John Moore
@johnofnorwich.bsky.social
Nothing useful to contribute, mainly just snarky comments from the sidelines.
And yet you can be damned sure that the "immigration is spiralling out of control, something urgently needs to be done" narrative will continue unabated.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
And yet you can be damned sure that the "immigration is spiralling out of control, something urgently needs to be done" narrative will continue unabated.
How lovely that 'kindness' should be the auto-correct error! A word you clearly use a lot.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How lovely that 'kindness' should be the auto-correct error! A word you clearly use a lot.
If you stand up to bullies, they don't attack you. If you show weakness, they do. You'd think that was a simple enough lesson for the BBC to learn.
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you stand up to bullies, they don't attack you. If you show weakness, they do. You'd think that was a simple enough lesson for the BBC to learn.
That's three whole paragraphs to read, though.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That's three whole paragraphs to read, though.
Hadn't come across this before. It's great, makes Facebook palatable again!
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hadn't come across this before. It's great, makes Facebook palatable again!
It is a tree I feel you could converse with. (I don't, because, well...).
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It is a tree I feel you could converse with. (I don't, because, well...).
There have been rumours of crimes being committed in East London. Ronnie and Reggie Kray have been appointed to carry out an investigation.
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
There have been rumours of crimes being committed in East London. Ronnie and Reggie Kray have been appointed to carry out an investigation.
There are few trees as majestic as an ancient parkland oak. I know this one well.
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
There are few trees as majestic as an ancient parkland oak. I know this one well.
It's a joke. The right wing and their press in this country (Mail, Express, Telegraph) go from one seasonal confected outrage to another. "They've cancelled Easter!", "He's not wearing a poppy!", "You're not allowed to say Christmas any more!".
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It's a joke. The right wing and their press in this country (Mail, Express, Telegraph) go from one seasonal confected outrage to another. "They've cancelled Easter!", "He's not wearing a poppy!", "You're not allowed to say Christmas any more!".
It is the crass stupidity of it which astounds me. They are just increasing the salience of issues where they will always lose out to the genuine far right. And even if they go far right themselves, existing far right voters won't vote for them, preferring the 'real thing'. 2
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It is the crass stupidity of it which astounds me. They are just increasing the salience of issues where they will always lose out to the genuine far right. And even if they go far right themselves, existing far right voters won't vote for them, preferring the 'real thing'. 2
What sends me into a gibbering rage about this is that they are doing a whole load of things which they almost certainly don't believe in in order to win votes, when its effect is the direct opposite, causing them to haemorrhage votes from their natural base with no chance of winning Reform votes. 1
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What sends me into a gibbering rage about this is that they are doing a whole load of things which they almost certainly don't believe in in order to win votes, when its effect is the direct opposite, causing them to haemorrhage votes from their natural base with no chance of winning Reform votes. 1
None of those trees are wearing poppies! It's a bloody outrage!
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
None of those trees are wearing poppies! It's a bloody outrage!
The main difference for me is that they are doing cruel and hateful things which they don't really want to do in order to win votes, whereas the Conservatives did really want to do them. Doesn't make any difference on the ground.
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The main difference for me is that they are doing cruel and hateful things which they don't really want to do in order to win votes, whereas the Conservatives did really want to do them. Doesn't make any difference on the ground.
They only had to be different from the outgoing Tories.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
They only had to be different from the outgoing Tories.
The Spanish Ambassador has been summoned in Dublin.
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Spanish Ambassador has been summoned in Dublin.
I would say it's actually McSweeney. Yes, I know he doesn't have the title as such, but still.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I would say it's actually McSweeney. Yes, I know he doesn't have the title as such, but still.
And all because of a calamitous series of entirely unforced errors.
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
And all because of a calamitous series of entirely unforced errors.
"The proof is in the pudding".
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"The proof is in the pudding".
So we should say 'fall', also an older form, instead of that neologism 'autumn'?
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So we should say 'fall', also an older form, instead of that neologism 'autumn'?
I have to confess my objections are not to do with a fear of possible ambiguity but from concerns about the creeping dominance of American language and, with it, American culture here in the UK. An unwinnable battle, I know.
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I have to confess my objections are not to do with a fear of possible ambiguity but from concerns about the creeping dominance of American language and, with it, American culture here in the UK. An unwinnable battle, I know.
Given that he's pardoned all the people who took part in the violent assault on the Capitol and praised them as 'great patriots', it's hard to see what he's hurt about.
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Given that he's pardoned all the people who took part in the violent assault on the Capitol and praised them as 'great patriots', it's hard to see what he's hurt about.
