Jason Reich
@jasonreich.bsky.social
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Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
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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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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
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NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
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In 1791 Thomas Paine argued for a codified constitution in his publication The Rights of Man. Here we are, over 200 years later, still having to state the obvious. The absence of a codified constitution gives a free ride to the grifters and opens the door to fascism.
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In 1791 Thomas Paine argued for a codified constitution in his publication The Rights of Man. Here we are, over 200 years later, still having to state the obvious. The absence of a codified constitution gives a free ride to the grifters and opens the door to fascism.
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Here's Nick Griffin - British National Party leader in 2009 - complaining that the BBC Question Time audience he faced was "dominated by ethnic minorities."
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
![He went on: "That audience was taken from a
city that is no longer British ... That was not
my country any more. Why not come down
and do it in Thurrock, do it in Stoke, do it in
Burnley?
"Do it somewhere where there are still
significant numbers of English and British
people [living], and they haven't been
ethnically cleansed from their own country.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreiao5ksznkdgvtgha2b2jqxw4s3ijlyhjtiywh5l5eg6oto5hexdli@jpeg)
![He added: "There is not much support for me
there [in London], because the place is
dominated by ethnic minorities. There is an
ethnic minority that supports me: the
English. But there's not many of them left."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreiaowjfelhblesb53lk2nvkj6vmotsdtg3wl3auxeuzjukrq5tz7ni@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here's Nick Griffin - British National Party leader in 2009 - complaining that the BBC Question Time audience he faced was "dominated by ethnic minorities."
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
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That's the maddening thing - most Labour MPs believe this in their bones! The Cabinet just haven't been allowed to say it up til now! As if the only way to combat far right racism is to concede to all their policy demands...
October 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
That's the maddening thing - most Labour MPs believe this in their bones! The Cabinet just haven't been allowed to say it up til now! As if the only way to combat far right racism is to concede to all their policy demands...
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In US and UK, long drawn-out judicial processes that often turn on painstaking examinations of evidence and elaborate rules of procedure are often called…
…’witch-hunts’.
Which really were the opposite, if you think about it.
…’witch-hunts’.
Which really were the opposite, if you think about it.
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In US and UK, long drawn-out judicial processes that often turn on painstaking examinations of evidence and elaborate rules of procedure are often called…
…’witch-hunts’.
Which really were the opposite, if you think about it.
…’witch-hunts’.
Which really were the opposite, if you think about it.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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postmodern finance theory
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
postmodern finance theory
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Keir Starmer has taken to lashing out at Nigel Farage. But his real enemy isn’t Farage, it’s the state of the country, writes Andrew Adonis.
Why is Starmer focusing so much on Farage?
The prime minister’s real enemy isn’t Reform—it’s the state of the country
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Keir Starmer has taken to lashing out at Nigel Farage. But his real enemy isn’t Farage, it’s the state of the country, writes Andrew Adonis.
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If your entire argument for why Jews should be protected is not because they are human beings and deserve respect but that they have been "a model minority," then congratulations, you have actually implied that if they weren't, that would justify a mass expulsion.
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If your entire argument for why Jews should be protected is not because they are human beings and deserve respect but that they have been "a model minority," then congratulations, you have actually implied that if they weren't, that would justify a mass expulsion.
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This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.
October 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.
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Jews have long been a terrible disappointment to antisemites.
Tommy Robinson blames "the elitist Jews" "the woke liberal elitist Jews like the Board of Deputies who are pro-Open Borders" & who are responsible for all of the problems Jews face, with their hugging up to Islam + open borders, not "like the real Zionist Jews"
x.com/HeidiBachram...
x.com/HeidiBachram...
Heidi Bachram 🎗️ on X: "Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0" / X
Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0
x.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Jews have long been a terrible disappointment to antisemites.
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Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.
Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
October 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.
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Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office
September 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office
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This really shouldn't even need saying, let alone agitating for. It is a truism more than a proposition.
Lib Dem leader Davey: “The Government needs to block any future contracts with Tesla, and block Musk from being granted a license to supply energy to British homes
“Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”
“Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”
September 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This really shouldn't even need saying, let alone agitating for. It is a truism more than a proposition.
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UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂
Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.
Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.
BREAKING: Tory MP Danny Kruger just defected to Reform. Big surprise, not. ~AA
September 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂
Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.
Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.
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Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
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Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
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The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
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It’s journalism’s obesogenic environment problem.
Everyone knows you’re meant to eat your greens (speak to domain experts, double-check), but social media has created a sea of cheap and convenient (open an app), hyper-palatable (sensationalised, alarmist), nutrient-poor (dubious veracity) options.
Everyone knows you’re meant to eat your greens (speak to domain experts, double-check), but social media has created a sea of cheap and convenient (open an app), hyper-palatable (sensationalised, alarmist), nutrient-poor (dubious veracity) options.
September 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It’s journalism’s obesogenic environment problem.
Everyone knows you’re meant to eat your greens (speak to domain experts, double-check), but social media has created a sea of cheap and convenient (open an app), hyper-palatable (sensationalised, alarmist), nutrient-poor (dubious veracity) options.
Everyone knows you’re meant to eat your greens (speak to domain experts, double-check), but social media has created a sea of cheap and convenient (open an app), hyper-palatable (sensationalised, alarmist), nutrient-poor (dubious veracity) options.
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Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage.
Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org.
Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.
Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org.
Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.
Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage.
Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org.
Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.
Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org.
Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.