FlammesdePierre
@sonneur.bsky.social
Progressive mountain, forest, sea lover. Environmentalist & European living in different bits of Asia. Having a try at permaculture. A bit of Materials Engineering too. Enthusiast for drone-based music (if you know, you know..)
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November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Rattled: the Gentleman Racist. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
EXCLUSIVE
Racist Offended by Accusations of Racism.
Expressing his frustration that he keeps getting called a racist, a Clacton racist finally broke his silence on Monday.
More:
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/racist-off...
Racist Offended by Accusations of Racism.
Expressing his frustration that he keeps getting called a racist, a Clacton racist finally broke his silence on Monday.
More:
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/racist-off...
Racist Offended by Accusations of Racism
Expressing his frustration that he keeps getting called a racist, a Clacton racist finally broke his silence on Monday.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Rattled: the Gentleman Racist. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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❤️ Several hundred people formed a living Angel of the North in Hexham to show support for plans by internationally renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley for a new arts facility in the town.
It was aimed at persuading Northumberland County Council to change its mind, after it turned down the idea...
It was aimed at persuading Northumberland County Council to change its mind, after it turned down the idea...
Living Angel of the North sends a message to Northumberland County Council
People in Hexham demonstrate in support of plans for an art facility by world renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
❤️ Several hundred people formed a living Angel of the North in Hexham to show support for plans by internationally renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley for a new arts facility in the town.
It was aimed at persuading Northumberland County Council to change its mind, after it turned down the idea...
It was aimed at persuading Northumberland County Council to change its mind, after it turned down the idea...
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A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.
(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.
(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
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BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
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The best thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald you'll read.
#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The best thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald you'll read.
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An absolutely essential read
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
An absolutely essential read
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The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
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These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.
All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.
1/
All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.
1/
October 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.
All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.
1/
All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.
1/
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You know the assignment 👍
October 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
You know the assignment 👍
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These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.
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After Starmer’s immigration speech in May I wrote to my own Labour MP and to my late mother’s Labour MP whom my mother had worked for as an activist and ended up as twice Labour Lady Mayoress
I got no reply. Sadly the email I sent then still seems relevant today.
I got no reply. Sadly the email I sent then still seems relevant today.
September 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
After Starmer’s immigration speech in May I wrote to my own Labour MP and to my late mother’s Labour MP whom my mother had worked for as an activist and ended up as twice Labour Lady Mayoress
I got no reply. Sadly the email I sent then still seems relevant today.
I got no reply. Sadly the email I sent then still seems relevant today.
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this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit
Wes Streeting has defended Lord Peter Mandelson’s relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein after it was revealed the Labour peer called the convicted paedophile his 'best pal'
Wes Streeting defends Lord Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
www.thenational.scot
September 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit
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Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead.
Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for
Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for
September 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead.
Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for
Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for
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ICYMI
"'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner"
"'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner"
"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner
Last year Nigel Farage announced he had bought a house in Clacton, Essex, but in fact it was his partner Laure Ferrari, 46, who shelled out almost £900,000 for the property
www.mirror.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
ICYMI
"'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner"
"'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner"
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This can’t be allowed to happen, we can’t award a £2 billion contract to an Israeli arms company in the middle of this genocide, mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. We’re obliged to do what we can to prevent Genocide when we see it happening - not support it.
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September 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This can’t be allowed to happen, we can’t award a £2 billion contract to an Israeli arms company in the middle of this genocide, mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. We’re obliged to do what we can to prevent Genocide when we see it happening - not support it.
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Utterly, utterly shocking. I can’t be the only person to be struck by how much she’s changed?
2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR
2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK
Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK
Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
September 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Utterly, utterly shocking. I can’t be the only person to be struck by how much she’s changed?
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Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Vote | National Television Awards
Choose your winners in this year’s National Television Awards
nationaltvawards.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
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P&O Ferries boss who illegally sacked 800 staff quits.
He told a parliament Committee that the company knowingly broke the law, faced no action from Tory govt.
Workers replaced with £4.87 an hour agency staff.
Now he probably walks away with golden goodbye and pension pot.
He told a parliament Committee that the company knowingly broke the law, faced no action from Tory govt.
Workers replaced with £4.87 an hour agency staff.
Now he probably walks away with golden goodbye and pension pot.
P&O Ferries boss who sparked outage after mass sacking quits
Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite led the company when it sacked hundreds of staff in March 2022.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
P&O Ferries boss who illegally sacked 800 staff quits.
He told a parliament Committee that the company knowingly broke the law, faced no action from Tory govt.
Workers replaced with £4.87 an hour agency staff.
Now he probably walks away with golden goodbye and pension pot.
He told a parliament Committee that the company knowingly broke the law, faced no action from Tory govt.
Workers replaced with £4.87 an hour agency staff.
Now he probably walks away with golden goodbye and pension pot.
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I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
August 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
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Whoa.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Whoa.
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Very interesting. Just read the abstract. 👇
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Does the prospect of upward mobility undermine support for redistribution?"
By @donandrewmoore.bsky.social, @renechoudhari.bsky.social, & @aileenwu.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
"Does the prospect of upward mobility undermine support for redistribution?"
By @donandrewmoore.bsky.social, @renechoudhari.bsky.social, & @aileenwu.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
July 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Very interesting. Just read the abstract. 👇