David Clark
Ex-Foreign Office adviser to Robin Cook. Politics, foreign policy, football. Scottish 🏴. Firmly left. HMFC🇱🇻MUFC🇾🇪.
- Is it just me or does anyone else find Shakespeare incomprehensible? I can’t deny the passion of this performance, but it might as well be in Hungarian. Do you develop an ear for it after a while or is it something we’re supposed to understand?
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Here’s the thing👇. Starmer can be faulted for lack of charisma, poor judgement and the absence of any discernible principles. The main problem, however, is his stubborn attachment to what must count as the most blunderingly foolish political strategy adopted by any major party leader in decades.
- Starmer is now in the apology stage of his downfall. So we still have a sacking, an inquiry and at least one attempted relaunch to go. Have I missed any stages?
- One thing that ought now to be clear from the Mandelson revelations is that the Blairites weren’t just soft on oligarchs and the super rich, they actively colluded with them against the public interest. They did so because they wanted to join.
- What people arguing about whether Epstein was a Russian or Israeli spy failed to understand is that monogamy doesn’t exist in the intelligence world.
- Don’t have kids, get drunk. That’s Farage’s plan to save the country.
- Everyone is fixating on the U-16 social media ban in Spain, but the full package of policies announced by PM Sanchez is much more radical than that. This is what real leadership looks like. We need this here. We need it now.
- Adding to Starmer’s woes and questions about his judgement, the entire basis for his decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has just collapsed. The proscription order should be rescinded at once and the Government should apologise for abusing anti-terror laws.
- The Government can’t be the final decision maker on what, if anything, gets held back from the Mandelson files if it wants to restore confidence. That responsibility should be given to Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee or some other cross-party entity.
- None of this is a surprise. Chomsky’s complete indifference to the suffering caused by anti-Western regimes always spoke to a deep lack of humanity, illustrated again here in his indifference to Epstein’s victims. What a nasty piece of work. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- I wonder if Andy Burnham is now quietly relieved that he was blocked from standing in the by-election? Even his local popularity might not have enough to overcome the desire of voters to give Labour a thumping.
- This is like going after Al Capone for tax evasion.
- Something tells me this is going to involve Russia.
- Trump would have to be cross-examined under oath about his relationship with Epstein, which is why this is never going to happen.
- Another example of the state’s attempt to criminalise support for the Palestinians. I predict that any attempt to prosecute this will collapse when the meaning of ‘intifada’ is tested in court and found not to be a synonym for terrorism as the police falsely claim.
- Putin might easily decide to kill Zelensky in Moscow, believing that the consequences would be short-term and manageable. That’s how badly deterrence has been eroded through a combination of Western weakness and Trump.
- It astonishes me that hardly anyone can see what Kisin for what he is. Says he loves the West, but just happens to hate all the things that make it the West. Attacks it repeatedly using thinly disguised Putinist culture war talking points. Of course, our self-styled ‘patriots’ lap it all up.
- Given his appalling remarks about Sunak its absolutely shocking that Konstantin Kisin is anywhere near the mainstream let alone on #bbcqt
- This is the second day in a row that Reform UK has threatened to use the law to punish “hurty words”. Imagine what would happen to free speech in this country if Farage ever got his hands on state power.
- An “anti-imperialism” that aligns with the most aggressive form of modern imperialism - Putin’s Russia - is just a hypocritical facade.
- The answer is “no”. Every pound spent on bombs & tanks is money stolen from schools & hospitals. Anti-imperialism isn’t vibes, it’s a commitment to confronting empire. If you recognise NATO as an imperialist war machine we should leave immediately, join Your Party: in.yourparty.uk/users/sign_up
- Do we want the UK to be consumed by the same destructive hatred we’re seeing in America? That has to be the central question of the next election.
- Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (25-26 January 2026) Reform UK: 25% (+1 from 18-19 Jan) Labour: 21% (+2) Conservatives: 17% (-1) Greens: 16% (-1) Lib Dems: 14% (=) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
- Trump’s private polling on this must be absolutely catastrophic.
- It’s a strange day when Sepp Blatter becomes the moral conscience of world football.
- For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. #BurnsNight 🏴🤝🥃
