David Lynch
@dlynch.bsky.social
Gentleman, scholar, acrobat.
Frequently opinionated, occasionally right.
Opinions are mine, obvs, but should be yours too.
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
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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🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
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As I said before a tit for tat needed. No Americans who look like they might have a heart attack on UK soil. No MAGA hats. Screen their Spotify accounts for country and western playlists…
Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
As I said before a tit for tat needed. No Americans who look like they might have a heart attack on UK soil. No MAGA hats. Screen their Spotify accounts for country and western playlists…
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Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄
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I already accepted that I wouldn't be visiting the US any time soon. I'll survive.
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I already accepted that I wouldn't be visiting the US any time soon. I'll survive.
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Ed Davey has raised one of the most serious questions in British politics: why have Nigel Farage and his senior team repeatedly aligned themselves with Kremlin-backed media and messaging?
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ed Davey has raised one of the most serious questions in British politics: why have Nigel Farage and his senior team repeatedly aligned themselves with Kremlin-backed media and messaging?
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Don’t be fucking moronic
Do we dare read Sally Rooney… or is that, too, an act of terror?
By publicly supporting Palestine Action, authors and their readers could breach the law, writes Phillippe Sands.
https://bit.ly/4pXQ4Xm
By publicly supporting Palestine Action, authors and their readers could breach the law, writes Phillippe Sands.
https://bit.ly/4pXQ4Xm
Do we dare read Sally Rooney… or is that, too, an act of terror? | The Observer
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Don’t be fucking moronic
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anybody doing this should be charged by the police and expelled from school, no excuses, no ifs and no buts.
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’
The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
anybody doing this should be charged by the police and expelled from school, no excuses, no ifs and no buts.
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It's perfectly clear to anyone with more than one brain cell that Farage is grossly unsuited to be PM. But then 25% of Britons don't fall into that category.
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's perfectly clear to anyone with more than one brain cell that Farage is grossly unsuited to be PM. But then 25% of Britons don't fall into that category.
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Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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Just to be clear, any politician of any flavour who comes out for crypto is a charlatan or an idiot. Or both.
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just to be clear, any politician of any flavour who comes out for crypto is a charlatan or an idiot. Or both.
The Judgement of Solomon is clearly the perfect solution here.
What a world in which the Tories and Reform are fighting over Jenrick.
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Judgement of Solomon is clearly the perfect solution here.
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Free global trade is always preferable, provided two prior conditions exist: first, mutuality; second, security of defence supplies from critical industries.
Absent those conditions, you just have to deal with the world as it is rather than as it should be.
Absent those conditions, you just have to deal with the world as it is rather than as it should be.
EU global competitiveness latest - "Brussels is considering setting “made in Europe” targets of up to 70 per cent for the content of certain products such as cars" - this is the Cold War 2.0 scenario except with the west diminishing behind walls. www.ft.com/content/b020...
Brussels pushes for 70% of critical goods to be ‘made in Europe’
Policy would force EU companies to buy certain products domestically in an effort to cut reliance on China
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Free global trade is always preferable, provided two prior conditions exist: first, mutuality; second, security of defence supplies from critical industries.
Absent those conditions, you just have to deal with the world as it is rather than as it should be.
Absent those conditions, you just have to deal with the world as it is rather than as it should be.
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Shit sandwich.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Shit sandwich.
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Bravo 🙌
J K Rowling
J K Rowling
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Bravo 🙌
J K Rowling
J K Rowling
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Best thing I’ve read so far on the choices behind the Budget from @rachelsylvester.bsky.social
Economic with the truth: the mis-selling of the budget | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Best thing I’ve read so far on the choices behind the Budget from @rachelsylvester.bsky.social
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Zarah Sultana apparently wants to nationalise the entire economy including the Internet.
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Zarah Sultana apparently wants to nationalise the entire economy including the Internet.
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👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
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if only there was a recent speech where the chancellor could have made this case to a packed House of Commons 😉
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
if only there was a recent speech where the chancellor could have made this case to a packed House of Commons 😉
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Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Only Macca and John Conteh remain with us . .
Band on the Run, the third studio album by Paul McCartney and Wings was released in the UK #OTD 1973 on Apple Records.
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Only Macca and John Conteh remain with us . .
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Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
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The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.