Peter Holmes

UK commentator this AM talking confidently on why Ireland's housing issues are different to UK's due to IE's ghost estates and access to EU migrants, both of these are a decade out of date; there'll be no rush of Polish plumbers this time if the UK re-opens itself to EU/EAA FoM, that well is dry.

Wasn’t it Deloitte that helped the Abramovich tax evasion scam?

lol Trump wants to take J6th wussdom global www.barrons.com/news/trump-s...

Given Meta's alleged interference, it's quite cute they used WhatsApp.

I believe Putin is going to apply with evidence of what he did to influence Trump's election.

With all this talk about freedom of movement & lazy journos writing up it could hurt Red Wall MPs, I’m resharing my article from early Oct. Playing it safe on EU is riskiest thing Labour can do for those MPs. labourlist.org/2026/10/play...

Incredible. Student List are candidates selected by groups of students to form an anti-corruption party. Another youth-led movement overthrowing an authoritarian government in Europe.

“Aleksandar Vučić announced the end of his 12-year reign as the most powerful man in Serbia on Sunday following a pivotal election that swept the Student List protest movement to victory” = a lede I never imagined @unawrites.bsky.social writing but 2026 gonna 2026 www.politico.eu/article/serb...

More to come on this, but those Labour MPs opposing talking about freedom of movement need to be aware that they are also condemning UK manufacturing to more barriers and probably further decline. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fact check: Nope.

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

Again, worth analysing Burnham as if he is really good at politics: moving red lines from things EU can't accept (free movement) to things it might (euro). Changing terms of debate on an issue from negative (uncontrolled immigration) to positive (Brits can go abroad for work).

Excellent!!😊

As to why/when this might happen, one answer could be that the hegemon itself has become the most actively revisionist power in the system.

So if you’re furious as you fill up your tank, just remember Exxon is making a lot of money off you.

The numbers aren't capped as such under free movement, but people cannot move solely to claim benefits and serious criminals can be expelled or refused entry - so "unlimited" is misleading

Burnham is correct to imply a de facto link between free movement of people and Dublin/Eurodac - all of the non-EU countries agreeing to free movement with the EU are also associated with the Dublin rules. BUT they are all also associated with Schengen. Would the EU insist on it for the UK too?

And true to form, Farage and the Tories (Philp) respond by being totally dishonest about it… Freedom of movement with the EU requires EU citizenship. Immigration requires visas. Talk of ‘betrayal’ and ‘uncontrolled migration’ is the mark of a liar or a fool. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Before he was a senator, Jon Ossoff worked with Ghanaian journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela on a documentary about corruption and bribery in African soccer. In 2019, Divela was killed by two gunmen. No one has been convicted in connection to the killing.

Does it almost smack of something that has already been discussed?

The real inversion is Burnham defending freedom of movement on merits, to the benefit of Britons; rather than a "price to be paid" for market access. For the first time by a PM since.... 2004...?

UK offering Freedom of Movement would be the game changer for conversations with the EU, one of the trio of people, pounds and positivity I identified earlier this year as crucial to any significant move to removing barriers.

One may note that the immediately joining the Euro and Schengen are not actually requirements of EU membership. Someone has been carefully briefed. bsky.app/profile/matt...

ProPublica has been publishing in-depth investigations into the Trump administration’s attempts to assert federal control over elections. 📌 Join our reporters on Tuesday, Oct. 27, for a conversation about what they found: https://events.propublica.org/voting-guardrails/bluesky

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Imagine that: holding lawbreakers accountable.

We're up to six homoerotic exclamations from Trump this afternoon alone.

Not that Russia would ever attempt to use millions of dollars to influence US political outcomes. No, definitely not. For more on this I go live to Comrades Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

It’s time to arrest Elon.

Let's be clear: Ukraine did not start this war. Russia did. What American national interest is served by helping an imperial dictator at the expense of a democracy fighting for its survival?

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

💪 "Lord Sadiq Khan today made his latest push for Britain to rejoin the EU, warning that Brexit has been “catastrophic” for the capital."

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

Anglian Water fined puny £1.6M for polluting 14km of River Brain. Ignored alarms telling them that sewage was being dumped. Highest levels of toxic ammonia. AW has numerous criminal convictions. No exec prosecuted, licence to operate not cancelled. Fleecing normalized.

Bill Clinton: “I’m tired of the way we treat our allies like dirt. And just last week, President Trump finally did what he threatened to do when he first ran, which is to abandon Ukraine and embrace Vladimir Putin all over again.” I hope the American people are also tired of it

In case facts still matter — we have abandoned Ukraine in favor of Putin Russia was never a hoax

Meta gave $1M to Trump's inauguration fund — and Mark Zuckerberg himsef has helped bankroll Trump's ballroom. Now Trump's DOJ has halted a years-long criminal investigation into allegedly enabling and profiting from illegal drug sales on its platforms. Funny how that works, huh?

Me coming home from kindergarten

“Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration, US officials and people familiar with the matter said”

I think they might all be bstards.

If you're not watching Al Jazeera investigates live now, you *really* should The most remarkable undercover footage I've ever seen. Turning Point UK actively involved in soliciting what they think is a hit UK police really need to be watching www.aljazeera.com/video/live