Mike McAndrew
@mikemca.bsky.social
Pain is but the occasional episode in a general drama of Happiness.
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So long as Labour hold firm on Brexit, all their bleating about having been dealt an atrocious hand by the Tories is so much hot air.
Support for "Make Brexit Works" holes that argument below the waterline.
It is ludicrous to be contemplating tax rises, but not trying to undo Brexit.
Support for "Make Brexit Works" holes that argument below the waterline.
It is ludicrous to be contemplating tax rises, but not trying to undo Brexit.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
So long as Labour hold firm on Brexit, all their bleating about having been dealt an atrocious hand by the Tories is so much hot air.
Support for "Make Brexit Works" holes that argument below the waterline.
It is ludicrous to be contemplating tax rises, but not trying to undo Brexit.
Support for "Make Brexit Works" holes that argument below the waterline.
It is ludicrous to be contemplating tax rises, but not trying to undo Brexit.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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First we take Manhattan.
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
First we take Manhattan.
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It seems a good day to repost this rousing Michael Sheen speech for the Welsh football team ahead of the World Cup in 2022 🏴
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It seems a good day to repost this rousing Michael Sheen speech for the Welsh football team ahead of the World Cup in 2022 🏴
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Lam believes her policy would deport all of the proportion in pink - keeping the thin group in black - of the post-2021 legal migrant arrivals. (The draft legislation proposes similar thresholds/rules for all past grants too). She says jar is 3.5m people: an astonishing scale of mass deportations
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Lam believes her policy would deport all of the proportion in pink - keeping the thin group in black - of the post-2021 legal migrant arrivals. (The draft legislation proposes similar thresholds/rules for all past grants too). She says jar is 3.5m people: an astonishing scale of mass deportations
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More I read of this piece the more I feel how few "experts" on neurodivergent individuals ever speak to us. It's hard enough to get reasonable accommodations as it is. Rather than reducing those available we should be working to increase them, including for adults.
www.thetimes.com/article/acda...
www.thetimes.com/article/acda...
October 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
More I read of this piece the more I feel how few "experts" on neurodivergent individuals ever speak to us. It's hard enough to get reasonable accommodations as it is. Rather than reducing those available we should be working to increase them, including for adults.
www.thetimes.com/article/acda...
www.thetimes.com/article/acda...
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We’re being asked by half the media & politicians to swallow the idea that known racist football hooligans should be allowed to rampage through our cities for NO OTHER REASON than that they happen to be Israeli.
Fuck. That.
Fuck. That.
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We’re being asked by half the media & politicians to swallow the idea that known racist football hooligans should be allowed to rampage through our cities for NO OTHER REASON than that they happen to be Israeli.
Fuck. That.
Fuck. That.
Is it stating the obvious that as so many people know the truth about Gaza, they will simply never vote for Starmer in 2029 for him to be able to win.
Without something transformative (and ex-Starmer) like PR or rejoining SM Labour are deservedly completely fucked.
All very Biden 2021.
Without something transformative (and ex-Starmer) like PR or rejoining SM Labour are deservedly completely fucked.
All very Biden 2021.
October 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Is it stating the obvious that as so many people know the truth about Gaza, they will simply never vote for Starmer in 2029 for him to be able to win.
Without something transformative (and ex-Starmer) like PR or rejoining SM Labour are deservedly completely fucked.
All very Biden 2021.
Without something transformative (and ex-Starmer) like PR or rejoining SM Labour are deservedly completely fucked.
All very Biden 2021.
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It’s a perfect storm;
1. Defunded journalism creating a vacuum that is cheaply filled by unchallenged bias.
2. Algorithms promoting anger
3. New undetectable ways of buying political control
4. Electoral politics having no resilience to cope with this.
Unchecked, it ends in fascism. Not if. When.
1. Defunded journalism creating a vacuum that is cheaply filled by unchallenged bias.
2. Algorithms promoting anger
3. New undetectable ways of buying political control
4. Electoral politics having no resilience to cope with this.
Unchecked, it ends in fascism. Not if. When.
October 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It’s a perfect storm;
1. Defunded journalism creating a vacuum that is cheaply filled by unchallenged bias.
2. Algorithms promoting anger
3. New undetectable ways of buying political control
4. Electoral politics having no resilience to cope with this.
Unchecked, it ends in fascism. Not if. When.
1. Defunded journalism creating a vacuum that is cheaply filled by unchallenged bias.
2. Algorithms promoting anger
3. New undetectable ways of buying political control
4. Electoral politics having no resilience to cope with this.
Unchecked, it ends in fascism. Not if. When.
Sarah is amazing!
It’s not often you have your own world view so completely validated - and from the perspective of a different Continent.
Important reading in these dark times.
It’s not often you have your own world view so completely validated - and from the perspective of a different Continent.
Important reading in these dark times.
New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered
On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Sarah is amazing!
It’s not often you have your own world view so completely validated - and from the perspective of a different Continent.
Important reading in these dark times.
It’s not often you have your own world view so completely validated - and from the perspective of a different Continent.
Important reading in these dark times.
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Do not fall for secessionist propaganda or “Texas is invading Illinois”! Pay attention to who is saying this, who is screwing you over, and what their end goal is.
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Do not fall for secessionist propaganda or “Texas is invading Illinois”! Pay attention to who is saying this, who is screwing you over, and what their end goal is.
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For those asking, this interview with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social was on stage at SXSW. Here's the whole interview:
www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...
www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...
The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
For those asking, this interview with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social was on stage at SXSW. Here's the whole interview:
www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...
www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...
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Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.
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Column: UK foreign policy is an all-in bet on an idea of America that doesn’t exist anymore. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Keir Starmer is betting everything on an America that doesn’t exist any more | Rafael Behr
Cosying up to Trump is an all-in gamble. Britain should be building better relations with more reliable allies closer to home, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Column: UK foreign policy is an all-in bet on an idea of America that doesn’t exist anymore. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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You know what, yeah, people have concerns. They're concerned about paying bills, renting or buying a house, buying food, getting an NHS appointment etc. None of that's down to migrants.
If you attend a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, don't play the "legitimate concerns" card. You're a racist. 1/
If you attend a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, don't play the "legitimate concerns" card. You're a racist. 1/
Ranvir Singh: "I don't want to believe that 150,000 people are out & out racists.. the worry for me is that somebody whos got a concern.. they end up being [represented by] someone whos very extreme"
Absolutely, the far right is using issues like the boats to radicalise people
Absolutely, the far right is using issues like the boats to radicalise people
September 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You know what, yeah, people have concerns. They're concerned about paying bills, renting or buying a house, buying food, getting an NHS appointment etc. None of that's down to migrants.
If you attend a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, don't play the "legitimate concerns" card. You're a racist. 1/
If you attend a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, don't play the "legitimate concerns" card. You're a racist. 1/
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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Linehan 'relentlessly' posted abuse about trans teen, court told www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Graham Linehan ‘relentlessly’ posted abuse about trans teenager, court told
Prosecution tells hearing Father Ted writer’s posts about Sophia Brooks, 18, were ‘oppressive and unacceptable’
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Linehan 'relentlessly' posted abuse about trans teen, court told www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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1 September 2025 is the day Labour went FULL REFORM.
They're dead as a party. The next few years will be spent on twitching and rigor mortis, but they're done. Today was the finale.
Astonishing. Who could have dared predict it when they swept to power with a massive majority just over a year ago?
They're dead as a party. The next few years will be spent on twitching and rigor mortis, but they're done. Today was the finale.
Astonishing. Who could have dared predict it when they swept to power with a massive majority just over a year ago?
BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
September 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
1 September 2025 is the day Labour went FULL REFORM.
They're dead as a party. The next few years will be spent on twitching and rigor mortis, but they're done. Today was the finale.
Astonishing. Who could have dared predict it when they swept to power with a massive majority just over a year ago?
They're dead as a party. The next few years will be spent on twitching and rigor mortis, but they're done. Today was the finale.
Astonishing. Who could have dared predict it when they swept to power with a massive majority just over a year ago?
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It's 9pm .. and yet again BBCNews is once again leading the news agenda with a story about refugees - when there is no new 'news' on refugees... None whatsoever.
The BBC news is completely in thrall to the far right.
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It's 9pm .. and yet again BBCNews is once again leading the news agenda with a story about refugees - when there is no new 'news' on refugees... None whatsoever.
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Much the largest UK protest on Friday was a Palestine solidarity protest in London at the Embassy of Israel, with a small pro-Israel protest. That isn't being covered as newsworthy by UK mainstream print/broadcast outlets who are following the smaller asylum protests
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/pr...
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/pr...
Pro-Palestine supporters protest outside Israeli Embassy in London to draw attention to Gaza famine
'Barbarity upon barbarity upon barbarity, and today from our government, nothing but further, empty words of condemnation,' says head of Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
August 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Much the largest UK protest on Friday was a Palestine solidarity protest in London at the Embassy of Israel, with a small pro-Israel protest. That isn't being covered as newsworthy by UK mainstream print/broadcast outlets who are following the smaller asylum protests
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/pr...
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/pr...
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🏳️⚧️🚨 New letter from MPs on trans rights & EHRC Consultation on the #ForWomenScotland ruling.
I have written a letter to the EHRC to urgently raise concerns about the Draft Code of Practice consultation after the ruling. I am proud to say that 32 of my colleagues have signed it too.
I have written a letter to the EHRC to urgently raise concerns about the Draft Code of Practice consultation after the ruling. I am proud to say that 32 of my colleagues have signed it too.
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🏳️⚧️🚨 New letter from MPs on trans rights & EHRC Consultation on the #ForWomenScotland ruling.
I have written a letter to the EHRC to urgently raise concerns about the Draft Code of Practice consultation after the ruling. I am proud to say that 32 of my colleagues have signed it too.
I have written a letter to the EHRC to urgently raise concerns about the Draft Code of Practice consultation after the ruling. I am proud to say that 32 of my colleagues have signed it too.
Anyone imagining this is like Iraq 2003 and they will return to the fold is not reading the room. The last year in government with the power to act against that appalling slaughter means a HUGE amount of people will never vote for them again. Ever. They are deservedly completely fucked.
August 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Anyone imagining this is like Iraq 2003 and they will return to the fold is not reading the room. The last year in government with the power to act against that appalling slaughter means a HUGE amount of people will never vote for them again. Ever. They are deservedly completely fucked.
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12 points to Gryffindor
July 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
12 points to Gryffindor
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Carl Sagan was prescient.
June 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Carl Sagan was prescient.
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Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...