Owen Ravenscroft
@dakotadc47.bsky.social
LFC supporting Denver Broncos fanatic, frustrated footballer, sometime genius, most of the time bored/drunk/both.
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As expected, Charlie Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson, was a black trans muslim Democrat... oh, hang on... sorry - he was the son of white Christian Republican parents in Utah and was taught to use guns from an early age. What a fucking surprise.
September 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
As expected, Charlie Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson, was a black trans muslim Democrat... oh, hang on... sorry - he was the son of white Christian Republican parents in Utah and was taught to use guns from an early age. What a fucking surprise.
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🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
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Ten years ago I'd have given this migrant the benefit of the doubt but no more.
This complete lack of awareness lies at the heart of English exceptionalism.
This complete lack of awareness lies at the heart of English exceptionalism.
British immigrant to Spain tells GB News the reason she moved to Benidorm is that there are too many immigrants in the UK
And her friend says the cost of living is lower and better inside the European Union than back in the UK which is outside the EU
And her friend says the cost of living is lower and better inside the European Union than back in the UK which is outside the EU
August 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ten years ago I'd have given this migrant the benefit of the doubt but no more.
This complete lack of awareness lies at the heart of English exceptionalism.
This complete lack of awareness lies at the heart of English exceptionalism.
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Here's a fact for you all.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
August 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Here's a fact for you all.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Well, this is a take. Demonstrably untrue. Could any other team have won the league with their first choice GK missing 10 games? If your squad isn’t big and deep enough how is that anyone else’s issue, let alone the league champions?
The one thing you omit is that Liverpool 24/25 were the “worst” champions in a decade, and won because their rivals played without their best players for most of the season
August 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Well, this is a take. Demonstrably untrue. Could any other team have won the league with their first choice GK missing 10 games? If your squad isn’t big and deep enough how is that anyone else’s issue, let alone the league champions?
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I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
August 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
I wonder what the narrative will be if the courts find that the govt was acting within the law to proscribe Palestine Action? I’m guessing likely deafening silence rather than thousands of people putting their hands up and saying “I got it wrong”.
August 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I wonder what the narrative will be if the courts find that the govt was acting within the law to proscribe Palestine Action? I’m guessing likely deafening silence rather than thousands of people putting their hands up and saying “I got it wrong”.
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LFC’s best players for non-penalty goals and assists per ninety since the start of the Klopp era (minimum 7k minutes):
Salah .86
Jota .76
Nunez .74
Firmino and Mané .65
If your flops do this, you’re doing alright.
Salah .86
Jota .76
Nunez .74
Firmino and Mané .65
If your flops do this, you’re doing alright.
Saw what you like about Darwin, and I think it’s difficult to argue against this being the right time for him to move on, but the idea that his time at #LFC was a complete failure is clearly laughable. Gave us some BIG moments.
3 - Since his Premier League debut in August 2022, Darwin Núñez scored more 90th-minute winning goals than any player in the competition (3). Indeed, only six players in Premier League history have ever scored more. Memories.
August 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
LFC’s best players for non-penalty goals and assists per ninety since the start of the Klopp era (minimum 7k minutes):
Salah .86
Jota .76
Nunez .74
Firmino and Mané .65
If your flops do this, you’re doing alright.
Salah .86
Jota .76
Nunez .74
Firmino and Mané .65
If your flops do this, you’re doing alright.
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I see NIESR is talking today about a £41.2bn hole in the UK public finances
Two things are newsworthy:
a) NIESR is an outlier
b) It’s last forecast (May) had a £60bn ish hole
Does that make it good news for the chancellor today, then?
Two things are newsworthy:
a) NIESR is an outlier
b) It’s last forecast (May) had a £60bn ish hole
Does that make it good news for the chancellor today, then?
August 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I see NIESR is talking today about a £41.2bn hole in the UK public finances
Two things are newsworthy:
a) NIESR is an outlier
b) It’s last forecast (May) had a £60bn ish hole
Does that make it good news for the chancellor today, then?
Two things are newsworthy:
a) NIESR is an outlier
b) It’s last forecast (May) had a £60bn ish hole
Does that make it good news for the chancellor today, then?
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What the fuck is ‘stand by my socialist principles’ Jeremy Corbyn doing writing in The Torygraph and why is the Torygraph listening?
I’ll tell you why. He’s doing a piece slagging off Angela Rayner (Labours most popular minister) and the Telegraph are lapping it up.
Sickening hypocrisy by both.
I’ll tell you why. He’s doing a piece slagging off Angela Rayner (Labours most popular minister) and the Telegraph are lapping it up.
Sickening hypocrisy by both.
August 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What the fuck is ‘stand by my socialist principles’ Jeremy Corbyn doing writing in The Torygraph and why is the Torygraph listening?
I’ll tell you why. He’s doing a piece slagging off Angela Rayner (Labours most popular minister) and the Telegraph are lapping it up.
Sickening hypocrisy by both.
I’ll tell you why. He’s doing a piece slagging off Angela Rayner (Labours most popular minister) and the Telegraph are lapping it up.
Sickening hypocrisy by both.
@simonpegg.bsky.social “is it too late to say you’re sorry” for this joke?
July 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
@simonpegg.bsky.social “is it too late to say you’re sorry” for this joke?
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Where the f**k was all this reporting from the Times & the Journal on Trump & the world’s most famous child rapist in 2016, 2020, & 2020? Where were the effing Dems & their oppo research? How on earth has it taken this long for this stuff to come out?
Trump’s Name Is on Contributor List for Epstein Birthday Book
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Where the f**k was all this reporting from the Times & the Journal on Trump & the world’s most famous child rapist in 2016, 2020, & 2020? Where were the effing Dems & their oppo research? How on earth has it taken this long for this stuff to come out?
Ok. But please tell me how you can actually implement this without spending (and risking) billions by re-writing the existing tax code…?
Today I handed in my petition for a wealth tax, backed by over 80,000 people, to Downing Street.
The campaign for a wealth tax is growing from strength to strength.
Together, we are going to win this!
The campaign for a wealth tax is growing from strength to strength.
Together, we are going to win this!
July 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ok. But please tell me how you can actually implement this without spending (and risking) billions by re-writing the existing tax code…?
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This is the section of the electorate I have the least amount of time for. Their persona is to be outraged, to be against something, to fight for the mythical perfect government and world that will never exist. A Regorm government would be a gift to prople like this.
July 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This is the section of the electorate I have the least amount of time for. Their persona is to be outraged, to be against something, to fight for the mythical perfect government and world that will never exist. A Regorm government would be a gift to prople like this.
It’s about saying “we have a plan, but you have to see and understand the bigger picture. What are tough decisions now hopefully put us in a position to fix the whole system and have the country in a better place by 2029.”
It’s a tough story to sell, but at some point you have to change things!
It’s a tough story to sell, but at some point you have to change things!
Labour MP who was suspended for two child benefit cap rebellion, and then reinstated earlier this year, says the new suspensions "don’t show strength" and "risk rolling out the red carpet for Reform"
Unclear why No10 think this strategy of rolling suspensions will do anything but exacerbate dissent
Unclear why No10 think this strategy of rolling suspensions will do anything but exacerbate dissent
July 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s about saying “we have a plan, but you have to see and understand the bigger picture. What are tough decisions now hopefully put us in a position to fix the whole system and have the country in a better place by 2029.”
It’s a tough story to sell, but at some point you have to change things!
It’s a tough story to sell, but at some point you have to change things!
To be fair, that rebellion didn’t whack a £5bn hole into their spending plans. For which none of the rebel MPs have offered any solutions. Lots of decisions are wrong, but you don’t complete a marathon without actually moving. Change actually means change, and it’s not always pleasant or easy.
In 1997 47 Labour MPs voted against Tony Blair's plans to abolish single-parent benefits, with a further 100 abstaining.
Not a single one of them had the whip removed
Not a single one of them had the whip removed
July 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
To be fair, that rebellion didn’t whack a £5bn hole into their spending plans. For which none of the rebel MPs have offered any solutions. Lots of decisions are wrong, but you don’t complete a marathon without actually moving. Change actually means change, and it’s not always pleasant or easy.
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Since my post on Reeves yesterday many have said she’s the same as the previous Tory Chancellors. Here’s a list that says she’s different and focused on the 99% and not 1%
July 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Since my post on Reeves yesterday many have said she’s the same as the previous Tory Chancellors. Here’s a list that says she’s different and focused on the 99% and not 1%
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Andrew Fisher points out we have a shortage of doctors
We don't train enough doctors
Doctors have lost 30% of their pay since 2010
Points out MPs pay didn't go down by 30%
Why shouldn't junior doctors?
We don't train enough doctors
Doctors have lost 30% of their pay since 2010
Points out MPs pay didn't go down by 30%
Why shouldn't junior doctors?
July 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Andrew Fisher points out we have a shortage of doctors
We don't train enough doctors
Doctors have lost 30% of their pay since 2010
Points out MPs pay didn't go down by 30%
Why shouldn't junior doctors?
We don't train enough doctors
Doctors have lost 30% of their pay since 2010
Points out MPs pay didn't go down by 30%
Why shouldn't junior doctors?
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Mayor Sadiq Khan, "What these terrorists hate is our diversity, our way of life, the fact that we get on, we respect each other, we celebrate each other, we embrace each other"
"They hate that here in London, whatever your background you are respected and you can do really well"
"They hate that here in London, whatever your background you are respected and you can do really well"
July 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Mayor Sadiq Khan, "What these terrorists hate is our diversity, our way of life, the fact that we get on, we respect each other, we celebrate each other, we embrace each other"
"They hate that here in London, whatever your background you are respected and you can do really well"
"They hate that here in London, whatever your background you are respected and you can do really well"
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Those pesky unelected, unaccountable folk in...
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Reform's donor list?
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Reform's donor list?
'Why must cabinet ministers be politicians? It's nonsense.'
Nigel Farage’s take on a new-look cabinet for Britain involves emulating America.
Nigel Farage’s take on a new-look cabinet for Britain involves emulating America.
July 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Those pesky unelected, unaccountable folk in...
(checks notes)
Reform's donor list?
(checks notes)
Reform's donor list?
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My announcement that I am now co-leader of a new leftwing party alongside TV's Wolfie Smith and the ghost of Gerrard Winstanley has not gone entirely to plan.
July 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My announcement that I am now co-leader of a new leftwing party alongside TV's Wolfie Smith and the ghost of Gerrard Winstanley has not gone entirely to plan.
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A left-of-Labour splinter party, comprising two people, already at odds with each other about the launch, is just too perfect a metaphor.
I hope they get it together. As longtime listeners know, I think lack of a socialist party is unhealhty and its presence is a good development for UK politics.
I hope they get it together. As longtime listeners know, I think lack of a socialist party is unhealhty and its presence is a good development for UK politics.
July 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A left-of-Labour splinter party, comprising two people, already at odds with each other about the launch, is just too perfect a metaphor.
I hope they get it together. As longtime listeners know, I think lack of a socialist party is unhealhty and its presence is a good development for UK politics.
I hope they get it together. As longtime listeners know, I think lack of a socialist party is unhealhty and its presence is a good development for UK politics.
Seeing a lot of people exposing that @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social/ @zarahsultana.bsky.social new party (if the actually get it going) will leech votes from Lab. My experience of 2019 was that most people on that wing of politics refused to vote for Starmer and either didn’t vote, or voted LD or Green.
July 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Seeing a lot of people exposing that @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social/ @zarahsultana.bsky.social new party (if the actually get it going) will leech votes from Lab. My experience of 2019 was that most people on that wing of politics refused to vote for Starmer and either didn’t vote, or voted LD or Green.