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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 7h

Lucky Wales, indeed. I wish some other sinister characters on the far-right hadn't heard of us either. But Musk is the living proof that our assessments of human intelligence can be, shall we say, very nuanced.

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 21h

A totally inappropriate column for a senior BBC journalist to write - or at least it would have been in happier times.

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 21h

Certainly no Labour minister or MP with hopes of becoming one .

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

AOC, "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire conman with a lot of money"

Can you imagine any Labour MP saying this?

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“Veteran Cosmic Rocker”✌🏽💫🎸☮️🌎✨🇲🇽🇺🇸 @betosando.bsky.social · 1d

Those “holier than thou” people… they’d crucify Christ all over again for being too woke!

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 22h

Yes they would. I see, too, that they (as Project 2025) want to resume nuclear testing and the arms race. Is it their bright idea to bring about the end of human life on earth? I hate to think of the answer to that question ...

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, we play by the old rules of politics and diplomacy while the proselytising far-right (Trump, Musk, Vance, Thiel - with their vast reach) don't. That's a winning strategy in the internet age ...

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 1d

I'm with you on the Christmas to Candlemas thing, though. It's a pity there's a clash there in my case. I blame my parents ..

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, I'm quite a bit ahead of the curve in that case. How do I up the ante? Birth quarter, season ... maybe?

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 1d

Why not birth month? I've always found it brightens up Jaunuary pretty successfully.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.

I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named

The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, yes. Reform, the 'mow people down with a speeding car' party.

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 1d

We know who today's real heroes are, and they include those who blow the whistle on torture. We're witnessing in real time the death of democracy and the rule of law worldwide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse

Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors

www.theguardian.com

Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 2d

The right (aka the far-right - there's very little distinction now) really are saying the quiet part out loud. Our real problem is not so much uncontrolled immigration, but uncontrolled racism.

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

Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 4d

Apologising to the man who says he wants to invade you for what? Quoting Ronald Reagan accurately?
Appeasing this monstrous, depraved man-baby seems to be what passes for international diplomacy these days - at least for America's allies.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Canadian PM Carney apologises to Trump over anti-tariff Reagan ad run by Ontario premier

Carney said he had made the apology privately to Trump when they both attended a dinner hosted by South Korea’s president on Wednesday

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

Just for context and Elon Musk’s claim of “widespread slaughter” in Europe. The per capita murder rate is EIGHT TIMES HIGHER in the US

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm, that's what we need more of: Putin-friendly parties on the left and the right along with an unpopular, hesitant & paralysed 'centre.' It's working so well in France ...

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 5d

Morgan McSweeney is exactly like Brexit:

A relentlessly escalating disaster ... but the one thing that can never be questioned or changed.

Great piece from Ian Dunt.

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

A world without Keir Starmer

Is it time to change the Labour leader?

open.substack.com

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Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 4d

The form of torture doesn't exist that would make me do this. Even when hiking, too-visible socks look disastrous, or (depending on their length) colonial cosplay - minus the pith helmet. If you see it, they're British or German.
Having said that, formal shoes without socks are just unspeakable.

Michael Gollop @michaelgollop.bsky.social · 4d

God forbid they might have a (not so) hidden hard / far right agenda ...

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Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 6d

Well done Ed Davey for clearly speaking up against Farage and Badenoch. We need more politicians like him who speak the truth. I would vote for him.

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 6d

We just stopped Nigel Farage’s plan to drag Britain out of the ECHR and tear up people’s rights. Farage wanted to scrap Churchill’s legacy and bring us closer to Trump's America.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now.
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.

But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK'

Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"

www.mirror.co.uk

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8d

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."

Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.

open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...

Coventry South needs a by-election soon

Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine

open.substack.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 7d

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

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