Tom Brown
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It began in Balham, Gateway to the South
The headline sounds almost surreal today...centrists? Shock victory? What? Are they sure? BBC News - Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says
Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The headline sounds almost surreal today...centrists? Shock victory? What? Are they sure? BBC News - Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
#HeresJohnny100
Don't cry for him, Argentina: Investors bet on Argentine peso devaluation after weekend elections - on.ft.com/4oxZfwO via @FT
Investors bet on Argentine peso devaluation after weekend elections
Forward contracts indicate a 12% decline for currency despite $40bn US support package
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October 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Don't cry for him, Argentina: Investors bet on Argentine peso devaluation after weekend elections - on.ft.com/4oxZfwO via @FT
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No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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Princess Anne visited Kyiv to support children and war veterans. She met President Zelenskyy to discuss UK aid and toured the Children’s Memorial and Child Rights Protection Center, which helps youth affected by the war.
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Princess Anne visited Kyiv to support children and war veterans. She met President Zelenskyy to discuss UK aid and toured the Children’s Memorial and Child Rights Protection Center, which helps youth affected by the war.
Euro’s rally has further to run, Wall Street banks predict - on.ft.com/4nrmubP via @FT
Euro’s rally has further to run, Wall Street banks predict
Hedging against the US dollar will soon drive the single currency through $1.20, analysts say
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September 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Euro’s rally has further to run, Wall Street banks predict - on.ft.com/4nrmubP via @FT
If he wants it, I think Sadiq Khan has just been reelected London Mayor by an even bigger majority thanks to some free promotion at the UN in New York today..
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If he wants it, I think Sadiq Khan has just been reelected London Mayor by an even bigger majority thanks to some free promotion at the UN in New York today..
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Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
If you're dumb enough to put your life savings into 'crypto assets' (sic)... - on.ft.com/4mkOvjL via @FT
Your phone gets stolen. Your crypto may be next
London is seeing a spike in crypto robberies — and it is the gold mine of information on our mobiles that makes it possible
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September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you're dumb enough to put your life savings into 'crypto assets' (sic)... - on.ft.com/4mkOvjL via @FT
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The Society is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025). An inspirational architect and always a gentlemen, his buildings are beautiful, original and inventive solutions to elegantly analysed briefs. We can think of no finer tribute than listing his Waterloo Int. Terminal.
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Society is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025). An inspirational architect and always a gentlemen, his buildings are beautiful, original and inventive solutions to elegantly analysed briefs. We can think of no finer tribute than listing his Waterloo Int. Terminal.
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong - on.ft.com/42gM9eT via @FT
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
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September 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong - on.ft.com/42gM9eT via @FT
If calling for violence to overthrow a lawfully elected government is considered terrorist speech, why doesn't the new UK Home Secretary designate Elon Musk and his companies terrorist organisations?
September 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If calling for violence to overthrow a lawfully elected government is considered terrorist speech, why doesn't the new UK Home Secretary designate Elon Musk and his companies terrorist organisations?
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Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues
When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.
September 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues
So Nadine Dorries, author of the Online Safety Act, leaves the Tories for the Reform Party just as its Dictator declares to the US Congress that its effect on free speech makes England like North Korea? And thus she was always known as Mad Nad..
September 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So Nadine Dorries, author of the Online Safety Act, leaves the Tories for the Reform Party just as its Dictator declares to the US Congress that its effect on free speech makes England like North Korea? And thus she was always known as Mad Nad..
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Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV.
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
August 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV.
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
RFK Jr is an ignorant nut.
In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
Looks like a teenage fuckwit, writes like a teenage fuckwit and so presumably is a teenage fuckwit: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Looks like a teenage fuckwit, writes like a teenage fuckwit and so presumably is a teenage fuckwit: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is hilarious, sad and quite worrying at the same time: Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right - on.ft.com/4n4Meu7 via @FT
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
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August 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is hilarious, sad and quite worrying at the same time: Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right - on.ft.com/4n4Meu7 via @FT
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Former commander of Greenham Common here
August 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Former commander of Greenham Common here
You should be careful what you wish for: Yvette Cooper had better hope Spain, Australia, Thailand & other countries don't react to her populist 'deport them now' policy by immediately deporting Britons in their jails or she may find UK jails are even fuller than before!
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
You should be careful what you wish for: Yvette Cooper had better hope Spain, Australia, Thailand & other countries don't react to her populist 'deport them now' policy by immediately deporting Britons in their jails or she may find UK jails are even fuller than before!
How a Mafia crackdown drives economic growth - on.ft.com/46N6ATA via @FT
How a Mafia crackdown drives economic growth
When the state breaks rackets, it creates space for honest enterprises to flourish
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August 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
How a Mafia crackdown drives economic growth - on.ft.com/46N6ATA via @FT
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Depending on where you live and what you count as a party, the UK now has six- or seven-party politics....
We are a European country with a first-past-the-post political system, which was built for two parties, and is now going haywire as our politics fragments.
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
We are a European country with a first-past-the-post political system, which was built for two parties, and is now going haywire as our politics fragments.
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The British democratic disaster
Peter Kellner on a collapse of legitimacy
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August 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Depending on where you live and what you count as a party, the UK now has six- or seven-party politics....
We are a European country with a first-past-the-post political system, which was built for two parties, and is now going haywire as our politics fragments.
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
We are a European country with a first-past-the-post political system, which was built for two parties, and is now going haywire as our politics fragments.
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The logic behind the deregulation push by Rachel Reeves is flawed - on.ft.com/4okk7Iv via @FT
The logic behind the deregulation push by Rachel Reeves is flawed
The precedents for liberalising rules in finance do not augur well
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August 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The logic behind the deregulation push by Rachel Reeves is flawed - on.ft.com/4okk7Iv via @FT