Ian Dunt
@iandunt.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Agreed. It allows you decorate a flat elegantly when you're not well off. And even when you're better off, you can save money by buying one expensive centrepiece item - the basin, the bath, whatever - then getting everything else from IKEA. People will presume they're more expensive than they are.
I love IKEA. I wouldn't have been able to afford to furnish my first home without it. I still use the splatter screen I bought for £2.50 in 2001 whenever I cook a big batch of bolognese sauce. It's better to buy local and second hand where available, but if it's not, then IKEA is a good option.
December 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Agreed. It allows you decorate a flat elegantly when you're not well off. And even when you're better off, you can save money by buying one expensive centrepiece item - the basin, the bath, whatever - then getting everything else from IKEA. People will presume they're more expensive than they are.
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Sensible conclusion to Sam’s newsletter. When UK politicians talk about joining the EU CU they aren’t (usually) talking about a or let alone the CU - they’re making a rhetorical approximation for something that would negate all the negative aspects of Brexit on trade in goods.
A lot of this comes down to UK politicians wanting to negate the consequences of Brexit without negating Brexit itself. But no, you can't have your cake and eat it too - and I don't think a very overt dependency on EU policy with no say is sustainable for the UK.
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Sensible conclusion to Sam’s newsletter. When UK politicians talk about joining the EU CU they aren’t (usually) talking about a or let alone the CU - they’re making a rhetorical approximation for something that would negate all the negative aspects of Brexit on trade in goods.
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@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social discuss how the biggest left wing organisation in decades, The SDS destroyed itself at its final convention in Chicago on June 1969.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social discuss how the biggest left wing organisation in decades, The SDS destroyed itself at its final convention in Chicago on June 1969.
Listen to the full discussion 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#newleft #leftist #podcasts #originstory #politics #thesds
Listen to the full discussion 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#newleft #leftist #podcasts #originstory #politics #thesds
Fucking hell chill out lads, it's just bookshelves and meatballs.
IKEA has finally landed in New Zealand, sparking flat-pack fever, soul-searching about national identity and a debate over global sameness. Read more: bloom.bg/49Tr7aF
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📷️: Phil Walter/Getty Images
December 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Fucking hell chill out lads, it's just bookshelves and meatballs.
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
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This is very good but not entirely comforting for the denizens of Blue sky. If we want this place to survive we need it to be more inclusive. And funnier.
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is very good but not entirely comforting for the denizens of Blue sky. If we want this place to survive we need it to be more inclusive. And funnier.
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I agree. The big sell from AI is often to make your life easy, but building understanding, structuring your thoughts, is meant to be hard, and that is what changes you. i.e. if the product you care about is you and your brain, do the work.
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I agree. The big sell from AI is often to make your life easy, but building understanding, structuring your thoughts, is meant to be hard, and that is what changes you. i.e. if the product you care about is you and your brain, do the work.
OK as part of my AI ambivalence, I made a personal commitment to mention when I found things that were useful to me. Turns out it is very good at finding quotes from my notes that I have lost the reference for. Ie: 'Where is this quote from, primary sources only'
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
OK as part of my AI ambivalence, I made a personal commitment to mention when I found things that were useful to me. Turns out it is very good at finding quotes from my notes that I have lost the reference for. Ie: 'Where is this quote from, primary sources only'
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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i've said it before and i'll say it again: we all need to be reposting jokes more
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
i've said it before and i'll say it again: we all need to be reposting jokes more
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I just read a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social asking why people are still on blatantly Nazi Twitter and how this place really is the answer, and I thought he's right, I need to be checking in on here more so hello everyone.
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I just read a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social asking why people are still on blatantly Nazi Twitter and how this place really is the answer, and I thought he's right, I need to be checking in on here more so hello everyone.
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Better.
Dear @iandunt.bsky.social. I took note of your comment in your latest email from your substack that Bluesky has "far too little silliness and far too few gags".
This made me sad. So to cheer you up a bit, here is the kangaroo from the Kangol logo sucking its own knob.
This made me sad. So to cheer you up a bit, here is the kangaroo from the Kangol logo sucking its own knob.
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Better.
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The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
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December 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The perfect Christmas present for the nerd in your life: 25% off our top tier Origin Story Patreon membership. Gets you a mug, a T-shirt or tote bag, and a copy of an Origin Story book with a personalised message from me and Dorian www.patreon.com/posts/new-me...
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
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It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.
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Fair play www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence | Wes Streeting
The surge in mental ill health is hugely distressing. That’s why I’ve commissioned a review to find out what’s driving it, says health secretary Wes Streeting
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fair play www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I wonder whether he’ll also boycott LBC if/when I ask exactly the same question about him…
Nigel Farage has gone to war with the BBC after a radio presenter suggested he had “a relationship when he was younger with Hitler,” vowing he would not speak to the national broadcaster until it apologized for its own past “racist” content.
Farage goes to war with the BBC over presenter’s ‘Hitler’ comment
The Reform UK leader says he will not speak to the national broadcaster until they apologize for all their own past racist coverage.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I wonder whether he’ll also boycott LBC if/when I ask exactly the same question about him…
Life with a dog is good. Until you're hungover and it's raining and you're walking around with a bag of wet shit wondering what the fuck you did with your life.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Life with a dog is good. Until you're hungover and it's raining and you're walking around with a bag of wet shit wondering what the fuck you did with your life.
Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...
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“The mission is to spread the influence of liberals who really believe in their principles. Becoming a springboard for liberals like that, who may not have found their way or may have had it delayed by years, is nothing but an honor for us.” www.liberalcurrents.com/finding-and-...
Finding and Promoting Young Liberal Talent
What Liberal Currents is already doing for liberalism in this country, what we will continue to do.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“The mission is to spread the influence of liberals who really believe in their principles. Becoming a springboard for liberals like that, who may not have found their way or may have had it delayed by years, is nothing but an honor for us.” www.liberalcurrents.com/finding-and-...
A fine message for the Christmas season.
Absolute best podcast out there. Hilarious but oh so informative. Love the banter. Love the discussions. Love the education. Love everything about it. Have listened from the very start though I’m ashamed to say I only just pulled my finger out recently to subscribe. Should have done it ages ago
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A fine message for the Christmas season.