Guy Jenkinson

Today, the people of Serbia turned out in record numbers to shape their country’s future. Congratulations to the Student List on its victory in the parliamentary elections.

We stand ready to support reforms on the rule of law, media freedom, the fight against corruption and strong democratic institutions, and to work together to advance Serbia’s future in the European Union. @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu

this is indeed a criminal investigation, in the sense that everyone involved in pursuing it is a criminal

With Ilhan Omar search: DOJ Inspector General report (on Comey's misdeeds): "[V]arious witnesses testified that the Department has a longstanding unwritten practice to avoid overt law enforcement and prosecutorial activities close to an election, typically within 60 or 90 days of Election Day."

Springsteen has inspired a buncha covers. I pick my favorites. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/t...

It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...

I wonder if there is a single person still at the Telegraph who feels even a smidgeon of shame, that in just over a decade it has gone from newspaper-of-record to fluffers-for-rent. It is revolting. Farage, apparently, "lands" a record crypto bung.

If Heath doesn't realise that some of his own colleagues - for example Ashworth-Hayes who wrote the piece Lowe is citing -share Lowe's ethnonationalism he is even more deluded than we thought...

I'm glad Heath is doing this (and persisting in doing so). But as with Fraser Nelson I wish he'd take some responsibility for creating a world in which most of his readers in the comments are backing Lowe.

The world should not ignore China’s undervalued currency (Brad Setser) www.cfr.org/articles/the...

Better value than any box set … #Beatles #NIR

Peter's letter also contains a great chart based on the #brexit impact analysis by Jun Du, @shepotylo.bsky.social & Yujie Shi who demonstrate how regulatory barriers led to a huge fall in the variety of different products being traded between the EU and UK.

🚨🚨"Brexit ‘reset’ could constrain UK’s freedom of movement on trade". @pmdfoster.bsky.social stands in for @alanbeattie.bsky.social with a great trade secrets newsletter. Key points here: www.ft.com/content/0e84...

I think many "public intellectuals" stay on X because while they accept that radicalization is theoretically possible, it's something that only happens to other, dumber or weaker willed people... ... even as their every article inches closer to outright championing eugenics.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... The Beatles knew Lord Woodbine and Lord Woodbine knew them – but the truth should be kept in view and biased agendas avoided when presenting works of history. Swimming against the tide, here's eight minutes to set the record straight. WATCH youtu.be/0hEI9WPgUtU

"First the traitors then the invaders" is Elon Musk endorsing an open call to prioritise political murders + assassinations before violence against migrants and minorities. Still little recognition in the UK government at the persistence of the promotion of political violence - inc murder - by Musk

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

Once you start mass removal of citizenship on political grounds you've stopped functioning as a viable democratic state. But that was always where this agenda was heading.

In case there was any doubt. Restricting access to benefits isn't enough for Conservatives/Badenoch. They want to deport/"remigrate" people who came here on legal work visas, not because of (debunked) claims about benefits/fiscal costs but because they've embraced an openly ethnonationalist agenda

Either Keir Starmer is resigning or I've got a new scratching post.

I’ve been in this town a long time. Each #MFF it’s the same - North wants to cut, South & East want to spend. Impulses are short-sighted & nationalist. European leaders like @robjetten.bsky.social talk of the need for a strong Europe, but then come here to Brussels and refuse to fund that ambition.

Anniversary of "Tommy Robinson" celebrating the D Day soldiers who needlessly gave up their lives by running into the sea.

That’s what I call a national consensus There is no “contentious debate” to reopen, whatever the BBC might say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The idea English identity is confined to ethnicity & ancestry is more niche than abolishing monarchy/joining Euro But media elites skew & overcompensate to an imaginary caricature of public = weird assymetry: venerate niches on right as 'authentic' but would lecture progressives about median voter

Ukraine interrupts St Petersburg airport operations for hours with drones on the last day of the Economic forum. www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukra...

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

i dunno, but maybe it's time the government recognised a foreign white supremacist is using his global social media app to bolster the far-right, bury other voices, and hopefully radicalise users to disrupt the political landscape of other nations

The Makerfield byelection poll by Survation: nb, based on 369 respondents likely to vote and with a voting intention. Suggests it is close to a dead heat, Labour v Reform, at the start.

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

Afternoon.

Fifteen minutes with a whole load of flapping and noise there, on Newsnight, to say what I said in one sentence in a political WhatsApp group.

He wants to be a special boy so badly. He’s desperate for autocrats to love and respect him. Such a needy fragile child easily manipulated and rolled.

Hard to think of a more deserving recipient of the Charlemagne Prize than Mario Draghi. He pulled the eurozone out of its destructive multi-equilibrium trap, advocated early on Ukraine needed a real pathway into the EU, and designed the key blueprint to revive the EU economy.

Wes' theory seems to be that if you wield the knife then you get seen as a traitor and can't win, but walk around waving a big knife with 'backstabbing knife' written all over it going "hey, I'm not using it YET" you'll be a contender. What??

One of the many curiosities of this decision is that Nigel Farage is the only serving UK political leader (to my knowledge) to have been criticised by the Board of Deputies for personally using rhetoric linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories, for which he has never apologised.

Rather tellingly, at least on the BBC's main Sunday morning politics show the focus is still more on voters Labour is losing to Reform.

Farage was asked for a Cameo clip to “talk about how the world is going to shit and how secret societies are controlling everything”. He appears to have volunteered several Jewish conspiracy references himself to that request. Wouldn't all hell break out if Corbyn/Polanski did this on camera too?

Excellent/interesting analysis from @patrick-pme.bsky.social as ever - and consistent with my view on what has been happening in terms of individual-level behaviour. Using 2024 as the baseline tells a slightly different story (at least last time I looked at the data on Friday) so worth some caution.

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Great footnote on who has done the necessary hard work on policy

It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.