Andrew Connelly
Writer. Broadcaster. Shouter into the abyss.
Presenter of Fortress Europe: tracking the EU’s violent borders
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- Devastating week for journalism. So many of the most adept, effective and gallant reporters treated abominably. May the bootlicker oligarch never know happiness and may they dance on the ruins of his soulless empire in better times to come.
- Benjamin Wegg-Prosser. About time this scandal introduced some Wodehousian characters.
- Thankfully the British media would simply never countenance platforming dubiously funded right wing think tanks.
- 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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- Wrote this on Starmer’s self-inflicted Mandelson problem in September for @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/p...
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyWeird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellySobering reporting on the risk of Iranian civil war. 'According to multiple accounts, masked men armed with knives killed basijis, the regime’s volunteer vigilantes. “It’s already a civil war,” says a young woman in Mashhad. “We’re just not saying it.”' www.economist.com/middle-east-...
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyNow: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
- Strange choice to premiere the Melania film in Islington. Could have probably sold at least a few hundred tickets in Chelsea. www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/...
- For @theworld.org I attended a Dutch court to see an Eritrean people smuggler sentenced to 20 years for horrific crimes against migrants in Libya. theworld.org/segments/202...
- Not enough coverage in the UK media about the 63 year old who blew up a Ulez camera in London using a homemade bomb. www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/man...
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyRwanda suing UK for more money under cancelled expulsion deal - www.dw.com/en/rwanda-su... This is known in technical legal terms as taking the piss
- Impressive that Labour are even able to fumble attack lines on a dead-eyed, bigoted charisma vacuum like Matt Goodwin. Comms chiefs will ascend to the House of Lords nonetheless.
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- “As surgeons, our job is to save lives. That night we were saving people who had been shot by their own government. That contradiction stays with you.”
- Journalists lamenting the loss of audience while obsessively covering arcane party processes and mediocre political figures that mean nothing to the average punter.
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- Mahmood is so chronically out of her depth as Home Secretary but will always get a free pass for performative cruelty against migrants and forever war against smugglers that she feels confidant enough to propose an AI-powered misunderstood Panopticon criminal justice system without fear of mockery.
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyKinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyI'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.
- Do Labour ministers not understand the sinister connotations of the term "open borders experiment?" It's an echo of white supremacist ideology which posits that governments are deliberately orchestrating migration to change the ethnic makeup of the country.
- The stretched twig of peace is at melting point.
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- Starmer’s press secretary celebrating Jenrick’s sacking by trotting out their own far-right talking points about open borders.
- In other news, Serbian intelligence is cooperating with the FSB to test sonic crowd suppression weapons on dogs. www.politico.eu/article/serb...
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- This will not deter anyone, nor will it impress any anti-immigration voter. Every single clodhopping migrant-bashing stunt this government churns out only boosts their political opponents and toxifies the discourse.
- The EU has largely abandoned resettlement, while continuing to wage forever war on clandestine routes. www.rescue.org/eu/press-rel...
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellySome important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
- Reposted by Andrew Connelly“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
- Reposted by Andrew Connellyi think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
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- Cutting off access to information and family. This is an asylum policy tailor-made for traffickers who will have an even more vulnerable population to prey upon.
- They have absolutely no plan, nor expertise to draw on, nor democratic inclinations on which to base it. They are flying around the world by the seat of their pants setting off one firework show after another before losing interest and moving the circus wagons on.
- Londoners kept safe this New Year’s Eve as Primrose Hill put in jail.
- The call to revoke el-Fattah's British citizenship is clearly a continuation of the radicalised right's campaign to deport non-white people from the country.
- Lots of top hats in the Lobby being bent out of shape at the impertinence of being dragged several centuries forward into the broadcast era.
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyUkraine's SBU struck shadow fleet tanker Qendil in neutral Mediterranean waters over 2,000 km from Ukraine for the first time, causing critical damage rendering it inoperable, sources tell RBC Ukraine.
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyI guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
- The main story here is not the hoax but the fact that people in charge of our national rail infrastructure cannot send someone to go and look at whether a bridge in a city has collapsed or not before they cancel services.
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyQuite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyAt a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
- This is a very thorough and fair demolition of Zarah Sultana’s poor understanding or sympathy for a country currently resisting genocidal invasion.
- Another border control PR piece by the Times’ immigration enforcement stenographer. Not one mention of well-documented and longstanding violence by Bulgarian authorities against asylum seekers.
- Reposted by Andrew ConnellyThe home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
- The Home Secretary is very cross! And she wants Sun readers to know about it!
- Westminster hacks who neither know nor care about geopolitics should not cover international summits.
- “Cultural coherence”
- Labour takes 24 hours to respond to neo-BNP proposals from the Tories and then issues a statement so bland and garbled that the reader is left wondering whether they oppose them or not.
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- Being a useful idiot for the Assad regime should rule out being a candidate for Ireland’s President.
