Ms.Erupe
@mserupe.bsky.social
No nonsense Eastern European. Left two failing countries 🇷🇴🇬🇧 in 20 yrs. 🇪🇺🇷🇴🇬🇧🇦🇬 citizen.
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Also could everyone stop comparing the loss rate of UK Prime Ministers with Italian politics? Despite all its many problems, since 2015 the Italian political scene has been a paragon of stability compared to the chaos enveloping the UK.
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Also could everyone stop comparing the loss rate of UK Prime Ministers with Italian politics? Despite all its many problems, since 2015 the Italian political scene has been a paragon of stability compared to the chaos enveloping the UK.
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11. This story is being spun as one bad apple. That awful man went off-piste and betrayed the national interest. Yes, he did, and he did it secretly in his disgraceful dealings with Epstein.
But in other respects he undermined democracy with the full backing of the government.
It was the policy.
But in other respects he undermined democracy with the full backing of the government.
It was the policy.
February 3, 2026 at 7:43 AM
11. This story is being spun as one bad apple. That awful man went off-piste and betrayed the national interest. Yes, he did, and he did it secretly in his disgraceful dealings with Epstein.
But in other respects he undermined democracy with the full backing of the government.
It was the policy.
But in other respects he undermined democracy with the full backing of the government.
It was the policy.
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🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?
The old system worked under a set of conditions that are no longer present
www.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
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🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them:
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them:
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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Europe is heading to a point where Atlanticism becomes equated with Appeasement
January 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Europe is heading to a point where Atlanticism becomes equated with Appeasement
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That most voters don't seem to care is a significant indicator of the growing divergence between the wider public's image of the UK's place in the world and the continuing aspirations of UK media and political elites to retain some final vestige of great power status
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
That most voters don't seem to care is a significant indicator of the growing divergence between the wider public's image of the UK's place in the world and the continuing aspirations of UK media and political elites to retain some final vestige of great power status
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There was a time when I'd have cared deeply about the BBC.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There was a time when I'd have cared deeply about the BBC.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
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With a collapse of social norms no constitution can act as a total barrier on the road to disaster
But a written constitution can provide enough legal speedbumps to slow momentum and give more time for a defence for democracy
Without one the UK system gives a fascist leader a smooth speedway
But a written constitution can provide enough legal speedbumps to slow momentum and give more time for a defence for democracy
Without one the UK system gives a fascist leader a smooth speedway
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
With a collapse of social norms no constitution can act as a total barrier on the road to disaster
But a written constitution can provide enough legal speedbumps to slow momentum and give more time for a defence for democracy
Without one the UK system gives a fascist leader a smooth speedway
But a written constitution can provide enough legal speedbumps to slow momentum and give more time for a defence for democracy
Without one the UK system gives a fascist leader a smooth speedway
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It’s beyond pathetic. The mainstream media, on the whole, is comprised of feckless cowards and shameless hypocrites.
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It’s beyond pathetic. The mainstream media, on the whole, is comprised of feckless cowards and shameless hypocrites.
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The Tomahawks were never going to Kyiv. Moscow will not get its new Yalta.
A Budapest summit will end as another loud diplomatic farting noise that doesn't help Zelensky, Orban or Putin.
A lot of people need to get used to how useless America will be in a post-American world
A Budapest summit will end as another loud diplomatic farting noise that doesn't help Zelensky, Orban or Putin.
A lot of people need to get used to how useless America will be in a post-American world
October 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The Tomahawks were never going to Kyiv. Moscow will not get its new Yalta.
A Budapest summit will end as another loud diplomatic farting noise that doesn't help Zelensky, Orban or Putin.
A lot of people need to get used to how useless America will be in a post-American world
A Budapest summit will end as another loud diplomatic farting noise that doesn't help Zelensky, Orban or Putin.
A lot of people need to get used to how useless America will be in a post-American world
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October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Translation: British coach drivers routinely overstay unlawfully in Schengen.
October 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Translation: British coach drivers routinely overstay unlawfully in Schengen.
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According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory
October 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory
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Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
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A truly anomalous event here, where someone in the political class is facing the consequences of their actions.
An absolute impossibility in the UK or USA.
An absolute impossibility in the UK or USA.
September 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A truly anomalous event here, where someone in the political class is facing the consequences of their actions.
An absolute impossibility in the UK or USA.
An absolute impossibility in the UK or USA.
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BBC headline signed Chris Mason at Farage conference: “Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before.”
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?”
Fuck you, BBC.
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?”
Fuck you, BBC.
September 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
BBC headline signed Chris Mason at Farage conference: “Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before.”
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?”
Fuck you, BBC.
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?”
Fuck you, BBC.
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This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.
One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.
When Charlie Kirk, who put together lists of professors he didn't like so people could target & harass them, used the phrase "free speech", he used it in the same way creationists use "teach the controversy." For Kirk, it was just another way to bludgeon the left and also to promote his propaganda.
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.
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“It just could not happen in Britain.” It’s hard to express the fury that sentence generates inside me.
Newly released emails from Mandelson to Epstein - “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.
"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...
"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...
Epstein’s pal Mandelson COACHED paedo through arrest, leaked emails reveal
PETER Mandelson coached “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein through his “years of torture” over teen sex allegations, leaked emails suggest. While the predator was facing charges in June 2008 over solicitin…
www.thesun.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“It just could not happen in Britain.” It’s hard to express the fury that sentence generates inside me.
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Responses to the latest Russian drone incursion over Poland show how in hyperactive social media discourse the ability of personalist autocracies to move faster than other systems generates a comms advantage that masks long term structural impact of moves initiated by democracies
September 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Responses to the latest Russian drone incursion over Poland show how in hyperactive social media discourse the ability of personalist autocracies to move faster than other systems generates a comms advantage that masks long term structural impact of moves initiated by democracies
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I may have said it before, but my God, I hate that man.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
“Unless we act we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day,” said Boris Johnson as he forced the nation into lockdown for the second time.
A day later he hosted a secret dinner for the Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street flat
A day later he hosted a secret dinner for the Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street flat
Boris Johnson had dinner in lockdown with peer funding flat refit, files suggest
Apparent meeting with David Brownlow is one of several potential further lockdown breaches revealed in Boris Files
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I may have said it before, but my God, I hate that man.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
September 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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The thing that makes it hard for me to feel too bad about Rayner is that New Labour and New-New Labour politics is largely based around doing exactly this sort of stuff to people on benefits who don't even have the time or money to get the right legal advice...
September 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The thing that makes it hard for me to feel too bad about Rayner is that New Labour and New-New Labour politics is largely based around doing exactly this sort of stuff to people on benefits who don't even have the time or money to get the right legal advice...
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I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.