mrspd.bsky.social

I largely stopped using X in November 2024. I keep an account there to research the far right (they're all active there, for some reason...) I'm deleting all of my tweets now - Private Eye reports they will now be used to train Grok, Musk's perverted AI monster. Whether you like it or not. Grim.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social your current caller is right. Trump’s also sending the message that bad things can happen to his critics.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social sharpening their cudgels? That’s a bit extreme!

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Will foreign journalists now be allowed into Gaza? I’m not sure how real it is without that.

Do watch this. It’s very good. Sound absolutely on.

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.

Can we all agree Jasmine Crockett is a total badass? 👏

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said today that foreign laboratory tests on biological samples obtained from her husband confirmed he was poisoned.

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter

Officially, Farage has declared two residential properties in Folkestone & Hythe and Tandridge. In reality, his property portfolio appears to include at least four homes: His family home in Downe. Two Kent seaside houses (via his company). Alleged Clacton residence held under his partner’s name.

Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.

So how many front pages do we think this story will be on tomorrow?

Migrant boat crossing in August at their lowest level since 2022, as well as the numbers of "young men of fighting age", partly due to the Government's post-Brexit "one in, one out" deal with Macron. Bet you won't see this on the BBC.

Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage

All Deform UK Ltd voters should see this.

He has form

Some of the rejected content considered to bridge the gap in the Epstein Missing Seconds Video. Gotta love the interwebs. (Video credit: ITDUDE fella)

The best response to Hatie Kopkins from Marcus Rashford.

The Guardian is discussing a supposed crisis for Rachael Reeves today, when no such crisis exists. Whether she meets her fiscal rules is irrelevant. Poverty, poor housing, and suffering children are the realities they should be talking about. Why aren't they? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...

FAFO. Bigly time.

Just a sample.

Well worth a read this. Sunday Times has a 600 word puff piece on Looking for Growth today that seems to have forgotten to mention Dominic Cummings or GB News….

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

For two years in WWII Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor served in the ATS at her own insistence. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/queen-elizabeth-ii-during-world-war-ii

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Today: Bitcoin Conference, Las Vegas 2024 Aug: Arizona USA Sept: Chicago USA Sept: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Nov: Pennsylvania, USA Dec: NYC, USA Dec: Washington, DC, USA 2025 Jan: Washington, DC, USA Feb: Washington, DC, USA March: Florida, USA May: France May: Las Vegas, USA #AnywhereButClacton

#Labour #KierStarmer

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

Surprising how bbc (broadcasting house Sunday) are suddenly all over the problems caused by brexit and want to know what the Labour government are doing about it.

Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays. Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Here's my explanation, James, of exactly what you are currently describing.

Oh would you look at that? So the Tories didn’t want to pay the compensation, so continued to kick the can down the road and are now expressing moral indignation on the same issue to have a political swipe at a new government. Beneath contempt.

Whenever I share govt announcements on here, one thing is always certain: the comments will be full of surprise from people who haven’t seen the news anywhere else Here's a bunch of recent announcements that you may have missed bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...

As another #farmersprotest takes place today in London, I thought it would be useful to create a "damage to UK farming" timeline, from 2016 to 2024: 2016 Tories Boris Johnson & Michael Gove win the Brexit referendum, meaning UK will leave the Common Agricultural Policy. No farmer protests. 1/9

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To state the obvious, Mr Farage has no interest in parliamentary democracy.

This is so depressing.

Motion to dismiss filed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

I for one am amazed that Keir Starmer, five months after winning a 170 seat majority, has not called a fresh election after acceding to a random petition. Shameful stuff. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-s...

Neither of these people even live in Britain. One of them is a total crank that amplifies far right conspiracy theories. The other guy calls himself Peter Sweden.

Bluesky, why do I keep getting posts in German, however many times I use the ‘see less’ response?