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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social

Shame the 2003 Invasion of Iraq wasn't included, I would have liked to see those figures.

jul 30, 2025, 2:14 pm • 117 11

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Ilkka T. @ilkkatee.bsky.social

The 13% of Reform voters who think things started going wrong at Brexit referendum surely are an interesting lot.

jul 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ant @tonyman.bsky.social

If I recall correctly, there were a small percentage of UKIP voters that were against Brexit.

jul 30, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Commuter cyclist @smallfoggyhouse.bsky.social

That must be bound up in the Tony Blair figure, which would otherwise be hard to deconvolute (I don't expect many people would be mentioning him were it not for Iraq).

jul 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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Internet Of Games @internetofgames.bsky.social

This just confirms what I've always know, the Right's got no chill!

jul 30, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alex @optimised.bsky.social

The battle of Trafalgar.

jul 30, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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SirenaAi - Kintsugi for Democracy @noltezeitgeist.bsky.social

Managing the information security layers involved in this work is inherently complex. Scoping, while often a thankless task, remains a critical and necessary function.

jul 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social

Nor is the option of “Letting all the Russian oligarchs buy everything” an option.

jul 30, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Herr Goldfinger @herrgoldfinger.bsky.social

Thatcher goddammit!

jul 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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slavagondor.bsky.social @slavagondor.bsky.social

Well the Tories and Reform call out Tony Blair as being their main tipping point... although their disdain probably isn't about Iraq but more just general grievance against Labour

jul 30, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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TableFox @tablefox.bsky.social

All of London was vehemently against the invasion of Iraq and Tony Blair was on some sort of messianic trip thinking Saddam Hussein needed to be removed, but probably unavoidable as George W. Bush was hellbent on making up for his father's perceived mistake of not pushing for regime change in '91.

jul 30, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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fitzk.bsky.social @fitzk.bsky.social

It was all the fault of Edward Grey, whose panicked dithering and two-faced attempts at diplomacy dragged all of Europe into an apocalyptic war from which it never really recovered. But, nobody cares!

jul 30, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social

I care! What needed to happen was for Germany to constrain Austria-Hungary, more specifically Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. It had already failed to do so during both the Bosnian Annexation Crisis,1908-9 & the 1st & 2nd Balkan Wars,1912-13. The problem was that Grey never felt comfortable traveling.

jul 30, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bored Aardvark @boredaardvark.bsky.social

Gobsmacked how few people choose the 2008 crash.

jul 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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Christopher Kelly @hfmatters.bsky.social

Iraq war was certainly a key moment for many (including me) to lose faith in Blair. But Britain 'on the wrong track'? I'd put that down to rise of UKIP (Euro elections 2014 triumph) aided by useless Cameron who then led us into disastrous Referendum followed by etc etc

jul 30, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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charlesblumenthal.com @charlesblumenthal.com

Blair probably a stand in for Iraq, no?

jul 30, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Neil Cooper @neilc79.bsky.social

“When they switched Ceefax off” should have been an option.

jul 30, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view