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Gideon Mitchell
Gideon Mitchell
@gideon-mitchell.bsky.social
Old guy with a beard. Unhealthy obsession with the state of democracy in the world. Teaches data visualisation. Talks on mental health. Publishes the Substack 'Untethered' about motivation, addiction and recovery. North Wales, UK.
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Finally, some proper evidence is coming out about what we have all suspected for a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU9d...
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There have been many problems with Nigel Farage's Brexit, but the one that had the greatest direct impact on me as an IT trainer has been the removal of my own Freedom Of Movement. So it is great news that Andy Burnham is considering the possibility of reinstating it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Turning Point UK was supposed to be a youth movement All it's ever done is appeal to middle aged thugs
"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.
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The moral degradation of the leadership of the USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GYp...
I was eight years old when the Aberfan disaster happened, about the same age as many of the children who were killed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Won’t lower energy bills. Won’t boost energy security And creates just 27 jobs. Compared to all the benefits of investing in renewables and insulating our homes. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...
Donald Trump's Plan B after losing the mid-terms will rip up the world order. youtu.be/zjvuMaxAddc?...
If you are not convinced of the vacuum of morality at the centre of the Republican Party and their desperate desire to take power for their corporate overlords at the expense of the people, take a look at sloppy Steve, laying it all out. www.youtube.com/shorts/8AVTx...
How about the UK's media regulator Ofcom tackles the obvious shortcomings of the media? Serving politicians should not be presenting TV shows. Easy. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
Shortly after the US was ranked 64 out of 68 in the Global Perception Score, behind Russia, Iraq and Syria, with only countries in sub-Saharan Africa having a positive view of the US, this happened. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFR...
Made some of this for lunch. Just the thing for a cold wet day. Lovely. www.hokeystokey.com/smoked-haddo...
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Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It looks like the Ukrainians need to switch over to a European satellite provider such as Eutelsat. If their satellite warnings can be turned off on a whim by Trump or Elon Musk, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, they should switch to a reliable ally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough. This "war" did not start last week. It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Let's boil down Andy Burnham's acknowledgement that the Russians interfered in the Brexit referendum. - When he said that 'he asked', the people he was asking were the security services, who would have known if anybody did.
or would they prefer to move to the Trumpian way of doing things in which they all shout at each other and leave the electorate to guess who is telling the truth. In the case of Farage, I am sure he would prefer the Trumpian way as Trump is his political model.
Badenoch's choice will show her quality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8hV...
Let's boil down Andy Burnham's acknowledgement that the Russians interfered in the Brexit referendum. - When he said that 'he asked', the people he was asking were the security services, who would have known if anybody did.
- The people who stood to gain from the Russian interference were Farage and the Tories because Brexit served Russian interests. - It is Farage and the Tories who are pushing back most furiously against Burnham's statement because it calls their 'win' into question.
We could spend months in accusations and counter-accusations (and probably the media will) but I think the central question is this. Do politicians in the UK want decisions for our country to be based on facts and truth, agree on what actually happened and work out what to do about it
Now Andy Burnham has confirmed that there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum, can we now please discuss Dominic Grieve's Russia Report, which was suppressed at the time by Boris Johnson? isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
The report itself is rather dense. The shortened Wikipedia version is helpful. Main conclusions include: UK government failed to investigate evidence of successful interference in democratic processes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelli...
The United States is viewed positively only in sub-Saharan Africa. It's fifth from the bottom of the ranking. Click the link and take a look at the details - fascinating stuff.
ICYMI — Globally Israel is now the worst-perceived country in the world, and 🇺🇸 is now 5th worst (behind even Russia and Iraq and Syria) The Trump and Netanyahu effect in number form 😕🤷🏼 146165116.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/146165...
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I thought this book might be relevant: 'The Cruelty is the Point'. www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...
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