Andy King
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Occasionally posting up to 300 characters in the hope that some of them make sense. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, apparently.
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"The news sent me out walking alone along the dyke above the marshes of Rhuddlan.... cursing and sobbing and thinking of the dead."
Robert Graves gets news of the Armistice, today in 1918
Robert Graves gets news of the Armistice, today in 1918
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"The news sent me out walking alone along the dyke above the marshes of Rhuddlan.... cursing and sobbing and thinking of the dead."
Robert Graves gets news of the Armistice, today in 1918
Robert Graves gets news of the Armistice, today in 1918
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On a vaguely related note: have you read "Julia" by Sandra Newman.
An interesting alternative retelling of the story and (hubby argues) far more readable than Orwell himself.
It raises several interesting questions - particularly about the ignorance of the people, the war & Oceania.
An interesting alternative retelling of the story and (hubby argues) far more readable than Orwell himself.
It raises several interesting questions - particularly about the ignorance of the people, the war & Oceania.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
On a vaguely related note: have you read "Julia" by Sandra Newman.
An interesting alternative retelling of the story and (hubby argues) far more readable than Orwell himself.
It raises several interesting questions - particularly about the ignorance of the people, the war & Oceania.
An interesting alternative retelling of the story and (hubby argues) far more readable than Orwell himself.
It raises several interesting questions - particularly about the ignorance of the people, the war & Oceania.
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Trump is working on regime change in Europe.
On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
Farage is the Trump regime's tool for regime change in the UK.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
Farage is the Trump regime's tool for regime change in the UK.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
euobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Trump is working on regime change in Europe.
On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
Farage is the Trump regime's tool for regime change in the UK.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
Farage is the Trump regime's tool for regime change in the UK.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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This is like some Russian disinformation singularity.
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is like some Russian disinformation singularity.
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Bear in mind the people who believe this nonsense won't have read 1984 and are by definition double-plus unclever.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Bear in mind the people who believe this nonsense won't have read 1984 and are by definition double-plus unclever.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
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Ah, yes, that most reliable of sources: Anonymous. And isn't the populist critique of the BBC meant to be that it is *too* middle-class - all those metropolitan liberal elite graduates - not that being middle-class requires apology?
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ah, yes, that most reliable of sources: Anonymous. And isn't the populist critique of the BBC meant to be that it is *too* middle-class - all those metropolitan liberal elite graduates - not that being middle-class requires apology?
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How has DT's reputation been damaged, Jacob? What reputation, after all the lies, all the threats, after supporting an insurgency, after all the hate, is there left to damage?
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
How has DT's reputation been damaged, Jacob? What reputation, after all the lies, all the threats, after supporting an insurgency, after all the hate, is there left to damage?
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China rolls out its version of the H1-B visa to attract foreign tech workers. Trump is causing long term damage to the U.S. economy.
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
China rolls out its version of the H-1B visa to attract foreign tech workers
It coincides with uncertainties over the U.S.'s H-1B program under tightened immigrations policies implemented by President Donald Trump.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
China rolls out its version of the H1-B visa to attract foreign tech workers. Trump is causing long term damage to the U.S. economy.
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
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Another alliance between Trump and Putin - and Farage and Johnson back chanting in unison with the Russian Embassy. Just like old times!
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Another alliance between Trump and Putin - and Farage and Johnson back chanting in unison with the Russian Embassy. Just like old times!
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From yesterday afternoon, rainbows over Catford, South East London.
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
From yesterday afternoon, rainbows over Catford, South East London.
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Are there literally Americans who think we have BBC TV and Radio on non-stop and are not allowed to turn it off? Seems like a really weird conspiracy theory to abide by.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Are there literally Americans who think we have BBC TV and Radio on non-stop and are not allowed to turn it off? Seems like a really weird conspiracy theory to abide by.
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Newsmax being the company that paid two libel settlements for its false pro-Trump claims about the 2020 election - www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Newsmax being the company that paid two libel settlements for its false pro-Trump claims about the 2020 election - www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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"Here's what my misreading a menu and ordering the wrong thing at a bistro in Paris tells us about the decline of the French Republic."
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November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Here's what my misreading a menu and ordering the wrong thing at a bistro in Paris tells us about the decline of the French Republic."
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NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3
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Dig a little deeper, and the founder of History Reclaimed co-edits 'Briefings for Britain' (formerly Briefings for Brexit), and he and several members/ contributors to both were members of the 2018 'Brains for Brexit' group (if anyone remembers that): www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article.... 2/3
Meet the 41 top-thinkers fighting the tide of Remain propaganda
Leading economists, lawyers, philosophers, historians and social scientists across Britain want to challenge the impression all academics oppose leaving the EU.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Dig a little deeper, and the founder of History Reclaimed co-edits 'Briefings for Britain' (formerly Briefings for Brexit), and he and several members/ contributors to both were members of the 2018 'Brains for Brexit' group (if anyone remembers that): www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article.... 2/3
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I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
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One of the nastiest policies of recent times, over which Labour sacked a bunch of their own MPs, marginalised a massive chunk of their base, and contributed to their popularity nosediving into the abyss.
All for what?
Slapping the vulnerable with one hand and committing harakiri with the other.
All for what?
Slapping the vulnerable with one hand and committing harakiri with the other.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
One of the nastiest policies of recent times, over which Labour sacked a bunch of their own MPs, marginalised a massive chunk of their base, and contributed to their popularity nosediving into the abyss.
All for what?
Slapping the vulnerable with one hand and committing harakiri with the other.
All for what?
Slapping the vulnerable with one hand and committing harakiri with the other.
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Autumn Afternoon (2014)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Autumn Afternoon (2014)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...