John Allan
@johnmallan.bsky.social
Self employed. Married. Step dad. Cycle for fitness and pleasure. Sports fan, especially football. Secular humanist. Left of centre. Proudly woke. He/him.
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Timeline cleanse: Happy Gotcha Days edition
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September 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Timeline cleanse: Happy Gotcha Days edition
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(Via r/MadeMeSmile)
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
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Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is an alarming new low for the ongoing culture wars | Jesse Hassenger
Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is an alarming new low for the ongoing culture wars | Jesse Hassenger
The late-night show getting pulled ‘indefinitely’ after relatively mild commentary about the right is another worrying sign of where Trump’s America is heading
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is an alarming new low for the ongoing culture wars | Jesse Hassenger
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STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
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Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
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A simple poem of solidarity from the seaside
April 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A simple poem of solidarity from the seaside
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Christ, can’t we stop dehumanising trans lives and using them as clickbait - look to see despicable promotion of misogyny in USA by white supremacist men (and often predators) , see how the incel movement grows in UK schools and bars
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Christ, can’t we stop dehumanising trans lives and using them as clickbait - look to see despicable promotion of misogyny in USA by white supremacist men (and often predators) , see how the incel movement grows in UK schools and bars
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So, funny story. As I’m getting on a bit, and with background noise, I struggle sometimes to hear the tv so I use subtitles. I use the Sky blue button to switch them on but it’s always a colossal struggle trying to switch them off. When I say ‘Subtitles Off’ it hears ‘Subtitles Of’. 1/?
April 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So, funny story. As I’m getting on a bit, and with background noise, I struggle sometimes to hear the tv so I use subtitles. I use the Sky blue button to switch them on but it’s always a colossal struggle trying to switch them off. When I say ‘Subtitles Off’ it hears ‘Subtitles Of’. 1/?
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The two most powerful Republican politicians in America - the president and co-president of the United States - are publicly praising and defending and excusing the crimes of a far-right foreign politician who leads a party founded by a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi.
We are in a very, very dark place.
We are in a very, very dark place.
April 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The two most powerful Republican politicians in America - the president and co-president of the United States - are publicly praising and defending and excusing the crimes of a far-right foreign politician who leads a party founded by a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi.
We are in a very, very dark place.
We are in a very, very dark place.
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How about an interim government for Russia, with supervision from the UN?
March 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
How about an interim government for Russia, with supervision from the UN?
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Unbelievable. Trump gives the tyrant Putin a US-Russia ice hockey game. Meanwhile he tells Zelensky to hand over Ukraine’s sovereign energy infrastructure and minerals.
America used to stand for something.
America used to stand for something.
March 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Unbelievable. Trump gives the tyrant Putin a US-Russia ice hockey game. Meanwhile he tells Zelensky to hand over Ukraine’s sovereign energy infrastructure and minerals.
America used to stand for something.
America used to stand for something.
Reading Wolf Hall just now and this appeared which I thought was very apt for what is happening in the US.
‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’
It means ‘who will guard the guards themselves?’ or ‘who will watch the watchmen?’
‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’
It means ‘who will guard the guards themselves?’ or ‘who will watch the watchmen?’
March 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Reading Wolf Hall just now and this appeared which I thought was very apt for what is happening in the US.
‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’
It means ‘who will guard the guards themselves?’ or ‘who will watch the watchmen?’
‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’
It means ‘who will guard the guards themselves?’ or ‘who will watch the watchmen?’
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Two days apart:
March 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Two days apart:
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Remarkable clarity in Britain.
March 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Remarkable clarity in Britain.
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There’s a saying that holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Tariffs are the economic equivalent of that.
A country that enacts a tariff is drinking economic poison and expecting the other countries to die.
Tariffs are the economic equivalent of that.
A country that enacts a tariff is drinking economic poison and expecting the other countries to die.
March 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There’s a saying that holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Tariffs are the economic equivalent of that.
A country that enacts a tariff is drinking economic poison and expecting the other countries to die.
Tariffs are the economic equivalent of that.
A country that enacts a tariff is drinking economic poison and expecting the other countries to die.
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As I've been grumbling about certain BBC presenters, it's important to say that correspondents like Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet and Steve Rosenberg continue to not just deliver the finest reporting and analysis but push back against daft questions. It's such a relief to hear them instead of [redacted]
March 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As I've been grumbling about certain BBC presenters, it's important to say that correspondents like Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet and Steve Rosenberg continue to not just deliver the finest reporting and analysis but push back against daft questions. It's such a relief to hear them instead of [redacted]
I don’t think there’s been a time since Brexit when I wished more that we were still a part of the EU. Absolutely awful that we are still a bit on the periphery when we should be at the real heart of the key decisions being made.
March 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I don’t think there’s been a time since Brexit when I wished more that we were still a part of the EU. Absolutely awful that we are still a bit on the periphery when we should be at the real heart of the key decisions being made.
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perfect example of people who refuse to deal with the facts on the ground and instead retreat to abstraction and discourse in order to prove themselves right
"Trump is in a tradition of realist presidents, going back to Theodore Roosevelt more than a century ago, who have viewed world politics as a great-power club, rather than an arena for idealism."
Must-read NEW Michael Lind.
Must-read NEW Michael Lind.
The roots of Trump’s realpolitik
unherd.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
perfect example of people who refuse to deal with the facts on the ground and instead retreat to abstraction and discourse in order to prove themselves right
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When a politician tells you that what you saw is not really what you saw then perhaps you might begin to question what that politician tells you about other things too
Nigel Farage says that Elon Musk and Steve Bannon's Nazi salutes were "not really Nazi salutes" because "they were out to the side."
March 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
When a politician tells you that what you saw is not really what you saw then perhaps you might begin to question what that politician tells you about other things too
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Even US former conservatives get the implications. If Europe hasn’t spent the last 12 months workshopping this scenario God help us. MAGA could not have been more clear what they planned to do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix
The president’s about-face on Ukraine has taught our allies a lesson they won’t be unlearning anytime soon.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Even US former conservatives get the implications. If Europe hasn’t spent the last 12 months workshopping this scenario God help us. MAGA could not have been more clear what they planned to do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
What an absolute stain on UK politics this man is. Appalling.
Nigel Farage says that Elon Musk and Steve Bannon's Nazi salutes were "not really Nazi salutes" because "they were out to the side."
March 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
What an absolute stain on UK politics this man is. Appalling.
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Says the man whose administration just helped to bring alleged rapist and people trafficker Andrew Tate into the US
March 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Says the man whose administration just helped to bring alleged rapist and people trafficker Andrew Tate into the US
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