate.…
September 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
So much of the commentary on Palestine today without much sense of the deep history. No this is unlikely to make much or any practical difference. But you can say this is a debt which has long been owed. The UK promised a Palestinian state a century ago when the British took on the mandate.…
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A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.
UK officially recognises Palestine as a state
Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK has officially recognised Palestine as a state.
news.sky.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.
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Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.
September 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.
This technocratic messaging simply isn't good enough for the era we're living through. Reform are gathering strength precisely because trust is at an all time low, and people *don't believe him* and *don't care* about realism. You have to challenge the ideology at source.
“They are fake solutions from reform that won’t work, haven’t been costed, can’t be implemented. The easy answers that will deliver nothing”
Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer
September 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This technocratic messaging simply isn't good enough for the era we're living through. Reform are gathering strength precisely because trust is at an all time low, and people *don't believe him* and *don't care* about realism. You have to challenge the ideology at source.
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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.
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‘I’m not far right but I went to a rally organised by Tommy Robinson’ is a pretty unconvincing position.
September 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
‘I’m not far right but I went to a rally organised by Tommy Robinson’ is a pretty unconvincing position.
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And the Labour government - *Kinnock voice* the LABOUR government - thinks that's all just a wonderful display of free speech, while they also go about arresting pensioners for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts.
Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.
Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.
September 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And the Labour government - *Kinnock voice* the LABOUR government - thinks that's all just a wonderful display of free speech, while they also go about arresting pensioners for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts.
Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.
Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.
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Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march
It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear
The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear
The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
September 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march
It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear
The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear
The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
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I've just explained yesterday to a friend in Kyiv.. England specifically is allowing a minority of far right thugs (not even "gracing" them with the word "fascist") to get away with steering the narrative .. it isn't a debate .. it's like people sitting passively allowing a bully to shout at them.
Personal note: went to (some) of the countermarch yesterday, and then watched TV coverage of both.
@sundersays.bsky.social is right that the far-right/racists on the main march are a (small) minority whose numbers are not growing.
It's the apparent paralysis of the majority that scares me. [1/n]
@sundersays.bsky.social is right that the far-right/racists on the main march are a (small) minority whose numbers are not growing.
It's the apparent paralysis of the majority that scares me. [1/n]
September 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I've just explained yesterday to a friend in Kyiv.. England specifically is allowing a minority of far right thugs (not even "gracing" them with the word "fascist") to get away with steering the narrative .. it isn't a debate .. it's like people sitting passively allowing a bully to shout at them.
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This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else
Michael Gove, "Reform voters are very close to, in their general views, with the British public"
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September 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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This is an argument for falling population, falling GDP, and an employment crisis.
"Reversing recent low-skilled migration will likely mean a sustained period of net emigration. I would support that."
Punchy Robert Jenrick interview with my colleague Tim Shipman in this week's Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/robe...
Punchy Robert Jenrick interview with my colleague Tim Shipman in this week's Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/robe...
Robert Jenrick: ‘Asylum seekers should be detained in camps’
On a table in Robert Jenrick’s parliamentary office lies the first part of Ronald Hutton’s biography of Oliver Cromwell, a conventional MP who became radicalised by events and usurped a monarch. The s...
www.spectator.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This is an argument for falling population, falling GDP, and an employment crisis.
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1. Terrific that a US politician is holding Farage to account for his free speech hypocrisy
2. Why can’t we do this in the UK??
3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.
2. Why can’t we do this in the UK??
3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
1. Terrific that a US politician is holding Farage to account for his free speech hypocrisy
2. Why can’t we do this in the UK??
3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.
2. Why can’t we do this in the UK??
3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.
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Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
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The current Tory position on climate change amounts to ‘it’s happening, it’s serious, we have no meaningful plan to address it, and we intend to make it worse’.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories would maximise North Sea oil and gas extraction, Badenoch to say
Conservative leader says it is ‘absurd’ to shift away from fossil fuels and leave ‘vital resources untapped’
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The current Tory position on climate change amounts to ‘it’s happening, it’s serious, we have no meaningful plan to address it, and we intend to make it worse’.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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If you can’t see how attacking this could have hugely dangerous implications for every single person living in the UK irrespective of citizenship or immigration status, I do not know what to tell you.
August 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you can’t see how attacking this could have hugely dangerous implications for every single person living in the UK irrespective of citizenship or immigration status, I do not know what to tell you.
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It's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.
August 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.
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Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
August 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
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Dire. The Labour Party is being led by a moral vacuum
August 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Dire. The Labour Party is being led by a moral vacuum