Ian Dunt

Watching him carefully but deliberately wade into this issue is very encouraging. For over a decade, political leaders have not dared to break the consensus on free movement and without that there can be no meaningful improvement in European relations.

2026-10-25 13:59:25 UTC

Again, worth analysing Burnham as if he is really good at politics: moving red lines from things EU can't accept (free movement) to things it might (euro). Changing terms of debate on an issue from negative (uncontrolled immigration) to positive (Brits can go abroad for work).
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ubocpvxptoiknvm53d3q2uqp/post/3mypd42msqc2b

2026-10-13 11:48:44 UTC

If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.

2026-10-08 08:14:57 UTC

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.
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2026-09-29 08:53:49 UTC

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

2026-09-23 10:41:57 UTC

This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. [podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/john-rawls-philosopher-king-of-the-20th-century/id1624704966?i=1000791109876 )
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2026-09-18 11:46:26 UTC

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal [iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/british-journalism-and-polling-are-7d1 )
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2026-09-16 16:05:11 UTC

We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves [inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/piddington-youre-welcome-to-leave-the-uk-4767550?ito=link_share_article-top )
[Piddington, you're welcome to ...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/piddington-youre-welcome-to-leave-the-uk-4767550?ito=link_share_article-top )

2026-08-28 09:30:45 UTC

Vaping could save millions of lives. The reason people hate it is because it is pleasurable, and some innate puritan part of their brain insists that quitting smoking should involve suffering
[iandunt.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/lost-in-the-cloud-how-vaping-was )
[Lost in the cloud: How vaping ...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/lost-in-the-cloud-how-vaping-was )

2026-08-26 16:06:57 UTC

If you worry alot about AI, China's Robot Olympics is here to reassure you that things are going to be OK.
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2026-08-26 15:00:06 UTC

Israel's E1 settlement project is the behaviour of a rogue state. It requires a very firm response.
[inews.co.uk/opinion/were...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/were-find-out-andy-burnham-really-is-4727593 )
[We're about to find out who An...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/were-find-out-andy-burnham-really-is-4727593 )

2026-08-11 08:02:08 UTC

"Anthropic’s commitments under the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice"
A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mkue2jvvchc5vxsxz3wfxefr/post/3mss3rncwhc2e
#note1tnd…l7rs

2026-07-27 14:30:25 UTC

This would be a very good move. I'm a recent convert to mandatory voting and increasingly messianic about it [open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...](https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/killing-populism-what-australia-has-b87?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
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2026-07-27 07:03:12 UTC

Said this before, will again. Badenoch is the most dangerous figure in British politics. She's not as extreme as Farage or Lowe, but her impact is more pernicious. She actively prevents the British centre-right from adopting moderate positions, and thereby facilitates the radicalisation process.

2026-07-25 10:55:01 UTC

I don't accept the stupider point at all but I think the lonelier argument in this piece is much more profound. I wish development pointed away from the anthropomising element of LLMs and had them answering in much colder manner, to emphasise that it's a machine.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n7qmptitg3fcep3mo7uecwb7/post/3mrhhztuf322f

2026-07-23 08:56:22 UTC

Excellent cut-&-keep guide by @npub1y0y…9flk on how to repair Britain's constitutional system: Restricting patronage over the Lords, citizenship education for primary schools, giving Commons control of its timetable, fixing the tyranny of statutory instruments [www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/news/2026/jul/new-constitution-unit-report-makes-recommendations-safeguard-uk-democracy )
[New Constitution Unit report m...](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/news/2026/jul/new-constitution-unit-report-makes-recommendations-safeguard-uk-democracy )

2026-07-10 06:36:38 UTC

Incredible scenes as Badenoch rules herself out as a candidate
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77zr4dx4ixb2dh4chqup4des/post/3mqbjeyxi7s23

2026-07-07 15:03:41 UTC

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality [iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-just-called-a-referendum-on )
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2026-07-05 08:43:40 UTC

An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this
[www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/revealed-nigel-farage-secretly-funded-by-convicted-criminal-j0brtrlnk )
[Revealed: Nigel Farage secretl...](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/revealed-nigel-farage-secretly-funded-by-convicted-criminal-j0brtrlnk )

2026-07-03 11:15:15 UTC

Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic handling of America's 250th anniversary [iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-ba...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-baby-americas-national-decline-cb8 )
[Ice, Ice Baby: America's natio...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-baby-americas-national-decline-cb8 )

2026-06-30 07:06:26 UTC

A travesty. What in God's name is the matter with her.
[www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddlgqlm7q2o )
[Refugees will be told to repay...](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddlgqlm7q2o )

2026-06-23 17:44:05 UTC

This is great. He's getting absolutely hammered on this and every answer he invents is worse than the one which preceded it
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lonqvzvc6ub6btm77wfdvrwa/post/3moxjdsgbrk2t

2026-06-22 08:36:43 UTC

Starmer resigns, has already spoken to the king. Will ask NEC to set out timetable with nominations opening July 9. He'll remain as PM until contest complete. Promises orderly handover of power, which suggests he will stay until September even if there isn't a contest.

2026-06-10 14:46:12 UTC

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House [inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/farage-lowe-musk-snarling-trio-destroy-britain-4465693 )
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2026-06-10 10:20:36 UTC

I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity.

2026-06-10 09:14:37 UTC

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

2026-05-30 09:26:25 UTC

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it.
[www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...](https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-trans-rights-in-the-uk-is-the-start-of-democratic-collapse/ )
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2026-05-18 12:55:43 UTC

Forcing Farage to talk about the Brexit disaster is key to defeating him [inews.co.uk/opinion/forc...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/forcing-farage-talk-brexit-disaster-key-defeating-him-4423624 )
[Forcing Farage to talk about t...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/forcing-farage-talk-brexit-disaster-key-defeating-him-4423624 )

2026-05-18 09:49:35 UTC

This is a very sensible plan for funding London's bridges. More importantly it is a very beautiful plan, or could be.
[www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-bui...](https://www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-build-a-street-bridge?open=false )
[How to build a street bridge](https://www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-build-a-street-bridge?open=false )

2026-05-18 06:29:52 UTC

Lots of talk of Streeting and Burnham being at war over Europe but their statements were actually very similar. Streeting: "one day back in the European Union. Burham: "In the long term there is a case for [rejoining]". The emphasis is different but the basic position is the same.

2026-05-05 13:53:21 UTC

Probably the best debate I've heard about AI. Refreshingly clear and reasonable [pca.st/episode/9ff8...](https://pca.st/episode/9ff8f93e-3245-4d60-9e29-93fb0f21528b )
[James and Martin have a big fi...](https://pca.st/episode/9ff8f93e-3245-4d60-9e29-93fb0f21528b )

2026-04-30 21:03:38 UTC

Proper meat-and-potatoes old school scandal.
[www.theguardian.com/politics/202...](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024 )
[Exclusive: Nigel Farage was gi...](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024 )

2026-04-26 07:53:36 UTC

There's a lot that's wonderful in this piece but this was my favourite part
[open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...](https://open.substack.com/pub/naomialderman/p/dating-as-a-fat-lady?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
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2026-04-12 19:39:07 UTC

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

2026-04-12 07:42:06 UTC

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/post/3mjbivbqawk2r
#note15qc…mfz2

2026-04-10 11:16:43 UTC

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide [iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle-against-trump-is-a-battle-f75 )
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2026-04-07 12:18:36 UTC

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

2026-04-07 07:33:58 UTC

A mind-breaking muddle of news this morning: Humans going further than ever before in space and a lunatic president openly threatening war crimes at home. The sublime and the degenerate. Hard to keep it all in your head at once.

2026-03-31 09:59:18 UTC

Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination.
[open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...](https://open.substack.com/pub/wewantedworkers/p/earned-settlement-retrospective-change?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
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2026-03-21 14:35:40 UTC

Hard to be optimistic about anything at the moment, but there is one positive development I suppose. Donald Trump has made the strongest possible case for why countries must turn their back on fossil fuel. And they seem to be listening.

2026-03-20 08:18:01 UTC

This is outstanding by [@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:uyqz2nkbli6otogvabjw46rn ) on the weaponisation of irony and the need for radical sincerity
[open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...](https://open.substack.com/pub/joxleywrites/p/on-radical-sincerity?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
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2026-03-12 23:10:05 UTC

How Paris beat the car [www.ft.com/content/882e...](https://www.ft.com/content/882ebf59-d14a-4d4c-beb7-af72df31a4f3 )
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2026-03-12 00:47:41 UTC

So to summarise: You failed to take out the regime. You failed to destroy nuclear material. You failed to eradicate Iran's retaliatory capacity. You brought chaos to the Middle East. You killed god knows how many people. You destabilised your own economy. All for nothing, but the ego of madman.
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2026-03-04 23:02:52 UTC

I understand the pressures on Rutte but he really has turned into a hapless buffoon. Helping to eradicate the rules based order he believes he's upholding.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:movn6xzezospl7lnkhy7nzpt/post/3mgbfa7n3fc2c

2026-02-17 19:19:18 UTC

It's a thoughtless, mean-spirited and counter-productive idea. They shouldn't have proposed it in the first place. But now they have, they should think again.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:refbwihhzcqqfulwhcou44sr/post/3mf2ncwmu7k23

2026-02-13 10:24:28 UTC

Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position.
[www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule )
[UK ban on Palestine Action unl...](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule )

2026-01-27 10:54:23 UTC

Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home.
[inews.co.uk/opinion/rejo...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rejoining-eu-only-way-trump-4170994 )
[Rejoining the EU is the only w...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rejoining-eu-only-way-trump-4170994 )

2026-01-26 13:04:53 UTC

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

2026-01-23 13:43:24 UTC

Dear Christ
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dci5jlffbhbi4ui4inf2wk6i/post/3md3pyqzwns2f
#note1s5d…k0qm

2026-01-23 12:42:39 UTC

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered [iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-d9f )
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2026-01-21 14:32:22 UTC

Potential headline: Incoherent, rambling American president backs down on military force on Greenland and pleads for talks, in moment of humiliation for the US

2026-01-15 16:40:09 UTC

What the fuck is going on

2026-01-14 18:43:32 UTC

The Government staying on X is pathetic: Ministers need to show some moral backbone [inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/the-government-staying-on-x-is-pathetic-4169855 )
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2026-01-09 14:21:51 UTC

Remember when we used to have those chats about what would tempt us into becoming paying subscribers on old Twitter. Who could have guessed that the company's eventual proposal would be paedo-porn-on-demand.

2025-12-10 18:07:51 UTC

The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office [inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/the-asylum-scandal-politicians-4098393 )
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2025-12-10 13:42:26 UTC

Very good series of proposals from the UK Trade and Business Commission on a UK-EU youth mobility scheme: Set it initially at 44,000, keep fees at a nominal level, have it last for two years with an optional year add-on at the end [www.bestforbritain.org/launch_yes_w...](https://www.bestforbritain.org/launch_yes_with_44_000_cap )
[Launch UK-EU youth experience ...](https://www.bestforbritain.org/launch_yes_with_44_000_cap )

2025-12-04 13:01:34 UTC

Life with a dog is good. Until you're hungover and it's raining and you're walking around with a bag of wet shit wondering what the fuck you did with your life.

2025-12-02 19:24:39 UTC

I will never understand why James Cameron decided the waste the second half of his career making films about these godforesaken jungle smurfs.

2025-11-12 15:12:44 UTC

They're going to crash the global economy by attempting to create an artificial general intelligence, despite having no idea what that is, no proof they can build it & no hope of doing so. Cunts just read too many sci-fi books.

2025-11-08 09:11:52 UTC

Brilliant article, which demonstrates the mad outcomes of changing council tax without revaluation. The tax system is already arbitrary, irrational and unfair. That must change, or the same old problems will persevere.
[www.politicshome.com/news/article...](https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/analysis-shows-why-council-tax-reform-could-be-incredibly-difficult )
[Why Council Tax Reform Is Frau...](https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/analysis-shows-why-council-tax-reform-could-be-incredibly-difficult )

2025-11-06 07:22:46 UTC

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
[news.sky.com/story/the-x-...](https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487# )
[Elon Musk is boosting the Brit...](https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487# )

2025-10-15 13:35:08 UTC

The ability to discuss Brexit without fear is nothing less than the ability to discuss objective reality [inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/labour-admits-brexit-terrible-now-time-act-3980338 )
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2025-10-08 08:28:34 UTC

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.

2025-10-03 11:04:21 UTC

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is [open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...](https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/whats-the-shit-you-wont-put-up-with?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
[The politics of drawing a mora...](https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/whats-the-shit-you-wont-put-up-with?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )

2025-10-01 17:00:57 UTC

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster [inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/brexit-disaster-now-starmer-dares-admit-it-3950827 )
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2025-09-28 22:05:39 UTC

Looks like Putin's attempt to bully Moldova has failed. With 90% of votes counted, the pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has a 20 point lead over the Russian-funded Patriotic Bloc [open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...](https://open.substack.com/pub/arthursnell/p/has-russia-lost-moldova?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
[Has Russia lost Moldova?](https://open.substack.com/pub/arthursnell/p/has-russia-lost-moldova?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )

2025-09-26 06:03:20 UTC

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards [www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/25/the-left-ignored-immigration-fears-for-too-long/ )
[Access Restricted](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/25/the-left-ignored-immigration-fears-for-too-long/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email )

2025-09-12 06:54:41 UTC

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. [www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup )
[Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 year...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup )

2025-08-19 07:36:46 UTC

This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. [edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-zelensky-meeting-oval-office-putin-war-analysis )
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2025-08-10 10:01:05 UTC

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
[www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/palestine-action-arrests-london-largest-protest-ban )
[Police arrest 474 people at pr...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/palestine-action-arrests-london-largest-protest-ban )

2025-07-27 13:05:47 UTC

There's a ridiculous disconnect between the promises of AI and the reality. My Google Home works right half the time I ask it to call my phone. The notion that it's on the verge of being able to sort restaurant reservations and organise my calendar seems fanciful.

2025-07-25 09:02:58 UTC

The rest of the comments are an open expression of ethnic cleansing. They are confirmation of a war crime.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5yoii26kayabauhkym3vtms/post/3luqaw3sfhy22
#note1rta…6utl

2025-07-23 20:39:45 UTC

Our conversation over the last couple of days suggests a complete moral breakdown, at a national scale. Instead of sympathising with far-right protests, politicians should be fucking challenging them.
[inews.co.uk/opinion/star...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/starmers-response-to-far-right-protests-exposes-britains-moral-decline-3821000 )
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2025-07-22 11:28:48 UTC

'Prior to the home sec's decision to proscribe Palestine Action, no organisation... has ever been proscribed solely on the basis that they carry out actions which cause serious damage to property'
Good piece on legal Qs surrounding Palestine Action [ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/08/n...](https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/08/nour-haidar-home-secretary-vs-palestine-action-the-constitutional-implications-of-widening-the-legal-understanding-of-terrorism/ )
[Nour Haidar: Home Secretary vs...](https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/08/nour-haidar-home-secretary-vs-palestine-action-the-constitutional-implications-of-widening-the-legal-understanding-of-terrorism/ )

2025-07-17 10:01:19 UTC

Holy shit the government's Restoring Trust in Democracy policy paper is good.

2025-05-30 14:48:55 UTC

Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded liberated people [open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...](https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/trump-vs-harvard-why-they-hate-universities?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
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2025-05-30 11:12:09 UTC

Trump vs Harvard: It's the fascism, stupid [iandunt.substack.com/p/trump-vs-h...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/trump-vs-harvard-why-they-hate-universities )
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2025-05-27 04:53:05 UTC

UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers [www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/uk-must-impose-sanctions-on-israel-to-meet-legal-obligations-say-more-than-800-lawyers?CMP=share_btn_url )
[UK must impose sanctions on Is...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/uk-must-impose-sanctions-on-israel-to-meet-legal-obligations-say-more-than-800-lawyers?CMP=share_btn_url )

2025-05-23 06:40:43 UTC

This is a clear cut coordination policy intended to force independent institutions into loyalty with the regime. It is obviously the behaviour of an authoritarian state and anyone who claims otherwise needs their fucking head examined [www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students?CMP=share_btn_url )
[Trump administration halts Har...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students?CMP=share_btn_url )

2025-05-20 13:56:35 UTC

Outstanding from Lammy. Impossible to tolerate the moral oblivion into which Netanyahu has dragged Israel.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:26tsf647wqnoo7umh4ywwz7a/post/3lpm7xroawk23
#note1gay…f7mp

2025-05-13 09:39:05 UTC

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

2025-05-12 08:11:49 UTC

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

2025-05-11 05:29:33 UTC

This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
[arstechnica.com/culture/2025...](https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/ )
[Silicon Valley billionaires li...](https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/ )

2025-04-28 11:52:29 UTC

Trump's descent into fascism is worse than we could have predicted [inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-descent-fascism-worse-than-predicted-3663386 )
[Trump's descent into fascism i...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-descent-fascism-worse-than-predicted-3663386 )

2025-04-16 09:54:19 UTC

BlueSky, please can you remind me of some of the most embarrassing pro-Trump apologia from people who should've known better at the start of the year? There's been so much I think I've forgotten most of them.

2025-04-10 15:08:42 UTC

"Given that the US economy is entirely dependent on Chinese sources for vital goods (pharmaceutical stocks, cheap electronic chips, critical minerals) it's wildly reckless not to ensure alternate suppliers/adequate domestic production before cutting off trade" [www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trade-wars-are-easy-lose )
[Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trade-wars-are-easy-lose )

2025-04-09 17:59:02 UTC

So, in summary: Trump panicked and then capitulated. However: he has left an eye watering traffic with China, a still-painful traffic with everyone else, and a sense of permanent instability.

2025-04-07 05:27:54 UTC

Oh look. So despite all the hand-wringing about Le Penn's sentence and the insistence that it would trigger great surges of public sympathy, hardly anyone came to her sadsack protest [www.politico.eu/article/mari...](https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-political-future-france-democracy-europe-verdict-embezzling-funds/ )
[Le Pen’s ‘Save Democracy’ rall...](https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-political-future-france-democracy-europe-verdict-embezzling-funds/ )

2025-04-04 13:51:53 UTC

Trump is learning what Truss learned before him: that the market is the last bastion of commonly-accepted truth, which all sides accept as empirically real [open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...](https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/some-disparate-thoughts-on-the-second?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
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2025-04-03 11:27:27 UTC

The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.

2025-04-03 08:33:18 UTC

This is what empires look like when they fall [inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-downfall-begins-now-paranoia-baseless-rage-3621228 )
[Trump’s downfall begins now – ...](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-downfall-begins-now-paranoia-baseless-rage-3621228 )

2025-04-01 15:15:17 UTC

Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.
[open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...](https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/want-to-know-how-trump-gets-in-just?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo )
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2025-03-31 10:33:44 UTC

Putin comes against Le Pen ruling. Authoritarians hates any possibility of legal restraint on their leadership. Trump will doubtless do the same. Journalists do not have to follow this framing. There is zero reason for them to start a report by questioning whether the ruling is democratic.

2025-03-14 08:24:46 UTC

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit [www.theguardian.com/business/202...](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/13/uk-food-and-drink-exports-to-the-eu-down-34-since-brexit?CMP=share_btn_url )
[UK food and drink exports to t...](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/13/uk-food-and-drink-exports-to-the-eu-down-34-since-brexit?CMP=share_btn_url )

2025-03-11 16:16:04 UTC

I just find this terribly strange and foolish. Stay on X, sure. Governments want all the communication outlets they can get. But by the same measure, why would you not be here.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p4cho76ismuzgz4acdwlz7vf/post/3lk4gxxovxs23

2025-02-28 21:08:27 UTC

Where is Starmer's statement of support for Zelenskyy. No excuses. No equivocation.

2025-02-28 20:39:25 UTC

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

2025-02-22 17:47:17 UTC

America will have to live with the shame of what's happening here for years.
[www.wsj.com/world/europe...](https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-pushes-kyiv-to-kill-its-u-n-resolution-marking-wars-anniversary-ed6db571 )
[U.S. Pushes Kyiv to Kill Its U...](https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-pushes-kyiv-to-kill-its-u-n-resolution-marking-wars-anniversary-ed6db571 )

2025-01-17 12:17:41 UTC

One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch. She may well be the most hapless opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama. [iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-in-the-life-of-kemi-badenoch )
[One week in the life of Kemi B...](https://iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-in-the-life-of-kemi-badenoch )