Dave Madden 🇪🇺

Writer, editor, journalist, lecturer (and student again). Typos my own.

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

It would be good if the likes of @TheBotanics and @theusherhall would get their bottoms over to Bluesky, so we can continue to say nice things about them.

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

@KathViner @Keir_Starmer @guardian @UKLabour - your readers and members are abandoning this place in droves this week - you really need to go find them again... on Blue Sky maybe?

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

@Merrion Thanks. Perhaps see you there.

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

Probably today is the day to leave this place. Where to go to?

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

Dear @Keir_Starmer - you don't stand shoulder to shoulder with Trump. You really don't. This should be your Hugh Grant moment.

[Richard Sefton @richardosefton]

Don’t count me in this.

I don’t have ANY special relationship with a rapist.
https://t.co/ERU5PbOwuK

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Starmer has to get real about the EU now. We are an orphan of the storm. The only thing special about the relationship between Labour and a Republican White House - David Miliband or Peter Mandelson as our ambassador, seriously? - will be the fear and loathing.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Mark Sumner @Ruislip4EU]

@BenPBradshaw @UKLabour Why is @Keir_Starmer still digging his heals in? When will the Russia report be made public (without the reductions)?

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

This @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵

1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

[Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ @LaylaMoran]

Votes not yet all in but looks like hate is winning. The implications for security across the globe cannot be underestimated. Ukraine. Middle East. China. The UK will need to reevaluate its geopolitical centre of gravity.

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

Dear @Keir_Starmer

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

People on the news are talking about this in terms of analysing Trump’s legislative agenda for his presidency.

I don’t think they’ve understood the story they’re covering.

[Dave Madden 🇪🇺 @redmadden]

Dear America.
Just fuck right off.
The World.
#USElections2024

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Hard to express how few fucks I give that our budget does not please a Brexit-voting billionaire who moved his business to Singapore and bought 36,000 acres of farmland to avoid paying tax.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Kamala Harris will win comfortably, because:
• Biden’s admin has been solid
• Trump’s lost ground since 2016
• The young Black male votes which Trump needs didn’t turn out in 16, 18, 20, or 22
• Young women like Kamala + vote
✴️Ignore polls—they’re herding, after past misses

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Farmers angry about losing 30 year old concession that lets them avoid all inheritance tax https://t.co/Pm8TRvLx9D even though the vast majority will, on HMRC figures, not be affected by it

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“If Trump is elected, there will be celebrations in the Kremlin; there’s no doubt about it.”
-Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton
(February)