Paul Haviland
@runtotorun.bsky.social
Living in Dorset, England, but occasionally dreaming of Siena, Tangier and Plovdiv
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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The Bear hears it everywhere: snip-snip-snip. ✂️
Every party’s reaching for the scissors again – even though there’s nothing left to cut.
A furious, funny howl at Britain’s obsession with “efficiency”.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Every party’s reaching for the scissors again – even though there’s nothing left to cut.
A furious, funny howl at Britain’s obsession with “efficiency”.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Bear hears it everywhere: snip-snip-snip. ✂️
Every party’s reaching for the scissors again – even though there’s nothing left to cut.
A furious, funny howl at Britain’s obsession with “efficiency”.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Every party’s reaching for the scissors again – even though there’s nothing left to cut.
A furious, funny howl at Britain’s obsession with “efficiency”.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
MEN!
Are you over 50, a tech billionaire or media mogul, and worried about share loss? Experiencing spinal weakness or dysfunctional guts? Then you should
CHECK YOUR PROSTRATE
Remember, a supine position may seem safe and comfortable now, but it could rapidly become a serious handicap.
Are you over 50, a tech billionaire or media mogul, and worried about share loss? Experiencing spinal weakness or dysfunctional guts? Then you should
CHECK YOUR PROSTRATE
Remember, a supine position may seem safe and comfortable now, but it could rapidly become a serious handicap.
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
MEN!
Are you over 50, a tech billionaire or media mogul, and worried about share loss? Experiencing spinal weakness or dysfunctional guts? Then you should
CHECK YOUR PROSTRATE
Remember, a supine position may seem safe and comfortable now, but it could rapidly become a serious handicap.
Are you over 50, a tech billionaire or media mogul, and worried about share loss? Experiencing spinal weakness or dysfunctional guts? Then you should
CHECK YOUR PROSTRATE
Remember, a supine position may seem safe and comfortable now, but it could rapidly become a serious handicap.
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America - as far as I can tell, in any other country, a fascist dictator's reign has only been brought to an end via coup, civil war, international war or assassination. He has law enforcement, the military, the courts and the press in his pocket.
How does the US get out of this?
How does the US get out of this?
August 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
America - as far as I can tell, in any other country, a fascist dictator's reign has only been brought to an end via coup, civil war, international war or assassination. He has law enforcement, the military, the courts and the press in his pocket.
How does the US get out of this?
How does the US get out of this?
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Well worth 5 minutes of your Sunday morning
The starfish delusion: why care, not strategy, is the real driver of change
Care is the ground all systems stand on: it is the refusal to be paralysed by the size of the problem, but to act in spite of it
By Mike Chitty
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Care is the ground all systems stand on: it is the refusal to be paralysed by the size of the problem, but to act in spite of it
By Mike Chitty
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
The starfish delusion: why care, not strategy, is the real driver of change
Care is the ground all systems stand on: it is the refusal to be paralysed by the size of the problem, but to act in spite of it
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Well worth 5 minutes of your Sunday morning
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Shared: Now Zuckerberg, like Trump, doesn't like what you say? He can disappear you too. This is American writer and activist Rebecca Solnit on Bluesky today, sharing what you see when you're targeted and disappeared in the "land of the free" by an immoral dork/world class asshole on a power trip.
June 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Shared: Now Zuckerberg, like Trump, doesn't like what you say? He can disappear you too. This is American writer and activist Rebecca Solnit on Bluesky today, sharing what you see when you're targeted and disappeared in the "land of the free" by an immoral dork/world class asshole on a power trip.
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I hope someone in #uklabour reads this letter. Spot on! Starmer needs to read the room!
This opinion piece in the East Anglia Bylines could possibly put it into perspective Helen
Letter: We are not strangers
Letter to the editor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I hope someone in #uklabour reads this letter. Spot on! Starmer needs to read the room!
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Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
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An underreported aspect of the UK Supreme Court decision, often seen solely through the lens of the war on trans women, but which will also lead to a raft of (unintended?) consequences when it comes to trans men.
What does the UK Supreme Court’s gender ruling mean for trans men?
The decision means trans men can be exluded from men’s single-sex spaces – but may also be excluded from women’s spaces.
theconversation.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
An underreported aspect of the UK Supreme Court decision, often seen solely through the lens of the war on trans women, but which will also lead to a raft of (unintended?) consequences when it comes to trans men.
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The British PM "does not accept" that the USA is now an unreliable ally. Of course he can't say aloud what everybody knows, because... er... that's what diplomacy requires?
Ironically Trump and his Krazy Kabinet have led the way by saying the unsayable, every day. Why can't sane people?
Ironically Trump and his Krazy Kabinet have led the way by saying the unsayable, every day. Why can't sane people?
March 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The British PM "does not accept" that the USA is now an unreliable ally. Of course he can't say aloud what everybody knows, because... er... that's what diplomacy requires?
Ironically Trump and his Krazy Kabinet have led the way by saying the unsayable, every day. Why can't sane people?
Ironically Trump and his Krazy Kabinet have led the way by saying the unsayable, every day. Why can't sane people?
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, says outright what all British politicians should be saying: "Donald Trump has chosen his side. Not with Zelensky. Not with democracy. But with Putin, the mass-murdering tyrant...he has betrayed not just Ukraine but the UK and all of our European allies."
February 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, says outright what all British politicians should be saying: "Donald Trump has chosen his side. Not with Zelensky. Not with democracy. But with Putin, the mass-murdering tyrant...he has betrayed not just Ukraine but the UK and all of our European allies."
I had none of this on my 2025 bingo card. I now predict that in a moment of uncharacteristic generosity, Trump will offer displaced Greenlanders first pick of the Gaza Riviera beachfront properties.
February 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I had none of this on my 2025 bingo card. I now predict that in a moment of uncharacteristic generosity, Trump will offer displaced Greenlanders first pick of the Gaza Riviera beachfront properties.
What helps? Taking the long view, perhaps. Percy Shelley, whose heart snatched from the flames lies interred a few miles from where I now sit and watch the debasement of all the values I hold dear, had something to say about earthly powers.
January 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
What helps? Taking the long view, perhaps. Percy Shelley, whose heart snatched from the flames lies interred a few miles from where I now sit and watch the debasement of all the values I hold dear, had something to say about earthly powers.
So many pundits mentioning (admiringly, it seems) Trump's "unpredictability". Yet narcissism is the most predictable of mental disorders. The playbook does not extend beyond "What advantage is in it for me?"
January 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
So many pundits mentioning (admiringly, it seems) Trump's "unpredictability". Yet narcissism is the most predictable of mental disorders. The playbook does not extend beyond "What advantage is in it for me?"
My first thought was "Within 24 hours Netanyahu will claim Hamas is trying to wreck the deal, in a bid to save his own position". My second thought was "I shouldn't give in so easily to cynicism". Today I'm thinking I should trust my instincts.
January 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My first thought was "Within 24 hours Netanyahu will claim Hamas is trying to wreck the deal, in a bid to save his own position". My second thought was "I shouldn't give in so easily to cynicism". Today I'm thinking I should trust my instincts.
I suppose I am not alone in hoping that at his inauguration Trump will emulate William Henry Harrison.
January 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I suppose I am not alone in hoping that at his inauguration Trump will emulate William Henry Harrison.
Former Labour MP Tom Harris, writing in the Daily Telegraph today, makes some reasonably debatable points. He does not suggest Starmer's tenure as PM is
in jeopardy. But the headline, "Keir Starmer's speech may be the last gasp of a floundering Government", is wholly inaccurate, specious and WRONG.
in jeopardy. But the headline, "Keir Starmer's speech may be the last gasp of a floundering Government", is wholly inaccurate, specious and WRONG.
January 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Former Labour MP Tom Harris, writing in the Daily Telegraph today, makes some reasonably debatable points. He does not suggest Starmer's tenure as PM is
in jeopardy. But the headline, "Keir Starmer's speech may be the last gasp of a floundering Government", is wholly inaccurate, specious and WRONG.
in jeopardy. But the headline, "Keir Starmer's speech may be the last gasp of a floundering Government", is wholly inaccurate, specious and WRONG.
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Lord Woodley’s Bill to end the cruel & monumental injustice of the #IPPscandal has passed its 2nd Reading. The question now is will the Prime Minister do the right thing & give the Bill government time for a full & proper Committee Stage?
Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right
Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right
If passed Lord Woodley’s Bill will end one of the most shocking & monumental injustices of the past half century - the #IPPscandal & head off the medium-term prison capacity crisis at the same time.
Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right
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Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right
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🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 11, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Lord Woodley’s Bill to end the cruel & monumental injustice of the #IPPscandal has passed its 2nd Reading. The question now is will the Prime Minister do the right thing & give the Bill government time for a full & proper Committee Stage?
Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right
Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right
Last time around, Trump's people were either (1) cynical grifters, (2) delusional hero-worshipers – looking at you, Kash Patel! – or (3) well-meaning public servants hoping to limit the damage. This time, category (3) seems to be missing. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
December 3, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Last time around, Trump's people were either (1) cynical grifters, (2) delusional hero-worshipers – looking at you, Kash Patel! – or (3) well-meaning public servants hoping to limit the damage. This time, category (3) seems to be missing. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
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The meme I didn't know I needed
November 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
The meme I didn't know I needed
I'm feeling surprisingly warm and fuzzy about Britain's faux-democracy these days. We recently saw two megalomaniacs removed as Heads of Government and all it took was a brief outbreak of sanity among their parliamentary colleagues. No such luck in the United States of Amnesia, I'm sorry to say.
November 19, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I'm feeling surprisingly warm and fuzzy about Britain's faux-democracy these days. We recently saw two megalomaniacs removed as Heads of Government and all it took was a brief outbreak of sanity among their parliamentary colleagues. No such luck in the United States of Amnesia, I'm sorry to say.
On the face of it, "business as usual" has been exceedingly kind (and profitable!) to Musk and his billionaire pals — yet they rail against it. Cognitive dissonance, or something more sinister?
November 18, 2024 at 8:39 PM
On the face of it, "business as usual" has been exceedingly kind (and profitable!) to Musk and his billionaire pals — yet they rail against it. Cognitive dissonance, or something more sinister?