Daniel Owen
@danieljowen.bsky.social
Yes, I know you didn't specifically ask for my opinion. But here I am anyway.
He/him
North Devon, UK
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He/him
North Devon, UK
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My wife was at this gig. She messaged me immediately afterwards to tell me about Zack's appearance. "Such a great moment. The crowd absolutely loved it."
"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My wife was at this gig. She messaged me immediately afterwards to tell me about Zack's appearance. "Such a great moment. The crowd absolutely loved it."
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Radio started it in 1897. Podcasts are carrying it forward.
At the Prison Radio Association, we’ve evolved from radio waves to podcast streams, giving people a voice as they rebuild life inside prison and after release.
From airwaves to audio streams, radio’s legacy continues to change lives 💫
At the Prison Radio Association, we’ve evolved from radio waves to podcast streams, giving people a voice as they rebuild life inside prison and after release.
From airwaves to audio streams, radio’s legacy continues to change lives 💫
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Radio started it in 1897. Podcasts are carrying it forward.
At the Prison Radio Association, we’ve evolved from radio waves to podcast streams, giving people a voice as they rebuild life inside prison and after release.
From airwaves to audio streams, radio’s legacy continues to change lives 💫
At the Prison Radio Association, we’ve evolved from radio waves to podcast streams, giving people a voice as they rebuild life inside prison and after release.
From airwaves to audio streams, radio’s legacy continues to change lives 💫
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When Mina, a refugee from Afghanistan, started her degree in London, she soon realised she had nowhere to live over the summer break.
We were able to match her with one of our hosts, making sure she could focus on completing her course.
Read her story here: refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/im...
We were able to match her with one of our hosts, making sure she could focus on completing her course.
Read her story here: refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/im...
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When Mina, a refugee from Afghanistan, started her degree in London, she soon realised she had nowhere to live over the summer break.
We were able to match her with one of our hosts, making sure she could focus on completing her course.
Read her story here: refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/im...
We were able to match her with one of our hosts, making sure she could focus on completing her course.
Read her story here: refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/im...
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Hegseth announces Pentagon task force to remove the beard from all the paintings and statues of Robert E Lee that they plan to put up.
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hegseth announces Pentagon task force to remove the beard from all the paintings and statues of Robert E Lee that they plan to put up.
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As I rapidly approach my 60th Birthday I am increasingly enraged by being called a 'kid' by folks that are younger than me because I support policies which threaten their unquestioned lives of privilege. Thomson is only 2 years younger than me, but she has had a much narrower life.
![Screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for Alice Thomson. Text reads:
Education and career
Thomson was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls in West London, the School of St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and Marlborough College, Wiltshire. She graduated from Bristol University with a BA in history and received an MA in newspaper journalism from City University London. Thomson became a trainee on The Times in 1990 before becoming a foreign correspondent, feature writer and political reporter for the newspaper. In 1997 she moved to The Daily Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer and also wrote the restaurant reviews and political interviews before re-joining The Times in 2008. [2] She has written for Vogue and The Spectator and appeared on Question Time and Newsnight.
In 2014, jointly with colleagues from The Times, she was Political Journalist of the Year in the Press Gazette awards. [3] She was previously a Trustee of the think tank Policy Exchange, [4] on the Policy Committee of the CPRE, and a governor of Bute House preparatory school. [5] Thomson presents the podcast interview series What I Wish I'd Known with fellow Times columnist Rachel Sylvester which has now run for eight series [6] on Times Radio, which began in July 2020.[7] In December 2022, Thomson was chosen as the Interviewer of the Year at the Press Gazette British Journalism Awards. [8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekxy7poagajkdk5sl3ywa7zv/bafkreidig2jqaaeibugxgkgcewet4qf7jqe6xqgblonqbtbpbqsjuddpbm@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
As I rapidly approach my 60th Birthday I am increasingly enraged by being called a 'kid' by folks that are younger than me because I support policies which threaten their unquestioned lives of privilege. Thomson is only 2 years younger than me, but she has had a much narrower life.
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My desk when I take a photo for social media vs my desk on a normal day.
Day One for Catherine Connolly and Michael D Higgins’s (endearing) famously messy desk is no more!
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My desk when I take a photo for social media vs my desk on a normal day.
There was a batshit discussion on immigration on Today this morning, masquerading as a conversation on social cohesion, where Gove sought to justify his racism with the tiresome argument that migrants haven't 'paid in' to the system from "the cradle" like people born in Britain have.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
There was a batshit discussion on immigration on Today this morning, masquerading as a conversation on social cohesion, where Gove sought to justify his racism with the tiresome argument that migrants haven't 'paid in' to the system from "the cradle" like people born in Britain have.
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There was an Army recruitment TV ad years ago which starts with someone in a car with a driving instructor and the car becomes a military vehicle of some sort and the driver is told to drive off-road through a forest in the dark with the headlights off. It would def make driving tests more exciting.
This is the sort of small but meaningful thing that helps to tackle a major frustration for one group of people inability to do something as basic as book a driving test furthers their feeling Britain is broken. Sort of thing govt should be leading with not infighting.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
There was an Army recruitment TV ad years ago which starts with someone in a car with a driving instructor and the car becomes a military vehicle of some sort and the driver is told to drive off-road through a forest in the dark with the headlights off. It would def make driving tests more exciting.
Literally everyone:
No.10: HOW COULD YOU BE THINKING OF REPLACING STARMER WITH WES STREETING? THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE. ARE YOU MAD?
Literally everyone: wtf?
No.10: HOW COULD YOU BE THINKING OF REPLACING STARMER WITH WES STREETING? THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE. ARE YOU MAD?
Literally everyone: wtf?
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Literally everyone:
No.10: HOW COULD YOU BE THINKING OF REPLACING STARMER WITH WES STREETING? THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE. ARE YOU MAD?
Literally everyone: wtf?
No.10: HOW COULD YOU BE THINKING OF REPLACING STARMER WITH WES STREETING? THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE. ARE YOU MAD?
Literally everyone: wtf?
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Every corporate email
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Every corporate email
The BBC appears to be in an abusive relationship with Reform in which the BBC is desperate to be loved and showers Reform with attention and devotion, which Reform gladly accepts before turning on the BBC and clobbering them.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Reform UK has said it will no longer co-operate with a BBC documentary about the party, due to air in January, following controversy over the Trump Panorama edits www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK pulls out of BBC film over Trump edit row
The party is withdrawing its co-operation from a documentary which was due to air in January.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The BBC appears to be in an abusive relationship with Reform in which the BBC is desperate to be loved and showers Reform with attention and devotion, which Reform gladly accepts before turning on the BBC and clobbering them.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Unlike the fantasy politics of the 'grown-up' right wing - a low-tax, low-wage, isolationist, ethnically-cleansed, environmentally polluted monoculture in which the market has magically solved all problems for people with money (who are the only ones that matter) - which totes makes sense.
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Unlike the fantasy politics of the 'grown-up' right wing - a low-tax, low-wage, isolationist, ethnically-cleansed, environmentally polluted monoculture in which the market has magically solved all problems for people with money (who are the only ones that matter) - which totes makes sense.
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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I think that every Bond film from now on should see Bond killed at the end. Then, for the next movie, even if the Bond character is played by the same actor, there is no mention of his death in the previous movie, and he dies at the end of that movie, too.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I think that every Bond film from now on should see Bond killed at the end. Then, for the next movie, even if the Bond character is played by the same actor, there is no mention of his death in the previous movie, and he dies at the end of that movie, too.
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spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
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"If you don't have somewhere to live, all those other things that you have to do to get your life straight become 10 times harder."
Hear from hosts Hugh & Kathryn about hosting as a family tradition and the joy of being invited to a guest's citizenship ceremony.
refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/ha...
Hear from hosts Hugh & Kathryn about hosting as a family tradition and the joy of being invited to a guest's citizenship ceremony.
refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/ha...
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"If you don't have somewhere to live, all those other things that you have to do to get your life straight become 10 times harder."
Hear from hosts Hugh & Kathryn about hosting as a family tradition and the joy of being invited to a guest's citizenship ceremony.
refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/ha...
Hear from hosts Hugh & Kathryn about hosting as a family tradition and the joy of being invited to a guest's citizenship ceremony.
refugeesathome.org/newsbytes/ha...
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Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I think that every Bond film from now on should see Bond killed at the end. Then, for the next movie, even if the Bond character is played by the same actor, there is no mention of his death in the previous movie, and he dies at the end of that movie, too.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I think that every Bond film from now on should see Bond killed at the end. Then, for the next movie, even if the Bond character is played by the same actor, there is no mention of his death in the previous movie, and he dies at the end of that movie, too.
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Now tell us about your "Island of strangers" speech, you absolute binfire of a PM.
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
*
UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Now tell us about your "Island of strangers" speech, you absolute binfire of a PM.
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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 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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
These are DEFINITELY people capable of running the country. This has government-in-waiting written all over it. These people are the future. Everyone who has paid actual money to join must be feeling really good about their choices.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Clash the latest in months of political infighting between the camps of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
These are DEFINITELY people capable of running the country. This has government-in-waiting written all over it. These people are the future. Everyone who has paid actual money to join must be feeling really good about their choices.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...