Jonathan Davies
@denkyem.bsky.social
Journeyman tropical agricultural & forest economist: life-long socialist, occasional blogger (jonathandavies.wordpress.com) and hiker
Trump can´t sue the BBC in the UK (because of the statute of limitations), and since the Panorama episode was not broadcast in the US, how can it be shown that he has suffered losses? It is his vanity and reflex intimidatory behavoir on show once again.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Trump can´t sue the BBC in the UK (because of the statute of limitations), and since the Panorama episode was not broadcast in the US, how can it be shown that he has suffered losses? It is his vanity and reflex intimidatory behavoir on show once again.
So when will the legacy media report on Trump? This is hardly the first instance, to say the least... There is the harmless stuff of him nodding off in the Oval Office. But is today, the classic guy finger jabbing misanthrope bully-boy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybL...
‘Quiet’: Donald Trump shuts down loud reporter on Air Force One
YouTube video by Sky News Australia
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November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
So when will the legacy media report on Trump? This is hardly the first instance, to say the least... There is the harmless stuff of him nodding off in the Oval Office. But is today, the classic guy finger jabbing misanthrope bully-boy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybL...
A thought experiment: Donald Trump on BBC HARDTalk, being interviewed by Stephen Sackur or Zeinab Badawi.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A thought experiment: Donald Trump on BBC HARDTalk, being interviewed by Stephen Sackur or Zeinab Badawi.
The complicity of legacy media, the business and political elite - and their satraps - since at least 2015 with regard to Epstein and Trump explains their reluctance today to speak up, and is suggestive of widespread abuse of young women and girls.
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The complicity of legacy media, the business and political elite - and their satraps - since at least 2015 with regard to Epstein and Trump explains their reluctance today to speak up, and is suggestive of widespread abuse of young women and girls.
I was saddened to learn that Marina Lewycka has died. I read a Short History of Tractors (and later Two Caravans), such sensitive writer. I was returning to Liberia, working on the forest sector reforms, the Liberia Forestry Initiative.
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I was saddened to learn that Marina Lewycka has died. I read a Short History of Tractors (and later Two Caravans), such sensitive writer. I was returning to Liberia, working on the forest sector reforms, the Liberia Forestry Initiative.
Staggering to be reminded that there are 42 million SNAP recipients from a US population of 343 million.
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Staggering to be reminded that there are 42 million SNAP recipients from a US population of 343 million.
The closing firework display -last evening- for this year's "Fires de Sant Narcis" was notably more colourful and less thunderous than previous events. Noisy (explosive) public firework displays sit uneasily with the (nearby) wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
November 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The closing firework display -last evening- for this year's "Fires de Sant Narcis" was notably more colourful and less thunderous than previous events. Noisy (explosive) public firework displays sit uneasily with the (nearby) wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
The price for collective silence on Sudan...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The price for collective silence on Sudan...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Norway’s Wealth Fund says that the increase in the
physical fallout of climate change is in part due to govt policies, and allocates $38 billion for renewables.
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What will happen when AI turns on neoliberalism? Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
physical fallout of climate change is in part due to govt policies, and allocates $38 billion for renewables.
shorturl.at/pmRwu
What will happen when AI turns on neoliberalism? Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
Norway’s Wealth Fund Bets on AI to Reduce Its Climate Exposure
The chief executive officer at the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund once said employees shunning AI would never be promoted. Now, the Norwegian fund is using AI to get insights into how climate c...
www.bloomberg.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Norway’s Wealth Fund says that the increase in the
physical fallout of climate change is in part due to govt policies, and allocates $38 billion for renewables.
shorturl.at/pmRwu
What will happen when AI turns on neoliberalism? Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
physical fallout of climate change is in part due to govt policies, and allocates $38 billion for renewables.
shorturl.at/pmRwu
What will happen when AI turns on neoliberalism? Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
It is an indictment of the media that the death of Raila Odinga is not headline news. He was a patriot and a democrat. His legacy is his support for the 2010 Constitution (opposed by current President Ruto). He opposed Moi and spent years in detention.
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It is an indictment of the media that the death of Raila Odinga is not headline news. He was a patriot and a democrat. His legacy is his support for the 2010 Constitution (opposed by current President Ruto). He opposed Moi and spent years in detention.
Its been horrible. But Israel has "dropped" 85,000 tons on Gaza: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241107-isr...
Released Israeli hostages give accounts of torture, torment and extraordinary danger
Descriptions of captivity suggest Hamas had a change of approach in recent weeks as ceasefire talks progressed
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Its been horrible. But Israel has "dropped" 85,000 tons on Gaza: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241107-isr...
Media bias or...? Of course we feel for all those suffering from this conflict. Under the Gaza rubble there are 65,000+ Palestinian people.
Son of hostage Amiram Cooper, whose body remains in Gaza, says 'it's not over'
Rotem Cooper, whose father Amiram's body has not been returned, calls on mediators to put pressure on Hamas to release the remaining bodies.
www.bbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Media bias or...? Of course we feel for all those suffering from this conflict. Under the Gaza rubble there are 65,000+ Palestinian people.
Nesrine Malik succinctly nails the issues, and asks us about our governments' responsibilities for the violence & the genocide (and we vote for these leaders). She quotes TS Eliot: “After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Nesrine Malik succinctly nails the issues, and asks us about our governments' responsibilities for the violence & the genocide (and we vote for these leaders). She quotes TS Eliot: “After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”
Class solidarity with Palestinians in shared struggle to reach lands of milk and honey.
October 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Class solidarity with Palestinians in shared struggle to reach lands of milk and honey.
“There are 19,000 private equity funds in the US. There are 14,000 McDonald’s in the US. How are there more private equity funds than McDonald’s? That’s actually crazy, right?” (Bloomberg, via the Marginal Revolution blog) marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
October 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
“There are 19,000 private equity funds in the US. There are 14,000 McDonald’s in the US. How are there more private equity funds than McDonald’s? That’s actually crazy, right?” (Bloomberg, via the Marginal Revolution blog) marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
This is a quite irrelevant news item. But there again ... newly promoted Wrexham are in 15th spot, Birmingham in 11th, and unmentioned Charlton Athletic are 9th. It is about what makes the news, who sets the agenda. I've been an Addick supporter for 50+ years.
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Wrexham v Birmingham City: How two Championship clubs became global names
BBC Sport Wales looks at the story of how Wrexham and Birmingham City became names on the lips of football fans around the world.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is a quite irrelevant news item. But there again ... newly promoted Wrexham are in 15th spot, Birmingham in 11th, and unmentioned Charlton Athletic are 9th. It is about what makes the news, who sets the agenda. I've been an Addick supporter for 50+ years.
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
I always try not to be negative (or just keep quiet).
But this is such nonsense, someone overdosing on his own kool aid. I´d like to think that it's a spoof.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But this is such nonsense, someone overdosing on his own kool aid. I´d like to think that it's a spoof.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I always try not to be negative (or just keep quiet).
But this is such nonsense, someone overdosing on his own kool aid. I´d like to think that it's a spoof.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But this is such nonsense, someone overdosing on his own kool aid. I´d like to think that it's a spoof.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"...the hosts will have a choice to make about what kind of event they want to run – and what kind of country they want it to reflect." This is good writing, making a more universal point about sport and politics, public and private behavoir.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America | Bryan Armen Graham
European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"...the hosts will have a choice to make about what kind of event they want to run – and what kind of country they want it to reflect." This is good writing, making a more universal point about sport and politics, public and private behavoir.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Curious wording: I was taught at school to avoid or to use adjectives and adverbs judiciously. So why a "blunt" instrument? This is a surgical UN-vetted report. Jeremy Bowen is silent on this description. To be fair on him perhaps it is the BBC editors?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jeremy Bowen: UN genocide report a blunt indictment of Israel's actions in Gaza
A new report accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, in "the strongest and most authoritative UN finding to date".
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Curious wording: I was taught at school to avoid or to use adjectives and adverbs judiciously. So why a "blunt" instrument? This is a surgical UN-vetted report. Jeremy Bowen is silent on this description. To be fair on him perhaps it is the BBC editors?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It would be really useful if there was a way to save texts without endorsing them (via the like button). It gives time to think about responding (or not). Can't this be a feature Bluesky?
September 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It would be really useful if there was a way to save texts without endorsing them (via the like button). It gives time to think about responding (or not). Can't this be a feature Bluesky?
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Well no, I can't. I do know that there are going to be 189 games (yawn). And that the pundits are going for the usual suspects: PSG, Real Madrid, Liverpool.
Well no, I can't. I do know that there are going to be 189 games (yawn). And that the pundits are going for the usual suspects: PSG, Real Madrid, Liverpool.
Champions League quiz: Name every team in the 2025-26 league phase
For this week's big Tuesday quiz, we want you to name every single Champions League side in this year's league phase in 10 minutes.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Well no, I can't. I do know that there are going to be 189 games (yawn). And that the pundits are going for the usual suspects: PSG, Real Madrid, Liverpool.
Well no, I can't. I do know that there are going to be 189 games (yawn). And that the pundits are going for the usual suspects: PSG, Real Madrid, Liverpool.
I liked the quote from Nicholas Grimshaw: “I see the practice of architecture as similar to boat-building. It’s about materials and structures doing real things, as opposed to decorative things.” Commuting into Waterloo in the late 1990s was a joy.
September 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I liked the quote from Nicholas Grimshaw: “I see the practice of architecture as similar to boat-building. It’s about materials and structures doing real things, as opposed to decorative things.” Commuting into Waterloo in the late 1990s was a joy.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today marks the end of the Vuelta. Our respect and recognition for the athletes and our admiration for the Spanish people who are mobilising for just causes like Palestine.”
¡Chapeau!
PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today marks the end of the Vuelta. Our respect and recognition for the athletes and our admiration for the Spanish people who are mobilising for just causes like Palestine.”
¡Chapeau!
Vingegaard wins Vuelta after final stage cancelled amid pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid
Jonas Vingegaard of Visma-Lease a Bike won the Vuelta a España after organisers cancelled the final stage amid pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today marks the end of the Vuelta. Our respect and recognition for the athletes and our admiration for the Spanish people who are mobilising for just causes like Palestine.”
¡Chapeau!
PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today marks the end of the Vuelta. Our respect and recognition for the athletes and our admiration for the Spanish people who are mobilising for just causes like Palestine.”
¡Chapeau!
We are Trump; he is us: a Gore Vidal perspective of these times, seeing "Trump not as an aberration but an exuberant expression of the way America always does politics" & "America will absorb and then outgrow Trump as it has all its leaders". Take heart.
insidestory.org.au/seizing-wash...
insidestory.org.au/seizing-wash...
Seizing Washington • Graeme Dobell
Gore Vidal’s message for Americans: “We are Trump; he is us”
insidestory.org.au
September 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
We are Trump; he is us: a Gore Vidal perspective of these times, seeing "Trump not as an aberration but an exuberant expression of the way America always does politics" & "America will absorb and then outgrow Trump as it has all its leaders". Take heart.
insidestory.org.au/seizing-wash...
insidestory.org.au/seizing-wash...
Sanctions on Israel? Or "Europe and the US look for tougher measures to weaken Vladimir Putin’s (Netanyahu's) war machine?
Theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/eu-and-us-officials-meet-as-trump-says-he-is-ready-to-impose-further-sanctions-on-russia
Theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/eu-and-us-officials-meet-as-trump-says-he-is-ready-to-impose-further-sanctions-on-russia
heguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Sanctions on Israel? Or "Europe and the US look for tougher measures to weaken Vladimir Putin’s (Netanyahu's) war machine?
Theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/eu-and-us-officials-meet-as-trump-says-he-is-ready-to-impose-further-sanctions-on-russia
Theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/eu-and-us-officials-meet-as-trump-says-he-is-ready-to-impose-further-sanctions-on-russia