@davidwlkr0.bsky.social
Author (The Only Way is Up, with Polly Toynbee), non-executive, former Audit Commission director and journalist
My letter in the Financial Times today
04.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Article by Nick Robinson, saying it's time the country took the prospect of Farage as PM seriously.
Is there's anybody in the broadcast media who hasn't been taking it seriously (if not assuming it's virtually nailed-on) for literally months?
03.11.2025 18:20 — 👍 51 🔁 5 💬 16 📌 0Of course that doesn’t mean Labour needs to appeal to them on the basis of racism but on other matters of importance to them. And I know that that is what they’re trying to do…
03.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
54 per cent
www.liberation.fr/politique/so...
OK, name a contemporary policy that has been informed by academic (social) science. The list clearly doesn't include local government reform, much of social policy etc. As for fiscal policy, wait for the budget
01.11.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
01.11.2025 12:31 — 👍 758 🔁 243 💬 35 📌 9Dress up; fail to oppose Trump ...it's the American way
01.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Work has begun at the Alstom factory in Derby on the first of 10 new Elizabeth line trains.
The hugely successful Elizabeth line is driving up public transport use in the capital and driving economic growth well beyond London.
Could Katie Lam identify the London schools where "more than three-quarters of children don’t speak English to a serviceable school standard". Well done to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for giving Lam + CPS the chance to substantiate this claim at the Tory fringe
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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Brilliant evocation here of life of Jim Morrison. But, listening, a persistent question - how does this America relate to Trump’s?
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Compare the description of Faiza Shaheen and Matthew Goodwin…it’s not deliberate bias but yet another example of how -in parts of the BBC -the brainwashers have brainwashed themselves:
30.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 85 🔁 28 💬 7 📌 0"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."
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I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...
30.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 1242 🔁 441 💬 49 📌 39British journalism
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He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”
I’m crying
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
It's not just Murdoch. Times journalists are rightwing and reactionary
29.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely...It is time for the government to understand this
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Reactionaries move on territory we thought was settled
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Pet Peeve
Studies of only the U.S. should be forced to include “in the United States” in the title.
The U.S. is in many ways one of the worst countries to generalize upon and the (often implicit) claim of universalism is based on either chauvinism or ignorance (or both).
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27.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0About time...
27.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 274 🔁 59 💬 5 📌 0This article was so bad the Times have removed it.
27.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 209 🔁 56 💬 12 📌 1"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
27.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 1060 🔁 277 💬 22 📌 11Ich glaube, die effektivste Sofortmaßnahme für die politische Kultur in diesem Land wäre ein sofortiges X-Verbot für alle Abgeordneten in allen Parlamenten und für alle Parteispitzen. Diese immer giftigere Melange aus Erregung, Desinformation, Aggression und Irrsinn schadet.
26.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 2098 🔁 447 💬 75 📌 16
Christmas isn’t coming
…at least the Glühwein
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Edwardian broken Britain.
25.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Pas de bijoux
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🐮🇨🇭 "Attention, prêt… meuh !" À Flumserberg, station nichée au cœur des montagnes suisses, neuf vaches et leurs "cavalières" prennent le départ sur une ligne tracée avec du foin: toutes rêvent de décrocher la couronne du "Grand Prix de la vache".
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In the video, the council’s leader Linden Kemkaran could be seen telling councillors, in relation to policy decisions, 'you’re just going to have to f****** suck it up'. on.ft.com/47i1IV4
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