Peter Jukes

I can see you’re avoiding the question. He has served nearly 9 years leading the council. He was elected in 2017

I can see you’re avoiding the question. He has served nearly 9 years leading the council. He was elected in 2017

Opinion | This Theory Explains Trump’s Baffling Foreign Policy

[Trump] is pursuing something more out of the 16th-century, what we call neoroyalist international politics.

Foreign policy has become a tool to channel money and status to Mr. Trump and his closest associates. National interests are eclipsed by those of elites.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

When was Andy Burnham elected as Mayor?

Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner's Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior Conservative figures, reports Nafeez Ahmed

🔴Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch

Nigel Farage’s cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior Conservative figures, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2026/01/26/r...

Oh dammit ‘anyone bother’ I guess is what I meant, but this train from Manchester must have been going round a bend

As a great believer in pluralism, and the need for diversity of opinion, broad coalitions and big tents, the macho level of machine politics celebrated by some in Labour seems very counter productive - and in the end destructive

? ‘Doom’ comes from the same root as ‘deeming’ ie judgement

When ICE Opens Fire On Us A Future History of ICE's First Mass Attack

No doubt some complacent bloviator will call this ‘doomerism’

No, it’s a clear and present danger.

It’s an immediate warning.

It’s not inevitable, but forewarned is forearmed (politically)

Read @therickwilson.bsky.social

When ICE Opens Fire On Us
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He actually spoke about this at last year’s @bylinefestival.bsky.social and the pernicious effect of whipped voting on public trust and political integrity

Here he’s fighting Tommy Robinson’s corner. He used to follow him on Twitter, until he deleted his account.

He of course calls our capital 'Londonistan'.

Michael Manning is Reform UK’s candidate in the Zetland, Redcar and Cleveland by-election.

At this point we would normally point you to his Twitter account, but he deleted it just before his nomination was confirmed.

We gathered a good picture of his views, before he did.

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Trump's Greenland Delusion Runs Aground in Davos For all his attempted bullying, taunts and threats, Trump's delusional Davos speech revealed a man who is far weaker than he appears, argues Alexandra Hall Hall

📌 ICYMI — Trump’s Greenland Delusion Runs Aground in Davos

For all his attempted bullying, taunts and threats, Trump's delusional Davos speech revealed a man who is far weaker than he appears…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/21/donald-trump-davos-speech-greenland-delusion-runs-aground-in-davos/

What Keir Starmer Should Have Done With Andy Burnham The PM's decision to block Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election risks handing the seat to Nigel Farage, and ultimately triggering his own downfall. It didn't have to be this way,...

🔴What Keir Starmer Should Have Done With Andy Burnham

The decision to block Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election risks handing the seat to Nigel Farage, and ultimately triggering Starmer's downfall. It didn’t have to be this way, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

Guerilla magazine repositioning, swapped Oldie with @bylinetimes.bsky.social in Waitrose (I expect people will say "typical green, shopping there!" Actually it's on my way to & from town & I WALK there!)

Exclusive: In secret recordings, Cruz trashes Trump tariffs, Vance The comments to donors last year are some of the harshest criticisms of Trump and Vance by a fellow Republican.

Exclusive: In secret recordings, Cruz trashes Trump tariffs, Vance www.axios.com/2026/01/25/c...

So let me get this right - in Starmer's Labour Party Mandelson's ok but not Burnham.

“These guys, these rootless white males, had monster power... I realized Milo could connect with these kids right away. You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump”

The 'Monster Power' of Misogyny: How Trump, Bannon and Putin Beat Hilary Clinton in 2016

Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms weaponised migration to win the EU referendum. Six months later, the same forces used another deep-seated fear to propel Trump

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Holy shit.

Ok- it’s Sunday relax- put phone to one side- try to make sense of a nonsensical World. Hopefully The Observer UK. Byline Times and Private Eye will do the job after a sip of tea.

Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race Allies of Greater Manchester mayor say No 10 has ‘chosen factionalism’ as decision leads to a furious backlash

I see Morgan McSweeney is still modelling himself on Dominic Cummings

"Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race"

At this rate, Keir Starmer will become the Boris Johnson of the Labour Party

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

Great to see some renewed interest in Nigel Farage’s sumptuous lunches

How about this one when he launched a European Revolution with Steve Bannon, who was being backed by Jeffery Epstein all the time bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

I’m not sure if it’s any help to my American friends in this moment of cruelty and tragedy, but one of my most vivid memories in primary school was our teacher coming into the class in tears because 4 students had been shot dead by the National Guard in Kent State University.

You will overcome

In relation to Mark Carney:- “It was a bracing speech, but more than that, it was a brave act. It was the kind of act that Trumpism suggests does not exist, the kind of act that rebuts Trumpism by simply existing.”

Farage-Bannon-Epstein

Opinion | Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point

“Voters believe that politicians are corrupt. Trump proves them right by flaunting his own corruption; his success confirms their disgust with the system and the need for a champion who has mastered its rules”

. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...