Robert Swetlic

Tweeting a deranged combination of bad pop culture opinions and British political commentary. Political Studies Association groupie.

[kiesha @kiesha9i]

idk how yall got kids. this cat pushes me past my limit every day

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Children singing national anthem, “first 100 days,” fireworks on stage at conference, cult of personality… Reform seems more concerned with being American than being British

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Suella Braverman says Reform UK would force school children to sing the national anthem if they win the next election

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Wow 👏

[pops @sw1partygirl]

is this how we bring back the two party system

[ellen🍸 @algorecrave]

what is this some kind of heated rivalry?

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

Not sure he really does DESTROY 40 years of neoliberal failure with this speech. But it does mark a pretty stark shift in British governmental rhetoric — objectively and inarguably the sharpest leftward shift of my lifetime (born 1984).

A low bar? Sure. But dramatic nonetheless

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

@SeanBarney16 @RepBrendanBoyle @BillClinton I agree completely. Though as of right now there isn’t a single opinion poll showing a majority support for a border poll or unification, thus making calling one “off the table.”

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

@SeanBarney16 @RepBrendanBoyle @BillClinton The Prime Minister’s “delegate” has been in post for less than two months so I’m not sure how much more experience he has in the region. They also belong to the same political party and cabinet so I’m not sure why netizens seem to think they aren’t in lock step on this decision.

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Mr. Neal, I would suggest that you read the Good Friday Agreement, of which the United States is not a guarantor.

[Rep. Richard Neal @RepRichardNeal]

Mr. Prime Minister, I would suggest that you read the Good Friday Agreement.

This is a question for the people, and for the people only. Both sides agreed to the terms of the peace accord, including the principle that the right to self-determination should not be left to one person. That agreement has been honored and has helped maintain peace on the island of Ireland for 28 years.

As a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, the United States has a critical role to play in ensuring that the people of Ireland have the right to control their own destiny.

[BR⚢KE @BabblingBrookeA]

roommate purchased a smartphone-sized slab of obsidian and has been holding it instead of her phone to reduce screentime

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

It will either be cancelled, or renewed for a rushed season 4 that will leave audiences unsatisfied. Oh and all the female characters will start great and smart and get increasingly dumber, walking away with nothing by the end of the show. And that’s streaming TV, folks!

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Amazon will dump tens of millions of dollars into season one and it will get critical acclaim. The wait between season 1 and 2 will be three years, squandering fan excitement and momentum. Season 2 will make departures from the books that viewers will hate.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Amazon has acquired the rights to Holly Black’s ‘THE FOLK OF THE AIR’ series for an adaptation.

🔗 https://t.co/VhKvNwjvrD

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Poor ratings will cause the CGI/costume/writing budgets for season 3 to be cut, resulting in an even more poorly received season 3. Audiences will hate additional book divergence. Amazon will move on to its next exciting idea and allow the show to languish.

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Yes, but… I think the key takeaway here is not that The Mail hates the north, but that they delight in attacking the civil service and those who work in it

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Imagine living in the small and resentful world that has this idea and pursues this news story. Get a life Mail on Sunday! Can you imagine a US paper running a story like this… of a US state dept senior person taking a train from Penn to DC? They truly hate the north…

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

These are not courses, they are PhD/master’s thesis topics. And the point of them is to be niche and hyper-specific. The “once proud” Cambridge is doing exactly what all PhD granting universities do and have done for 100 years

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: Cambridge University has been mocked online for some of the ridiculous PhD courses currently being studied

They include:
- Traditional Cultural Norms, Technology and Gender Relations in Ghana
- The Political Economy of Female Circumcision
- Unsexed beings: constructing gender, humanness, and agency through the use of the word “unsex” in Late Modern British society and writing
- In Her Own Words: A Study of Women’s Voices in Contemporary White Supremacy and Far-Right Online Hate
- Legal Mobilization by Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Womxn in Kenya and South Africa
- Exploring gendered embodiment in transgender and gender-diverse adolescents at the intersection of exercise and eating behaviours, social inclusion, and mental health:  Towards a desire-centred approach in paediatric gender-affirming healthcare and research
- Codes of Life, Codes of Death: Tracing the (Im)possibility of Trans Lives in Algorithmic Assemblages
- Queer Cultural Memory in Literature, Film and Television since 1999
- The Sexually Sociological: Gay Masculinity, Intimacy and the (Un)queer State

A once proud University has completely lost its way

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Funniest thing Spain could do right now is recognize Colombian sovereignty over the Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank

[Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @oroborous]

Suspicious sequencing to say the least:

- US Congress declares the Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla to be Moroccan
- Morocco names it's new highway after Trump
- a horde of Moroccan immigrants floods into Spain
- immediately the global MAGA media machine spins up, gleefully supported by it's Israeli allies, to tear into Spain

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Obsessed with this concept of No. 10 North where Burnham will spend his day taking Zoom meetings with officials who are still in London or taking meetings with officials who have a 5:00 p.m. train back to London

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham says he will work from No 10 North tomorrow

"It will be the situation room for making Britain better - the place we use to get power out of Westminster, into the hands of people at a local level, so they can turn things around"

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Following his official resignation as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer went straight to the pub with Rachel Reeves

[Robert Swetlic @swetlic]

Just saw the @BethRigby bob in person from the end of Downing Street and yes it is just as immaculate in person