mylorjames.bsky.social
@mylorjames.bsky.social
Rugby, fiction, writing, centrist dad
Not all Reform supporters are racists. But all racists support Reform.
January 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
It feels today like we face a genuine emergency re the US and Russia. Yet when there is talk of rejoining the Customs Union etc. it is using processes designed for the world that has gone. Same for loads of areas. It’s an emergency. C’mon, UK gov, act like it.
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Reposted
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Telegraph is openly advocating U.K. citizens not fighting to defend their homeland and allies. Wtaf!!!
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Farage and Johnson pissed away, 250 mill a day!”
“The most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us £350 million a week, but Brexit actually cost us £250 million a day…That is why we have the highest taxes ever, that is why we have sky-high bills, that is why we have a cost of living crisis.”
www.libdems.org.uk/press/releas...
Revealed: Brexit costing the UK £250m a day in lost tax revenue
The UK is losing £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
www.libdems.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
So…poets are suddenly in demand by every terrorist and dictator in the world…
“I’m sorry Mr Betjeman, but I couldn’t find anything that would meet your requirements of friendliness and mass destruction. Which one would you like me to prioritise?”
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "

www.wired.com/story/poems-...
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The cost to every UK taxpayer of Trump’s billion law suit against the BBC? About £23 a head. Want to pay that into Trump’s personal account from yours?
bugs bunny is sitting at a table with a purse and stacks of money
ALT: bugs bunny is sitting at a table with a purse and stacks of money
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This is what the right and Reform supporters are being fed with. It’s open racism. The subject, the detail, the language, the call
to action. This is what we are up against. Imagine that in your feed a hundred times a day. Horrifying.
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social I really want to see this examined at depth. Farage and his cronies are at best too close to Russian influence. At worst, well…so why are you not allowing discussion?
Here's BBC's Fiona Bruce saying people don't want to talk about the traitor Nathan Gill and Russia bribing Reform politicians.

Please share to tell the #BBC that we really do want to talk about it.

#Farage #Putin
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I got issues with Polanski on defence and some economic stuff but he knows how to communicate. His big secret, in my view, is that he identifies a villain. The super rich, Farage. LibDems and Labour take note. Someone needs to be the focus of public anger. Polanski gets this.
Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.
Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
A question for a lawyer @goodlawproject.org perhaps? We all know Mone will hide her money and delay in court. Is it technically still legal for Parliament to pass an Act of Attainder and just seize it all? Not recommending, just curious if it’s an option…
October 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
What’s bothering me about the Labour government is that the good stuff they do, and there is good stuff, doesn’t take pressure of my budget or visibly improve my life day to day. Example, lower power bills; better water quality; lower food prices. So here are my suggestions for policy priorities.
September 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What links the garbage spouted by Trump on paracetamol to that vented by Farage on immigration RTR? Both are based not on fact, but on calculations of impact. We cannot have policy done this way. We can’t stop Trump, but we can stop his protege and imitator Farage. And we must.
September 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I’m listening to a muezzin chant on a satellite TV in my regular Turkish barber shop in Falmouth. It’s beautiful, peaceful and diminishes my identity in no way at all. Diversity is great. (They also set fire to your ears here…)
September 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Lot of focus on gun violence today. That’s a US problem. Let’s think about something else. Language. I am for free speech but we cannot pretend a constant stream of violent, hateful and dehumanising words has no impact. Rwanda. Bosnia. The Gulags. Germany.
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September 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The Epstein stuff feels like it might turn Trump to a liability for his party. Was it this Putin had on him? Whatever, when he falls he is going to create an almighty vacuum that in itself risks chaos. He will be desperate, reckless and have nothing to lose.
September 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @therestpolitics.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. In 2017 Thorn in the Side (7650770) had current assets of £157,604. In 2024 cash at bank was £1.7m. Nigel Farage sole director. He is richer. We are poorer. Get the message out.
September 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I’ll say it. The government @uklabour.bsky.social are being spineless, craven bastards for not hammering the vile lies and savage cruelty in Reform’s Moseley inspired asylum policy. This is not who we are in Britain. @jaynekirkham.bsky.social get on and savage this callous policy.
August 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Is Trump gonna sell out Ukraine? What should U.K. do if he does? Cancel F35s, order new tac nuke delivery platform. Join single market to boost growth and set up defence production pact with Canada, S Korea etc. Do all fast before US economic pressure forces us accept Putin as legit. Hope I’m wrong.
August 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Im on a delayed train to Brum. It’s Matt Goodwin’s nightmare. Diverse, Muslims, immigrants. And everyone is suffering the rail network with Brit stoicism. Lovely.
July 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not to whinge but if some clown detonates a nuke in the atmosphere the EMP kills electronics. Alerts useless.
UK emergency alert to be tested on mobile phones for second time in September
A test message will be sent to smartphones on 7 September, after a previous test revealed technical issues.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
So, NHS strategy missing some opportunities. Big one, unreported, would be allowing research into MH drugs using cannabis, Ket and mushrooms. UK plc could be world leader, MH crisis addressed. Get on it UK gov.
July 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A few years ago I read and enjoyed some Tom Clancy novels. The approach to foreign policy in the novels is pretty much the one used by Trump’s administration. It’s summed up by one word. Dominance. Break treaties, release US power. The thinking behind it is that US power has been held back.
June 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Right wing populist governments across the world are causing utter chaos. Brexit. Mass immigration. Ukraine. Gaza. LA riots. Now Iran. Trump claims none of this would have happened if he was President in 2020. Fella, it happens because you and your ilk have been driving the agenda since 2011.
June 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM