luke dodd
@lukedodd8.bsky.social
transport nerd, i like urbanism and trains, he/him
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It is 2014, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2017, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2024, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2028, MPs
It is 2017, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2024, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2028, MPs
A final decision on how to repair Britain’s crumbling parliament is likely to be postponed beyond the next general election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It is 2014, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2017, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2024, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2028, MPs
It is 2017, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2024, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2028, MPs
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went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!
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So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.
Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....
Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....
Well that's not how appropriations work at all
*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.
Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....
Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....
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I’m sure “politician secretly working with country that keeps threatening to nuke us” used to be a bigger story
September 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I’m sure “politician secretly working with country that keeps threatening to nuke us” used to be a bigger story
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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I think the lesson of the last decade is that when you suddenly remove American leadership the gap gets filled by *nothing*
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I think the lesson of the last decade is that when you suddenly remove American leadership the gap gets filled by *nothing*
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
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In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.
"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."
Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.
Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.
September 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.
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I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.
September 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.
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Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
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Don't attack them for being hypocritical, attack them for being homophobes.
It is, again, something that sets them out from the British public, even on the right.
It is, again, something that sets them out from the British public, even on the right.
Nigel Farage:
"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."
Farage has two ex-wives.
"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."
Farage has two ex-wives.
September 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Don't attack them for being hypocritical, attack them for being homophobes.
It is, again, something that sets them out from the British public, even on the right.
It is, again, something that sets them out from the British public, even on the right.
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Have deleted this earlier post of mine as I think calling it a lie doesn’t quite hold up to scrutiny without me moving the goalposts, and detracted from my core point that the overemphasis on Blue Sky is indicative of where Webb is getting his information
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Have deleted this earlier post of mine as I think calling it a lie doesn’t quite hold up to scrutiny without me moving the goalposts, and detracted from my core point that the overemphasis on Blue Sky is indicative of where Webb is getting his information
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If listing cases of 2025 US political violence, one would include the Charlie Kirk killing, the Melissa Horman killing (MN state legislator), and the CDC shooting.
The president omitting Horman and CDC, but reaching back 8 years for a non-deadly shooting to cite, conveys approval of those shootings.
The president omitting Horman and CDC, but reaching back 8 years for a non-deadly shooting to cite, conveys approval of those shootings.
September 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If listing cases of 2025 US political violence, one would include the Charlie Kirk killing, the Melissa Horman killing (MN state legislator), and the CDC shooting.
The president omitting Horman and CDC, but reaching back 8 years for a non-deadly shooting to cite, conveys approval of those shootings.
The president omitting Horman and CDC, but reaching back 8 years for a non-deadly shooting to cite, conveys approval of those shootings.
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can never tell how much these people are drastically overestimating the level of interest in politics from most students and how much they’re just lying. tend to think more the latter but they keep coming back to it!
'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3
Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage
Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
can never tell how much these people are drastically overestimating the level of interest in politics from most students and how much they’re just lying. tend to think more the latter but they keep coming back to it!
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Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.
September 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.
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taking a photo of anyone in public, otherwise minding their own business, for the purpose of mocking them is antisocial behavior and the people involved should be shamed
I'm seeing a social media trend where people are sneaking pics of men reading books in public and making fun of them as "performative males"
And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying
And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying
September 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
taking a photo of anyone in public, otherwise minding their own business, for the purpose of mocking them is antisocial behavior and the people involved should be shamed
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Think my views on the union are coalescing around "it's a wonderful thing that England does not deserve"
August 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Think my views on the union are coalescing around "it's a wonderful thing that England does not deserve"
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I've said this before, but every time I've gone back to the UK in the last 25 years I've been shocked by *some* sign of the atmosphere getting worse toward migrants, from government announcements to private attitudes. I'm hesitant to go back right now at all out of sadness at where we are.
I've been home 5 times this summer, and the temperature has steadily ratcheted up. MPs are now openly calling people of colour the N word, and mainstream TV is asking if the Navy should shoot refugees in the sea. I don't know how you backtrack from the sheer hate and cruelty that has been unleashed
August 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I've said this before, but every time I've gone back to the UK in the last 25 years I've been shocked by *some* sign of the atmosphere getting worse toward migrants, from government announcements to private attitudes. I'm hesitant to go back right now at all out of sadness at where we are.
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On a deeper level, MPs in a representative democracy are under an obligation to *listen* to whatever their constituents believe, they’re not under an obligation to act as if it’s true or moral when it’s not.
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
On a deeper level, MPs in a representative democracy are under an obligation to *listen* to whatever their constituents believe, they’re not under an obligation to act as if it’s true or moral when it’s not.
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he's revelling in humiliating the United States by helping Trump destroy it the same way he felt humiliated when the United States helped destroy the Soviet Union
check out the smirk on Putin's face in the latter part of this clip. He's loving this.
August 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
he's revelling in humiliating the United States by helping Trump destroy it the same way he felt humiliated when the United States helped destroy the Soviet Union
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So I was curious how Chat GPT would respond to being called a "clanker" so I fired it up for the first time in years, called it a "clanker", and then this happened lmao.
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
So I was curious how Chat GPT would respond to being called a "clanker" so I fired it up for the first time in years, called it a "clanker", and then this happened lmao.
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We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich
We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich
From the Washington Post to CBS, companies are caving to Trump. This is how democracy dies
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich