Edward Barrow
@ejoftheweb.bsky.social
Part-time Londoner: woke liberal socialist, empiricist. Likes food, dancing, gardening, interested in politics, economics, environment. Likely to block bigots and denialists of any stripe; will block crypto bros etc.
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Up to a point. I just don't think we should pin our hopes on SM/CU alone to revive the economy. It's going to need more immigration and more investment as well.
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Up to a point. I just don't think we should pin our hopes on SM/CU alone to revive the economy. It's going to need more immigration and more investment as well.
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Yeah, they’re given far too much slack here
They are actively and enthusiastically doing terrible things.
No need for Reform to win when Labour are happy to deliver their agenda
They are actively and enthusiastically doing terrible things.
No need for Reform to win when Labour are happy to deliver their agenda
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Yeah, they’re given far too much slack here
They are actively and enthusiastically doing terrible things.
No need for Reform to win when Labour are happy to deliver their agenda
They are actively and enthusiastically doing terrible things.
No need for Reform to win when Labour are happy to deliver their agenda
War talk, war films and Battle comics. The sentiment was always anti-Jerry, and I think fed europhobia in that generation. There was anti-Semitism, but in the form of caricatures and tropes as old as Shylock, not genocidal.
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
War talk, war films and Battle comics. The sentiment was always anti-Jerry, and I think fed europhobia in that generation. There was anti-Semitism, but in the form of caricatures and tropes as old as Shylock, not genocidal.
they keep on doing it though. Think it'll get them a nice pale care worker with perfect English who turns up as needed.
Instead they'll be lying in their own piss until a spotty youth gets de-NEETed and sent against their will to change the bedsheets...
Instead they'll be lying in their own piss until a spotty youth gets de-NEETed and sent against their will to change the bedsheets...
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
they keep on doing it though. Think it'll get them a nice pale care worker with perfect English who turns up as needed.
Instead they'll be lying in their own piss until a spotty youth gets de-NEETed and sent against their will to change the bedsheets...
Instead they'll be lying in their own piss until a spotty youth gets de-NEETed and sent against their will to change the bedsheets...
no one likes being reminded of their advancing decrepitude..
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
no one likes being reminded of their advancing decrepitude..
Not just Faragism, but Brexitism generally. Jenrick and the whole ECHR-leaving lot - Glasman? - just as problematic. Far to early to be talking about rejoining. Lot of work to put our own house in order: stakes and silver bullets needed.
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Not just Faragism, but Brexitism generally. Jenrick and the whole ECHR-leaving lot - Glasman? - just as problematic. Far to early to be talking about rejoining. Lot of work to put our own house in order: stakes and silver bullets needed.
Him and Jezza the same. YP and Reform are both Putin's playthings.
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Him and Jezza the same. YP and Reform are both Putin's playthings.
And a constant, wilful refusal on behalf of the entire rw world to come to terms with the fact that we are an ageing nation.
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
And a constant, wilful refusal on behalf of the entire rw world to come to terms with the fact that we are an ageing nation.
"but we have always been racist, we resent that we haven't been allowed to express our racism, and we like Farage etc because they're making it OK to express our real thoughts again"
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"but we have always been racist, we resent that we haven't been allowed to express our racism, and we like Farage etc because they're making it OK to express our real thoughts again"
Cap as a first step to an outright ban.
Parties should be mass-membership organisations surviving on subs alone: democracy dies without popular engagement.
Parties should be mass-membership organisations surviving on subs alone: democracy dies without popular engagement.
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Cap as a first step to an outright ban.
Parties should be mass-membership organisations surviving on subs alone: democracy dies without popular engagement.
Parties should be mass-membership organisations surviving on subs alone: democracy dies without popular engagement.
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Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.
Besides, MPs should have their feet, heart home and grass-roots in their constituency. I don't think Greens should do that parachuting into a safe seat thing the other parties do.
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Besides, MPs should have their feet, heart home and grass-roots in their constituency. I don't think Greens should do that parachuting into a safe seat thing the other parties do.
And now, with Trump, Reform etc, they think they have social permission to express them again.
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
And now, with Trump, Reform etc, they think they have social permission to express them again.
Hear hear! And while we're at it, a word for linen too. Tough, smart, grows next door to me, lasts years.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hear hear! And while we're at it, a word for linen too. Tough, smart, grows next door to me, lasts years.