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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder if there'll come a point when someone on the Hard Right tells us that 'Priti Patel can only be properly integrated when she changes her name to a more Anglo-Saxon one like Petra Paterson... a bit like the Jews did in the good old days.'

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16h

I agree there is concern about over-70s' phone usage. At macro level, the over-80s in particular often don't fully understand/accept today's world, so mistrust it ('not like the good old days'). And yet at a micro level, they can be far too trusting of what they read.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Teenagers’ phone use? It’s the grandparents we should be ...

Maybe our fears about the ill effects of social media, screen time and doomscrolling are wasted on the young

observer.co.uk

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Guy Stallard @guystall.bsky.social · 12h

Yep

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of day-to-day AI boils down to 'googling and formulating the results into nice, readable, and therefore more credible/convincing paragraphs'.

The fact that the narrative is actually being drawn from the Daily Mail and Migration Watch websites becomes visually secondary.

Which is concerning.

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Guy Stallard @guystall.bsky.social · 18h

This is excellent

Andrew Rawnsley @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social · 1d

There's a potential path back for the Tories, but not by being a Reform tribute act
observer.co.uk/news/columni...

The Conservatives must reclaim competence – and stop imit...

Years of blunders have wrecked the Tory brand. Mimicking Nigel Farage won’t rebuild it – owning their failures might

observer.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21h

Some of you have come over with me.

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly the Nobel Committee must be getting a bit fed up of giving the Nobel to people who solved the Middle East crisis every few years.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Having illustrated the problem of X ignoring its legal duties, I want to build an effective coalition for intervention. If you are or know people on X receiving racist abuse, rape threats, I would welcome receipts of one rejected attempt to report to the platform an indefensible case

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for this kind note. I hope to do something useful with this by Nov/Dec (new Ofcom powers, new EHRC chair). I'd like more women + ethnic minorities to go through (futile) process of reporting shocking stuff (eg rape threats, p-word, n-word) & share receipts with me of one egregious example

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Guy Stallard @guystall.bsky.social · 1d

@rolandmcs.bsky.social more sense from MTG - need to lie down x.com/rpsagainsttr...

Republicans against Trump on X: "MTG: Prices have not come down. Job market is still extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Car insurance is going up. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home. https://t.co/aNz0fBQBbW" / X

MTG: Prices have not come down. Job market is still extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Car insurance is going up. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home. https://t.co/aNz0fBQBbW

x.com

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El @ell17.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, persuasive dog, said when interviewed “moi wanted to do la promenade un peu tôt. Mes parents said ‘non’. Moi convinced them that moi was right, it took trois minutes, les trente autres minutes were spent with them putting on their vêtements et drinking le thé.”

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

The Right are doing this because they want you to believe there is a systemic problem with free speech in this country.

But there isn't.

bsky.app/profile/rola...

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

There is no systemic free speech problem in Britain that needs fixing. There are some tricky fine lines between free speech and incitement – a balancing of rights – as has been the case for a *very* long time and was the case here. Nothing more.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 2d

I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Can we widen this to 'if you permanently emigrate anywhere', perhaps including pensioners who get citizenship of Spain, Portugal, wherever?

A kind of 'one in/one out' policy.

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 2d

I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

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Guy Stallard @guystall.bsky.social · 1d

!!!!!!!

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

I think back when Damian Thompson ran it they chased clicks from mad right-wingers - often Americans - under the veil of "debate", but though Damian was firmly right wing he wasn't actually batshit

Whereas their comment editors these days - Tom Welsh, Annabel Denham, Poppy Coburn etc - are deranged

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

Daniel Hannan

Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside

The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave.

Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law.

I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution.

The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it's actually quite a good speech. Just ignore the entire backdrop back in America.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Jared Kushner now saying how lucky we all are to have rules and morals and laws.

Yes, an American close to Trump said this.

Mmm, righto.

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Guy Stallard @guystall.bsky.social · 2d

@rolandmcs.bsky.social for your collection

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Even if we had a govt willing to do that, no way the EU would agree with Reform leading the polls.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

Another sign that Marjorie Taylor Greene is starting to make sense.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 2d

"We didn't know Brexit would have this effect."

"Loads of people said it would and you ignored them."

"Yes but they were right by accident, we were wrong for the right reasons, vote for us."

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Guy Stallard @guystall.bsky.social · 2d

We also need to reverse of citizenship back to 1997 plus inflation

Guy Stallard @guystall.bsky.social · 2d

Time for a Leave voter tax

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Came to the UK in 2015, got married to a British citizen, got permanent status in 2025. One eg of why Farage's policy of revoking the status of those told this is their permanent home will fail with most people (including migration sceptics) on the people involved
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2d

Trump thanks Putin for saying he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is INSANE

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