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Steve Prior
@steveprior.bsky.social
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Writer and agency head. Talking about books, tv/film, cars and horse racing. First novel, The Killing Fraternity, is out now! Jack Reacher meets James Bond.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · Aug 10
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Still available and still a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rated novel.

Jack Reacher meets James Bond in the murky world of politics, media and French intelligence…

Sacre Bleu!*

(Don’t worry it’s in English…)
The Killing Fraternity
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 2h
Wife is now calling my border ‘twee’. She means tidy. It’s a word she’s unfamiliar with…*

*it will come as no surprise that my wife is not on Bluesky.
Garden border with hydrangeas and ilex.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 2h
You were done. £95.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 8h
Finally!!

9 1/2 years later.

My Brexit dividend has arrived!

🥂🎂🍾🍺🍺
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 10h
We had a pandemic.

It decimated genuine growth and required governments to spend billions to keep people alive.

We’re now living with the consequences.

Let’s just admit it. And move on.

Rather than this cosplay economics.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 10h
I’m fed up of balance being:

Person A quotes fact.

Person B offers opinion.

For clarity the job of media and news is to ascertain the facts.

Everything else is PR.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 2d
Does anyone at the CIA really ever use the phrase ‘in play?’

Feel free to DM if you’d prefer…
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 2d
If they were a serious government they would ban companies like Temu who obfuscate their ownership to avoid tax. And then we could pay for all the fucking migrants in the world.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 3d
What I prefer is ‘free education’. That needn’t be a political choice: it can be an economic choice (educated people earn more); it can be a humanitarian choice (shouldn’t everyone have the opportunity to learn); it can be a social choice (better informed people are less susceptible to conspiracy).
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 3d
Patrick Bateman for sure 😉😂
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 3d
I don’t drink reds as a rule. But opened this for Sunday lunch with friends. And they didn’t drink enough of it. Now find myself glad they didn’t. Smooth as Sade in a blender.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 3d
Me neither. But to go from far right to what is currently perceived to be far left I’d argue is a practical impossibility. The centre is no longer ‘centre’ - Labour saw to that by increasing tuition fees, for example.

It’s why I don’t like right and left as definitions. They’re meaningless.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 4d
Finally bit the bullet and bought an electric car.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 20d
Former Reform politician admits taking money to support Russian narrative.

Who does leaving the EU benefit?

Russia.

Who benefits from weaponised migration?

Russia.

As always; just follow the money…
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 4d
Right now, Britain is a right wing mess. Just being centre right would be a blessing…
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 4d
I’m only talking about how you get elected. I agree with you about a radical economic shift. But if you talk about empowering the working class/socialism you’ll end up with the same votes as Corbyn. Britain hates socialism. It’s ingrained. So win on (eg) fairness and then employe genuine fairness.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
In essence people are fuelling the illusory truth effect, when they don’t add any debunking context.

There’s an assumption that ‘this is so daft’ people must know it’s not true.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
What’s inevitable is the power of media. If we repeat what others’ say it promotes their message. So every time we share for scorn, we’re just sharing/promoting. It’s like no one watches the Bannon show and just blithely assumes their righteousness will persuade. It doesn’t.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
Everyone’s a critic.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
Sadly I just don’t think they’re being presented a positive alternative. The country’s being run by a man most wouldn’t follow out of a burning building.

In turbulent times, people want strength and simplicity.
They want easy solutions.

It’s hard to educate that there aren’t any. Sigh.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
Migration is a challenge. As you and I know, Billionaires, autocrats & Russia control the media and weaponise migrants for their own ills.

That’s why we (progressives, say) need a compelling singular message. I’m just not convinced ‘vote left’ is that message.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
And it’s not patronising when an accountant gives you advice. Or a lawyer.

Why would is be patronising when someone who has spent 35 years in advertising, marketing and the behavioural science of influencing people gives you advice?

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

He can always ignore it.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
You’re wrong. Evidence shows Trump was gifted $8bn in free media.

This is how it works:

They eat cats.

They don’t.

They eat cats.

They don’t.

They eat cats..

Well maybe one migrant ate one cat…

Behavioural science PROVES that lies repeated sufficiently eventually become believed.

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
Don’t be so sure. Corbyn is as unpopular today as he ever was. Britain doesn’t like socialism. And it’s irrelevant anyway: socialism and capitalism are just economic theories. They’re irrelevant in 2025. Set out policy based on values.

Don’t worry about ‘them’. Just push fairness. People get that.
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
The issue you will have is that the left is a side. It can be attacked. Britain has always been small ‘c’ conservative. How can you possibly argue against empathy? Against kindness? Against fairness? Etc.

These are values that transcend politics. They are unarguable. It needs zero education. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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Steve Prior @steveprior.bsky.social · 5d
Sadly, we won’t educate them. It’s beyond our ken. We don’t have the resources. So pick something they understand. That’s what Trump has done. That’s what Reform have done. We have to give us this ideological view. Simple messaging. And often. Emotions win elections.
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