Charlie Davies
@cgdav135
International security and social democracy 🇬🇧🌹 | I occasionally write things 📝 | Likes/retweets ≠ endorsements
I wrote for @youngfabians mag about how Ernest Bevin, Britain's most consequential post-war Foreign Secretary, should be Keir Starmer's foreign policy lodestar. Labour's past can guide its future.🌹
Fragmentation makes it harder than ever to predict outcomes of the next GE. 'Uncertainty' meaning a tight election between the Tories and Labour (à la 2015) is a thing of the past, with many Britons (35 per cent) unable to even hazard a guess at the most likely outcome.
NEW: Jeremy Corbyn has a new party, the Greens are on the rise, and Nigel Farage's Reform UK are storming ahead in the polls. Is the era of stable government over? And will Britain be ungovernable? Pollster @LukeTryl on Britain's fragmented politics: thesun.co.uk/news/politics/…
So … what are the SIGINT implications of a large chunk of the UK population suddenly surging onto VPNs? ft.com/content/356674…
Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force... "What appears to be emerging isn’t just a two-tier internet, but something subtler and more insidious: a default-off model of speech and expression, where access to lawful content is no longer presumed but withheld…
Disgustingly evil.
BREAKING: Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir says PM Benjamin Netanyahu is “morally bankrupt” for ALLOWING aid into Gaza and demands the complete starvation of Palestinians. This is not a redeemable society.
From a social-democratic view, energy abundance & (as much as possible) independence is paramount. It can be nuclear, solar, hydro or a mix. But try to minimise impact geopolitics has on prices & not allow industrial capacity to be threatened by energy shortages.
A lot of people debate degrowth. Generally I find it tiresome because 1) who cares what one reads between the lines of Marx's later writing and 2) nobody agrees on what it means. To me, though, the below response to my article on New York public sector-led nuclear development,…
Why delude ourselves like this? Our airbases are infiltrated by idiots on scooters - we aren't going toe-to-toe with the PLA in the Taiwan Strait. If, heaven forbid, a conflict does erupt over the sovereignty of Taiwan, it can only be the Americans who step up to defend them.
🔴 Britain is ready to fight in the Pacific if conflict breaks out over Taiwan, the Defence Secretary has said. Read more here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Bold claim for a military w/ land forces at 30% medically undeployable; an armoured division w/ 2 regiments worth of tanks; & Royal Navy with 0 amphibious assault ships; & an Air Force with 2 sqds of 5th gen fighters. Britain ‘ready to fight’ over Taiwan share.google/XzJPlaG6b5bOA1…
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The Online Safety Bill does not threaten free speech, it helps protect it - my Times article today
I’ve written for tomorrow’s @TheSun, Britain’s electoral system wasn’t designed to cope with the rise of multi party politics and is creaking under the strain and we might see lots of seats won on small shares of the vote. thesun.co.uk/news/politics/…
Maurice Glasman - founder of @blue_labour - on excoriating form when it comes to the lanyard class:
Not the smartest bunch, are they?
⚡ Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will remove its music from Spotify but keep it on Russia-linked Yandex Music, The Guardian reports. The decision is a protest against Spotify’s CEO, who invested in a German company that manufactures drones used by…
So much to unpack here...not least that this is being advertised on a *government website*?!
🇬🇧 Government websites now hosting adverts for 'Sharia Law Administrators'
Imagine if Sultana were PM and had to speak on the phone to Putin. It's laughable, isn't it?
The pathetic HIGNFY post has now been deleted. I told you: we are not going to take this anymore. Join us: yourparty.uk
This party is gonna be Corbyn on steroids. There is a 0% chance it ever gets into power so he will genuinely end up pledging about an extra 500 billion pounds in yearly spending knowing that he will never be held to it
Jeremy Corbyn, "People are fed up with seeing cuts to their services, threats to PIP, continuing child poverty, WASPI women shortchanged by the government" "The only thing this Labour government can find money for is more weapons of war"
The one hope we have to get this legislation overturned will be it impacting MPs themselves.
The online safety act can even prevent speeches by MPs in Parliament being seen on social media. Full-blown fucking clown country.
Katie Lam’s powerful speech about CSE gangs in Parliament now has ‘restricted access’ on X following the Online Safety Act coming into force. The speech quoted directly from victims. Their voices are being silenced by state regulation.
The British state won’t protect children from mass gang rape. But it will “protect” adults from hearing about it.
The British public were asked this question twice already.
Would you support Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister of the UK?
A great man. He also gets too little credit for his foreign policy. He was instrumental in founding NATO, made Britain the 3rd nuclear power, stood firm in Korea, backed the UN, defied Stalin in Berlin. A quiet giant of global postwar order.
Today we celebrate 80yrs since Attlee became PM. He transformed Britain for working people, and this legacy laid the foundations for Britain today - our NHS, welfare state, and homes for heroes. Those public services meant I could grow up to fulfil my potential. Labour legend🌹
If you want to know what the foreign policy of "Your Party" will be, look no further than Melenchon. Supporting Putin's imperialism in Ukraine, China's genocide of the Uyghurs, Hamas's massacres of Jews, and dragging us out of NATO. How very progressive.
Merci Jean-Luc, vous et La France Insoumise nous inspirez beaucoup. Solidarité! ✊🏽
This has been obvious for nearly 5 years now. I'm glad people are finally waking up to it, but the OSA should have faced far greater public scrutiny well before it completed its journey through the Commons.
Let’s be honest… The Online Safety Act has NOTHING to do with safety. It’s about surveillance. Censorship. Control. Britain just became the most heavily policed internet state in the West. This isn’t protection. It’s a digital dystopia.