Peter Oates
Third Light Press occasionally publishes Kindle versions of history and historical fiction (and one collection of Augusta Webster's poetry). We look for neglected books that we think someone might want to read again. We're often wrong about that.
- Reposted by Peter OatesLooks like the effectiveness of electoral law may be facing a test: manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re... @manchestermill.bsky.social really does some extraordinary work.
- Reposted by Peter OatesSo the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
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- Reposted by Peter OatesTake the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.
- PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb. www.gov.uk/government/c...
- Reposted by Peter OatesLong thread... and picking up from here gets right to the core.
- Reposted by Peter Oatesthe new york times declaring racist grifter nick shirley a "gen z everyman" should be enough for you to cancel your wordle subscription
- Reposted by Peter OatesIncandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
- Reposted by Peter OatesIt’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina Hyde
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- Reposted by Peter OatesMatt Goodwin and the end of England: How one man's career explains our public life iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
- Reposted by Peter OatesA good piece because instead of handwringing over Goodwin's radicalization it correctly focuses on the deliberately constructed media ecosystem that inexplicably elevated someone like him into the public eye and keeps rewarding him for ever more repugnant views. iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
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- Reposted by Peter OatesHonestly what is the point of having a programme that is *not* live if you are not going to use that function to aggressively factcheck the people on it?
- Reposted by Peter OatesKonstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?” Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
- Reposted by Peter OatesAfter 3 years working under Putin’s missiles and drones as our Ambassador to Ukraine, I resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. The America I proudly served for 28 years does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are. But the Trump Admin keeps doing exactly that. 1/3
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- Reposted by Peter OatesOne year into Trump’s second term, some journalists have been “surprised” by the administration’s organized agenda. But Project 2025 was publicly available. Advocacy groups read it and warned us. The press read it and… 🤷♀️ www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...
- Reposted by Peter OatesThis. I'm not a BBC-basher but IMO Mason is a poor political journalist. It's not that he's 'biased' per se, it's that he reports politics as a kind of giggly spectator sport and as such is preoccupied with spectacle, talking up 'exciting' events rather than analysing them. 1/2
- ~ Chris Mason, the BBC's Farage fanboy - The New World ~ thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-chri…
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- Reposted by Peter OatesMaking sense of the madness. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Analysis of the international and domestic implications of the ‘Greenland crisis’, including how the ‘Carney doctrine’ could offer a way forward for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/maki...
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- Reposted by Peter OatesFiona Bruce, "President Trump said the troops NATO sent to Afghanistan stayed off the front line" Emily Thornberry slams Donald Trump #BBCQT "It's an absolute insult" "An insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan" "How dare he say we weren't on the front line" "How dare he"
- Reposted by Peter OatesThe New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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- Reposted by Peter Oatesnot only is this an appalling take which attacks Starmer for the actions of a lunatic and not the lunatic, but also strays well beyond ‘unbiased’ reporting
- Reposted by Peter OatesThe Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
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- Reposted by Peter OatesUS Speaker Mike Johnson has been sent to win Britain over. But can he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/calm...
- Reposted by Peter Oates🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️
- Reposted by Peter OatesIn any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...
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- Reposted by Peter OatesMe, an idiot: I'm worried about these parties that seem really hostile to darker-skinned people. James Orr, an actual associate professor at actual Cambridge University: It is impossible for populists to be undemocratic, because of the Greek origins of the word "democracy".
- Reposted by Peter OatesIt’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
- Reposted by Peter OatesIt is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment". No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.
- Reposted by Peter OatesRobert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...
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- Reposted by Peter OatesThis "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
- Reposted by Peter OatesStarmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers. Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders". It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
- Reposted by Peter OatesThe tripwire force is finally here... But instead of being in Ukraine to deter Russia, it is within NATO territory to deter one NATO ally from violating another NATO ally's sovereignty. The world turned upside down.
- Reposted by Peter OatesAnd here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
- Reposted by Peter OatesBanning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.
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- Reposted by Peter OatesThe utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid
- Reposted by Peter OatesIf the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
- Reposted by Peter OatesAmazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
- Reposted by Peter OatesZuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
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