@roger93.bsky.social
baker, writer, sea swimmer, probably on the move soon
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Did Labour MPs ever imagine that they would be ending the first period of their first government in more than 14 years with their own Home Secretary feeling the need to publicly deny that she plans to defect to Reform?
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Did Labour MPs ever imagine that they would be ending the first period of their first government in more than 14 years with their own Home Secretary feeling the need to publicly deny that she plans to defect to Reform?
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Hey, anybody remember Starmer's leadership election pledges? This is what Labour members voted for, but look what they got. He's not to be trusted.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hey, anybody remember Starmer's leadership election pledges? This is what Labour members voted for, but look what they got. He's not to be trusted.
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It's Mobile Libraries Day! #MobileLibrariesDay2025
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It's Mobile Libraries Day! #MobileLibrariesDay2025
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
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When social democratic parties don't like their voters, those voters get the hint...
👏 Congratulations to @sissemariewe.bsky.social who was just elected as the new mayor of Copenhagen.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When social democratic parties don't like their voters, those voters get the hint...
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Happy #MobileLibrariesDay! 📚
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Happy #MobileLibrariesDay! 📚
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
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Starmer lies and he lies and he lies. No pledge goes unbroken.
No full voting fights for EU nationals
No defence of freedom of movement
No end to indefinite detention
Yarl’s Wood remains open
And no compassion and dignity in our immigration system
Starmer made this ‘pledge’ in February 2020, deliberately lying to get Party leadership
He cannot be trusted
No defence of freedom of movement
No end to indefinite detention
Yarl’s Wood remains open
And no compassion and dignity in our immigration system
Starmer made this ‘pledge’ in February 2020, deliberately lying to get Party leadership
He cannot be trusted
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Starmer lies and he lies and he lies. No pledge goes unbroken.
realise that Starmer's labour makes a fetish out of plumbing moral depths but this one really is beyond unforgiveable. As long as him - and his gang - are in the Labour Party anyone who votes for them is happy to vindicate all the lies of the far right
Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.
My guess is they will end up u-turning on the jewellery thing (you can already see it being softening in interviews) and possibly the 20 years (which is way longer than Denmark).
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
realise that Starmer's labour makes a fetish out of plumbing moral depths but this one really is beyond unforgiveable. As long as him - and his gang - are in the Labour Party anyone who votes for them is happy to vindicate all the lies of the far right
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All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Looking at Stromness when swimming is just so much nicer than having to listen to Labour agreeing with Trump - it was bad enough when they were just agreeing with everything Farage said
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Looking at Stromness when swimming is just so much nicer than having to listen to Labour agreeing with Trump - it was bad enough when they were just agreeing with everything Farage said
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour
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Today's a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin, British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose untimely death meant three men shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA for which she'd done most of the work.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Today's a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin, British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose untimely death meant three men shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA for which she'd done most of the work.
Credit to the Guardian for making it clear that Starmer and Farage are completely interchangeable
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
#Labour #Reform #Indynowplease
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
#Labour #Reform #Indynowplease
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Credit to the Guardian for making it clear that Starmer and Farage are completely interchangeable
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
#Labour #Reform #Indynowplease
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
#Labour #Reform #Indynowplease
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
excellent summary of the sheer idiocy of the current UK imposed approach to domestic energy pricing and access
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
excellent summary of the sheer idiocy of the current UK imposed approach to domestic energy pricing and access
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Stronsay's Kelp Riots theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/01/s...
Stronsay’s Kelp Riots
By Bill Miller and first published in The Stronsay Limpet. Republished here with kind permission. Stronsay has been associated with kelp making for centuries, and in fact James Fea of Whitehall , S…
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November 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Stronsay's Kelp Riots theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/01/s...
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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A strategy based on 'well, what if everything political science tells us, everything economics tells us and everything history tells us is wrong?' is ending in a predictable fashion.
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.
Three years ago, Labour was polling in the 50s.
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A strategy based on 'well, what if everything political science tells us, everything economics tells us and everything history tells us is wrong?' is ending in a predictable fashion.
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After Plaid's stunning result, re-posting my blog from Tuesday on UK/Scottish politics & how unprepared we are for the likely speed/ instability of change: "A fracturing, destabilised UK will not, in this environment, become a polite, cooperative confederation."
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
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UK Politics Teetering on the Brink as Scottish and Welsh Elections Beckon
Labour is struggling to create any positive, energised political narrative across Britain. But is Scottish politics ready for the rapidity with which political dynamics may change and fracture in the ...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
After Plaid's stunning result, re-posting my blog from Tuesday on UK/Scottish politics & how unprepared we are for the likely speed/ instability of change: "A fracturing, destabilised UK will not, in this environment, become a polite, cooperative confederation."
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
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ALL: please spread far and wide. The Trans Exile Network was aware of preparations for this and supports it. We will release a PR of our own shortly also. Note that Amnesty are supporting.
There will also be more from TEN shortly on another initiative.
Stay safe
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...
There will also be more from TEN shortly on another initiative.
Stay safe
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...
Equality and Human Rights Commission faces a devastating challenge for yet again violating its human rights obligations – TransActual
transactual.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
ALL: please spread far and wide. The Trans Exile Network was aware of preparations for this and supports it. We will release a PR of our own shortly also. Note that Amnesty are supporting.
There will also be more from TEN shortly on another initiative.
Stay safe
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...
There will also be more from TEN shortly on another initiative.
Stay safe
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...
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One of the people killed by Soldier F was a man who stepped out to help another of his victims as he lay dying in the street. He waved a white handkerchief as he did so. Soldier F shot him in the head. His name was Barney McGuigan and today his family had to listen to a judge acquit his killer.
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
One of the people killed by Soldier F was a man who stepped out to help another of his victims as he lay dying in the street. He waved a white handkerchief as he did so. Soldier F shot him in the head. His name was Barney McGuigan and today his family had to listen to a judge acquit his killer.
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A fascinating, absorbing & terrific listen… uncovering hidden stories, important representation, queer rural constellations & Broken Futures, not to mention the persistence of work & inquiry that goes into museum work. Bravo @timjerrome.bsky.social @olliedouglas.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
A fascinating, absorbing & terrific listen… uncovering hidden stories, important representation, queer rural constellations & Broken Futures, not to mention the persistence of work & inquiry that goes into museum work. Bravo @timjerrome.bsky.social @olliedouglas.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social
Labour deepen their vote for us and get Reform strategy. We need independence before 2029
Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Labour deepen their vote for us and get Reform strategy. We need independence before 2029
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The otters are at it again! A surfer at Steamer Lane was bitten on the foot by a sea otter (definitely not Steve) who then stole her board for 20 minutes. Officials aren’t sure if it’s the infamous Otter 841 or a bold copycat — either way, the legend continues 🦦🏄♀️
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The otters are at it again! A surfer at Steamer Lane was bitten on the foot by a sea otter (definitely not Steve) who then stole her board for 20 minutes. Officials aren’t sure if it’s the infamous Otter 841 or a bold copycat — either way, the legend continues 🦦🏄♀️