Richard Flowers
@richarddominic.bsky.social
Representing the #LiberalDemocrats.
Promoted by Warwick Danks on behalf of Richard Flowers and Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats all at Houseboat Blue Amber, Harbourmaster's Office, 46 Goodhart Place, London E14 8EG.
Promoted by Warwick Danks on behalf of Richard Flowers and Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats all at Houseboat Blue Amber, Harbourmaster's Office, 46 Goodhart Place, London E14 8EG.
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We laughed when she subliminally wishes he’d change his (horrible brown) jacket while being unable to look at him or keep her face straight.
Then had to pause it and wipe away tears as, looking away, close to corpsing, she can only define him by his “relation to the form of the brown”.
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Then had to pause it and wipe away tears as, looking away, close to corpsing, she can only define him by his “relation to the form of the brown”.
3/3
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We laughed when she subliminally wishes he’d change his (horrible brown) jacket while being unable to look at him or keep her face straight.
Then had to pause it and wipe away tears as, looking away, close to corpsing, she can only define him by his “relation to the form of the brown”.
3/3
Then had to pause it and wipe away tears as, looking away, close to corpsing, she can only define him by his “relation to the form of the brown”.
3/3
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As Martha Nussbaum – the only woman in 15 episodes – stands out in blue, so Magee counters with the brownest brown on brown TV.
Which made us laugh.
But not as much as her own reaction.
Because the profusion of brown is clearly so overwhelming in person that she starts talking into it.
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Which made us laugh.
But not as much as her own reaction.
Because the profusion of brown is clearly so overwhelming in person that she starts talking into it.
2/3
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As Martha Nussbaum – the only woman in 15 episodes – stands out in blue, so Magee counters with the brownest brown on brown TV.
Which made us laugh.
But not as much as her own reaction.
Because the profusion of brown is clearly so overwhelming in person that she starts talking into it.
2/3
Which made us laugh.
But not as much as her own reaction.
Because the profusion of brown is clearly so overwhelming in person that she starts talking into it.
2/3
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BBC Four and now iPlayer has Bryan Magee’s The Great Philosophers
The first on Plato startled us because we’d assumed it was a 1970s series from its almost entirely white men yet almost wholly—
Brown.
Sofa, walls, carpets, clothes.
Surprise! 1987 yet no pastels.
Episode 2 made us crack up…
1/3
The first on Plato startled us because we’d assumed it was a 1970s series from its almost entirely white men yet almost wholly—
Brown.
Sofa, walls, carpets, clothes.
Surprise! 1987 yet no pastels.
Episode 2 made us crack up…
1/3
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
BBC Four and now iPlayer has Bryan Magee’s The Great Philosophers
The first on Plato startled us because we’d assumed it was a 1970s series from its almost entirely white men yet almost wholly—
Brown.
Sofa, walls, carpets, clothes.
Surprise! 1987 yet no pastels.
Episode 2 made us crack up…
1/3
The first on Plato startled us because we’d assumed it was a 1970s series from its almost entirely white men yet almost wholly—
Brown.
Sofa, walls, carpets, clothes.
Surprise! 1987 yet no pastels.
Episode 2 made us crack up…
1/3
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I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Today I have hidden that post about Kemi Badenoch being jaw-droppingly stupid after having seen it for the fifth time.
a black and white photo of a woman smiling and saying `` instant relief '' .
Alt: a black and white photo of a woman smiling and saying `` instant relief '' .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Today I have hidden that post about Kemi Badenoch being jaw-droppingly stupid after having seen it for the fifth time.
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Now with alt text
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Now with alt text
What did the Romans ever do for us…
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What did the Romans ever do for us…
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OTD 2015: #DoctorWho Heaven Sent
I should say something meaningful, but…
Going round and round and round and round and round and round and pointlessly suffering reps of the same physical effort for ever:
Heaven Sent is Doctor Who’s allegory for going to the gym.
I should say something meaningful, but…
Going round and round and round and round and round and round and pointlessly suffering reps of the same physical effort for ever:
Heaven Sent is Doctor Who’s allegory for going to the gym.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
OTD 2015: #DoctorWho Heaven Sent
I should say something meaningful, but…
Going round and round and round and round and round and round and pointlessly suffering reps of the same physical effort for ever:
Heaven Sent is Doctor Who’s allegory for going to the gym.
I should say something meaningful, but…
Going round and round and round and round and round and round and pointlessly suffering reps of the same physical effort for ever:
Heaven Sent is Doctor Who’s allegory for going to the gym.
We have a system of election by popularity contest, so we keep electing people who are good at winning popularity contests… as opposed to, I don’t know, delivering competent government.
It seems that the decisions that kill six-figure numbers and/or wipe out life savings are a bit built in.
It seems that the decisions that kill six-figure numbers and/or wipe out life savings are a bit built in.
Generally speaking, Prime Ministers have tended to be quite popular until a decision they made killed six-figure numbers of people and/or caused everyone to lose their life savings. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We have a system of election by popularity contest, so we keep electing people who are good at winning popularity contests… as opposed to, I don’t know, delivering competent government.
It seems that the decisions that kill six-figure numbers and/or wipe out life savings are a bit built in.
It seems that the decisions that kill six-figure numbers and/or wipe out life savings are a bit built in.
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Right, I think a lot of the 'it's structural!' stuff is because there are Labour people who - not unreasonably! - like all the Labour PMs and who have always disliked the Tory ones, who don't get that is....not where the country is or was at all.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Right, I think a lot of the 'it's structural!' stuff is because there are Labour people who - not unreasonably! - like all the Labour PMs and who have always disliked the Tory ones, who don't get that is....not where the country is or was at all.
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May, Truss, and Sunak were unpopular from the start, of course, but they were put in to appease factions in the Tory party, not the country as a whole.
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
May, Truss, and Sunak were unpopular from the start, of course, but they were put in to appease factions in the Tory party, not the country as a whole.
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This. Blair was quite popular before he led the country into a disastrous illegal war. Brown was quite popular until the financial crash. Cameron was quite popular until the disastrous Brexit referendum. Johnson was quite popular until his incompetence caused a hundred thousandish unnecessary deaths
I think what this (widely shared among some people who follow me) attitude misses is that, of course, if you have a series of cowboy builders, you are going to be more and more irate as the process goes on.
The fact that every single PM this century has been more unpopular than the previous one shows that the electorate is impossible to please. We are simply predisposed to automatically hate every government no matter what. I don't know how that's sustainable long-term.
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This. Blair was quite popular before he led the country into a disastrous illegal war. Brown was quite popular until the financial crash. Cameron was quite popular until the disastrous Brexit referendum. Johnson was quite popular until his incompetence caused a hundred thousandish unnecessary deaths
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Allow me to introduce ANARCHY RULES.
It’s Doctor Who. And Babylon 5. And HP Lovecraft. And Lord of the Rings. And the Avengers (Steed & Peel, not MCU). Come to think of it, it is the Avengers (MCU) too.
It's ideas wrapped in stories, it's Worlds within Worlds. And the God of the End of the World.
It’s Doctor Who. And Babylon 5. And HP Lovecraft. And Lord of the Rings. And the Avengers (Steed & Peel, not MCU). Come to think of it, it is the Avengers (MCU) too.
It's ideas wrapped in stories, it's Worlds within Worlds. And the God of the End of the World.
Anarchy Rules
The idea of a story + a story of ideas.
anarchy-rules.ghost.io
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Allow me to introduce ANARCHY RULES.
It’s Doctor Who. And Babylon 5. And HP Lovecraft. And Lord of the Rings. And the Avengers (Steed & Peel, not MCU). Come to think of it, it is the Avengers (MCU) too.
It's ideas wrapped in stories, it's Worlds within Worlds. And the God of the End of the World.
It’s Doctor Who. And Babylon 5. And HP Lovecraft. And Lord of the Rings. And the Avengers (Steed & Peel, not MCU). Come to think of it, it is the Avengers (MCU) too.
It's ideas wrapped in stories, it's Worlds within Worlds. And the God of the End of the World.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Watching again – at last! – tonight, I can see what a huge amount this lost, and it’s sad that the conceptual sci-fi trip and Sutekh’s Ten Commandments had to go
Yet they made the right choices for scared little boys:
Despite cutting a third of the running time, they kept all the horrible murders!
Yet they made the right choices for scared little boys:
Despite cutting a third of the running time, they kept all the horrible murders!
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Watching again – at last! – tonight, I can see what a huge amount this lost, and it’s sad that the conceptual sci-fi trip and Sutekh’s Ten Commandments had to go
Yet they made the right choices for scared little boys:
Despite cutting a third of the running time, they kept all the horrible murders!
Yet they made the right choices for scared little boys:
Despite cutting a third of the running time, they kept all the horrible murders!
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OTD 1976: #DoctorWho Pyramids of Mars Omnibus
With a month and a half between The Deadly Assassin and the new series, they extended DW’s most Gothic Horror season with two thematically ideal Dark Religion repeats
I remember watching petrified from the stairs…
With a month and a half between The Deadly Assassin and the new series, they extended DW’s most Gothic Horror season with two thematically ideal Dark Religion repeats
I remember watching petrified from the stairs…
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
OTD 1976: #DoctorWho Pyramids of Mars Omnibus
With a month and a half between The Deadly Assassin and the new series, they extended DW’s most Gothic Horror season with two thematically ideal Dark Religion repeats
I remember watching petrified from the stairs…
With a month and a half between The Deadly Assassin and the new series, they extended DW’s most Gothic Horror season with two thematically ideal Dark Religion repeats
I remember watching petrified from the stairs…
If I may, I should like to invite you to subscribe to my story.
Nothing serious. Nothing political. Just gods and monsters and the End of the World…
Nothing serious. Nothing political. Just gods and monsters and the End of the World…
Allow me to introduce ANARCHY RULES.
It’s Doctor Who. And Babylon 5. And HP Lovecraft. And Lord of the Rings. And the Avengers (Steed & Peel, not MCU). Come to think of it, it is the Avengers (MCU) too.
It's ideas wrapped in stories, it's Worlds within Worlds. And the God of the End of the World.
It’s Doctor Who. And Babylon 5. And HP Lovecraft. And Lord of the Rings. And the Avengers (Steed & Peel, not MCU). Come to think of it, it is the Avengers (MCU) too.
It's ideas wrapped in stories, it's Worlds within Worlds. And the God of the End of the World.
Anarchy Rules
The idea of a story + a story of ideas.
anarchy-rules.ghost.io
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If I may, I should like to invite you to subscribe to my story.
Nothing serious. Nothing political. Just gods and monsters and the End of the World…
Nothing serious. Nothing political. Just gods and monsters and the End of the World…
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OTD 19 years apart: Two terrific releases bookend* George Harrison’s solo career
1970: All Things Must Pass arguably his best LP
1989: Cheer Down arguably his best single
*Technically the bookends are Wonderwall and Brainwashed, but this pair have a striking symmetry for first and last.
1970: All Things Must Pass arguably his best LP
1989: Cheer Down arguably his best single
*Technically the bookends are Wonderwall and Brainwashed, but this pair have a striking symmetry for first and last.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
OTD 19 years apart: Two terrific releases bookend* George Harrison’s solo career
1970: All Things Must Pass arguably his best LP
1989: Cheer Down arguably his best single
*Technically the bookends are Wonderwall and Brainwashed, but this pair have a striking symmetry for first and last.
1970: All Things Must Pass arguably his best LP
1989: Cheer Down arguably his best single
*Technically the bookends are Wonderwall and Brainwashed, but this pair have a striking symmetry for first and last.
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What you sow, so shall you reap, Mr Starmer. Have a good, hard look at what your government continues to do to trans people for a start. You’re enabling the very thing that worries you.
"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK"
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
What you sow, so shall you reap, Mr Starmer. Have a good, hard look at what your government continues to do to trans people for a start. You’re enabling the very thing that worries you.
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OTD 1976 The New Avengers – Target!
Assassination as art installation
A village isn’t what it seems…
And *still* isn’t what it seems, even for those who think they know!
Perhaps The New Avengers’ most iconic episode
(and similar flavour to Doctor Who – The Android Invasion same week, a year earlier)
Assassination as art installation
A village isn’t what it seems…
And *still* isn’t what it seems, even for those who think they know!
Perhaps The New Avengers’ most iconic episode
(and similar flavour to Doctor Who – The Android Invasion same week, a year earlier)
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
OTD 1976 The New Avengers – Target!
Assassination as art installation
A village isn’t what it seems…
And *still* isn’t what it seems, even for those who think they know!
Perhaps The New Avengers’ most iconic episode
(and similar flavour to Doctor Who – The Android Invasion same week, a year earlier)
Assassination as art installation
A village isn’t what it seems…
And *still* isn’t what it seems, even for those who think they know!
Perhaps The New Avengers’ most iconic episode
(and similar flavour to Doctor Who – The Android Invasion same week, a year earlier)
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I started this year rewatching the BBC Television Gormenghast for the first time in many moons…
Out walking tonight with an older radio version by Brian Sibley before it evaporates from Sounds.
It’s hard not to imagine this Steerpike in a wingéd jockstrap of the period.
Out walking tonight with an older radio version by Brian Sibley before it evaporates from Sounds.
It’s hard not to imagine this Steerpike in a wingéd jockstrap of the period.
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I started this year rewatching the BBC Television Gormenghast for the first time in many moons…
Out walking tonight with an older radio version by Brian Sibley before it evaporates from Sounds.
It’s hard not to imagine this Steerpike in a wingéd jockstrap of the period.
Out walking tonight with an older radio version by Brian Sibley before it evaporates from Sounds.
It’s hard not to imagine this Steerpike in a wingéd jockstrap of the period.
Give in to temptation and treat yourself to a delicious bite into the mystery and mythology of Golden Apples. You know you want to…
BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
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November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Give in to temptation and treat yourself to a delicious bite into the mystery and mythology of Golden Apples. You know you want to…
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It’s so revealing that the media seems to be more outraged by the mansion tax than freezing the income tax thresholds.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s so revealing that the media seems to be more outraged by the mansion tax than freezing the income tax thresholds.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.