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.
The problem is the wilful harm & hardship America's mad racist king and his freak show of advisors will continue to inflict on the American people between now and the end of his term: and also emboldening & encouraging other racist authoritarian thugs elsewhere in the world.
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Trump is hurtling into lame duck territory.
His ratings are off a cliff. It's his second term, and the next generation of Republicans are desperately distancing themselves from him, fearing wipeout.
Nigel Farage, meanwhile, clearly hasn't noticed and thinks it's all going to be happy days ahead.
His ratings are off a cliff. It's his second term, and the next generation of Republicans are desperately distancing themselves from him, fearing wipeout.
Nigel Farage, meanwhile, clearly hasn't noticed and thinks it's all going to be happy days ahead.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The problem is the wilful harm & hardship America's mad racist king and his freak show of advisors will continue to inflict on the American people between now and the end of his term: and also emboldening & encouraging other racist authoritarian thugs elsewhere in the world.
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John Fetterman's let himself go since he went MAGA.*
*It's not John Fetterman
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*It's not John Fetterman
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
John Fetterman's let himself go since he went MAGA.*
*It's not John Fetterman
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*It's not John Fetterman
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Message understood, Tom. Will do.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Message understood, Tom. Will do.
I've just followed you. Please follow me back and I'll drop you a DM.
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I'd gladly take it off your hands if it's still going mate 👍
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I've just followed you. Please follow me back and I'll drop you a DM.
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Hi Tom. The ticket is all yours, sir 👍
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I'd gladly take it off your hands if it's still going mate 👍
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hi Tom. The ticket is all yours, sir 👍
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I also have 1x spare ticket to this Thursday's Origin Story Live event, available at the discounted Patreon price of £23.
I'll be heading along to the event and can hand the ticket over in person if necessary.
Please reply to this post if you'd like to take it 👍
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I'll be heading along to the event and can hand the ticket over in person if necessary.
Please reply to this post if you'd like to take it 👍
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Live show is sold out but we've taken five tickets off guestlist and put them on sale www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/origin-sto...
Origin Story Live – the political words that shape our world
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November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I also have 1x spare ticket to this Thursday's Origin Story Live event, available at the discounted Patreon price of £23.
I'll be heading along to the event and can hand the ticket over in person if necessary.
Please reply to this post if you'd like to take it 👍
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I'll be heading along to the event and can hand the ticket over in person if necessary.
Please reply to this post if you'd like to take it 👍
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Reposted by Alex Sowden
Reposted by Alex Sowden
Someone remind Ant Middleton (whoever he is) that serving in your country's armed forces doesn't entitle you to act like a c**t.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Someone remind Ant Middleton (whoever he is) that serving in your country's armed forces doesn't entitle you to act like a c**t.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
Reposted by Alex Sowden
One of the UK's most effective Governors of the Bank of England in recent times was Mark Carney, now Prime Minister of Canada.
In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
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In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
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As mentioned near the end of today's @therestpolitics.bsky.social emergency podcast, perhaps the next BBC Director General should be from overseas.
Someone from outside the UK might have the objective perspective (minus the political baggage) that's needed to initiate necessary reforms at the BBC.
Someone from outside the UK might have the objective perspective (minus the political baggage) that's needed to initiate necessary reforms at the BBC.
🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT! 🚨
Join @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory live at midday as they unpack the fallout from the BBC’s latest scandal - from Tim Davie’s shock resignation to what might come next for the broadcaster...
Don’t miss it. Link in the replies 👇
Join @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory live at midday as they unpack the fallout from the BBC’s latest scandal - from Tim Davie’s shock resignation to what might come next for the broadcaster...
Don’t miss it. Link in the replies 👇
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
One of the UK's most effective Governors of the Bank of England in recent times was Mark Carney, now Prime Minister of Canada.
In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
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In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
One of the UK's most effective Governors of the Bank of England in recent times was Mark Carney, now Prime Minister of Canada.
In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
As mentioned near the end of today's @therestpolitics.bsky.social emergency podcast, perhaps the next BBC Director General should be from overseas.
Someone from outside the UK might have the objective perspective (minus the political baggage) that's needed to initiate necessary reforms at the BBC.
Someone from outside the UK might have the objective perspective (minus the political baggage) that's needed to initiate necessary reforms at the BBC.
🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT! 🚨
Join @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory live at midday as they unpack the fallout from the BBC’s latest scandal - from Tim Davie’s shock resignation to what might come next for the broadcaster...
Don’t miss it. Link in the replies 👇
Join @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory live at midday as they unpack the fallout from the BBC’s latest scandal - from Tim Davie’s shock resignation to what might come next for the broadcaster...
Don’t miss it. Link in the replies 👇
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
One of the UK's most effective Governors of the Bank of England in recent times was Mark Carney, now Prime Minister of Canada.
In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
In this current crisis moment for the BBC, maybe it's now time to appoint a Director General from further afield #Panorama
bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
Someone remind Ant Middleton (whoever he is) that serving in your country's armed forces doesn't entitle you to act like a c**t.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Someone remind Ant Middleton (whoever he is) that serving in your country's armed forces doesn't entitle you to act like a c**t.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
Whether you're a 100yr old veteran or currently on active service doesn't mean all your views are automatically correct & should be accepted as unchallenged gospel truth.
A quick reminder during a busy news day that America's mad racist king and his MAGA-GOP fluffers and handmaids all hate, fear and despise people of colour: and want to erase the evidence of these people's contributions to American and world history.
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Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A quick reminder during a busy news day that America's mad racist king and his MAGA-GOP fluffers and handmaids all hate, fear and despise people of colour: and want to erase the evidence of these people's contributions to American and world history.
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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.
Reposted by Alex Sowden
For editorial balance, Panorama should obviously have followed up its programme about how Trump incited a violent mob to attack police officers and ransack the US Capitol with a programme about how Kamala Harris
smiled and laughed a lot 🤨🤷♂️ #BBC
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smiled and laughed a lot 🤨🤷♂️ #BBC
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Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
For editorial balance, Panorama should obviously have followed up its programme about how Trump incited a violent mob to attack police officers and ransack the US Capitol with a programme about how Kamala Harris
smiled and laughed a lot 🤨🤷♂️ #BBC
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smiled and laughed a lot 🤨🤷♂️ #BBC
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