RDCK98
@comradekenobi.bsky.social
Writer/Researcher interested in
-Devolution
-Empire
-International Relations
-Defence
-Climate Change
-Biodiversity
-Palaeontology
All views are my own | he/him 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
-Devolution
-Empire
-International Relations
-Defence
-Climate Change
-Biodiversity
-Palaeontology
All views are my own | he/him 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
Contender for the most unserious nationalist party in the Western world
The Alba Party have launched a campaign to halt onshore wind farm development in Scotland
'Simply no need': Alba launch petition to halt onshore wind farm development
www.thenational.scot
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Contender for the most unserious nationalist party in the Western world
We are about to hear a lot of strong opinions about political corruption and Ukraine's future as an independent state from people who can't find Lviv on a map and use the term "Europoor" in conversation.
⚡️BREAKING: Zelensky's chief of staff Yermak resigns amid major corruption scandal.
Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office, submitted his resignation following searches by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) at his premises earlier on Nov. 28, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office, submitted his resignation following searches by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) at his premises earlier on Nov. 28, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
BREAKING: Zelensky's chief of staff Yermak resigns amid Ukraine's biggest corruption scandal
Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office, submitted his resignation following searches by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) at his premises earlier on Nov. 28, President Volodymyr Zelens...
kyivindependent.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We are about to hear a lot of strong opinions about political corruption and Ukraine's future as an independent state from people who can't find Lviv on a map and use the term "Europoor" in conversation.
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so months after the original proscription, has anyone revealed any actually good reasons to describe anything they did as 'terrorism'? i was assured by very smart people that intel to that effect will no doubt be made available, because of course i should just trust the government on this
"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
so months after the original proscription, has anyone revealed any actually good reasons to describe anything they did as 'terrorism'? i was assured by very smart people that intel to that effect will no doubt be made available, because of course i should just trust the government on this
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we'd only just given this year's Fell For It Again Award to Labourites who got excited at Starmer's party conference speech
*literally yesterday* people (you know who you are) were telling me 'well actually i think kemi is turning a corner here'
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
we'd only just given this year's Fell For It Again Award to Labourites who got excited at Starmer's party conference speech
Amazing how someone can write "rent up (landlord tax passed on)" and think that this would make the average voter impacted by this more likely to vote centre-right
British politics is now just about making up a guy and assuming he will vote for you
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Amazing how someone can write "rent up (landlord tax passed on)" and think that this would make the average voter impacted by this more likely to vote centre-right
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And on the other hand as for those of you who /would/ minimise the history of British atrocities against Ireland, apparently because of some pointless online beef with individual Irish people: im not being funny but absolutely fix your hearts or die. Other people being awful is no excuse to be awful
from what i understand there are now people in my mentions who are angry that i am neither denying nor excusing a thousand years of english-dash-british atrocity against ireland, because that would make it easier for them to dunk on me exhorting ireland to join nato, which i didnt do
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
And on the other hand as for those of you who /would/ minimise the history of British atrocities against Ireland, apparently because of some pointless online beef with individual Irish people: im not being funny but absolutely fix your hearts or die. Other people being awful is no excuse to be awful
Absolute loser leadership. Lloyd George or Attlee would have constitutionally castrated the Lords for this.
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers on.ft.com/48B0g1U
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers
Government has softened its package of measures to boost employment rights
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Absolute loser leadership. Lloyd George or Attlee would have constitutionally castrated the Lords for this.
This is not a position of a serious government, never mind one led by supposed liberals or one which governs a declining economy with an aging population
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is not a position of a serious government, never mind one led by supposed liberals or one which governs a declining economy with an aging population
I'm sure whatever imperial war the Trump administration starts won't have any negative repracussions on the British economy whatsoever
Continues to be wild to me how few Labour MPs have absorbed that the Starmer-Reeves strategy is, and always has been “Plan A: Somehow the Major economy returned Plan B: Die”.
The tax rises in this Budget’s are backloaded.
They're largely kick in in what is likely to be a pre-election year, somewhat implausibly.
They're largely kick in in what is likely to be a pre-election year, somewhat implausibly.
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm sure whatever imperial war the Trump administration starts won't have any negative repracussions on the British economy whatsoever
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Continues to be wild to me how few Labour MPs have absorbed that the Starmer-Reeves strategy is, and always has been “Plan A: Somehow the Major economy returned Plan B: Die”.
The tax rises in this Budget’s are backloaded.
They're largely kick in in what is likely to be a pre-election year, somewhat implausibly.
They're largely kick in in what is likely to be a pre-election year, somewhat implausibly.
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Continues to be wild to me how few Labour MPs have absorbed that the Starmer-Reeves strategy is, and always has been “Plan A: Somehow the Major economy returned Plan B: Die”.
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Did you ever read the early negotiations on the 1957 Rome treaty? The one that became the foundational document of the E.U? It almost failed because the French wanted their Algerian colony, and the Belgians wanted the Congo, inside the E.U.
The period in the 50s when the British and French were trying to do Woke Colonialism, is really funny.
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Did you ever read the early negotiations on the 1957 Rome treaty? The one that became the foundational document of the E.U? It almost failed because the French wanted their Algerian colony, and the Belgians wanted the Congo, inside the E.U.
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You know this govt deserves to be unpopular but hard to avoid the conclusion that it gets treated by the bbc like a govt that decided to nuke a old persons home when its just sort of shit
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
You know this govt deserves to be unpopular but hard to avoid the conclusion that it gets treated by the bbc like a govt that decided to nuke a old persons home when its just sort of shit
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Russians are literally writing US foreign policy, they have more power projection in DC than in Kyiv LMAO
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Russians are literally writing US foreign policy, they have more power projection in DC than in Kyiv LMAO
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Also crucially with one notable exception the Imperial territories, be they Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates or some other label, were never part of the United Kingdom *itself*.
British revanchism is non-existent but in part because the Empire was always a patch-work of client states and informal spheres of influence alongside colonies. Post-Suez it was easy to shed expensive formal colonies and maintain imperial influence through other means within the American hegemony.
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Also crucially with one notable exception the Imperial territories, be they Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates or some other label, were never part of the United Kingdom *itself*.
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And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
A core component of social democracy/socialism is universalism yet so many so called champions of the centre-left and left decry it as a middle class handout or electoral bribe
This is something that really bothers me in so much talk about benefits including from some policy wonks.
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A core component of social democracy/socialism is universalism yet so many so called champions of the centre-left and left decry it as a middle class handout or electoral bribe
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the entire budget has been leaked but not in the sense that all the main bits have been in the newspaper headlines for weeks but in a bad way this time
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
the entire budget has been leaked but not in the sense that all the main bits have been in the newspaper headlines for weeks but in a bad way this time
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At least they didn't publish the one from last week with the basic rate up 2p.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
At least they didn't publish the one from last week with the basic rate up 2p.
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"How dare Westminster take away my rights" say people who spent a decades demanding that Westminster be given full "take away people's rights" power - and often still campaigning for that, regardless.
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"How dare Westminster take away my rights" say people who spent a decades demanding that Westminster be given full "take away people's rights" power - and often still campaigning for that, regardless.
It is incredible how quickly we've normalised Russian violations of European airspace
⚡️Romania detects drone incursion during large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine
Romania detects Russian drone incursion during large-scale attack on Ukraine
Romania, a NATO and EU member state located just below Ukraine, reported that it detected two drone incursions this morning.
kyivindependent.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It is incredible how quickly we've normalised Russian violations of European airspace
Sir Keir Starmer KC, forensically using his big lawyer brain and highly tuned legal skills to remove the automatic right to appeal in criminal cases.
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Sir Keir Starmer KC, forensically using his big lawyer brain and highly tuned legal skills to remove the automatic right to appeal in criminal cases.
AGHHHHHHHHHHHH
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
AGHHHHHHHHHHHH
The removal of full-fat Irn Bru was genuinely the biggest violation of inalienable Scottish rights by a Government in London since the Edward I sacked Berwick
on the sugar tax my beliefs are genuinely libertarian in the commonly understood sense: i dont believe in such a profound infringement of my rights just because of 'public health concerns'
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The removal of full-fat Irn Bru was genuinely the biggest violation of inalienable Scottish rights by a Government in London since the Edward I sacked Berwick
The degree to which many centre-left and centrist commentators either buried their heads in the sand or both-sidesed the trans rights debates pre-2023 is why they have been caught unawares by the rise of the far-right. They refused to nip it in the bud, and now we have to do the 1930s again.
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The degree to which many centre-left and centrist commentators either buried their heads in the sand or both-sidesed the trans rights debates pre-2023 is why they have been caught unawares by the rise of the far-right. They refused to nip it in the bud, and now we have to do the 1930s again.