"Sources close to" Bob Borsley
@bobborsley.bsky.social
Retired academic (theoretical linguist). University of Essex/Bangor University. Lives on Ynys Môn. Has lived in Essex, Poland, Edinburgh, Warwickshire, etc.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/borsl53905/bob-borsley
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/borsl53905/bob-borsley
Galtieri should have sued the Sun over this:
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Galtieri should have sued the Sun over this:
Anyone who has a soft spot for the St George’s flag should be concerned about its growing association with bigotry and racism:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Anyone who has a soft spot for the St George’s flag should be concerned about its growing association with bigotry and racism:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Maybe the BBC could get away with this. Or would somebody find it appallingly “woke”?
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Maybe the BBC could get away with this. Or would somebody find it appallingly “woke”?
Reposted by "Sources close to" Bob Borsley
@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
Vance will surely take a dim view of this given how concerned he is about threats to free speech in Europe:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump threatens BBC with $1bn legal action over edit of speech in documentary
Leaked BBC report said film had ‘completely misled’ viewers by splicing two parts of January 6 speech together
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Vance will surely take a dim view of this given how concerned he is about threats to free speech in Europe:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If Trump can sue the BBC for suggesting that he was responsible for Jan 6 (which he obviously was), can Zelensky sue Trump for suggesting that he was responsible for the war in Ukraine (which he obviously wasn’t)?
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
If Trump can sue the BBC for suggesting that he was responsible for Jan 6 (which he obviously was), can Zelensky sue Trump for suggesting that he was responsible for the war in Ukraine (which he obviously wasn’t)?
Apparently, the US President can pardon anyone guilty of anything. Is there anything to stop him saying to someone “If you do X, I’ll pardon you” where X is anything at all? Or are there still some laws in the US?
www.thetimes.com/article/3ded...
www.thetimes.com/article/3ded...
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others accused of election interference
The former New York mayor is one of 77 high-profile supporters included in the unconditional clemency
www.thetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Apparently, the US President can pardon anyone guilty of anything. Is there anything to stop him saying to someone “If you do X, I’ll pardon you” where X is anything at all? Or are there still some laws in the US?
www.thetimes.com/article/3ded...
www.thetimes.com/article/3ded...
Good piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on the BBC “crisis”, among other things making a rather important point about the dodgy edit in Panorama:
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Good piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on the BBC “crisis”, among other things making a rather important point about the dodgy edit in Panorama:
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
If Hitler had had his own personal “AI” system, he could have dispensed with the services of Dr Joseph Goebbels:
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If Hitler had had his own personal “AI” system, he could have dispensed with the services of Dr Joseph Goebbels:
Wyt ti’n cofio? Do you remember?
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Wyt ti’n cofio? Do you remember?
Eryri morning:
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Eryri morning:
Suspect the time will come when people are embarrassed about having been photographed grinning inanely with the would-be dictator in the White House. Maybe Gove already is:
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Suspect the time will come when people are embarrassed about having been photographed grinning inanely with the would-be dictator in the White House. Maybe Gove already is:
Useful piece on the philo-semitic turn of the far right, and especially the shifting views of Elon Musk's favourite Engish "hard man", Tommy Robinson:
fathomjournal.org/the-jewish-q...
fathomjournal.org/the-jewish-q...
The Jewish Question Revisited: Tommy Robinson, Corbynist Populism, and the Ideological Grammar of Antisemitism
In a comprehensive dismantling, Anglo-Israeli Raoul Wootliff rebuts British far-right agitator Tommy Robinson’s professed reformation from peddler of antisemitism to staunch ally of the Jewish peopl.....
fathomjournal.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Useful piece on the philo-semitic turn of the far right, and especially the shifting views of Elon Musk's favourite Engish "hard man", Tommy Robinson:
fathomjournal.org/the-jewish-q...
fathomjournal.org/the-jewish-q...
Oddly, they don’t look at all like foreigners. Maybe they’re cunningly disguised. I’m sure Elon Musk could explain:
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oddly, they don’t look at all like foreigners. Maybe they’re cunningly disguised. I’m sure Elon Musk could explain:
The neighbours:
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The neighbours:
Lunchtime on Afon Menai:
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Lunchtime on Afon Menai:
Silver birches on Ynys Môn:
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Silver birches on Ynys Môn:
Actually the view from the entrance to a field, but it goes well enough with R.S. Thomas’s ‘The View from the Window’:
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Actually the view from the entrance to a field, but it goes well enough with R.S. Thomas’s ‘The View from the Window’:
Dusk on Ynys Môn:
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dusk on Ynys Môn:
Reposted by "Sources close to" Bob Borsley
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Morning on Ynys Môn with sunrise over the Carneddau and plenty of berries for those who want them:
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Morning on Ynys Môn with sunrise over the Carneddau and plenty of berries for those who want them:
Empathy is generally a good thing, but there have to be limits. Some people even feel empathy for the likes of Putin, Trump, and Tommy Robinson. That is too much:
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Empathy is generally a good thing, but there have to be limits. Some people even feel empathy for the likes of Putin, Trump, and Tommy Robinson. That is too much:
Midday on Afon Menai:
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Midday on Afon Menai:
Reposted by "Sources close to" Bob Borsley
Many in politics and media are trapped on X/Twitter, a latter-day Plato's cave, mistaking projected shadows for reality.
No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect.
But some platforms are better than others.
No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect.
But some platforms are better than others.
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Many in politics and media are trapped on X/Twitter, a latter-day Plato's cave, mistaking projected shadows for reality.
No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect.
But some platforms are better than others.
No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect.
But some platforms are better than others.