Who's Pulling Our Strings?
@chomsky81.bsky.social
Gardener and sleeper.
Capitals are not me shouting- it's my longing for italics.
Capitals are not me shouting- it's my longing for italics.
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
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When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
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Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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They're not going to vote for you. Whatever you do, the imagined community for ex-Labour, Reform voting manual working class men who you want to vote for you...are not going to vote for you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit asylum seekers to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
They're not going to vote for you. Whatever you do, the imagined community for ex-Labour, Reform voting manual working class men who you want to vote for you...are not going to vote for you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Three years ago, after the Martin Bashir scandal, BBC boss Tim Davie tried to prevent future crises by appointing two “external editorial experts” to scrutinise BBC journalism. Oddly, both came from PR rather than journalism.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Three years ago, after the Martin Bashir scandal, BBC boss Tim Davie tried to prevent future crises by appointing two “external editorial experts” to scrutinise BBC journalism. Oddly, both came from PR rather than journalism.
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Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn
Rachel Reeves looks set to abandon raising income tax in her budget with the chancellor reportedly “ripping up” the main measures in her plan in the wake of turmoil in the party.
A source told the Guardian that plans to break the manifesto pledge on income tax had been ditched by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the chancellor. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
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Reckoning coming?
a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of people and says shame shame shame .
ALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of people and says shame shame shame .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reckoning coming?
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If I added the following description of myself to my profile:
"A good and trustworthy person"
What would you think?
"A good and trustworthy person"
What would you think?
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If I added the following description of myself to my profile:
"A good and trustworthy person"
What would you think?
"A good and trustworthy person"
What would you think?
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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BBC Question Time audience clapping a Danny Kruger speech about the need to protect rich people and how "wealth creation" will ultimately benefit us all 🤮🤮🤮.
I mean, I get that it's not black-and-white and it's complex but I wouldn't be clapping that!
I knew they would clap…
#UKPolitics #BBCQT
I mean, I get that it's not black-and-white and it's complex but I wouldn't be clapping that!
I knew they would clap…
#UKPolitics #BBCQT
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
BBC Question Time audience clapping a Danny Kruger speech about the need to protect rich people and how "wealth creation" will ultimately benefit us all 🤮🤮🤮.
I mean, I get that it's not black-and-white and it's complex but I wouldn't be clapping that!
I knew they would clap…
#UKPolitics #BBCQT
I mean, I get that it's not black-and-white and it's complex but I wouldn't be clapping that!
I knew they would clap…
#UKPolitics #BBCQT
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Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
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British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
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UK politics live – latest updates
The British Medical Association is acting like a “cartel” and its “antics” are endangering the NHS’s future, the health secretary said on Wednesday, before the latest doctors’ strike on Friday.
Wes Streeting launched his most strongly worded attack yet on the doctors’ union, coming close to accusing resident doctors in England of being greedy in their pay demands. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
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🚨BREAKING: Bristol Green Party has passed 5,000 members 🥳
We have more than TRIPLED our membership in 2 months!
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk
We have more than TRIPLED our membership in 2 months!
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨BREAKING: Bristol Green Party has passed 5,000 members 🥳
We have more than TRIPLED our membership in 2 months!
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk
We have more than TRIPLED our membership in 2 months!
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk
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"The BBC is actually in pretty good company now."
The FT's Gillian Tett points out the number of other organisations that President Trump has threatened legal action against, in addition to the BBC.
#Newsnight
The FT's Gillian Tett points out the number of other organisations that President Trump has threatened legal action against, in addition to the BBC.
#Newsnight
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"The BBC is actually in pretty good company now."
The FT's Gillian Tett points out the number of other organisations that President Trump has threatened legal action against, in addition to the BBC.
#Newsnight
The FT's Gillian Tett points out the number of other organisations that President Trump has threatened legal action against, in addition to the BBC.
#Newsnight
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
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‘Why is it on us to wrestle back the meaning of it?’
‘I don’t know why the victim has to come up with the plans.’
Caller Trevor, who was chased by skinheads as a child, debates England flags with @benkentish.bsky.social.
‘I don’t know why the victim has to come up with the plans.’
Caller Trevor, who was chased by skinheads as a child, debates England flags with @benkentish.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
‘Why is it on us to wrestle back the meaning of it?’
‘I don’t know why the victim has to come up with the plans.’
Caller Trevor, who was chased by skinheads as a child, debates England flags with @benkentish.bsky.social.
‘I don’t know why the victim has to come up with the plans.’
Caller Trevor, who was chased by skinheads as a child, debates England flags with @benkentish.bsky.social.
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
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The wonderful writer and humanist #KurtVonnegut was born #OnThisDay, 1922. His enduring advice on living well remains as relevant as ever. Featured in the #littlebookofhumanism @thealiceroberts.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The wonderful writer and humanist #KurtVonnegut was born #OnThisDay, 1922. His enduring advice on living well remains as relevant as ever. Featured in the #littlebookofhumanism @thealiceroberts.bsky.social
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Good morning. This week's theme is London at War.
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Good morning. This week's theme is London at War.
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
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‘The BBC don’t realise that these people want their destruction.’
Why are right-wing media outlets so 'exercised' by the editing of a Panorama documentary? James O’Brien has an idea.
Why are right-wing media outlets so 'exercised' by the editing of a Panorama documentary? James O’Brien has an idea.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
‘The BBC don’t realise that these people want their destruction.’
Why are right-wing media outlets so 'exercised' by the editing of a Panorama documentary? James O’Brien has an idea.
Why are right-wing media outlets so 'exercised' by the editing of a Panorama documentary? James O’Brien has an idea.
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LOL.
If I had been naive enough to give them money I would certainly be demanding a refund!!
This entire thing has to be satirical performance art?? It's suspiciously too good to be true.
#UKPolitics #YourParty
If I had been naive enough to give them money I would certainly be demanding a refund!!
This entire thing has to be satirical performance art?? It's suspiciously too good to be true.
#UKPolitics #YourParty
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
LOL.
If I had been naive enough to give them money I would certainly be demanding a refund!!
This entire thing has to be satirical performance art?? It's suspiciously too good to be true.
#UKPolitics #YourParty
If I had been naive enough to give them money I would certainly be demanding a refund!!
This entire thing has to be satirical performance art?? It's suspiciously too good to be true.
#UKPolitics #YourParty
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NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
NHS staff who care for patients in their own homes fear some areas have become “no-go zones” for them because of the presence of St George’s flags, health leaders have said.
Black and Asian staff have been left feeling “deliberately intimidated” as a result of the flags that were put up in many parts of England during the summer, according to the chief executive of one NHS trust in England, who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
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11th November, 1978:
"Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood" part 3. #DoctorWho
"Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood" part 3. #DoctorWho
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
11th November, 1978:
"Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood" part 3. #DoctorWho
"Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood" part 3. #DoctorWho
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.