@timwhitemore.bsky.social
I like words. Long words. Words that sound good. Made up words. Pleasing combinations of words. Grammar is for losers.

I like other stuff too like geekery, travel, photography, allotmenteering, food/cookery/baking. I blog at https://Whitemore.com
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Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.

bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Every time there's a COP, there's more highly paid, well connected and determined fossil lobbyists attedning than anyone else. It's a climate conference for sceintists and government officials.
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.

What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.

GB News:
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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BBC impartiality: A full list of all the British MEPs who appeared on BBC Question Time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Beautiful Remembrance Day run, thinking of the millions who sacrificed everything to fight fascism.

And FUCK all the politicians who tell us that Antifa is now the enemy & want to turn us against our neighbours & friends because of the colour of their skin or where they happen to have been born.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion

The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC

This is the real agenda
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?

Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Another deserved win. Only a silly mistake let them get one back. 5 in a row, everyone on the pitch playing well and more to come from this team #dcfcfans #dcfc
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A magnificent move culminates with a trademark pinpoint Ward cross and a fine back post finish from bug Pat. We're on a different level to a few games ago! #dcfcfans #dcfc
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
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Opinion | James Carville: It’s Time for a Daring Political Maneuver, Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A word for Joe Ward. We always knew about his delivery. He's actually defending well and putting a real shift in. It shows you can't write players off #dcfcfans #dcfc
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Superb from the Rams. Slick and progressive 1st half, gritty and hard working 2nd half. On balance a deserved result. Great to see Salvesen get the winner. A real team performance #dcfcfans #dcfc
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Fantastic performance from them all. Character & belief throughout. Morris so much more than his goals. Can't believe that's 1st career hatrick! Clarke unreal. Happy days #dcfcfans #dcfc
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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You've just made me realise what the true north-south divide is.
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The BBC news report this morning portrays this as entirely the fault of the current government.

The right wing editorial policy is so obvious it's laughable.
🔴The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed

Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed
Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report
bylinetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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isn't it great how twitter wasn't the real world when people there said left wing things, but it's the soul of the people now they're all nazis
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Clark is not a destroyer but he gets about and is a better ball player than Adams and Travis. Really played well. Johnston superb also, covered crazy distances, hope not out for long. Clarke and Ozoh imperious as ever. Good performances all over. More good things to come #dcfcfans #dcfc
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Such a solid performance. We nulified them and took our chance. Well deserved #dcfcfans #dcfc
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM