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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 3d

Shut. The. Place. Down.

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Three years since I wrote bit.ly/3J60fZT

Money for nothing

Anatomy of a scandal

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 4d

✍️"... Tell me sweet little lies" - my new www.242.news post on France's political crisis and why talk of suspending the Borne pension reform is worse than a dead end.

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... Tell me sweet little lies

Why no one in French politics wants to accept Mission Difficult

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 9d

Unbelievable. The PM who left everything on the field to get one of two meaningful Macron reforms through now drops it for “stability”! This half-done reform is France’s last hold on its rating. This reflex political cowardice is why 🇫🇷 is where it is today leparisien.fr/politique/il...

« Il faut savoir écouter et bouger » : Élisabeth Borne favorable à une « suspension » de sa réforme des retraites

EXCLUSIF. Pour sortir de l’impasse politique, la ministre démissionnaire de l’Éducation nationale se dit ouverte à une discussion sur une «

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 9d

They’ll be back once they recognise that they and Reform are one movement … open.substack.com/pub/twentyfo...

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 12d

It’s one party … open.substack.com/pub/twentyfo...

Tell me lies ...

Labour's gift to a grateful nation

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 13d

The Blueskyers reacting with shock to this news haven’t noticed two things that have been going on for years. 1. The realignment of Le Pen, Wilders, and Robinson as defenders of Jews. 2. Amichai Chikli trolling so hard that he is fine with the Emmanuel Goldsteining of Soros.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 13d

A memo back to "Anonymous", the author of 'What did we learn over our summer holidays?'

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 16d

Fair point but it was a tap-in after Blair dribbled the pitch.

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 16d

Pure Burnham game-playing. He advocates a return to the EU then says it won’t come “anytime soon” but got the headline and intra-left wedge issue he wanted. Media - let’s hold Labour figures’ feet to the fire on something doable and meaningful (Rejoin EEA) and make this a real debate.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17d

Andy Burnham calls for UK to rejoin EU within his lifetime and rejects claim he is fiscally irresponsible – UK politics live

Mayor of Greater Manchester says he would have to be ‘wrenched’ out of city and says he wants UK to rejoin EU

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 19d

✍️"Tell me lies ..." - my new www.242.news post on Farage, Starmer, Mandelson and Labour's silent Remain-ultras.

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Tell me lies ...

Labour's gift to a grateful nation

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 24d

Just Reform “effecting change”.

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 28d

So Thomas Fazi has migrated from MMT leftism to the Orbanist forint?

Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 28d

Spoken like a true and committed Roman Catholic.

Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 29d

He is the definition of the stopped clock.

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · 29d

Mayor Claire Ward wins today’s bullshit bingo 🥇

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 16

All The President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Candidate, The Natural ... all-time favourites, which meant somehow I thought Robert Redford couldn't die.

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 13

I wasn’t in favour of Andy Burnham till now.

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 11

One move and the Irish crooner gets it!

Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hallelujah. Note that anyone who has anything good to say about him is or was in a position of great wealth (like his “best pal”) or great power. A Labour economist once told me “Peter thinks I’m a clerk”. No fourth act please.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 11

BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired Britain's ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, over links to Jeffrey Epstein.

UK's Starmer fires Britain's ambassador to the US over his links to Jeffrey Epstein

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired the U.K’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

Mandelson denied *profiting from the friendship*, insisting: “We didn't do any business together".

What a sophist. Dave Epstein from South Croydon wouldn't have got a one-page birthday card.

Like everyone Mandy ever charmed or bullied, Cole missed the faint.

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Lord Mandelson makes bombshell Jeffrey Epstein confession in our new show

EMBATTLED US Ambassador Peter Mandelson has confessed to carrying on his friendship with sex monster Jeffrey Epstein “for far longer than I should have done”. Britain’s top man in Washington brande…

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The @financialtimes.com political, economics, and leisure editors have let themselves be spun. This isn't a "powerful" policymaking body. Communications specialists Tim Allan, Morgan McSweeney, Katie Martin and Ben Nunn aren't on this board for their economic policy expertise.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Sep 9

Starmer tightens grip on UK economic policy with powerful ‘Budget board’ on.ft.com/45V9rZS

Keir Starmer tightens grip on UK economic policy with powerful ‘Budget board’

New group has remit to boost growth and avoid another bust-up with business

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 9

I find the clockwork predictability oddly comforting. Night follows day. Germany wins at football. Where there’s an attentive sponsor with $600m, there’s Peter Mandelson www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 8

🔊Podcast: 'Proof of concept' - in this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and www.242.news interview, I talk to @benstanley.eu and @stanleysbill.bsky.social about Poland’s unfinished illiberal revolution and their book 'Good Change' @stanfordpress.bsky.social: twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-pr...

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Tim Gwynn Jones @timgwynnjones.bsky.social · Sep 7

Remember this @thetimes.com splash?

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