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Zoë Grünewald

@zoegrunewald.bsky.social

Political journalist & broadcaster | Westminster Editor at the Lead UK | Presenter on Fubar Radio | Chatting on Oh God What Now | Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/

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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

25.01.2026 04:26 — 👍 37620    🔁 11814    💬 777    📌 380
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AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.

Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.

But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇

jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

23.01.2026 11:21 — 👍 1846    🔁 810    💬 162    📌 118

🔊 The one in which we learn about @jasonhazeley.bsky.social’s grade 4 piano exam 😆, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social risks swift murder 😱, while @jonnelledge.bsky.social wishes to be clear to ‘a select group’ that @rostaylor.bsky.social doesn’t speak for all of panel 😅

🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

24.01.2026 09:47 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The government says it’s getting serious about childhood obesity, with a new wave of bans on junk food adverts.
Beverley O’Hara joins @zoegrunewald.bsky.social to find out if this is real reform or just the start of a new era in junk food marketing.

Listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

22.01.2026 10:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.

He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

21.01.2026 08:48 — 👍 4393    🔁 2091    💬 402    📌 356

Well she IS renowned for her people skills

20.01.2026 16:13 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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Trump’s Greenland tantrum could be Starmer’s defining moment This threat from abroad has the potential to refocus attention on national interest and remind us who we are.

Trump has made explicit what was previously deniable... Farage is not a disruptive outsider; he is politically and ideologically tied to a US president who disparages Britain, undermines its allies, and treats sovereignty as a punchline

@theleaduk.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

20.01.2026 16:11 — 👍 53    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0

Come on... send us some quezzies for tomorrow

20.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🙋🏼‍♀️ It’s time for YOUR questions for this week’s #ButYourEmails.
🙋🏽‍♂️ Find out how to send them in here (free to read) – www.patreon.com/posts/148682...

20.01.2026 13:55 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

Badenoch backing Trump on Chagos because admitting you were wrong is worse than America invading Greenland. She's just like me FR

20.01.2026 11:39 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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Will the world’s most self-seeking man, Robert Jenrick, work well with the world’s other most self-seeking man, Nigel Farage? Plus: How is Starmer doing compared to his predecessors? @nndroid.bsky.social, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social & Izzy Conn from Leading Labour discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

20.01.2026 09:41 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 5    📌 2
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Trump cites UK’s ‘stupidity’ over Chagos Islands as reason to take over Greenland US president says on social media that Britain’s decision to cede islands to Mauritius is ‘act of total weakness’

How funny, two days ago I was asked to go on GB News to debate whether Starmer was being a hypocrite over Greenland, "given his stance on handing back the Chagos Islands".

You can't convince me this newfound perspective isn't entirely coordinated by Reform

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

20.01.2026 09:02 — 👍 68    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 3

I have lots of views on the recent Reform defection that I can't share on here. But JFC

18.01.2026 23:06 — 👍 35    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
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Robert Jenrick has a plan - and it will eat Reform alive Men like Jenrick do not burn bridges without assurances

But what do I know!

My take on Jenrick’s defection for the @theipaper.com

inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

16.01.2026 11:35 — 👍 29    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 3

I absolutely lapped this up..

16.01.2026 12:48 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Robert Jenrick has a plan - and it will eat Reform alive Men like Jenrick do not burn bridges without assurances

But what do I know!

My take on Jenrick’s defection for the @theipaper.com

inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

16.01.2026 11:35 — 👍 29    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 3

I feel bad for insulting Badenoch's attention to detail, it only took her the best part of a year to come to the exact same conclusion as pretty much everyone else

15.01.2026 11:19 — 👍 182    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 0

Was the clear irrefutable evidence just literally everything he's been saying and doing for the last year or so?

15.01.2026 11:16 — 👍 88    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.

She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform

15.01.2026 11:08 — 👍 490    🔁 134    💬 121    📌 251

ahahahahahahahahahaha

15.01.2026 11:12 — 👍 129    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 2

Slightly uncharitable reading… This piece is specfically about joy and social gathering and how wellness has made pubs/meals/eating as community less popular due to our individualised conceptions of health of health. I never said they’re the only form of collective action or gathering!

15.01.2026 08:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Super interesting!

14.01.2026 22:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant article which articulates many of the things I’ve been brooding on recently. Relatable and so well put. Right, I’m off to the pub.

14.01.2026 14:03 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This great substack and Oliver Burkeman's article in the Guardian make great companion pieces for the start of 2026

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

14.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I am having a crap week and this is a nice thing to read.

14.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This is excellent and gets at the tension between the fairly puritanical goals that social media and the cost of living pushes us towards, vs community events built around shared, increasingly expensive pleasures that maybe aren’t so good for us

14.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Sure! Or just sitting, chatting. The problem is a lot of these third spaces require you to spend money to access, I guess. More and more people living in small shared homes makes it difficult to do that

14.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There’s a badger badger pub round the corner from me that does board games and yummy asian food. Think it’s a good prototype for how pubs can move away from strictly boozers!

14.01.2026 13:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would NEVER assume that.

14.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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