Ollie
@webbo90.bsky.social
Reposted by Ollie
Hello...just joined Bluesky...excited to be here. I am an acrylic painter/artist and looking to expand my horizons. Here's one of my paintings..."Birds on a Wire" You can also check out my website...
www.nancygrabowski.com
www.nancygrabowski.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hello...just joined Bluesky...excited to be here. I am an acrylic painter/artist and looking to expand my horizons. Here's one of my paintings..."Birds on a Wire" You can also check out my website...
www.nancygrabowski.com
www.nancygrabowski.com
Reposted by Ollie
He wasn't interviewed by police for "attending" the march, he was questioned for breaching the march conditions, which was not to protest near a synagogue.
But what are facts when you have an agenda?
But what are facts when you have an agenda?
January 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
He wasn't interviewed by police for "attending" the march, he was questioned for breaching the march conditions, which was not to protest near a synagogue.
But what are facts when you have an agenda?
But what are facts when you have an agenda?
It's entirely possible that the police decided to interview Corbyn and McDonnell without Kier Starmer asking them to. Just putting that out there.
January 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It's entirely possible that the police decided to interview Corbyn and McDonnell without Kier Starmer asking them to. Just putting that out there.
Just got thrown out of the arcade.
January 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Just got thrown out of the arcade.
There is no path to rejoining the EU that doesn't involve a public vote, and any kind of campaign would be incredibly decisive and have no guarantee of a result in favour of rejoining. Any attempt to do this will paralyse govt at a time we need functional policies and delivery.
The key problem is that - given the media landscape - it’s not really Labour who have to embrace #Breturn but rather the Conservatives (and they likely won’t do that as long as Reform are a threat). Donald Tusk, though - what a guy!
January 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
There is no path to rejoining the EU that doesn't involve a public vote, and any kind of campaign would be incredibly decisive and have no guarantee of a result in favour of rejoining. Any attempt to do this will paralyse govt at a time we need functional policies and delivery.
Reposted by Ollie
"I'll tell you who most despises so-called 'Muslim grooming gangs' – honest-to-goodness Muslims."
Searchlight researcher Amir Mohammed takes exception to the hard and far right treating child sex abuse not as a call to help its victims but as the carrier for racial dog-whistling.
Read it here…
Searchlight researcher Amir Mohammed takes exception to the hard and far right treating child sex abuse not as a call to help its victims but as the carrier for racial dog-whistling.
Read it here…
“I’ll tell you who most despises so-called ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ – honest-to-goodness Muslims”
By Amir Mohammed, Senior Searchlight researcher You probably don’t notice or think about it a lot of the time, but one of us may well… Continue reading →
www.searchlightmagazine.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"I'll tell you who most despises so-called 'Muslim grooming gangs' – honest-to-goodness Muslims."
Searchlight researcher Amir Mohammed takes exception to the hard and far right treating child sex abuse not as a call to help its victims but as the carrier for racial dog-whistling.
Read it here…
Searchlight researcher Amir Mohammed takes exception to the hard and far right treating child sex abuse not as a call to help its victims but as the carrier for racial dog-whistling.
Read it here…
Reposted by Ollie
The German defence ministry, army and foreign ministry are no longer using Twitter. The Foreign Ministry will use BlueSky. Defence Ministry on WhatsApp. Might occasionally post on X to challenge specific misinformation, but not using it for public communication
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
January 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The German defence ministry, army and foreign ministry are no longer using Twitter. The Foreign Ministry will use BlueSky. Defence Ministry on WhatsApp. Might occasionally post on X to challenge specific misinformation, but not using it for public communication
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Reposted by Ollie
Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit?
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
January 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit?
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
Reposted by Ollie
NEW
Why the Truss "lettuce before action" is worse than you thought - and it has a worrying implication for free speech
A wider look at the libel letter from the former Prime Minister
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/why-...
Why the Truss "lettuce before action" is worse than you thought - and it has a worrying implication for free speech
A wider look at the libel letter from the former Prime Minister
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/why-...
Why the Truss "lettuce before action" is worse than you thought - and it has a worrying implication for free speech
A considered look at the libel letter from the former Prime Minister
emptycity.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NEW
Why the Truss "lettuce before action" is worse than you thought - and it has a worrying implication for free speech
A wider look at the libel letter from the former Prime Minister
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/why-...
Why the Truss "lettuce before action" is worse than you thought - and it has a worrying implication for free speech
A wider look at the libel letter from the former Prime Minister
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/01/why-...
Reposted by Ollie
[loud knocking]
“OPEN UP. IT’S THE POLICE!”
Me: Prove it.
“HOW?”
Me: Sing “Roxanne.”
“OPEN UP. IT’S THE POLICE!”
Me: Prove it.
“HOW?”
Me: Sing “Roxanne.”
January 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
[loud knocking]
“OPEN UP. IT’S THE POLICE!”
Me: Prove it.
“HOW?”
Me: Sing “Roxanne.”
“OPEN UP. IT’S THE POLICE!”
Me: Prove it.
“HOW?”
Me: Sing “Roxanne.”
I missed this bit yesterday.
January 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I missed this bit yesterday.
Reposted by Ollie
“Badenoch: “There are some places where […] a mob turns up and burns their homes down” Yes, some of those places are in the UK. Does Badenoch not know about Bijam Ebrahami, mistaken for a pedophile by vigilantes, then beaten and burnt to death?
January 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Badenoch: “There are some places where […] a mob turns up and burns their homes down” Yes, some of those places are in the UK. Does Badenoch not know about Bijam Ebrahami, mistaken for a pedophile by vigilantes, then beaten and burnt to death?
Reposted by Ollie
The "Rachel from accounts" slur is rank. If the right-wing-client-media clowns claim it isn't vile misogyny, ask them what moniker they used for Sunak or Javid or Hunt. They didn't have one for the men.
January 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The "Rachel from accounts" slur is rank. If the right-wing-client-media clowns claim it isn't vile misogyny, ask them what moniker they used for Sunak or Javid or Hunt. They didn't have one for the men.
Reposted by Ollie
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
January 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
Please let this happen.
January 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Please let this happen.
Kier Starmer should immediately post that Liz Truss crashed the economy to continue Truss's streak of being completely wrong about everything.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Kier Starmer should immediately post that Liz Truss crashed the economy to continue Truss's streak of being completely wrong about everything.
Reposted by Ollie
Taking the leap into Bluesky 👋
January 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Taking the leap into Bluesky 👋
Reposted by Ollie
Prof Alexis Jay, chair of public inquiry into child sexual abuse, says further national inquiry into grooming gangs isn’t needed & would delay action.
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
January 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Prof Alexis Jay, chair of public inquiry into child sexual abuse, says further national inquiry into grooming gangs isn’t needed & would delay action.
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
Reposted by Ollie
No More Bloody Inquiries! My SKETCH/RANT of Today in Tory neo-Milibandism. thecritic.co.uk/no-m...
No more bloody inquiries | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
Oh, you’re into public inquiries, are you? Name your top ten currently ongoing ones. That’s not as hard as it sounds, because there are currently 17 ongoing public inquiries in the UK. Sure…
thecritic.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
No More Bloody Inquiries! My SKETCH/RANT of Today in Tory neo-Milibandism. thecritic.co.uk/no-m...
Reposted by Ollie
Seeing all the advice being doled out to Starmer etc on here remimds me of the old George Burns quote:
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."
January 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Seeing all the advice being doled out to Starmer etc on here remimds me of the old George Burns quote:
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."
Reposted by Ollie
Labour pointing out that the Tory amendment would kill the whole bill.
Source: “It’s a bizarre approach to child protection to vote down a child protection bill which includes powers such as stopping another home schooling scandal as we saw in the tragic case of Sara Sharif.”
Source: “It’s a bizarre approach to child protection to vote down a child protection bill which includes powers such as stopping another home schooling scandal as we saw in the tragic case of Sara Sharif.”
January 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Labour pointing out that the Tory amendment would kill the whole bill.
Source: “It’s a bizarre approach to child protection to vote down a child protection bill which includes powers such as stopping another home schooling scandal as we saw in the tragic case of Sara Sharif.”
Source: “It’s a bizarre approach to child protection to vote down a child protection bill which includes powers such as stopping another home schooling scandal as we saw in the tragic case of Sara Sharif.”
Oh no the porn bots have found me.
January 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Oh no the porn bots have found me.
Reposted by Ollie
📖 Book review – Politics on the Edge, by Rory Stewart
From Brexit to prisons, the podcaster and former minister reveals a country in dire need of a boot up the politics
From Brexit to prisons, the podcaster and former minister reveals a country in dire need of a boot up the politics
Book review – Politics on the Edge, by Rory Stewart
From Brexit to prisons, the podcaster and former minister reveals a country in dire need of a boot up the politics
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📖 Book review – Politics on the Edge, by Rory Stewart
From Brexit to prisons, the podcaster and former minister reveals a country in dire need of a boot up the politics
From Brexit to prisons, the podcaster and former minister reveals a country in dire need of a boot up the politics
Reposted by Ollie
Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today.
Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister?
Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it.
Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA
Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister?
Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it.
Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA
January 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today.
Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister?
Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it.
Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA
Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister?
Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it.
Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA
I would be interested to see the percentage of recommendations from public inquiries that have actually been implemented, as I suspect it would be fairly low.
January 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I would be interested to see the percentage of recommendations from public inquiries that have actually been implemented, as I suspect it would be fairly low.