Matthew Keane
@keanezero12.bsky.social
Father, Husband, LTFC nuts, opinions about everything.
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My listening age is 31 and the twins are 48 (girl) and 59 (boy). Something has gone wrong.
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My listening age is 31 and the twins are 48 (girl) and 59 (boy). Something has gone wrong.
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This is the problem I have with Starmer on this stuff. You can't just give a speech, box ticked, you have to go for these people. Sack Nandy put someone in post who will go 'no, actually, GB news, you don't get to broadcast this filth', for a start. Go for X, Facebook, the lot.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is the problem I have with Starmer on this stuff. You can't just give a speech, box ticked, you have to go for these people. Sack Nandy put someone in post who will go 'no, actually, GB news, you don't get to broadcast this filth', for a start. Go for X, Facebook, the lot.
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The party has never got over Partygate and also never processed why it mattered as a scandal.
So they are desperate to confect a parallel as a "Get Out of Opposition Free" card.
So they are desperate to confect a parallel as a "Get Out of Opposition Free" card.
The Labour Chancellor has delivered a Budget whose headroom is still small, and is based on a series of optimistic assumptions and tax rises in an election year, and your story is...litigating which one of the chess competitions in the 90s was the *real* under-14 champion? Really?
December 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The party has never got over Partygate and also never processed why it mattered as a scandal.
So they are desperate to confect a parallel as a "Get Out of Opposition Free" card.
So they are desperate to confect a parallel as a "Get Out of Opposition Free" card.
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It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.
When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.
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Polls for months have shown a huge lead for Orban's opponent. Now the HU government is doing what it always does before elections: increase social benefits, threaten opponents, rewrite election law. Trump promised to underwrite Orban's election spending spree.
dailynewshungary.com/latest-poll-...
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Latest poll suggests PM Orbán may keep his seat until 2030
According to the latest poll of Medián, PM Orbán may keep his seat even after the 2026 general elections.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Polls for months have shown a huge lead for Orban's opponent. Now the HU government is doing what it always does before elections: increase social benefits, threaten opponents, rewrite election law. Trump promised to underwrite Orban's election spending spree.
dailynewshungary.com/latest-poll-...
dailynewshungary.com/latest-poll-...
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What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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As Labour bed in to governing. Delivering their manifesto in record time and volume. Odd how all the fear mongering of the right loses its power.
Debt. Migration. Jobs. Rent. Workers Rights. So far.
Houses to go
Debt. Migration. Jobs. Rent. Workers Rights. So far.
Houses to go
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
As Labour bed in to governing. Delivering their manifesto in record time and volume. Odd how all the fear mongering of the right loses its power.
Debt. Migration. Jobs. Rent. Workers Rights. So far.
Houses to go
Debt. Migration. Jobs. Rent. Workers Rights. So far.
Houses to go
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Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
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VERY funny
A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
VERY funny
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Remember -
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Remember -
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders
Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here
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Maybe it’s time to conclude that the people who were wrong about Brexit, Truss, Trump, a summer UK civil war and an autumn UK debt default are just wrong about everything. What are the chances?
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Maybe it’s time to conclude that the people who were wrong about Brexit, Truss, Trump, a summer UK civil war and an autumn UK debt default are just wrong about everything. What are the chances?
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Give it about a week before people are back to claiming Labour are right wing
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Give it about a week before people are back to claiming Labour are right wing
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£18m for playgrounds. It's not much but it's one of those small things that will measurably improve lives. There's nothing more depressing than a derelict playground.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
£18m for playgrounds. It's not much but it's one of those small things that will measurably improve lives. There's nothing more depressing than a derelict playground.
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And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
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This is a very good thing.
OBR estimates that abolition of two-child cap will reduce child poverty by 450,000 and benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is a very good thing.
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Amazing. Effectively the entire budget has been published. We don't have to listen to any of the droning on.
lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Amazing. Effectively the entire budget has been published. We don't have to listen to any of the droning on.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
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The right wing press will not cover allegations about Farage's anti-Semitism in the way they covered Corbyn's because they were never interested in the actual racism. It was all about politics. But broadcasters have obligations under impartiality rules. They have no excuses.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The right wing press will not cover allegations about Farage's anti-Semitism in the way they covered Corbyn's because they were never interested in the actual racism. It was all about politics. But broadcasters have obligations under impartiality rules. They have no excuses.
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The silence about Nigel Farage's anti-Semitism from so many of those who attacked Jeremy Corbyn over his connections to anti-Semites is absolutely deafening. It's almost as if they were never actually bothered about anti-Semitism, isn't it?
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The silence about Nigel Farage's anti-Semitism from so many of those who attacked Jeremy Corbyn over his connections to anti-Semites is absolutely deafening. It's almost as if they were never actually bothered about anti-Semitism, isn't it?
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Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
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Now Matthew Syed has formally become the Tory he's always been, Philips is the leading exponent of the "I'm a progressive and everything my side believes is wrong" school of journalism that features so prominently in the right-wing press.
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Now Matthew Syed has formally become the Tory he's always been, Philips is the leading exponent of the "I'm a progressive and everything my side believes is wrong" school of journalism that features so prominently in the right-wing press.
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I have some good news for election nerds - "The British General Election of 2024" will be out this autumn, and if you're quick you can grab a 25% pre-order discount from Waterstone's by ordering your copy by 31st July, just enter code SUMMER25 www.waterstones.com/book/the-bri...
July 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I have some good news for election nerds - "The British General Election of 2024" will be out this autumn, and if you're quick you can grab a 25% pre-order discount from Waterstone's by ordering your copy by 31st July, just enter code SUMMER25 www.waterstones.com/book/the-bri...