Howard Hollingsbee

Well, it seems that Brazil and even Serbia haved bucked the global trend towards the nasty right. Can France do it….? Dunno. The HoR in USA likely to go left but if the Senate does too, how will an infantile lame duck Orange lash out? Interesting times.

Listening to Harlan Coben. Reminds of all I used to love about America. Lovely voice, intelligence, charismatic, creative, forward-looking. Then, I mistakenly stumbled across the needy-whiney Fat Orange Buffoon who has done so much damage both in America and to America in the eyes of the world.

Can’t bear the sight or sound of Trump. Creep.

I just signed the campaign calling on the PM and Chancellor to tax addictive gambling machines more to help the cost of living

One US national released. Thousands/millions dead on both sides of Putin’s war of aggression. Humanitarian? FFS.

Yes, we have. The EU and UK (preferably from the inside) need to face up to a very much bigger defence spend (including all the hybrid-cyber etc. stuff). Just nibbling at it atm. Trump an ally of Putin. Staggering but needs to be internalised and acted on. Quickly.

As many of us have been saying for a while. Trump’s government is our enemy just as much as Putin’s. Time to treat it as such. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...

The annual Exmoor feral ponies muster. Beautiful animals, running free. People sitting on some of them look stupid, thoug. And as for breaking similar but specialised creatures for the rich and stupid to bet on……..

Oh, la belle France….. Bonne chance, notre amie……..

Rejoining is an urgent necessity.

All this lazy, sheep-like crap about ‘anxious, millennial, prepper dads’…. Boomers have always done it. Post-war rationing, Cold War fear, 1970s oil crisis and more. That’ll do it.

Trump is a complete shit. His cynical selling Ukraine down the river will not save the midterms disaster but the blameless party in Putin’s war of aggression will suffer nonetheless. Fucker.

I’m puzzled as to why any halfway-literate person would use AI to ‘write’ a letter of complaint or a review. It can only undermine credibility.

But not as brutal as 20% in the 70s was to us…….

A very rattled Farage calling Burnham a liar, in respect of Russian interference, can firms for me, the truth of Burnham’s statement.

Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. The most beautiful, saddest, but beautiful, piece of poetry, ever written, imo. RIP, wherever those fascist bastards let you lie, Federico….

So, you thought the outdated, outmoded and deeply sad Strictly Come Dancing couldn’t get any worse? Welcome to 2026. It has. The excellent Josh Widdecombe has sold his soul

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq... Own goal. Even better news is Reform’s tiny share of the vote.

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

Allez, les étudiants! Brilliant- nobody protests quite like the French. And parents and lecturers, providing a cordon sanitaire between them and the police. Imagine that here….!😂😂

Fresh green figs in October. Delicious. From the trees in our garden. In Cornwall. In UK. Worrying form of deep joy.

The human (if baseless) construct of theistic religion has always been used to control. Nowhere more cynically than in Iran and America, and by Trump and the Republican Party. Nice irony, innit?

Watching Widerness with Simon Reeve. What a joy to hear the soft, gentle First Nation Canadian accents. Relief fromthe shouty, whiny Trumpish noise.

Richard E Grant’s art programme. Quite interesting. He’s unwatchable/unlistenable. Shame.

Any country retaining judicial death sentence is barbaric and unfit for respect in the modern world. One that uses primitive and patently unsuccessful and injurious methods of execution is way beyond the pale.

The Creek, early this morning. What a lovely September we’ve had!

If Wes Streeting turned up on my doorstep trying to sell me something, he would get very short shrift. Slick Willie.

The Orange, in a faint-praise acknowledgment of UK police forces claims “we’ve been following them [the 5 arrested near RAF Fairfoed for some time……”. CTP spokesperson - “this was not intelligence-led”. Wonder whom agonna believe……🙄

I think I heard the ‘leader’ of the free world say , about climate change “ they said we’ll all be dead in 12 years”. What?? Nobody ever said that. Is he conflating the recent POTENTIAL dangers of AI? Anyway, Trump clearly has mental health issues. A much bigger worry, for all of us.

Islamic centre overwhelmed by support after damage This is heartening, but the idiots causing the damage are the pits. No time for religion of any kind but, living in an “Islamic state” (a strange concept ) for several years, we experienced only friendship and kindness from a gentle people.

The Tulcayo. Possibly the most endearing feline I’ve ever seen. Long may she/they survive, as we slash and burn her habitat.

SO sad that the media think we should take interest in the gaslighting going on between members of two vastly overprivileged families. Even sadder that so many of ‘us’ seem to be.

And so, one evil, not-very-clever FOF continues to undermine the very best elements of the excellent Constitution of what used to be one of the very best nations in the world. It could be again, it’s still the most powerful but being corrupted from within. Be very afraid, World.

Dow Jones today….. fuck…….

Hate Piddington’s driving motive, but love the idea of UDI!

‘Pearl, held in black fingers…. bird inside the ribcage is beating to be free…. Use me while you can…..’ Bruce Cockburn. So powerful.

There is something REALLY creepy about those camera-embedded RayBans…….

EU and Canada making post -Brexit Britain’s position even more pathetic and ridiculous.

What kind of country have we become, when not only migrants but also RNLI crews, some of the very best people in society, are being trolled and harassed by thugs and idiots?

Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first item on the new PM’s list. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

America….. Your president is insane. Every day brings further evidence. You (mostly) deserve better.