Duncan Gill
@duncangill.bsky.social
SNP activist, when I get out of a comfy chair. Coffee, Packers, Dons, Guns N Roses… the important things in life
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Bulgaria joins the Euro on January 1, 2026. The Euro is already a deeply troubled currency that's de facto run by high-debt countries who bend the ECB to their will. Is it a good idea to pursue enlargement with Bulgaria, where transshipments to Russia are going through the roof? Race to the bottom.
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Bulgaria joins the Euro on January 1, 2026. The Euro is already a deeply troubled currency that's de facto run by high-debt countries who bend the ECB to their will. Is it a good idea to pursue enlargement with Bulgaria, where transshipments to Russia are going through the roof? Race to the bottom.
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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It's highly doubtful that the sorts of people who have time and inclination to participate in phone-ins and vox pops are in any way representative of public opinion. Most of these people aren't at work on a Monday morning!
One way to take some of the heat out of politics, which is within the BBC's control, is to drop phone-ins and vox pops.
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's highly doubtful that the sorts of people who have time and inclination to participate in phone-ins and vox pops are in any way representative of public opinion. Most of these people aren't at work on a Monday morning!
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Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
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If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
The state of privatised Post Office in UK...
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
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To be explicit, there is NO common ground to be found with those who'd willingly advocate for the most vulnerable to be stripped of what is likely their last remaining worldly good on this earth. Nor those who'd excuse it.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
To be explicit, there is NO common ground to be found with those who'd willingly advocate for the most vulnerable to be stripped of what is likely their last remaining worldly good on this earth. Nor those who'd excuse it.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
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Just because Labour Government have engaged in factional in fighting does not make them left wing.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Just because Labour Government have engaged in factional in fighting does not make them left wing.
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"The absence of authority in the face of obscene criminality prompts delusions that noble actors are fighting the good fight but Must Keep Silent for Reasons You Will Understand in Time."
--THEY KNEW (2022)
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
--THEY KNEW (2022)
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:31 PM
"The absence of authority in the face of obscene criminality prompts delusions that noble actors are fighting the good fight but Must Keep Silent for Reasons You Will Understand in Time."
--THEY KNEW (2022)
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
--THEY KNEW (2022)
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe".
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe".
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
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The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.
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Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
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I get endlessly sick of middle class southerners posing as “the voice of the working man” speaking as if everyone north of the Watford Gap (or doing a job outside the professions) is an unreconstructed racist homophobe.
The irony of the Blue Labour rhetoric is actually how prejudicial it is about the white working class.
why do I emphasize the Manchester-ness of this? because Blue Labour 'thinkers' try to portray themselves as authentic representatives of a neglected Northern working class. But while there's plenty of racism in the North, as anywhere else, there's also a long history of integration and anti-racism.
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I get endlessly sick of middle class southerners posing as “the voice of the working man” speaking as if everyone north of the Watford Gap (or doing a job outside the professions) is an unreconstructed racist homophobe.
Just as well the Packers get all the calls
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just as well the Packers get all the calls
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Packers O-Line… yikes.
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Packers O-Line… yikes.
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Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
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I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
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The Labour leadership:
‘Sod the lessons of WWII, we’re going to treat refugees like shit, and if you don’t like it you can vote for a party who’ll treat them even worse. Oh, and don’t ask us to change the electoral system - we love being able to talk to you this way’.
Democracy at its finest.
‘Sod the lessons of WWII, we’re going to treat refugees like shit, and if you don’t like it you can vote for a party who’ll treat them even worse. Oh, and don’t ask us to change the electoral system - we love being able to talk to you this way’.
Democracy at its finest.
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Labour leadership:
‘Sod the lessons of WWII, we’re going to treat refugees like shit, and if you don’t like it you can vote for a party who’ll treat them even worse. Oh, and don’t ask us to change the electoral system - we love being able to talk to you this way’.
Democracy at its finest.
‘Sod the lessons of WWII, we’re going to treat refugees like shit, and if you don’t like it you can vote for a party who’ll treat them even worse. Oh, and don’t ask us to change the electoral system - we love being able to talk to you this way’.
Democracy at its finest.
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Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers.
Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.
Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.
Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers
Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers.
Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.
Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.
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Welcome (Shaking Hands), by Bruce Nauman, 1985, 📸 by William Vasta
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Welcome (Shaking Hands), by Bruce Nauman, 1985, 📸 by William Vasta