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PoppyinFinchley
@poppyinfinchley.bsky.social
teaching and twitter refugee
former political dilettante
pretending to write a novel
background symbolises mourning for democracy in Hong Kong
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Hi George - you are setting the agenda for one item on £BBCR4starttheweek. Rewilding. Sweto Kinch is defending your position (sort of). Well done!
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
@steverichards.bsky.social From last night: Really, Brucy?! What the... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Were Tony Benn/Michael Foot/Harold Wilson already taken? #bewildered
BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Sir Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Forsyth, nominated by political writer and broadcaster Steve Richards.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social - Just heard you on #MoralMaze. You ended brilliantly! That anecdote on spikded stories was gold-dust. The fellow asking you questions didn't listen to you. He had his prepped Qs, and contradicted what you said someitimes totally. You went easy on him. #toonice
September 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
my more radical friends won't listen to the BBC because of its discredited news and current affairs coverage.
But I luxuriate in ad-free music and both #CharlesParisMysteries and #EdReardonsWeek being broadcast each week! #BBCRadio4
July 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... Last night's Panorama on 'Is Britain broke?' on BBC1 got nowhere near finding any useful answers to the question it posed, and that was the result of our journalism.
Panorama: an exercise in economic misinformation
I watched last night's Panorama, which asked the question 'Is Britain Broke?' The argument was: We're old. We're unhealthy. We need more benefits because we have mental health issues. We're ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The imperative to build more to "ease the housing crisis" is a con! ‘In reality,’ Bano says, ‘there are plenty of homes to go around.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Enjoy!
another relevant article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
credits: @lrb.co.uk @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Jack Shenker · Renters v. Rentiers
Housing injustice, unlike most of the social ills afflicting our atomised society, has the potential to unite and...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social listening to 'the prophets of profit' through the 'lens' (I try not to mix my metaphors. call it syneasthetic) of 'the Invisible Doctrine' is illuminating and instructive. Coming on the heels of 'Invisible Hands' it feels like you really started something! Spread the word!
May 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
listening to parl. sitting on Saturday. I thought I had proverb spooneritis, but this Tory has mixed 'pig's ear' and 'dog's breakfast' and coined a new way to describe a shit show: 'Pig's breakfast' - twice!
Ah well, why not? Can I try a new saying? 'Tory brainfuck' to describe a terrible mess...?
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
another useful #LifeHack from me:
When spending your days writing a book, to ensure you get up every so often (for the avoidance of back ache and stiffness) play LPs on your newly-refurbished turntable. You also get to benefit of superb, chat-free music.
Recommended!
April 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Fascism on the rise, domestic violence kills thousands of women, rape is effectively decriminalised, COVID corruption goes unpunished, hate crime and child sexual abuse are rampant.

But the police, those faithful servants of capitalism, are arresting peaceful protestors against climate breakdown.
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Dimbleby is everywhere promoting his new podcast, not coincidentally echoes your 'Invisible Doctrine', which I'm proud you signed for me. Obviously he read you - did he talk with you? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Invisible Hands, Trailer
The story of the free market revolution through the invisible hands that shaped it.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I have always been proudly patriotic.
But I firmly believe that Nationalism is a force for evil.
Adam Gopnik explains this here much more eloquently than I could.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A Point of View - Elbows Up: Canada v Trump - BBC Sounds
Adam Gopnik on Canada's newfound patriotic toughness in light of Donald Trump's tariffs.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I want to say thank you (again) to @ilovepdf.bsky.social for their free and easy conversion service of pdf to word. really helpful, cheers guys.
March 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Barnet Council is consulting about footpaths and cycle paths - www.engage.barnet.gov.uk/shape-the-wa...
I told them not to spoil what we already have, and to enhance wildlife opportunities. Overdeveloping throws the nature baby out with the accessibility bathwater...
Shape the way we manage paths in Barnet
We need your help to understand how you use the public paths in Barnet, now and how you want to use them in the future. Help us manage and improve paths to meet your future needs. Background We are de...
www.engage.barnet.gov.uk
February 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"The only way to advance ordinary people's interests is to tax work less and wealth more." Is this just too simple to be true? Or bang on the money! @richardjmurphy.bsky.social @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnI...
Why Labour and Trump will both fail
YouTube video by Garys Economics
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I've discovered an easy way to bring heating costs down all on my own. Why didn't this get shouted about from the beginning?
A #ONESIE! It may be not-fit-to-be-seen-in ugly, but by god it's warm.
Recommended
February 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM