David JW Bailey
@davidjwbailey.bsky.social
Walker, photographer, radio ham, gamer, wine lover, accountant, entrepreneur, human friendly activist, ally. English & European. Generally prefer facts and science.
Hegarty watches a LOT of queer porn. Prove me wrong.
And as I saw someone say, the names all sound like porn movies.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hegarty watches a LOT of queer porn. Prove me wrong.
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Private Equity Curse.
PE firms taking millions in profits from care sector each yr, over a third are in tax havens
£256m profit in three England regions, £45m in dividends, £33.6m paid in interest mostly to affiliates in tax havens.
Less spent on care. Yet govts handing NHS to PE.
PE firms taking millions in profits from care sector each yr, over a third are in tax havens
£256m profit in three England regions, £45m in dividends, £33.6m paid in interest mostly to affiliates in tax havens.
Less spent on care. Yet govts handing NHS to PE.
Private equity firms taking millions in profits from care sector each year, new analysis reveals
Analysis finds private companies running care services took more than £250m in profits in just three English regions over the course of three years
neweconomics.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Private Equity Curse.
PE firms taking millions in profits from care sector each yr, over a third are in tax havens
£256m profit in three England regions, £45m in dividends, £33.6m paid in interest mostly to affiliates in tax havens.
Less spent on care. Yet govts handing NHS to PE.
PE firms taking millions in profits from care sector each yr, over a third are in tax havens
£256m profit in three England regions, £45m in dividends, £33.6m paid in interest mostly to affiliates in tax havens.
Less spent on care. Yet govts handing NHS to PE.
PS: CoD is a £99.99 game.
Apparently the new Call of Duty is bad and I’m honestly confused as to how this happened because it sounds like bungling Madden or FIFA. You’re an army man with a gun. You shoot the army men with guns who have the audacity to be from somewhere else. The rules worked fine in 2004 and haven’t changed.
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
PS: CoD is a £99.99 game.
Unacceptable
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Unacceptable
Is it time to withdraw Liz Truss’ security and pension?
Good question, why are we paying someone, from the public purse, to shit on us in the USA?
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Is it time to withdraw Liz Truss’ security and pension?
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Apparently Bannon speaks to Glasman every week
Glasman was the only Labour politician invited to Trump's inauguration
Glasman on McSweeny " “Morgan’s one of ours, we love him”
Friend of McSweeny? Mahmood.
Make of that what you will!
Glasman was the only Labour politician invited to Trump's inauguration
Glasman on McSweeny " “Morgan’s one of ours, we love him”
Friend of McSweeny? Mahmood.
Make of that what you will!
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Apparently Bannon speaks to Glasman every week
Glasman was the only Labour politician invited to Trump's inauguration
Glasman on McSweeny " “Morgan’s one of ours, we love him”
Friend of McSweeny? Mahmood.
Make of that what you will!
Glasman was the only Labour politician invited to Trump's inauguration
Glasman on McSweeny " “Morgan’s one of ours, we love him”
Friend of McSweeny? Mahmood.
Make of that what you will!
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
Either Trump is threatening UK Labour, or they have gone collectively insane.
Either way; they all need to consider their positions.
Either way; they all need to consider their positions.
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Either Trump is threatening UK Labour, or they have gone collectively insane.
Either way; they all need to consider their positions.
Either way; they all need to consider their positions.
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@jackabbott.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social
Why is this govt with a huge majority refusing to face reality?
You could just rejoin the Single Market and solve the vast majority of the problems at a stroke.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
Why is this govt with a huge majority refusing to face reality?
You could just rejoin the Single Market and solve the vast majority of the problems at a stroke.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
@jackabbott.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social
Why is this govt with a huge majority refusing to face reality?
You could just rejoin the Single Market and solve the vast majority of the problems at a stroke.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
Why is this govt with a huge majority refusing to face reality?
You could just rejoin the Single Market and solve the vast majority of the problems at a stroke.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
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The best defence is a good offence. If Trump wants to play regime change games then other countries should participate. Mexico, Canada, and Denmark must push their intelligence agencies to undermine Trump, disrupt its crypto money laundering flow, release blackmail, and overthrow it.
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The best defence is a good offence. If Trump wants to play regime change games then other countries should participate. Mexico, Canada, and Denmark must push their intelligence agencies to undermine Trump, disrupt its crypto money laundering flow, release blackmail, and overthrow it.
No politician listens when told that they are reacting to non-existent problems that have been fed to them by social media algorithms. They are so genuinely stupid as to believe that what people tell them on doorsteps is a description of reality
Even before algorithms existed, Hannah Arendt wrote about “public opinion” & its failure, as an industry & a concept, to reflect either the public or its opinions. Algorithms = new name & driver of same problem. “Grounded priorities” is a good alternative North point for a better political compass.
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
No politician listens when told that they are reacting to non-existent problems that have been fed to them by social media algorithms. They are so genuinely stupid as to believe that what people tell them on doorsteps is a description of reality
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President Stubb:
In World War II, Stalin was in Berlin in four years. We're almost four years into the war and Russia is nowhere near Kyiv and they're not going to get there.
In World War II, Stalin was in Berlin in four years. We're almost four years into the war and Russia is nowhere near Kyiv and they're not going to get there.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
President Stubb:
In World War II, Stalin was in Berlin in four years. We're almost four years into the war and Russia is nowhere near Kyiv and they're not going to get there.
In World War II, Stalin was in Berlin in four years. We're almost four years into the war and Russia is nowhere near Kyiv and they're not going to get there.
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Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
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Please support this if you can. Absent PR, some constituencies without a clear tactical vote will need primaries to ensure Reform UK are kept out. This is the How-to book...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
The People's Primary - the 'how-to-do-it' book!
People Power!The book of how we ran a successful primary + how to organise one yourselves to defeat Reform UK in the next General Election!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Please support this if you can. Absent PR, some constituencies without a clear tactical vote will need primaries to ensure Reform UK are kept out. This is the How-to book...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
Lord Glasman has to go.
it's fascinating to think what Blue Labour's ideal Britain looks like
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Lord Glasman has to go.
Now imagine if other nations applied this policy to people fleeing the UK.
Or, for instance, asking a Court to decide when it is *safe* to return to Yemen, or Palestine, or Southern Sudan.
UK Labour have got this so terribly wrong.
Or, for instance, asking a Court to decide when it is *safe* to return to Yemen, or Palestine, or Southern Sudan.
UK Labour have got this so terribly wrong.
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Now imagine if other nations applied this policy to people fleeing the UK.
Or, for instance, asking a Court to decide when it is *safe* to return to Yemen, or Palestine, or Southern Sudan.
UK Labour have got this so terribly wrong.
Or, for instance, asking a Court to decide when it is *safe* to return to Yemen, or Palestine, or Southern Sudan.
UK Labour have got this so terribly wrong.
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Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
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The cause of our malaise: fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
Wealth Gap Risk Register 2025
An online resource that collates evidence about the impacts of wealth inequality, the solutions and public attitudes to all of the above
fairnessfoundation.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The cause of our malaise: fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
That is $10m or so pissed away on tokens alone.
$100m in total costs that *could and should* have been given to humans for their time and thinking.
Instead, it went to capital, and is now in some tax haven…
$100m in total costs that *could and should* have been given to humans for their time and thinking.
Instead, it went to capital, and is now in some tax haven…
October 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
That is $10m or so pissed away on tokens alone.
$100m in total costs that *could and should* have been given to humans for their time and thinking.
Instead, it went to capital, and is now in some tax haven…
$100m in total costs that *could and should* have been given to humans for their time and thinking.
Instead, it went to capital, and is now in some tax haven…
This book explains why so many British politicians are so badly broken
www.routledge.com/The-Un-Makin...
www.routledge.com/The-Un-Makin...
The Un-Making of Them: Clinical Reflections on Boarding School Syndrome
Ex-boarders can be among the most challenging clients for therapists, with many clinicians struggling to address their unique needs. This book presents a groundbreaking collection of chapters sharing ...
www.routledge.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This book explains why so many British politicians are so badly broken
www.routledge.com/The-Un-Makin...
www.routledge.com/The-Un-Makin...
My guess? Millar and Vance and Musk will send Trump into the bunker, where they’ll feed him with non-stop fake video of how he is winning.
Meanwhile, above ground, they will feed the public with A.I. faked video of Trump issuing executive orders that they have drafted.
Meanwhile, above ground, they will feed the public with A.I. faked video of Trump issuing executive orders that they have drafted.
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
My guess? Millar and Vance and Musk will send Trump into the bunker, where they’ll feed him with non-stop fake video of how he is winning.
Meanwhile, above ground, they will feed the public with A.I. faked video of Trump issuing executive orders that they have drafted.
Meanwhile, above ground, they will feed the public with A.I. faked video of Trump issuing executive orders that they have drafted.
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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October 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I want to see ICE + DHS + HBI in the USA labelled as State Funded Terrorism, and all its members subject to arrest in any other CIVILISED nation
ICE now has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world and has increased spending on weapons.
It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.
Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?
It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.
Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I want to see ICE + DHS + HBI in the USA labelled as State Funded Terrorism, and all its members subject to arrest in any other CIVILISED nation