Mark
@inspectorlophius.bsky.social
Roleplayer, board gamer, tea drinker, socialist. Other views are available.
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Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.
December 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.
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Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Castle on a pudding?
Illustration for the Russian Fairy Story "The Frog Princess" https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-bilibin/illustration-for-the-russian-fairy-story-the-frog-princess-1899
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Castle on a pudding?
Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your innerspace boy
You had
hands girl boy
and steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you
Boy and you just groan boy
She said comeover comeover
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your innerspace boy
You had
hands girl boy
and steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you
Boy and you just groan boy
She said comeover comeover
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your innerspace boy
You had
hands girl boy
and steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you
Boy and you just groan boy
She said comeover comeover
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your innerspace boy
You had
hands girl boy
and steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you
Boy and you just groan boy
She said comeover comeover
Taskmaster burst the bionic zit-splitter
Breakneck speeds we down ten pints of bitter
We lean all day and some say that ain't productive
Could that depend upon the demon that you're stuck with
Breakneck speeds we down ten pints of bitter
We lean all day and some say that ain't productive
Could that depend upon the demon that you're stuck with
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Taskmaster burst the bionic zit-splitter
Breakneck speeds we down ten pints of bitter
We lean all day and some say that ain't productive
Could that depend upon the demon that you're stuck with
Breakneck speeds we down ten pints of bitter
We lean all day and some say that ain't productive
Could that depend upon the demon that you're stuck with
Looks like some of your recent work @spookshow71.bsky.social, similar feel to me anyway
There are moments of magic in misty autumnal mornings.
📷: Ian Brierley
📷: Ian Brierley
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Looks like some of your recent work @spookshow71.bsky.social, similar feel to me anyway
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Reform has lost over 5% of councillors it had elected six months ago
A @matildamartin.bsky.social deep dive into the councils won by Farage's party in May found what a local government expert called "unusual" levels of churn
Exclusions, suspensions and resignations have taken place nationwide
A @matildamartin.bsky.social deep dive into the councils won by Farage's party in May found what a local government expert called "unusual" levels of churn
Exclusions, suspensions and resignations have taken place nationwide
Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate
Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.
www.politicshome.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reform has lost over 5% of councillors it had elected six months ago
A @matildamartin.bsky.social deep dive into the councils won by Farage's party in May found what a local government expert called "unusual" levels of churn
Exclusions, suspensions and resignations have taken place nationwide
A @matildamartin.bsky.social deep dive into the councils won by Farage's party in May found what a local government expert called "unusual" levels of churn
Exclusions, suspensions and resignations have taken place nationwide
Something about actions being a window on the soul...
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Something about actions being a window on the soul...
A wealth tax is a progressive Green tax, since wealth comes from or creates carbon emissions (or does both), so yes #TaxTheRich and #WealthTax
October 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A wealth tax is a progressive Green tax, since wealth comes from or creates carbon emissions (or does both), so yes #TaxTheRich and #WealthTax
Dragonbane with mates online: a wolfkin, a mallard, a dwarf, and a human walk into a burned out castle half expecting a scooby-doo villain to be behind the stories of a headless knight terrorising passing merchants. Going OK until the dwarf shouted about the occupants of the tree (spoilers?)
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dragonbane with mates online: a wolfkin, a mallard, a dwarf, and a human walk into a burned out castle half expecting a scooby-doo villain to be behind the stories of a headless knight terrorising passing merchants. Going OK until the dwarf shouted about the occupants of the tree (spoilers?)
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rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now
![Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"
Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.
"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"
"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"
"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."
"Is it really as simple as that?"
"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?
What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2hwwem55ce6djnk6bn62cstr/bafkreidpecodfhnvdaguaenvcaa34gt4ic566rqz6aiz5j5bjgxc74x3te@jpeg)
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now
This. This is what I've been trying to get my words around. Stand for something, stop shifting about following the popular-with-right-wing-media fascists
Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them.
It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".
Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.
It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".
Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This. This is what I've been trying to get my words around. Stand for something, stop shifting about following the popular-with-right-wing-media fascists
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Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.
September 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.
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New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
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among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
Now he needs to say this on telly, and get his cabinet acting as if reform are the enemy they are, rather than trying to be like them. Get a grip Starmer!
“History will not forgive us if we do not use every ounce of our energy to fight Reform. There is an enemy. It actually goes against the grain of our history. It’s right there in plain sight in front of us. We have to win this battle.”
Our PM interview tonight 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Our PM interview tonight 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to warn Labour that battle with Reform is ‘fight for soul of the nation’
Exclusive: PM says history will not forgive his government if it fails to confront and defeat the populist right
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Now he needs to say this on telly, and get his cabinet acting as if reform are the enemy they are, rather than trying to be like them. Get a grip Starmer!
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Just for comparison,
the term "child poverty" has only been referenced 869 times,
"homelessness" 627.
"cost of living" 719
"housing crisis" 310
You know, minor topics which are obviously secondary to demonising people for coming to the UK. 5/
the term "child poverty" has only been referenced 869 times,
"homelessness" 627.
"cost of living" 719
"housing crisis" 310
You know, minor topics which are obviously secondary to demonising people for coming to the UK. 5/
September 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Just for comparison,
the term "child poverty" has only been referenced 869 times,
"homelessness" 627.
"cost of living" 719
"housing crisis" 310
You know, minor topics which are obviously secondary to demonising people for coming to the UK. 5/
the term "child poverty" has only been referenced 869 times,
"homelessness" 627.
"cost of living" 719
"housing crisis" 310
You know, minor topics which are obviously secondary to demonising people for coming to the UK. 5/
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We can not stress the importance of resisting this.
Share and sign this petition:
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September 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We can not stress the importance of resisting this.
Share and sign this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Share and sign this petition:
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September 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social see this? This is what you get when you go chasing newspaper votes. Remember what you used to stand for and accept that Reform voters will never vote for you. Do what you campaigned on or die a death of nobody caring about you.
Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.
September 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social see this? This is what you get when you go chasing newspaper votes. Remember what you used to stand for and accept that Reform voters will never vote for you. Do what you campaigned on or die a death of nobody caring about you.
Staggering hypocrisy. Again
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Staggering hypocrisy. Again
And where is the daily Mail on this? Express? Times? Not as interesting to them when it's not a working class woman, useless classist sexist arseholes that they are.
September 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
And where is the daily Mail on this? Express? Times? Not as interesting to them when it's not a working class woman, useless classist sexist arseholes that they are.
Reptile skin? Floor plan for an ancient temple? Some obscure corner of a 16th century painting?
September 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reptile skin? Floor plan for an ancient temple? Some obscure corner of a 16th century painting?