Mark Lawson
@marklawsonkernow.bsky.social
Graphic #designer in #Cornwall, UK - marklawson.design - #EV, #renewables, mad cocker spaniel #dog, #wine, volunteer youth worker, wrong side of 50. Treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself. Creative problem solver.
@russincheshire.bsky.social i’ve been looking for #BabysBreath on @libro.fm but it’s not appeared 🙁. I stopped using Amazon for books and audio books early this year. Will your audio books be on Libro?
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@russincheshire.bsky.social i’ve been looking for #BabysBreath on @libro.fm but it’s not appeared 🙁. I stopped using Amazon for books and audio books early this year. Will your audio books be on Libro?
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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BBC
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
BBC
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
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It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.
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Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
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There are no binary choices to political solutions. It’s not throw open the borders or be Farage. There are workable answers - it just takes hard work, intelligence, compassion, nuance, communication, diligence, effort and political will.
Would be nice to see some.
Would be nice to see some.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
There are no binary choices to political solutions. It’s not throw open the borders or be Farage. There are workable answers - it just takes hard work, intelligence, compassion, nuance, communication, diligence, effort and political will.
Would be nice to see some.
Would be nice to see some.
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
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Reform Ltd on BBC Question Time again tonight.
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reform Ltd on BBC Question Time again tonight.
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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The sadness is that the people who need to understand the failure of Reform to deliver, quite so spectacularly, upon their promises (all talk no talent), those that vote for them are blind to their lack of talent, not wanting to hear a word said against their saviour. They’re in a cult. Like MAGA.
Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The sadness is that the people who need to understand the failure of Reform to deliver, quite so spectacularly, upon their promises (all talk no talent), those that vote for them are blind to their lack of talent, not wanting to hear a word said against their saviour. They’re in a cult. Like MAGA.
❤️
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
❤️
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The BBC’s front page right now. Looks like they are not trying to be conciliatory.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The BBC’s front page right now. Looks like they are not trying to be conciliatory.
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The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
Irony not lost… make space for horses when passing in your vehicle. But don’t make space for pedestrians trying to walk past your vehicle. Hypocrite. #car #parking #pavement #horse #pedestrian #footpath #badparking #pavementparking
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Irony not lost… make space for horses when passing in your vehicle. But don’t make space for pedestrians trying to walk past your vehicle. Hypocrite. #car #parking #pavement #horse #pedestrian #footpath #badparking #pavementparking
OK. Here's the thing. You just can't put on a jacket and pretend to be a security patrol in the UK. It's actually illegal. Who the actual F are these "Essex Spartans"? Government has laws and rules and they need to enforce them.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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So much of Cymru/Wales's heritage lost in a single theft..
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans
Two men have been charged with burglary, but
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So much of Cymru/Wales's heritage lost in a single theft..
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Can we get back to a global timeline where the nasty far right authoritarians like Trump, Farage, Putin & Netanyahu don’t exist and more moderate leaders existing making lives better with inspiring ideas and positive solutions to human and planetary problems and threats?
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Can we get back to a global timeline where the nasty far right authoritarians like Trump, Farage, Putin & Netanyahu don’t exist and more moderate leaders existing making lives better with inspiring ideas and positive solutions to human and planetary problems and threats?
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This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
Isn’t there a mechanism to remove Presidents who are clearly insane? His answer to the decline of retail - SEND IN THE TROOPS!!! He’s insane.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Isn’t there a mechanism to remove Presidents who are clearly insane? His answer to the decline of retail - SEND IN THE TROOPS!!! He’s insane.
All that’s said and done, the BBC does know how to do superb drama. Mr Burton was brilliant. Got chills several times. I just wish the BBC could sort out its rogue elements, mistakes and missteps and concentrate on what it’s always done best. And Trump can jog on. Not a penny you tyrant.
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
All that’s said and done, the BBC does know how to do superb drama. Mr Burton was brilliant. Got chills several times. I just wish the BBC could sort out its rogue elements, mistakes and missteps and concentrate on what it’s always done best. And Trump can jog on. Not a penny you tyrant.
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Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.