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# ![@AaronBastani Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::63082578.png) @AaronBastani Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani posts on X about tel aviv, london, debt, poland the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  #1325 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[tel aviv](/topic/tel-aviv) #232, [london](/topic/london) #1796, [debt](/topic/debt) 1.4%, [poland](/topic/poland) #887, [elons](/topic/elons) 0.93%, [lack of](/topic/lack-of) #579, [money](/topic/money) 0.93%, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) #1603, [israel](/topic/israel) #2031, [aviv fans](/topic/aviv-fans) #3

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::63082578/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"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 165.9K followers, 91.2K 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 165.9K followers, 267.5K 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 165.9K followers, 19.7K 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 165.9K followers, 101.8K 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 165.8K followers, 73.2K 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](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


"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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976258574960492693) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-09T12:08Z 165.9K followers, 7195 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 165.8K followers, 21.3K engagements


"Lots of criticism of Zack Polanski like this. Heres the thing: Hes not saying anything the greens werent saying before. Hes just taking them to the national stage outside a general election campaign. Relevance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976695333913784587) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-10T17:04Z 165.9K followers, 49.6K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976788460188078527) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-10T23:14Z 165.9K followers, 4424 engagements


"Me and Tom aged XXX talking about how now we live as long as Greenland sharks because of advances in medicine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977140826771014009) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-11T22:34Z 165.8K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977376048045043893) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-12T14:09Z 165.9K followers, 38.7K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977694415150813626) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-13T11:14Z 165.9K followers, 43.2K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977716621763387837) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-13T12:42Z 165.8K followers, 32.7K 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 165.9K followers, 96.1K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1977773512850051269) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-13T16:28Z 165.9K followers, 29.8K 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 165.9K followers, 8081 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978231655400689960) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-14T22:49Z 165.8K followers, 17.8K 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 165.8K followers, 4817 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978493173836988728) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-15T16:08Z 165.8K followers, 46.1K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978771550540103824) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T10:34Z 165.8K followers, 43.8K 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 165.9K followers, 47.2K engagements


"Apparently local police forces are meant to just accept mayhem now. Because the people doing it are Israeli"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978923055368773986) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-16T20:36Z 165.8K followers, 28.8K 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 165.8K followers, 10.3K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979127306221191170) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T10:08Z 165.9K followers, 26.1K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979143138196267192) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T11:11Z 165.8K followers, 13.4K engagements


"We cant increase capital gains tax (Has Mussolini as their profile pic)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979143372129329504) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T11:12Z 165.8K followers, 4631 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979180997896794225) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T13:41Z 165.9K followers, 19.4K 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 165.8K 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 165.8K followers, 3738 engagements


"@LouisTyrer18 Its outrageous frankly. Basically no prison places so psychos not being punished and hes talking about Xboxes. Shameful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979214770008899670) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T15:55Z 165.8K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979256084154970505) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T18:39Z 165.8K followers, 30K engagements


"Both are cool"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979258775446982934) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T18:50Z 165.8K followers, 34.3K engagements


"I believe in you @Keir_Starmer Make history this is genuinely possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979260225598181739) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T18:56Z 165.8K followers, 89.5K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979524370134434196) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T12:26Z 165.9K followers, 39.4K engagements


"Sadly Im blocked by this chump. But one of his customers wasmy mum She had a XXX% mortgage Like millions she didnt really understand what she was getting into. And this chap is pretending hes a serious business guy. Hes a posh idiot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979698343854137733) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T23:57Z 165.8K followers, 6519 engagements


"@bap_head I didnt say it was a deficit. It was just insane. And it wasnt secured. Part of it included unsecured debt to have a loan to access the mortgage Yes it was that mental"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979699741882716376) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T00:02Z 165.8K followers, XXX 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


"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 165.9K followers, 1.7M 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979648182499053979) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T20:38Z 165.9K followers, 73.4K engagements


"Theres no deficit in business Your business was offering mortgages of up to XXX% loan to value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979698617318563926) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T23:58Z 165.9K followers, 4732 engagements


"The Pashtuns and Tajiks should be in UEFA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979881895765954890) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T12:06Z 165.9K followers, 4828 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, 8047 engagements


"Condemnation of Hapoel Tel Aviv fans as antisemitic presumably incoming from @Keir_Starmer Unacceptable behaviour from them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980004911552106985) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T20:15Z 165.9K followers, 30.5K 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 165.9K followers, 11.7K 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, 28.3K 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 165.9K followers, 212.1K 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 165.9K followers, 500.9K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976972334285418841) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-11T11:25Z 165.9K followers, 55.3K 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 165.9K followers, 62K 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, 57.2K 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 165.9K followers, 51.6K engagements


"Ibiza final boss is actually a mechanical engineer from Shiraz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1978588663744266461) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-15T22:27Z 165.9K followers, 15.2K 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 165.9K followers, 90K 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 165.9K followers, 182.3K 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 165.9K followers, 35.2K 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 165.9K followers, 261.3K 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 165.9K followers, 128.3K 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 165.9K followers, 72.1K 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 165.9K followers, 112K 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 165.9K followers, 6487 engagements


"Fascinating comment on tonights NM show"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979345715408310503) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T00:36Z 165.9K followers, 6611 engagements


"Minorities telling other minorities they should be deported. VERY third world coded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979525794507403512) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T12:31Z 165.9K followers, 54.8K 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 165.9K followers, 61.8K 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 165.9K followers, 18.5K 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 165.9K followers, 34.8K 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 165.9K followers, 20.1K 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 165.9K followers, 18.9K 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 165.9K followers, 27.7K 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 165.9K followers, 52.4K 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 165.9K followers, 19.7K 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 165.9K followers, 161.7K 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 165.9K followers, 20.1K 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 165.9K followers, 37.5K engagements


"This is getting increasingly bizarre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980321723561177264) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-20T17:14Z 165.9K followers, 545.6K 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 165.9K followers, 30.8K 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 165.9K followers, 15.8K 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 165.9K followers, 5349 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 165.9K followers, 6662 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 165.9K followers, 38.3K 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 165.9K followers, 14.9K 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 165.9K followers, 9348 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 165.9K followers, 19.7K engagements


"Members are great because they mean more resources. More More campaigners to get your people elected. It seems quite plausible Greens overtake Labour membership at some point. But what for is the key Q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979969342600057192) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T17:54Z 165.9K followers, 24.5K 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


"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 165.9K followers, 23.4K 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 165.9K followers, 6508 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979236783184368026) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-17T17:23Z 165.9K followers, 55.9K engagements


"You literally ran Northern Rock bruv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979697270988931188) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-18T23:53Z 165.9K followers, 19.3K engagements


"Tolerance of increased social liberalism is a trade off for national security and social cohesion at this point. Especially after this year. But: protest works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979869509873000939) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T11:17Z 165.9K followers, 4446 engagements


"The throughput of customers using self service at M&S in Waterloo station is one of the great logistical wonders of the modern world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979930154743857305) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T15:18Z 165.9K followers, 68.4K engagements


"We have a complete moron running the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1980030710686908536) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T21:58Z 165.9K followers, 12.1K 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 165.9K followers, 98.5K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976347527374045684) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-09T18:02Z 165.9K followers, 245.4K 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](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1976702525131964812) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-10T17:33Z 165.9K followers, 27.3K 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 165.9K followers, 2.1M 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, 27.7K 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 165.9K followers, 51K 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 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 165.9K followers, 69.6K 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 165.9K followers, 56.1K 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 165.9K followers, 67.7K engagements


"Good this debate is meaningfully happening now. But surely a sensible place to start is to stop punishing people earning more than a 100k when it comes to free nursery and child benefit With a deficit of 100B+ and debt interest of 100B+ reducing taxes will be unlikely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1979958869485875245) [@AaronBastani](/creator/x/AaronBastani) 2025-10-19T17:12Z 165.9K followers, 23.3K 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 165.9K followers, 116K 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, 8887 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 165.9K followers, 9246 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 165.9K followers, 4339 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, 18.2K 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 165.9K followers, 31K 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 165.9K followers, 28.2K 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 165.9K followers, 12.8K 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 165.9K followers, 259.4K 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 165.9K followers, 8888 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 165.9K followers, 13.6K engagements