Brian Robinson
@brian-robinsonbsky.bsky.social
Retired NHS psychiatrist
From Alan Harrington's wonderful book.
December 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
From Alan Harrington's wonderful book.
A few notes from talks by Prof Sheldon Solomon, social psychologist, about Ernest Becker.
December 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A few notes from talks by Prof Sheldon Solomon, social psychologist, about Ernest Becker.
Wonderful analysis at this point of "the Epstein class", what they do, how they think, what they care about and don't. youtu.be/dFgIRpGnUJA?...
How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Wonderful analysis at this point of "the Epstein class", what they do, how they think, what they care about and don't. youtu.be/dFgIRpGnUJA?...
Reposted by Brian Robinson
Conservatives yell “socialism” at every initiative designed to help people.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Conservatives yell “socialism” at every initiative designed to help people.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Miriam Margolyes introduction to chlldren's novel Cut Flowers freedomcharity.org.uk/cut-flowers/
December 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Miriam Margolyes introduction to chlldren's novel Cut Flowers freedomcharity.org.uk/cut-flowers/
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Thank goodness Sachs (& Tulsi Gabbard) saying these things Avert disaster at 1 minute to midnight x.com/ivan_8848/st...
x.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Thank goodness Sachs (& Tulsi Gabbard) saying these things Avert disaster at 1 minute to midnight x.com/ivan_8848/st...
From the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
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December 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
From the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what 'Globalise the intifada' actually means
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
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Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what 'Globalise the intifada' actually means
Sir Mark Rowley, your primary concern is not public safety but protecting the interests of the British establishment. And it has decreed that no opposition to Israel’s genocide will be tolerated
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December 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what 'Globalise the intifada' actually means
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Great ole BBC still does things no others do "I don’t care that the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is under a century old. It still embodies something ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ doesn’t, and we lose it at our peril." www.classical-music.com/features/mus...
What is a carol – and how is it different to a hymn? | Classical Music
Just what is a carol? And how does it differ from a hymn? Is it a Christmas thing? Stephen Johnson looks at the evidence
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December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Great ole BBC still does things no others do "I don’t care that the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is under a century old. It still embodies something ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ doesn’t, and we lose it at our peril." www.classical-music.com/features/mus...
There's hope yet! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan
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December 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
There's hope yet! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From Schopenhauer On philosophy and its method Parerga & Paralipomena vol 2
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
From Schopenhauer On philosophy and its method Parerga & Paralipomena vol 2
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo... Also note petition to @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (Doesn't the BBC have a bsky address of its own?)
Boycott the Eurovision Song Contest
Our UK Government is not making it clear to the Israeli Government that their actions are unacceptable and will not be tolerated by the UK public. As the Eurovision Song Contest is being hosted in Isr...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo... Also note petition to @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (Doesn't the BBC have a bsky address of its own?)
The first thing you need in a crisis is a cool head. And indeed, "The innocent suffer for the sins of the guilty". Displaced, misplaced aggression is a deplorable, in this case execrable, unforgivable act. Baruch Spinoza: 'Nothing exists of which it cannot be asked, what is the reason it exists'.
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The first thing you need in a crisis is a cool head. And indeed, "The innocent suffer for the sins of the guilty". Displaced, misplaced aggression is a deplorable, in this case execrable, unforgivable act. Baruch Spinoza: 'Nothing exists of which it cannot be asked, what is the reason it exists'.
Not sure I go all the way with @deepgreenresist Deep Green Resistance but I've read the books, watched the videos and they do make a strong case. Maybe an extreme position is all that can save us now??
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Not sure I go all the way with @deepgreenresist Deep Green Resistance but I've read the books, watched the videos and they do make a strong case. Maybe an extreme position is all that can save us now??
Norman Finkelstein Part transcript from video link below tinyurl.com/yzjbywcm
December 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Norman Finkelstein Part transcript from video link below tinyurl.com/yzjbywcm
From Haaretz: 'A Channel 12 News poll shows PM Netanyahu's Likud would be the largest party in the Knesset with 27 seats if elections were held now, gaining two from the previous poll.'
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
From Haaretz: 'A Channel 12 News poll shows PM Netanyahu's Likud would be the largest party in the Knesset with 27 seats if elections were held now, gaining two from the previous poll.'
What is happening, what really is going on in the world now? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/r...
From COVID to Hepatitis to Measles, RFK Jr. Is Gutting Vaccine Science: An Ex-CDC Expert Speaks Out
As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dramatically reshapes U.S. immunization policy, we speak with Dr. Fiona Havers, a former top vaccine expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What is happening, what really is going on in the world now? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/r...
Sex? "The public secret which must never be distinctly mentioned anywhere, but is always and everywhere understood to be the main thing." -- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819, 1844.
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sex? "The public secret which must never be distinctly mentioned anywhere, but is always and everywhere understood to be the main thing." -- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819, 1844.
Too true mate! My grouse too.
sadly, as a pensioner (and no, I don't have a £2 million mansion) I am not in a position to subscribe to all the substack accounts I would like to read.
each "ONLY £5 a month" adds-up you know..
each "ONLY £5 a month" adds-up you know..
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Too true mate! My grouse too.
"If you want to understand a party, look at its actions and not its words. What we have in Wales is a chaotic party whose dislike of scrutiny seems only to be surpassed by its members’ dislike of each other." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I don’t care if Reform calls me a bad word on WhatsApp. But the story behind its gaffe is far more worrying | Will Hayward
The leaked exchange shows how much the party dislikes scrutiny – which reveals a lot about its approach to governing, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
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December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"If you want to understand a party, look at its actions and not its words. What we have in Wales is a chaotic party whose dislike of scrutiny seems only to be surpassed by its members’ dislike of each other." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...