Michael Bell
@mbellcoop.bsky.social
Used to be a bigwig in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
Reposted by Michael Bell
So the solution is… to join in?
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So the solution is… to join in?
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
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Heres the thing girliepop.....besides the obvious reasons why labour mps dislike tommy robinson.....they are constantly getting emails saying ill kill u by people who follow tommy robinson.....if you think they are gonna accept this being the line youre delusional
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Heres the thing girliepop.....besides the obvious reasons why labour mps dislike tommy robinson.....they are constantly getting emails saying ill kill u by people who follow tommy robinson.....if you think they are gonna accept this being the line youre delusional
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I feel now about Starmer as I did about Blair after the Iraq War: that such a fundamental line has been crossed that I will never vote for the party while he or the people who surround him are still in charge.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I feel now about Starmer as I did about Blair after the Iraq War: that such a fundamental line has been crossed that I will never vote for the party while he or the people who surround him are still in charge.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
I used to feel frustration and betrayal that I worked so hard for so long as a volunteer activist to help get this party into government for them to turn out like they did. Now I feel shame about it.
Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission.
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I used to feel frustration and betrayal that I worked so hard for so long as a volunteer activist to help get this party into government for them to turn out like they did. Now I feel shame about it.
The Die Hard Christmas movie engagement bait discourse is pretty old and tired now, but I will absolutely go all guns blazing for Gremlins as a Christmas film. Gizmo is a Christmas present, the Gremlins be carolers, one hides in a Christmas tree. It's interwoven through the whole film
Share a Christmas movie.
November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Die Hard Christmas movie engagement bait discourse is pretty old and tired now, but I will absolutely go all guns blazing for Gremlins as a Christmas film. Gizmo is a Christmas present, the Gremlins be carolers, one hides in a Christmas tree. It's interwoven through the whole film
Benfield 0 - Kendal 1
Despite Benfield being the underdogs by league position, I'd say that game was way more evenly matched than the score line indicates. Were it not for a complete defensive fuck up at the start allowing Kendal a shot at an open goal, and then having the easier job of
Despite Benfield being the underdogs by league position, I'd say that game was way more evenly matched than the score line indicates. Were it not for a complete defensive fuck up at the start allowing Kendal a shot at an open goal, and then having the easier job of
Off to watch Newcastle Benfield FC against Kendal Town
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Benfield 0 - Kendal 1
Despite Benfield being the underdogs by league position, I'd say that game was way more evenly matched than the score line indicates. Were it not for a complete defensive fuck up at the start allowing Kendal a shot at an open goal, and then having the easier job of
Despite Benfield being the underdogs by league position, I'd say that game was way more evenly matched than the score line indicates. Were it not for a complete defensive fuck up at the start allowing Kendal a shot at an open goal, and then having the easier job of
Off to watch Newcastle Benfield FC against Kendal Town
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Off to watch Newcastle Benfield FC against Kendal Town
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I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
I'm gonna be a massive spoil sport & say that my first thought on seeing the Epstein email about Trump sucking someone off is it's just them being daft. They're just riffing on Russiagate jokes cos Bannon is there. For all that theyre vile and evil, sometimes people just be daft for a laugh
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm gonna be a massive spoil sport & say that my first thought on seeing the Epstein email about Trump sucking someone off is it's just them being daft. They're just riffing on Russiagate jokes cos Bannon is there. For all that theyre vile and evil, sometimes people just be daft for a laugh
So my first question is, why are there classified files about Amelia Earhart's final flight in the first place?
The files we’ve all been waiting for are finally getting released…
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So my first question is, why are there classified files about Amelia Earhart's final flight in the first place?
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something quite bleakly funny about Rachel Reeves apparently being extremely good at chess when her entire tenure as Chancellor so far has basically been "well this seems like a good choice right this moment.......let's not think about the further implications of that choice for even one second"
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
something quite bleakly funny about Rachel Reeves apparently being extremely good at chess when her entire tenure as Chancellor so far has basically been "well this seems like a good choice right this moment.......let's not think about the further implications of that choice for even one second"
Of the 20,000 emails released in the Epstein case, what I find notable by its absence is any email exchanges between Trump and Epstein. Presumably that's all still in The Epstein Files proper
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Of the 20,000 emails released in the Epstein case, what I find notable by its absence is any email exchanges between Trump and Epstein. Presumably that's all still in The Epstein Files proper
As well as being disgusting, what Kelly says is also false. She says at the end of the quote "no one has come forward saying 'I was under 14'". That's not true. One of the survivors is on the record saying she was 13 when Epstein introduced her to Trump and Trump sexually assaulted her
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As well as being disgusting, what Kelly says is also false. She says at the end of the quote "no one has come forward saying 'I was under 14'". That's not true. One of the survivors is on the record saying she was 13 when Epstein introduced her to Trump and Trump sexually assaulted her
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writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Still find it laughably mad that after the FIFA Club World Cup, they not only gave Trump a winner's medal, on stage with the team, but they gave him the actual trophy to keep, and Chelsea had to take a replica home
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Still find it laughably mad that after the FIFA Club World Cup, they not only gave Trump a winner's medal, on stage with the team, but they gave him the actual trophy to keep, and Chelsea had to take a replica home
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Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.'
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
Fears Lancaster University job cuts would hit city's businesses
Lancaster University is seeking to cut 400 full-time posts as part of efforts to save £30m.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
MTG is breaking ranks then. Suspect more will do so over the weekend
Rep. Ro Khanna tells @Lawrence that he, Thomas Massie, and MTG will hold a news conference next Tuesday with survivors of Epstein's abuse.
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
MTG is breaking ranks then. Suspect more will do so over the weekend
You might think these things are unrelated, however I have it on good authority that Donald Trump is actually a potential front runner for this
Oh boy, I wonder how all these Trump/Epstein revelations will affect the deliberations for the FIFA Peace Prize 🙃
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
You might think these things are unrelated, however I have it on good authority that Donald Trump is actually a potential front runner for this
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this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him
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Okay, that's a good start. Now release the Kelly Rowland Excel Spreadsheets.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Okay, that's a good start. Now release the Kelly Rowland Excel Spreadsheets.