Andy Molloy
@old-basing.bsky.social
Older than before, trying to get wiser but failing to make meaningful progress & still not as energetic as I should be.
Enjoying the moments, places & people around me; not to be taken seriously.
Enjoying the moments, places & people around me; not to be taken seriously.
None of us can predict how we would respond when an overwhelming & brutal force occupies our community.
We can engage in our community in safer times; learn who we can trust. We can help our community be more than a zone surrounding the place we work, sleep & entertain ourselves at home.
We can engage in our community in safer times; learn who we can trust. We can help our community be more than a zone surrounding the place we work, sleep & entertain ourselves at home.
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 AM
None of us can predict how we would respond when an overwhelming & brutal force occupies our community.
We can engage in our community in safer times; learn who we can trust. We can help our community be more than a zone surrounding the place we work, sleep & entertain ourselves at home.
We can engage in our community in safer times; learn who we can trust. We can help our community be more than a zone surrounding the place we work, sleep & entertain ourselves at home.
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🏥 Local people were promised a new hospital, need a new hospital, and deserve a new hospital; we cannot afford any more delays.
🚫 Conservative chaos and Labour inaction has brought our hospitals to their knees. It has to stop.
📝 Please sign my petition to bring this timetable forward.
🏥 Local people were promised a new hospital, need a new hospital, and deserve a new hospital; we cannot afford any more delays.
🚫 Conservative chaos and Labour inaction has brought our hospitals to their knees. It has to stop.
📝 Please sign my petition to bring this timetable forward.
January 20, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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🏥 Local people were promised a new hospital, need a new hospital, and deserve a new hospital; we cannot afford any more delays.
🚫 Conservative chaos and Labour inaction has brought our hospitals to their knees. It has to stop.
📝 Please sign my petition to bring this timetable forward.
🏥 Local people were promised a new hospital, need a new hospital, and deserve a new hospital; we cannot afford any more delays.
🚫 Conservative chaos and Labour inaction has brought our hospitals to their knees. It has to stop.
📝 Please sign my petition to bring this timetable forward.
This piece is a perfect expression of my frustration with the modern leadership of Centre Left politics.
Government needs action; reflected in headlines. If the process & dialogue builds support in the second & third std deviation but slows progress we should act more mean!
Government needs action; reflected in headlines. If the process & dialogue builds support in the second & third std deviation but slows progress we should act more mean!
Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it | Aditya Chakrabortty
Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it | Aditya Chakrabortty
The right is unafraid to show its might on the world stage – meanwhile the PM is tinkering with potholes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:27 AM
This piece is a perfect expression of my frustration with the modern leadership of Centre Left politics.
Government needs action; reflected in headlines. If the process & dialogue builds support in the second & third std deviation but slows progress we should act more mean!
Government needs action; reflected in headlines. If the process & dialogue builds support in the second & third std deviation but slows progress we should act more mean!
Robert @bobbyllew.bsky.social & his team are an inspiration to many.
His Bond Villainesk sustainability den in the Cotswolds is evidence of his commitment to what he does.
I would love him to see a school building in London generating power [& wisdom] in a place of multiple deprivations.
His Bond Villainesk sustainability den in the Cotswolds is evidence of his commitment to what he does.
I would love him to see a school building in London generating power [& wisdom] in a place of multiple deprivations.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Robert @bobbyllew.bsky.social & his team are an inspiration to many.
His Bond Villainesk sustainability den in the Cotswolds is evidence of his commitment to what he does.
I would love him to see a school building in London generating power [& wisdom] in a place of multiple deprivations.
His Bond Villainesk sustainability den in the Cotswolds is evidence of his commitment to what he does.
I would love him to see a school building in London generating power [& wisdom] in a place of multiple deprivations.
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Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.
Absolutely the sort of news we all needed!
T’rump stories should be pushed aside for more reporting on the life of peregrine falcons and their influences on sporting highlights!
T’rump stories should be pushed aside for more reporting on the life of peregrine falcons and their influences on sporting highlights!
I’ve seen horrible things at football matches – but what landed on the pitch last week was the worst | Adrian Chiles
I’ve seen horrible things at football matches – but what landed on the pitch last week was the worst | Adrian Chiles
When a mysterious object fell from the sky mid-game, I knew it was a portent of doom. The surprise was finding out who chucked it there, writes Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Absolutely the sort of news we all needed!
T’rump stories should be pushed aside for more reporting on the life of peregrine falcons and their influences on sporting highlights!
T’rump stories should be pushed aside for more reporting on the life of peregrine falcons and their influences on sporting highlights!
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"Farage was wearing a GB News pin. He was there to launch and promote a show in a company he has shares in."
Is Farage in the US to represent Britain, as he claims, or to represent a right-wing news channel launching in America that very day? 🤔
Is Farage in the US to represent Britain, as he claims, or to represent a right-wing news channel launching in America that very day? 🤔
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Farage was wearing a GB News pin. He was there to launch and promote a show in a company he has shares in."
Is Farage in the US to represent Britain, as he claims, or to represent a right-wing news channel launching in America that very day? 🤔
Is Farage in the US to represent Britain, as he claims, or to represent a right-wing news channel launching in America that very day? 🤔
I started to read this book (finally) this week. So far, I must say, it has been cathartic!
I hope that many more people will seek this book out & enjoy the read.
Resulting dialogue may help us collectively find a way to restore an ambition for mutual benefit & co-operation in national wellbeing
I hope that many more people will seek this book out & enjoy the read.
Resulting dialogue may help us collectively find a way to restore an ambition for mutual benefit & co-operation in national wellbeing
September 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I started to read this book (finally) this week. So far, I must say, it has been cathartic!
I hope that many more people will seek this book out & enjoy the read.
Resulting dialogue may help us collectively find a way to restore an ambition for mutual benefit & co-operation in national wellbeing
I hope that many more people will seek this book out & enjoy the read.
Resulting dialogue may help us collectively find a way to restore an ambition for mutual benefit & co-operation in national wellbeing
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Farage denies having banned journalists from his political events ...
Maybe @jamesrball.com and @adambienkov.bsky.social have a different view ...
Maybe @jamesrball.com and @adambienkov.bsky.social have a different view ...
September 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Farage denies having banned journalists from his political events ...
Maybe @jamesrball.com and @adambienkov.bsky.social have a different view ...
Maybe @jamesrball.com and @adambienkov.bsky.social have a different view ...
I picked up on an alternative to a privately run railway network in a chat in the other place. Perhaps the media team in UK Dept for Transport will forward to @heidialexander.bsky.social
Put simply: why not make all railway operating companies into Cooperatives run for the benefit of customers?
Put simply: why not make all railway operating companies into Cooperatives run for the benefit of customers?
August 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I picked up on an alternative to a privately run railway network in a chat in the other place. Perhaps the media team in UK Dept for Transport will forward to @heidialexander.bsky.social
Put simply: why not make all railway operating companies into Cooperatives run for the benefit of customers?
Put simply: why not make all railway operating companies into Cooperatives run for the benefit of customers?
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Nasty classist tripe. To infer all working class people are anti immigration is as grotesque as it is incorrect. Farage and Tice are the main cheerleaders for anti-immigration and couldn’t be any less working class.
‘Labour has to respond to working class concerns on migrants’ – Lord Glasman
www.channel4.com/news/labour-...
www.channel4.com/news/labour-...
‘Labour has to respond to working class concerns on migrants’ – Lord Glasman
We spoke to Lord Glasman, the founder of Blue Labour - a socially conservative campaign group within the party - and the only Labour figure invited to President Trump's second inauguration.
www.channel4.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Nasty classist tripe. To infer all working class people are anti immigration is as grotesque as it is incorrect. Farage and Tice are the main cheerleaders for anti-immigration and couldn’t be any less working class.
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Looks like we’ll have to raid a lot of retirement homes after today.
MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.
August 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Looks like we’ll have to raid a lot of retirement homes after today.
This is just the sort of therapy I need!
The Horne Section stands for so much more than music & good humour.
#S^2C
No Prostate; No Problem!
The Horne Section stands for so much more than music & good humour.
#S^2C
No Prostate; No Problem!
Voting for the next album title. Will post the result tomorrow, but feel free to add your faves below!
August 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is just the sort of therapy I need!
The Horne Section stands for so much more than music & good humour.
#S^2C
No Prostate; No Problem!
The Horne Section stands for so much more than music & good humour.
#S^2C
No Prostate; No Problem!
I have a question for @gjuk.bsky.social
He may not see it here because he is more active in the other place; a darker place in my view.
Did you engage with the Community Energy Network in your dialogue on Zonal Pricing?
@commenergyengland.bsky.social @cescotland.bsky.social
He may not see it here because he is more active in the other place; a darker place in my view.
Did you engage with the Community Energy Network in your dialogue on Zonal Pricing?
@commenergyengland.bsky.social @cescotland.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I have a question for @gjuk.bsky.social
He may not see it here because he is more active in the other place; a darker place in my view.
Did you engage with the Community Energy Network in your dialogue on Zonal Pricing?
@commenergyengland.bsky.social @cescotland.bsky.social
He may not see it here because he is more active in the other place; a darker place in my view.
Did you engage with the Community Energy Network in your dialogue on Zonal Pricing?
@commenergyengland.bsky.social @cescotland.bsky.social
Today this lovely lady managed something that I would not have considered even as a young man. The cycling achievement is self explained. The value of our The Ark Cancer Charity cannot be overstated & every bit of publicity should be cherished. Please share.
June 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today this lovely lady managed something that I would not have considered even as a young man. The cycling achievement is self explained. The value of our The Ark Cancer Charity cannot be overstated & every bit of publicity should be cherished. Please share.
Please take a look at this petition & share it with your friends locally.
The land is owned by the Guides & Scouts of Old Basing; it is an outdoor space to inspire our young people in the art of their possibilities.
The new building we aim to build will support many generations.
chng.it/NtDhZ9mnLD
The land is owned by the Guides & Scouts of Old Basing; it is an outdoor space to inspire our young people in the art of their possibilities.
The new building we aim to build will support many generations.
chng.it/NtDhZ9mnLD
Sign the Petition
Invest in Our Youth: Using Parish CIL Monies for Milkingpen Lane Scout Hut
chng.it
May 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Please take a look at this petition & share it with your friends locally.
The land is owned by the Guides & Scouts of Old Basing; it is an outdoor space to inspire our young people in the art of their possibilities.
The new building we aim to build will support many generations.
chng.it/NtDhZ9mnLD
The land is owned by the Guides & Scouts of Old Basing; it is an outdoor space to inspire our young people in the art of their possibilities.
The new building we aim to build will support many generations.
chng.it/NtDhZ9mnLD
Here’s an idea.
Community infrastructure for young people. Investing in the talent’s & resilience of future generations while also helping them to engage with the great outdoors.
Please read this petition & celebrate Scouts & Girlguides find their space.
chng.it/Xpc2LDHGfy
Community infrastructure for young people. Investing in the talent’s & resilience of future generations while also helping them to engage with the great outdoors.
Please read this petition & celebrate Scouts & Girlguides find their space.
chng.it/Xpc2LDHGfy
Sign the Petition
Invest in Our Youth: Using Parish CIL Monies for Milkingpen Lane Scout Hut
chng.it
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Here’s an idea.
Community infrastructure for young people. Investing in the talent’s & resilience of future generations while also helping them to engage with the great outdoors.
Please read this petition & celebrate Scouts & Girlguides find their space.
chng.it/Xpc2LDHGfy
Community infrastructure for young people. Investing in the talent’s & resilience of future generations while also helping them to engage with the great outdoors.
Please read this petition & celebrate Scouts & Girlguides find their space.
chng.it/Xpc2LDHGfy
This is the best news that I have heard for a while (on the topic of Ukraine’s self defence). It is true that we (most NATO nations) rely too heavily on the USA. It is time that we started to work harder for mutually reasonable solutions that are resourced from within the European nations.
@billbrowder.bsky.social talking sense as always. Sounds like European Foreign Ministers largely agree with him on Russia's frozen assets. Give them to Ukraine. All of them. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
youtu.be/Z_xV1nf44RA?...
youtu.be/Z_xV1nf44RA?...
Bill Browder explains what can be done so Ukraine can 'fight another day' | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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February 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is the best news that I have heard for a while (on the topic of Ukraine’s self defence). It is true that we (most NATO nations) rely too heavily on the USA. It is time that we started to work harder for mutually reasonable solutions that are resourced from within the European nations.
I found this to be a compelling read.
Perhaps my frustration with the main stream media has done me a disservice; I was not previously aware of this election! Perhaps my head in the sand habits (focusing on music) is just what I need. In reality, the elections in Germany are beyond my influence.
Perhaps my frustration with the main stream media has done me a disservice; I was not previously aware of this election! Perhaps my head in the sand habits (focusing on music) is just what I need. In reality, the elections in Germany are beyond my influence.
So much is at stake when Germany goes to the polls tomorrow. My take on Friedrich Merz and a huge mistake he made during the campaign.
While Germany can't be seen as that borderline-boring bastion of stability anymore, the centre might get its act together after all, ironically thanks to JD Vance. 👇
While Germany can't be seen as that borderline-boring bastion of stability anymore, the centre might get its act together after all, ironically thanks to JD Vance. 👇
The far right rising
Ahead of a historic German election, the AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.
www.newstatesman.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I found this to be a compelling read.
Perhaps my frustration with the main stream media has done me a disservice; I was not previously aware of this election! Perhaps my head in the sand habits (focusing on music) is just what I need. In reality, the elections in Germany are beyond my influence.
Perhaps my frustration with the main stream media has done me a disservice; I was not previously aware of this election! Perhaps my head in the sand habits (focusing on music) is just what I need. In reality, the elections in Germany are beyond my influence.
Weaponised incompetence from the previous HM Government is a brilliant & concise summary.
We do need something different from UK Labour Party. When will we see the pragmatic problem solving that many of us expect from this Govt?
We do need something different from UK Labour Party. When will we see the pragmatic problem solving that many of us expect from this Govt?
The last government failed to stop the boats, to process asylum claims, or to save lives.
We know why: that was what they wanted.
What is this government's excuse for following up with more disastrous & deadly failure? @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVR...
We know why: that was what they wanted.
What is this government's excuse for following up with more disastrous & deadly failure? @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVR...
3 DEAD through government’s weaponised incompetence
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Weaponised incompetence from the previous HM Government is a brilliant & concise summary.
We do need something different from UK Labour Party. When will we see the pragmatic problem solving that many of us expect from this Govt?
We do need something different from UK Labour Party. When will we see the pragmatic problem solving that many of us expect from this Govt?
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Nigel Farage continues to spout his boll**** unchallenged the UK must leave the ECHR
If we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR we need to constantly call him out
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...
If we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR we need to constantly call him out
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Nigel Farage continues to spout his boll**** unchallenged the UK must leave the ECHR
If we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR we need to constantly call him out
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...
If we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR we need to constantly call him out
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...
Even a few years on this is worth reading.
Why are those within the @BBCNewsnight or @BBCNews teams not clamouring to present some narrative to this problem. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
is not alone in her concern.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
Why are those within the @BBCNewsnight or @BBCNews teams not clamouring to present some narrative to this problem. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
is not alone in her concern.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair | Carole Cadwalladr
For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley. Last week, at a TED talk that became a global viral sensation, she told the tech billionaires they...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Even a few years on this is worth reading.
Why are those within the @BBCNewsnight or @BBCNews teams not clamouring to present some narrative to this problem. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
is not alone in her concern.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
Why are those within the @BBCNewsnight or @BBCNews teams not clamouring to present some narrative to this problem. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
is not alone in her concern.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
I am SO looking forward to some time off at Christmas when I WILL read “How They Broke Britain”
“It is beyond surreal that someone writes in a national newspaper that Liz Truss was a genius and Keir Starmer should walk the plank.”
@mrjamesob.bsky.social believes that Brexiteers are ‘still not ready to admit their mistake’ and so their response is to ‘overthrow the Government'.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social believes that Brexiteers are ‘still not ready to admit their mistake’ and so their response is to ‘overthrow the Government'.
November 28, 2024 at 7:24 AM
I am SO looking forward to some time off at Christmas when I WILL read “How They Broke Britain”
Just absolutely brilliant.
My license fee is worth paying for this alone but the BBC offers so much more.
We are lucky to have such a brilliant national broadcaster that aimed to speak to the whole nation.
My license fee is worth paying for this alone but the BBC offers so much more.
We are lucky to have such a brilliant national broadcaster that aimed to speak to the whole nation.
Lorraine Kelly, "Can you name any hard working land owners?"
Ian Hislop, "Dyson"
Matt Chorley, "Clarkson"
Lorraine Kelly, "Nigel Farage has land worth £3m"
Ian Hislop, "What does he grow on his farm? Fags?"
Paul Merton, "I can imagine what he puts in his crops, there's plenty of that"
Ian Hislop, "Dyson"
Matt Chorley, "Clarkson"
Lorraine Kelly, "Nigel Farage has land worth £3m"
Ian Hislop, "What does he grow on his farm? Fags?"
Paul Merton, "I can imagine what he puts in his crops, there's plenty of that"
November 24, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Just absolutely brilliant.
My license fee is worth paying for this alone but the BBC offers so much more.
We are lucky to have such a brilliant national broadcaster that aimed to speak to the whole nation.
My license fee is worth paying for this alone but the BBC offers so much more.
We are lucky to have such a brilliant national broadcaster that aimed to speak to the whole nation.
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Stuart Maconie will be holding an Xmas quiz @ 1000 Trades where he will be asking questions based on the pop-up Stuart Maconie Museum we opened up on a phonebox in Bearwood! Get revising!
November 22, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Stuart Maconie will be holding an Xmas quiz @ 1000 Trades where he will be asking questions based on the pop-up Stuart Maconie Museum we opened up on a phonebox in Bearwood! Get revising!