Steve Darrell
@stevejdrl.bsky.social
Vegan, Welshman living in England, I read, play wargames and watch rugby. Remainer/Rejoiner.
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The only 'peace' which Russia will accept is one which carves up Ukraine's territory, destroys its sovereignty and turns it into vassal state for Putin to plunder.
We Europeans cannot let that happen.
We Europeans cannot let that happen.
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The only 'peace' which Russia will accept is one which carves up Ukraine's territory, destroys its sovereignty and turns it into vassal state for Putin to plunder.
We Europeans cannot let that happen.
We Europeans cannot let that happen.
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Migration reductions are great because while they don't solve any actual problems they also don't solve any political problems.
“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”
The crazy right will never be satisfied about migration
Keir Starmer slashed net migration as the Mail and Farage demanded - and still got hammered for it
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Migration reductions are great because while they don't solve any actual problems they also don't solve any political problems.
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Dear Bluesky. I'm giving away two signed paperbacks of my novel Villager.
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Dear Bluesky. I'm giving away two signed paperbacks of my novel Villager.
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
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Win a set of signed copies of the Booker and International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted books - just in time for Christmas. 🎄🎁
Enter here ⤵️
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Win a set of signed copies of the Booker and International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted books | The Booker Prizes
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December 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Win a set of signed copies of the Booker and International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted books - just in time for Christmas. 🎄🎁
Enter here ⤵️
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Enter here ⤵️
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🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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I mean, if Trump decided to scrap jury trials, there'd rightly be an outcry.
Why's it ok if it's Starmer and Lammy?
FFS.
Why's it ok if it's Starmer and Lammy?
FFS.
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I mean, if Trump decided to scrap jury trials, there'd rightly be an outcry.
Why's it ok if it's Starmer and Lammy?
FFS.
Why's it ok if it's Starmer and Lammy?
FFS.
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
November kept on going where October left off, once again reaching an average anomaly of 1.55°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making November the third warmest since records began, and likely the third warmest in the last 120,000 years.
Code Yikes!
November kept on going where October left off, once again reaching an average anomaly of 1.55°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making November the third warmest since records began, and likely the third warmest in the last 120,000 years.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
November kept on going where October left off, once again reaching an average anomaly of 1.55°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making November the third warmest since records began, and likely the third warmest in the last 120,000 years.
Code Yikes!
November kept on going where October left off, once again reaching an average anomaly of 1.55°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making November the third warmest since records began, and likely the third warmest in the last 120,000 years.
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A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
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Two 7,000-year-old mummified women from a rock shelter in southern Libya, discovered with strange DNA profiles, are pushing scientists to rethink how ancient North Africa was populated.
Two 7,000-year-old mummified women discovered with strange DNA profiles
Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.
www.earth.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two 7,000-year-old mummified women from a rock shelter in southern Libya, discovered with strange DNA profiles, are pushing scientists to rethink how ancient North Africa was populated.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The OBR messed up, and the head of the OBR resigned.
There's a huge lesson in accountability there for politicians, though of course they will glibly ignore it.
There's a huge lesson in accountability there for politicians, though of course they will glibly ignore it.
December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The OBR messed up, and the head of the OBR resigned.
There's a huge lesson in accountability there for politicians, though of course they will glibly ignore it.
There's a huge lesson in accountability there for politicians, though of course they will glibly ignore it.
Definitely worth watching (and signing).
Last week there was a National Emergency Briefing featuring experts on UK national security, food security, health, Environment etc.
Zero mainstream media coverage, you simply aren't being told about this stuff.
Very much worth your time to watch this sunmary & share.
youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0?...
Zero mainstream media coverage, you simply aren't being told about this stuff.
Very much worth your time to watch this sunmary & share.
youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0?...
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Definitely worth watching (and signing).
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OTD in 1939 USSR began to liberate Finland from themselves in the Winter War. It followed denials, a false flag, a bullshit excuse, us deliberately targeting civilians while we took massive casualties we lied about.
Imagine that happening today...
Imagine that happening today...
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
OTD in 1939 USSR began to liberate Finland from themselves in the Winter War. It followed denials, a false flag, a bullshit excuse, us deliberately targeting civilians while we took massive casualties we lied about.
Imagine that happening today...
Imagine that happening today...
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Varvara Volkov, a flight attendant of Ural Airlines, has just been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for writing on a local Telegram channel that the Russian army is killing civilians in Ukraine and that she would offer tea to Ukrainian soldiers if they came to her home.
Varvara Volkov, hôtesse de l’air d’Ural Airlines vient d’être condamnée à 7 ans de colonie pénitentiaire pour avoir écrit, sur un canal telegram de village, que l’armée russe tue des civils en Ukraine et qu'elle offrirait du thé aux soldats ukrainiens s'ils arrivaient jusque chez elle.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Varvara Volkov, a flight attendant of Ural Airlines, has just been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for writing on a local Telegram channel that the Russian army is killing civilians in Ukraine and that she would offer tea to Ukrainian soldiers if they came to her home.
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Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
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If you're not a millionaire
and don't want you, your family & friends
to be bankrupt or die young
don't let Labour's Wes Streeting, Tories or Reform
finish the job of privatising our NHS
#SocialistSunday
and don't want you, your family & friends
to be bankrupt or die young
don't let Labour's Wes Streeting, Tories or Reform
finish the job of privatising our NHS
#SocialistSunday
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If you're not a millionaire
and don't want you, your family & friends
to be bankrupt or die young
don't let Labour's Wes Streeting, Tories or Reform
finish the job of privatising our NHS
#SocialistSunday
and don't want you, your family & friends
to be bankrupt or die young
don't let Labour's Wes Streeting, Tories or Reform
finish the job of privatising our NHS
#SocialistSunday
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We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?
We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru
willhaywardwales.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
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I'm appalled reading this thread. I'm so sorry that everyday Americans are facing this worry. Reform voters in the UK haven't a clue Farage wants an insurance based system for the UK. We have a lot to be thankful for with our NHS.
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm appalled reading this thread. I'm so sorry that everyday Americans are facing this worry. Reform voters in the UK haven't a clue Farage wants an insurance based system for the UK. We have a lot to be thankful for with our NHS.
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Regarding the Gill (and potential others) Russian bribery case..
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Regarding the Gill (and potential others) Russian bribery case..
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
A person in a very senior role at the European Parliament has told me the UK authorities have not contacted the Parliament to ask for information, records etc.
As both a former Crown Prosecutor and former MEP, I'm surprised by that.
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Just 5,000 more votes needed to reach 100,000. Can we do it by lunchtime?
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Just 5,000 more votes needed to reach 100,000. Can we do it by lunchtime?
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Expert commentary on the new BBC Civilisations series - together with further reading!
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
Does BBC Civilisations get its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in
The new series attempts to chart the fall of four major empires but doesn’t always get it right.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Expert commentary on the new BBC Civilisations series - together with further reading!
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
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Europe’s water reserves are drying up - freshwater storage shrinking across S & central Europe, & parts of UK
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Europe’s water reserves are drying up - freshwater storage shrinking across S & central Europe, & parts of UK
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage won’t investigate the Russian infiltration of Reform.
The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.
The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage won’t investigate the Russian infiltration of Reform.
The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.
The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.