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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you Will, appreciate the shout out. In case you've not seen it, do check out my newsletter ageoftransformation.org where I write about related issues, but you may find my latest paper to be of particular interest (and I'd love your thoughts on it) www.academia.edu/126295640/_P...

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Will Stronge @wstronge.bsky.social · 2d

Finished this little book from 2017 by @nafeez.bsky.social and it's really insightful.

I'd love to read an updated version, or another book on EROI's relationship to political volatility in 2025.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 16h

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social step things up a level. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed
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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 4d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 6d

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 7d

He talks about Brit history and because he loves feudal despots (they get shit done apparently) he bigs up the Tudor age under Elizabeth I & Henry V, and it’s like I think you’ll find that England then was a negative growth high inflation sectarian conflict ridden shithole…

Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 20d

Curtis Yarvin: Trump's 'court philosopher'. Inspiration to JD Vance. Read by Peter Thiel etc. What you might not know: he is a virulent anti-Black racist. Yet was platformed by How The Light Gets In Festival - here's how @bylinetimes.bsky.social exposed him there /1 bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/c...

Curtis Yarvin: How the Alt-Right Gets In

Following his appearance on a panel with Alastair Campbell, Byline Times examines the writings of the thinker who is apparently inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the Vice President of the United ...

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6d

This is a five alarm fire.

Serious implications here: a sitting governor saying basically that the U.S. president is planning to use the military to overthrow democracy in America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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DJ @djwils.bsky.social · 7d

Reading this @nafeez.bsky.social
It's fabulous and frightening.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 11

A very disturbing thing I missed in researching this week's column. Three of the four junktank ultras hired by Labour to groom civil servants are named in this investigation of a Westminster network involving the disgraced eugenicist Andrew Sabisky. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...

Unravelling Westminster’s secret influence network | HOPE not hate

An ex-Tory aide linked to race science has created a group of political allies to craft policy in the shadows

investigations.hopenothate.org.uk

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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 8d

This is unconscionable and disgusting..

What has America become ?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 11d

You might fine our deep dive into Glasman and his ties to Trumpland (particularly networks close to Thiel) interesting. We interviewed him in the Lords and it was.... enlightening bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 15d

Glasman comes out of this looking a lot like a useful idiot for the fascists, himself hovering on the edge of the red-brown pipeline at best, entranced by the nostalgic aesthetics of industrial worker as hero and happy to wed that to unreconstructed nationalism

Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 16d

EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel behind Trump exporting MAGA playbook to Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers. By me with @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14d

Joining this discussion:

• Byline's @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
• @nafeez.bsky.social – investigative journalist, systems theorist
• @karishmapatel.bsky.social – journalist & media critic
• Jake Arnott – Author and Dramatist
• Albie Amankona – Conservative Commentator

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14d

British politics and media has a tendency to punch down.

'The Lure of Othering' – 13th Oct at 19:30 – is our second live event at London's Cockpit Theatre, dissecting the media's never-ending 'carousel of scapegoats.'

Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 16d

EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel behind Trump exporting MAGA playbook to Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers. By me with @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 16d

EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel behind Trump exporting MAGA playbook to Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers. By me with @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19d

🔴NEW 🔴

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How is MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics?

@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social talked to Lord Maurice Glasman to find out more about his connections to Vance, Thiel, Bannon and Yarvin

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18d

Epstein’s contacts: “ far-right Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and on-and-off-again Trump supporter and mogul Elon Musk”
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

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Der Wäller @der-waeller.bsky.social · 18d

«EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter #Thiel behind #Trump is now exporting the #MAGA playbook to #Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers.»

@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 18d

🔴 Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It’s ‘Impossible to Trace’ Foreign Cash

Anti-corruption campaigners raise the alarm over loopholes that could allow large sums of untraceable money to slip past checks
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/26/r...

Reform UK's Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It's 'Impossible to Trace' Foreign Cash

Anti-corruption campaigners raise the alarm over loopholes that could allow large sums of untraceable money to slip past checks

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 20d

EXPOSED: Nigel Farage’s mass-deportation anti-migrant fantasy isn’t a “saving” - it’s a £TRILLION black hole. Britain's fiscal watchdog, plus an exclusive @bylinetimes.bsky.social analysis, show Reform UK's plan would make Britain poorer, smaller & deeper in debt bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/f...

Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...

bylinetimes.com

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Ade @adeoc.bsky.social · 19d

Farage has already helped to deliver one crushing blow to the UK economy.

Don’t let him do it again.

Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 20d

EXPOSED: Nigel Farage’s mass-deportation anti-migrant fantasy isn’t a “saving” - it’s a £TRILLION black hole. Britain's fiscal watchdog, plus an exclusive @bylinetimes.bsky.social analysis, show Reform UK's plan would make Britain poorer, smaller & deeper in debt bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/f...

Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...

bylinetimes.com

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 20d

Yarvin’s 'monarchy' is designed to re-instate racial hierarchy as political architecture: whites on top, Blacks contained at the bottom, democracy abolished to lock the system in place, achieved via IQ gates, mass surveillance and hypercapitalism. END bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/c...

Curtis Yarvin: How the Alt-Right Gets In

Following his appearance on a panel with Alastair Campbell, Byline Times examines the writings of the thinker who is apparently inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the Vice President of the United ...

bylinetimes.com

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 19d

‘Blue Labour’ and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes @nafeez.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 19d

I'm coming back to @bylinetimes.bsky.social to head up investigations. Here's a major one with @peterjukes.bsky.social uncovering how Silicon Valley 'Dark Enlightenment' mogul behind Trump is systematically infiltrating British political infrastructure.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19d

🔴NEW 🔴

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How is MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics?

@nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social talked to Lord Maurice Glasman to find out more about his connections to Vance, Thiel, Bannon and Yarvin

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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