John Traynor
@johndtraynor.bsky.social
Dr. Strangelove's choreographer
Blog: https://ducksoap.wordpress.com/
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Windy here in North Yorkshire. Howling like owners of £2m homes being asked to stump up a few quid to help out the country.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Windy here in North Yorkshire. Howling like owners of £2m homes being asked to stump up a few quid to help out the country.
President of European Commission von der Leyen presented her warped analysis at Berlin Global Dialogue in October on how EU should act economically and politically in context of success of China.
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An empire gasping for breath cries lamentedly: Ursula von der Leyen
Empires rise, rule and fade. Included in causes of their demise are over-ambition, internal squabbles, complacency, arrogance, and eschewal of critical thinking. European Union (EU) was conceived…
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November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
President of European Commission von der Leyen presented her warped analysis at Berlin Global Dialogue in October on how EU should act economically and politically in context of success of China.
ducksoap.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/an-empire-gasping-for-breath-cries-lamentedly-ursula-von-der-leyen/
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
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BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
A reform government will utilise every facet of people’s lives to channel wealth to offshore accounts of large corporations and asset “owners.”
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A Reform government would have a single objective
Preceding UK’s next general election (no later than 2029) Labour’s support is likely to continue to decline, Tory party will wither to an incoherent relic, Liberal Democrat party will, …
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November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A reform government will utilise every facet of people’s lives to channel wealth to offshore accounts of large corporations and asset “owners.”
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Top Dem Speechwriter Says Young Jews' Empathy for Gaza Shows Holocaust Education Has Backfired www.commondreams.org/news/sarah-h...
Top Dem Speechwriter Says Young Jews' Empathy for Gaza Shows Holocaust Education Has Backfired | Common Dreams
"Holocaust education is too successful, it made the kids anti-holocaust while Israel is trying to do one," quipped one prominent critic.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Top Dem Speechwriter Says Young Jews' Empathy for Gaza Shows Holocaust Education Has Backfired www.commondreams.org/news/sarah-h...
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...
Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF
The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...
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July 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Reform in power would be a nightmare. The Councils they run are in chaos.They literally have no idea how to govern. Random decisions costing millions.Decimating services, raising Council Tax
We cannot fight them by just calling them racist names
We need to concentrate on their failures & frauds
We cannot fight them by just calling them racist names
We need to concentrate on their failures & frauds
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reform in power would be a nightmare. The Councils they run are in chaos.They literally have no idea how to govern. Random decisions costing millions.Decimating services, raising Council Tax
We cannot fight them by just calling them racist names
We need to concentrate on their failures & frauds
We cannot fight them by just calling them racist names
We need to concentrate on their failures & frauds
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4m people in England & Wales spend more on essentials than they earn.
580,000 have £50 left at the end of the month.
Result of low wages/benefits, austerity, unchecked profiteering.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Poverty is a political choice.
580,000 have £50 left at the end of the month.
Result of low wages/benefits, austerity, unchecked profiteering.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Poverty is a political choice.
Millions in households in England and Wales are stuck in the red, says charity
Citizens Advice says 4 million people spending more on essentials than they earn amid ever-increasing bills
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
4m people in England & Wales spend more on essentials than they earn.
580,000 have £50 left at the end of the month.
Result of low wages/benefits, austerity, unchecked profiteering.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Poverty is a political choice.
580,000 have £50 left at the end of the month.
Result of low wages/benefits, austerity, unchecked profiteering.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Poverty is a political choice.
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I've watched lots of mainstream politics shows recently and it's striking how shallow, uniformed, incurious and just dull our political journalists are.
I've had way more intelligent, interesting and nuanced conversations knocking doors than anything these people seem to to offer.
I've had way more intelligent, interesting and nuanced conversations knocking doors than anything these people seem to to offer.
October 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I've watched lots of mainstream politics shows recently and it's striking how shallow, uniformed, incurious and just dull our political journalists are.
I've had way more intelligent, interesting and nuanced conversations knocking doors than anything these people seem to to offer.
I've had way more intelligent, interesting and nuanced conversations knocking doors than anything these people seem to to offer.
Lisa Nandy is happy to join the club of absolute bell-ends Ian Austin, John Woodcock and John Mann.
October 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Lisa Nandy is happy to join the club of absolute bell-ends Ian Austin, John Woodcock and John Mann.
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The lack of transparency in decision making and reductions in environmental, planning and employment legislation are all factors that should alarm every UK citizen.”
October 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The lack of transparency in decision making and reductions in environmental, planning and employment legislation are all factors that should alarm every UK citizen.”
Henry Winter is a football journalist. He wrote for Times and has had stints on BBC's 5Live. Normally, his contributions are dull and uninformative. Last week he decided to tackle the ban on Maccabi fans in Birmingham. His analysis was awful.
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The bleak mad winter
Football hack Henry Winter is an alumnus of Westminster School – current fees up to £49,950 per annum. It may be pondered why such expensive schooling is needed to write and speak words abou…
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October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Henry Winter is a football journalist. He wrote for Times and has had stints on BBC's 5Live. Normally, his contributions are dull and uninformative. Last week he decided to tackle the ban on Maccabi fans in Birmingham. His analysis was awful.
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That’s called #capitalism.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
That’s called #capitalism.
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Well said @esherukweku.bsky.social 👏🏽
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Well said @esherukweku.bsky.social 👏🏽
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We need to get rid of every single UK politician who bows to Israel.
They do not serve you, they serve Netanyahu.
They do not serve you, they serve Netanyahu.
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We need to get rid of every single UK politician who bows to Israel.
They do not serve you, they serve Netanyahu.
They do not serve you, they serve Netanyahu.
The violent, racist brutality of Maccabi’s fans a year ago in Amsterdam is not welcome in Birmingham but politicians and hacks couldn’t care less about the safety of Brummies.
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UK politicians and media hacks want violent racism from Maccabi fans in Birmingham
Almost a year ago (8th November 2024) prior to a match against Ajax hundreds of Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters in Amsterdam roamed the streets armed with poles and violently assaulted anyone not Cauca…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The violent, racist brutality of Maccabi’s fans a year ago in Amsterdam is not welcome in Birmingham but politicians and hacks couldn’t care less about the safety of Brummies.
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One of the few lines of defence we have against phoneys like Vance and Trump - and in the UK against Farage and his ilk - are journalists who hold them to account. Sadly, here we have too many Laura Kuenssbergs and too few Victoria Derbyshires www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists' Questions. It Did Not Go Well
Vice President J.D. Vance tried to dodge questions about Border Czar Tom Homan's alleged accepting of a bribe and whether J.B. Pritzker is a criminal.
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October 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
One of the few lines of defence we have against phoneys like Vance and Trump - and in the UK against Farage and his ilk - are journalists who hold them to account. Sadly, here we have too many Laura Kuenssbergs and too few Victoria Derbyshires www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Part of Labour’s gimpism toward USA wealth gatherers is sheepish imitation of their government’s ideology, strategy and tactics.
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UK copies authoritarianism from USA
In his first term as president Donald Trump’s rhetoric was often not backed by actions. In his second term he is able to proceed as he proclaims. Occasionally, courts and state representati…
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October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Part of Labour’s gimpism toward USA wealth gatherers is sheepish imitation of their government’s ideology, strategy and tactics.
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Tories offer £47bn austerity - cuts to disability benefits, PIP for mental health claimants, social housing, civil service, regulators, green economy, accompanied by anti-migrant rhetoric.
Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering.
The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.
Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering.
The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.
Tories confirm plans to cut PIP for mental health claimants
The Conservatives have unveiled plans to cut spending on welfare and scrap environmental subsidies
www.mirror.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Tories offer £47bn austerity - cuts to disability benefits, PIP for mental health claimants, social housing, civil service, regulators, green economy, accompanied by anti-migrant rhetoric.
Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering.
The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.
Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering.
The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
wizard frog is insane
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BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
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BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x
October 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x
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“The most moral army” is dropping fire bombs on tents of unarmed civilians just trying to survive Israels genocide.
Apparently Israelis got a fckd up version of what “moral” means.
But that tracks.
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Apparently Israelis got a fckd up version of what “moral” means.
But that tracks.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“The most moral army” is dropping fire bombs on tents of unarmed civilians just trying to survive Israels genocide.
Apparently Israelis got a fckd up version of what “moral” means.
But that tracks.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPT4tCM...
Apparently Israelis got a fckd up version of what “moral” means.
But that tracks.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPT4tCM...