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@AaronBastani "This is fine and normal. Unless its violent Israeli fans in which case its racist"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T01:03Z 165.8K followers, 5686 engagements

"Im not one of the Starmer must go immediately people not least because I think hes toast next year. But it is genuinely humiliating for the British government that hed respond like that publicly. Unusual because hes desperate isolated and should probably leave office"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T01:21Z 165.8K followers, 4974 engagements

"The entire political class is saying the same thing - when XX% of the public agree with them. Politicians jumping over themselves to have violent foreign football thugs in Birmingham. Utterly utterly bizarre"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T17:23Z 165.8K followers, 54.7K engagements

"Yesterday I asked @ZackPolanski a question: in a hung parliament would you campaign for PR alongside Nigel Farage His reply: no and he would oppose PR if it helped Farage labelling the Reform leader a fascist"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-04T09:56Z 165.7K followers, 462.3K engagements

"This is Defend Our Juries - which is peacefully protesting against the fact you can now be locked up for X months for wearing a T shirt. The media including Sky arent reporting basics like that because most people in receipt of that info would think its dumb"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-04T17:06Z 165.7K followers, 17.9K engagements

"Reading @JonHaidt you realise more play time and quiet reading would solve a LOT of problems. Add an hour to the school day if necessary. Not everything needs new apps technology Accenture reports and infinity taxpayer cash. Quite the opposite"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-05T14:52Z 165.7K followers, 13.1K engagements

"The Tories want to scrap Stamp Duty The deficit and annual interest on the national debt is XXX billion bruv. They want other tax cuts too. Just not remotely serious about running a successful country. Theres a reason nothing works after XX years"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-08T12:45Z 165.7K followers, 20K engagements

"War is a constant of human affairs. 100%. But the only things that are remotely similar are Vietnam Korean War and Laos. Even then the intensity of destruction within such a small area is more analogous to nuclear weapons (Hiroshima not contemporary ones)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-09T18:04Z 165.7K followers, 9822 engagements

"2 for X Bit early for Black Friday"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-09T22:23Z 165.7K followers, 13.4K engagements

"Strip out London andPolands cities feel a lot richer. Trams clean streets few vacant shop fronts. This weird thing called bookshops too. Remember those"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-12T12:45Z 165.7K followers, 79K engagements

"Really striking how this shift isn't already widely acknowledged as being the result of an ageing population. It will go higher"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-13T11:14Z 165.7K followers, 43.1K engagements

"The male prison estate was at XX% capacity for XX months. The police basically dont exist in large parts of the country. Nurses graduate with 56k debt. The public realm is a mess. Local authorities are broken - primarily because of social care. This isnt serious"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-13T12:42Z 165.7K followers, 32.6K engagements

"Good. The tax threshold should be reduced. We need politicians honest about the scale of the challenges we face in the 21st century. Socialised elderly care public order and cities that dont look like shit will require a push from everyone. No shortcuts"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-13T14:04Z 165.7K followers, 37.7K engagements

"@JayneShannon its not optimal but nor is mums not sleeping for months on end. A combination really is okay"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T14:23Z 165.7K followers, 1219 engagements

"In 1920 Kingdom of Greece gets very positive settlement re Greeks in what is now Turkey. Western Anatolia was given to them basically. Plus Smirna. Allies wanted to dismantle what is now Turkey. Royalists (radical right) win 1920 elections and basically go way too far. They go deep into Turkey trying to get to Ankara. Ataturk happens and routs them. Sevres becomes a dead letter as a treaty. France and Italy withdraw support from Athens. Treaty of Lausanne happens - literally millions of greeks are deported. Basically because of over-reach by euphoric proto-fascist morons. They destroyed the"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T15:34Z 165.7K followers, 1467 engagements

"@Laurencejw Bruv. The wellness ideology has absorbed this stuff big time"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T01:11Z 165.7K followers, XXX engagements

"There had to be a fix for that Sure. If you believe capitalism can innovate: workers ask for higher wages and business works out ways to increase productivity and output per hour worked - to mitigate higher wages"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T13:00Z 165.8K followers, 56.7K engagements

"This stuff needs to stop. A female politician cant understand an issue impacting men purely by virtue of gender A white guy cant reflect the policy preferences of a black guy A younger person cant grasp policy issues that animate an older person"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T20:33Z 165.8K followers, 267K engagements

"Median age of the country would be 50+ and youd likely get some kind of balkanisation (not everywhere would want to experience an economic downturn worse than after 1929). Basically Japan without the technology base or social cohesion"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T13:20Z 165.8K followers, 47K engagements

"The decision of West Mids police isnt unprecedented or unusual. What is though is a prime minister publicly calling out a major force in real time online. Thats a first for UK Competent regimes generally dont do it. Starmer turned UK into a pseudo-state in one year"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T01:19Z 165.8K followers, 68.9K engagements

"@Keir_Starmer Quite normal actually. Unless you want to make a special case for thugs from one particular country"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T01:26Z 165.8K followers, 67.8K engagements

"@LouisTyrer18 Its outrageous frankly. Basically no prison places so psychos not being punished and hes talking about Xboxes. Shameful"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T15:55Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Farage is the most talented politician Britain has had since thatcher and could end up being more consequential while Jenrick was in a government overseeing record levels of immigration - which he now whinges about. But he takes ozempic and makes good vertical videos"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T22:46Z 165.8K followers, 60.7K engagements

"In so-called sunny Bournemouth earlier today for @TheGreenParty To any delegates in town looking for something to eat head to Charminster Road. My hometown has the best Turkish Iranian Levantine and Gulf food outside London in the south of England. Facts"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-03T23:22Z 165.7K followers, 18K engagements

"I dont think its a coincidence that David Adler remains in prison has not been in contact with his family and has reputedly suffered significant ill treatment. The biggest problem for Netanyahu and the Israeli right long term is anti-Zionist Jewish Americans"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-05T16:11Z 165.7K followers, 115.1K engagements

"What kind of growth is possible with that demographic pyramid What kind of welfare state What kind of political culture What does the future look like How does the very idea of optimism change (All explored in my next book)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-09T12:08Z 165.7K followers, 7184 engagements

"The Gaza Strip is the size of the Isle of Wight (slightly smaller in fact). By weight its been hit by more munitions than Dresden Hamburg and London combined - across the entire 2nd world war. No precedent for it beyond the use of nuclear weapons"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-09T18:02Z 165.7K followers, 245.1K engagements

"@KonstantinKisin Sure. And Im saying that the level of overwhelmingness is without precedent in a conventional war sinceKorea Also worth remembering the other side at least had planes and stuff. Theres no precedent for it since Cold War ended"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-09T18:55Z 165.7K followers, 6996 engagements

"@sharghzadeh Bio-physically untrue. We have co-evolved as species: when humans and dogs look into each others eyes both species produce oxytocin. How is that cruel"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-10T23:14Z 165.7K followers, 4422 engagements

"Peak Britain. Chagossians wanted their land and to exercise self-government. An important justified cause. So successive governments gave themthe right to move to Britain while giving the Chagos Islands away to the Mauritius"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-11T11:25Z 165.7K followers, 55.1K engagements

"A Labour source briefing off the record: YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW UNTRUSTWORTHY LUCY POWELL IS SHE BRIEFS OFF THE RECORD The Labour right is a political clown show"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-11T14:57Z 165.7K followers, 35.7K engagements

"Are there fascists on the British radical right XXX% yes. Is todays radical right fascism XXX No. We struggle to understand interwar Europe & how different it was: millions of demobbed veterans of war; unthinkable numbers of young people; national supply chains"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-11T16:17Z 165.7K followers, 61.5K engagements

"Me and Tom aged XXX talking about how now we live as long as Greenland sharks because of advances in medicine"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-11T22:34Z 165.7K followers, 13.7K engagements

"Nope. Single best argument against this is existential risk. A planet of XX billion has a lot more resources to deal with an asteroid or pandemic (worse than COVID) than a planet of X billion. People are the supreme resource. Malthus has the most damaging legacy in history"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-12T14:09Z 165.8K followers, 38.6K engagements

"@finger8 People have done exercises on this. Not really. Plus with depopulation theyd have much higher median age. A billion XX year olds (median) are less likely to save planet XX billion XX year olds"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-12T14:16Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"They are just stickers and its not the fall of anything (any organisation can make bad or weird decisions) but I sort of find it slightlycondascending Maybe even racist. Marginal communities express themselves throughgraffiti Thats it"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-12T14:35Z 165.8K followers, 15.8K engagements

"The next hundred years are going to be insane. Old people (demographic ageing) in big cities (urbanisation) afraid of the sky (way more extreme weather events Now throw in thinking machines & large increases to longevity"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-12T15:03Z 165.7K followers, 42.6K engagements

"Britain is a truly extraordinary open place. Even our ultra-nationalists are Italian and they adopt German crosses. Blairite cosmopolitanism. Super Mario meets the Red Baron"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-12T18:45Z 165.7K followers, 112.1K engagements

"Theres two conclusions from what I said: 1) Europe needs more immigration 2) Europe needs more kids Personally Im inclined to (2). But why does so much of the right presume its 1"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-13T16:28Z 165.7K followers, 29.7K engagements

"Rail is the hallmark of a superior civilisation. We just need gulags for music in quiet zones and the return of pub carriages"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-13T17:43Z 165.7K followers, 81K engagements

"Baby formula is fine"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T14:11Z 165.7K followers, 48.8K engagements

"This guy tweeting from India thinks the Law & Justice partys model of welfarist nationalism is the free market. Cute"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T20:33Z 165.7K followers, 37.5K engagements

"Fair play. When I was young the dorks would just be honest and say they didnt like football"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T15:58Z 165.7K followers, 60.9K engagements

"Its a new world comrades"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T16:01Z 165.7K followers, 5218 engagements

"@bungle606 Its the most violent firm in Israel. Extensive travel bans are fairer sure"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:35Z 165.7K followers, 6521 engagements

"@ZacGoldsmith Its Israels version of combat XX but crack on Zac. Also google combat XX if you dont know what that was"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T23:32Z 165.7K followers, 4379 engagements

"@jewandahalfmen @EnglandAdmirer @AcademicAgent_X Personally I think Maccabi Tel Aviv should have had a European ban after Amsterdam. And that stuff does happen: British clubs were banned for years after their own violent idiocy culminated with the heysel disaster. Its disingenuous to claim EPL is like 80s still its not"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T23:37Z 165.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@fact_enthusiast Personally I think maccabi tel aviv should be banned by uefa. Thats just a personal view. Funny how the no foreign thugs thing has caveats now tho"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T01:36Z 165.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@MattyMMII So Naples and Paris can do this but Birmingham cant because Muslims. Fair enough. Ive provided two examples in the last year of the precise same thing happening elsewhere"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T01:37Z 165.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@bohrinng The Icelandic nationalist and progressive parties (not progressive basically a centre right farmers party) werent left wing"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T11:26Z 165.7K followers, XXX engagements

"I can't stop thinking about X sentence in today's UN report regarding Israel's genocide in Gaza. "Israeli security forces shot at & killed civilians including children who were holding makeshift white flags. Some children including toddlers were shot in the head by snipers"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-09-16T16:11Z 165.8K followers, 1.7M engagements

"I think its obvious that decline of a shared public realm makes integration harder. Take your pick why: narrowcast media and personalised feeds replacing everyone watching/reading same stuff; death of high street; death of social spaces; demise of state that does stuff"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-10T10:22Z 165.8K followers, 37.8K engagements

"This is true but I suspect theres also a political intention here. The Judeo-Christian line makes no sense when you realise Islam holds Jesus as a Saint and accepts Mary as a virgin and Judaism does neither. The reality is all three faiths are similar and different"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T10:34Z 165.8K followers, 28.8K engagements

"@G0ADM Why should Maccabi tel aviv supporters be allowed to run riot in the city They think theyre an 80s football firm"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T18:58Z 165.8K followers, 8066 engagements

"@arsenalluke84 You wont accept some random guy calling your sister a slag and spitting on you Racist"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T19:20Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Anarseldain Bro nazis topped themselves because they started an insane war which utterly destroyed their country. What are you talking about"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T01:12Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"This just gets better and better Great way to put a smile on the face of any 40ish year old men you know. (Via DjTonyperry on instagram)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-02T09:35Z 165.8K followers, 499.6K engagements

"In 1950 Italy had XX children under the age of ten for every person over the age of XX. XX Today by contrast that ratio is approaching one to one. We have a political conversation completely unable to understand and explore the implications of this"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-09T12:07Z 165.8K followers, 32.3K engagements

"Tony Blair Is 'As Evil As They Come @yanisvaroufakis on @novaramedia"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-12T12:39Z 165.8K followers, 15.3K engagements

"A country with a fertility rate of X and where elites require X% annual GDP growth is going to have migration lil bro"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-13T13:26Z 165.8K followers, 95.9K engagements

"@b3achmaster In some sectors of course. Especially if low levels of unionisation and wage bargaining (which is our model for private sector)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T13:01Z 165.8K followers, 27.5K engagements

"2k people is like hiring the Bournemouth International Centre for Green or Lib Dem conference. 2000 Plus catering 😅"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T09:44Z 165.8K followers, 45.8K engagements

"Amusing that the actually zoomers are all right wing psy op hasnt landed yet. X years till the next general election plenty of time for it to still work of course"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T16:08Z 165.8K followers, 46K engagements

"@Sargon_of_Akkad Of course it can"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T11:33Z 165.8K followers, 3838 engagements

"The same people condemning the Maccabi decision would be (rightly) outraged if English fans behaved like that mob"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T19:16Z 165.8K followers, 9220 engagements

"@DaveTalks @WilliamClouston Shut up. If you want to cheer on a foreign version of combat XX smashing up Birmingham crack on. I think its idiotic"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:18Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@bungle606 @WilliamClouston So why would you cheer on a foreign version of combat XX getting a free pass to smash up brum And dont you dare try and stop them antisemite"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:20Z 165.8K followers, 1323 engagements

"@bungle606 @WilliamClouston If they did that in group stage matches that likely would have happened in later games. That was a final"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:24Z 165.8K followers, 1232 engagements

"Estrella Galicia a few hundred yards from the dock where tobacco and pepper first entered England. Good lager history and outstanding paving. What more could you ask for on a clement October night"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T22:07Z 165.8K followers, 10.2K engagements

"@AcademicAgent_X Its utterly bizarre. Todays big issue islet Israels combat XX into Birmingham"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T22:27Z 165.8K followers, 3680 engagements

"Wake up babe another architectural black pill just dropped (Holborn London)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T22:30Z 165.8K followers, 85.6K engagements

"The ultra rich are leaving china too. The point is the country is seeing US phds and academics net going back - precisely because they can build exciting things"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T13:42Z 165.8K followers, 4002 engagements

"Would you rather expand the prison estate by XX% in order to make the criminal justice system vaguely functional (in short and medium term anyway) or would you like to talk aboutharibo"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T15:50Z 165.8K followers, 3609 engagements

"Keir Starmer is briefing to the press against a major national police force that theyreracist So a football firm can go to Birmingham Hes lost the plot"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T18:39Z 165.8K followers, 27.8K engagements

"@Millar_Colin Never thought Id see Tory politicians nostalgic for 80s football hooliganism"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T20:48Z 165.8K followers, 2367 engagements

"Novo Nordisk phase X trials for Alzheimers patients treated with GLP-1s yet to be published. But this seems kind of insane"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-18T13:41Z 165.8K followers, 15K engagements

"Europes total fertility rate is XXX. Thats fine right XXX is close to X But it means one generation is XX% smaller than the last. Over X generations thats a XX% fall. Plus a much higher median age. Its good there are finally books talking about this seriously"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-10T17:33Z 165.8K followers, 27.2K engagements

"2022-23. This was simply not allowed to carry on"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T13:37Z 165.8K followers, 51.1K engagements

"Brickwork in various transport hubs. All newly built. Which one is from the high income G7 economy and which are from a country that was recently bombed and subject to some of the worlds harshest sanctions"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T17:19Z 165.8K followers, 35.4K engagements

"These guys are nuts. State owned enterprises building most things a one party state and any business with 9+ employees having a literal party cell by law = capitalism But a moderate welfare state in the West = communism"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T13:28Z 165.8K followers, 88.9K engagements

"Take out dont knows and Labour are on 9% in this"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T17:27Z 165.8K followers, 125.7K engagements

"Were going to see a fair few defections after next may if this continues imho"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T17:35Z 165.8K followers, 8893 engagements

"Apparently local police forces are meant to just accept mayhem now. Because the people doing it are Israeli"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:36Z 165.8K followers, 28.6K engagements

"The subtext here which is barely mentioned is that its probably unwise for a country to base its economic wellbeing on the presence of foreign billionaires. If they go its over doesnt seem sensible"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T13:41Z 165.8K followers, 19.1K engagements

"I believe in you @Keir_Starmer Make history this is genuinely possible"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T18:56Z 165.8K followers, 86.9K engagements

"After last GE there should have been instant roll up your sleeves moment: Starmer focusing on flytipping anti social behaviour rough sleeping crime housing dying high streets. Make a thing of talking to people who didnt just vote for you. Instead we got Taylor Swift"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-18T20:23Z 165.8K followers, 12.5K engagements

"I always thought Zac was easily better than the other candidates for the green leadership but he has a real knack for this kind of guerilla politics - while also being serious and professional. Really not easy. Greens have done very well to choose him"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-09-29T17:42Z 165.8K followers, 211.8K engagements

"I remember the Chilcot Report on the Iraq War being published in 2016. Theres no coming back from this we said. Morons. X years later and the guy is about to run a 21st century crusader kingdom powered by Oracle and Accenture consultants"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-09-29T20:56Z 165.8K followers, 64.6K engagements

"According to this chap socialism is defined by the size of a countrys debt. The higher public debt the more left wing you are. So Britain is more socialist than Vietnam a one party communist state. The US is more left wing than Sweden. Canada more socialist than China"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-07T21:50Z 165.8K followers, 53.3K engagements

"Iran isnt a rich country. Its subject to some of the worlds harshest sanctions and it was literally bombed earlier this year. Yet it can build perfectly decent underground systems while Leeds doesnt even have a tram. It really does make you think doesnt it"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-13T23:09Z 165.8K followers, 36.9K engagements

"This is really something. Boris basically saying the treasury pushed for what has become known as the Boriswave because of inflationary wage pressures. In other words net migration of 900k in one year to stop wage growth"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T12:56Z 165.8K followers, 2.1M engagements

"If there are specific labour shortages of course there is a strong argument for work visas etc. But this is something else: covid and Brexit would have empowered workers ability to bargain so that had to be undermined"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T12:57Z 165.8K followers, 61.3K engagements

"2022-23. This was simply not allowed to continue"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T13:36Z 165.8K followers, 60.6K engagements

"Greek and Armenian speakers in Turkey before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Lots of miserable stuff happened in the 20th century folks"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T14:58Z 165.8K followers, 90.5K engagements

""When the Iranians learn to behave like the Swedes I will behave like the King of Sweden" - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. No time for the man but that was an absolute zinger. Fair play"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-14T22:49Z 165.8K followers, 17.7K engagements

"Same as London. With housing security whether by wealth inheritance or social housing London is fantastic. But for middle income earners particularly those whose parents live elsewhere & cant help raising kids in capital strikes me as insane. Probably a bad thing"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T10:11Z 165.8K followers, 67K engagements

"Not really. Western Anatolia had a ton of Greek speakers and this was recognised in the Treaty of Sevres which gave it to Greece. Izmir itself was likely majority Greek in 1914. But for Greek ultra nationalists that wasnt enough After 1920 they pushed deep into Anatolia andgot a hiding. They lost so badly XXX million Greeks from these regions were effectively deported (forced population transfers). Euphoric ultra nationalism going psycho mode and fucking everything up. Many such cases"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T15:38Z 165.8K followers, 23.3K engagements

"Zac Polanski doesnt ovulate but thats not a prerequisite for a holder of public office to make competent effective policy around womens reproductive health. And the same for women with men. The point is you listen to people and become informed on the issue"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-15T20:39Z 165.8K followers, 16K engagements

"Labour voters should obviously vote tactically for Plaid in Caerphilly at this point. Presumably the former will pump out literature saying only they can beat Reform. Labour are basically the Lib Dems now"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T10:34Z 165.8K followers, 43.6K engagements

"Going to be fascinating to watch the right wing press give this stuff a free pass while simultaneously accusing the Green party of antisemitism (likelihood: inevitable)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T19:03Z 165.8K followers, 35.1K engagements

"Good that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans wont be in Birmingham. If any English club had fans that behaved remotely like this lot theyd have been banned from European competition long ago"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T19:15Z 165.8K followers, 181.3K engagements

"@WilliamClouston So if brum police dont want similar in the city theyreracist If they dont want in your words mayhem thats unacceptable Im for law and order not foreign firm nut jobs. If that makes me eccentric fine"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:23Z 165.8K followers, 3130 engagements

"@Nigel_Farage Foreign thugs are suddenly welcome in the country"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:30Z 165.8K followers, 34.7K engagements

"The rights position appears to be foreign thugs arent welcome in Britain. Unlesstheyre Israeli. In which case its fine. And if you disagreeyoure a racist"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:32Z 165.8K followers, 331.3K engagements

"Privatisation has failed & asset managers & equity funds have no place in public services. The RAF leases planes childrens nurseries are owned by private equity. Billions every year are being stolen from the taxpayer. The great con #bbcqt"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T20:42Z 165.8K followers, 258.5K engagements

"Do this to every retail park in the country (unless they have a large Home Bargains)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T22:47Z 165.8K followers, 26K engagements

"@jewandahalfmen @EnglandAdmirer @AcademicAgent_X If an English club behaved like that youd absolutely hear calls for them to be ejected from competition or play behind closed doors"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-16T23:40Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"We wont give these lads carte blanche smashing up Birmingham screaming and spitting at people and climbing up peoples homes. Multiculturalism has failed"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T10:08Z 165.8K followers, 25.8K engagements

"This really sums up a lot of the LARPing online accounts here. You have a picture of Yukio Mishima a man who tried to catalyse an ultra nationalist coup and then committed seppuku but also think the state couldnt CPO properties of tax exiles. Which way Mishima bro"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T11:11Z 165.8K followers, 13.3K engagements

"We cant increase capital gains tax (Has Mussolini as their profile pic)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T11:12Z 165.8K followers, 4538 engagements

"@blitzdaballroom We didnt do confirmation and went with another name. Incredibly common ask an accountant. We presently have a staff of XX with zero investment"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T13:21Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@AscendedYield Like TSMC. Private and public. If not the uk going to be France Netherlands or Germany. Obviously incredibly hard but these are sensible debates. Not the 1820s"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T14:02Z 165.8K followers, XXX engagements

"The male prison estate was at XX% capacity for the last XX months of the government in which Jenrick served. XX% Obviously that massively impacts sentencing decisions. But the guy is talking aboutHaribo. Just not remotely serious. Dont care how many likes it gets"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T15:49Z 165.8K followers, 17.6K engagements

"The public generally aren't keen on giving foreign football hooligans carte blanche to smash up cities. Our political class is completely untethered from common sense"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T16:53Z 165.8K followers, 104.3K engagements

"Legia Warsaw fans ran riot in the city in 2023. It's perfectly reasonable to suspect that violent clashes would be immeasurably worse here. (they were subsequently banned from selling away tix for X games btw)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T16:54Z 165.8K followers, 6267 engagements

"Both are cool"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T18:50Z 165.8K followers, 33.7K engagements

"Keynes had a net worth of XX million (in todays money) when he died (via personal investments he made) married a ballerina bought a Cezanne and a Picasso owned notebooks by Newton wrote about a post-work future and was XX. We arent making ballers like this anymore"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-17T20:15Z 165.8K followers, 53.3K engagements

"Fascinating comment on tonights NM show"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-18T00:36Z 165.8K followers, 6088 engagements

"Sky News presented a non Jewish influencer who has declared Gaza to be a genocide hoax (this is far beyond contesting whether it meets the threshold of a genocide) as some random Jewish Aston Villa fan"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-18T12:26Z 165.8K followers, 17K engagements

"Minorities telling other minorities they should be deported. VERY third world coded"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-18T12:31Z 165.8K followers, 40.4K engagements

"Cant say this enough. Go to Salisbury Norwich or Winchester cathedral and a lot of the time its incredibly quiet. No plan and very little infrastructure. The UK should have a ton more tourism (including internal tourism)"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-18T12:49Z 165.8K followers, 42.3K engagements

"Saw my dad a few weeks ago. Very little political chatter. But he did say something that made me laugh: What does Ian hislop actually want He just moans whoever is in charge. He moaned about Corbyn now Farage. Who next Hes a satirist dad Sounds pointless"
X Link @AaronBastani 2025-10-18T20:38Z 165.8K followers, 12.9K engagements