Paul B
@pablob19.bsky.social
Fan of football,music, history and health policy! Posting in a personal capacity only.
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Naomi says: “The Zombies, Run! community is the most wonderful any writer could hope for as a home for her work. Stay safe out there, Runners, Five. We need you.”
Naomi says: “The Zombies, Run! community is the most wonderful any writer could hope for as a home for her work. Stay safe out there, Runners, Five. We need you.”
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Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
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Finally, someone has called out the Dalai Lama. Oh and, a fundamental issue at the heart of Liverpool’s ongoing malaise.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Arne Slot’s big mistake at Liverpool this season? Failing to drop struggling Salah | Barney Ronay
Mohamed Salah has drifted from crucial to peripheral in big games, and Arne Slot’s decision to keep picking him is strange
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Finally, someone has called out the Dalai Lama. Oh and, a fundamental issue at the heart of Liverpool’s ongoing malaise.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
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This article made me think. Well penned, Josh.
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I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent
Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent
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November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This article made me think. Well penned, Josh.
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The fact that one of the two men arrested has now been cleared and released is a pretty huge "STOP" sign to everyone who's spent the last 24 hours rushing to interpret the attack. Facts, like trains, are sometimes slower to arrive than we'd like. But you just have to wait for them.
Extract from more recent Goodwin post. He really should never be allowed on the BBC - or any other reputable broadcaster - again.
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The fact that one of the two men arrested has now been cleared and released is a pretty huge "STOP" sign to everyone who's spent the last 24 hours rushing to interpret the attack. Facts, like trains, are sometimes slower to arrive than we'd like. But you just have to wait for them.
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We've done it - we've made it to nimby final boss level
Residents of a Hampshire village say noise from planned indoor courts would harm their mental health and could cause depression and type 2 diabetes
Noisy padel courts could give us diabetes, villagers claim
www.thetimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We've done it - we've made it to nimby final boss level
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On a smaller point: do these people ever actually read Tolkien?
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
On a smaller point: do these people ever actually read Tolkien?
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Never forget the time the Sun published a sneering article mocking 'snowflake' academics and students for correctly understanding the whole fucking point of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Never forget the time the Sun published a sneering article mocking 'snowflake' academics and students for correctly understanding the whole fucking point of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
"‘I shall deal with the matter momentarily,’ he said. It was a good word. It always made people hesitate. They were never quite sure whether he meant he’d deal with it now, or just deal with it briefly. And no-one ever dared ask."
"‘I shall deal with the matter momentarily,’ he said. It was a good word. It always made people hesitate. They were never quite sure whether he meant he’d deal with it now, or just deal with it briefly. And no-one ever dared ask."
Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment
“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”
“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
"‘I shall deal with the matter momentarily,’ he said. It was a good word. It always made people hesitate. They were never quite sure whether he meant he’d deal with it now, or just deal with it briefly. And no-one ever dared ask."
"‘I shall deal with the matter momentarily,’ he said. It was a good word. It always made people hesitate. They were never quite sure whether he meant he’d deal with it now, or just deal with it briefly. And no-one ever dared ask."
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As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.
This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
December 15, 2024 at 11:24 AM
As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.
This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
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Big news today! After more than a decade of campaigning, the UK Government has finally publicly committed to the legal recognition of humanist marriages in England and Wales.
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Big news today! After more than a decade of campaigning, the UK Government has finally publicly committed to the legal recognition of humanist marriages in England and Wales.
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Farewell to one of the greats
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91
"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...
www.nbcnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Farewell to one of the greats
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
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Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired
September 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired
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This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Comment: Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain?
Black and Asian people have increasingly equal opportunities to reach the top, but a viscerally and unacceptably unequal experience of public space
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September 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
find the BBC News of Trump's pronouncements continually surprising in how naive they are. This isn't a change of position on Russia, it's a simplistic negotiation technique to try and get them to come to table and compromise on territory.
September 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
find the BBC News of Trump's pronouncements continually surprising in how naive they are. This isn't a change of position on Russia, it's a simplistic negotiation technique to try and get them to come to table and compromise on territory.
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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
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Lord Hatface, I salute you.
September 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Lord Hatface, I salute you.
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BREAKING: I may actually have found someone who hates vox pops more than I do!
Vox pops are the lowest form of journalism because they allow news organisations to editorialise through selective interviews without even the spurious science of polling data. This is leading the website of the BBC which must think it’s the most important news happening today.
September 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: I may actually have found someone who hates vox pops more than I do!
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It’s the content you didn’t know you needed: please enjoy these windswept doggos on Pen y Fan.
Big thanks to thejoulesdog for sharing this *adorable* clip.
[Video description: three windswept brown and black spaniels in front of a stone oak leaf emblem]
Big thanks to thejoulesdog for sharing this *adorable* clip.
[Video description: three windswept brown and black spaniels in front of a stone oak leaf emblem]
August 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It’s the content you didn’t know you needed: please enjoy these windswept doggos on Pen y Fan.
Big thanks to thejoulesdog for sharing this *adorable* clip.
[Video description: three windswept brown and black spaniels in front of a stone oak leaf emblem]
Big thanks to thejoulesdog for sharing this *adorable* clip.
[Video description: three windswept brown and black spaniels in front of a stone oak leaf emblem]
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31 years ago today, Blur released Parklife
August 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
31 years ago today, Blur released Parklife