Vaughan S. Roberts

by Simon Wren‐Lewis — Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts, Mark E. Schaffer

Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 2d

ew post: Populism and Economic Prosperity
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.

Populism and Economic Prosperity

Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 3d

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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by Tim Bale — Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts, Gary Sheffield

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.

Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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by Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan Roberts @vaughanroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Candidates for Antichrist? Peter Thiel for one …

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 6d

It’s usually a bad idea to start trying to spot the Antichrist and I would generally advise against it, but there are definitely more obvious candidates out there now right now than Greta Thunberg.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 6d

It’s usually a bad idea to start trying to spot the Antichrist and I would generally advise against it, but there are definitely more obvious candidates out there now right now than Greta Thunberg.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6d

🔴How Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Could Quickly Crumble

The President’s America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/10/h...

How Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Could Quickly Crumble

The President's America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh

bylinetimes.com

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by Tim Bale — Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts, John Heathershaw, Tim Bale

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 6d

"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com

Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity

Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 6d

‘Frankly, the deception of Brexit has exposed Britain as a lonely person sitting outside the conference table.’

Lord #Heseltine: one of last true statesmen reminding us what Europe built - peace, power, and purpose. Only Europe gives us strength to stand our ground against global powers.
#Heseltine

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Mark Goodacre @goodacre.bsky.social · 7d

NT Pod Short: Why is studying the historical Jesus so difficult? #NTPodShorts #historicalJesus youtube.com/shorts/6EKOT...

Why is studying the historical Jesus so difficult? #ntpodshorts #historicaljesus #newtestament

YouTube video by Mark Goodacre

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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by Tim Bale — Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts, Patrick Dunleavy

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7d

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 7d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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by Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan Roberts @vaughanroberts.bsky.social · 8d

Great piece (ignore the headline!)⬇️

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 8d

Anglican priest @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social recalls the moment she blessed some Unite the Kingdom protestors on the tube. “It was, I suppose, better than saying ‘God damn you.’”

Why I’m praying for Tommy Robinson supporters

An encounter with two elderly football hooligans on the tube made me consider the purpose of preaching in our fractured times

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Slate @slate.com · 8d

Bestselling author John Grisham, who has written a book about Roberson’s case, calls it “an ongoing tragedy.” He says, “If it now becomes a wrongful execution, it will live in infamy.” slate.trib.al/AREAKEo

Texas Has Scheduled the Execution of an Innocent Man in One Week. Will Anyone Stop It?

Even after all of its misconduct and mistakes have become public knowledge, the state is not convinced that it should spare Robert Roberson’s life.

slate.trib.al

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by Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan Roberts @vaughanroberts.bsky.social · 8d

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 8d

Anglican priest @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social recalls the moment she blessed some Unite the Kingdom protestors on the tube. “It was, I suppose, better than saying ‘God damn you.’”

Why I’m praying for Tommy Robinson supporters

An encounter with two elderly football hooligans on the tube made me consider the purpose of preaching in our fractured times

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers , and 6 more Vaughan S. Roberts, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks, Martin Paul Eve, Charles West, Chris Hanretty, Brooke Harrington, Nicolai von Ondarza

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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by Alan Lester — Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 8d

1/2 Actually, Philip & the Spectator, quite a lot. TF Buxton first argued for compensation to the enslaved before agreeing to pay it to slave owners instead. He founded what’s now Antislavery International.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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by Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan Roberts @vaughanroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Very helpful analysis ⬇️

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 9d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 9d

It's dangerous and it's also incoherent: I heard Jenrick saying today that when judges don the wig it symbolizes the point they leave personal views & identifications aside. Fine, but this makes his claim (if even true) that some judges have 'links' with immigrants' charities utterly irrelevant.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 9d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 9d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

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by Tim Bale — Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts, Ben H. Ansell, Anand Menon , and 1 more Vaughan S. Roberts, Ben H. Ansell, Anand Menon, Tim Bale

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 9d

I'm guessing Robert Jenrick might be hard-pressed to see a black face if he walked round his own constituency of Newark for 90 minutes, given the ethnic minority population of its main town looks to be smaller than the white population of Handsworth. (Source: citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...)

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