@beardypaulh.bsky.social
I’m having a mid-life crisis involving Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, painting Warhammer models and the like. I follow political and philosophical stuff and I rather like being outdoors when I can.
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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
January 28, 2026 at 11:32 AM
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Sorry but why the fuck would you *not* want to recreate 2006?Pre-financial crash, pre-austerity, pre-Brexit, pre-inflation. Britain's economically healthy, decent public services, largely competent government, fairly amiable political disputes. What kind of person prefers this period to that?
Kemi Badenoch says the Tories are "not trying to recreate 2006" which, to this 38 year old, is a pity
January 28, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Sorry but why the fuck would you *not* want to recreate 2006?Pre-financial crash, pre-austerity, pre-Brexit, pre-inflation. Britain's economically healthy, decent public services, largely competent government, fairly amiable political disputes. What kind of person prefers this period to that?
I grew up in Aycliffe. It’s always been a place to escape from. Violence, poverty, unemployment and addiction were awful even in the 90s.
‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10
Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon owner’s holdings have made it a symbol of d...
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:58 AM
I grew up in Aycliffe. It’s always been a place to escape from. Violence, poverty, unemployment and addiction were awful even in the 90s.
‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
As someone with one foot in the UK combat sports scene, particularly BJJ, the rise of fascist fight clubs is far from a problem in Canada and the US. It’s an issue here in Britain too. The far-right will constantly try to claim the space of fight sports and the fitness world. They must be resisted.
See the coaches in the martial arts community cheering on MAGA and ICE. Remember their names. Never support them financially again.
January 27, 2026 at 3:32 PM
As someone with one foot in the UK combat sports scene, particularly BJJ, the rise of fascist fight clubs is far from a problem in Canada and the US. It’s an issue here in Britain too. The far-right will constantly try to claim the space of fight sports and the fitness world. They must be resisted.
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On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember those murdered during the Holocaust and all genocides.
#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay
#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 AM
On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember those murdered during the Holocaust and all genocides.
#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay
#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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Reform increasingly resembling a barrel of flyblown, out-of-date Tory offal that Nige intends to turn into tasty ”new” sausages.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman has defected to Reform.
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Reform increasingly resembling a barrel of flyblown, out-of-date Tory offal that Nige intends to turn into tasty ”new” sausages.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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I've been pretty hard on the Tories in the past but I can't deny they're doing a massive service to the country making Reform unelectable by filling it with Tories.
January 26, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I've been pretty hard on the Tories in the past but I can't deny they're doing a massive service to the country making Reform unelectable by filling it with Tories.
Just when I thought I was out, the Horus Heresy has dragged me back in. I’m back building cataphractii terminators and Mk 3 breachers for my Imperial Fists siege of Terra army. It’s those damned new Custodian models that did it. That and the escapism of galaxy-wide apocalyptic war.
January 26, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Just when I thought I was out, the Horus Heresy has dragged me back in. I’m back building cataphractii terminators and Mk 3 breachers for my Imperial Fists siege of Terra army. It’s those damned new Custodian models that did it. That and the escapism of galaxy-wide apocalyptic war.
‘My real fear is that boredom and inertia may lead people to follow a deranged leader […], that we will put on jackboots and black uniforms and the aspect of the killer simply to relieve the boredom.’
January 26, 2026 at 10:13 AM
‘My real fear is that boredom and inertia may lead people to follow a deranged leader […], that we will put on jackboots and black uniforms and the aspect of the killer simply to relieve the boredom.’
On fascism and consumerism
“[O]ne sees what people are looking for is their own psychopathology. They’re looking for madness as a way out. They’re bored, and they want to start breaking the furniture.”
J.G. Ballard being interviewed for the Quietus shortly after the publication of Kingdom Come.
“[O]ne sees what people are looking for is their own psychopathology. They’re looking for madness as a way out. They’re bored, and they want to start breaking the furniture.”
J.G. Ballard being interviewed for the Quietus shortly after the publication of Kingdom Come.
January 26, 2026 at 10:04 AM
On fascism and consumerism
“[O]ne sees what people are looking for is their own psychopathology. They’re looking for madness as a way out. They’re bored, and they want to start breaking the furniture.”
J.G. Ballard being interviewed for the Quietus shortly after the publication of Kingdom Come.
“[O]ne sees what people are looking for is their own psychopathology. They’re looking for madness as a way out. They’re bored, and they want to start breaking the furniture.”
J.G. Ballard being interviewed for the Quietus shortly after the publication of Kingdom Come.
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This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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This is the last call for the "Ah, but…" people. Applications will be closing soon
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This is the last call for the "Ah, but…" people. Applications will be closing soon
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I always wrote off Fukuyama as being hoodwinked by Hegelian metaphysical nonsense - much as I think Marx and Engels were. But his closing remarks to The End of History are probably the best summary of where geopolitics in the west has ended up. On this is I think he’s as clearsighted as Ballard.
January 24, 2026 at 2:14 PM
I always wrote off Fukuyama as being hoodwinked by Hegelian metaphysical nonsense - much as I think Marx and Engels were. But his closing remarks to The End of History are probably the best summary of where geopolitics in the west has ended up. On this is I think he’s as clearsighted as Ballard.
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-laughs nervously in Ukrainian-
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
January 23, 2026 at 4:27 PM
-laughs nervously in Ukrainian-
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...
Jesus fucking Christ. Foucault is spinning in his grave.
Shabana Mahmood here, whose “ultimate vision” is to turn the world into a prison
January 23, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Jesus fucking Christ. Foucault is spinning in his grave.
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🚨Emily Thornberry MP on Donald Trump's comments on NATO allies:
"It's so much more than a mistake. It's an absolute insult."
"It's an insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan. How dare he say we weren't on the front line."
"How dare he?"
"It's so much more than a mistake. It's an absolute insult."
"It's an insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan. How dare he say we weren't on the front line."
"How dare he?"
January 23, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🚨Emily Thornberry MP on Donald Trump's comments on NATO allies:
"It's so much more than a mistake. It's an absolute insult."
"It's an insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan. How dare he say we weren't on the front line."
"How dare he?"
"It's so much more than a mistake. It's an absolute insult."
"It's an insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan. How dare he say we weren't on the front line."
"How dare he?"
Tyranid Neurotyrant. My first experiment of incorporating superglue in my painting repertoire.
January 23, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Tyranid Neurotyrant. My first experiment of incorporating superglue in my painting repertoire.
As someone who comes from an army family which has a history of service going back to the First World War, I cannot convey just how much this boils my fucking piss.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 3:50 PM
As someone who comes from an army family which has a history of service going back to the First World War, I cannot convey just how much this boils my fucking piss.
There are times I think that students really need a lot more of the attitude that they had in the sixties and seventies at my old uni. Can’t see a bullshitting fuckwit gobshite like Johnson having the balls to have tried this shit in Essex back in the day. Come on America, do something right.
January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
There are times I think that students really need a lot more of the attitude that they had in the sixties and seventies at my old uni. Can’t see a bullshitting fuckwit gobshite like Johnson having the balls to have tried this shit in Essex back in the day. Come on America, do something right.
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
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Re: PMQs - also good to hear Starmer remind the house of the horrors that Ukraine is battling against. A war of survival against Russia’s atrocities.
January 21, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Re: PMQs - also good to hear Starmer remind the house of the horrors that Ukraine is battling against. A war of survival against Russia’s atrocities.
Not going to lie, but I thought Starmer was very, very good indeed at PMQs today. Very critical of Trump and scathing of Badenoch’s attempts at point scoring. Who needs enemies when you have the British right playing into Trump’s hands.
January 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Not going to lie, but I thought Starmer was very, very good indeed at PMQs today. Very critical of Trump and scathing of Badenoch’s attempts at point scoring. Who needs enemies when you have the British right playing into Trump’s hands.