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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 18h

There used to be an aisle in Thornaby Safeway labelled “Foreign Food”.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20h

“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right”

How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a wonderful book. The main takeaway for politicians is that ideology, beliefs, even values are basically rationalisation after the fact. Valence voting is the only game in town.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 7d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t do this

marceau2303.bsky.social @marceau2303.bsky.social · 13d

Did you know If a pepper ball or tear gas is deployed and leaking, or you can place it in a secondary sealed container (rigid plastic bin) to prevent exposure or place a bucket over it. you must wear chemical resistant gloves (nitrile or thicker) if you can pick it up use shovel or long tongs

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t handle tear gas grenades with nitrile gloves. Also don’t handle them at all as some may be flashbangs that have nit functioned properly

🦇Lore (🔥illi mcmillin🔥) Chiroptera🦇 @lore-chiroptera.bsky.social · Aug 12

In case helpful, you can neutralize tear gas canisters with a cone / jug with wide opening / large plastic containers with lids and water. Just be sure to wear nitrile gloves, a gas mask, goggles, and to move fast! More to come every now and then 🖤

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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 8d

All this extra cost (time & money) for *less* fucking access to our continent. Brexit is such ridiculous "self harm"
For god's sake UK, stop with your Gammon Curtain & do what rest of Europe doing: join the EU/reciprocate FoM; join Schengen. Embrace freedom
share.google/JzWU7bHyBxKy...

Overflow sites lined up in case ESS brings Port of Dover delays

Port of Dover bosses insist there will not be delays due to the new system on day one.

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 10d

Habeusz Korpusz, in that case.

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 10d

No. To take the UK, the Tories were fooled into believing that there’s a “populist wave” and the party disintegrated on contact with reality (especially re Brexit). The foolish Labour leadership are now doing the same. There’s a populist *reservoir* which can be tapped - or not. Choose the latter.

jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 10d

No, mainly it’s because they just don’t get it and they don’t like it. All the rest is the usual justification after the fact (which covers 90% of so-called “ideology”).

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10d

AKSHULLY, I wrote a separate piece on Hegseth's military jamboree, and again, my issue was one I chose: The declining mental acuity of the man with the nuclear codes. You can read it here:

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 10d

In any case, with the likes of Kash Patel it’s enough to say “behold!” The guy’s opinions and actions proclaim his own condemnation.

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 19d

The utter ineptitude of the Russian military has deep historical roots. It took Stalin’s reckless cruelty - and Western arms - not to mention a foreign invasion of unprecedented savagery (the Mongols backed off if you were submissive) to whip it into shape.

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 19d

Most such aberrant “views” are artefacts of the relevant survey. Over time, most voters’ views are centrist, even social democratic. Check out Larry Bartels’ Democracy Erodes from the Top, based on close analysis of European Social Survey data from 2003 to 2019.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote about this in "The Unaccountability Machine" - when you describe leveraged buyouts to ordinary people, half of them say that it should be illegal and the other half are often convinced that it already is.

Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 19d

Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 19d

Seconded.

jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 21d

I remember seeing Kenneth Branagh play the lead when he was still a rising star. He was wonderful.

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 21d

I would cite Basil Fawlty’s “this is just how Nazi Germany started” but they didn’t have anything like this technology. Ellison is a living advert for why we need a “euthanasia of the rentiers” in Keynes’ sense (not literal, iow).

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 25d

The AI glitter rush more like.

jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 25d

No, it needs to do both.

jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 28d

Because the Treasury thinks that what’s good for the City is good for the economy. Until the Treasury View is rooted out entirely we’ll never prosper.

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 28d

Unherd, regardless of ownership, does have some decent writers, but I agree, this article is positively cr*tinous.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 28d

This is the person the GOP are seeking to canonise.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 28d

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins
There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 28d

Franklin is the extremist. Leaving the single market alone was the dumbest decision any government has made since the US decided to go all in on Vietnam.

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · Sep 17

Shame on her.