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@janetanscombe.bsky.social
Doctor of ancient history, retired university lecturer living in the foothills of Mount Teide among birds, trees, peace and books, esp neuropsychology & Agatha Christie. "Leftie elitist". 50% Welsh, 50% Irish, 100% European. MBE.
Starmer thinks it's a game of scissors rock paper but Trump's just going to thump anyone in front of him. You can't deal with a thug. You have to block all avenues and then sever relations, then resist and if necessary fight.
🔴‘The UK’s Suspension of Intelligence Sharing Over Trump’s Caribbean Boat Strikes Risks a Transatlantic Rift’
Keir Starmer’s Government risked being implicated if the President’s attacks were found to break international law, reports @alexhh.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/t...
Keir Starmer’s Government risked being implicated if the President’s attacks were found to break international law, reports @alexhh.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/t...
'The UK's Suspension of Intelligence Sharing Over Trump's Caribbean Boat Strikes Risks a Transatlantic Rift'
Keir Starmer's Government risked being implicated if the President's attacks were found to break international law, reports Alexandra Hall Hall
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Starmer thinks it's a game of scissors rock paper but Trump's just going to thump anyone in front of him. You can't deal with a thug. You have to block all avenues and then sever relations, then resist and if necessary fight.
Problem in a nutshell, not just in this respect but any. "Money is money and people will jump" ...
They've no choice because their situation was made for that purpose. No different to shouting dance at someone and firing bullets round their feet.
Guillotines and pitchforks is where we're at.
They've no choice because their situation was made for that purpose. No different to shouting dance at someone and firing bullets round their feet.
Guillotines and pitchforks is where we're at.
“I am sure PIs, bounty hunters, process servers, and anyone with access to commercial databases can apply and will,” Igor Ostrovskiy, an experienced private investigator told 404 Media. “Money is money and people will jump at the opportunity to embed their business as a government contractor.”
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Problem in a nutshell, not just in this respect but any. "Money is money and people will jump" ...
They've no choice because their situation was made for that purpose. No different to shouting dance at someone and firing bullets round their feet.
Guillotines and pitchforks is where we're at.
They've no choice because their situation was made for that purpose. No different to shouting dance at someone and firing bullets round their feet.
Guillotines and pitchforks is where we're at.
Wow, they're trying to kill the NHS at the same time. Will this go under the radar with all eyes on the beeb?
The eye of Sauron has now turned towards the UK, seeking more power and influence. First with the BBC and now with threats of harming the cost of pharmaceuticals in the UK.
#TheCreep #BBC #NHS
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
#TheCreep #BBC #NHS
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador
Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines. Pharma firms want the government to go further.
www.politico.eu
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Wow, they're trying to kill the NHS at the same time. Will this go under the radar with all eyes on the beeb?
The dog that didn't bark ... the Sherlock Holmes story of the thief who was an insider the guard dog did not bark at ...
the "victim", I've read elsewhere, was Virginia Giuffre.
Shame he's not around any more to corroborate his emails, so frustrating he isn't here to speak ...
the "victim", I've read elsewhere, was Virginia Giuffre.
Shame he's not around any more to corroborate his emails, so frustrating he isn't here to speak ...
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said Trump spent hours with an alleged victim, according to newly-released emails from 2011:
"I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him."
"I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him."
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The dog that didn't bark ... the Sherlock Holmes story of the thief who was an insider the guard dog did not bark at ...
the "victim", I've read elsewhere, was Virginia Giuffre.
Shame he's not around any more to corroborate his emails, so frustrating he isn't here to speak ...
the "victim", I've read elsewhere, was Virginia Giuffre.
Shame he's not around any more to corroborate his emails, so frustrating he isn't here to speak ...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Do enjoy 👇💙
When reality hits, it'll be the first time in a decade ordinary Brits won't be able to avoid knowing that Brexit has broken them and their country ... they've managed so far, but it never could be sustained.
Thank you @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
Please please read this 👇
Thank you @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
Please please read this 👇
The mansion house speech last week was really more for financial markets than UKvoters. Reeves was waving a big sign saying "I won't do a Truss!".
Quick 🧵on why tax rises means the majority of brits can't say "Brexit hasn't really affected me" anymore.
TL;DR: There's no Sunlit uplands Shocker!
Quick 🧵on why tax rises means the majority of brits can't say "Brexit hasn't really affected me" anymore.
TL;DR: There's no Sunlit uplands Shocker!
Rachel Reeves avoids answering question on tax rises in pre-budget speech
YouTube video by Guardian News
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November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
When reality hits, it'll be the first time in a decade ordinary Brits won't be able to avoid knowing that Brexit has broken them and their country ... they've managed so far, but it never could be sustained.
Thank you @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
Please please read this 👇
Thank you @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
Please please read this 👇
Inequality was always going to lead to disruption, and then repression, and then more disruption ...
we can't eat money, none of us can, but we can eat the rich, if we have to. It's up to them whether they make us.
we can't eat money, none of us can, but we can eat the rich, if we have to. It's up to them whether they make us.
Extraordinary scenes at #COP30 as Indigenous protesters demand access.
"We can’t eat money," said Nato, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community… “We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers."
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
"We can’t eat money," said Nato, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community… “We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers."
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Inequality was always going to lead to disruption, and then repression, and then more disruption ...
we can't eat money, none of us can, but we can eat the rich, if we have to. It's up to them whether they make us.
we can't eat money, none of us can, but we can eat the rich, if we have to. It's up to them whether they make us.
Spain-s Partido Popular (conservatives) say when we get back into govt we'll undo the whole lot of the socialists' energy policies.
They're not endearing themselves to voters generally so hopefully they won't regain power but these people mystify me. What do they think is coming? Do they think?
They're not endearing themselves to voters generally so hopefully they won't regain power but these people mystify me. What do they think is coming? Do they think?
La verdad que me alivia mucho escuchar que va a acabar con la 'política ideológica energética del PSOE' mientras está delante de un cartel con todas las energéticas y petroleras, xd.
Never forget que este señor es el ideario del impuesto al Sol.
Never forget que este señor es el ideario del impuesto al Sol.
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Spain-s Partido Popular (conservatives) say when we get back into govt we'll undo the whole lot of the socialists' energy policies.
They're not endearing themselves to voters generally so hopefully they won't regain power but these people mystify me. What do they think is coming? Do they think?
They're not endearing themselves to voters generally so hopefully they won't regain power but these people mystify me. What do they think is coming? Do they think?
Seen it too many places to attribute now ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Seen it too many places to attribute now ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
Cultural collapse ... was always coming headlong at us.
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Was any of last nights briefing from Number 10 done with the public in mind? Hard to think of a more perfect example of why so many people are now thinking, whatever the risks we may as well roll the dice on Reform/the Greens/someone else because it’s perma chaos as it is.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Cultural collapse ... was always coming headlong at us.
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The Canarian Government has approved a new law to combat overtourism development in Tenerife, especially the massive switch of residential properties to the VV scheme to let out to tourists. The law was not passed unanimously. It was opposed by Vox (naturally, far right want to gouge everything) ...
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Canarian Government has approved a new law to combat overtourism development in Tenerife, especially the massive switch of residential properties to the VV scheme to let out to tourists. The law was not passed unanimously. It was opposed by Vox (naturally, far right want to gouge everything) ...
So just a year to the usual fracas, talk of sackings, traitors, budget tax raise revolts, clearing out.
I don't think the answer is PR any more. FPTP has devastating effects but the problem for me now is Party Politics. The Parties have to go.
Whatever system replaces a Party one I don't know.
I don't think the answer is PR any more. FPTP has devastating effects but the problem for me now is Party Politics. The Parties have to go.
Whatever system replaces a Party one I don't know.
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
So just a year to the usual fracas, talk of sackings, traitors, budget tax raise revolts, clearing out.
I don't think the answer is PR any more. FPTP has devastating effects but the problem for me now is Party Politics. The Parties have to go.
Whatever system replaces a Party one I don't know.
I don't think the answer is PR any more. FPTP has devastating effects but the problem for me now is Party Politics. The Parties have to go.
Whatever system replaces a Party one I don't know.
Blood's scented now, and the hounds won't stop. Not the BBC's blood, though the present target, but our country, culture, values, the scraps left of our decency and respect for each other, our concern for others ...
We are not Americans, and we need to fight those who are trying to make us so.
We are not Americans, and we need to fight those who are trying to make us so.
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Blood's scented now, and the hounds won't stop. Not the BBC's blood, though the present target, but our country, culture, values, the scraps left of our decency and respect for each other, our concern for others ...
We are not Americans, and we need to fight those who are trying to make us so.
We are not Americans, and we need to fight those who are trying to make us so.
I guess the fallen don't count, Don ... you'd know them as "losers", and I don't remember the US "winning the war". The winners were what we know as "the Allies", including the US with many many others who saw both entire wars out, not just the ends.
Sick fecking bastard.
Sick fecking bastard.
On Remembrance Day, time is taken to remember the sacrifice too many had to make. This is what the obese dementia ridden rapist in the Whitehouse chose to write.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I guess the fallen don't count, Don ... you'd know them as "losers", and I don't remember the US "winning the war". The winners were what we know as "the Allies", including the US with many many others who saw both entire wars out, not just the ends.
Sick fecking bastard.
Sick fecking bastard.
Um, what does he think ordinary people feel? It's everywhere! This year alone I've been told twice someone hates blacks, that Muslim women should "stop breeding like rabbits and keep their legs together", and that we should blow the little boats out of the water.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Um, what does he think ordinary people feel? It's everywhere! This year alone I've been told twice someone hates blacks, that Muslim women should "stop breeding like rabbits and keep their legs together", and that we should blow the little boats out of the water.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There are calls from significant orgs today here for hotels to make a particular point of advising their guests when there are weather alerts, like costeros. This comes after a bad day when three died and 15 or so were seriously injured by wild waves knocking them into the sea: 7 out of every ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
There are calls from significant orgs today here for hotels to make a particular point of advising their guests when there are weather alerts, like costeros. This comes after a bad day when three died and 15 or so were seriously injured by wild waves knocking them into the sea: 7 out of every ...
I agree with @rfhaviland.bsky.social that this is an essential read. 👇
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I agree with @rfhaviland.bsky.social that this is an essential read. 👇
People seem to believe the wellness "industry"'s claims you can activate your vagus nerve or grounding sheet will cure all ills, and think it's "alt" med. A few with a few more brain cells see it's obviously bullshit but then call all altmed a scam. Or they could just be getting at Polanski ...
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
People seem to believe the wellness "industry"'s claims you can activate your vagus nerve or grounding sheet will cure all ills, and think it's "alt" med. A few with a few more brain cells see it's obviously bullshit but then call all altmed a scam. Or they could just be getting at Polanski ...
I didn't know about the boob whispering hypnotherapy fracas but it seems to me that anyone trying to undermine the only Party that is pro rejoin and climate crisis conscious is trying to damage their country for vested interests. They might call themselves patriots. But they're treacherous.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I didn't know about the boob whispering hypnotherapy fracas but it seems to me that anyone trying to undermine the only Party that is pro rejoin and climate crisis conscious is trying to damage their country for vested interests. They might call themselves patriots. But they're treacherous.
As we've seen all too many times, they just want to please the face in front of them ...
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
As we've seen all too many times, they just want to please the face in front of them ...
“Terrorism should be defined narrowly as acts intended to coerce, compel, or subvert ... threshold for property damage should apply only to ... serious risk to life" etc.
They have been trying to tell people we are in imminent peril.
Who are the terorists here?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
They have been trying to tell people we are in imminent peril.
Who are the terorists here?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Legal experts and politicians criticise process used to ban Palestine Action
Independent commission says definition of terrorism relied on by ministers is too broad and more parliamentary oversight is needed
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Terrorism should be defined narrowly as acts intended to coerce, compel, or subvert ... threshold for property damage should apply only to ... serious risk to life" etc.
They have been trying to tell people we are in imminent peril.
Who are the terorists here?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
They have been trying to tell people we are in imminent peril.
Who are the terorists here?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
There's that 30% again ... always there. Always rotting everything from the bottom. Always one-third.
New YouGov poll: Is BBC News politically biased? 50% of Britons say yes.
Biased in favour of left-wing views: 31%
Biased in favour of right-wing views: 19%
Not biased: 19%
Belief in bias by party
Reform: 73% biased to left / 4% biased to right
Con: 52% / 5%
Lib Dem: 19% / 22%
Labour: 16% / 31%
Biased in favour of left-wing views: 31%
Biased in favour of right-wing views: 19%
Not biased: 19%
Belief in bias by party
Reform: 73% biased to left / 4% biased to right
Con: 52% / 5%
Lib Dem: 19% / 22%
Labour: 16% / 31%
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There's that 30% again ... always there. Always rotting everything from the bottom. Always one-third.
Perhaps he thinks everyone will be so dazzled by the gold and his adorableness that they'll just pay up a billion somethings because they edited a speech which ended up saying what he really said ... and when he's even pardoned the rioters?
Guy is a mobster. This is a shakedown.
Guy is a mobster. This is a shakedown.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Perhaps he thinks everyone will be so dazzled by the gold and his adorableness that they'll just pay up a billion somethings because they edited a speech which ended up saying what he really said ... and when he's even pardoned the rioters?
Guy is a mobster. This is a shakedown.
Guy is a mobster. This is a shakedown.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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They're not aiming for a nation of uneducated and uninformed fun-havers who don't need to think about the nasty stuff that created their fun but would spoil their enjoyment of it. Not at all. They're aiming for a society of controllable stupids. Some might call it an easy goal ...
In October, a publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.
‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
They're not aiming for a nation of uneducated and uninformed fun-havers who don't need to think about the nasty stuff that created their fun but would spoil their enjoyment of it. Not at all. They're aiming for a society of controllable stupids. Some might call it an easy goal ...