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What Trump’s new order on domestic terrorism really means for America
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Two incredibly important videos posted on YouTube today. I urge you to watch them both as they unpack the fascism unfolding in America...
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youtu.be/ldwXEFBLoYY?...
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You, not anyone else!
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You, not anyone else!
Austerity begets austerity.
After the first round of austerity and redundancies from most councils/hospitals/schools etc, all future works tend to be outsourced - contracted at incredible cost - because of a lack of in-house expertise or resources.
After the first round of austerity and redundancies from most councils/hospitals/schools etc, all future works tend to be outsourced - contracted at incredible cost - because of a lack of in-house expertise or resources.
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Austerity begets austerity.
After the first round of austerity and redundancies from most councils/hospitals/schools etc, all future works tend to be outsourced - contracted at incredible cost - because of a lack of in-house expertise or resources.
After the first round of austerity and redundancies from most councils/hospitals/schools etc, all future works tend to be outsourced - contracted at incredible cost - because of a lack of in-house expertise or resources.
Congratulations to Scotland on reaching the World Cup, is it too soon to ask why there's a shocking lack of racial diversity in their Men's football team?
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Congratulations to Scotland on reaching the World Cup, is it too soon to ask why there's a shocking lack of racial diversity in their Men's football team?
Can't we just levy Non dom owned golf resorts on the East Coast of Scotland with say a windfall tax of $5bn?
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Can't we just levy Non dom owned golf resorts on the East Coast of Scotland with say a windfall tax of $5bn?
It's crazy to think that if the Titanic had been stranded on Mount Everest instead of at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the depth of 12,500 feet it finds itself at wouldn't even get it as high as Everest's base camp (17,600ft) and less than half way up the mountain (29,031 feet above sea level)!
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's crazy to think that if the Titanic had been stranded on Mount Everest instead of at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the depth of 12,500 feet it finds itself at wouldn't even get it as high as Everest's base camp (17,600ft) and less than half way up the mountain (29,031 feet above sea level)!
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We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
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Our Christmas version of "Keeping the Dream Alive" in support of the Clark Family Christmas Light Display & TINY TOES (East Kent Hospitals Charity's campaign for neonatal and special care baby units) is *OUT ON 5th DECEMBER!*
Pre-order & donate buttons: orcd.co/keepthedream
#WorldPrematurityDay
Pre-order & donate buttons: orcd.co/keepthedream
#WorldPrematurityDay
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Our Christmas version of "Keeping the Dream Alive" in support of the Clark Family Christmas Light Display & TINY TOES (East Kent Hospitals Charity's campaign for neonatal and special care baby units) is *OUT ON 5th DECEMBER!*
Pre-order & donate buttons: orcd.co/keepthedream
#WorldPrematurityDay
Pre-order & donate buttons: orcd.co/keepthedream
#WorldPrematurityDay
Why do Americans insist on saying "normalcy" instead of "normality"?
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Why do Americans insist on saying "normalcy" instead of "normality"?
When Trump calls Starmer, he should promise to remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC as penance and then pretend Trump insisted.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
When Trump calls Starmer, he should promise to remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC as penance and then pretend Trump insisted.
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So here’s Bannon celebrating Theresa May’s ouster with George Galloway in 2019, and Farage thanking Bannon and Breitbart for making Brexit happen
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
So here’s Bannon celebrating Theresa May’s ouster with George Galloway in 2019, and Farage thanking Bannon and Breitbart for making Brexit happen
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Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
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Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
"Trump'll Nail Ya" - Marsh Family parody adaptation of sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" about BBC crisis
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
What a shame the BBC will be making its mind up in whether to defend Itself against Trump's demands by reading the messages people are sending to it on X.
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
What a shame the BBC will be making its mind up in whether to defend Itself against Trump's demands by reading the messages people are sending to it on X.
I wouldn't rush out to look at the Aurora until we've definitely established that the comet 3I/Atlas is not alien technology.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I wouldn't rush out to look at the Aurora until we've definitely established that the comet 3I/Atlas is not alien technology.
Just found this in my saved screenshots from goodness knows how many moons ago. Still interesting, still worth remembering.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Just found this in my saved screenshots from goodness knows how many moons ago. Still interesting, still worth remembering.
If Trump sues the BBC for $1Bn, the government should set up a unit for suing Musk. Use the first billion to pay Trump off and everything else to fund the BBC and maybe the winter fuel payments.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
If Trump sues the BBC for $1Bn, the government should set up a unit for suing Musk. Use the first billion to pay Trump off and everything else to fund the BBC and maybe the winter fuel payments.
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‼️The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
@nafeez.bsky.social’s analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
@nafeez.bsky.social’s analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
‼️The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
@nafeez.bsky.social’s analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
@nafeez.bsky.social’s analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
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🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
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The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
It seems like the Labour Party are tip toeing tactically towards an election in the hope they will beat Reform.
They should be doing all they can to stop the rise of fascism in the here and now. What's the point of securing an election victory if 30% of the electorate are radicalised fascists?
They should be doing all they can to stop the rise of fascism in the here and now. What's the point of securing an election victory if 30% of the electorate are radicalised fascists?
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It seems like the Labour Party are tip toeing tactically towards an election in the hope they will beat Reform.
They should be doing all they can to stop the rise of fascism in the here and now. What's the point of securing an election victory if 30% of the electorate are radicalised fascists?
They should be doing all they can to stop the rise of fascism in the here and now. What's the point of securing an election victory if 30% of the electorate are radicalised fascists?
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Here's "Wandsworth Prison Blues" - a bit of #JohnnyCash, a shot at #DavidLammy, & a dash of a Disney song that #RolfHarris once sang 🐊🎶😬
https//youtu.be/9P...
P.S. If you like our stuff, only hours left on our Kickstarter to help us launch a debut album in 2026: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
https//youtu.be/9P...
P.S. If you like our stuff, only hours left on our Kickstarter to help us launch a debut album in 2026: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
"Wandsworth Prison Blues" - Marsh Family parody of "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash, on UK jails
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Here's "Wandsworth Prison Blues" - a bit of #JohnnyCash, a shot at #DavidLammy, & a dash of a Disney song that #RolfHarris once sang 🐊🎶😬
https//youtu.be/9P...
P.S. If you like our stuff, only hours left on our Kickstarter to help us launch a debut album in 2026: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
https//youtu.be/9P...
P.S. If you like our stuff, only hours left on our Kickstarter to help us launch a debut album in 2026: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
If I can buy a box of 48 packets of crisps I should be able to buy a box of 48 mince pies.
Y'know. To last through Christmas.
Y'know. To last through Christmas.
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If I can buy a box of 48 packets of crisps I should be able to buy a box of 48 mince pies.
Y'know. To last through Christmas.
Y'know. To last through Christmas.
The way to stop political interference by the wealthiest in society is to issue tax bills like fixed penalties, at twice the amount they donate to political parties.
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The way to stop political interference by the wealthiest in society is to issue tax bills like fixed penalties, at twice the amount they donate to political parties.
Welsh language broadcaster S4C contributed £150.3 million to the Welsh economy last year.
Not sure a consonant tax would work in England though.
Not sure a consonant tax would work in England though.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Welsh language broadcaster S4C contributed £150.3 million to the Welsh economy last year.
Not sure a consonant tax would work in England though.
Not sure a consonant tax would work in England though.
There was a delicious irony in Republicans, afraid of losing New York's mayoral election to Mamdani, telling New Yorkers to "wake up".
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
There was a delicious irony in Republicans, afraid of losing New York's mayoral election to Mamdani, telling New Yorkers to "wake up".