Patrick Holden

Phew

Oh my god @nytpitchbot.bsky.social he did the thing. "Republicans are about to lose the midterms by 12 points. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats."

Still ageing like milk

Trump's renewed attempt to give Moscow a strategic and military victory over Ukraine and to harm European unity and security is even more blatant than similar previous attempts. As the FT has reported, Trump officials are pressuring governments across Europe 1-10

NEWS! Scheduling a live-streamed execution is precisely what Jesus would have done, insist American Christians newsthump.com/2026/10/11/s...

Let he who has not livestreamed a public execution throw the first stone

Actually, both sides of the Civil War were justified in fighting for a cause they thought was good, but H1-B visas are really bad because they are like indentured servitude.

How many divisions had the pope?

Surely it is time for the authorities to take this Fairford terrorism case out of the hands of the police & pass it over to Nigel Farage, Richard Tice & Isabel Oakeshott etc. These people have the expertise & skills to have this all solved & explained to the public by tonight.👍

Remarkable shift in German industry thinking on China. From new BDI paper: “Even if de-risking entails costs, including in the form of counter-reactions, passivity would in the long term be economically considerably more costly & irresponsible from a security-policy perspective”

Three geo-economic philosophies are emerging. The US is a coercive superpower. China is aiming for autarky, with one-sided integration only. In a new piece, I make the case for Europe’s emerging response: networked economic sovereignty. 1/ www.dnhk.org/de/news/2026...

At EP hearing on Industrial Accelerator Act, co-rapporteur from trade group Anna Cavazzini on Made in Europe provisions "China has deployed this logic for 30 years, the only shocking fact for me is that it took us so long to even consider investment conditions ourselves"

Can’t believe no one has ever thought of the idea of selling us hot food. I, for one, am both excited and, if I’m honest, a little apprehensive about the idea of warm food. www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’

There it is, both sides know that agriculture will end up in the "too complicated" box and aren't even going to bother much with it.

‘A good critic is a kind of lightning conductor who picks out the energy in what they read and passes it on to others.’ Colin Burrow on Helen Vendler and the uses of criticism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New in the Ulsterisation of UK national life. If the authorities don't confront far right paramilitaries in part of the state, expect this sort of group in other parts of the state to want a piece of the same action.

A liberal is a conservative who just got mugged by the police

Countries outside the EU no longer have a binary choice: join or not. Instead, there are many alternatives for formal and informal ties across Europe, many anchored in special relationships with the EU. Read more: www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.

Of course it was #morons

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

Everton fandom as the mid-table club that never quite gets relegated but also never quite manages to get a Champions League place seems a good fit for 21st century Britain. And that's probably OK.

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

I.... has the right to defend itself!

Art of the "deal" works again...

Damn those boyars for ruining things for the tsar!

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us. My statement on recent events in Belfast.

The complete lack response from FIFA to one of its World Cup referees being refused entry to the US tells you everything you need to know about how corrupted and debased that wretched organisation is.

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

We have just kicked off our #BISA2026 public lecture with Professor Ilan Pappe 🌟 Entitled ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ this promises to be an incredible discussion 🌍 Thank you to CAPPE and @brightonuni.bsky.social for helping us with this wonderful event! 🎉

Tomorrow is our #BISA2026 public lecture with Professor Ilan Pappe in Brighton 🎉 'Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order' Looking at why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 have unsettled the international order 🌍 Last chance 👉 https://ow.ly/VmcZ50YWnQ9

Chairing a timely panel on 'liberalism and the Geoeconomic turn' at the @mybisa.bsky.social Conference in Brighton this Wednesday. Speakers include Caroline Bertram, Zhihang Wu, Emilio Del Pupo, Alasdair Young and Yours Truly. conference.bisa.ac.uk

There will be no sweet sounds Coming down on the nightshiift