Peter Geoghegan
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Irishman in London.
Was is Watson’s racism reported passively?
In 2007, he had said some anti-Semitism was justified
“Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society.”
Nah, mate. You really wouldn’t
In 2007, he had said some anti-Semitism was justified
“Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society.”
Nah, mate. You really wouldn’t
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Was is Watson’s racism reported passively?
In 2007, he had said some anti-Semitism was justified
“Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society.”
Nah, mate. You really wouldn’t
In 2007, he had said some anti-Semitism was justified
“Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society.”
Nah, mate. You really wouldn’t
Really interesting piece in Weekend FT on rise of Catholic right (something I’ve been following for a while)
But shame to see ‘Leonard Leo’ misnamed as ‘Leo Leonard’…
But shame to see ‘Leonard Leo’ misnamed as ‘Leo Leonard’…
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Really interesting piece in Weekend FT on rise of Catholic right (something I’ve been following for a while)
But shame to see ‘Leonard Leo’ misnamed as ‘Leo Leonard’…
But shame to see ‘Leonard Leo’ misnamed as ‘Leo Leonard’…
At a really important discussion on how the law is being used to attack journalists - including in the U.K.
October 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
At a really important discussion on how the law is being used to attack journalists - including in the U.K.
Hard to argue with the message on the bottom of this bus, in Westminster 😬
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hard to argue with the message on the bottom of this bus, in Westminster 😬
About to speak about how billionaires are buying democracy at the fantastic Zeg story telling festival at Finsbury town hall with @oliverbullough.bsky.social and @suehawley.bsky.social 😊
October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
About to speak about how billionaires are buying democracy at the fantastic Zeg story telling festival at Finsbury town hall with @oliverbullough.bsky.social and @suehawley.bsky.social 😊
If Robert Jenrick thinks the story of 1980s football hooliganism is ‘The police put a quick but firm end to it’, I’ve a big bag of magic beans that he’s gonna *love*
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If Robert Jenrick thinks the story of 1980s football hooliganism is ‘The police put a quick but firm end to it’, I’ve a big bag of magic beans that he’s gonna *love*
This is a very good - if very lugubrious - read
Pithy, acutely observed and unstinting in showing how liberal democracies are being pushed aside by strongmen - and how ineffective, and divided are the politicians supposed to protect them
Pithy, acutely observed and unstinting in showing how liberal democracies are being pushed aside by strongmen - and how ineffective, and divided are the politicians supposed to protect them
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is a very good - if very lugubrious - read
Pithy, acutely observed and unstinting in showing how liberal democracies are being pushed aside by strongmen - and how ineffective, and divided are the politicians supposed to protect them
Pithy, acutely observed and unstinting in showing how liberal democracies are being pushed aside by strongmen - and how ineffective, and divided are the politicians supposed to protect them
How it’s going…
The commentator also sounds like Alan Partridge, for some reason
The commentator also sounds like Alan Partridge, for some reason
October 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
How it’s going…
The commentator also sounds like Alan Partridge, for some reason
The commentator also sounds like Alan Partridge, for some reason
This is so going to be the worst £2.49 I’ve ever spent
October 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is so going to be the worst £2.49 I’ve ever spent
At the launch of the Nerve with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social et al in Liverpool.
Great to see a panel set below a quote from Gaston Bachelard (the Poetics of Space is *amazing*)
Great to see a panel set below a quote from Gaston Bachelard (the Poetics of Space is *amazing*)
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
At the launch of the Nerve with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social et al in Liverpool.
Great to see a panel set below a quote from Gaston Bachelard (the Poetics of Space is *amazing*)
Great to see a panel set below a quote from Gaston Bachelard (the Poetics of Space is *amazing*)
Really chuffed to be name checked by @carolvorders.bsky.social on Labour Party fringe session on independent media with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Really chuffed to be name checked by @carolvorders.bsky.social on Labour Party fringe session on independent media with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
‘An idealistic, handsome, and charismatic new comer runs for office’
For the weekend that’s in it, tonight’s viewing 😊
For the weekend that’s in it, tonight’s viewing 😊
September 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
‘An idealistic, handsome, and charismatic new comer runs for office’
For the weekend that’s in it, tonight’s viewing 😊
For the weekend that’s in it, tonight’s viewing 😊
Populist movements across West are being driven by groups of people who don't all believe the same thing - but all share a huge distrust of institutions, fed by social media's algorithms
Must watch with @eliothiggins.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-algori...
Must watch with @eliothiggins.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-algori...
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Populist movements across West are being driven by groups of people who don't all believe the same thing - but all share a huge distrust of institutions, fed by social media's algorithms
Must watch with @eliothiggins.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-algori...
Must watch with @eliothiggins.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-algori...
The Central Line’s evidently won’t be tuning into the Spectator’s new podcast
September 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Central Line’s evidently won’t be tuning into the Spectator’s new podcast
The view this morning.
Hate can be defeated, by ordinary, decent people.
But it also needs political leadership standing up to it. Which Britain doesn’t seem to have right now
Hate can be defeated, by ordinary, decent people.
But it also needs political leadership standing up to it. Which Britain doesn’t seem to have right now
September 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The view this morning.
Hate can be defeated, by ordinary, decent people.
But it also needs political leadership standing up to it. Which Britain doesn’t seem to have right now
Hate can be defeated, by ordinary, decent people.
But it also needs political leadership standing up to it. Which Britain doesn’t seem to have right now
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
I’ll always remember very gently ribbing him about being north London liberal elite at a book festival in ireland. He had a wicked sense of humour and was great company
(I’m going to miss him, a lot. We were due to be having our regular lunch on Monday)
(I’m going to miss him, a lot. We were due to be having our regular lunch on Monday)
September 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I’ll always remember very gently ribbing him about being north London liberal elite at a book festival in ireland. He had a wicked sense of humour and was great company
(I’m going to miss him, a lot. We were due to be having our regular lunch on Monday)
(I’m going to miss him, a lot. We were due to be having our regular lunch on Monday)
I’ll always remember the session I did with Conor at Granard booktown festival earlier this year.
He was in his element. On home turf. Talking about the law, and human rights, and why democracy matters.
But also having a great laugh, at the world and himself.
A real class act
He was in his element. On home turf. Talking about the law, and human rights, and why democracy matters.
But also having a great laugh, at the world and himself.
A real class act
September 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’ll always remember the session I did with Conor at Granard booktown festival earlier this year.
He was in his element. On home turf. Talking about the law, and human rights, and why democracy matters.
But also having a great laugh, at the world and himself.
A real class act
He was in his element. On home turf. Talking about the law, and human rights, and why democracy matters.
But also having a great laugh, at the world and himself.
A real class act
"Money buys influence in British democracy"
My evidence from Parliament yesterday on threats from foreign influence in British politics.
Full video on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel (Do subscribe!!)
www.youtube.com/@Democracy_f...
My evidence from Parliament yesterday on threats from foreign influence in British politics.
Full video on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel (Do subscribe!!)
www.youtube.com/@Democracy_f...
September 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Money buys influence in British democracy"
My evidence from Parliament yesterday on threats from foreign influence in British politics.
Full video on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel (Do subscribe!!)
www.youtube.com/@Democracy_f...
My evidence from Parliament yesterday on threats from foreign influence in British politics.
Full video on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel (Do subscribe!!)
www.youtube.com/@Democracy_f...
APPGs are meant to be informal parliamentary groups.
But this one sold corporate sponsors “networking opportunities with MPs and policymakers” — with senior ministers attending events and Labour MPs tabling dozens of parliamentary questions backing defence industry interests.
But this one sold corporate sponsors “networking opportunities with MPs and policymakers” — with senior ministers attending events and Labour MPs tabling dozens of parliamentary questions backing defence industry interests.
September 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
APPGs are meant to be informal parliamentary groups.
But this one sold corporate sponsors “networking opportunities with MPs and policymakers” — with senior ministers attending events and Labour MPs tabling dozens of parliamentary questions backing defence industry interests.
But this one sold corporate sponsors “networking opportunities with MPs and policymakers” — with senior ministers attending events and Labour MPs tabling dozens of parliamentary questions backing defence industry interests.
Andrea Jenkyns has just suggested that in power Reform would bring in legislation to *ban* public sector workers striking.
😬
😬
September 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Andrea Jenkyns has just suggested that in power Reform would bring in legislation to *ban* public sector workers striking.
😬
😬
Questioner at a Reform fringe suggests that the Fabian society is akin to the Masons and calls for a future reform government to investigate them
September 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Questioner at a Reform fringe suggests that the Fabian society is akin to the Masons and calls for a future reform government to investigate them
‘Drill baby, drill’ says Andrea Jenkyns before calling on audience to repeat after her ‘Nigel will be prime minister. Reform will save Britain’
September 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
‘Drill baby, drill’ says Andrea Jenkyns before calling on audience to repeat after her ‘Nigel will be prime minister. Reform will save Britain’
The biggest stall in the centre of the Reform conference exhibition hall… is Nigel Farage flogging gold bullion
September 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The biggest stall in the centre of the Reform conference exhibition hall… is Nigel Farage flogging gold bullion
At Institute for Government in London for an event on the Freedom of Information Act at 25.
My Democracy for Sale colleague @jennacorderoy.bsky.social rightly stressing that FOI responses are at an all time low.
So much prevarication from government departments in particular
My Democracy for Sale colleague @jennacorderoy.bsky.social rightly stressing that FOI responses are at an all time low.
So much prevarication from government departments in particular
September 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
At Institute for Government in London for an event on the Freedom of Information Act at 25.
My Democracy for Sale colleague @jennacorderoy.bsky.social rightly stressing that FOI responses are at an all time low.
So much prevarication from government departments in particular
My Democracy for Sale colleague @jennacorderoy.bsky.social rightly stressing that FOI responses are at an all time low.
So much prevarication from government departments in particular