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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 1m

Yes, and sorry for the typo. My bad

tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 8m

King Cnut

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 22h

“You basically get a building drive that doesn't answer the reasons you wanted it in the first place.”

Counterpoint. If you want to build more housing, you need to make it viable to build more housing.

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Brits can find jobs in thriving Poland… oh, wait

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 2d

This was the extent of the turmoil I saw at the Bloquon Tout demo…

Well dressed older lady asks riot police for directions as tourists in sunglasses sit around with the Eiffel Tower in the distance.

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 5d

Not in contradiction, & stealing from @mariosrichards.bsky.social, when I suggest it was coalition between authoritarians & market liberals. 'We get lower taxes and free trade, you get to see unions, minorities, etc. bashed over the head'. Liberals failed, authoritarians split

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 7d

Not great

tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 8d

The blue line and the black line

bsky.app/profile/mari...

Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · Aug 12

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy,

(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 12d

The loss of ancient pylon lands

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks!

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 13d

“In fact the CIA actively promoted it.” You have a source?

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 15d

I predict a 'self-deprecating' tax avoidance joke

tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 17d

Points me in the right direction, tho. Thanks!

tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks. Was looking for something similar

tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 17d

Brand please?

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 23d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGtV...

David Fincher - People Are Perverts

YouTube video by kbwn

www.youtube.com

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · 26d

“all sorts”

tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · Sep 12

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Shor...

No Shortcuts - Wikipedia

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · Sep 12

And keep reposting this bsky.app/profile/sjwr...

Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · Aug 12

New post: Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc...
Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.

Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite

Whether we call the Trump regime fascist or not is in one sense just semantics. Trump clearly has similarities to the archetypical fascist ...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · Sep 12

Going to keep reposting this

bsky.app/profile/mari...

Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · Aug 12

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy,

(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · Sep 6

youtu.be/LC8KYm85zig?...

3 Brilliant Moments of Blocking (in Kurosawa's High and Low)

YouTube video by CineFix - IGN Movies and TV

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tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · Sep 5

At least the operation had as its goal crucially advancing Trump’s renowned negotiating skills with dictators and nothing stupid

tonybarrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social · Sep 3

“rates of defection from Labour are highest among those who strongly oppose immigration and higher taxes. These losses are limited in number, given so few of [those] people voted for Labour in 2024, but they underline the fact that Labour’s strategy has not succeeded on its own terms”

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