Richard
@graspingkulak.bsky.social
IT Project Manager at Bournemouth Hospital, politics geek, tech enthusiast, Sci-Fi fan, leftist dad, atheist religious studies fan. Welsh and Italian learner and music nerd. UK journalism unenjoyer.
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This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
Knew it
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Knew it
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It's not complicated though, is it? He's a bloodless institutional climber who hitched his wagon firmly to the Labour Right Blairism Redux project under Starmer, acting as one of its most proud and outspoken enforcers. Now, Starmer's a dead PM walking, he's knows he's fucked too, so he's pivoting.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's not complicated though, is it? He's a bloodless institutional climber who hitched his wagon firmly to the Labour Right Blairism Redux project under Starmer, acting as one of its most proud and outspoken enforcers. Now, Starmer's a dead PM walking, he's knows he's fucked too, so he's pivoting.
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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
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"... from the standpoint of British capital, Starmer's disastrous leadership is on the verge of liquidating organised labour as a political force. Something worth a shower of damehoods, gongs, and knights garter."
The Man Who Would Liquidate Labour
In the week, The Times published polling that suggested large number of Liberal Democrat and Green voters would be prepared to support Lab...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"... from the standpoint of British capital, Starmer's disastrous leadership is on the verge of liquidating organised labour as a political force. Something worth a shower of damehoods, gongs, and knights garter."
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i see the protestants are at it again.
In Lewes they’re remembering the Protestant martyrs - 17 killed in the Marian atrocities.
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
i see the protestants are at it again.
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This was just being a teenager, and it’s something you forget as an adult: if you weren’t careful when you went to another town, a gang of lads you’ve never met might just boot fuck out of you for no reason at all, just for fun. It was true when my dad was a kid, I doubt it’s wildly different today.
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This was just being a teenager, and it’s something you forget as an adult: if you weren’t careful when you went to another town, a gang of lads you’ve never met might just boot fuck out of you for no reason at all, just for fun. It was true when my dad was a kid, I doubt it’s wildly different today.
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"Pathetically, both Labour and the Tories have attacked his plans as "unworkable" and spun a weave of boring, technocratic reasons why they won't work"
Excellent analysis from @philbc3.bsky.social as always, showing Farage is no alternative, just the worser(?) of three evils
Excellent analysis from @philbc3.bsky.social as always, showing Farage is no alternative, just the worser(?) of three evils
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"Pathetically, both Labour and the Tories have attacked his plans as "unworkable" and spun a weave of boring, technocratic reasons why they won't work"
Excellent analysis from @philbc3.bsky.social as always, showing Farage is no alternative, just the worser(?) of three evils
Excellent analysis from @philbc3.bsky.social as always, showing Farage is no alternative, just the worser(?) of three evils
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Paul Klee • The Harbinger of Autumn • 1922
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Paul Klee • The Harbinger of Autumn • 1922
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Completely captured by the some of the worst people in the world.
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.
Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud
Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.
www.politico.eu
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Completely captured by the some of the worst people in the world.
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They purged the Labour Party of its obvious maladies which were so plain and obvious for all to see, and their hand-picked T-3000 New Labour Redux leader reconstituted the party in his image, root and branch, and proceeded to lose a seat that's been solidly red since its creation in 1918.
October 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
They purged the Labour Party of its obvious maladies which were so plain and obvious for all to see, and their hand-picked T-3000 New Labour Redux leader reconstituted the party in his image, root and branch, and proceeded to lose a seat that's been solidly red since its creation in 1918.
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Have the Tories cobbled together a ladder that can get them out of their hole? If Stride's address is anything to go by, my advice to the Tories would be to start furnishing the pit. They are going to be there for a very long time.
The Unreality of Tory Economics
How was your lunch time? I spent mine catching snippets of Mel Stride's speech at Tory conference. He's the shadow chancellor in case you've...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Have the Tories cobbled together a ladder that can get them out of their hole? If Stride's address is anything to go by, my advice to the Tories would be to start furnishing the pit. They are going to be there for a very long time.
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Hard to avoid the conclusion that Cameron (and Johnson) made a major blunder in not offering Farage a peerage.
It's hard to look at the rows of empty seats greeting Conservative "big hitters" addressing an unprecedentedly small conference hall and think the chances of Conservative survival as a major political force are anything but somewhere between low and zero
October 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hard to avoid the conclusion that Cameron (and Johnson) made a major blunder in not offering Farage a peerage.
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Broader powers for the police means narrower rights for protestors. That the liberal media are framing it as the former rather than the latter indicates their own sympathies.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Broader powers for the police means narrower rights for protestors. That the liberal media are framing it as the former rather than the latter indicates their own sympathies.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The current government really are speed running 2008 New Labour..
October 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The current government really are speed running 2008 New Labour..
Well so much for getting Tame Impala tickets today.. website froze up and then couldn't buy the tickets. Hopefully they tour again.
October 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Well so much for getting Tame Impala tickets today.. website froze up and then couldn't buy the tickets. Hopefully they tour again.
Very pleased to have got tickets to see the Super Furry Animals with my sister and mum in Cardiff next year, can't believe it's been 10 years since I last saw them...
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Very pleased to have got tickets to see the Super Furry Animals with my sister and mum in Cardiff next year, can't believe it's been 10 years since I last saw them...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Don't feel like this is getting enough coverage.
Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla | Reuters share.google/VqN0Zx0cmrIm...
Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla | Reuters share.google/VqN0Zx0cmrIm...
Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Don't feel like this is getting enough coverage.
Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla | Reuters share.google/VqN0Zx0cmrIm...
Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla | Reuters share.google/VqN0Zx0cmrIm...
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Not just one of the greatest genre sf novels, but one of the best novels in 20th century English literature.
Remembering the superlative writer and editor Keith Roberts, who was born on this day 1935.
A fitting day therefore to be embarking on his 1968 book ‘Pavane’, which many still regard as not only his masterpiece but also one of the genre’s finest ‘alternative history’ novels.
A fitting day therefore to be embarking on his 1968 book ‘Pavane’, which many still regard as not only his masterpiece but also one of the genre’s finest ‘alternative history’ novels.
September 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Not just one of the greatest genre sf novels, but one of the best novels in 20th century English literature.
I thought Labour would take at least 3 years to get to this point, how wrong can you be..
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 34% (=)
LAB: 16% (-3)
CON: 16% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 17-18 Sep.
Changes w/ 10 Sep.
RFM: 34% (=)
LAB: 16% (-3)
CON: 16% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 17-18 Sep.
Changes w/ 10 Sep.
September 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I thought Labour would take at least 3 years to get to this point, how wrong can you be..
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Successive Home Secretaries have watched that video of Theresa May rounding off a made-up story about a cat by yelling “I am not making this up”, and thought “oh she’s smashed it there, what a legend”.
Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’
Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’
Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France
Shabana Mahmood has accused asylum seekers of making “vexatious, last-minute claims” to avoid removal to France as the Home Office said it would review modern slavery laws to save Keir Starmer’s returns deal.
After an 11th hour injunction that scuppered Labour’s “one in, one out” scheme, the home secretary said she would stop claimants “suddenly deciding that they are a modern slave on the eve of their removal”, adding that it made a “mockery of our laws and this country’s generosity”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Successive Home Secretaries have watched that video of Theresa May rounding off a made-up story about a cat by yelling “I am not making this up”, and thought “oh she’s smashed it there, what a legend”.
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@leninology.bsky.social on how both Tories and Labour have for years conceded to and promoted the far right for their own ends.
Britain’s far-right march was years in the making
Britain’s largest far-right march was no fringe event—it was fuelled by years of Tory & Labour support for anti-immigration policies, argues Richard Seymour.
www.newarab.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
@leninology.bsky.social on how both Tories and Labour have for years conceded to and promoted the far right for their own ends.
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