George Maddocks
@georgemaddocks.bsky.social
I design solutions for media and entertainment but I'm here for political news. I also enjoy powerlifting + getting loaded and listening to good music. No one who has ever employed me would let me express even the most trivial opinion on their behalf
Oh hell yeah. Daddy's getting some pudding in 2026
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oh hell yeah. Daddy's getting some pudding in 2026
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Enough please of the "but Farage is a master politician/communicator" trope.
Sad truth is, there's always been a significant appetite for selfishness and bigotry. It just needed someone shameless and venal enough to pander to it. And a media shallow enough to prioritise the viewing figures.
Sad truth is, there's always been a significant appetite for selfishness and bigotry. It just needed someone shameless and venal enough to pander to it. And a media shallow enough to prioritise the viewing figures.
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Enough please of the "but Farage is a master politician/communicator" trope.
Sad truth is, there's always been a significant appetite for selfishness and bigotry. It just needed someone shameless and venal enough to pander to it. And a media shallow enough to prioritise the viewing figures.
Sad truth is, there's always been a significant appetite for selfishness and bigotry. It just needed someone shameless and venal enough to pander to it. And a media shallow enough to prioritise the viewing figures.
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It really is hard to overstate how amazing the Gameboy felt in 1989 as an 11 year old. Tetris, Super Mario World, the portability and battery life, all mind blowing for the time.
The few colour handhelds around the same time were impressive sure, but somehow just not it.
The few colour handhelds around the same time were impressive sure, but somehow just not it.
I didn't realize until recently that the original Game Boy came out in 1989 and wasn't succeeded by the Game Boy Color until goddamn 1998. That's roughly nine years of black and white portable gaming being the de facto standard!
And I thought the 3DS lasted too long.
And I thought the 3DS lasted too long.
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It really is hard to overstate how amazing the Gameboy felt in 1989 as an 11 year old. Tetris, Super Mario World, the portability and battery life, all mind blowing for the time.
The few colour handhelds around the same time were impressive sure, but somehow just not it.
The few colour handhelds around the same time were impressive sure, but somehow just not it.
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An elegant and splendlidly contemptuous swatting of the horribly contemptible and profoundly dishonest Farage - and a very good dig at Farage's Trumpian "lowest grade presenter" jibe at Ms Barnett for skewering him so effectively.
Well done, Alan Rusbridger!
Well done, Alan Rusbridger!
“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...
Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is
His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
An elegant and splendlidly contemptuous swatting of the horribly contemptible and profoundly dishonest Farage - and a very good dig at Farage's Trumpian "lowest grade presenter" jibe at Ms Barnett for skewering him so effectively.
Well done, Alan Rusbridger!
Well done, Alan Rusbridger!
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NGL, until y'day i thought the FIFA Peace Prize was an elaborate internet joke.
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
NGL, until y'day i thought the FIFA Peace Prize was an elaborate internet joke.
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The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (Official Video)
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November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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now that it's back in the news, a reminder that Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is such a satisfying mock-doc because it speaks more clearly about Trump/Epstein than basically any news coverage (even though it's joking) www.avclub.com/jeffrey-epst...
Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile writes a damning birthday note to the true-crime industry
The Onion mockumentary Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile asks and answers hard-hitting questions about a news cycle almost beyond parody.
www.avclub.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
now that it's back in the news, a reminder that Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is such a satisfying mock-doc because it speaks more clearly about Trump/Epstein than basically any news coverage (even though it's joking) www.avclub.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
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Public trust in media (Reuters/Oxford) 2024
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Public trust in media (Reuters/Oxford) 2024
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
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i literally went for a drink at the french house literally this afternoon what are we even doing here
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
i literally went for a drink at the french house literally this afternoon what are we even doing here
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
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“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
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Cannot believe he said this under oath.
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Cannot believe he said this under oath.
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Well, there are some interesting details in this…
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Well, there are some interesting details in this…
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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This article was so bad the Times have removed it.
Totally untrue garbage from @thetimes.com & @dailymail.co.uk today - smear dressed up as journalism. Some facts:
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Treasury minister leading budget plans spent £900 on desk
Torsten Bell, who is working with Rachel Reeves to fill a £30 billion hole in finances, also used his parliamentary expenses to claim £600 for three chairs
www.thetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This article was so bad the Times have removed it.
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The first question every journalist who cares about accountability and responsibility should ask this “risign star” is “why do you want to make the conservatives more far right on immigration than the BNP or Enoch Powell?” bsky.app/profile/sund...
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The first question every journalist who cares about accountability and responsibility should ask this “risign star” is “why do you want to make the conservatives more far right on immigration than the BNP or Enoch Powell?” bsky.app/profile/sund...
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I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
October 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
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Yeah this is BNP stuff pursued for BNP reasons, regardless of how much it costs.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Yeah this is BNP stuff pursued for BNP reasons, regardless of how much it costs.
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This is such a important point. Social media means that people know the value of flashy stuff like watches etc I've never been to a city where it was a smart idea to walk around obviously holding thousands of pounds because that's a massive amount of money for desperate folks.
October 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is such a important point. Social media means that people know the value of flashy stuff like watches etc I've never been to a city where it was a smart idea to walk around obviously holding thousands of pounds because that's a massive amount of money for desperate folks.