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Ian Dunt

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Jumped-up baldy. Liberal extremist. Columnist at the i newspaper. Host on Origin Story podcast. Author of How Westminster Works... And Why It Doesn't.


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Election 2024: A new day has broken in the most beautiful of all possible worlds iandunt.substack.com/p/election-2...

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France stumbles into darkness iandunt.substack.com/p/france-stu...

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Thanks Elle, hugely appreciated. Fuck all currently being posted out to you with free international delivery.

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Honestly I just try to ignore that stuff. But I think it's a good indication of why those types of things really can't be trusted.

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Nice. My work here is done.

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You're wonderful, I need both urgently

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Vague, full of generalised verbiage, and decidedly lacking in concrete promises: We get our first look at Labour's plans for sorting out parliament and... it's not great

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Lots of hardline rhetoric from Starmer this morning about small boats. But read it closely and you can see the clear outline of a rational policy: Ending Rwanda. Processing the claims iandunt.substack.com/p/labour-is-...

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'How To Un-Cunt Yourself'

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This is the beauty of liberal freedom. It grants diminutive examples of intellectual life like Nigel Farage the same rights as everyone else inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

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Quick reminder, given that we are having our bi-annual 20-second conversation about it: Nuclear weapons are an invention of unparalleled insanity and any morally serious country would be having a conversation about how to get rid of them iandunt.substack.com/p/the-oblivi...

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Thank you, it's much appreciated

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Oh that's perfect. Exactly how I wanted it to look.

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On its way, give it another couple of months.

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Writing! Turns out it's really fucking difficult. Just an absolute grinding cunt of a thing, conducted on a daily basis, in a state of advanced emotional and psychological pain. Anyway, here's my guide to how to do it. What fun. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-write

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Sunak is operating with a degree of incompetence which we had always thought possible, but never expected to actually see demonstrated in practice inews.co.uk/opinion/rish...

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The missus is demanding I buy it. Do let me know if you're ever selling the original art. And thanks again - a lovely start to the day.

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I might never recover from this. I'm so flattered - thank you.

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For an assortment of political and strategic reasons, Labour is about to give way on Rwanda. They are going to buckle at the last minute. And the tragic fact is that every one of those reasons is wrong. iandunt.substack.com/p/rwanda-wer...

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More details in the full piece here. It is a story of biblical stupidity, with people behaving according to their worst possible nature and conducting themselves with the greatest degree of incompetence imaginable iandunt.substack.com/p/the-bottom...

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So that's the difference. Having a functioning asylum system has a unit cost of £7,062. Having a batshit Rwandan one has a unit cost of £181,874. Cruelty is expensive, as well as pointless.

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