Robin Holloway #FBPE 🇩🇪🇬🇧
@b1emw.bsky.social
Anglo-German, BSc Business, ACA
History, Business and Politics
Motorcycles, scuba and travel
Learning Spanish. 100% 🇺🇦
Former Automotive Exec. turned Tour Manager
Have your own opinions, just not your own facts
Location: Birmingham UK & Mijas Costa.
History, Business and Politics
Motorcycles, scuba and travel
Learning Spanish. 100% 🇺🇦
Former Automotive Exec. turned Tour Manager
Have your own opinions, just not your own facts
Location: Birmingham UK & Mijas Costa.
Pinned
#Brexit was a treasonous, criminal enterprise with a plan and a goal. First, the anti EU grooming and social media manipulation, then scamming with false promises and a pernicious swarm of outright lies, before finally a £multi-BN looting of the Treasury.
Brexit: Crime of the Century
Brexit: Crime of the Century
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For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
How Online Radicalisation Works: What the New X Study Reveals About Cambridge Analytica, the IRA, and the Dark Triad Machine
The debate is over. A major new experiment show how effective Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms were in shifting political emotions with hostile, anti-democratic content online
pdjukes.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
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A timely reminder of what the SM is ....
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A timely reminder of what the SM is ....
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Gotta admire Corbyn's relentless ambition. It's not enough to have played his part in delivering Brexit and Boris Johnson, he wants the accomplishment of a Farage premiership before he's done.
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Gotta admire Corbyn's relentless ambition. It's not enough to have played his part in delivering Brexit and Boris Johnson, he wants the accomplishment of a Farage premiership before he's done.
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The UK is long overdue serious overhaul of its political system. “Good chaps” don’t exist. Foreign money rife. Structures outdated. Electoral system unrepresentative. Inadequate guardrails against abuse of power or corruption. Weak ethics code. Unhealthy rel’shp between pols, palace and press. 😡😡😡
Rubbing my eyes in disbelief at this EXTRAORDINARY report by @josiah.writes.news in this month @bylinetimes.bsky.social. Our pol system is truly broken: no transparency on money in politics, corrupt appts to Hse of Lords, and ZERO checks on who can run for election, if they even exist or live here!
July 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The UK is long overdue serious overhaul of its political system. “Good chaps” don’t exist. Foreign money rife. Structures outdated. Electoral system unrepresentative. Inadequate guardrails against abuse of power or corruption. Weak ethics code. Unhealthy rel’shp between pols, palace and press. 😡😡😡
Can anyone name a single thing that Starmer has done to protect our democracy?
Reverse Tory protest legislation?
Regulate social media?
Strengthen electoral commission?
Vote ID?
Limit political donations?
Look at BBC political appointees?
Starmer is too often complacent.
Reverse Tory protest legislation?
Regulate social media?
Strengthen electoral commission?
Vote ID?
Limit political donations?
Look at BBC political appointees?
Starmer is too often complacent.
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Can anyone name a single thing that Starmer has done to protect our democracy?
Reverse Tory protest legislation?
Regulate social media?
Strengthen electoral commission?
Vote ID?
Limit political donations?
Look at BBC political appointees?
Starmer is too often complacent.
Reverse Tory protest legislation?
Regulate social media?
Strengthen electoral commission?
Vote ID?
Limit political donations?
Look at BBC political appointees?
Starmer is too often complacent.
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“Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that [before Brexit] would have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Third-country asylum plan shows UK is in ‘a very dark place’, says Albanian PM
Edi Rama attacks British return hubs scheme as looking for ‘places to dump immigrants’
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
“Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that [before Brexit] would have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic political ruse that keeps everyone alienated, writes Hardeep Matharu
Alien Nation: How our Politicians Created an 'Island of Strangers' So They Don't Have to Make Our Lives Any Better – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
subscribe.bylinetimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic political ruse that keeps everyone alienated, writes Hardeep Matharu
Exactly this 👇
If you outsource party management and politics to testosterone-fuelled fools more concerned with looking hard to the Tory press than in developing serious policy Labour MPs can back, you end up where Keir Starmer finds himself today. This is a massive failure of leadership.
June 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Exactly this 👇
UKR The Latest day 1107
efdavies.bsky.social in immaculate English, provides an interesting insight into GER attitudes to RUS and focuses on the differences between the old GDR federal states and the rest of Germany. She suggests the elites of both countries have an imperial tradition as an 1/x
efdavies.bsky.social in immaculate English, provides an interesting insight into GER attitudes to RUS and focuses on the differences between the old GDR federal states and the rest of Germany. She suggests the elites of both countries have an imperial tradition as an 1/x
March 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
UKR The Latest day 1107
efdavies.bsky.social in immaculate English, provides an interesting insight into GER attitudes to RUS and focuses on the differences between the old GDR federal states and the rest of Germany. She suggests the elites of both countries have an imperial tradition as an 1/x
efdavies.bsky.social in immaculate English, provides an interesting insight into GER attitudes to RUS and focuses on the differences between the old GDR federal states and the rest of Germany. She suggests the elites of both countries have an imperial tradition as an 1/x
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"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich."
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections
In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax
www.bylinesupplement.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich."
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
I wouldn’t drive a Tesla if they gave me one.
March 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I wouldn’t drive a Tesla if they gave me one.
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“The idea that history was over, because the Cold War was over, the Berlin Wall had come down, and liberal democracy had prevailed over the extremes of fascism or communism, was irresistible in 1989. So, this isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s about recognising we’re returning to an unsafe world.”
🇬🇧 NEW: Lone Starmer State 🇺🇸
Beloved occasional Quiet Rioter, @mrjamesob.bsky.social, joins @pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social to discuss Starmer's trip to Washington and this new "Axis of Dicks" ©pimlicat.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6vIO...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Beloved occasional Quiet Rioter, @mrjamesob.bsky.social, joins @pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social to discuss Starmer's trip to Washington and this new "Axis of Dicks" ©pimlicat.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6vIO...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Lone Starmer State
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 27/02/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“The idea that history was over, because the Cold War was over, the Berlin Wall had come down, and liberal democracy had prevailed over the extremes of fascism or communism, was irresistible in 1989. So, this isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s about recognising we’re returning to an unsafe world.”
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Titanic paper from @andrewduffeu.bsky.social, which I missed at the time
While there may be some stuff to quibble about, and some of this will be hard reading for Europeans, as well as for some in the UK, as a whole this is what needs to be said.
This should be the focus for join.
A reaction 🧵
While there may be some stuff to quibble about, and some of this will be hard reading for Europeans, as well as for some in the UK, as a whole this is what needs to be said.
This should be the focus for join.
A reaction 🧵
February 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Titanic paper from @andrewduffeu.bsky.social, which I missed at the time
While there may be some stuff to quibble about, and some of this will be hard reading for Europeans, as well as for some in the UK, as a whole this is what needs to be said.
This should be the focus for join.
A reaction 🧵
While there may be some stuff to quibble about, and some of this will be hard reading for Europeans, as well as for some in the UK, as a whole this is what needs to be said.
This should be the focus for join.
A reaction 🧵
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Fight Fascism. Say No to Putin, Musk, Trump, and their toady, Farage.
REJOIN EU protest
Outside Birmingham Arena. Friday, 28th March.
REJOIN EU protest
Outside Birmingham Arena. Friday, 28th March.
February 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Fight Fascism. Say No to Putin, Musk, Trump, and their toady, Farage.
REJOIN EU protest
Outside Birmingham Arena. Friday, 28th March.
REJOIN EU protest
Outside Birmingham Arena. Friday, 28th March.
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Russia
North Korea
Hungary
Belarus
Israel
... USA......
What a mess.
North Korea
Hungary
Belarus
Israel
... USA......
What a mess.
February 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Russia
North Korea
Hungary
Belarus
Israel
... USA......
What a mess.
North Korea
Hungary
Belarus
Israel
... USA......
What a mess.
Trump is now part of the “Axis of Evil”.
February 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Trump is now part of the “Axis of Evil”.
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The kleptofascists who boast about their nationalism work effortlessly across national borders.
We, the defenders of democracy mostly stay stuck in little national bubbles.
That has to change, or democracy will be wiped out.
The struggle for democracy must know no borders.
We, the defenders of democracy mostly stay stuck in little national bubbles.
That has to change, or democracy will be wiped out.
The struggle for democracy must know no borders.
January 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The kleptofascists who boast about their nationalism work effortlessly across national borders.
We, the defenders of democracy mostly stay stuck in little national bubbles.
That has to change, or democracy will be wiped out.
The struggle for democracy must know no borders.
We, the defenders of democracy mostly stay stuck in little national bubbles.
That has to change, or democracy will be wiped out.
The struggle for democracy must know no borders.
Is it just me that thinks dinghy immigrants/asylum seekers would be better planting trees or building houses than rotting in detention centres?
December 14, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Is it just me that thinks dinghy immigrants/asylum seekers would be better planting trees or building houses than rotting in detention centres?
So friggin’ obvs.
For those keeping track ...
1.5 million houses in 5 years means more than 800 houses per day, 7 days a week.
800 x 365 (days) = 292,000
292,000 × 5 (years) = 1.46 million.
Impossible without foreign tradesmen/women.
1.5 million houses in 5 years means more than 800 houses per day, 7 days a week.
800 x 365 (days) = 292,000
292,000 × 5 (years) = 1.46 million.
Impossible without foreign tradesmen/women.
December 14, 2024 at 5:49 PM
So friggin’ obvs.
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A few months agoTrump was threatening to send Zuckerberg to prison “for life” if he interfered in the election
Now Zuckerberg is funding Trump
This is how it works
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Now Zuckerberg is funding Trump
This is how it works
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Meta donates $1m to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund
Donation comes after CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and appears to be an effort to improve relations
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:55 PM
A few months agoTrump was threatening to send Zuckerberg to prison “for life” if he interfered in the election
Now Zuckerberg is funding Trump
This is how it works
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Now Zuckerberg is funding Trump
This is how it works
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
I’ll bet the farmers used heavily subsidised red diesel in their tractors getting to the protest in Westminster. While everyone else on the road pays the full rate for their fuel.
December 11, 2024 at 3:53 PM
I’ll bet the farmers used heavily subsidised red diesel in their tractors getting to the protest in Westminster. While everyone else on the road pays the full rate for their fuel.
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"The Electoral Reform Society, which campaigns for electoral reform, has today published a report saying the [2024 UK General Election] result was “one of the most disproportional seen anywhere in the world”.
December 10, 2024 at 12:32 PM
"The Electoral Reform Society, which campaigns for electoral reform, has today published a report saying the [2024 UK General Election] result was “one of the most disproportional seen anywhere in the world”.
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Let's make Bluesky the home of independent news.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
December 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Let's make Bluesky the home of independent news.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
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Most often ‘the good guys’ are just more bad guys in a disguise we haven’t yet figured out.
Please let it not be true in Syria even though it’s very probable that it will be.
Please let it not be true in Syria even though it’s very probable that it will be.
December 9, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Most often ‘the good guys’ are just more bad guys in a disguise we haven’t yet figured out.
Please let it not be true in Syria even though it’s very probable that it will be.
Please let it not be true in Syria even though it’s very probable that it will be.