Iain Grant
@iaingrant9.bsky.social
I feel we've been here before.
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My 2025 audit:
1. I was wrong about Starmer - I thought there was more there than there is; his failure to kick back hard against racists, bigots and xenophobes has been a huge failure, morally and politically.
2. I was absolutely right about how the second Trump presidency would play out.
1. I was wrong about Starmer - I thought there was more there than there is; his failure to kick back hard against racists, bigots and xenophobes has been a huge failure, morally and politically.
2. I was absolutely right about how the second Trump presidency would play out.
December 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My 2025 audit:
1. I was wrong about Starmer - I thought there was more there than there is; his failure to kick back hard against racists, bigots and xenophobes has been a huge failure, morally and politically.
2. I was absolutely right about how the second Trump presidency would play out.
1. I was wrong about Starmer - I thought there was more there than there is; his failure to kick back hard against racists, bigots and xenophobes has been a huge failure, morally and politically.
2. I was absolutely right about how the second Trump presidency would play out.
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it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
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Appalling comments by the leader of the opposition.
The scapegoating of immigrants has to stop. Now.
The scapegoating of immigrants has to stop. Now.
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Appalling comments by the leader of the opposition.
The scapegoating of immigrants has to stop. Now.
The scapegoating of immigrants has to stop. Now.
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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
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You are Elon Musk. You are the world’s richest man. You have wealth the emperors of the old worlds never dreamed of. Every good, every experience the world has to offers is open to you. You spend your days of limitless access reading and sharing the thoughts of a man named cumlasagna1.
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
You are Elon Musk. You are the world’s richest man. You have wealth the emperors of the old worlds never dreamed of. Every good, every experience the world has to offers is open to you. You spend your days of limitless access reading and sharing the thoughts of a man named cumlasagna1.
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just wept through the "gay marriage is now legal in the US!" episode of Modern Family and god, fuck, how grim that we so recently lived through times when it felt like things were getting better and would maybe just keep getting better and everything's just so fucking grim and ominous now, agh
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
just wept through the "gay marriage is now legal in the US!" episode of Modern Family and god, fuck, how grim that we so recently lived through times when it felt like things were getting better and would maybe just keep getting better and everything's just so fucking grim and ominous now, agh
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This is deranged even by Trump standards. And that is saying something.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is deranged even by Trump standards. And that is saying something.
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I don’t usually like sharing Question Time clips, because it’s a dreadful shitshow of a TV programme that needs putting out to pasture, but just occasionally …
December 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I don’t usually like sharing Question Time clips, because it’s a dreadful shitshow of a TV programme that needs putting out to pasture, but just occasionally …
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Farage's memory being 'fluid' again.
Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.”
Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…
Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…
December 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Farage's memory being 'fluid' again.
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I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
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Here is Pete Hegseth, on several occasions in 2016, lauding the military "ethos" that means they will refuse to follow unlawful orders - which he reckons is treason, now that they are his orders - because "there have to be consequences for abject war crimes".
Deserves to go viral.
Deserves to go viral.
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here is Pete Hegseth, on several occasions in 2016, lauding the military "ethos" that means they will refuse to follow unlawful orders - which he reckons is treason, now that they are his orders - because "there have to be consequences for abject war crimes".
Deserves to go viral.
Deserves to go viral.
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Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
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Admiral Holsey is to this serial murder in the Caribbean as Hugh Thompson was to the butchery at My Lai --
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Admiral Holsey is to this serial murder in the Caribbean as Hugh Thompson was to the butchery at My Lai --
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
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As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
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Seems like the real challenges the UK faces are too complex so instead everyone is going to choose to focus on complete inanities and who can be scapegoated next. Which is only going faster on the road to decline.
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Seems like the real challenges the UK faces are too complex so instead everyone is going to choose to focus on complete inanities and who can be scapegoated next. Which is only going faster on the road to decline.
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Let me get this straight, the US military is summarily executing suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean (without providing any evidence of their crimes), while the president is pardoning someone convicted in the United States of helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine.
a man in a suit is asking what are we even doing here
ALT: a man in a suit is asking what are we even doing here
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Let me get this straight, the US military is summarily executing suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean (without providing any evidence of their crimes), while the president is pardoning someone convicted in the United States of helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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This is so important. People who study international relations love to fight over whether interests or values define relationships. It is both. An interest is something you define. And your values come into the equation. It is not either or.
What Trump has made me realise is how much the post-Cold War relationship hinged on shared values rather than shared interests. Trump is illustrating how, whether on Ukraine and Gaza, our interests diverge and, absent those values, there's not much holding us together.
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is so important. People who study international relations love to fight over whether interests or values define relationships. It is both. An interest is something you define. And your values come into the equation. It is not either or.
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Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.