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Sebastian Milbank

@SebMilbank

Senior Researcher @csjthinktank. Writer and columnist. Previously @JSMilbank

London Katılım Mart 2026
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Sebastian Milbank
Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
Apologies for long Twitter absence. My previous account - JSMilbank - has been hacked and I'm locked out for the foreseeable future. If you've received a message from that account its a scam. Would deeply appreciate if previous followers would follow me here at @SebMilbank
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
@lukas_ohl The entertainment side will hopefully produce plenty of worthwhile culture, but you want an element that is ring fenced for more challenging, high prow and less commercial modes of broadcasting
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L🇬🇧as Ohl@lukas_ohl·
@SebMilbank Where do you draw the line between “culture” and “entertainment”? For example the old Monty Python sketches are both a core part of British culture, but also very entertaining.
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
There should be a central grant for public interest tv to help keep cultural, regional and news broadcasting going (but with much more stringent standards as it’s tax funded grant) and the entire entertainment side of things should be funded by a Netflix style subscription model
ripx4nutmeg@ripx4nutmeg

The number of people who have a TV licence in the UK dropped by 539,000 in the last year. This is the second biggest drop in history (the biggest seven have all been in the last seven years) and was far higher than the BBC had budgeted for telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/1…

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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
I wonder if part of it is that Argentina basically hadn’t fought a serious external war for over a century by the 80s, let alone one involving brutal modern firepower. Getting a taste of 20th century warfare was probably a traumatic experience hence all the martyrdom narratives
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
Plenty of countries lost territory in vastly more unfair circumstances — Poland, Hungary, hell how about Argentina’s neighbours Paraguay which lost 40% of their population and territory to a war Argentina helped start. None of these nations are screaming at the UN
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
There’s something uniquely pathetic about a country that invades another one, gets utterly wrecked, then proceeds to go begging for “bilateral negotiations”. I’d respect it more if they were threatening armed conflict, the poor little old us act is just sad from a great nation
Pablo Quirno@pabloquirno

Ante las recientes declaraciones públicas de altos funcionarios del Gobierno del Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte respecto de la soberanía sobre las Islas Malvinas, la Argentina reafirma sus derechos soberanos sobre las Islas Malvinas, Georgias del Sur y Sandwich del Sur y los espacios marítimos circundantes. La ocupación de 1833 fue un acto de fuerza contrario al derecho internacional de la época que vulneró nuestra integridad territorial y dio inicio a una situación colonial que persiste. La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas reconoció mediante la Resolución 2065 (XX) la existencia de una disputa de soberanía e instó a la Argentina y al Reino Unido a resolverla por la vía de las negociaciones bilaterales. Este llamado ha sido reiterado por numerosos pronunciamientos bilaterales y multilaterales, entre los que se destacan el Comité Especial de Descolonización de las Naciones Unidas (C24), la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), el Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) y sus Estados Asociados, la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), los países miembros del Consenso de Brasilia y del Grupo de los 77 y China. Rechazamos la invocación británica del principio de libre determinación de los pueblos. Los actuales habitantes de las Islas Malvinas no han sido nunca reconocidos como un "pueblo" por las Naciones Unidas. No resulta aceptable que los habitantes de las islas se conviertan en árbitros de una disputa territorial en la que su propio país, como población implantada, es parte. Por ello tampoco tiene validez el pretendido “referéndum” de 2013. Denunciamos además las actividades ilegales de exploración y explotación de recursos naturales -tanto renovables como no renovables-, en particular la pretendida “Decisión Final de Inversión” anunciada por las ilegítimas licenciatarias Rockhopper Exploration Plc y Navitas Petroleum Lp, para el desarrollo del yacimiento “Sea Lion”, que buscan desconocer los derechos soberanos argentinos y violan resoluciones de las Naciones Unidas. Por todos los elementos señalados, la República Argentina manifiesta, una vez más, su disposición a reanudar las negociaciones bilaterales con el Reino Unido que permitan encontrar una solución pacífica y definitiva a la disputa de soberanía y dar fin a la situación colonial especial y particular en las que están inmersas y agradece a toda la comunidad internacional el apoyo recibido a los derechos soberanos argentinos sobre las Islas Malvinas, Georgias del Sur y Sandwich del Sur y los espacios marítimos circundantes. Por historia, por derecho y por convicción: las Malvinas son argentinas.

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Iain Cameron
Iain Cameron@theiaincameron·
Really exciting to have two World Cup semi-final matches where both matches are played by neighbouring countries. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Ben Sixsmith
Ben Sixsmith@BDSixsmith·
British police: We don't know who committed this crime, but we know who it definitely wasn't — aliens. *One day later* British police: Citizens are advised to stay indoors amid the ongoing attacks from the Deptuni from the planet Gaarg.
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
So let’s make housing more expensive to build, nightmarish in summer and dark always? Stuff your scandi energy saving crap and build something nice instead
Gavin White@gavinwhite76

These 46 affordable homes were built to Passivhaus standards on two sites in Harpurhey for local families, including 28 for Social and Manchester Living Rent.🌹 Both part of our Project 500 scheme with @ManCityCouncil to use our own land for more low carbon and social housing.🏡

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Roger Allen
Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·
@amasterofarts @SebMilbank David Amess and Jo Cox may have been killed by people "of unsound mind", but the fact that their "unsoundness of mind" took religio-political forms is noteworthy.
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
I can't believe Ann Widdecombe, literal Ann Widdecombe, has been murdered. I feel like we're a much nastier country than the one I grew up, one in which surreal baudrillardian violence and violation periodically invades our ever less managed national decline. I'm so sick of it
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
@aljhlester Proving my point, you can’t debate ideas, it’s just endless credentialist kabuki theatre
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
@aljhlester My politics are indeed overt and I argue my case openly in the light of day, I would try it some time it would make you a less tedious writer
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Alan Lester@aljhlester·
@SebMilbank I always find it amusing when people whose political partisanship is so overt accuse far more disinterested academics of being politically motivated!
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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
@PigeonFeatherz Starting to think they’re in the pay of dr Congo 😂 yes uh please send your top goal scorer to Africa it’s very important
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Pigeon Feathers (Alpha Male)@PigeonFeatherz·
There’s gotta be either some kind of reverse Potemkin thing going on with wignatism or a Man Who Was Thursday situation, because it’s impossible to buy that so many separate people are daft enough to tub thump about Bellingham’s supposed non-Englishness *this weekend*, literally sub-Baldrick level stuff
BigMadlad@bigmadlad

@RupertLowe10 Jude Bellingham is not English and should be sent back to Africa. The average Englishman shares more DNA in common with the Norway team than with the England team. Go Norway

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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·
ITV should never be allowed near the football again — stick to reruns of Poirot in future
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