Jack Serle
@jackserle.bsky.social
Procurement and life sciences correspondent at HSJ, formerly natsec/GWOT geek.
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Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
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This is reaching Truss-like levels of political insanity. The PLP needs to take action.
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is reaching Truss-like levels of political insanity. The PLP needs to take action.
The French are coming! The French are coming!
If anyone has any sense of the history of why the Act of Union happened they should be very, very unfuckingcomfortable with this turn of events.
I get the politics of issuing Scottish bonds, but not convinced by the economics
Issuing ‘kilts’ will not unlock any new funding, but it may well make borrowing more expensive
In other words: it could mean less investment, not more 🧵 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2561868...
Issuing ‘kilts’ will not unlock any new funding, but it may well make borrowing more expensive
In other words: it could mean less investment, not more 🧵 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2561868...
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The French are coming! The French are coming!
AA Milne: W
Michael Bond: L
Michael Bond: L
I regret to inform you, but marmalade consumption continues to plummet in the UK.
Back in 1974 each adult, each week, ate on average 27g. It was a mere 4g in 2024 (down from 6g in 2023).
Honey, by contrast, has gone from 5g in 1974 to 9g last year.
Back in 1974 each adult, each week, ate on average 27g. It was a mere 4g in 2024 (down from 6g in 2023).
Honey, by contrast, has gone from 5g in 1974 to 9g last year.
a dog with a peanut butter and cheese sandwich on its head
ALT: a dog with a peanut butter and cheese sandwich on its head
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
AA Milne: W
Michael Bond: L
Michael Bond: L
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Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
Sadly not a nice new plane for the trust's airborne division.
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Sadly not a nice new plane for the trust's airborne division.
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its 9 am and so far today we have learned that jeffrey epstein was advised to blackmail donald trump who spent lots of alone time with children at epsteins house
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
its 9 am and so far today we have learned that jeffrey epstein was advised to blackmail donald trump who spent lots of alone time with children at epsteins house
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"Here's what my misreading a menu and ordering the wrong thing at a bistro in Paris tells us about the decline of the French Republic."
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November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Here's what my misreading a menu and ordering the wrong thing at a bistro in Paris tells us about the decline of the French Republic."
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The UK government will get no acknowledgement from its left-wing critics that it is standing up the Trump Administration here and doing absolutely the right thing. If we had a Reform/Tory government this would not be happening.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The UK government will get no acknowledgement from its left-wing critics that it is standing up the Trump Administration here and doing absolutely the right thing. If we had a Reform/Tory government this would not be happening.
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
This feels like a huge, verging on large, story. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This feels like a huge, verging on large, story. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
If ever there was a time for a referral to Arkel versus Presdram this is it. People would pay their license fee twice over to see it.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
If ever there was a time for a referral to Arkel versus Presdram this is it. People would pay their license fee twice over to see it.
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Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
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But at least we got a new passport colour (which we could have had anyway).
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
But at least we got a new passport colour (which we could have had anyway).
Perfectly positioned to repel the French cavalry but so vulnerable to their guns.
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Perfectly positioned to repel the French cavalry but so vulnerable to their guns.
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Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
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Fighting ISIS is woke
Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fighting ISIS is woke
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18% of people in Britain identify as "woke"
18% of people identify as "anti-woke"
43% as neither
19% don't know what the terms mean [that was half in 2020]
Kings Policy Institute latest study shows that the polarised tribes remain vocal minority segments, but perceptions of division are rising
18% of people identify as "anti-woke"
43% as neither
19% don't know what the terms mean [that was half in 2020]
Kings Policy Institute latest study shows that the polarised tribes remain vocal minority segments, but perceptions of division are rising
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
18% of people in Britain identify as "woke"
18% of people identify as "anti-woke"
43% as neither
19% don't know what the terms mean [that was half in 2020]
Kings Policy Institute latest study shows that the polarised tribes remain vocal minority segments, but perceptions of division are rising
18% of people identify as "anti-woke"
43% as neither
19% don't know what the terms mean [that was half in 2020]
Kings Policy Institute latest study shows that the polarised tribes remain vocal minority segments, but perceptions of division are rising
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imagine a podcast that switches to video and you realize it's been recorded like this the whole time
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
imagine a podcast that switches to video and you realize it's been recorded like this the whole time
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Got to be the most unruffled bogwash.
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Got to be the most unruffled bogwash.
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Cllr Daniel Taylor, currently on bail pending trial over allegations that he threatened to kill his wife, has attended today. Given he missed every other meeting since his arrest, he would have been disqualified as a councillor had he not arrived today.
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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What a coincidence.
October 18, 1991: Zohran Mamdani born
October 18, 2001: The never-ending AUMF authorizing war on Muslim world, born.
October 18, 2001: The never-ending AUMF authorizing war on Muslim world, born.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What a coincidence.
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A folly built on redundant leviathan piles, and bones:
”Fifteen members of the Huwaitat tribe who protested against their eviction were sent to prison, some for up to 50 years, and three others were sentenced to death, according to human rights observers.”
”Fifteen members of the Huwaitat tribe who protested against their eviction were sent to prison, some for up to 50 years, and three others were sentenced to death, according to human rights observers.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A folly built on redundant leviathan piles, and bones:
”Fifteen members of the Huwaitat tribe who protested against their eviction were sent to prison, some for up to 50 years, and three others were sentenced to death, according to human rights observers.”
”Fifteen members of the Huwaitat tribe who protested against their eviction were sent to prison, some for up to 50 years, and three others were sentenced to death, according to human rights observers.”