Louise Lopsided of St Hilda
@hyarner.bsky.social
Dabbles in art. Location? Just turn left at Dogger Bank. Hoping for better here than the ToXic swamp. Revelling in a post Tory Britain. Waiting for Sanity to return to The World...
Pinned
More from Starmer, on Channel 4 News. Feels like a real sense of change from where we were Sunday morning.
I want to see action on this. I've had it with people who now think they have a licence to be racist. I've had with people who got what they wished for in 2016 & it still isn't enough. I've had it with cowardly politicians who are complicit with people who want to divide us.
Be interesting to see how the flag shaggers react to this. America rewriting history denigrates the millions of non Americans who sacrificed their lives in 2 brutal conflicts. He is also a draft dodger, so there's another reason no one should be listening to Mr Bone Spurs...
President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars"
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Be interesting to see how the flag shaggers react to this. America rewriting history denigrates the millions of non Americans who sacrificed their lives in 2 brutal conflicts. He is also a draft dodger, so there's another reason no one should be listening to Mr Bone Spurs...
Hear, hear
On Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy’s refusal to review the BBC Board membership of Robbie Gibb, Lib Dem culture spokes Anna Sabine MP said:
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hear, hear
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The @DWPgovuk is to ‘re-take’ its decision of last December not to compensate the 1950s #WASPI women, Sec of State tells Commons. A Judicial Review into that decision is due to begin next month in the High Court. Report by @rightsnet .
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The @DWPgovuk is to ‘re-take’ its decision of last December not to compensate the 1950s #WASPI women, Sec of State tells Commons. A Judicial Review into that decision is due to begin next month in the High Court. Report by @rightsnet .
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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Trump’s attack on the BBC.
“The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.”
“The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Trump’s attack on the BBC.
“The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.”
“The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.”
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
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At some point Nick Robinson et al might realise that their fawning over Boris Johnson for years wasn’t a good plan.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
At some point Nick Robinson et al might realise that their fawning over Boris Johnson for years wasn’t a good plan.
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This ...
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This ...
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Is there an equivalent Betty Ford Clinic for journalists so addicted to the Tory psychodramas of the last few years they find it impossible to deal with the new saner reality? Was Johnson their Oxycontin?
wHy tHe eCoNoMy dOiNg bEttEr iS teRRibLe fOr LaBoUr <commence eye-roll sequence> ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Is there an equivalent Betty Ford Clinic for journalists so addicted to the Tory psychodramas of the last few years they find it impossible to deal with the new saner reality? Was Johnson their Oxycontin?
Let's remove this pernicious propaganda mouthpiece from our airwaves for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sw...
Switch off GB News
GB News are currently facing 13 investigations relating to allegations of fairness and impartiality by media regulator Ofcom. But these investigations don’t seem to be making them change their ways. I...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Let's remove this pernicious propaganda mouthpiece from our airwaves for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sw...
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Trump Was Never a Kingmaker. Are Republicans Finally Seeing It? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
It's an open connection. I encourage the read
It's an open connection. I encourage the read
Opinion | Trump Was Never a Kingmaker. Are Republicans Finally Seeing It?
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Trump Was Never a Kingmaker. Are Republicans Finally Seeing It? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
It's an open connection. I encourage the read
It's an open connection. I encourage the read
Can't, bloody, wait
Not a moment too soon. Several years too late.
Political Editor New Statesman “SCOOP: Tim Davie is about to announce his resignation as Director General of the BBC, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Can't, bloody, wait
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You’ve been told ‘scrapping Net Zero will reduce the cost of living’, so I asked X users how much the average U.K household pays per day to deliver a clean, independent energy system.
💷 9% thought £7.85.
💷 7% £5.16.
💷 14% £3.09.
💷 70% £1.63.
None were correct.
It’s 47p.
💷 9% thought £7.85.
💷 7% £5.16.
💷 14% £3.09.
💷 70% £1.63.
None were correct.
It’s 47p.
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You’ve been told ‘scrapping Net Zero will reduce the cost of living’, so I asked X users how much the average U.K household pays per day to deliver a clean, independent energy system.
💷 9% thought £7.85.
💷 7% £5.16.
💷 14% £3.09.
💷 70% £1.63.
None were correct.
It’s 47p.
💷 9% thought £7.85.
💷 7% £5.16.
💷 14% £3.09.
💷 70% £1.63.
None were correct.
It’s 47p.
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If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
👏👏
The best way to honour those who fought in world war two would be to rebuild the NHS and the welfare state they voted in huge numbers to bring about
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
👏👏
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It was great to see the First Battalion of Useless ex Tory Prime Ministers at the Cenotaph.
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It was great to see the First Battalion of Useless ex Tory Prime Ministers at the Cenotaph.
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fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
Why bend the knee to these people & accept deviations from decency & respect you do not accept from anyone else when they kick you in the crotch anyway? HOLD THEM TO ACCOUNT and less of the smoke blowing...
So - a great many of us in the UK think the BBC is a propaganda machine for the Tories and Reform and Leavitt thinks they are a left wing PR machine 🤣
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Comments by Karoline Leavitt follow allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Why bend the knee to these people & accept deviations from decency & respect you do not accept from anyone else when they kick you in the crotch anyway? HOLD THEM TO ACCOUNT and less of the smoke blowing...
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When I first brought this up about 7 years ago in the wake of Brexit - an elderly gentleman rang into the local radio station I was appearing on and said that "while he respected my opinion" I should be shot.
That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.
That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.
Flags don’t mean what they used to just months ago. I’ve written about how I think the same is happening to the poppy.
One thing I noticed today on that topic: so many people are wearing poppies that look nothing like the various ones the Royal British Legion sells…
One thing I noticed today on that topic: so many people are wearing poppies that look nothing like the various ones the Royal British Legion sells…
First the flag. Now the poppy
A sombre display of remembrance is being weaponised and policed by nationalists
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
When I first brought this up about 7 years ago in the wake of Brexit - an elderly gentleman rang into the local radio station I was appearing on and said that "while he respected my opinion" I should be shot.
That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.
That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
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New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.
In a World of daily existential angst caused by Trump, this will probably read like a fairy tale...
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In a World of daily existential angst caused by Trump, this will probably read like a fairy tale...
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Tim Davie is accused of misleading the British public & must ‘explain or resign’ according to Boris Johnson, a man who spent his entire political career misleading the British public with no explanation, & only resigned when his enough of his MPs resigned rather than serve under him. Jog on BoJo.
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Tim Davie is accused of misleading the British public & must ‘explain or resign’ according to Boris Johnson, a man who spent his entire political career misleading the British public with no explanation, & only resigned when his enough of his MPs resigned rather than serve under him. Jog on BoJo.
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment