Claudia Wood
@woodclaudia.bsky.social
Former policy wonk and serial think-tanker. Londoner living in NI.
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Still in a&e - had a decision to admit a few hours ago but there aren't any beds. I've become a statistic in one of my own reports.
Back in A&E (kidney problems this time).
A woman turned to me earlier and said - out of nowhere - "are you afraid of getting old"?
I'm in a Beckett play.
A woman turned to me earlier and said - out of nowhere - "are you afraid of getting old"?
I'm in a Beckett play.
October 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Still in a&e - had a decision to admit a few hours ago but there aren't any beds. I've become a statistic in one of my own reports.
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Govt has not reviewed its use of X since April 2023, despite its outsize contribution to the 2024 riots, Elon Musk's decision to replatform most accounts removed for the promotion of violence (reversing decisions after the Christchurch mosque massacre) and Musk championing Tommy Robinson
August 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Govt has not reviewed its use of X since April 2023, despite its outsize contribution to the 2024 riots, Elon Musk's decision to replatform most accounts removed for the promotion of violence (reversing decisions after the Christchurch mosque massacre) and Musk championing Tommy Robinson
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Trump isn't a Russian agent. He's an attention seeking fool. And the amount of resources being taken up worldwide managing him is obscene.
August 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Trump isn't a Russian agent. He's an attention seeking fool. And the amount of resources being taken up worldwide managing him is obscene.
@appleseeds.bsky.social hello - do you happen to be the same appleseeds who authored Promise?
August 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
@appleseeds.bsky.social hello - do you happen to be the same appleseeds who authored Promise?
Absolutely, decisively not.
June 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Absolutely, decisively not.
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We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit.
Do join us…
Do join us…
June 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit.
Do join us…
Do join us…
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It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
The Long Goodbye
Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
jonn.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
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"turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right"
apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
May 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right"
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When both parties responsible for Brexit campaign against independent trade deals, you do have to wonder what the point of it was
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
When both parties responsible for Brexit campaign against independent trade deals, you do have to wonder what the point of it was
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'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'.
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
May 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'.
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
In today's edition of "how the f**k is this news?", yet another entry from The Fail.
What on earth is the line of thinking behind what makes this news + front line splash?
Why is later career as a lawyer/judge of somebody who Starmer had a personal relationship with at some point around 1998 + ending over > 20 years ago relevant?
(He got engaged in 2004, married 2008)
Why is later career as a lawyer/judge of somebody who Starmer had a personal relationship with at some point around 1998 + ending over > 20 years ago relevant?
(He got engaged in 2004, married 2008)
April 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In today's edition of "how the f**k is this news?", yet another entry from The Fail.
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I like how Twitter now is a mix of pornography, Russian troll farmers, Elon Musk having a ket breakdown, and half a dozen people from political thinktanks still trying to tweet about regional growth
April 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I like how Twitter now is a mix of pornography, Russian troll farmers, Elon Musk having a ket breakdown, and half a dozen people from political thinktanks still trying to tweet about regional growth
Yes this is an awful story, but when I see these sorts of posts (not just in the US, there have been plenty of instances in the UK) I mainly just think - when did politics become so unserious?
April 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Yes this is an awful story, but when I see these sorts of posts (not just in the US, there have been plenty of instances in the UK) I mainly just think - when did politics become so unserious?
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Fascinating to watch political communication of positive nationalism. (These are immense political ads.)
March 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fascinating to watch political communication of positive nationalism. (These are immense political ads.)
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A thread of arbitrary detentions and deportations of those with legal status
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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A thread of arbitrary detentions and deportations of those with legal status
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bsky.app/profile/casm...
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Donald Corleone, turning the US into a mafia state. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland
The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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March 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Donald Corleone, turning the US into a mafia state. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I find it hard to believe that the Russian counteroffensive in Kursk and reactivation of missile salvoes from its Black Sea Fleet wasn’t planned with the expectation Trump would blind Ukraine by cutting off intelligence and satellite reconnaissance
March 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I find it hard to believe that the Russian counteroffensive in Kursk and reactivation of missile salvoes from its Black Sea Fleet wasn’t planned with the expectation Trump would blind Ukraine by cutting off intelligence and satellite reconnaissance
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We must get serious. Now excuse me while I wang on about pronouns in a speech about defence
Badenoch: “We must get serious within our own nation…
“We cannot waste effort on trivia such as declaring our pronouns or trying to redefine what a woman is. We shouldn’t apologise for our past. Our leaders should not be taking the knee.”
“We cannot waste effort on trivia such as declaring our pronouns or trying to redefine what a woman is. We shouldn’t apologise for our past. Our leaders should not be taking the knee.”
February 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We must get serious. Now excuse me while I wang on about pronouns in a speech about defence
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🔴‘Wales Is Leading the Way on Ending Lying in Politics. Westminster Must Now Do the Same’
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
'Wales Is Leading the Way on Ending Lying in Politics. Westminster Must Now Do the Same'
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It's time for Westminster to follow suit, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🔴‘Wales Is Leading the Way on Ending Lying in Politics. Westminster Must Now Do the Same’
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
The Welsh Government looks set to impose bold new restrictions on lying in politics. It’s time for Westminster to follow suit, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
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The richest man in the world is announcing that he will use his control over government spending systems to engage in a massive and illegal impoundment of public spending - but with no detail of what is being cut.
February 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The richest man in the world is announcing that he will use his control over government spending systems to engage in a massive and illegal impoundment of public spending - but with no detail of what is being cut.
This is a fascinating account, worth following to get a sneak peak into what's happening behind closed doors across the water.
January 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is a fascinating account, worth following to get a sneak peak into what's happening behind closed doors across the water.
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Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week
January 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week
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Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
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Musk’s latest intervention is objectively hilarious but the problem of a hideous human using his enormous wealth & power to promote lies & liars in the U.K., despite having no links to or other interest in the country, remains acute.
January 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Musk’s latest intervention is objectively hilarious but the problem of a hideous human using his enormous wealth & power to promote lies & liars in the U.K., despite having no links to or other interest in the country, remains acute.
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Yay
December 17, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Yay