Richard Osborne

Richard Osborne

@raosbo.bsky.social

Almost retired bookseller. Likes books, bikes and people who make the world better. Sometimes anti social, always anti fascist

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Polanski is completely correct. I am truly grateful we have a politician on the national stage saying this.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?" @zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK? And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"

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I think most of us already know that Burnham is just another Starmer-like charlatan, but when he fails to do this (which he will), it should at least wake some up who are currently labouring under the misapprehension that he's not just #ContinuityKeir

We Own It@weownit.org.uk

Allowing this dead-company-walking to be bailed out again, instead of taking it into Special Administration and then permanent public ownership, would be a disgrace and a betrayal by the Andy Burnham government Enough is enough.

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The Labour Lovers of Israel are not a UK government. They’re an Israeli government running the UK, Tory’s no different, Reform Ltd Company of Fascists would be Russia.

Gillian Martin@gillmartin.bsky.social

Donations to Labour Govt ministers by Israel : Andy Burnham £393,346 Lisa Nandy £184,219 Rachel Reeves £348,652 John Healey £39,216 Shabana Mahmood £137,168 Wes Streeting £459,182 Yvette Cooper £144,650 Angela Rayner £86,800 Chris Bryant £130,940

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Replying to @greenpeace.org

6/ Resistance is our duty. It’s time to connect the dots and push back against those trying to hijack our elections. Share this post to break through the manipulation and defend our democracies! #TimeToResist #DefendDemocracy

Wondering how it feels to be Carole Cadwalladr right now. Ten years uncovering Russian interference and largely ignored by MSM. Now it's all over the news and she still doesn't get a mention. And Reform still given a free pass.

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The only justification for such an amount is if she was to spend it having therapy.

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org

Liz Truss has received £319,925 in ‘public duty allowance’ since her exit from Downing Street, figures from the Cabinet Office annual reports show.

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If you are not a disabled person who had to suffer the transition from DLA to PIP brought on by the Liberal Democrats Tory coalition, you cannot speak with any authority about the Liberal Democrats. They want us to forget. Never.

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This is one well out of order Reform Party Ltd jerk off. If you’re a woman whose thinking of voting for this please think again.

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What an absolute disappointment that the ex-deputy leader of the Labour Party and a sitting member of the House of Lords, thinks it right to work for Palantir.

Fourman Films@fourmanfilms.bsky.social

It takes a special kind of person to join a company that was started with funding from Jeffery Epstein and Ex Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's hedge fund and now headed up in the UK by Oswald Mosely's Grandson and also employs Tony Blair's son. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Replying to @valoisdubins.bsky.social

Indeed the charter is absolutely clear. From the BBC's own site: "There is no requirement to give all views equal weight – false equivalence does not achieve impartiality and should be avoided...

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I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...

climateuncensored.comThere Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate UncensoredI was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the

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👍👍 Equity argument (clip) is hugely important, and leads to further question: "if a rich nation like the UK cannot take the first step of differentiated fossil phase-out, who will?" #Burnham's decision sends signal to entire world NO kickstarts phase out YES is F-off to Paris, ICJ, Santa Marta

Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social

I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...

Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980: Penalty for wilful obstruction (1)If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence . Just saying...

Always remember that violence is and always has been central to the appeal of fascism. The protesters yesterday will have been disappointed there was no ruck. They will do it again, and there will be violence. It cannot go unpunished.

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It is important that Ed Davey is drawing attention to this and roundly condemning it. But how does the son of two Sri Lankan born immigrants reason himself into holding this position in the first place?

Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.

Here's a question I'd really like answered. Organised crime costs the country billions while getting much less media and political coverage than the welfare bill. Why are we so complacent about it while being so willing to demonise the most vulnerable?

The huge outpouring of love here for Dolly should be a lesson for the purveyors of division and hate, the rogue billionaire class, the grifting politicians. When you're gone, what will be remembered is kindness and humour. If you didn't have those you'll be soon forgotten.

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She is just the funniest frontline politician in ages. I really wish we could have a normal election campaign of Burnham vs Badenoch without Reform, she’d look fucking MENTAL.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

Just imagine a political system in which small extremist parties end up dictating the policies of the larger parties

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Another must-read investigation from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @nafeez.bsky.social. Open racists were behind the campaign against Jason Arday, and this piece has the receipts.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social

🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

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In 1987 the poet Benjamin Zephaniah was considered for a visiting fellowship at Cambridge. Here's how Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper approached that particular story.

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[Claire Lehmann] added that, after Jason Arday’s death, she “sent Nathan Cofnas a private message asking whether he was alright”. This piece joins a lot of dots like real journalism should.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social

🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

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So Richard Tice, should farmers just "enjoy" low crop yields? Should the thousands who've died from the heatwaves just "enjoy" their premature deaths? What about the families whose homes have burned down in the wildfires? Charlatans with their heads in the sand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comReform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heatDeputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave

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Replying to @emkelly.bsky.social

There's a big market for smug, second-rate intellects among our chattering classes. Yuval Harari. Jordan Peterson. Malcolm Gladwell. Heck, JD Vance v 1.0.

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It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

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Just to note, Toby Young and James Orr’s Free Speech Union paid the legal bills for this guy who plans to be a future ‘Professor of Eugenics and Race Science’ after ‘the revolution’ Young himself supported ‘progressive eugenics’. They’re not even hiding their fact free racism

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This is just dreadful - Farage whines on about being the victim of a witch hunt, but in truth THIS was a witch hunt…. ⬇️😒 The right wing media won’t accept any responsibility for this, they’ll just carry on bleating about “woke” and all the usual shite… #JasonArday #Arday