Richard Osborne
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Almost retired bookseller. Likes books, bikes and people who make the world better.
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The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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Remember Cameron's EU tour before the Referendum to secure the migrants benefit brake....
“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Remember Cameron's EU tour before the Referendum to secure the migrants benefit brake....
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
May 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
So the billionaire bankrolling Reform is based in Thailand and has adopted a Thai name. The deputy leader spends half his time in Dubai, and the leader spends more time in the States than in Clacton. These patriots will be running the country unless the opposition and media get their act together
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So the billionaire bankrolling Reform is based in Thailand and has adopted a Thai name. The deputy leader spends half his time in Dubai, and the leader spends more time in the States than in Clacton. These patriots will be running the country unless the opposition and media get their act together
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
Just a note to politicians: mistakes are inadvertent by definition. Saying your mistake was inadvertent is not going to help your case
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Just a note to politicians: mistakes are inadvertent by definition. Saying your mistake was inadvertent is not going to help your case
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Green Party level with the Labour Party for the first time.
Let’s see if the media give the Greens as much coverage as they gave Farage when he didn’t even have MPs.
Let’s see if the media give the Greens as much coverage as they gave Farage when he didn’t even have MPs.
October 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Green Party level with the Labour Party for the first time.
Let’s see if the media give the Greens as much coverage as they gave Farage when he didn’t even have MPs.
Let’s see if the media give the Greens as much coverage as they gave Farage when he didn’t even have MPs.
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“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”
Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.
Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.
October 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”
Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.
Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
Anyone listening to Badenochs speech? She's acquired a really disturbing chuckle
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Anyone listening to Badenochs speech? She's acquired a really disturbing chuckle
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
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My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.
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Lyndon B. Johnson's response to satire
September 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Lyndon B. Johnson's response to satire
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
Penny Mordaunt accused Zack Polanski of playing student politics: this is the woman who once said cock 6 times in a parliamentary speech for a bet...
September 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Penny Mordaunt accused Zack Polanski of playing student politics: this is the woman who once said cock 6 times in a parliamentary speech for a bet...
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The police have arrested a man filmed calling for the assassination of Keir Starmer, citing malicious communications (which suggest the online dissemination of the call is the issue). But no news about the billionaire who called for violence from the main stage
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police arrest man filmed at far-right rally allegedly calling for Keir Starmer to be shot
Video from ‘unite the kingdom’ rally captured man saying ‘someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer’
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The police have arrested a man filmed calling for the assassination of Keir Starmer, citing malicious communications (which suggest the online dissemination of the call is the issue). But no news about the billionaire who called for violence from the main stage
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Is Trump on Ozempic? If so, it's done wonders for his ankles. Fair play.
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Is Trump on Ozempic? If so, it's done wonders for his ankles. Fair play.
Elon musk sat at a computer and invited violence to a bunch of people some of whom proceeded to attack the police. Tonight Times Radio invited his father on to lie on his son's behalf.WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
September 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Elon musk sat at a computer and invited violence to a bunch of people some of whom proceeded to attack the police. Tonight Times Radio invited his father on to lie on his son's behalf.WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
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"They are legitimising the extreme right by letting them dictate the terms of politics, and in so doing are paving the way for them ... This is appeasement pure and simple. It didn't stop fascism in the 1930s. And it will not work today."
Chamberlain Labour
Approximately 100,000 on a far right march in London. A grim new milestone in post-war political history, and one conventional politics has ...
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September 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"They are legitimising the extreme right by letting them dictate the terms of politics, and in so doing are paving the way for them ... This is appeasement pure and simple. It didn't stop fascism in the 1930s. And it will not work today."
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I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.