David
@davidisinberlin.bsky.social
Computer nerd, but don’t expect work stuff here. Opinions only my own - who else's would they be? Still a bit Yorkshire. 🇬🇧 in Berlin 🇩🇪 (he/him).
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The Times is constantly finger-wagging about the GLP-1 drugs and really unwilling to concede that actually, they're helping millions of people live healthier lives.
Will our fervour for fat jabs save the nation’s health and the economy — or are we inadvertently feeding future disaster? ⬇️
Fat jabs UK: the year we got thinner — and what it means for our future
This was the year overweight Britons, from parents at the school gate to members of the shadow cabinet, fessed up to taking Ozempic and Mounjaro. Will our fervour for fat jabs save the nation’s health and the economy — or are we inadvertently feeding future disaster?
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Times is constantly finger-wagging about the GLP-1 drugs and really unwilling to concede that actually, they're helping millions of people live healthier lives.
Absolutely nothing. They’ll just morph into “Labour’s terrible, that’s why everyone’s leaving”. We’ve already seen that with the recent ridiculous Mail article about a supposed “Polish Exodus”
What happens to Reform Uk and the Conservatives election campaigns when the population starts shrinking …?
Could Britain’s population actually start shrinking soon?
By 2029 the ONS expects more deaths than births
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Absolutely nothing. They’ll just morph into “Labour’s terrible, that’s why everyone’s leaving”. We’ve already seen that with the recent ridiculous Mail article about a supposed “Polish Exodus”
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Have seen a number of the ads in this campaign around London.
It's fascinating how heavily targetted it is at the people who come up to London once in December, go to Oxford Street and Winter Wonderland, then spend the rest of the year banging on about how terrible London is.
It's fascinating how heavily targetted it is at the people who come up to London once in December, go to Oxford Street and Winter Wonderland, then spend the rest of the year banging on about how terrible London is.
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Have seen a number of the ads in this campaign around London.
It's fascinating how heavily targetted it is at the people who come up to London once in December, go to Oxford Street and Winter Wonderland, then spend the rest of the year banging on about how terrible London is.
It's fascinating how heavily targetted it is at the people who come up to London once in December, go to Oxford Street and Winter Wonderland, then spend the rest of the year banging on about how terrible London is.
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Pam, darling, you missed a spot.
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Pam, darling, you missed a spot.
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At least when Keith Joseph didn't believe in the railways he had the excuse that we had had 40 years of decline under British Rail. That Rishi Sunak basically didn't believe in them because he was doing 1980s cosplay is comfortably the worst thing he did as prime minister.
Canceling the northern leg of HS2 was an act of insane self-harm
Industry insiders are concerned that fewer, shorter non-tilting trains are on order for HS2 — and that journey times will return to those of the 1990s
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
At least when Keith Joseph didn't believe in the railways he had the excuse that we had had 40 years of decline under British Rail. That Rishi Sunak basically didn't believe in them because he was doing 1980s cosplay is comfortably the worst thing he did as prime minister.
Nothing in this article from Paul Marshall is a surprise, Brexiteers will never admit that what was promised was drivel. But it is amazing how right wingers continue to polish up the old left wing adage that “communism never failed, it was never tried” for their own purposes.
The Brexit implementation fiasco
It is not too late to reverse bad policy but that requires good governance
giftarticle.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Nothing in this article from Paul Marshall is a surprise, Brexiteers will never admit that what was promised was drivel. But it is amazing how right wingers continue to polish up the old left wing adage that “communism never failed, it was never tried” for their own purposes.
If you‘re the Premier League, not being on FTA TV is probably OK. For every other sport it’s a bad idea and a poor trade-off between short term cash and long-term visibility. It’s an especially bad idea when the event you’re staging is already on a downward trajectory.
BBC outbid by TNT Sports for 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
TNT will broadcast the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after outbidding long-time rights holder BBC
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If you‘re the Premier League, not being on FTA TV is probably OK. For every other sport it’s a bad idea and a poor trade-off between short term cash and long-term visibility. It’s an especially bad idea when the event you’re staging is already on a downward trajectory.
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The author ends up writing a balanced piece once he tests his assumptions with his daughters. The comment desk decided to stick with the headline, standfirst that was not informed by that
This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
I’m a father of teen girls. I don’t want misogyny lessons for boys
The government is planning classes to combat prejudice against women. Andrew Billen isn’t sure it will work
www.thetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The author ends up writing a balanced piece once he tests his assumptions with his daughters. The comment desk decided to stick with the headline, standfirst that was not informed by that
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I keep coming back to this bizarre claim. What do they think the Labour Party is? When was at it best? When it couldn’t win a majority or hold power for more than a couple of years? When it was torn apart and almost wiped out? Deeply weird stuff
One interesting nugget in this piece could explain the (otherwise baffling) appearance of Ramsay MacDonald in a 2024 Labour Party Election Broadcast
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I keep coming back to this bizarre claim. What do they think the Labour Party is? When was at it best? When it couldn’t win a majority or hold power for more than a couple of years? When it was torn apart and almost wiped out? Deeply weird stuff
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This sort of thinking is all the more baffling when you consider how much British society and economy has changed since 1945. There simply isn't the same socio-structural base for a Labour Party in 2025 compared to 1945.
One interesting nugget in this piece could explain the (otherwise baffling) appearance of Ramsay MacDonald in a 2024 Labour Party Election Broadcast
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This sort of thinking is all the more baffling when you consider how much British society and economy has changed since 1945. There simply isn't the same socio-structural base for a Labour Party in 2025 compared to 1945.
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Theresa Villiers on Badenoch. Oddly I hope she's right but this is the latest in the Telegraph's 'Whisper it' series. The record of this series is not good.... (thread)
December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Theresa Villiers on Badenoch. Oddly I hope she's right but this is the latest in the Telegraph's 'Whisper it' series. The record of this series is not good.... (thread)
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Morgan McSweeney fuming that this key target voter will be imprisoned for the next few electoral cycles
Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
December 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Morgan McSweeney fuming that this key target voter will be imprisoned for the next few electoral cycles
Good Lord. I really want to a fly on the wall when this article gets duscussed.
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Good Lord. I really want to a fly on the wall when this article gets duscussed.
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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Even in the midst of the homophobic 1980s, when Section 28 was spawned, I don’t recall any BBC freelancer being hauled off the air for expressing support for gay people.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Even in the midst of the homophobic 1980s, when Section 28 was spawned, I don’t recall any BBC freelancer being hauled off the air for expressing support for gay people.
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I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do
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Make your minds up lads
December 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Make your minds up lads
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WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
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I wrote about the Brits who affect to despise migration, and go and live in an autocracy where’s there no income tax.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
Dubai: a safe space for hypocrisy
The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I wrote about the Brits who affect to despise migration, and go and live in an autocracy where’s there no income tax.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
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This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
December 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
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I have noticed in the past few months that general commentary around the threat Britain faces from external threats (chiefly Russia) has become less informed than maybe a year ago. Keep seeing clips of people talking about the likelihood of Russia invading UK etc 1/
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I have noticed in the past few months that general commentary around the threat Britain faces from external threats (chiefly Russia) has become less informed than maybe a year ago. Keep seeing clips of people talking about the likelihood of Russia invading UK etc 1/
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.
mol.im/a/15379789
mol.im/a/15379789
The great exodus: How Poles are ditching UK for their booming homeland
New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of 18,000. The UK's total Polish population has shrunk to 750,000.
mol.im
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.
mol.im/a/15379789
mol.im/a/15379789
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It is possible to think of elections as being decided by tides and targeting. Sometimes parties/candidates ride a tide of support that makes targeting irrelevant. In narrow elections, targeting can make a crucial difference. Labour strategists still act as if the 2024 victory was down to targeting.
Plus self-regard - the 2024 campaign was all about targeting a group of voters who in the end did not actually come back and there is a huge amount of 'must not admit that it did not work' motivated reasoning going on.
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It is possible to think of elections as being decided by tides and targeting. Sometimes parties/candidates ride a tide of support that makes targeting irrelevant. In narrow elections, targeting can make a crucial difference. Labour strategists still act as if the 2024 victory was down to targeting.
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There’s more writing than wall at this point.
❗ Reform GAIN from Labour
Red Hall and Lingfield (Darlington) council by-election result:
REF: 38.4% (+38.4)
CON: 17.2% (-22.7)
LDEM: 17.2% (+17.2)
LAB: 16.6% (-37.2)
GRN: 9.7% (+3.5)
IND: 1.0% (+1.0)
+/- 2023
Estimated turnout: ~28% (-3)
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
Red Hall and Lingfield (Darlington) council by-election result:
REF: 38.4% (+38.4)
CON: 17.2% (-22.7)
LDEM: 17.2% (+17.2)
LAB: 16.6% (-37.2)
GRN: 9.7% (+3.5)
IND: 1.0% (+1.0)
+/- 2023
Estimated turnout: ~28% (-3)
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack
"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
andrewteale.me.uk
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
There’s more writing than wall at this point.