John London
@jfl54.bsky.social
I don’t expect a follow back, mainly lurking. Semi-retired DJ. Mostly left-of-centre. Classic cars, photography, travel, architecture, history, pop music, theatre, TV, movies, and brain lint. Half-heartedly weaning myself of politics 🙂
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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I remember the night I first introduced Count Dragomir Vasile Mihai Neculai Alexandru Constantin Dodos of Josenii Bârgäului to my wife. She grimaced and said "That's a terribly elaborate name for
such a small penis".
such a small penis".
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I remember the night I first introduced Count Dragomir Vasile Mihai Neculai Alexandru Constantin Dodos of Josenii Bârgäului to my wife. She grimaced and said "That's a terribly elaborate name for
such a small penis".
such a small penis".
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🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.
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when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake
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The highest paid MP in the country has suggested that the minimum wage may be “too high” for younger workers 🤷
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The highest paid MP in the country has suggested that the minimum wage may be “too high” for younger workers 🤷
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
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Socialism: You have two cows. The state takes one, so everyone has a cow.
Communism: You have two cows. The state takes both and gives you a ration of milk.
Capitalism: One man has two billion cows, and milk is unaffordable.
Communism: You have two cows. The state takes both and gives you a ration of milk.
Capitalism: One man has two billion cows, and milk is unaffordable.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Socialism: You have two cows. The state takes one, so everyone has a cow.
Communism: You have two cows. The state takes both and gives you a ration of milk.
Capitalism: One man has two billion cows, and milk is unaffordable.
Communism: You have two cows. The state takes both and gives you a ration of milk.
Capitalism: One man has two billion cows, and milk is unaffordable.
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It’s time for the Friday Cat.
October 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
It’s time for the Friday Cat.
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.
Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.
#bbcqt
Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.
#bbcqt
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.
#bbcqt
#bbcqt
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.
#bbcqt
#bbcqt
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Here, be uplifted again.
October 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Here, be uplifted again.
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Grateful for these responses collated by Sunder.
Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester
October 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Grateful for these responses collated by Sunder.
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
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This ruling is a joke.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This ruling is a joke.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
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'Farage Boats' is a useful term and should be normalised.
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
'Farage Boats' is a useful term and should be normalised.
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Burnham at fringe #Lab25 event: "Look at the last decade we've had. Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that #Brexit has been, more directly? They are the people who took us down this path. That's their doing. And we've got to absolutely hold them accountable for that." ~AA
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
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Guys, Andy Burnham is the guy you fancied in school who you almost got together with at the sixth form disco but then you didn’t and every single school reunion while you are married to the boring guy you met at your first job, he gives you the chat and you briefly consider running away with him.
September 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Guys, Andy Burnham is the guy you fancied in school who you almost got together with at the sixth form disco but then you didn’t and every single school reunion while you are married to the boring guy you met at your first job, he gives you the chat and you briefly consider running away with him.
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Finland closed down all its for profit schools in the 1970’s.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
September 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Finland closed down all its for profit schools in the 1970’s.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
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September 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA