Richard Bentall #FPBE
@richardbentall.bsky.social
Political refugee from the cesspit formerly known as Twitter; clinical psychology professor; husband of lovely Sam; dad of two amazing kids and two wonderful stepkids; radicalized by the idiocy of Brexit. Obviously, my views are not those of my employer.
Trump's £1 bn lawsuit against the BBC doesn't stack up. If he sues for damages, what are the damages given that he won the election? If he sues in US, what happens to the 1st ammendment? If it's in the UK, will he submit to cross-examination about what happened on Jan 6th?
Never going to happen
Never going to happen
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Trump's £1 bn lawsuit against the BBC doesn't stack up. If he sues for damages, what are the damages given that he won the election? If he sues in US, what happens to the 1st ammendment? If it's in the UK, will he submit to cross-examination about what happened on Jan 6th?
Never going to happen
Never going to happen
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
Farage is spectacularly dishonest.
Brexit was bound to lead to more regulations for SMEs, especially those exporting, because leaving the SM required our neighbours to impose them (it was what Brexiters voted for and there was nothing the UK could have done to prevent it).
Brexit was bound to lead to more regulations for SMEs, especially those exporting, because leaving the SM required our neighbours to impose them (it was what Brexiters voted for and there was nothing the UK could have done to prevent it).
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Farage is spectacularly dishonest.
Brexit was bound to lead to more regulations for SMEs, especially those exporting, because leaving the SM required our neighbours to impose them (it was what Brexiters voted for and there was nothing the UK could have done to prevent it).
Brexit was bound to lead to more regulations for SMEs, especially those exporting, because leaving the SM required our neighbours to impose them (it was what Brexiters voted for and there was nothing the UK could have done to prevent it).
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Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, Hitler is complaining about the BBC unfairly editing of one of his Nuremberg rally speeches.
Surely, the simple fact is that Trump is a fascist who attempted a coup. Either that can be said on British media or it can't. Trump's regime is trying to rewrite history
Surely, the simple fact is that Trump is a fascist who attempted a coup. Either that can be said on British media or it can't. Trump's regime is trying to rewrite history
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, Hitler is complaining about the BBC unfairly editing of one of his Nuremberg rally speeches.
Surely, the simple fact is that Trump is a fascist who attempted a coup. Either that can be said on British media or it can't. Trump's regime is trying to rewrite history
Surely, the simple fact is that Trump is a fascist who attempted a coup. Either that can be said on British media or it can't. Trump's regime is trying to rewrite history
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Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
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We all know the answer to this question don’t we? Farage simultaneously encourages racism while keeping himself at arms length from it. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-r...
Is Reform using Sarah Pochin's racist comments to test public opinion? | The News Agents
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has been condemned for “racist” comments about being driven “mad” by seeing TV adverts featuring Black or Asian families. Is she being used as a “canary” by Nigel Farage?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We all know the answer to this question don’t we? Farage simultaneously encourages racism while keeping himself at arms length from it. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-r...
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What a nasty small minded article about one of the most gifted and consequential people never to have become PM. And the problems with Reform go way beyond "the crime of wanting to reduce immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What a nasty small minded article about one of the most gifted and consequential people never to have become PM. And the problems with Reform go way beyond "the crime of wanting to reduce immigration"
I've just had another political science paper published within a couple of weeks of the last. This one is a motivated reasoning experiment with a large Spanish sample.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've just had another political science paper published within a couple of weeks of the last. This one is a motivated reasoning experiment with a large Spanish sample.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Day 30 of President Trump’s Federal Government Shutdown:
In response to the President’s illegal refusal to deploy emergency federal funding to keep food assistance running, I am declaring a State of Emergency.
We will surge $10 million to food banks and food bank partners across the state.
In response to the President’s illegal refusal to deploy emergency federal funding to keep food assistance running, I am declaring a State of Emergency.
We will surge $10 million to food banks and food bank partners across the state.
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Day 30 of President Trump’s Federal Government Shutdown:
In response to the President’s illegal refusal to deploy emergency federal funding to keep food assistance running, I am declaring a State of Emergency.
We will surge $10 million to food banks and food bank partners across the state.
In response to the President’s illegal refusal to deploy emergency federal funding to keep food assistance running, I am declaring a State of Emergency.
We will surge $10 million to food banks and food bank partners across the state.
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The transformation of The Times under Gallagher from a true newspaper of record to a partisan pamphlet and, finally, a global joke is genuinely heartbreaking.
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The transformation of The Times under Gallagher from a true newspaper of record to a partisan pamphlet and, finally, a global joke is genuinely heartbreaking.
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election.
The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.
Huge if true.
The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.
Huge if true.
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election.
The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.
Huge if true.
The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.
Huge if true.
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Robinson, Musk and Badenoch are all part of an industry of grievance, a machine designed to spread hate which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists
inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...
inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...
Don't be fooled, Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk are playing you
The message the hate engine transmits is simple: asylum seekers are not really people in need
inews.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Robinson, Musk and Badenoch are all part of an industry of grievance, a machine designed to spread hate which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists
inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...
inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...
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BIG NEWS: When Adam Kinzinger stood up to Trump and risked everything, director Steve Pink captured it all. Meidas Studios just released our latest documentary ‘The Last Republican’ on all major platforms. Watch the movie today!
October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
BIG NEWS: When Adam Kinzinger stood up to Trump and risked everything, director Steve Pink captured it all. Meidas Studios just released our latest documentary ‘The Last Republican’ on all major platforms. Watch the movie today!
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X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
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Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
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The day Hillary shook hands with the Russian pig....
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The day Hillary shook hands with the Russian pig....
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It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.
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The day clownish Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a ridiculous, performative lawsuit against Tylenol seems a good day to re-post this:
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The day clownish Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a ridiculous, performative lawsuit against Tylenol seems a good day to re-post this:
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This explains a lot... stay on X where posts are throttled, extremism is boosted and the audience hates you, ignore Bluesky where a lot of current or former supporters have migrated.
I just realised, the Labour Party doesn’t even have an account over here?!
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This explains a lot... stay on X where posts are throttled, extremism is boosted and the audience hates you, ignore Bluesky where a lot of current or former supporters have migrated.
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Everyone should read this it's heartbreaking
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Everyone should read this it's heartbreaking
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Prediction: Danny Kruger and Nigel Farage will fall out by Christmas and Kruger will either form his own party or be an independent by this time next year.
It's called "Carswell's law."
It's called "Carswell's law."
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Prediction: Danny Kruger and Nigel Farage will fall out by Christmas and Kruger will either form his own party or be an independent by this time next year.
It's called "Carswell's law."
It's called "Carswell's law."
As usual, Labour are getting it in the neck for the abysmal - truly abysmal - failures of the Tory government. Everything they tpuched turned to shit.
Home Office squandered billions on asylum hotels, says Parliamentary committee - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
As usual, Labour are getting it in the neck for the abysmal - truly abysmal - failures of the Tory government. Everything they tpuched turned to shit.
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The select committee report on the asylum hotel shambles highlights a point I made repeatedly - the absurd gimicks pursued by the last govt like Rwanda took resources away from running the actual system properly.
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The select committee report on the asylum hotel shambles highlights a point I made repeatedly - the absurd gimicks pursued by the last govt like Rwanda took resources away from running the actual system properly.