Not instructed. Rarely impressed. Merely observing proceedings…https://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxwspfyznk2e😏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Oct 2026 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxwspfyznk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxwsmivgxs2eFarage’s defence appears to be that he cannot predict what candidates might say. How convenient. The allegations concern what a candidate had already said. The question is what Farage knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. Attacking the investigation is no substitute for answering it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Oct 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxwsmivgxs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxvwwzobgs2k😏15 Oct 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxvwwzobgs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxqwytmn4s2fRejoining the EU isn’t a manifesto pick-and-mix. Article 49 TEU requires accession negotiations and agreement with existing members. Freedom of movement is fundamental. Labour can debate whether it wants membership; it cannot unilaterally rewrite what membership entails. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2026 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqwytmn4s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxqvj4t6nk2fPutin started the war. Zelenskyy is fighting to keep his country. Yet Trump appears determined to make the defender pay the price for the aggressor’s crimes. History has an unflattering name for politicians who mistake capitulation for peace: appeasers. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqvj4t6nk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxqvclcksc2fStrip away the slogans and what’s left? A proposal to dismantle asylum protections, with human suffering treated as an administrative detail. The logistical failures are almost beside the point. Cruelty isn’t a policy framework. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqvclcksc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxquym2awc2fThe Royal Marines are not an armed immigration enforcement squad. Unlawful entry does not make someone a legitimate target for lethal force. The fact that we’re even discussing this as a serious policy proposition is chilling. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxquym2awc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxlxyl22z22nThere’s something peculiarly hollow about invoking Christianity chiefly as tribal branding while dispensing with the inconvenient bits about humility, hospitality and loving your neighbour. A cross used as a boundary marker is not much of a creed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxlxyl22z22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxlx474uuc2nPutin’s wager is that Europe will tire before Ukraine breaks. That is precisely why wavering now would be catastrophic. The answer to intimidation cannot be strategic fatigue. Support Ukraine properly, consistently, and for as long as it takes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxlx474uuc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxltng3sm22nThere is something almost touching about failed Prime Ministers spending retirement insisting the thing that failed was, in fact, the answer. Sunak has Rwanda. Truss has the mini-budget. Some people keep photographs. Others keep policy disasters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxltng3sm22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxls6vxlwc2n For years Carole Cadwalladr was mocked, threatened, sued and treated as though asking inconvenient questions were the offence. Now we are told there was clear Russian interference in the Brexit vote. How terribly awkward for everyone who spent years trying to discredit the woman asking why. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 10:28 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxls6vxlwc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxlor7kloc2nSo the “it would take a decade” line may be less law and more political convenience. Best for Britain’s Article 49 analysis argues that, with alignment and political will, the UK could rejoin within a single Parliament. That deserves more attention. (Best for Britain) [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 09:26 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxlor7kloc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxlod6p2uc2n There is something particularly ugly about an institution polishing its own historical halo while omitting the journalists who actually did the work — especially when one of them then endured years of legal threats and abuse. Credit is not a decorative extra in journalism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 09:18 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxlod6p2uc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxlnztmly22nBailey’s point was that fiscal policy has to look credible enough to stop gilt yields and borrowing costs spiralling further; UK 10-year yields had just hit their highest level since 2007 amid wider bond-market stress. Notb quite the same thing as saying, “Fk hospitals, keep the speculators happy.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxlnztmly22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxlng7huds2nForget the policy people. Give the entire campaign to Aldi’s social media team. Within 48 hours there’d be a cult following, three devastating memes, a middle-aisle special and somebody from Reform discovering that “ratioed by a supermarket” is now a recognised political condition. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 09:02 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxlng7huds2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxlmyenpz22nSir, you are currently the leader of a minor opposition party, not the East India Company. #Farage 😏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxlmyenpz22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxllwsugic23Farage proposes conducting foreign policy through economic coercion, apparently untroubled by the constraints of international trade law. The distinction between possessing political authority and merely coveting it appears to have escaped him. Demagoguery is not a substitute for statecraft. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 08:36 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxllwsugic23https://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxllktryxc23 “Screw your courage to the sticking-place,” Kemi. Although with your party polling at 18%, even Lady Macbeth might have suggested securing a few more accomplices before attempting to seize the crown. Such vaulting ambition. Such a lamentable shortage of bloody voters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2026 08:29 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxllktryxc23https://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxk7qxlo6k2wHundreds of thousands of victims, billions at stake, and a bitter struggle over who controls the litigation. One wonders at what point the claimants became incidental to the battle between lawyers and funders. The Mariana disaster was a human catastrophe, not a commercial prize. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/dam-claimant-committee-acted-properly-in-terminating-class-action-agreement/5128128.article10 Oct 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxk7qxlo6k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxgl4is6zs2lNaive belief’ is doing a lot of work there. God forbid somebody from the wrong school, wrong family or wrong age gets another crack at education. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2026 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgl4is6zs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxgkclikwk2lSerious people. Serious spreadsheet. Serious £500bn oopsi [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2026 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgkclikwk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxgjyn76cs2lBritish social care: chronically underfunded when it comes to residents and staff, suddenly a £1.1bn investment opportunity when there’s a 7%+ yield attached. Funny how quickly the money appears once frailty becomes an asset class… [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2026 08:18 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgjyn76cs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxgi5kwqgk2lNothing says ‘online safety’ quite like picking a fight with Wikipedia while the actual sewage carries on flowing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2026 07:45 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgi5kwqgk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxghpdkb3s2lFormer Labour deputy leader Tom Watson now says “mob rule” mustn’t interfere with Palantir’s contracts, and he’d work with a Reform government on immigration crackdowns. Quite the ideological journey. Turns out the red line was simply whoever signs the purchase order. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2026 07:37 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxghpdkb3s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/notinstructed.bsky.social/post/3mxedo5ihfk2j Reform by name. In need of remedial English by nature. The administrative revolution will commence just as soon as someone locates a dictionary. 😏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:ntdo3xbwdb3q2343csrtcboc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxedo5ihfk2j