Simon Bazalgette
@simonbazalgette.bsky.social
A few of my obsessions: Family, Brentford, The Fall, Horseracing, Roundhouse and leaving the world a better place. How hard can it be?
What a great night this was, a lot of love for Johnny Green, MC'd brilliantly by his son Earl. Thanks @johncooperclarke.bsky.social, @richardhawley.bsky.social, Stewart Lee, Phil Jupitus, Mike Garry, @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social @freyabeer.bsky.social, Toria Garbutt and all involved.
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What a great night this was, a lot of love for Johnny Green, MC'd brilliantly by his son Earl. Thanks @johncooperclarke.bsky.social, @richardhawley.bsky.social, Stewart Lee, Phil Jupitus, Mike Garry, @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social @freyabeer.bsky.social, Toria Garbutt and all involved.
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
For those of us interested and concerned with the Government's approach, I found this a helpful guide to the consultation process.
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
For those of us interested and concerned with the Government's approach, I found this a helpful guide to the consultation process.
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Fantasy numbers.
Many of those "EU nationals" claims he can cut benefits to *are already UK citizens*.
Almost all the rest are entitled to UK citizenship.
Idea this will save any significant sum is simply absurd.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Many of those "EU nationals" claims he can cut benefits to *are already UK citizens*.
Almost all the rest are entitled to UK citizenship.
Idea this will save any significant sum is simply absurd.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform plans to strip EU citizens of benefit rights, says Farage
Leader Nigel Farage says his party would renegotiate the Brexit deal struck by the Tory government.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fantasy numbers.
Many of those "EU nationals" claims he can cut benefits to *are already UK citizens*.
Almost all the rest are entitled to UK citizenship.
Idea this will save any significant sum is simply absurd.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Many of those "EU nationals" claims he can cut benefits to *are already UK citizens*.
Almost all the rest are entitled to UK citizenship.
Idea this will save any significant sum is simply absurd.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Join me in supporting the BBC to retain it status as one of the UK's most trusted institutions - that's what real patriots do!
38d.gs/cicq
38d.gs/cicq
Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
38d.gs
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Join me in supporting the BBC to retain it status as one of the UK's most trusted institutions - that's what real patriots do!
38d.gs/cicq
38d.gs/cicq
One of the most worrying thing about the Trumpian wing of politics has been their attempts, quite often successful, to attack and corrupt independent institutions.
We need to defend the BBC, one of the most trusted institutions in the UK. It's far from perfect, but it's pretty bloody good!
We need to defend the BBC, one of the most trusted institutions in the UK. It's far from perfect, but it's pretty bloody good!
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One of the most worrying thing about the Trumpian wing of politics has been their attempts, quite often successful, to attack and corrupt independent institutions.
We need to defend the BBC, one of the most trusted institutions in the UK. It's far from perfect, but it's pretty bloody good!
We need to defend the BBC, one of the most trusted institutions in the UK. It's far from perfect, but it's pretty bloody good!
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"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
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Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
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October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.
Elon musk: ‘Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when.’
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.
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"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
The British right is swimming in an open sewer
We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme
www.newstatesman.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
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Can you imagine if Keir Starmer got private companies that he had direct power over and rich donors who wanted deregulation to pay £250 million in donations to knock down part of Big Ben to make his own little special tower? Because that's what Trump is doing to the White House literally right now.
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can you imagine if Keir Starmer got private companies that he had direct power over and rich donors who wanted deregulation to pay £250 million in donations to knock down part of Big Ben to make his own little special tower? Because that's what Trump is doing to the White House literally right now.
C'mon you Bees! @brentfordfc.com Finally got one in, let's keep it up.
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
C'mon you Bees! @brentfordfc.com Finally got one in, let's keep it up.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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This -official Conservative policy - is essentially identical to the Reform policy that the Prime Minister described as "racist and immoral" and would "rip out country apart".
Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .
Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .
Lam's proposal is to refuse future grants of ILR but to cancel past grants of permanent status to anyone who is not likely to be a fiscal net contributor, and anyone "who has accessed state support" once they got permanent status. That will revoke pledges to those told this was their permanent home.
October 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This -official Conservative policy - is essentially identical to the Reform policy that the Prime Minister described as "racist and immoral" and would "rip out country apart".
Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .
Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
A reminder of a great night with the Ambrassadors doing their Abba night. Keep an eye out for them when they go on tour, or also a great band for weddings and parties...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Voulez Vous (Live) - ABBA Brass
YouTube video by The Ambrassadors
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A reminder of a great night with the Ambrassadors doing their Abba night. Keep an eye out for them when they go on tour, or also a great band for weddings and parties...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.
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This was in the Observer today
October 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This was in the Observer today
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Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.
Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
October 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.
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This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.
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Chris Murphy just offered an extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod.
"This isn’t a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity. The world [is] watching to see what we stand for."
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
"This isn’t a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity. The world [is] watching to see what we stand for."
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Chris Murphy’s Extraordinary New Takedown of Trump Should Wake Up Dems
The Democratic Senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too la...
newrepublic.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Chris Murphy just offered an extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod.
"This isn’t a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity. The world [is] watching to see what we stand for."
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
"This isn’t a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity. The world [is] watching to see what we stand for."
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Could they be the best band that most people haven’t heard of? Loving the Beta Band at the Roundhouse, 30 years since the extraordinary first 3 EPs.
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Could they be the best band that most people haven’t heard of? Loving the Beta Band at the Roundhouse, 30 years since the extraordinary first 3 EPs.
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It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:
Guns at Annunciation
I was baptized at the church where kids were murdered. It's a canary in the coal mine for a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns.
www.forkingpaths.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:
A good description of how civility and respect are breaking down amongst certain elements in the US, particularly those who take their lead from their current President. Leaders are always role models, for better or worse.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America | Bryan Armen Graham
European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A good description of how civility and respect are breaking down amongst certain elements in the US, particularly those who take their lead from their current President. Leaders are always role models, for better or worse.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...