Prolierthanthou
@davidwallen.bsky.social
Bit of a current affairs junkie, avid reader, fusser of random dogs and music mad.
Railway worker and rep.
A bit left.
Here washing off the Muskiness.
Railway worker and rep.
A bit left.
Here washing off the Muskiness.
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I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that.
But yes, that would be welcome.
But yes, that would be welcome.
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that.
But yes, that would be welcome.
But yes, that would be welcome.
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"Israel violated the ceasefire agreement at least 282 times from October 10 to November 10, through the continuation of attacks by air, artillery and direct shootings, the Government Media Office in Gaza reports."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
www.aljazeera.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"Israel violated the ceasefire agreement at least 282 times from October 10 to November 10, through the continuation of attacks by air, artillery and direct shootings, the Government Media Office in Gaza reports."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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A SINGLE migrant, sent to France on the one in one out agreement returns to the UK and it merits a mention on the 14:30 news on Radio 6 Music? When it comes to immigration and migrants there is no sense of proportion. How is this newsworthy?
FAO @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @bensansell.bsky.social
FAO @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @bensansell.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A SINGLE migrant, sent to France on the one in one out agreement returns to the UK and it merits a mention on the 14:30 news on Radio 6 Music? When it comes to immigration and migrants there is no sense of proportion. How is this newsworthy?
FAO @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @bensansell.bsky.social
FAO @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @bensansell.bsky.social
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Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quite
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Quite
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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The US says nearly 15,000 trucks carrying goods and aid have entered Gaza since Oct. 10, but Palestinians and aid groups dispute the figures, calling it ‘engineered starvation’ aje.io/20yvu1
US highlights Gaza aid surge; Palestinians allege ‘engineered starvation’
White House says nearly 700 aid trucks entering Gaza each day, a figure disputed by Palestinians and aid organisations.
aje.io
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The US says nearly 15,000 trucks carrying goods and aid have entered Gaza since Oct. 10, but Palestinians and aid groups dispute the figures, calling it ‘engineered starvation’ aje.io/20yvu1
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Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
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Planning on Christmas gifts to send to food loving friends? @kavey.bsky.social has the answer!
Kavey's Guide to Food and Drinks Gifts Through The Post can be found here:
www.kaveyeats.com/food-drink-g...
Kavey's Guide to Food and Drinks Gifts Through The Post can be found here:
www.kaveyeats.com/food-drink-g...
Kavey Eats » Food and Drink Gifts Through The Post
www.kaveyeats.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Planning on Christmas gifts to send to food loving friends? @kavey.bsky.social has the answer!
Kavey's Guide to Food and Drinks Gifts Through The Post can be found here:
www.kaveyeats.com/food-drink-g...
Kavey's Guide to Food and Drinks Gifts Through The Post can be found here:
www.kaveyeats.com/food-drink-g...
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
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Great British Railways legislation out today! 🎉A once in a lifetime opportunity
To make public ownership a huge success we need
🚅fare reductions
🚅Switzerland levels of investment
🚅passenger representation
🚅no more wasteful competition
🚅rolling stock in public hands
weownit.org.uk/news/new-gre...
To make public ownership a huge success we need
🚅fare reductions
🚅Switzerland levels of investment
🚅passenger representation
🚅no more wasteful competition
🚅rolling stock in public hands
weownit.org.uk/news/new-gre...
New Great British Railways legislation out today
After 30 years of failed privatisation, the government's new legislation is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get the railway this country deserves. But public ownership is just the starting point.
weownit.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Great British Railways legislation out today! 🎉A once in a lifetime opportunity
To make public ownership a huge success we need
🚅fare reductions
🚅Switzerland levels of investment
🚅passenger representation
🚅no more wasteful competition
🚅rolling stock in public hands
weownit.org.uk/news/new-gre...
To make public ownership a huge success we need
🚅fare reductions
🚅Switzerland levels of investment
🚅passenger representation
🚅no more wasteful competition
🚅rolling stock in public hands
weownit.org.uk/news/new-gre...
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Thank you. My puzzles are available here www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
It’s wet and dark outside and I am cold, tired and grumpy. So I lit the fire, made a cup of tea and finished my beautiful jigsaw by @mooseallain.bsky.social and while it’s still dark and wet outside, I’m not nearly so grumpy.
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thank you. My puzzles are available here www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I have a feeling she's going to get similar treatment from the establishment as Mordechai Vanunu did.
I have a feeling she's going to get similar treatment from the establishment as Mordechai Vanunu did.
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I have a feeling she's going to get similar treatment from the establishment as Mordechai Vanunu did.
I have a feeling she's going to get similar treatment from the establishment as Mordechai Vanunu did.
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YEEEEESSSSSS FUCK YES!
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
YEEEEESSSSSS FUCK YES!
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Today:
"Hebron – The Israeli occupation forces and settlers suppressed farmers as they tried to reach their lands threatened with theft and seizure in the Al-Jalatiya neighborhood, east of Idhna town, west of Hebron."
www.threads.com/@mashhour_wi...
(1/2)
#FreePalestine #Israel #News #Palestine
"Hebron – The Israeli occupation forces and settlers suppressed farmers as they tried to reach their lands threatened with theft and seizure in the Al-Jalatiya neighborhood, east of Idhna town, west of Hebron."
www.threads.com/@mashhour_wi...
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#FreePalestine #Israel #News #Palestine
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Today:
"Hebron – The Israeli occupation forces and settlers suppressed farmers as they tried to reach their lands threatened with theft and seizure in the Al-Jalatiya neighborhood, east of Idhna town, west of Hebron."
www.threads.com/@mashhour_wi...
(1/2)
#FreePalestine #Israel #News #Palestine
"Hebron – The Israeli occupation forces and settlers suppressed farmers as they tried to reach their lands threatened with theft and seizure in the Al-Jalatiya neighborhood, east of Idhna town, west of Hebron."
www.threads.com/@mashhour_wi...
(1/2)
#FreePalestine #Israel #News #Palestine
Well worth a read
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Well worth a read
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Wonderful
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Wonderful
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Victims robbed of £4bn in ‘insulting’ car loan redress scheme.
No one forced banks to sell dud products, they don't want to pay. Govt/Regulators line-up with banks.
Execs got bonuses, won't bear any cost, bank customers will.
Hurting victims is the norm - Post Office, Grenfell, mortgage prisoners
No one forced banks to sell dud products, they don't want to pay. Govt/Regulators line-up with banks.
Execs got bonuses, won't bear any cost, bank customers will.
Hurting victims is the norm - Post Office, Grenfell, mortgage prisoners
Victims robbed of £4bn in ‘insulting’ car loan redress scheme, say claims firms
Financial Conduct Authority defends interest rate of 2.09% as critics describe proposals as ‘hypocritical’
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Victims robbed of £4bn in ‘insulting’ car loan redress scheme.
No one forced banks to sell dud products, they don't want to pay. Govt/Regulators line-up with banks.
Execs got bonuses, won't bear any cost, bank customers will.
Hurting victims is the norm - Post Office, Grenfell, mortgage prisoners
No one forced banks to sell dud products, they don't want to pay. Govt/Regulators line-up with banks.
Execs got bonuses, won't bear any cost, bank customers will.
Hurting victims is the norm - Post Office, Grenfell, mortgage prisoners
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The white collar world is falling apart www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The white collar world is falling apart
The Financial Times reported this weekend that a “white-collar recession” is emerging in the United States, suggesting that a decisive shift in the structure of the US economy is now being seen.
For...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The white collar world is falling apart www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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Another FABULOUS autumnal recipe from the amazing @meemalee.bsky.social -- her Burmese braised beef curry!
www.kaveyeats.com/mimi-ayes-bu...
www.kaveyeats.com/mimi-ayes-bu...
Kavey Eats » MiMi Aye’s Burmese Braised Beef Curry (Amè Hnat)
www.kaveyeats.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Another FABULOUS autumnal recipe from the amazing @meemalee.bsky.social -- her Burmese braised beef curry!
www.kaveyeats.com/mimi-ayes-bu...
www.kaveyeats.com/mimi-ayes-bu...
Maybe it's just the unfamiliarity of the name but I'm loving the Guardian's almost gleeful use of Mountbatten Windsor in this article.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say
The former prince remains under scrutiny as Buckingham Palace finalises plans for his future as a commoner
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Maybe it's just the unfamiliarity of the name but I'm loving the Guardian's almost gleeful use of Mountbatten Windsor in this article.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM