Fran Gilbert
@frangilbert.bsky.social
Retired teacher now trying to keep a smallholding with grandchildren, alpacas, dogs and ducks under some sort of control. Love reading, history, comedy and gardening. Interested in politics. Still tutoring maths.
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I mean, that's the clever exercise of soft power right there. "Fuck you lot and your windmills, we beat Hitler, now give me the big block of ice."
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I mean, that's the clever exercise of soft power right there. "Fuck you lot and your windmills, we beat Hitler, now give me the big block of ice."
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I think Trump just said he solved a war which involved Abba.
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I think Trump just said he solved a war which involved Abba.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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This is precisely what Trump looks like
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is precisely what Trump looks like
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Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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On Today before 7 a former Trump official claimed without challenge that US spending on Ukraine far outweighs that of Europe (at least contestable) and that Europe was now irrelevant to the peace talks. 30 mins later Steve Rosenberg made clear that Europe’s irrelevance was a Kremlin talking point
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
On Today before 7 a former Trump official claimed without challenge that US spending on Ukraine far outweighs that of Europe (at least contestable) and that Europe was now irrelevant to the peace talks. 30 mins later Steve Rosenberg made clear that Europe’s irrelevance was a Kremlin talking point
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
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Read to the end, "whales" is not even the best bit
July 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Read to the end, "whales" is not even the best bit
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Gregg, as a working-class woman with a direct manner I strongly advise you to shut the fuck up.
Gregg Wallace issues a new statement: “This has been brutal. For a working-class man with a direct manner, modern broadcasting has become a dangerous place. I was the headline this time. But I won’t be the last.”
July 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gregg, as a working-class woman with a direct manner I strongly advise you to shut the fuck up.
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'.
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
May 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'.
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
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Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.
April 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.
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You can actually see the brain cells turning over
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
You can actually see the brain cells turning over
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That's it Mr President, give 'em a good scratch. It's not like a few hundred million people are watching or anything like that.
April 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
That's it Mr President, give 'em a good scratch. It's not like a few hundred million people are watching or anything like that.
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So, happy 55th anniversary to perhaps the finest of all newspaper headlines mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day...
April 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
So, happy 55th anniversary to perhaps the finest of all newspaper headlines mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day...
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The more you know history, the more it makes sense.
April 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The more you know history, the more it makes sense.
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Another Trump tariff lie and a telling one: no tariffs on Russia and Belarus because the US has “no significant trade with them”.
In fact America’s trade balance with Russia is $3.5bn, more than other countries. Tariffs on Belarus should actually be 42% and 24% on Russia, according to Le Monde.
In fact America’s trade balance with Russia is $3.5bn, more than other countries. Tariffs on Belarus should actually be 42% and 24% on Russia, according to Le Monde.
April 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Another Trump tariff lie and a telling one: no tariffs on Russia and Belarus because the US has “no significant trade with them”.
In fact America’s trade balance with Russia is $3.5bn, more than other countries. Tariffs on Belarus should actually be 42% and 24% on Russia, according to Le Monde.
In fact America’s trade balance with Russia is $3.5bn, more than other countries. Tariffs on Belarus should actually be 42% and 24% on Russia, according to Le Monde.
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Of course Welby would forgive the abuser. That was the problem from the start.
March 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Of course Welby would forgive the abuser. That was the problem from the start.
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Let this be a lesson to everyone: Trump won't relent if you give in; he's a bully. The only thing that will get him to back off is to punch him back.
Trump drops the demeaning "governor" stuff and calls Carney by his correct title
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Let this be a lesson to everyone: Trump won't relent if you give in; he's a bully. The only thing that will get him to back off is to punch him back.
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The thing that is so frustrating about this is that this exact argument — these very same words — could be used to criticise Kathleen Stock and support the people who oppose her. But they never are.
This, by Bridget Phillipson, is deeply disappointing. Drivel that sounds like the height of the Johnson culture wars years.
March 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The thing that is so frustrating about this is that this exact argument — these very same words — could be used to criticise Kathleen Stock and support the people who oppose her. But they never are.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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