James Bottomley
@jamesbottomley.bsky.social
UK-based older project consultant guy with history in both public and private sectors. Enjoys chatting about politics, society, culture, etc. Spent time in many countries, including working in the US, so moderately familiar with other lands.
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
" ...armed immigration officers descended... tackled people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons, school officials told MPR.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” a school official told the station.”
It's OK though as the FT says it's not fascism.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” a school official told the station.”
It's OK though as the FT says it's not fascism.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
" ...armed immigration officers descended... tackled people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons, school officials told MPR.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” a school official told the station.”
It's OK though as the FT says it's not fascism.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” a school official told the station.”
It's OK though as the FT says it's not fascism.
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves".
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I never thought I’d argue for rearmament. But a looming Trump presidency changes everything | George Monbiot
A Putin-friendly president would pose a grave danger to Europe. Like it or not, this calls for greater defence, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 7, 2026 at 7:05 AM
In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves".
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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Of course, in the UK "regulators" are never really regulators. Their raison d'etre is political: to dress political goals in regulatory clothing, to act as reputational buffer zones, to gaslight outsiders like you and I into thinking regulation exists. But never, god forbid, to regulate.
Ofcom *might* "undertake a swift *assessment* to determine *whether* there are *potential* compliance issues that *warrant investigation*."
Hard to believe, but we waste almost a quarter of a billion pounds of public money annually on this absolute shower of a regulator.
Hard to believe, but we waste almost a quarter of a billion pounds of public money annually on this absolute shower of a regulator.
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Of course, in the UK "regulators" are never really regulators. Their raison d'etre is political: to dress political goals in regulatory clothing, to act as reputational buffer zones, to gaslight outsiders like you and I into thinking regulation exists. But never, god forbid, to regulate.
Grok is utterly vile and so is X. Why are the British government and many NGOs and other organisations still using this 'service'?
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Grok is utterly vile and so is X. Why are the British government and many NGOs and other organisations still using this 'service'?
The most disgraceful thing about the current situation by a country mile is Trump completely ignoring the lawfully elected leader of Venezuela because she won the Nobel Prize for Peace and he didn't.
John Bolton: “What I have to say, the most stunning part about the press conference was probably saying the U.S. was going to run the country. But the second most stunning was the assault on Mrs. Machado, the leader of the Democratic forces.”
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January 5, 2026 at 10:54 AM
The most disgraceful thing about the current situation by a country mile is Trump completely ignoring the lawfully elected leader of Venezuela because she won the Nobel Prize for Peace and he didn't.
Cuba is now on the cards of course - the deep Republican state and the US hard right represented in the current administration will both be keen to use their Putin-underwritten freedom of action in the Western Hemisphere to liquidate the post-Castro regime. Congress is supine and will go along.
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Cuba is now on the cards of course - the deep Republican state and the US hard right represented in the current administration will both be keen to use their Putin-underwritten freedom of action in the Western Hemisphere to liquidate the post-Castro regime. Congress is supine and will go along.
Fiona Hill forecast current events in 2020. She's a very penetrating intelligence.
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
January 4, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Fiona Hill forecast current events in 2020. She's a very penetrating intelligence.
UK spy agency MI5 have been storing photos and full details of children as young as 13 with relatives involved in political protest. This must have been a useful resource for the many paedophiles long associated with that organisation.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Spycops sent thousands of surveillance reports to MI5, inquiry documents reveal
Security Service was able to compile detailed files on members of legitimate protest groups infiltrated by undercover police officers
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:02 PM
UK spy agency MI5 have been storing photos and full details of children as young as 13 with relatives involved in political protest. This must have been a useful resource for the many paedophiles long associated with that organisation.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
BBC Verify showing a large number of AI manipulated images and videos being put out by the Pentagon and Trump.
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 4, 2026 at 7:19 AM
BBC Verify showing a large number of AI manipulated images and videos being put out by the Pentagon and Trump.
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Bondi should charge Maduro with denying the legitimate results of a democratic election. Be good to get some precedent on that.
January 4, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Bondi should charge Maduro with denying the legitimate results of a democratic election. Be good to get some precedent on that.
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With this regime anything is possible…
January 4, 2026 at 5:40 AM
With this regime anything is possible…
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Kids, do not play near Railway Tunnels.
January 1, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Kids, do not play near Railway Tunnels.
Dumb AI ads for non-existent event in Birmingham, UK. More and more, AI is becoming a clear and present danger to public safety and a real threat to society, not some future possibility, but now. It urgently requires tough regulation and a crackdown on slop spray.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Thousands turn up to non-existent New Year's fireworks display
Huge crowds braved the freezing temperatures to gather in Centenary Square last night excited to welcome 2026 - only to be told that the adverts were fake.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Dumb AI ads for non-existent event in Birmingham, UK. More and more, AI is becoming a clear and present danger to public safety and a real threat to society, not some future possibility, but now. It urgently requires tough regulation and a crackdown on slop spray.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What passes as justification for the top story on the Mail today is a 'right wing influencer video'. The story has already been heavily discredited by US main media investigators. The article comments are already heavily engaged in advocating hate attacks against Somalis in Britain, unmoderated.
December 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
What passes as justification for the top story on the Mail today is a 'right wing influencer video'. The story has already been heavily discredited by US main media investigators. The article comments are already heavily engaged in advocating hate attacks against Somalis in Britain, unmoderated.
We can hope.
😮 What a winner it would be for a candidate to run for the French presidency on the basis of justice and holding Musk to account! www.joe.co.uk/politics/fra...
France could freeze Elon Musk's assets and jail him for foreign election interference
Now wouldn't this be nice...
www.joe.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We can hope.
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Don’t know who needs to hear this but “taking back control” from a Union you’re a member of, with full voting rights, to hand it to an American lunatic you bent over backwards to flatter yet he publicly humiliates you, is not taking back control at all, it’s relinquishing it.
White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken
White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards
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December 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Don’t know who needs to hear this but “taking back control” from a Union you’re a member of, with full voting rights, to hand it to an American lunatic you bent over backwards to flatter yet he publicly humiliates you, is not taking back control at all, it’s relinquishing it.
Farage and Russia, Trump and Russia, Banks and Russia, Bannon and Russia - the success of Kremlin infiltration of these people is stunning and appalling. We are being hijacked by a Moscow operation.
🔴The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
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December 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Farage and Russia, Trump and Russia, Banks and Russia, Bannon and Russia - the success of Kremlin infiltration of these people is stunning and appalling. We are being hijacked by a Moscow operation.
It was bound to be not too long before we heard that the US strikes on 'terror camps' turn out to be targeting a health centre in a peaceful village where Muslims and Christians get along fine.
"Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority"
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Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It was bound to be not too long before we heard that the US strikes on 'terror camps' turn out to be targeting a health centre in a peaceful village where Muslims and Christians get along fine.
Skiing is popular for the middle classes and the wealthy, but the truth is, seeing an end to it would be very good for the environment and for nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
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December 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Skiing is popular for the middle classes and the wealthy, but the truth is, seeing an end to it would be very good for the environment and for nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“There is no other industry, that acts with such arrogance, indifference and a lack of humility and sociopathic greed at the expense of people.”
-- British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed
(Musk and other techbros conspiring with Trump to try to have him deported for criticism.)
-- British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed
(Musk and other techbros conspiring with Trump to try to have him deported for criticism.)
UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’
Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountability
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December 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“There is no other industry, that acts with such arrogance, indifference and a lack of humility and sociopathic greed at the expense of people.”
-- British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed
(Musk and other techbros conspiring with Trump to try to have him deported for criticism.)
-- British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed
(Musk and other techbros conspiring with Trump to try to have him deported for criticism.)
Also a reminder that not one Post Office or Fujitsu executive has so far been brought to court, despite literally hundreds of examples of knowing perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘A PR stunt’: Post Office scandal victims dismiss plans for museum exhibition
Many victims and families advising inquiry’s legacy project are highly suspicious of idea of Postal Museum exhibition
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Also a reminder that not one Post Office or Fujitsu executive has so far been brought to court, despite literally hundreds of examples of knowing perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Now the Post Office wants to set up a nice cosy display in their museum to cosily gloat over the misfortune of the thousands they wronged, convicted, stole from and manufactured false evidence to convict.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘A PR stunt’: Post Office scandal victims dismiss plans for museum exhibition
Many victims and families advising inquiry’s legacy project are highly suspicious of idea of Postal Museum exhibition
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Now the Post Office wants to set up a nice cosy display in their museum to cosily gloat over the misfortune of the thousands they wronged, convicted, stole from and manufactured false evidence to convict.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...