Ian Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@ianford.bsky.social
Recent emigrant from the Other Place.
Selfish, adrenalin addicted, psychopath got his ship sunk so the Navy booted him out and, depressed, he ended up joining MI6 because nobody else would take him...
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Selfish, adrenalin addicted, psychopath got his ship sunk so the Navy booted him out and, depressed, he ended up joining MI6 because nobody else would take him...
James Bond as the incompetent commander of a Royal Navy frigate in the Suez Crisis during the mid 1950s...
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
James Bond as the incompetent commander of a Royal Navy frigate in the Suez Crisis during the mid 1950s...
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Once again, the BBC enables the now-ridiculous 'newspaper industry' to inject a damaging virus into the national conversation. ITV (GMB) is far worse.
All 'newspaper reviews' on mainstream TV & Radio should be stopped immediately.
If you want to know what the papers say, go and look it up FFS.
All 'newspaper reviews' on mainstream TV & Radio should be stopped immediately.
If you want to know what the papers say, go and look it up FFS.
Emma Barnett mindlessly read this headline out on #r4today this morning (of course); the actual truth is public still think the dangers of climate change have NOT been exaggerated
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The US and UK wrapped revolutionary ruptures with the mantle of tradition and continuity in order to get public buy-in and legitimacy. Most of the different French Republics collapsed so catastrophically that using that strategy was impossible and there was public demand for something new.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
As has been noted, we need to start thinking of the US being similar to France in terms of significant ruptures which ushered in totally new forms of governance, but masked by the myth of unbroken continuity dating to 1776. Kinda like the UK myth of no change since 1066.
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American historian here: The Fall of the Third American Republic.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is also undermining broader support in the current constitutional/institutional form of the US as a whole. If your choice is between a personality cult and an opposition that is unable to stand up to the regime, then opponents are going to either give up or reject the entire system.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is also undermining broader support in the current constitutional/institutional form of the US as a whole. If your choice is between a personality cult and an opposition that is unable to stand up to the regime, then opponents are going to either give up or reject the entire system.
I had an MX like that years ago (the brown leather is nice!). Great little camera - you'll enjoy using it. 👍👍👍
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I had an MX like that years ago (the brown leather is nice!). Great little camera - you'll enjoy using it. 👍👍👍
We have the equivalent to a BBC news channel... but it just shows the morning/afternoon/evening news broadcasts & current events programmes on a loop. It looks pretty lame compared to the BBC/Sky News... but it does cut out the constant breathless drama and demand for excitement that feeds 24hr news
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We have the equivalent to a BBC news channel... but it just shows the morning/afternoon/evening news broadcasts & current events programmes on a loop. It looks pretty lame compared to the BBC/Sky News... but it does cut out the constant breathless drama and demand for excitement that feeds 24hr news
Speaking from Ireland, one aspect is that we don't have any Murdoch press and it makes a huge difference. Not perfect, but definitely not the same level of toxicity.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Speaking from Ireland, one aspect is that we don't have any Murdoch press and it makes a huge difference. Not perfect, but definitely not the same level of toxicity.
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We are importing US style culture and politics into our own democracy. It's blinding us to the rest of the world- esp our neighbours.
It's ironic that the BBC is one pillar of this fusion (see its coverage on US elections and shutdown in the past week). Now it's being dismantled by it.
It's ironic that the BBC is one pillar of this fusion (see its coverage on US elections and shutdown in the past week). Now it's being dismantled by it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We are importing US style culture and politics into our own democracy. It's blinding us to the rest of the world- esp our neighbours.
It's ironic that the BBC is one pillar of this fusion (see its coverage on US elections and shutdown in the past week). Now it's being dismantled by it.
It's ironic that the BBC is one pillar of this fusion (see its coverage on US elections and shutdown in the past week). Now it's being dismantled by it.
As opposed to America, where you use your 500 guns to shoot the dirt off your dungarees before climbing into your flimsy wooden walled tornado fodder McMansion to escape the dictatorial demands of the HOA that rules your local area with an iron fist.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As opposed to America, where you use your 500 guns to shoot the dirt off your dungarees before climbing into your flimsy wooden walled tornado fodder McMansion to escape the dictatorial demands of the HOA that rules your local area with an iron fist.
Very trivial aside, but the Heritage Foundation looks like it's forever trapped in 1978 with that font/logo.
Doubtless, a more realistic date should be 1878.
Doubtless, a more realistic date should be 1878.
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Very trivial aside, but the Heritage Foundation looks like it's forever trapped in 1978 with that font/logo.
Doubtless, a more realistic date should be 1878.
Doubtless, a more realistic date should be 1878.
As an aside, Blue Lights from the BBC is quite an interesting police procedural about the complexities of policing a heavily polarised society traumatised by decades of civil war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEZ...
When a terrifying police stand-off goes wrong 😳 | Blue Lights - BBC
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November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
As an aside, Blue Lights from the BBC is quite an interesting police procedural about the complexities of policing a heavily polarised society traumatised by decades of civil war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEZ...