Iain Hallam
@iainhallam.bsky.social
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You may not agree with Nigel Farage when he says working from home is unproductive, but you can't deny he practices what he preaches. The guy supposedly lives in Clacton and he hasn't been anywhere near there in over a year.
February 10, 2026 at 6:21 PM
You may not agree with Nigel Farage when he says working from home is unproductive, but you can't deny he practices what he preaches. The guy supposedly lives in Clacton and he hasn't been anywhere near there in over a year.
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BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
February 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM
BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
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Top 8 stories on Guardian are on the Epstein files, and Trump is not mentioned on the front page once (though is in pic).
This is what happens when you control which documents are disclosed and which are not.
This is what happens when you control which documents are disclosed and which are not.
February 4, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Top 8 stories on Guardian are on the Epstein files, and Trump is not mentioned on the front page once (though is in pic).
This is what happens when you control which documents are disclosed and which are not.
This is what happens when you control which documents are disclosed and which are not.
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This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
Come on Labour (locally, @danaldridgemp.bsky.social), these are people who, under a preferential (ideally proportional) system, might yet lend you a second or third preference vote; under FPTP they're gone. Please get behind your party membership's decision to give the UK a fairer vote!
A look at how party's current voter bases by 2024 vote
Labour's current VI is almost entirely those who backed them in 2024
Tories a bit more varied: picking up some lab/liberal votes but still 74% Tory 2024
Lib Dems more varied still - 14% of their current VI are Lab 2024 voters
Labour's current VI is almost entirely those who backed them in 2024
Tories a bit more varied: picking up some lab/liberal votes but still 74% Tory 2024
Lib Dems more varied still - 14% of their current VI are Lab 2024 voters
January 29, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Come on Labour (locally, @danaldridgemp.bsky.social), these are people who, under a preferential (ideally proportional) system, might yet lend you a second or third preference vote; under FPTP they're gone. Please get behind your party membership's decision to give the UK a fairer vote!
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Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
UK 1980s children's TV disagrees...
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
UK 1980s children's TV disagrees...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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If, as seems likely at this stage, to use the technical terminology, Labour gets its arse handed to them by Reform at the next election, it will not be the fault of voters who moved to more progressive parties, or the media, it's all on Labour and their own rhetoric and policies. No-one else. 21/
September 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If, as seems likely at this stage, to use the technical terminology, Labour gets its arse handed to them by Reform at the next election, it will not be the fault of voters who moved to more progressive parties, or the media, it's all on Labour and their own rhetoric and policies. No-one else. 21/
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A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)
September 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)
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That’s how censorship operates in the USA (and many places) government pressure is used to force people & groups to self-censor.
It’s a constant pattern:
The majority of censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is deliberately cultivated by an outside power. It’s the goal
It’s a constant pattern:
The majority of censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is deliberately cultivated by an outside power. It’s the goal
Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.
Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
September 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
That’s how censorship operates in the USA (and many places) government pressure is used to force people & groups to self-censor.
It’s a constant pattern:
The majority of censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is deliberately cultivated by an outside power. It’s the goal
It’s a constant pattern:
The majority of censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is deliberately cultivated by an outside power. It’s the goal
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Re that last repost (from @davidallengreen.bsky.social) - I’ve been reflecting lately that the stuff we did in History at school on the weaknesses of the Weimar Constitution missed the real point. It had its flaws, but the real problem was a lack of will to defend democracy and the rule of law.
September 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Re that last repost (from @davidallengreen.bsky.social) - I’ve been reflecting lately that the stuff we did in History at school on the weaknesses of the Weimar Constitution missed the real point. It had its flaws, but the real problem was a lack of will to defend democracy and the rule of law.
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NEW
What the Palestine Action proscription tells us about UK terrorism law
On the difficulties of prohibiting and policing ‘expressions of opinion and belief’
By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
What the Palestine Action proscription tells us about UK terrorism law
On the difficulties of prohibiting and policing ‘expressions of opinion and belief’
By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
What the Palestine Action proscription tells us about UK terrorism law
On the difficulties of prohibiting and policing ‘expressions of opinion and belief’
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
NEW
What the Palestine Action proscription tells us about UK terrorism law
On the difficulties of prohibiting and policing ‘expressions of opinion and belief’
By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
What the Palestine Action proscription tells us about UK terrorism law
On the difficulties of prohibiting and policing ‘expressions of opinion and belief’
By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Both the Lucy Connolly and the Epping hotel cases have now taken on a political-media existence of their own, unconnected with what actually happened in court.
It doesn't matter there were published sentencing remarks in one and a judge-prepared summary in the other.
People want stories instead.
It doesn't matter there were published sentencing remarks in one and a judge-prepared summary in the other.
People want stories instead.
August 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Both the Lucy Connolly and the Epping hotel cases have now taken on a political-media existence of their own, unconnected with what actually happened in court.
It doesn't matter there were published sentencing remarks in one and a judge-prepared summary in the other.
People want stories instead.
It doesn't matter there were published sentencing remarks in one and a judge-prepared summary in the other.
People want stories instead.
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As another ex government lawyer, I agree. It’s so frustrating that, despite sympathetic noises, the current government hasn’t legislated to put in place guardrails eg on Lords & other appointments, conduct and ethics, conflicts of interest etc. And hasn’t really tackled over/use of secondary legn
August 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
As another ex government lawyer, I agree. It’s so frustrating that, despite sympathetic noises, the current government hasn’t legislated to put in place guardrails eg on Lords & other appointments, conduct and ethics, conflicts of interest etc. And hasn’t really tackled over/use of secondary legn
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I suspect that somewhere - in Tufton St or elsewhere - there is now a spreadsheet of all the Henry VIII clauses with proposals with what can be done with them.
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I suspect that somewhere - in Tufton St or elsewhere - there is now a spreadsheet of all the Henry VIII clauses with proposals with what can be done with them.
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Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
27th August 2025 Only good fortune has prevented previous governments from misusing our constitutional arrangements more than they did * The constitution of the United Kingdom provides for two R…
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August 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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It's truly shocking that Starmer is not proudly defending the HRA and the ECHR. The Right will always attack him over his historical support so he needs to stand by what he used to believe in.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It's truly shocking that Starmer is not proudly defending the HRA and the ECHR. The Right will always attack him over his historical support so he needs to stand by what he used to believe in.
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There have always been Trumps, as there have always been Johnsons and Farages. None are particularly complex or interesting characters. What needs understanding is how the barriers that shut them out have collapsed, and why - in the case of the first two - established parties have knelt before them.
August 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
There have always been Trumps, as there have always been Johnsons and Farages. None are particularly complex or interesting characters. What needs understanding is how the barriers that shut them out have collapsed, and why - in the case of the first two - established parties have knelt before them.