"Sources close to" Bob Borsley
@bobborsley.bsky.social
Retired academic (theoretical linguist). University of Essex/Bangor University. Lives on Ynys Môn. Has lived in Essex, Poland, Edinburgh, Warwickshire, etc.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/borsl53905/bob-borsley
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/borsl53905/bob-borsley
Galtieri should have sued the Sun over this:
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Galtieri should have sued the Sun over this:
Good piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on the BBC “crisis”, among other things making a rather important point about the dodgy edit in Panorama:
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Good piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on the BBC “crisis”, among other things making a rather important point about the dodgy edit in Panorama:
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
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November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
If Hitler had had his own personal “AI” system, he could have dispensed with the services of Dr Joseph Goebbels:
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If Hitler had had his own personal “AI” system, he could have dispensed with the services of Dr Joseph Goebbels:
Wyt ti’n cofio? Do you remember?
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Wyt ti’n cofio? Do you remember?
Eryri morning:
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Eryri morning:
Suspect the time will come when people are embarrassed about having been photographed grinning inanely with the would-be dictator in the White House. Maybe Gove already is:
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Suspect the time will come when people are embarrassed about having been photographed grinning inanely with the would-be dictator in the White House. Maybe Gove already is:
Oddly, they don’t look at all like foreigners. Maybe they’re cunningly disguised. I’m sure Elon Musk could explain:
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oddly, they don’t look at all like foreigners. Maybe they’re cunningly disguised. I’m sure Elon Musk could explain:
The neighbours:
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The neighbours:
Lunchtime on Afon Menai:
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Lunchtime on Afon Menai:
Silver birches on Ynys Môn:
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Silver birches on Ynys Môn:
Actually the view from the entrance to a field, but it goes well enough with R.S. Thomas’s ‘The View from the Window’:
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Actually the view from the entrance to a field, but it goes well enough with R.S. Thomas’s ‘The View from the Window’:
Dusk on Ynys Môn:
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dusk on Ynys Môn:
Morning on Ynys Môn with sunrise over the Carneddau and plenty of berries for those who want them:
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Morning on Ynys Môn with sunrise over the Carneddau and plenty of berries for those who want them:
Empathy is generally a good thing, but there have to be limits. Some people even feel empathy for the likes of Putin, Trump, and Tommy Robinson. That is too much:
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Empathy is generally a good thing, but there have to be limits. Some people even feel empathy for the likes of Putin, Trump, and Tommy Robinson. That is too much:
Midday on Afon Menai:
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Midday on Afon Menai:
Good to see former MP George Galloway with a new hat. He could move on to the one on the right:
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Good to see former MP George Galloway with a new hat. He could move on to the one on the right:
I remember Galloway:
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I remember Galloway:
November afternoon at Aberdaron:
November 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
November afternoon at Aberdaron:
The grave of Mildred Elsi Thomas (Elsi Eldridge), painter and wife of R.S. Thomas in Eglwys St Maelrhys Church, Llanfaelrhys:
November 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The grave of Mildred Elsi Thomas (Elsi Eldridge), painter and wife of R.S. Thomas in Eglwys St Maelrhys Church, Llanfaelrhys:
Dog tongs, once used to remove unruly dogs from the church:
November 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Dog tongs, once used to remove unruly dogs from the church:
Some pictures from St Beuno's church, Clynnog Fawr. Notice in the second picture that Beuno restored to life someone who had been beheaded. This procedure is not available on the NHS:
November 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Some pictures from St Beuno's church, Clynnog Fawr. Notice in the second picture that Beuno restored to life someone who had been beheaded. This procedure is not available on the NHS:
Morning on Ynys Môn. The first picture is where the village football team used to play. Now just grazing for sheep. Sic transit gloria mundi (as Boris Johnson might say):
November 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Morning on Ynys Môn. The first picture is where the village football team used to play. Now just grazing for sheep. Sic transit gloria mundi (as Boris Johnson might say):
Loyal servant of a regime that has been brainwashing its subjects to love the leader and hate the neighbours for years (and locking up or murdering those who resist) complains about others being "brainwashed":
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Loyal servant of a regime that has been brainwashing its subjects to love the leader and hate the neighbours for years (and locking up or murdering those who resist) complains about others being "brainwashed":
Local support act Eve Goodman and Sera. Also very good:
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Local support act Eve Goodman and Sera. Also very good: