@helxine.bsky.social
"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses." Orwell 1941.
Elderly, cantankerous grandma. Hate that so many people refuse to learn from their mistakes. People died for your right to vote, don't piss on their graves . . .
Elderly, cantankerous grandma. Hate that so many people refuse to learn from their mistakes. People died for your right to vote, don't piss on their graves . . .
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If you want us to give Labour credit for stuff like renters reform - yes, it's a good thing - or investment in the NHS, then you have to stop trying to out-do the fascists on immigration.
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you want us to give Labour credit for stuff like renters reform - yes, it's a good thing - or investment in the NHS, then you have to stop trying to out-do the fascists on immigration.
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With who killed Epstein, who needs Frankenstein?
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
With who killed Epstein, who needs Frankenstein?
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This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
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This could be a blueprint for a Green chancellor's first budget.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
#Budget2025 #Economics
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
#Budget2025 #Economics
Rachel Reeves has already made a complete mess of her Budget, so I thought I should offer an alternative. This is the first part. There are several more to come. When the country's economy is failing, it's time to be radical. Nothing less will do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The Alternative Budget 2025 – The Background
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long.
I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This could be a blueprint for a Green chancellor's first budget.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
#Budget2025 #Economics
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
#Budget2025 #Economics
Absolutely this
I’d be happy for some of my licence fee to be spent fighting this legal battle, one that’s likely to be won by the BBC. Essentially a case deciding the sovereignty of UK media &, ironically, our freedom of speech. I’d be horrified if some of my money was simply gifted to Trump to make it go away.
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Absolutely this
Mr Burns you've jumped the shark! There's still nothing new under the sun. Go outside your studio and have a good close look at your country, you know the one where in your rulers' best interests your people are uneducated and superstitious and terminally distracted by conspiracies . . .
Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Mr Burns you've jumped the shark! There's still nothing new under the sun. Go outside your studio and have a good close look at your country, you know the one where in your rulers' best interests your people are uneducated and superstitious and terminally distracted by conspiracies . . .
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You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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In 2023, the Labour party supported mandating swift bricks, whipping FOR the swifts brick amendment. 2 years later, the same Ministers in charge of Housing put a 3 line whip (the most extreme block) AGAINST swift bricks. Listen to the strength of support in this powerful speech.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In 2023, the Labour party supported mandating swift bricks, whipping FOR the swifts brick amendment. 2 years later, the same Ministers in charge of Housing put a 3 line whip (the most extreme block) AGAINST swift bricks. Listen to the strength of support in this powerful speech.
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🚨BREAKING -- Five UN special rapporteurs have condemned Britain's proscription of Palestine Action as unnecessary and authoritarian.
"We are concerned at the seemingly unjustified use of counter-terrorism laws against protest activity in a democratic society", they write.
"We are concerned at the seemingly unjustified use of counter-terrorism laws against protest activity in a democratic society", they write.
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚨BREAKING -- Five UN special rapporteurs have condemned Britain's proscription of Palestine Action as unnecessary and authoritarian.
"We are concerned at the seemingly unjustified use of counter-terrorism laws against protest activity in a democratic society", they write.
"We are concerned at the seemingly unjustified use of counter-terrorism laws against protest activity in a democratic society", they write.
This man is a genius! You take the name that YOUR party used to make the racists/deplorables/uneducated hate Obama's healthcare program and swap in YOUR name. Better yet - call it the UNaffordable Care Act - because that's what it will be
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This man is a genius! You take the name that YOUR party used to make the racists/deplorables/uneducated hate Obama's healthcare program and swap in YOUR name. Better yet - call it the UNaffordable Care Act - because that's what it will be
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
If he really cared about the military being clean shaven he wouldn't be firing all the Women!
"I Get To Decide Your Religion Is Bullshit", brought to you by the makers of, "Religious Freedom Means Pharmacists Don't Have To Dispense Medication"
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If he really cared about the military being clean shaven he wouldn't be firing all the Women!
This man is a genius! Take the name that YOUR party attached to Obama's healthcare reform in order to make racists/GOP/the uneducated hate on "Obamacare" and attach the Drumpf name to it. OR he could just be honest about it and call it the UNaffordable Care Act
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This man is a genius! Take the name that YOUR party attached to Obama's healthcare reform in order to make racists/GOP/the uneducated hate on "Obamacare" and attach the Drumpf name to it. OR he could just be honest about it and call it the UNaffordable Care Act
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
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"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
The world is going to hell in a handbasket but the seasons still turn [ despite the best efforts of the climate change deniers ] and I always look forward to the colder days
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The world is going to hell in a handbasket but the seasons still turn [ despite the best efforts of the climate change deniers ] and I always look forward to the colder days
sadly the fucking up isn't even the aim, its collateral damage from working within a broken system . . .
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
sadly the fucking up isn't even the aim, its collateral damage from working within a broken system . . .
The world needs more Petrovs and far, far, fewer apparatchiks who are just "doing their jobs", "keeping a low profile" or, you know, actually enjoying the ICE experience . . .
This is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov. On this day, 42 years ago, he saved your life and the lives of everyone you love. He saved the world. Google his name.
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The world needs more Petrovs and far, far, fewer apparatchiks who are just "doing their jobs", "keeping a low profile" or, you know, actually enjoying the ICE experience . . .
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He's so fucking brilliant. Well said, Russell. xxx
Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
He's so fucking brilliant. Well said, Russell. xxx
I would suggest eating the rich, but they really are a pretty unpalatable bunch, aren't they . . .
Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else? youtu.be/SzTi95kUBKo?...
Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I would suggest eating the rich, but they really are a pretty unpalatable bunch, aren't they . . .
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Fake news: the BBC, Trump and the fight for impartiality
"We should be honest: the BBC will not report on Trump freely now. It won’t need to be told not to"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...
"We should be honest: the BBC will not report on Trump freely now. It won’t need to be told not to"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...
Fake news: the BBC, Trump and the fight for impartiality
"We should be honest: the BBC will not report on Trump freely now. It won’t need to be told not to"
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Fake news: the BBC, Trump and the fight for impartiality
"We should be honest: the BBC will not report on Trump freely now. It won’t need to be told not to"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...
"We should be honest: the BBC will not report on Trump freely now. It won’t need to be told not to"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Trump was found as a matter of fact (unchallenged on appeal) by a US court to be an insurrectionist
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Trump was found as a matter of fact (unchallenged on appeal) by a US court to be an insurrectionist
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An absolutely essential read
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
An absolutely essential read
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Daily Telegraph Sides With Foreign Despot Over British Institution should be the headline surely?
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Daily Telegraph Sides With Foreign Despot Over British Institution should be the headline surely?
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …