Ally Tibbitt
Journalist | Audience @uk.theconversation.com | Trustee of @mysociety.bsky.social | Co-editor of @gairlochtimes.org.uk | Based in Scottish Highlands but often roaming. Contact via @Signal.org username: allytibbitt.92
- Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a
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- Boris Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff here, worried that secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ might finally be held to account. Because of course she bloody is.
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- it's probably fine
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- you can literally travel to Mongolia, take a taxi from Ulaanbaatar to Choirin, find the last house in the outskirt, and ask Munkhbat who's about fifty or eighty, no one knows for sure, he spent his entire life drinking and throwing rocks at passing cars, he would say "Peter Mandelson? He's a c*nt."
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- Sad news from Wikipedia. Following lengthy discussion on the talk page, they've removed Matt Goodwin's claim to be the first in his family to go to university on the grounds that it [checks notes] isn't true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ma...
- my last Epstein scoop for the weekend: Jeffrey Epstein wired $150,000 to Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, in 2001, according to newly released financial records, after helping her to cash in share options earned from her work for Weight Watchers. www.ft.com/content/8623...
- This is a truly timeless piece... harpers.org/archive/1941...
- Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world. #WorldBollardAssociation
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- For this #screenshotsaturday I thought I’d show off some changes to the first level of Dino Cleanup. There’s more tweaks I want to do, but I think it’s really starting to come together! #WholesomeGames #gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity
- We didn’t think the leopards would eat the resale value on our houses.
- Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at the.... Morgan McSweeney – the great genius at the.... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
- I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...
- Sunrise. On the first day of my eighth decade. View (from the attic) upriver to the Torridon mountains 🤗
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- concerning
- Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
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- I saw the rain dirty valley you saw Brigadoon I saw the croissant you saw the whole of Sassoon #NationalCroissantDay
- Issue 2 of the Gairloch and District Times is out today with news that planning officials have given the green light to a proposed mock roundhouse at Gairloch Museum. gairlochtimes.org.uk/museum-round...
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- Watch the Strange Health podcast from the Conversation with Professor Adam Taylor @adatomy.bsky.social from the Medical School talking to hosts Katie Edwards and Dan Baumgardt about “Tonsils, kidneys and gall: where and why your body makes stones” www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjPw...
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- This reads like a breathless Reform press release. Not the slightest reflection that being seen as a dumping ground for failed Tories might not be entirely positive. Or that it might help Tories detoxify. Or that Reform is ticking down in all recent polls. Dismal stuff. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Davos 2026 was truly amazing x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/2026-the-y...
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- Having campaigned for years to get planning controls over hilltracks (via @scotlink.bsky.social when I worked for @ramblersscotland.bsky.social), it's galling to see unauthorised & damaging tracks still being built. Here at Tinto, hardly a remote location! parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/01/18/t...
- New piece by me for @uk.theconversation.com, explaining yesterday’s Lords vote on under-16s’ social media use. ‘The House of Lords has voted to stop under 16s using social media – what happens now?’ theconversation.com/the-house-of...
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- The Belgian prime minister at Davos with an interesting analysis from a European perspective.
- 24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to vote Green or Lib Dem. 0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.
