Fitch O'Connell
@fitcho.bsky.social
Still wondering what I'll be when I'm older.
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And will people on this platform please stop reciting the research *funded by the water industry* which claims that renationalisation would be "too expensive"? We should learn to recognise corporate propaganda when we see it.
In reality ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
In reality ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank
Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
And will people on this platform please stop reciting the research *funded by the water industry* which claims that renationalisation would be "too expensive"? We should learn to recognise corporate propaganda when we see it.
In reality ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
In reality ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
Free ebooks to celebrate escaping from Amazon (free for the next week only!) Get my Back to Back trilogy now.
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February 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Free ebooks to celebrate escaping from Amazon (free for the next week only!) Get my Back to Back trilogy now.
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The U.S. contributes one-sixth of NATO’s annual budget, not two-thirds, as claimed in social media posts.
Washington finances 15.8% of the military alliance’s yearly expenditure of around $3.5 billion. Germany pays the same amount as the US - 15.8813% of the budget.
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...
Washington finances 15.8% of the military alliance’s yearly expenditure of around $3.5 billion. Germany pays the same amount as the US - 15.8813% of the budget.
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...
Funding NATO
NATO is resourced through the direct and indirect contributions of its members. NATO’s common funds are composed of direct contributions to collective budgets and programmes. These funds (around EUR 4...
www.nato.int
February 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The U.S. contributes one-sixth of NATO’s annual budget, not two-thirds, as claimed in social media posts.
Washington finances 15.8% of the military alliance’s yearly expenditure of around $3.5 billion. Germany pays the same amount as the US - 15.8813% of the budget.
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...
Washington finances 15.8% of the military alliance’s yearly expenditure of around $3.5 billion. Germany pays the same amount as the US - 15.8813% of the budget.
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...
This week's TPN piece by yours truly.
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-02...
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-02...
Late lies the wintry sun a-bed
At this time of the year, I am reminded of a myth still perpetrated even by some who should know better – a myth about Portuguese winters.
www.theportugalnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This week's TPN piece by yours truly.
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-02...
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-02...
January 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The chief executive of the British Council is in the press warning that the organisation may disappear in five years. Here’s my @historytoday.com piece from 2023 on the role it played in fighting fascism: www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
The British Council was founded to help the world better understand Britain and to fight fascism. As times changed, so did its remit.
www.historytoday.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The chief executive of the British Council is in the press warning that the organisation may disappear in five years. Here’s my @historytoday.com piece from 2023 on the role it played in fighting fascism: www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
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Steps like a goose, honks like a goose…
Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight.
Could not make this up.
Could not make this up.
Elon Musk bei AfD-Wahlkampfauftakt in Halle (Saale) zugeschaltet
»Seid stolz, Deutsche zu sein«: Von einer Videoleinwand sprach der Techmilliardär Elon Musk zu AfD-Anhängern. Der Trump-Berater verbreitete seine Erkenntnisse über die »deutsche Kultur«, in der Messeh...
www.spiegel.de
January 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Steps like a goose, honks like a goose…
Is Trump mad or bad Or could it be both
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm in the process of transferring some of the things I've written to substack. There will be lots of new stuff too. I'd be delighted if you'd join me.
fitchinho.substack.com/p/bedlam-and...
fitchinho.substack.com/p/bedlam-and...
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January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I'm in the process of transferring some of the things I've written to substack. There will be lots of new stuff too. I'd be delighted if you'd join me.
fitchinho.substack.com/p/bedlam-and...
fitchinho.substack.com/p/bedlam-and...
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Very important for everyone in the British politics to understand what we are dealing with here, and the stakes involved. Not politics as normal.
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Very important for everyone in the British politics to understand what we are dealing with here, and the stakes involved. Not politics as normal.
H.L. Mencken, 100 years ago
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
January 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
H.L. Mencken, 100 years ago
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I reckon I'm getting too old to be digging holes in the ground in the woods, but how else can I plant some new trees?
January 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I reckon I'm getting too old to be digging holes in the ground in the woods, but how else can I plant some new trees?
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Interview with Louise Bourgeois
December 12, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Interview with Louise Bourgeois
Trump's economic plan? Professor Murphy analyses what he believes underpins it and why we should all be worried.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRAf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRAf...
Trump wants a crash to benefit the ultra wealthy
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Trump's economic plan? Professor Murphy analyses what he believes underpins it and why we should all be worried.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRAf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRAf...
How do you see what others have commented on posts of peple you are following? If you click where the responses are numbered all you get is a chance to reply yourself but not a clue as to who has written what.
November 29, 2024 at 10:44 PM
How do you see what others have commented on posts of peple you are following? If you click where the responses are numbered all you get is a chance to reply yourself but not a clue as to who has written what.
"One percent of the population owns over half of England."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...
'Small farmers deserve support but not tax-dodging landowners' | LBC analysis
YouTube video by LBC
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
"One percent of the population owns over half of England."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...
Hurrah! TPN have been foolish enough to publish another one.
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2024-11...
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2024-11...
Autumnal ramble
Verão de São Martinho was in full swing so we decided to explore the new Tâmega riverside walk, the Trilho Nossa Senhora do Vau.
www.theportugalnews.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Hurrah! TPN have been foolish enough to publish another one.
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2024-11...
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2024-11...
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Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is a far-right, Christian Zionist, "Temple on Temple Mount" evangelical. This belief system is strongly associated with end times theology: a yearning for Apocalypse triggered by a final war in Israel.
Reassuring to know we'll be in safe hands. 😦
Reassuring to know we'll be in safe hands. 😦
November 15, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is a far-right, Christian Zionist, "Temple on Temple Mount" evangelical. This belief system is strongly associated with end times theology: a yearning for Apocalypse triggered by a final war in Israel.
Reassuring to know we'll be in safe hands. 😦
Reassuring to know we'll be in safe hands. 😦