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David Lynch

@dlynch.bsky.social

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Finance, politics, economics, food, drink, movies, sport, music, whatever... Frequently opinionated, occasionally right. Opinions are mine, obvs, but should be yours too.

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · Apr 21

Roots of Fascism compared:

1930s Germany: Shattering defeat in WWI, ruinous financial reparations and loss of territory imposed at Treaty of Versailles, hyperinflation, Great Depression, mass unemployment, economic and political collapse of Weimar Republic

2020s USA: Egg prices a bit high

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Gurwinder @gurwinder.bsky.social · 4h

Idly following your curiosity in a world designed to take advantage of it will keep you from finding the things you truly love.

Schopenhauer, 1851:

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 4h

Erm...

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe he should try?

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 5h

Such passion!

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks mum

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 10h

It's remarkable that someone so lazy *and* charmless could become the leader of even the current Tory party.

As dire as recent Tory leaders have been, you could just about see how they got there, even if Truss was a considerable stretch.

But Badenoch?

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 12h

Also amplifying resentment that we're a 'soft touch'. Fuck off Labour, you craven fannies.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 23h

Has strong and instant views on Israeli football hooligans too.

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 23h

His background as a lawyer, having to make the case for whichever side he finds himself presenting, feels relevant.

But how is he so bad at that too? Was he a really crap lawyer?

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 1d

Barely. As per usual, rather too little, rather too late.

They're even largely flunking the easy ones.

'Tommy Robinson' racist march; good or bad? Give me a week to get back to you...

It's surely worth spinning the wheel at this point, as Starmer is clearly not going to get better. But who?

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 1d

The statement is from the Labour Party in the person of Anna Turley and *not* the Labour Government in the person of the actual PM, Keir Starmer, who doesn't yet know what he thinks, as not heard back from the Red Wall focus group.

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 1d

Not. The. PM.

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 1d

As observe elsewhere, this is the Labour Party in the person of Anna Turley and *not* the Labour Government in the person of Keir Starmer, who doesn't yet know what he thinks, as not heard back from the Red Wall focus group.

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 1d

Come on, be fair, they haven't yet had time to focus group how they're supposed to feel about it.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like somewhere in a strategy meeting on this some adviser must have said "okay guys we're using black and pink beads - but we have to make the black beads the ones we keep, and the pink ones the ones we remove for optics - ok?"

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 1d

No blame attaching to the relentlessly competent, principled and consistent Sir Kid Starver, of course.

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 1d

Latest Morning Star cartoon, out in print Thursday!

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 8d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 1d

Please please please let this be financed from the frozen Russian assets pretty please

Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 1d

Big news from Sweden:

A memorandum of understanding has been signed with Ukraine for the sale of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets

SVT erfar: Sverige vill sälja 150 Gripenplan till Ukraina

Sverige skriver under en avsiktsförklaring om att undersöka möjligheten att sälja uppemot 150 Gripenplan till Ukraina, erfar SVT. Det meddelar statsminister Ulf Kristersson på en pressträff inom kort,...

www.svt.se

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

🇦🇱 Albanian PM, Edi Rami: "You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats."

"You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/visiting-pm-says-uk-paying-36109282

Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics'

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage

www.mirror.co.uk

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 2d

anyway, some actually useful tips to mitigate any loss: make sure your notifications don't show their content on the lock screen - set them so you have to unlock the phone to see them. Make sure you've got theft detection turned on, which locks the phone if it's snatched.

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David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 1d

Who wants to be Sajid Javid?

David Lynch @dlynch.bsky.social · 2d

He must surely have realised by now that he's not up to the job, mustn't he?