Rob Gomm
Rob Gomm
@robgomm.bsky.social
MA student Liverpool, charity worker.
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This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
The West helped create Vladimir Putin. A senior Western diplomat warned in 1994 where capitalist 'shock therapy' would take Russia. They ignored him - and ended his diplomatic career.
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Just shows what you can achieve when you organise. Something really incredibly stupid.
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Today sadly seems a good day to remember that the Home Office's social media policy deliberately encourages people to use X/Twitter, and the government keeps on stalling when I suggest they might want to change that: lordseyeview.substack.com/p/the-home-o...
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To engage more seriously, Reform's interior "logic" here is clear. They are effectively arguing that we must restore democracy by dissolving the independent judiciary, circumventing parliament and stacking powers back into No. 10. It's a power grab framed as the voice of the people.
🧵 This is a very useful piece from @shippersunbound.bsky.social providing an insight into the two policy main brains in Reform UK - Danny Kruger and Zia Yusuf and how they are thinking about their approach Kruger says ‘It’s got to be Trump 2, not Trump 1.’ spectator.com/article/we-w...
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The new Bergerac reboot dropped, here's a preview:
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