@francescoppola.bsky.social
Woke lefty remoaner. Writes stuff on finance and economics at coppolacomment.substack.com. Wrote a book on QE, currently writing a book on banking. Sings a bit. Autistic.
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
Made-up numbers with no credence.
Reform claim: 6k deportations/week: over 300k per year.
Trump (2025): about 230k, away from the border.
Per capita, Reform are saying they would QUADRUPLE the pace of Trump's cruel + chaotic ICE deportations in UK
deportationdata.org/analysis/imm...
Carillion’s ex-CEO drops challenge to his fine for misleading investors ft.trib.al/wQ6WAdI
Outstanding quote from Casement.
Happy SLAPPing?
It looks like the government’s crackdown on using vexatious litigation to silence people is cracking up before it’s even begun:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/72083754-3a92-427d-85bb-18c5b33def2e
It's the Winter Olympics, so here's a mosaic of a Roman who is *definitely* skiing. ⛷️👍
#MosaicMonday
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
😂
really enjoy that the bloke who won two golds on the luge is someone who was a national level taekwondo fighter until he got injured and then a government figure stepped out the shadows and said "let me tell you about project going down a hill really fast"
🤣
Yes it's a great piece. Very instructive indeed.
COVID vaccine during pregnancy is not linked to children’s autism
A recent study showed that there was no increased risk of autism in children of mothers who received the mRNA COVID vaccine. Health organizations continue recommend the COVID vaccine for pregnant women to protect against COVID for…
"when we see a small state (or a village) successfully fighting off a far better armed and equipped force, we should ask what its superpower is"
@francescoppola.bsky.social on point here.
(Not sure what the "ultra processed food" pic has to do with it).
1994 and 1995. Just saying.
Feels like I am going to have to keep writing this piece every other fortnight, forever. @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/e624...
Sadly yes. And looks like it has not ended well.
A pretty bleak threat from the Reform party on Kent county council...
Reform threatens to pull funding for Margate’s Turner Gallery as ‘naked retribution for local MP exposing Kent savings lies' - via Polly Billington MP
The last wild European bison was shot in 1927. At the time there were fewer than 60 such bison alive in zoos & private parks. Now, the great, shaggy beasts are once again roaming the Carpathian Mountains.
And they're helping bring wild lands back to life.
Good news story! No pay wall.
Elon’s emails to Epstein.
Location: Starbase, Texas
I'd rather re-read the book.
This is correct.
I was not "miffed because I fell out of the age range". On the contrary, when the Back to 60 lawsuit extended the age range to include women of my age, I was furious.
I opposed WASPI from the start because I did not think their campaign was morally justifiable. That is still my position.
It struck me, as I was re-reading this, how many similarities there are between Andrew Milne’s and Donald Trump’s behaviour.
Blaming his staff.
By @bronwenmaddox.bsky.social Note her comments on the monetisation of the presidency www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/chat... Note it's not just about the military alliance. It's far, far deeper than that. @francescoppola.bsky.social @alexhh.bsky.social
The “plucky little village” myth distorts how we view conflicts and power dynamics. This piece argues that perceived underdogs like Ukraine or Israel in 1948 rarely triumph alone; their “superpower” is often the backing of empires.
By @francescoppola.bsky.social
buff.ly/yxLbayJ
Obviously this may never happen (still waiting for the Iran-related tariffs from last week) but targeting individual EU members, rather than the whole EU, would be a new departure. Indeed, as @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social keeps saying, the surprise is he hasn’t done it earlier.
Trump's threats make one thing perfectly clear: he will incessantly demand things. Change your healthcare system (pay more for drugs), hand over territory. And it will not stop with Greenland. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
