Don Shipp

Don Shipp

@donshipp.bsky.social

Gentlemen of the road.

173 followers187 following736 posts

The popularity of “The Traitors” dismays me. There is no logical path to finding the truth, no way of knowing who is a bad actor, and every incentive to kill what is good and betray those who trust you. It is the worst possible model for what society should be. People, it would seem, want this.

It’s nice to see someone in Labour refuting Reform rather than reinforcing them.

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

'He might be telling those people to go home. As our country's health and social care secretary, I want to say directly to those people... they are home' Wes Streeting criticises Reform's plans to deport people from the UK if they fail to meet stricter rules👏

Amusing fact; the British beaches were originally called Goldfish, Jellyfish and Swordfish. But no one wanted to be Jellyfish and there wasn’t any the fish starting with “J”, so it became just Gold, Juno and Sword.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Don Shipp reposted

They want you to believe this is "capitalism": it isn't It's an insane injustice... It is a grotesque legalisation of robbery A perverse mockery of anything logical or moral

Miaganga@miaganga.bsky.social

Eat the rich.

Don Shipp reposted

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

Don Shipp reposted

Hunt forgot he owned 7 flats, Cox failed to declare £400K, IDS forgot a company paid him £25k, Villiers forgot she owned £70k of Shell shares, Zahawi forgot to pay £4.8 million in taxes, Johnson got donor mates to pay for everything. Tory hypocrisy knows no bounds. #AngelaRayner

Don Shipp reposted

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

Don Shipp reposted

The radical thing they should have been doing *from the start* is calling out his far-right-bollocks. Stop the bloody pandering and pussyfooting.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social

The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps. "Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps" archive.ph/78dcP

Don Shipp reposted

"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."

jonn.substack.comIt’s Just Wrong, and They Should Say SoThis week: if you think handing asylum seekers to the Taliban is good politics, you’re a bad person. Also: on the non-existence of purple; and a map of the mid-Tudor world.

In order to be a tapestry it needs to come from the Bayeux district in France. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling embroidery.

Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social

FFS THE BAYEUX "TAPESTRY" IS NOT A TAPESTRY. IT'S AN EMBROIDERY. TAPESTRIES ARE WOVEN. THE BAYEUX "TAPESTRY" IS SEWN. IN ABOUT 50 YEARS WE'LL HAVE THE 1000-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PEOPLE MAKING THIS ELEMENTARY MISTAKE. SORT IT OUT, PEOPLE. Nor is it from Bayeux. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif ?”hard mode” (no Star Wars, Star Trek Lord of the Rings or Marvel)

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif ?”hard mode” (no Star Wars, Star Trek Lord of the Rings or Marvel)