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[@AaronBastani](/creator/twitter/AaronBastani)
"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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1972767550997250460) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-09-29T20:56Z 165.9K followers, 64.6K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1974253647136502162) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-03T23:22Z 165.9K followers, 18K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976594237996093714) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-10T10:22Z 165.9K followers, 37.9K engagements


"Graffiti looks fine in some places. Dalston fine. Kreuzberg sure. But in a dying post industrial city or town its not good. Its a sign that the public realm doesnt matter and that the people there dont matter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976641166285377707) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-10T13:29Z 165.9K followers, 21.3K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977376048045043893) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-12T14:09Z 165.9K followers, 38.7K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978083365518549212) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-14T13:00Z 165.9K followers, 57.4K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978083623640199653) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-14T13:01Z 165.9K followers, 27.8K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978922118466220131) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T20:32Z 165.9K followers, 332.9K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979213203855770082) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T15:49Z 165.9K followers, 17.9K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979213549743329719) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T15:50Z 165.9K followers, 3747 engagements


"Your family migrates to a country because of due process a strong rule of law and has a wide latitude on free speech. You not only dont care about these things but think its somehow in keeping with the values of the country to not care about them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979999353713365322) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T19:53Z 165.9K followers, 8072 engagements


"Its not a resigning matter (what is in British politics anymore) but it makes Starmer look utterly ridiculous and unserious. The political conversation in this country is insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980060887172989388) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T23:57Z 165.9K followers, 8922 engagements


"Of course theres a political dynamic. When Maccabi fans call Hapoel fans Arab lovers while throwing fireworks and flares at the police thats also a political dynamic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980201530767872094) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T09:16Z 165.9K followers, 28.4K engagements


"Why are so many boomers happy to use such foul language on a public platform Often feels like performative boisterousness. No need Youre old enough to be a grandparent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980243248905089424) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T12:02Z 165.9K followers, 18.3K engagements


"@DawsonsRightPeg Job losses are obviously bad. But if you think Pizza Hut closing is anything to do with anything but poor management over decades then I suggest maybe visiting one. Youll be blaming the govt for a bad stomach next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980297791760146852) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T15:39Z 165.9K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1973683131871105157) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-02T09:35Z 166.1K followers, 501.5K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978082744119750891) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-14T12:57Z 166.1K followers, 62.3K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978924625552642111) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T20:42Z 166.1K followers, 262.7K engagements


"@Keir_Starmer Quite normal actually. Unless you want to make a special case for thugs from one particular country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978996078016868853) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T01:26Z 166.1K followers, 72.3K engagements


"The First World War was truly the stupidest thing ever. Academics who had been at Rutherfords lab at the University of Manchester working together on the atom suddenly had to shoot one another"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980000766073921920) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T19:59Z 166.1K followers, 19.8K engagements


"The British prime minister seriously insinuated that West Midlands police leadership was racist becauseit didnt want to be shot at with flares and fire works by foreign thugs. Our political and media class has just gone completely loopy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980030375650079126) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T21:56Z 166.1K followers, 162.3K engagements


"Visions for what Britain could be collide against choices weve made over the last half-century. The scale of the wreckage is so difficult to accept most turn to easy answers. I wrote for the @NewStatesman about the failing British state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980214827323986181) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T10:09Z 166.1K followers, 32.4K engagements


"Still blocked by Universities UK because XX years ago I said they were enabling insane reforms in higher education. It really is the most appalling industry. Especially senior management: failed academics who decided to become cosplay business execs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980355933076353118) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T19:30Z 166.1K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Important to say this poll is an outlier for Labour. As in this has them doing far better than elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980743762314948815) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T21:11Z 166.1K followers, 22.9K engagements


"@danny__kruger @Fox_Claire Thats plausibly any case if it was subject to sufficient public attention. Ive no issue with a government abolishing the met and starting again. Or any other force. But the government can literally become the police. Legislators make laws the police enforce them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980941405427318954) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T10:16Z 166.1K followers, 2198 engagements


"@doubleotoole @BillAckman California is the worlds 4th largest economy. It has problems certainly but if thats failure then what is success"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981138880217923881) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T23:21Z 166.1K followers, 28.1K engagements


"@Mungo1963931 @BillAckman He seems a smart guy. Hell figure stuff out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981140388569371133) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T23:27Z 166.1K followers, 30.9K engagements


"I sincerely believe the idiocy of most political science is a major factor behind the decline in the quality of government over recent decades. Genuinely more political value in doing history philosophy engineering - and yes classics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981343019077951726) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T12:52Z 166.1K followers, 25.7K engagements


"If youre a right wing nativist why would you celebrate a country where villages had to replace children with felt puppets and increasing numbers of men have AI girlfriends. Theres other options"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981379257063399887) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T15:16Z 166.1K followers, 5883 engagements


"Novara has a X to X pay ratio. Is it perfect Probably not but it has upsides. We lasted longer than Buzzfeed and Vice And it meant everyone in the organisation pulls in the same direction. For context the Royal Navy has a pay ratio of circa 8X1 from top to bottom iirc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981410199551562131) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T17:19Z 166.1K followers, 80.4K engagements


"That isnt an accident. How else do you build a culture where people literally fight There are lessons there for sure. XX to X may be too much for large organisations but its really something worth thinking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981410593086329172) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T17:21Z 166.1K followers, 9435 engagements


"State pensions if above the threshold should be scrapped. AND the triple lock should go. Pensions should be indexed to wage increases creating a national culture of solidarity literally invested in productivity gains and a high wage economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1967901245571731712) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-09-16T10:39Z 166K followers, 101.9K engagements


"The boomer blairites are an utter gift to Farage. They genuinely dont see it do they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1968660826971050310) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-09-18T12:58Z 165.9K followers, 73.2K engagements


"The Green Party of England and Wales is about to have a larger membership than the most successful party in European history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976011379602751679) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-08T19:46Z 166K followers, 98.5K engagements


"@JamesHeartfield Oh so you like Chomsky now Have you read it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981060666606727653) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T18:10Z 166K followers, XXX engagements


"@JamesHeartfield Were you a Trotskyist Only Trotskyists get this upset with other Trotskyists On Garrison I dont agree. It does read like - even if youre cynical - that the warren commission had a bunch of holes in it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981062777906049501) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T18:19Z 166K followers, XXX engagements


"Yes the point is they cant take their houses with them. Its not capital flight when the capital has four walls a roof and central heating. Its flying nowhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1929632474788675707) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-06-02T20:13Z 166.1K followers, 223.6K engagements


"43% of its doctors are from overseas. Higher than UK and Ireland. Which is wild: surely a country that rich and disposed to international development should export doctors (International aid is mostly a grift)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977719432911769829) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-13T12:53Z 166K followers, 37.9K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977727583744663883) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-13T13:26Z 166.1K followers, 96.2K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977773512850051269) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-13T16:28Z 166K followers, 29.9K engagements


"We are being replaced I guess have a big family then No"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977774188594110748) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-13T16:31Z 166K followers, 8101 engagements


"@Rekt57v Its the same in every major city in the West. There used to be an earning premium in nyc/london/sydney etc that made them engines of social mobility for janitors as well as lawyers or finance bros. That reverses after around 2000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978404318832103848) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-15T10:15Z 166.1K followers, 2382 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978485576450884040) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-15T15:38Z 166.1K followers, 23.4K engagements


"@Nigel_Farage Foreign thugs are suddenly welcome in the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978921599718818179) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T20:30Z 166.1K followers, 35.4K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978945996638793965) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T22:07Z 166K followers, 10.4K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978994241935212991) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T01:19Z 166.1K followers, 69.7K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979644609417642482) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T20:23Z 166K followers, 34.9K engagements


"The daughter of Ali Shemkhani once a senior guy in IRGC & former advisor to Khameini gets married without hair covering being observed by herself or others. Something Iranians have been saying increasingly since 2023: this stuff is changing quickly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979869286484303914) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T11:16Z 166.1K followers, 20.2K engagements


"Total fertility rate in 1900 in England: XXX When that happens there is generally net emigration not immigration. Sure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979875709385621866) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T11:42Z 166K followers, 19K engagements


"Minorities saying other minorities should be deported. Very third world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979998503444070552) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T19:50Z 166.1K followers, 52.6K engagements


"An independent MP was almost alone in overtly supporting the local police force in their decision while the PM formerly the head of the crown prosecution service and a sir () insinuated they were racist. Everything is upside down now. Its why Reform regularly poll at 30%+"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980060556720476182) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T23:56Z 166K followers, 116.4K engagements


"@dissidentwest Hes not pulling the racism card hes recounting how people have been racist to him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980225656102494680) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T10:52Z 166.1K followers, 4380 engagements


"The US nuked Hiroshima in August 1945. By December 1946 the Soviets had built a uranium-graphite reactor. We need an honest conversation about this stuff: our society is appalling at doing things. Historically bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980246984729546889) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T12:17Z 166K followers, 20.3K engagements


"People are blaming Starmer for Pizza Hut bruv 🤣🤣🤣 A brand in decline for about XX years. Give it a rest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980295933834481749) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T15:31Z 166.1K followers, 31.3K engagements


"In Britain shoplifting is basically legal now its everywhere. Meanwhile prisons are XX% full so serious crime isnt properly punished. And yet the government is going out of its way to help violent foreign football hooligans. The question is why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980331110308696275) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T17:51Z 166.1K followers, 28.5K engagements


"@Walianohohoh Parliament makes the law the police and courts enforce it. As someone who is sympathetic to scrapping Supreme Court and ending Bank of England independence that kind of shift would be very dangerous imho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980370979580002514) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T20:30Z 166.1K followers, 9331 engagements


"Great read Highlights include: Attlee admitting Britain would have used poison gas if invaded. British A-bomb being most cost-effective procurement ever by our government (half cost of manhattan project). Britain breaching non-proliferation by selling heavy water to Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980595609548497116) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T11:22Z 166.1K followers, 7424 engagements


"Sarkozy-Libya thing makes Blair seem normal. To recap: Gaddafi funds Sarkozy election in 2007. Prez Sarkozy then normalises relations with Libya that December. Talk of collaboration re nuclear technology & sale of fighter jets. 2011: Sarko LEADS the charge to remove Gaddafi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980650221060387204) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T14:59Z 166.1K followers, 11.1K engagements


"@JamesHeartfield Also I literally use the term conspiracy theories and even then dont think it was Mossad. You are entitled to read again of course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981060249130799554) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T18:09Z 166.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Fascinating comment on tonights NM show"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979345715408310503) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T00:36Z 166.1K followers, 6637 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1967984754416029709) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-09-16T16:11Z 166.1K followers, 1.7M 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1972718622628856013) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-09-29T17:42Z 166.1K followers, 212.4K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978082407094894917) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-14T12:56Z 166.1K followers, 2.1M engagements


"2022-23. This was simply not allowed to carry on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978092714622148630) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-14T13:37Z 166.1K followers, 51.7K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978113199762235853) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-14T14:58Z 166.1K followers, 91.6K engagements


"@ZoomerHistorian You think people want to deport Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka Elons psy op is really getting you. Just say you dont like football bruv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978489225852211207) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-15T15:52Z 166.1K followers, 4824 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978511141929189845) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-15T17:19Z 166.1K followers, 51.3K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978559926923313230) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-15T20:33Z 166.1K followers, 267.7K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978813247592571241) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T13:20Z 166.1K followers, 47.3K engagements


"For Ukraine to achieve this took decades of corruption and war. With Britain it might just take Elons algorithm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978814143562957254) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T13:23Z 166.1K followers, 6527 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978815284740780498) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T13:28Z 166.1K followers, 90.2K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978902622787490045) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T19:15Z 166.1K followers, 182.5K engagements


"Wake up babe another architectural black pill just dropped (Holborn London)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978951638149697698) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T22:30Z 166.1K followers, 130.1K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979229208556515490) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T16:53Z 166.1K followers, 112.3K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979229590699520459) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T16:54Z 166.1K followers, 6505 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979280245065945135) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T20:15Z 166.1K followers, 56.4K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979318090774254053) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T22:46Z 166.1K followers, 67.9K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979530207913533761) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T12:49Z 166.1K followers, 61.9K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979543263196717442) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T13:41Z 166.1K followers, 18.8K engagements


"Another candidate for: could be the leader of a Hollywood wellness cult or a Pashtun warlord"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979880180450750468) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T11:59Z 166.1K followers, 27.8K engagements


"Maccabi refer to Hapoel fans which has a historic relationship with Labor and socialist Zionism as Arab lovers and so on. Of course literally zero of this was explained by the British media over the last X days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980005762169500015) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T20:18Z 166.1K followers, 11.9K engagements


"In a stagnant ageing economy politics is increasingly infused by nostalgia. But whether its the spirit of XX or XX the material basis for what is commonly proposed by both left and right simply isnt there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980215496546173201) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T10:12Z 166.1K followers, 9486 engagements


"Complete absence of any politics. Just an infinite cycle of XX somethings posting nonsense pop culture references before moving into consultancy and public affairs. Rinse-repeat every X years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980256861057056868) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T12:56Z 166.1K followers, 38.1K engagements


"This is getting increasingly bizarre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980321723561177264) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T17:14Z 166.1K followers, 550.5K engagements


"This is an extraordinarily strong reason to not vote for a political party"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980369321235984586) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T20:23Z 166.1K followers, 275.5K engagements


"Its time for the big questions now: Wales has voted Labour for a century. Before that it was solidly Liberal. What has it got in return in the last XX years Useful context: In 1925 Welsh GDP per capita was broadly the same as the wider UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980399653914046571) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T22:24Z 166.1K followers, 34.9K engagements


"Im sympathetic to scrapping the Supreme Court and giving monetary policy back to elected politicians but a government getting involved in the operational day-to-day of police forces across the country would be a disaster. Parliament can make laws the police enforce them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980569753598193716) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T09:40Z 166.1K followers, 17.6K engagements


"Like be serious. Is the Home Secretary going to start telling the police how to investigate a high profile murder in Manchester Or a kidnapping in Carlisle Surely its better to build an effective police force to do that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980570111787286867) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T09:41Z 166.1K followers, 5853 engagements


"Prince Andrew was beyond reproach apparently. Was Boris Johnson correct aboutanything Like one thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980604381344014513) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T11:57Z 166.1K followers, 45.6K engagements


"The parties not in government dont sit on the government benches. Kind of how it works Paul. Are they supposed to sit in different rooms or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980625316285481310) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T13:20Z 166.1K followers, 17.5K engagements


"This isnt Iran bro no need to demonise compatriots you happen to disagree with. This works both ways left and right by the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980702638174781482) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-21T18:28Z 166.1K followers, 25.2K engagements


"Israel is guided by pure realpolitik. Its founders also were when they killed hundreds of UK service personnel before 1948 - and when they shot down British spitfires with.spitfires. They think the British are chumps. Now look how our political class relates to Tel Aviv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980994731464364160) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T13:48Z 166.1K followers, 33.8K engagements


"Israels nuclear program was impossible without France. Now these guys call the country Islamist. Its not about gratitude its about laser-focused realpolitik. Theres no sentimental attachment to Britain or anywhere else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980995116501528982) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T13:50Z 166.1K followers, 7561 engagements


"Japan a country where nappies for the elderly outnumber those for children and villages make doll puppets of kids because there are no real ones for miles. So based"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981050310786257282) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T17:29Z 166.1K followers, 25.3K engagements


"Im a the CIA got mad over the Bay of Pigs guy. But thats still an amazing coincidence: the Dimona nuclear reactor went critical the same month Kennedy was shot. After a site visit was suspended. Problem with JFK conspiracy theories is *so many* people had a plausible motive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981057363957235837) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T17:57Z 166.1K followers, 9318 engagements


"The more serious point is that how Israel acquires nuclear weapons is at odds with the claim that its purely an outpost of US empire. The French and the British seemingly played a much more integral role than Washington - which genuinely wasnt keen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981058923143545264) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T18:03Z 166.1K followers, 6068 engagements


"Zohran Mamdani on @BillAckman Hes spending more money against me than I would tax him I dont even want that much Ah man hes going to win so big"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981132546357547262) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-22T22:56Z 166.1K followers, 807.9K engagements


"A fertility rate of XXX over a long enough timeline isnt decreasing its quite literally zero. Over three generations on its current trend Japans population would be XXXX% its present total. A low innovation world where the old massively outnumber the young. Miserable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981378630002352205) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T15:14Z 166.1K followers, 34.6K engagements


"Great policy. The working day isnt 9-3:30 you might have noticed. Personally Id favour a longer school day with more unorganised play more reading and more (organised) exercise. And no phones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981390130066686141) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T15:59Z 166.1K followers, 152.2K engagements


"The Terrorism Act (2000) was never meant to be used against retired grandmothers & RAF veterans either (something stated in commons debates see Hansard). Yet its X months for wearing a Palestine Action tee. Why should we trust you @Keir_Starmer ID cards are not happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981417859520876758) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T17:50Z 166.1K followers, 22K engagements


"Great talking to Harvards @SPlokhy for @novaramedia Would Moscow ever use tactical nukes in Ukraine Is Europe also a collapsing empire Could China be the main beneficiary of the Russo-Ukraine war & is a world of multipolarity also one of proliferation Up soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981429554758447290) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T18:36Z 166.1K followers, 7293 engagements


"Also: how did Britain build the A-bomb in complete secrecy (not even Churchill knew) & for half the cost of the manhattan project How did South Africa build maybe XX nukes for a tiny % of their national economy PFI cant do stuff like that folks Needs states & govt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981429836259447022) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T18:37Z 166.1K followers, 4837 engagements


"Older people should able to enjoy life and of course many still work incredibly hard as grandparents But you cant compare that situation to a young lower middle class graduate who cant get housing security or a single parent. Its a different universe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981439314958414008) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T19:15Z 166.1K followers, 6699 engagements


"What defines your country Brits: pubs tradition roast dinner crap weather tea French: cheese wine and bread. Victor Hugo Iranian monarchists: vell being Iranian means we arent Arabs Turks Russians Indians or Pakistanis. Did I mention we arent Arabs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1981482522195210338) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-23T22:07Z 166.1K followers, 140.2K engagements