David Trott
@davidtrott.bsky.social
Northerner in London. Sleep deprived. Community trustee. Session musician. Business owner. Profound dependency on caffeine and micronaps.
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Incidentally have you heard the story about him running for JCR president (basically student union president)? He was unopposed for the role but one of my best friends had the inspired idea to campaign for re-open nominations (R.O.N) which we duly did and ended up outpolling him.
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Incidentally have you heard the story about him running for JCR president (basically student union president)? He was unopposed for the role but one of my best friends had the inspired idea to campaign for re-open nominations (R.O.N) which we duly did and ended up outpolling him.
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More than anything, the MAGA phenomenon is about letting an incredibly stupid man have near-absolute power.
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
More than anything, the MAGA phenomenon is about letting an incredibly stupid man have near-absolute power.
I needed to see this today.
September 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I needed to see this today.
Those roundabout painting guys really explain the “gland” part of “England”.
August 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Those roundabout painting guys really explain the “gland” part of “England”.
Print out this article and pin it to the door of No. 10 immediately.
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Print out this article and pin it to the door of No. 10 immediately.
“I can’t get off my horse” is objectively the funniest opening lyric to any song ever.
August 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“I can’t get off my horse” is objectively the funniest opening lyric to any song ever.
Currently drafting a letter to @ndironsmp.bsky.social about stripping back of EHCPs.
The core point is this: we knew before the election that money was tight.
BUT: we voted Labour so they could protect our most vulnerable from the worst effects of it.
It's quite extraordinary to regret your vote.
The core point is this: we knew before the election that money was tight.
BUT: we voted Labour so they could protect our most vulnerable from the worst effects of it.
It's quite extraordinary to regret your vote.
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Currently drafting a letter to @ndironsmp.bsky.social about stripping back of EHCPs.
The core point is this: we knew before the election that money was tight.
BUT: we voted Labour so they could protect our most vulnerable from the worst effects of it.
It's quite extraordinary to regret your vote.
The core point is this: we knew before the election that money was tight.
BUT: we voted Labour so they could protect our most vulnerable from the worst effects of it.
It's quite extraordinary to regret your vote.
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Fascinating experiment in how much money people can be made to lose before they can no longer afford the luxury of owning the libs.
April 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fascinating experiment in how much money people can be made to lose before they can no longer afford the luxury of owning the libs.
Kicking off the couch to 5k thing again.
I hate running. Seems so pointless when I own a car.
I hate running. Seems so pointless when I own a car.
March 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Kicking off the couch to 5k thing again.
I hate running. Seems so pointless when I own a car.
I hate running. Seems so pointless when I own a car.
no. no I don’t want it.
March 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
no. no I don’t want it.
"Everything's computer!"
- your elderly accountant trying to submit your VAT return
- your elderly accountant trying to submit your VAT return
March 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"Everything's computer!"
- your elderly accountant trying to submit your VAT return
- your elderly accountant trying to submit your VAT return
"Everything's computer!"
- your nan using the Tesco self-checkout for the first time
- your nan using the Tesco self-checkout for the first time
March 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Everything's computer!"
- your nan using the Tesco self-checkout for the first time
- your nan using the Tesco self-checkout for the first time
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🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues.
Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
“Frightened for the safety of their families.”
America, 2025.
America, 2025.
March 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues.
Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
For the supposed “strongmen” of politics, they’re actually craven cowards.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Elon Musk tells Republicans he isn’t to blame for mass firings of federal workers
Trump and Musk appear to make parallel efforts to distance tech billionaire from radical job slashing in government
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
For the supposed “strongmen” of politics, they’re actually craven cowards.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I am grateful to Michael Rosen for two things: how Bear Hunt inspired an absolutely obsessive love of reading in my daughter; and for revealing where in Wood Green I was able to get the best falafel this world has to offer.
At 11.30 today I'm doing a remote performance for more than 1500 schools for World Book Day. It's with the Children's Bookshow.
March 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I am grateful to Michael Rosen for two things: how Bear Hunt inspired an absolutely obsessive love of reading in my daughter; and for revealing where in Wood Green I was able to get the best falafel this world has to offer.
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Presumably this was the plan all along and the spat with Zelenskyy in the White House the premeditated excuse.
Donald Trump pauses US military aid to Ukraine
The fallout from last week's argument in the Oval Office ratchets up significantly as America suspends arms for an as-yet unknown period.
news.sky.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Presumably this was the plan all along and the spat with Zelenskyy in the White House the premeditated excuse.
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The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously hold that (1) we are returning to a world of warring great powers, requiring rapid rearming and a generational shift in posture, and yet (2) we can’t find the £11bn to do it without tactical cuts because fiscal rules.
March 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously hold that (1) we are returning to a world of warring great powers, requiring rapid rearming and a generational shift in posture, and yet (2) we can’t find the £11bn to do it without tactical cuts because fiscal rules.
Look, all I’m saying is that there must be more than pee on that tape.
No grown man - US President or otherwise - would debase themselves THIS much for just a bit of pee.
#MoreThanPee
No grown man - US President or otherwise - would debase themselves THIS much for just a bit of pee.
#MoreThanPee
March 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Look, all I’m saying is that there must be more than pee on that tape.
No grown man - US President or otherwise - would debase themselves THIS much for just a bit of pee.
#MoreThanPee
No grown man - US President or otherwise - would debase themselves THIS much for just a bit of pee.
#MoreThanPee
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Sometimes I think we over complicate the ideology and the politics etc. Everything you’re told as a child is that the bullies don’t win. Including, and especially, while you’re being bullied yourself. And then the whole of 2025 has been a circus of geopolitical bullying. So it’s deeply distressing.
February 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sometimes I think we over complicate the ideology and the politics etc. Everything you’re told as a child is that the bullies don’t win. Including, and especially, while you’re being bullied yourself. And then the whole of 2025 has been a circus of geopolitical bullying. So it’s deeply distressing.
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If you still have an account on X, you might want to delete all your DMs sharpish.
🚨🚨🚨 On Xitter, Roger Sollenberger unpacked the Github of one of Elon's DOGE boys.
It includes:
1) A script to download X DMs
2) A script to filter HR data by union membership
3) Data on undersea cables and valuable minerals
xcancel.com/Sollenberger...
It includes:
1) A script to download X DMs
2) A script to filter HR data by union membership
3) Data on undersea cables and valuable minerals
xcancel.com/Sollenberger...
February 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
If you still have an account on X, you might want to delete all your DMs sharpish.
Cutting the aid budget to 0.3% is shameful. Just shameful.
February 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Cutting the aid budget to 0.3% is shameful. Just shameful.
February 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM