Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️🌈🇪🇺
@richmountbasket.bsky.social
Just another Dick with an opinion. Author, journalist, 9th baronet, #Humanist, #Unitarian, Twitter refugee.
A thought-provoking selection of Buddhist wisdom for our times😎
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A thought-provoking selection of Buddhist wisdom for our times😎
I'm seeing a lot of idiots saying the BBC should be abolished because it's not impartial. Do these idiots only want to get their news from biased capitalist news media, run by and for the elite?! The BBC may be flawed, but at least it vaguely tries to be impartial, unlike anyone else.
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm seeing a lot of idiots saying the BBC should be abolished because it's not impartial. Do these idiots only want to get their news from biased capitalist news media, run by and for the elite?! The BBC may be flawed, but at least it vaguely tries to be impartial, unlike anyone else.
Dreamed it was the late 1980s and I was secretly dating Christian Slater, living together in LA and posing as his "room mate". (I actually would've been very underage at the time!)
Which is odd, Christian Slater was never someone I've been particularly interested in? Here's us as a couple, anyway😂
Which is odd, Christian Slater was never someone I've been particularly interested in? Here's us as a couple, anyway😂
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Dreamed it was the late 1980s and I was secretly dating Christian Slater, living together in LA and posing as his "room mate". (I actually would've been very underage at the time!)
Which is odd, Christian Slater was never someone I've been particularly interested in? Here's us as a couple, anyway😂
Which is odd, Christian Slater was never someone I've been particularly interested in? Here's us as a couple, anyway😂
I don't care what critics say, I'm quite looking forward to this new Michael Jackson musical😎
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I don't care what critics say, I'm quite looking forward to this new Michael Jackson musical😎
Wow. Trump just stands there looking vacant while a man faints at his press conference. Trump is both completely demented, doesn't know what's going on, and has no sense of human feeling.
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Wow. Trump just stands there looking vacant while a man faints at his press conference. Trump is both completely demented, doesn't know what's going on, and has no sense of human feeling.
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
YouGov opinion poll 20th October: Reform just shy of a majority, forced into a coalition or voting pact with the Tories. This should be terrifying Starmer, but he doesn't seem to care. WTF is wrong with him?!
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
YouGov opinion poll 20th October: Reform just shy of a majority, forced into a coalition or voting pact with the Tories. This should be terrifying Starmer, but he doesn't seem to care. WTF is wrong with him?!
Sadly "wrong to leave" isn't the same as "wants to rejoin". Only 36% "strongly support" rejoining the EU, 56% if you include the "somewhat supports". It's not a resounding majority in favour of rejoining.
October 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Sadly "wrong to leave" isn't the same as "wants to rejoin". Only 36% "strongly support" rejoining the EU, 56% if you include the "somewhat supports". It's not a resounding majority in favour of rejoining.
This man is seriously attacking someone else's looks?!
October 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This man is seriously attacking someone else's looks?!
Because Lib Dems are the serious people eh?😎
October 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Because Lib Dems are the serious people eh?😎
Growth is nothing to boast about, it's easy to have high growth when you start at such a low level. It's median GDP per capita that counts: people in the UK are pretty poor compared with our competitors. #bbcpm
October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Growth is nothing to boast about, it's easy to have high growth when you start at such a low level. It's median GDP per capita that counts: people in the UK are pretty poor compared with our competitors. #bbcpm
I think that's just a flesh-coloured claw? Possibly the result of an earlier experiment😎
October 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I think that's just a flesh-coloured claw? Possibly the result of an earlier experiment😎
Ha, I'm pretty sure it was written by a very knowing adult. "Peter Hazel" was a character in old British children's TV show Camberwick Green😎
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Ha, I'm pretty sure it was written by a very knowing adult. "Peter Hazel" was a character in old British children's TV show Camberwick Green😎
Pretty sure it must be available somewhere in Germany...
October 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Pretty sure it must be available somewhere in Germany...
Fixed it for you😎
September 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Fixed it for you😎
Happy International #BlasphemyDay to those who celebrate!
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy International #BlasphemyDay to those who celebrate!
I am aware of them...
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I am aware of them...
I'm sure I'm wasting my time, but I'm Currently reporting The Spectator to IPSO for their incredibly racist front page, depicting Palestinians using classic racist blackface imagery.
September 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I'm sure I'm wasting my time, but I'm Currently reporting The Spectator to IPSO for their incredibly racist front page, depicting Palestinians using classic racist blackface imagery.
Looking at it again - those stereotypically racist black faces, all eyes and white teeth, burning the Israeli flag, is just incredibly offensive! It's framing Palestinians as blackface savages, a classic racist trope.
September 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Looking at it again - those stereotypically racist black faces, all eyes and white teeth, burning the Israeli flag, is just incredibly offensive! It's framing Palestinians as blackface savages, a classic racist trope.
On the other hand, it is odd that Angela Rayner has chosen to have her "permanent residence" by the seaside in Hove, nearly 300 miles away from her children and her constituency,
September 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
On the other hand, it is odd that Angela Rayner has chosen to have her "permanent residence" by the seaside in Hove, nearly 300 miles away from her children and her constituency,
Lol. It has since recanted.
September 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Lol. It has since recanted.
And of course Putin shills at the Spectator are all in favour.
August 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
And of course Putin shills at the Spectator are all in favour.