Dr Prit Buttar
@dienekes.bsky.social
Retired doctor, Eastern Front historian, husband, dad, servant of two border collie puppies.
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Many people on socmed responding to the Farage racism story with ‘We all said things like that in the 70s’. If you did, you’re one of those who made my childhood miserable much of the time. And if you have no remorse, face facts: you’re (still) a racist.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Many people on socmed responding to the Farage racism story with ‘We all said things like that in the 70s’. If you did, you’re one of those who made my childhood miserable much of the time. And if you have no remorse, face facts: you’re (still) a racist.
I wonder if they will be treated with the same severity as climate change protesters?
Tractors descend on London for farmers’ Budget day protest despite police ban
Tractors descend on London for farmers’ Budget day protest despite police ban
Tractors descend on London for farmers’ Budget day protest despite police ban
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I wonder if they will be treated with the same severity as climate change protesters?
The autumn triangle - Deneb, Vega, Altair - and the Milky Way over our house last night. Annoying wisps of cloud that amplified the light pollution.
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The autumn triangle - Deneb, Vega, Altair - and the Milky Way over our house last night. Annoying wisps of cloud that amplified the light pollution.
Shameful. This is the result of appeasing bullies.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Shameful. This is the result of appeasing bullies.
If I owned a hotel, I would insist on having tables like this in the lobby.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If I owned a hotel, I would insist on having tables like this in the lobby.
Yup
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Yup
I think this is one of Bowie’s best songs. He was about 23-24 when he wrote it, and it’s just … lovely. If you don’t know it, listen to the lyrics. Very touching.
youtu.be/jCaMwqtwJTc?...
youtu.be/jCaMwqtwJTc?...
Kooks (2015 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I think this is one of Bowie’s best songs. He was about 23-24 when he wrote it, and it’s just … lovely. If you don’t know it, listen to the lyrics. Very touching.
youtu.be/jCaMwqtwJTc?...
youtu.be/jCaMwqtwJTc?...
This is at the heart of so much that’s wrong in UK. Johnson, Mogg, so many others - they would be dismissed out of hand if there wasn’t this ridiculous deference to people with posh accents.
Truth is, the man is as thick as a submarine door. Picture literally any job EXCEPT Daily Mail columnist, and try to imagine him nailing it.
You can't, can you?
If he said any of his bullshit in a thick Mancunian accent, you'd write him off in 2 seconds. But say it posh — gets away with murder.
You can't, can you?
If he said any of his bullshit in a thick Mancunian accent, you'd write him off in 2 seconds. But say it posh — gets away with murder.
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is at the heart of so much that’s wrong in UK. Johnson, Mogg, so many others - they would be dismissed out of hand if there wasn’t this ridiculous deference to people with posh accents.
Just to prove you wrong …
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Just to prove you wrong …
A timely quote from Réné Rémond, writing about France in the 1930s:
‘It is the press of the right that formed public opinion … the Frenchman, even if he voted on the left, most often read a newspaper of the right, whose inclination was more and more towards Fascism.’
‘It is the press of the right that formed public opinion … the Frenchman, even if he voted on the left, most often read a newspaper of the right, whose inclination was more and more towards Fascism.’
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A timely quote from Réné Rémond, writing about France in the 1930s:
‘It is the press of the right that formed public opinion … the Frenchman, even if he voted on the left, most often read a newspaper of the right, whose inclination was more and more towards Fascism.’
‘It is the press of the right that formed public opinion … the Frenchman, even if he voted on the left, most often read a newspaper of the right, whose inclination was more and more towards Fascism.’
Lovely morning - no rain, no wind. Just my pleasant neighbours to greet my pups and me on our morning walk.
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Lovely morning - no rain, no wind. Just my pleasant neighbours to greet my pups and me on our morning walk.
Thank you, Judge Schwager. But it shouldn’t require a judge to say something that is so hugely obvious.
To turn this argument on its head: if OpenAI had won, presumably it would be fine for me to go into their HQ and help myself to whatever I want.
To turn this argument on its head: if OpenAI had won, presumably it would be fine for me to go into their HQ and help myself to whatever I want.
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Thank you, Judge Schwager. But it shouldn’t require a judge to say something that is so hugely obvious.
To turn this argument on its head: if OpenAI had won, presumably it would be fine for me to go into their HQ and help myself to whatever I want.
To turn this argument on its head: if OpenAI had won, presumably it would be fine for me to go into their HQ and help myself to whatever I want.
Watching TOTP on BBC4 and this came up. I remember lying in bed as a child with measles listening to it on the radio … 60 years ago. Still word perfect, still makes me misty eyed.
youtu.be/z4ZipKdI1sY?...
youtu.be/z4ZipKdI1sY?...
The Seekers The Carnival Is Over (1967 In Colour Stereo)
YouTube video by Denny161853
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Watching TOTP on BBC4 and this came up. I remember lying in bed as a child with measles listening to it on the radio … 60 years ago. Still word perfect, still makes me misty eyed.
youtu.be/z4ZipKdI1sY?...
youtu.be/z4ZipKdI1sY?...
Rachel Reeves: if you’re serious about growth, rejoining the SM/CU is the only effective option.
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
In this new Age of Empires, why UK must choose Europe over isolation
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian P...
www.scotsman.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Rachel Reeves: if you’re serious about growth, rejoining the SM/CU is the only effective option.
It’s naked theft of intellectual property. To describe it as ‘controversial’ is absurd.
If I were to enter the offices of @economist.com and steal items, would they accept me describing my actions as merely ‘controversial’?
If I were to enter the offices of @economist.com and steal items, would they accept me describing my actions as merely ‘controversial’?
Britain enjoys a global reputation for its creative sector. Artists boost the economy and, in a hard-to-measure way, national pride. The prospect of AI ingesting their work is controversial
A British legal ruling about AI delights nobody
The government will have to lay down the law
econ.st
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It’s naked theft of intellectual property. To describe it as ‘controversial’ is absurd.
If I were to enter the offices of @economist.com and steal items, would they accept me describing my actions as merely ‘controversial’?
If I were to enter the offices of @economist.com and steal items, would they accept me describing my actions as merely ‘controversial’?
Mr Buckley makes an excellent point.
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Mr Buckley makes an excellent point.
Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly love her more …
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly love her more …
If adverts have to represent real life … they would be full of people consuming food and drink and saying, ‘This is a bit shit’.
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If adverts have to represent real life … they would be full of people consuming food and drink and saying, ‘This is a bit shit’.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s when comments like these were common. Who would have thought that half a century later, a politician could say this without being universally condemned?
Sarah Pochin blamed "the woke liberati that goes on inside the arty-farty world".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
Reform UK MP Condemned For Claiming There Are Not Enough White People In TV Adverts
Sarah Pochin blamed "the woke liberati that goes on inside the arty-farty world".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I grew up in the 60s and 70s when comments like these were common. Who would have thought that half a century later, a politician could say this without being universally condemned?
Dawn patrol with my boys
October 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Dawn patrol with my boys
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘“When you need to move fast," reads a banner under the image. "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."’
Bravo.
‘“When you need to move fast," reads a banner under the image. "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."’
Bravo.
Louvre heist lift-maker seizes the moment with new ad campaign
Böcker is touting its
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘“When you need to move fast," reads a banner under the image. "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."’
Bravo.
‘“When you need to move fast," reads a banner under the image. "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."’
Bravo.
This - for someone like me who knows very little about economics - is a fascinating read. The obsession with state deficits may be entirely wrong.
I wish I knew enough to know if this analysis is correct. It is certainly well argued.
I wish I knew enough to know if this analysis is correct. It is certainly well argued.
October 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This - for someone like me who knows very little about economics - is a fascinating read. The obsession with state deficits may be entirely wrong.
I wish I knew enough to know if this analysis is correct. It is certainly well argued.
I wish I knew enough to know if this analysis is correct. It is certainly well argued.