RDCK98
@comradekenobi.bsky.social
Writer/Researcher interested in the Devolution, Empire, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Palaeontology | All views are my own | he/him 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
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i don't care for defending "the BBC" in the sense of the specific institution, or its works; not because i think/don't think those works are mostly good or bad. i care for defending the public broadcaster because it's good we have one
i don't care for defending "the BBC" in the sense of the specific institution, or its works; not because i think/don't think those works are mostly good or bad. i care for defending the public broadcaster because it's good we have one
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
this is a "read to the end" post.
i don't care for defending "the BBC" in the sense of the specific institution, or its works; not because i think/don't think those works are mostly good or bad. i care for defending the public broadcaster because it's good we have one
i don't care for defending "the BBC" in the sense of the specific institution, or its works; not because i think/don't think those works are mostly good or bad. i care for defending the public broadcaster because it's good we have one
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[George Lucas between calculating licensed toy revenue circa 1999]
"Wesa all product of da material conditions dissen why wesa need a strongen deconstruction of da colonialist mindset un focus onda natives"
"Wesa all product of da material conditions dissen why wesa need a strongen deconstruction of da colonialist mindset un focus onda natives"
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
[George Lucas between calculating licensed toy revenue circa 1999]
"Wesa all product of da material conditions dissen why wesa need a strongen deconstruction of da colonialist mindset un focus onda natives"
"Wesa all product of da material conditions dissen why wesa need a strongen deconstruction of da colonialist mindset un focus onda natives"
The terrifying thing being that the UK's institutions are much less robust than America's. The US has the constitution, a recognised seperation of powers. We have an elected dictatorship held in check by... an aristocratic septuagenarian?
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The terrifying thing being that the UK's institutions are much less robust than America's. The US has the constitution, a recognised seperation of powers. We have an elected dictatorship held in check by... an aristocratic septuagenarian?
Concrete measures to tackle Child poverty and some nice extra funding for the Scottish Government? It's a good day lads
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Concrete measures to tackle Child poverty and some nice extra funding for the Scottish Government? It's a good day lads
Youth wings are good, the key thing is the internal culture of the wider party. Which is why Labour youth wings are the way they are.
Like I'm sorry but the average 20 year old wants to hang out with other 20 year olds, not old people. This is a societally universal phenomenon that has to be adjusted to, not "why won't people just"-ed
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Youth wings are good, the key thing is the internal culture of the wider party. Which is why Labour youth wings are the way they are.
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The Today Programme.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Today Programme.
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It's pretty embarrassing that Britain is even oursourcing its state-controlled media to the US
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It's pretty embarrassing that Britain is even oursourcing its state-controlled media to the US
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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"Empire is a thing that happened to other people until 1940" is fundamental to the modern British pyschosis, i think
I mean but for real though it's actually weird to remember that there are large swathes of the population out there that basically only know one thing about the Empire: that it happened, vaguely, and maybe that a great-uncle was born in India.
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Empire is a thing that happened to other people until 1940" is fundamental to the modern British pyschosis, i think
This is horrific. Aid cuts are death sentences masquerading as fiscal prudence.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is horrific. Aid cuts are death sentences masquerading as fiscal prudence.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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"However, because of aid cuts, FCDO officials chose the “least ambitious” plan to protect Sudanese civilians."
Aid cuts cost lives.
Aid cuts cost lives.
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"However, because of aid cuts, FCDO officials chose the “least ambitious” plan to protect Sudanese civilians."
Aid cuts cost lives.
Aid cuts cost lives.
If a UK Labour Govenrment ever did this, it would solve the energy crisis. Because we could generate free electricity by hooking up certain Scottish Labour figures to the grid such would be their white hot rage.
The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY.
Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY.
Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If a UK Labour Govenrment ever did this, it would solve the energy crisis. Because we could generate free electricity by hooking up certain Scottish Labour figures to the grid such would be their white hot rage.
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.
Year one: "We can work it out as an estimate"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
I don’t think think “estimated road use” is right approach - at the least drivers should have the *option* of getting a black box fitted that just tracks their EVs usage, but come on, Mel, impersonate a serious politician!
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.
The most life affirming thing you can do is watch a sports game live outside of your own house. Football, Rugby, Cricket, even Golf, it doesn't moment. Sharing in little moments of triumph is a genuine delight.
I do think people would benefit from just making themselves become like 5% more normie. Like I'm glad you're expressing your wildest self and all but I do think one of the reasons some of you start sounding like Sephiroth is that you don't spend enough time around folk who don't know who that is.
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The most life affirming thing you can do is watch a sports game live outside of your own house. Football, Rugby, Cricket, even Golf, it doesn't moment. Sharing in little moments of triumph is a genuine delight.
Yesterday the UK Government pulled the Bill to ratify the treaty handing sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in the face of a Tory amendment to demand the Government consult the Chagossians
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Yesterday the UK Government pulled the Bill to ratify the treaty handing sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in the face of a Tory amendment to demand the Government consult the Chagossians
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
The Sopranos is great for many reasons, including for accurately portraying the American mob as a bunch of dumb goons and violent leeches using their heritage as an excuse to dodge hard work
It is sort of incredible that the mob tried to kill Sliwa twice. I can’t imagine him mattering at all to any actual serious organized crime. Evidently it was over an insult on a radio show. I guess the Hollywood version of them as sophisticated businessmen is deceiving. Just violent dumb goons.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Sopranos is great for many reasons, including for accurately portraying the American mob as a bunch of dumb goons and violent leeches using their heritage as an excuse to dodge hard work
Fundemntally this is a position held not only by the most hardline of unionists in Scotland but also of terminally poisoned English nationalists who see *any* independence movement in the UK as a nebolous national security threat.
Senior UK government figures like Healey, Alexander, and now Lammy claiming that the SNP are a national security threat isn't just infantile, it's dangerously delegitimising a democratically elected government, and is the first step in securitising the issue of Scottish self-determination.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Fundemntally this is a position held not only by the most hardline of unionists in Scotland but also of terminally poisoned English nationalists who see *any* independence movement in the UK as a nebolous national security threat.
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Idk if European politicians "can learn" anything whatsoever from Mamdani but one thing I /wish/ they learned is to actually believe in things, specifically multiculturalism
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Idk if European politicians "can learn" anything whatsoever from Mamdani but one thing I /wish/ they learned is to actually believe in things, specifically multiculturalism
Real ones can still remember being crushed by Clackmananshire in 2014
Political hope is the best feeling in the world. I haven’t felt like this since the early stages of Bernie 2020 and the UK general election in 2017.
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Real ones can still remember being crushed by Clackmananshire in 2014
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the uk government is terrified of doing absolutely anything about this
I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.
November 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
the uk government is terrified of doing absolutely anything about this
Incredible how many times in the last two decades that centre-left politicians in the UK/US have been willing to set their political coalitions on fire before conceding an inch to organised left-wing movements
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Incredible how many times in the last two decades that centre-left politicians in the UK/US have been willing to set their political coalitions on fire before conceding an inch to organised left-wing movements
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November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
A bit of selfish and shameless self promotion but if you appreciated my two most recent articles about public opinion vis a vis Palestine, one of them about Mamdani, please consider supporting my freelancing writing— my main source of income alongside SSI while I search for a new job.