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Patrick Galey

@patrickgaley.bsky.social

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Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises. Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 24d

I wrote about the genocide, about the danger in Not Saying The Thing, and uncritical Far Right Platforming.

It's about speaking to the structures and motives that are driving apparently organic social trends, and how telling a fuller story can appropriate proper blame.

medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Say The Thing.

Not for the first time, what broke me was a cycling race.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 21m

Reform is a Russian front aimed at subverting our democracy.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 57m

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 30m

This guy…

Something’s stirring and the polls are showing it too

We were thrilled to chat with him in a way, let’s be honest, no other news and politics podcast would

We met the one and only @ZackPolanski on @TheTrawlPodcast

OUT TODAY wherever you get your podcasts!

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1h

A Reform government is very far from inevitable - 4 years out from a GE - and I’m now asking what motivated so many political journalists and commentators to behave as if it was

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 21h

125,000 people = front pages and rolling coverage for days

Half a million people = virtually no coverage

We deserve better from our media. Please share widely and consider making complaints via Ofcom

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Those two names alone guarantee that the people of Gaza are fucked.

Trump is obviously a serial sexual predator whose judgement is ravaged by syphilis; Sisi is an idiotic monster who massacres organised political movements www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit on Monday

Meeting will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh and include leaders of the UK, Italy, Spain and France

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

5X the amount of people attended the pro Palestine march today, than the Islamophobic march a few weeks ago

Guess which one got on the 6 and the 10 for both @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and @itvnews.bsky.social

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of thousands of people are at the pro-Palestine rally, yet there is nothing anywhere on the BBC news homepage.

When half the people marched against Muslims and foreigners you were still covering it a week later @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

This white patriot racist murder was, I’ll remind you, co-opted by the Far Right who lied to frame it was committed by an immigrant rather than inflicted on one

news.sky.com/story/hudder...

Huddersfield man who stabbed 16-year-old Syrian refugee after he brushed past his girlfriend found guilty of murder

Ahmad Al Ibrahim, who dreamed of being a doctor, was killed after an altercation with Alfie Franco.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

This white patriot racist murder was, I’ll remind you, co-opted by the Far Right who lied to frame it was committed by an immigrant rather than inflicted on one

news.sky.com/story/hudder...

Huddersfield man who stabbed 16-year-old Syrian refugee after he brushed past his girlfriend found guilty of murder

Ahmad Al Ibrahim, who dreamed of being a doctor, was killed after an altercation with Alfie Franco.

news.sky.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Since you’re trying to two sides something that transparently isn’t an equal conflict, and hasn’t been throughout the last 75 years, I will assume you’re doing that in bad faith, and will stop engaging

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

From an international law perspective, Israel’s self-designation as a belligerent occupier means any force in “self-defence” must be discriminate and proportionate, and it was neither of those from the very start. So not legally legitimate, no.

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Israel does have a long history of torpedoing peace talks so I would say the burden of proof is on them

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

We’re very confident in the failure of avenues not explored

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

No you’re right it had no choice but to commit the worst atrocity of the 21st century in self defence

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

It was never about the hostages. It was and is still about the genocide

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2d

Nailed it

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

At least one senior Labour official seems to finally remember they aren't in Reform.
The changes won't just harm economy and country, they'll destroy families and force more people into becoming undocumented, leading to more deportations. They need scrapping not pausing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sir Sadiq Khan calls for pause on new immigration rules

The mayor of London said the changes had "moved the goalposts".

www.bbc.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2d

This week I got “you’ve lost the nuance”d by a member of the chattering classes when I said people should be able to protest a genocide whenever and wherever they want

Sometimes shit is simple, people. And urgent
www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

'Nuance is being lost' - How Israel-Gaza war is spilling into cultural life - BBC News

From Charlotte Church to Boy George, the conflict is affecting UK culture in new ways - and old.

www.bbc.com

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2d

Immigration is a debate for stupid people.

If your problem with immigration starts only when you encounter it, and not when it begins (via Western colonial aggression), then you’re not seeking to solve a problem, you’re seeking it to go elsehere medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Say The Thing.

Not for the first time, what broke me was a cycling race.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

This is for everyone who justifies the uncritical platforming of absentee fascist bums and concludes he will immutably be PM because they are “leading the polls”: get a grip and do some actual public service journalism

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

The view of the government and liberal centrists is that peacefully protesting against this is insensitive and un-British

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

In the view of the government and liberal centrists, peacefully protesting against this is insensitive and un-British www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Israel’s attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza ‘genocidal’: UN probe

UN experts say Israel 'intentionally attacked and destroyed' the Palestinian territory’s main fertility centre.

www.aljazeera.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 4d

The view of the government and liberal centrists is that peacefully protesting against this is insensitive and un-British

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 preschool children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli aid restrictions and malnutrition among children aged between six months and five years

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 4d

Does an industry that burns cash to boil lakes to erroneously rephrase the Internet deserve a market valuation higher than the GDP of 97% of countries on Earth?

What do we think? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Do OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar deals mean exuberance has got out of hand?

Some market watchers are concerned by the circular nature of deals with chip makers Nvidia and AMD

www.theguardian.com

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