Peter Stäuber

@peterstb.bsky.social

The way this whole story is playing out is deeply concerning And impossible to ignore that this time last week Farage, and Reform’s, funding was the only story in town Now Reform and its leader is playing the tune everyone else is dancing to www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Farage refused taxpayer-funded security because it was ‘inadequate’

Reform UK decided to continue providing its own protection for Nigel Farage, rather than ‘gamble with his life’, a spokesperson said

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‘At present, Andy Burnham is a retail product: someone who appears relaxed around ordinary people and on camera, and although he has spent plenty of time in Westminster, hasn’t (yet) become reassociated with that much loathed place.’ @will-davies.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Burnham’s Political Economy

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands...

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A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?

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I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

‘One of the drivers of incidents such as Tuesday’s riots is social atomisation. Many far-right demonstrators are connected online and have parasocial relationships with their fellow travellers, but are socially isolated offline.’ Tom Williams on the Southampton riots. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Tom Williams | In Southampton

The troubling speed with which the far-right demonstration was organised caught Southampton’s small but diligent...

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‘I thought I didn’t use ChatGPT because I was too clever. I thought that not using ChatGPT made me cleverer. It turns out, though, that it made me very bad at spotting when a text was written by or with the assistance of AI.’ Malin Hay on AI detection, new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Malin Hay | Chattiness

Several people I know now refer to ChatGPT as ‘Chat’. They give it human pronouns (Chat is usually a he) and ask it...

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BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

‘This is not a healthy place for a representative democracy to end up. The need to stop Farage will occasionally work in Labour’s interest, but will hardly represent an affirmation of Labour or its politics.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on tactical voting. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Short Cuts: Tactical Voting

Despite the misinformation and alienation that have led so many citizens to regard democracy in general with despair or...

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«Ich erinnere mich noch, als wir in Grossbritannien die Plakate der SVP sahen und alle dachten: ‹Holy fucking shit›.» Schriftsteller China Miéville über linke Alleswisserei, Tolkiens Unschuld und das rare Gut Hoffnung. Interview: Michael Boog und @simonmuster.bsky.social

China Miéville: «Tolkien kann nichts dafür, dass ihn die Faschisten lieben»

Der britische Schriftsteller China Miéville über schlechte Philosophie und andere Fehler der Linken – und warum er Labour als progressive Kraft für tot hält.

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‘The UK’s refugee protection regime has always involved hypocrisy, as successive governments trumpet their adherence to humanitarian principles and the international order while doing their best not to incur the costs and obligations of those commitments in practice.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

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England: Politik & rechte Gruppen machen Flüchtlinge zum Feindbild. Steven Martin baut am Ärmelkanal Überwachungstechnik auf – nicht um sie abzuschrecken, sondern um ihr Überleben zu sichern. @peterstb.bsky.social hat den Aktivisten dabei begleitet: #TagderDemokratie

Aktivisten dokumentieren Rettungseinsätze im Ärmelkanal

Das britische Channel Monitoring Project überwacht Rettungseinsätze im Ärmelkanal, um sicherzustellen, dass die Grenzschutzbehörde Menschenleben rettet.

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Die radikale Rechtsaußen-Partei Reform UK bekommt aktuell großen Rückenwind in #Großbritannien. Die Partei wächst immer weiter, nicht nur in Umfragen, sondern auch bei den Mitgliederzahlen. Peter Stäuber war bei einem Parteitreffen dabei. #Farage #Britain

Farages Reform UK gewinnt an Zulauf: Aufstieg der Rechtspartei

Die britische Rechtsaußenpartei Reform UK von Nigel Farage gewinnt massiv an Zulauf. Zu Besuch an einer Konferenz im englischen Leicester

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This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog.

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