DaveB
@scouserdave.bsky.social
Scouser bringing culture to Wigan ;-) Amongst other things I enjoy cooking, reading, gardening, science and technology.
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The view from the BBC in the UK - Ross Atkins.
#Minnesota #ICE #Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #RIPAlexPretti #POTUS #RepublicanLies
#Minnesota #ICE #Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #RIPAlexPretti #POTUS #RepublicanLies
January 26, 2026 at 12:17 PM
The view from the BBC in the UK - Ross Atkins.
#Minnesota #ICE #Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #RIPAlexPretti #POTUS #RepublicanLies
#Minnesota #ICE #Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #RIPAlexPretti #POTUS #RepublicanLies
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
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Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.
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🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 17, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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A sobering thought: were Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister then the terrifying scenes from Minneapolis would become terrifying scenes here.
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A sobering thought: were Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister then the terrifying scenes from Minneapolis would become terrifying scenes here.
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Liz Kendall has confirmed the way X is behaving is illegal.
Liz Kendall forgot to say when the British govt would stop using an illegal platform.
Liz Kendall forgot to say when the British govt would stop using an illegal platform.
January 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Liz Kendall has confirmed the way X is behaving is illegal.
Liz Kendall forgot to say when the British govt would stop using an illegal platform.
Liz Kendall forgot to say when the British govt would stop using an illegal platform.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should & should not apply to. Because none of us then has rights, just privileges that can be taken away by those in power
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
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I’ve been quieter than usual this week due to a weird mix of work commitments and falling asleep on the sofa at every opportunity.
In my defence, I may have overcorrected by writing the mother of all year-end posts.
This is fair warning, it is long - but, then again, so was 2025.
In my defence, I may have overcorrected by writing the mother of all year-end posts.
This is fair warning, it is long - but, then again, so was 2025.
2025: The Year We Got Used To It
A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce - and how 2026 will need us all to be much noisier.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I’ve been quieter than usual this week due to a weird mix of work commitments and falling asleep on the sofa at every opportunity.
In my defence, I may have overcorrected by writing the mother of all year-end posts.
This is fair warning, it is long - but, then again, so was 2025.
In my defence, I may have overcorrected by writing the mother of all year-end posts.
This is fair warning, it is long - but, then again, so was 2025.
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
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I agree, but look: let’s compare the avalanche of scalding hatred that was tipped over Gary Lineker for saying the IDF should stop mass-murdering civilians against the treatment of Nigel Farage for *actually being a Nazi*. It will always be like this, for as long as this behaviour is tolerated.
December 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I agree, but look: let’s compare the avalanche of scalding hatred that was tipped over Gary Lineker for saying the IDF should stop mass-murdering civilians against the treatment of Nigel Farage for *actually being a Nazi*. It will always be like this, for as long as this behaviour is tolerated.
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In case you missed it ...
Workers with a migration backgound recorded this powerful poem during the pandemic. They feared the UK and its politicians would soon forget how they helped the country survive. And they were right. Fickle politicians who clapped for them then now call them "strangers".
Workers with a migration backgound recorded this powerful poem during the pandemic. They feared the UK and its politicians would soon forget how they helped the country survive. And they were right. Fickle politicians who clapped for them then now call them "strangers".
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
In case you missed it ...
Workers with a migration backgound recorded this powerful poem during the pandemic. They feared the UK and its politicians would soon forget how they helped the country survive. And they were right. Fickle politicians who clapped for them then now call them "strangers".
Workers with a migration backgound recorded this powerful poem during the pandemic. They feared the UK and its politicians would soon forget how they helped the country survive. And they were right. Fickle politicians who clapped for them then now call them "strangers".
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Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime. If someone has lived here for nearly two decades, worked, paid taxes, raised children, and built roots, then to say “pack your bags, your country is safe now” is not policy, it is cruelty dressed up as process.
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime. If someone has lived here for nearly two decades, worked, paid taxes, raised children, and built roots, then to say “pack your bags, your country is safe now” is not policy, it is cruelty dressed up as process.
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If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.
You absolute moron.
You absolute moron.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.
You absolute moron.
You absolute moron.
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Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief?
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief?
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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This woman won Runcorn by SIX VOTES. That’s why it’s important to get off your bum and vote to keep the racists out.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This woman won Runcorn by SIX VOTES. That’s why it’s important to get off your bum and vote to keep the racists out.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform, everyone must speak English.
Also Reform, we're going to stop people learning English.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Also Reform, we're going to stop people learning English.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform's Dame Andrea Jenkyns considers scrapping English lessons
Dame Andrea Jenkyns says a £1m budget to teach foreign nationals "should be spent on everybody".
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reform, everyone must speak English.
Also Reform, we're going to stop people learning English.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Also Reform, we're going to stop people learning English.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Treat yourself to 8 minutes of absolute brilliance. This is real talent.
One of the greatest comedy sketches in history.
In case you need cheering up.
youtu.be/RlllabwmWcc?...
In case you need cheering up.
youtu.be/RlllabwmWcc?...
"Who's on First?" in HD w/LIVE AUDIENCE from The Abbott and Costello TV Show (1953)
YouTube video by ClassicFlix
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Treat yourself to 8 minutes of absolute brilliance. This is real talent.
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How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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First I've heard of this. If it had been the other way around, Jenrick, Robinson, etc, would not have shut up about it.
'Alfie Franco, 20, has been jailed for life for a minimum of 23 years after murdering Syrian refugee, Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, in Huddersfield.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
'Alfie Franco, 20, has been jailed for life for a minimum of 23 years after murdering Syrian refugee, Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, in Huddersfield.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man jailed for at least 23 years for murdering Syrian boy in Huddersfield
Alfie Franco, 20, stabbed Ahmad Al Ibrahim after taking ‘petty exception’ to teenager brushing past his girlfriend
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
First I've heard of this. If it had been the other way around, Jenrick, Robinson, etc, would not have shut up about it.
'Alfie Franco, 20, has been jailed for life for a minimum of 23 years after murdering Syrian refugee, Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, in Huddersfield.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
'Alfie Franco, 20, has been jailed for life for a minimum of 23 years after murdering Syrian refugee, Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, in Huddersfield.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.
October 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.
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