Greg P.B. Chatterton
@gregpbchatterton.bsky.social
Writer/Philosopher/Reviewer
Loves other animals.
Likes some people.
Has a little bit of multiple sclerosis.
Middle-aged Cure/RS fanboy.
Loves other animals.
Likes some people.
Has a little bit of multiple sclerosis.
Middle-aged Cure/RS fanboy.
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That moment when you realise you went to university so that decades later you could be bleeping out the word "shit-hole" from an American president's speech.....
Catch me later on @lbc.co.uk, why don't you?
Catch me later on @lbc.co.uk, why don't you?
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
That moment when you realise you went to university so that decades later you could be bleeping out the word "shit-hole" from an American president's speech.....
Catch me later on @lbc.co.uk, why don't you?
Catch me later on @lbc.co.uk, why don't you?
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How refreshing to hear the head of the Met on LBC dropping truth bombs galore on all the bots, Faragists & online racists dedicated to lying about London.
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
How refreshing to hear the head of the Met on LBC dropping truth bombs galore on all the bots, Faragists & online racists dedicated to lying about London.
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So far, not a word about this today on CNN, Fox, MSNow, or in the NYT, The Washington Post or the WSJ. Astonishing.
www.politico.eu/article/nato...
www.politico.eu/article/nato...
NATO’s Rutte says Europe must prepare for ‘scale of war our grandparents’ endured
If Putin is “prepared to sacrifice ordinary Russians in this way, what is he prepared to do to us?” the NATO chief said.
www.politico.eu
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So far, not a word about this today on CNN, Fox, MSNow, or in the NYT, The Washington Post or the WSJ. Astonishing.
www.politico.eu/article/nato...
www.politico.eu/article/nato...
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Still supine.
Keir Starmer’s spokesman refuses to criticise Trump for calling Europe a group of “decaying” nations led by “weak” leaders
Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”
Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Still supine.
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To Avoid Tariffs, U.K. Agrees to Trump’s Demand to Pay More for Drugs
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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evil, vile execution of donald trump's openly bigoted goals. This is a stain on the nation and a disgrace that will take a lot of work to redress, remedy, and atone for.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officials preparing immigration operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants, AP source says.
December 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
evil, vile execution of donald trump's openly bigoted goals. This is a stain on the nation and a disgrace that will take a lot of work to redress, remedy, and atone for.
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look, this is unvarnished racism. It's not the first time trump has made his knuckle scraping bigotry so clear, but it is well past time for this to be called precisely what it is and for trump supporters to own up to it.
President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants on Tuesday during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the U.S. as he sought to refocus public attention on his anti-immigration rhetoric.
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
The president delivered xenophobic comments during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
look, this is unvarnished racism. It's not the first time trump has made his knuckle scraping bigotry so clear, but it is well past time for this to be called precisely what it is and for trump supporters to own up to it.
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There’s a lot of threats vying for attention herein.
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There’s a lot of threats vying for attention herein.
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My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's drivetime programme on @lbc.co.uk. Listen live Fridays at 5:50pm or find it here afterwards.
This week: a Thanksgiving gun attack in Washington; Witkoff's pro-Russian sympathies revealed; and Trump meets Mamdani.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/881248...
This week: a Thanksgiving gun attack in Washington; Witkoff's pro-Russian sympathies revealed; and Trump meets Mamdani.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/881248...
November 28, 2025 - "American Week": Thanksgiving marred by Washington DC shooting attack on National Guard
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.
audioboom.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's drivetime programme on @lbc.co.uk. Listen live Fridays at 5:50pm or find it here afterwards.
This week: a Thanksgiving gun attack in Washington; Witkoff's pro-Russian sympathies revealed; and Trump meets Mamdani.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/881248...
This week: a Thanksgiving gun attack in Washington; Witkoff's pro-Russian sympathies revealed; and Trump meets Mamdani.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/881248...
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As good a time as any to be reminded of this www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’
Documents seen by Observer suggest multiple meetings between 2015 and 2017
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As good a time as any to be reminded of this www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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She’s just asking questions.
‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
She’s just asking questions.
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BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
'What are they afraid of?' Historian's lecture cut by BBC
YouTube video by LBC
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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trump is a bad person. He has destroyed the notion that there should be standards of excellence--or even basic decency and competence--in government. It is shameful for people to believe that anyone conducting themselves this way is fit to serve in office.
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
trump is a bad person. He has destroyed the notion that there should be standards of excellence--or even basic decency and competence--in government. It is shameful for people to believe that anyone conducting themselves this way is fit to serve in office.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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An awesome thing about being a journalist, and not a politician or advocate, is you can say true things even when they’re unpopular. For example, climate change is real, perpetrated by specific actors, harms many people, and should be resolved as fast and thoroughly as possible.
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
An awesome thing about being a journalist, and not a politician or advocate, is you can say true things even when they’re unpopular. For example, climate change is real, perpetrated by specific actors, harms many people, and should be resolved as fast and thoroughly as possible.
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See also: #PaddingtonBear
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
See also: #PaddingtonBear
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Remember, if you’re remotely troubled by the US President rolling out a red carpet for a man at whose behest a journalist was murdered for exercising free speech, then you are suffering from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.
BREAKING: Trump is expected to host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next month, AP sources say.
Trump is expected to host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next month, AP sources say
President Donald Trump's administration is preparing for a visit to the United States by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next month.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Remember, if you’re remotely troubled by the US President rolling out a red carpet for a man at whose behest a journalist was murdered for exercising free speech, then you are suffering from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.
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This calm, cool decency is dangerously absent from our discourse at the moment. Almost everyone is embracing, normalising or ignoring the 'cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.'
We need more Bertrands.
We need more Bertrands.
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This calm, cool decency is dangerously absent from our discourse at the moment. Almost everyone is embracing, normalising or ignoring the 'cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.'
We need more Bertrands.
We need more Bertrands.
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New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
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Oh.
Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025
the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data
www.ft.com/content/5392...
the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data
www.ft.com/content/5392...
October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oh.
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Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
October 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
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My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. (I'm on the road, so I'm afraid there is no visualised version on YouTube this week...but give it a listen the old-fashioned way).
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/878653...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/878653...
October 3, 2025 - "American Week": Trump engages in maximum pressure campaign on Democrats amid government shutdown
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the USA for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. This week: Trump's government shutdown, and his plans to turn the US milit...
audioboom.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. (I'm on the road, so I'm afraid there is no visualised version on YouTube this week...but give it a listen the old-fashioned way).
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/878653...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/878653...