Dr Adrian McMenamin
@adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social
I write Forth compilers for fun. Living with cancer. E pur si muove. Social democrat.
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Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
Currency plan latest @aidan.skinner.me.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Currency plan latest @aidan.skinner.me.uk
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A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced the idea as “madness” and “extortion”
North Northamptonshire is expected to approve the measure on Tuesday, in plans seen by PolHome
@cjayanetti.bsky.social reports
North Northamptonshire is expected to approve the measure on Tuesday, in plans seen by PolHome
@cjayanetti.bsky.social reports
Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness'
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...
www.politicshome.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced the idea as “madness” and “extortion”
North Northamptonshire is expected to approve the measure on Tuesday, in plans seen by PolHome
@cjayanetti.bsky.social reports
North Northamptonshire is expected to approve the measure on Tuesday, in plans seen by PolHome
@cjayanetti.bsky.social reports
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Like Hollyoaks, but with Trots.
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Corbyn and Sultana clash comes after months of fighting between the pair both jostling to be leader of populist left
The feud between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana over the future of a left wing party took another twist as the two camps argued publicly over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.
Sultana on Monday offered to transfer £600,000 from a company which the party’s founders set up earlier this year, only to be rebuffed by allies of Corbyn who accused her of playing “political games” with supporters’ money. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Like Hollyoaks, but with Trots.
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Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
Crisis at the CSC | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
From the desk of Lord Kronsteen, founder and proprietor of the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation. To all staff, It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to inform you of the resignation of both…
thecritic.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
This
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This
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Why can't we just say 0/0=1?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Why can't we just say 0/0=1?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
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The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.
As someone who comes from a part of the UK where some people so hate the country that they took up arms against it (not something I ever supported) the idea to me that the BBC is other than intensely patriotically British is just a joke. Did you watch last night’s BBC?
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
As someone who comes from a part of the UK where some people so hate the country that they took up arms against it (not something I ever supported) the idea to me that the BBC is other than intensely patriotically British is just a joke. Did you watch last night’s BBC?
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
Though one thing that the last decade should have taught everyone is that ‘let the extremists and populists and weirdo obsessives try and fail so people learn the lesson’ is the very worst strategic response of all.
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Though one thing that the last decade should have taught everyone is that ‘let the extremists and populists and weirdo obsessives try and fail so people learn the lesson’ is the very worst strategic response of all.
I’m not entirely sure how seriously we are meant to take this but it is actually a fun read and thought provoking. Sort of ‘how might 1913’s SPD have interpreted these results’.
I've now written up this take for @renewaljournal.bsky.social - along with four (4) other competing Marxist explanations of Zohran's PMC-led historic bloc
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I’m not entirely sure how seriously we are meant to take this but it is actually a fun read and thought provoking. Sort of ‘how might 1913’s SPD have interpreted these results’.
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Don't treat a nation's history like a scorecard. Every country has good and bad deeds in its past; you should acknowledge both and learn from both, and try to increase the good and reduce the bad. Patriotism isn't about always believing the best of your country, it's about wanting the best for it.
This debate always makes me worry there’s something a bit wrong with me in that I don’t think the past is something you should draw pride or shame from. I have benefited from the British empire more than most Brits, but ultimately I am *not* my maternal great-great-great-grandfather!
On binary questions about Britain's colonial past, the median is Neither/Don't Know. (There are more constructive conversations than this which can unlock 75% common ground: teach it all, including the complexity and controversy)
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Don't treat a nation's history like a scorecard. Every country has good and bad deeds in its past; you should acknowledge both and learn from both, and try to increase the good and reduce the bad. Patriotism isn't about always believing the best of your country, it's about wanting the best for it.
I’m not really in favour of throwing things at the police but sometimes you have to take the L, especially if the alternative is to say the things in here. It’s very funny.
Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
Sean Dunn's attorney acknowledged he threw the sandwich, but argued it was a "harmless gesture".
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I’m not really in favour of throwing things at the police but sometimes you have to take the L, especially if the alternative is to say the things in here. It’s very funny.
A thought about Scottish independence. RTÉ makes just 9 hours of documentary output a year currently. Next year that will fall to zero. Simply cannot sustain in-house production with their scale of resources. The trade offs of being a small state that are consistently ignored by the SNP.
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A thought about Scottish independence. RTÉ makes just 9 hours of documentary output a year currently. Next year that will fall to zero. Simply cannot sustain in-house production with their scale of resources. The trade offs of being a small state that are consistently ignored by the SNP.
The Daily Telegraph does realise Boris Johnson isn't an MP, right?
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The Daily Telegraph does realise Boris Johnson isn't an MP, right?
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i mean, gilt yields are pretty well behaved for a situation where apparently everyone in the City thinks we're gonna default
on.ft.com/43eNFhX
on.ft.com/43eNFhX
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
i mean, gilt yields are pretty well behaved for a situation where apparently everyone in the City thinks we're gonna default
on.ft.com/43eNFhX
on.ft.com/43eNFhX
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It's easy to dismiss this as just a online thing - but increasingly the 'wealth tax/billionares will pay for it' is cutting through more generally
You can see it on normal, non-politicos insta feeds-particularly driven by the Greens. It's hugely damaging to the leigitimacy of actual progressive tax
You can see it on normal, non-politicos insta feeds-particularly driven by the Greens. It's hugely damaging to the leigitimacy of actual progressive tax
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's easy to dismiss this as just a online thing - but increasingly the 'wealth tax/billionares will pay for it' is cutting through more generally
You can see it on normal, non-politicos insta feeds-particularly driven by the Greens. It's hugely damaging to the leigitimacy of actual progressive tax
You can see it on normal, non-politicos insta feeds-particularly driven by the Greens. It's hugely damaging to the leigitimacy of actual progressive tax
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Don't really have much of an opinion about Mamdani. Don't think I really need one, either. Ain't life grand?
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Don't really have much of an opinion about Mamdani. Don't think I really need one, either. Ain't life grand?
No SNP voice (so far) in the debate on the Employment Rights Bill. Anyone told the SNP Trade Union Group that their MPs appear not to care about workers' rights?
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
No SNP voice (so far) in the debate on the Employment Rights Bill. Anyone told the SNP Trade Union Group that their MPs appear not to care about workers' rights?
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John Swinney was attacking Labour for not doing this in June 2024.
It's disingenuous, deliberate deception and hypocrisy that relies on people not paying attention.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's disingenuous, deliberate deception and hypocrisy that relies on people not paying attention.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK tax hike would have 'massive' impact on Scotland - Robison
The finance secretary says an increase in income tax south of the border could lead to a £1bn shortfall at Holyrood.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
John Swinney was attacking Labour for not doing this in June 2024.
It's disingenuous, deliberate deception and hypocrisy that relies on people not paying attention.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's disingenuous, deliberate deception and hypocrisy that relies on people not paying attention.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
Webb’s questions in shorter form..
1. What is your message to the country?
2. Do you have any further messages?
3. It’s going to be difficult isn’t it?
4. But you are going to be honest aren’t you?
5. Being in government is difficult are you sure you are up to it?
6. Anything else?
1. What is your message to the country?
2. Do you have any further messages?
3. It’s going to be difficult isn’t it?
4. But you are going to be honest aren’t you?
5. Being in government is difficult are you sure you are up to it?
6. Anything else?
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Webb’s questions in shorter form..
1. What is your message to the country?
2. Do you have any further messages?
3. It’s going to be difficult isn’t it?
4. But you are going to be honest aren’t you?
5. Being in government is difficult are you sure you are up to it?
6. Anything else?
1. What is your message to the country?
2. Do you have any further messages?
3. It’s going to be difficult isn’t it?
4. But you are going to be honest aren’t you?
5. Being in government is difficult are you sure you are up to it?
6. Anything else?
Pathetic lack of challenge from Justin Webb to Tice. No other politician gets away with this easy ride.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Pathetic lack of challenge from Justin Webb to Tice. No other politician gets away with this easy ride.