Ian Corbishley
@corbo8672.bsky.social
Twitter / X refugee. Hoping this is an improvements on all of the other hang outs for Musk escapees. Sport, history and The Archers…mostly.
Also talking about football on the radio most Saturdays.
Also talking about football on the radio most Saturdays.
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An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
May 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
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Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.
May 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.
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We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.
May 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.
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Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."
May 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."
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Labour are going to keep denying the reality of Brexit until the last vote is counted on their 2029 GE defeat, aren't they?
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
January 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Labour are going to keep denying the reality of Brexit until the last vote is counted on their 2029 GE defeat, aren't they?
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
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HMRC denies running a "deliberately poor" phone service to push taxpayers to seek help online instead.
44,000 customers cut off without warning after being on hold for 70 minutes last yr, even worse now.
So, wrong taxes paid, little people prosecuted and fined.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
44,000 customers cut off without warning after being on hold for 70 minutes last yr, even worse now.
So, wrong taxes paid, little people prosecuted and fined.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
HMRC denies 'deliberately poor' phone service for taxpayers
Thousands on hold to HMRC's helpline say they were cut off after waiting for 70 minutes.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
HMRC denies running a "deliberately poor" phone service to push taxpayers to seek help online instead.
44,000 customers cut off without warning after being on hold for 70 minutes last yr, even worse now.
So, wrong taxes paid, little people prosecuted and fined.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
44,000 customers cut off without warning after being on hold for 70 minutes last yr, even worse now.
So, wrong taxes paid, little people prosecuted and fined.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Facebook is now officially rotten to the core as a matter of policy.
And you can ask the six hamsters in the wheel that powers its servers if you don't believe me.
And you can ask the six hamsters in the wheel that powers its servers if you don't believe me.
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Facebook is now officially rotten to the core as a matter of policy.
And you can ask the six hamsters in the wheel that powers its servers if you don't believe me.
And you can ask the six hamsters in the wheel that powers its servers if you don't believe me.
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Today's sentencing hearing will be simple. Judge Merchan will declare Trump's sentence is to be held in abatement, which means he will not serve time for his crimes, but the conviction will stand and he will remain a convicted felon with the conviction on his record.
Did I say convicted enough?
Did I say convicted enough?
January 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today's sentencing hearing will be simple. Judge Merchan will declare Trump's sentence is to be held in abatement, which means he will not serve time for his crimes, but the conviction will stand and he will remain a convicted felon with the conviction on his record.
Did I say convicted enough?
Did I say convicted enough?
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Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week
January 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week
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Weaker, poorer, unhappier, more divided and with an emboldened and radicalised loud minority who champion overt racism and selling out to Musk and Trump…
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.
January 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Weaker, poorer, unhappier, more divided and with an emboldened and radicalised loud minority who champion overt racism and selling out to Musk and Trump…
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.
This is where Brexit has led us. Over and above these dismal numbers. That is the true cost.
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I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.
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There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 AM
There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
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Nick Candy billionaire "investor" in Reform Party....at Tory #SexistShaun Bailey's PARTYGATE party (now a Tory Lord obviously 🙄)
Same old people
Same old sh*te
Same old people
Same old sh*te
Left: Billionaire treasurer for the Reform Party, Nick Candy, says there are other billionaires interested in donating to Reform
Right: Nick Candy at a covid rule breaking party at CCHQ with Shaun Bailey
Bailey, "I had no part in the party" despite being photographed in the heart of the party
Right: Nick Candy at a covid rule breaking party at CCHQ with Shaun Bailey
Bailey, "I had no part in the party" despite being photographed in the heart of the party
December 23, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Nick Candy billionaire "investor" in Reform Party....at Tory #SexistShaun Bailey's PARTYGATE party (now a Tory Lord obviously 🙄)
Same old people
Same old sh*te
Same old people
Same old sh*te
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📆 26th December 2024
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COME ON YOU BEARS 🐻
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Absolutely spot on from @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
@bsky.app “doesn’t kill news links, the news mix is healthier & it’s an ideal environment for community building”👏
@bsky.app “doesn’t kill news links, the news mix is healthier & it’s an ideal environment for community building”👏
Bluesky is brilliant for the Bylines Network. 🦋
So much better than X or Facebook. It doesn’t kill news links, the news mix is healthier here, and it’s an ideal environment for community-building.
Our citizen journalism is thriving here. Keep it up @bsky.app!
So much better than X or Facebook. It doesn’t kill news links, the news mix is healthier here, and it’s an ideal environment for community-building.
Our citizen journalism is thriving here. Keep it up @bsky.app!
December 9, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Absolutely spot on from @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
@bsky.app “doesn’t kill news links, the news mix is healthier & it’s an ideal environment for community building”👏
@bsky.app “doesn’t kill news links, the news mix is healthier & it’s an ideal environment for community building”👏
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If it takes 10 years to rejoin the EU, then if we start today, we'll be back in 10 years. But if we wait a decade, it will take 20 years.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
December 9, 2024 at 2:25 PM
If it takes 10 years to rejoin the EU, then if we start today, we'll be back in 10 years. But if we wait a decade, it will take 20 years.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
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Brexit ‘delivered the opposite of what it promised’, Angela Rayner admits
Hopefully we can now begin an honest & open discussion about the catastrophic impact Brexit has inflicted on the country’s economy
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ang...
Hopefully we can now begin an honest & open discussion about the catastrophic impact Brexit has inflicted on the country’s economy
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ang...
Brexit 'delivered the opposite of what it promised', Angela Rayner admits
That might just be the sound of the penny dropping for the Labour government, after Angela Rayner took a swipe at Brexit.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Brexit ‘delivered the opposite of what it promised’, Angela Rayner admits
Hopefully we can now begin an honest & open discussion about the catastrophic impact Brexit has inflicted on the country’s economy
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ang...
Hopefully we can now begin an honest & open discussion about the catastrophic impact Brexit has inflicted on the country’s economy
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ang...
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Dan Ashworth leaves Man Utd after 5 months as sporting director. 53yo’s move from Newcastle has not worked + departure agreed in meeting at Old Trafford last night; presented by #MUFC as mutual
www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...
Ashworth leaves role as Man United sporting director after five months
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:01 AM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Dan Ashworth leaves Man Utd after 5 months as sporting director. 53yo’s move from Newcastle has not worked + departure agreed in meeting at Old Trafford last night; presented by #MUFC as mutual
www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...
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I worked on our new series LUCY WORSLEY'S DOYLE V. HOLMES with a group of wonderful colleagues and friends, and here are some of the places we went together. Join us to see the show on @pbs at 8pm on Sundays!
#sherlockholmes
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December 7, 2024 at 8:46 PM
I worked on our new series LUCY WORSLEY'S DOYLE V. HOLMES with a group of wonderful colleagues and friends, and here are some of the places we went together. Join us to see the show on @pbs at 8pm on Sundays!
#sherlockholmes
#sherlockholmes
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Tory Peers attmept to delay/block the Football Governance Bill.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Government Condemns Tory Peers' Efforts To Block Football Reform Bill
Exclusive: The Government has accused the Tory peers of “cynical” behaviour to ground the Football Governance Bill to a halt in the Lords.
www.politicshome.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Tory Peers attmept to delay/block the Football Governance Bill.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Crypto's huge political donations were not about creating a regulatory environment so blockchain could fulfill its imagined potential. It was to stop the SEC treating crypto as unregulated investments, so they could inflate prices, make huge profits and commit fraud with impunity. And it's working.
December 4, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Crypto's huge political donations were not about creating a regulatory environment so blockchain could fulfill its imagined potential. It was to stop the SEC treating crypto as unregulated investments, so they could inflate prices, make huge profits and commit fraud with impunity. And it's working.
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