Alex Sowden
@ajs1977.bsky.social
European. Virtue Signaller. History nerd. Trying to save the world: mixed results so far.
Being honest, I think the UK has probably run its course as a union of four nations.
Views are all my own.
Being honest, I think the UK has probably run its course as a union of four nations.
Views are all my own.
To paraphrase Henry II, "Will nobody rid me of troublesome shitwits like Liz Truss?"
<shakes fist at sky furiously>
<shakes fist at sky furiously>
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
To paraphrase Henry II, "Will nobody rid me of troublesome shitwits like Liz Truss?"
<shakes fist at sky furiously>
<shakes fist at sky furiously>
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Alert the Admiralty and order the Navy to mobilise all ships of the line immediately.
We sail for Spain on the next high tide.
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We sail for Spain on the next high tide.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Alert the Admiralty and order the Navy to mobilise all ships of the line immediately.
We sail for Spain on the next high tide.
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We sail for Spain on the next high tide.
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Someone left the Black Gate to Mordor open by mistake.
This is what staggered out.
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This is what staggered out.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Someone left the Black Gate to Mordor open by mistake.
This is what staggered out.
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This is what staggered out.
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Thoughts and prayers and so on, Marjorie.
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thoughts and prayers and so on, Marjorie.
Last night’s live edition of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social was a real gem.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social were on coruscating form. Their brutal takedowns of unhinged right-wing oddballs James Orr (UK) & Curtis Yarvin (US) were a special highlight.
Gentlemen, thank you both.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social were on coruscating form. Their brutal takedowns of unhinged right-wing oddballs James Orr (UK) & Curtis Yarvin (US) were a special highlight.
Gentlemen, thank you both.
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Last night’s live edition of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social was a real gem.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social were on coruscating form. Their brutal takedowns of unhinged right-wing oddballs James Orr (UK) & Curtis Yarvin (US) were a special highlight.
Gentlemen, thank you both.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social were on coruscating form. Their brutal takedowns of unhinged right-wing oddballs James Orr (UK) & Curtis Yarvin (US) were a special highlight.
Gentlemen, thank you both.
Ed Miliband is the adult in the room right now in Whitehall.
All I can say is that it's a good job we didn't all vote for chaos with Ed back in May 2015, isn't it.
<turns and looks directly to camera>
All I can say is that it's a good job we didn't all vote for chaos with Ed back in May 2015, isn't it.
<turns and looks directly to camera>
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ed Miliband is the adult in the room right now in Whitehall.
All I can say is that it's a good job we didn't all vote for chaos with Ed back in May 2015, isn't it.
<turns and looks directly to camera>
All I can say is that it's a good job we didn't all vote for chaos with Ed back in May 2015, isn't it.
<turns and looks directly to camera>
Are there any china and porcelain connoisseurs out there in the BlueSky hive mind who can tell me anything about this square-shaped plate, please? 👇
Google Lens has been completely useless in identifying the piece: or providing any vaguely useful information about it.
Thank you in advance.
Google Lens has been completely useless in identifying the piece: or providing any vaguely useful information about it.
Thank you in advance.
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Are there any china and porcelain connoisseurs out there in the BlueSky hive mind who can tell me anything about this square-shaped plate, please? 👇
Google Lens has been completely useless in identifying the piece: or providing any vaguely useful information about it.
Thank you in advance.
Google Lens has been completely useless in identifying the piece: or providing any vaguely useful information about it.
Thank you in advance.
It is extraordinary that after 14 years of non-stop irresponsible Conservative incompetence: barefaced corruption: and outright misrule, we need columns like this to remind a Labour administration that is barely 18 months in Downing Street that its job is to run the country properly #PMQs
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It is extraordinary that after 14 years of non-stop irresponsible Conservative incompetence: barefaced corruption: and outright misrule, we need columns like this to remind a Labour administration that is barely 18 months in Downing Street that its job is to run the country properly #PMQs
Let's hope he did.
Presumably the Radio 5 Live caller now travels everywhere via public transport.
Presumably the Radio 5 Live caller now travels everywhere via public transport.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Let's hope he did.
Presumably the Radio 5 Live caller now travels everywhere via public transport.
Presumably the Radio 5 Live caller now travels everywhere via public transport.
America's mad racist king knows that nobody will go to see games at Trump Field or similar.
He wants the Washington Commanders to go out of business so that one of his mentally defective offspring or his morally bankrupt backers can buy the team at a bargain basement price and move to another city.
He wants the Washington Commanders to go out of business so that one of his mentally defective offspring or his morally bankrupt backers can buy the team at a bargain basement price and move to another city.
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
America's mad racist king knows that nobody will go to see games at Trump Field or similar.
He wants the Washington Commanders to go out of business so that one of his mentally defective offspring or his morally bankrupt backers can buy the team at a bargain basement price and move to another city.
He wants the Washington Commanders to go out of business so that one of his mentally defective offspring or his morally bankrupt backers can buy the team at a bargain basement price and move to another city.
Tickle Me Elon is unwell.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Tickle Me Elon is unwell.
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I can't see the NFL approving a stadium that's named "Racist Rapist C**t Field" as an official league venue.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I can't see the NFL approving a stadium that's named "Racist Rapist C**t Field" as an official league venue.
“I need you to trust me on this journey”
Completely extraordinary.
Utterly superb.
Completely extraordinary.
Utterly superb.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“I need you to trust me on this journey”
Completely extraordinary.
Utterly superb.
Completely extraordinary.
Utterly superb.
Viz cartoonist Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social and his colleagues at @vizcomic.bsky.social had Dominic Cummings’ number back in August 2021
They knew full well that Cummings was a deluded, malignant, talent-free weirdo.
Meet "Dominic Cummings, Dogshit Puppet Master” 👇
They knew full well that Cummings was a deluded, malignant, talent-free weirdo.
Meet "Dominic Cummings, Dogshit Puppet Master” 👇
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Viz cartoonist Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social and his colleagues at @vizcomic.bsky.social had Dominic Cummings’ number back in August 2021
They knew full well that Cummings was a deluded, malignant, talent-free weirdo.
Meet "Dominic Cummings, Dogshit Puppet Master” 👇
They knew full well that Cummings was a deluded, malignant, talent-free weirdo.
Meet "Dominic Cummings, Dogshit Puppet Master” 👇
Tell me again that Brexit wasn't an expression of racism, and that Brexiters aren't racist #DominicCummings
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Tell me again that Brexit wasn't an expression of racism, and that Brexiters aren't racist #DominicCummings
Dominic Cummings is the logical conclusion of a bitter resentful & deeply mediocre sexual grappling between Joseph Goebbels & the Mekon from the “Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future” comics.
Solidarity with David Lammy, who is more of a statesperson than tedious uber-twunt Cummings could ever hope to be.
Solidarity with David Lammy, who is more of a statesperson than tedious uber-twunt Cummings could ever hope to be.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Dominic Cummings is the logical conclusion of a bitter resentful & deeply mediocre sexual grappling between Joseph Goebbels & the Mekon from the “Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future” comics.
Solidarity with David Lammy, who is more of a statesperson than tedious uber-twunt Cummings could ever hope to be.
Solidarity with David Lammy, who is more of a statesperson than tedious uber-twunt Cummings could ever hope to be.
Tickle Me Elon is all in with the sexual predators #NYCMayoralElection #NewYork
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Tickle Me Elon is all in with the sexual predators #NYCMayoralElection #NewYork
You’re expecting MAGA cultists to possess reasoning, critical thinking and empathy.
But they don’t have any of these qualities.
The absence is part of what makes these people MAGA in the first place.
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But they don’t have any of these qualities.
The absence is part of what makes these people MAGA in the first place.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
You’re expecting MAGA cultists to possess reasoning, critical thinking and empathy.
But they don’t have any of these qualities.
The absence is part of what makes these people MAGA in the first place.
bsky.app/profile/rach...
But they don’t have any of these qualities.
The absence is part of what makes these people MAGA in the first place.
bsky.app/profile/rach...
Goodwin's most recent tenure was as a professor of politics at the University of Kent (2015-2024).
Prior to that, he was an associate professor of politics at the University of Nottingham (2010-2015): and before that politics & economics research fellow at the University of Manchester (2008-2010).
Prior to that, he was an associate professor of politics at the University of Nottingham (2010-2015): and before that politics & economics research fellow at the University of Manchester (2008-2010).
November 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Goodwin's most recent tenure was as a professor of politics at the University of Kent (2015-2024).
Prior to that, he was an associate professor of politics at the University of Nottingham (2010-2015): and before that politics & economics research fellow at the University of Manchester (2008-2010).
Prior to that, he was an associate professor of politics at the University of Nottingham (2010-2015): and before that politics & economics research fellow at the University of Manchester (2008-2010).
🚨🚨🚨Breaking: Conservative peer, Brexit uber-quisling and malignant Gollum lookalike Daniel Hannan reveals that white British people don't commit murder.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨🚨🚨Breaking: Conservative peer, Brexit uber-quisling and malignant Gollum lookalike Daniel Hannan reveals that white British people don't commit murder.
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Grok has developed a crystal meth addiction.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Grok has developed a crystal meth addiction.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Once in a while Kim Kardashian likes to remind everyone what a pointless waste of carbon she really is.
A fully paid-up, card-carrying, copper-bottomed oxygen thief of use to no one.
#NASA
A fully paid-up, card-carrying, copper-bottomed oxygen thief of use to no one.
#NASA
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Once in a while Kim Kardashian likes to remind everyone what a pointless waste of carbon she really is.
A fully paid-up, card-carrying, copper-bottomed oxygen thief of use to no one.
#NASA
A fully paid-up, card-carrying, copper-bottomed oxygen thief of use to no one.
#NASA
The Economist is now smoking heavily from the same post-truth crack pipe as the Washington Post in the US and the Daily Telegraph in the UK.
What a humiliating, shambolic decline in journalistic standards this is to witness.
What a humiliating, shambolic decline in journalistic standards this is to witness.
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Economist is now smoking heavily from the same post-truth crack pipe as the Washington Post in the US and the Daily Telegraph in the UK.
What a humiliating, shambolic decline in journalistic standards this is to witness.
What a humiliating, shambolic decline in journalistic standards this is to witness.