Matt Savage
@savageplatoon.bsky.social
Aspiring liberal elite. Climate policy, finance and economics. Director - Oxford Consulting Partners. Trustee - Dialogue Earth. Hopeful but realistic.
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Even by Badenoch’s standards, responding to the opportunity offered by Jenricks’s departure by promoting the ‘mastermind’ behind Theresa May’s myriad disasters is an act of extraordinary idiocy.
January 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Even by Badenoch’s standards, responding to the opportunity offered by Jenricks’s departure by promoting the ‘mastermind’ behind Theresa May’s myriad disasters is an act of extraordinary idiocy.
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When the daily mail pushes for a merger, we should all know that would be bad for the country. The right voting bloc needs to be split because the left’s is so fractured too. That or change the failing voting system.
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
When the daily mail pushes for a merger, we should all know that would be bad for the country. The right voting bloc needs to be split because the left’s is so fractured too. That or change the failing voting system.
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Someone shared this with me a couple of weeks or so ago. Worth posting again, to give more of you an opportunity to look at it.
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Someone shared this with me a couple of weeks or so ago. Worth posting again, to give more of you an opportunity to look at it.
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
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This made me laugh much more then it strictly should have done.
January 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
This made me laugh much more then it strictly should have done.
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I legitimately have reached the age where I feel I have to turn the music down in my car so I can see better when pulling out of a junction.
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I legitimately have reached the age where I feel I have to turn the music down in my car so I can see better when pulling out of a junction.
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As I've long argued, the Greenland risk is underpriced
A possible US intervention in Greenland is the biggest source of risk to the transatlantic alliance and intra-NATO and intra-EU cohesion, arguably far greater than those presented by
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
A possible US intervention in Greenland is the biggest source of risk to the transatlantic alliance and intra-NATO and intra-EU cohesion, arguably far greater than those presented by
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
January 4, 2026 at 4:04 PM
As I've long argued, the Greenland risk is underpriced
A possible US intervention in Greenland is the biggest source of risk to the transatlantic alliance and intra-NATO and intra-EU cohesion, arguably far greater than those presented by
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
A possible US intervention in Greenland is the biggest source of risk to the transatlantic alliance and intra-NATO and intra-EU cohesion, arguably far greater than those presented by
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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My Grandad was an avid cricket fan, went all over the world watching England, he passed away at 99 can't help but smiling at the irony of him not quite making the century.
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
My Grandad was an avid cricket fan, went all over the world watching England, he passed away at 99 can't help but smiling at the irony of him not quite making the century.
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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Laura Kennedy: Solitude is a rare chance to think. Loneliness is when the inner dialogue becomes unbearable
Laura Kennedy: Solitude is a rare chance to think. Loneliness is when the inner dialogue becomes unbearable
We don’t get much practice at Hannah Arendt’s version of solitude these days, with all the phones and Netflix and tubs of ice cream to distract us. But we should try it
www.irishtimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Laura Kennedy: Solitude is a rare chance to think. Loneliness is when the inner dialogue becomes unbearable
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Electronic handbrakes on modern cars are shite. The analog, ratchet handbrakes on older cars were fine. An example of car boffins trying to fix problems that don't exist. See also electronic dashboards.
December 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Electronic handbrakes on modern cars are shite. The analog, ratchet handbrakes on older cars were fine. An example of car boffins trying to fix problems that don't exist. See also electronic dashboards.
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
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People who don’t believe there is such a thing as societal decline also have to answer why every day you go to the supermarket and more and more perfectly edible and enjoyable cheese is being ruined with pointless bits of dried fruit inside it.
December 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
People who don’t believe there is such a thing as societal decline also have to answer why every day you go to the supermarket and more and more perfectly edible and enjoyable cheese is being ruined with pointless bits of dried fruit inside it.
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Janan at his most Ganesh www.ft.com/content/ce7f...
December 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Janan at his most Ganesh www.ft.com/content/ce7f...
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Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
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The real test of a hoover is not how well it can pick up fine particles, like they all demonstrate on their ads, but how well you can suck up pine needles from the Christmas tree.
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The real test of a hoover is not how well it can pick up fine particles, like they all demonstrate on their ads, but how well you can suck up pine needles from the Christmas tree.
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"In his endorsement of Brexit trade freedoms, Starmer resembles Alec Guinness’s half-mad colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai, defending an edifice he has forgotten was built for the benefit of the other side."
www.ft.com/content/2d00...
www.ft.com/content/2d00...
A Brexit survival strategy that shows Starmer’s days are numbered
Labour will need a different leader if it pursues a policy of rejoining the EU customs union or single market
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"In his endorsement of Brexit trade freedoms, Starmer resembles Alec Guinness’s half-mad colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai, defending an edifice he has forgotten was built for the benefit of the other side."
www.ft.com/content/2d00...
www.ft.com/content/2d00...
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If you banned private schools, state schools would have to be better, because rich parents would make the government make them better, having no other recourse.
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If you banned private schools, state schools would have to be better, because rich parents would make the government make them better, having no other recourse.
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
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Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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Suburban dipshits, trapped in their boring houses & boring jobs & boring lives, dreaming about an opportunity to finally win their fathers' approval through redemptive violence. Just the saddest most pathetic humans on the planet.
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Suburban dipshits, trapped in their boring houses & boring jobs & boring lives, dreaming about an opportunity to finally win their fathers' approval through redemptive violence. Just the saddest most pathetic humans on the planet.
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