Montanareddog
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AZ (the football team, not the US state), animal lover (including some homo sapiens), cinephile
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People like Truss and Musk don’t hate the BBC for what it gets wrong. They hate it for what it gets right. It must be defended.
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
People like Truss and Musk don’t hate the BBC for what it gets wrong. They hate it for what it gets right. It must be defended.
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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 | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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 | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
“You know, you could see there was bile coming out of her eyes, bile coming out of her wherever. "
Megyn Kelly lets it rip with a bigoted, xenophobic, ahistorical rant about immigrants, Muslims and who gets to be an American...as MAGA fights a
civil war over whether antisemites should be welcomed in the movement.
civil war over whether antisemites should be welcomed in the movement.
Opinion | Megyn Kelly’s xenophobic rant against Zohran Mamdani is as MAGA as it gets
Amid an ideological civil war over antisemites in the MAGA movement, the right-wing podcast superstar says Muslims shouldn't hold office in the U.S.
www.msnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“You know, you could see there was bile coming out of her eyes, bile coming out of her wherever. "
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
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This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
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Goedemorgen deze verkiezingsdag! Vandaag is het aan jou! Samen kunnen het land weer mooier en beter maken. Kiezen voor hoop en saamhorigheid ipv haat en verdeeldheid. Een land waarin we bouwen aan een betere toekomst voor ons allemaal. Ik reken op je! Stem @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Goedemorgen deze verkiezingsdag! Vandaag is het aan jou! Samen kunnen het land weer mooier en beter maken. Kiezen voor hoop en saamhorigheid ipv haat en verdeeldheid. Een land waarin we bouwen aan een betere toekomst voor ons allemaal. Ik reken op je! Stem @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
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If Kevin Kiley really wanted to break the deadlock, he could sign the discharge petition for the Epstein files.
October 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
If Kevin Kiley really wanted to break the deadlock, he could sign the discharge petition for the Epstein files.
Exactly. And it raises the question - has Starmer, the human rights lawyer, abandoned his principles? Or is he just a useless manager who assembled a team of useless SPADs and has no idea what they are up to?
it literally isn’t though
Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”
October 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Exactly. And it raises the question - has Starmer, the human rights lawyer, abandoned his principles? Or is he just a useless manager who assembled a team of useless SPADs and has no idea what they are up to?
The headline is spot on except human rights are inherent and cannot be abolished. What these scoundrels seek to abolish is protective legislation.
But they will ensure designated* in-groups keep their protections.
*designations can be revoked on the leader's whim
But they will ensure designated* in-groups keep their protections.
*designations can be revoked on the leader's whim
'Abolishing human rights is the last refuge of scoundrels'
Abolishing human rights is the last refuge of scoundrels
KEMI Badenoch, leader of the Conservatives, is like a rabbit in the headlights of Nigel Farage’s opportunistic Reform UK party.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The headline is spot on except human rights are inherent and cannot be abolished. What these scoundrels seek to abolish is protective legislation.
But they will ensure designated* in-groups keep their protections.
*designations can be revoked on the leader's whim
But they will ensure designated* in-groups keep their protections.
*designations can be revoked on the leader's whim
150K people marched in London a few weeks ago, to protest against immigration. UK population - 70 million.
In Amsterdam yesterday, 250K protested the government's Israel policy. NL population - 18 million.
Yet the right in both countries push the line that immigration is people's #1 concern
In Amsterdam yesterday, 250K protested the government's Israel policy. NL population - 18 million.
Yet the right in both countries push the line that immigration is people's #1 concern
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
150K people marched in London a few weeks ago, to protest against immigration. UK population - 70 million.
In Amsterdam yesterday, 250K protested the government's Israel policy. NL population - 18 million.
Yet the right in both countries push the line that immigration is people's #1 concern
In Amsterdam yesterday, 250K protested the government's Israel policy. NL population - 18 million.
Yet the right in both countries push the line that immigration is people's #1 concern
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this is, of course, not new
“Jews run the world” and “trans women will attack you in the ladies room” and “that Black 10-year-old is a scary grown man” are all examples of the same deceptive reframing of where power lies so people can justify doing whatever they want
it’s evil every time
“Jews run the world” and “trans women will attack you in the ladies room” and “that Black 10-year-old is a scary grown man” are all examples of the same deceptive reframing of where power lies so people can justify doing whatever they want
it’s evil every time
October 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
this is, of course, not new
“Jews run the world” and “trans women will attack you in the ladies room” and “that Black 10-year-old is a scary grown man” are all examples of the same deceptive reframing of where power lies so people can justify doing whatever they want
it’s evil every time
“Jews run the world” and “trans women will attack you in the ladies room” and “that Black 10-year-old is a scary grown man” are all examples of the same deceptive reframing of where power lies so people can justify doing whatever they want
it’s evil every time
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
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Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.
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Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
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Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
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This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.
The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.
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Musk, Tommy Robinson - fascist Britain. A hellpit of violence and racism. They’re using our flag as their rallying cry. And X as their megaphone.
No more appeasement.
No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit.
It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down.
(Sunday Times)
No more appeasement.
No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit.
It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down.
(Sunday Times)
![Photos of Yaxley Lennon/Robinson and Musk talking on video link and a bloodied protester.
…murdered in cold blood this week and people on the left celebrating it openly.
"The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder. I mean, let that sink in for a minute, that's who we're dealing with here."
He said that the British public were
"scared to exercise their [right to] free speech" and claimed the BBC was "com-plicit in the destruction of Britain".
When they finished their conversa-tion, Robinson said: "Not only are we in the fight right now, but we're on advance thanks to free speech being fought for, for us, by Elon Musk."
By about 4pm riot police, backed by mounted patrols and dog units, were struggling to protect a group of masked antifascists hemmed in at the top of Whitehall. Missiles and flares were thrown by Robinson supporters, with some hitting officers.
Many chanted
abuse at the police, mocked officers and spat at them.
The Met said on X: "Officers are having to intervene in multiple locations to stop Unite the Kingdom protesters trying to access sterile areas, breach police cordons or get to opposing groups. A number of officers have been assaulted."
It later added: "The turnout for the Unite the Kingdom protest was too big to fit into Whitehall. Protesters left the route on to Victoria Embankment and sought to access Whitehall from multiple directions ... When officers moved in to stop them, they faced unacceptable violence.
They were assaulted with kicks and punches. Bottles, flares and other projectiles were thrown."
More than
1,600
officers
were
deployed to deal with the demonstrations as well as several football fixtures in the capital. At least 500 police had been drafted in from forces outside London, including the Merseyside, Humberside](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreiftbnx42fdmja7bfxihgkukwkj3tj6mxf45vpq4zzb7nrf3v5axve@jpeg)
September 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Musk, Tommy Robinson - fascist Britain. A hellpit of violence and racism. They’re using our flag as their rallying cry. And X as their megaphone.
No more appeasement.
No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit.
It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down.
(Sunday Times)
No more appeasement.
No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit.
It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down.
(Sunday Times)
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Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
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Elon Musk is a wealthy foreign individual attemting to interfere directly in our political process and to stimulate violence on our streets. For our government to ignore this would send the wrong signal to the world. They must do something now.
September 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Elon Musk is a wealthy foreign individual attemting to interfere directly in our political process and to stimulate violence on our streets. For our government to ignore this would send the wrong signal to the world. They must do something now.
Good on Starmer for acting swiftly and decisively for once. However, it has been asserted that Mandelson was "thoroughly vetted". Humbug! Simple common sense should have disqualified Mandelson in the first place. The man has always shared an ecological niche with the remora.
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson has been sacked as UK ambassador to Washington
Speaking in the House of Commons, Labour minister Stephen Doughty confirmed the prime minister's decision to remove Mandelson from his post
Speaking in the House of Commons, Labour minister Stephen Doughty confirmed the prime minister's decision to remove Mandelson from his post
September 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Good on Starmer for acting swiftly and decisively for once. However, it has been asserted that Mandelson was "thoroughly vetted". Humbug! Simple common sense should have disqualified Mandelson in the first place. The man has always shared an ecological niche with the remora.