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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 9h

This is a sound instinct imho. I went down a rabbit hole on this while researching a film project a few years back - recently put it all down across a series of articles on Substack.

Techno-Fascism Part #1: We Owe It All To The Hippies

The pre-history of computer-psychosis

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 11h

No idea, but sinking Farage is a pre-condition for everything else.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 13h

What is encouraging, though, is the pre-emptive Reform panic that they will *at last* face some political accountability for Brexit. The shrill defensiveness is a good indicator that being allowed to skate on this question for nearly 10yrs has been an absolute gift to them. Correction long overdue.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 13h

This so overdue. Relieved that it’s now featuring more heavily in messaging - has to be pinned mercilessly on Farage.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting” says Chancellor Rachel Reeves

It’s about time!

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 1d

This snapped me into an upright position as well - “best researchers”. FFS, there are clueless morons in charge.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 1d

This is very good - I encountered some of these Tories when canvassing in May: young-ish, affluent, Starmer Labour-curious but reflexively resistant. More than anything they just seemed bewildered, with nowhere to go politically & really wanting Labour to do a Blair-style sell, yet doubtful.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 1d

This continues to advance the argument for some form of PR. Despite what media Reform-fever would have you believe, there are more people on the left of politics than the right, and a coalition on the left may produce better outcomes than a Labour Party which feels it can’t simply ignore the right.

YouGov showing Westminster voting intention: Reform 27% Labour 20% Con 17% Lib Dem 16% Green 13% SNP 3, Other 3, Plaid 1.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating summary of the drivers behind UK house price madness, together with suggested remedies which do seem achievable. But it’s another illustration of why things will remain stuck until there’s a radical change to the financial system.

Remedies for Ridiculous House Prices

Two of three ways to tame house prices, in the context of the UK's bubble

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 2d

Pewter bar at the Prospect of Whitby, drinking session a few years back.

Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 5d

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 5d

Again, art did predict this decades ago: this is their ideal model of governance.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely going to start introducing myself as a “spicy white”, that’s superb. Or what about “person of spice”?

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve had to moderate since reading the whole inside page of my passport out to a cabbie in Nashville, and accusing him of Let and Hinderance, contrary to her majesty’s directions.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 5d

Think I’d like to pitch up like this while walking the aisles in Wal-Mart, sweeping all the products onto the floor and posting about the ““American” goods in their fake country on stolen land”

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 5d

With this theory can I wander around America taking *absolutely everything* for free? And post a never-ending thread of the entire continent?

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 6d

One of the best pubs in London - still has a pewter-top bar & was the favoured drinking den of London’s famous c17 “hanging judge”

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 6d

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce
thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/members-pages/john-bryce.php

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 6d

Tories have a problem reaching tha kidz, so they hired these guys to make Conservatism cool again.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 6d

There was a dry run of this during the pandemic - I moved at that time. The reduction in stamp duty just transferred, immediately and in full, to the sale price.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 7d

Are the “rip-off” degrees those which require thoughtfulness, empathy and imagination, and are therefore utterly unfathomable to people who are in the modern Conservative Party?

The world should be rows of humans solving maths puzzles while being pumped with a nutritional paste from a feeding tube!

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 8d

The “identity politics” bit seems legit - of which Badenoch, Jenrick et al are the chief exponents.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 8d

Hmmm. Within the pantheon of over-regarded directors, where well over “60% of the films stink”, I’d probably place Ridley Scott as the apex example. 3 good films, 3 middling films, all the rest (of the many, many films) are bad.

Bad movies: is Ridley Scott right to say that 60% of films stink?

Napoleon director Ridley Scott has declared the history of film to be overwhelmingly rubbish – with a few notable exceptions

www.theguardian.com

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent primer with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social on the present state of the immigration system & the policy issues involved. Good on the recent history, inc. Dublin regs. Policy thoughts on how the govt might stop fucking this up so repetitively. Recommended as part of your anti-Farage arsenal.

Migration - the real facts in an age of alarmism

Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 30/09/2025 · 56m

podcasts.apple.com

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 9d

Having canvassed in urban, East Kent in May, my feeling was that the Reform surge driven by the immigration rage-machine & online conspiracism - “the globalists” etc - was so deranged that I think it may have to naturally exhaust itself before many of these voters are able to return to reason.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 11d

Actually found myself reaching up, in dread, to see if my own hands were bigger than my entire head.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 12d

Really interesting detail on Ukraine’s campaign targeting Russian oil refineries.

I wonder if this type of campaign can be co-ordinated with the sanctions and other activity on the part of the European states, in order to further disrupt global movement of Russian oil & accelerate the pain.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 12d

Hi all, just sent out this free post to explain what matters (and what does not) in the Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil refineries. It discusses why the campaign now seems more successful, but also what else needs to happen to have a greater strategic effect. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Attacking An Oil Production System

Some Of The Nuts And Bolts--Starting With Refineries

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