Rockula

Rockula

@rockula.bsky.social

Sarcastic old Lefty punk rocker. I oppose bigotry. I don't follow sport. No religion. NO DMs EVER. Music/films/books/comics. Cat Dad. Fox whisperer. Favourite band: The Damned. Old Hag @xaraptor.bsky.social is my better half.

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When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Here’s an idea… Why don’t we try facts first, frothing later? Let the Fairford investigation finish before anyone decides what it means …and for goodness sake, don’t believe a word from Trump and his lot. Me on @jeremyvineon5 this morning…

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🔴 Royal British Legion Says It Wants ‘No Association’ With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers Exclusive: The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group’s ‘Raise the Poppies’ appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down bylinetimes.com/2026/09/22/r...

bylinetimes.comRoyal British Legion Says It Wants 'No Association' With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy FundraisersThe charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group's 'Raise the Poppies' appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down

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You’re better than this BBC News… or are you?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social

This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The micro-generation between Baby Boomers and Generation X is called Generation Jones, typically including people born roughly from 1954 to 1965. Except I belong to the blank generation and I can take it or leave it each time.

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The president is a rapist and a pedophile who ran teen beauty pageants and was best friends with Epstein and he’s fine with men beating their wives and he lost a war and raised all your prices and stole billions of dollars but 34% of Americans still think he’s peachy keen because they’re racist.

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Reform's vote share in Greater Manchester went from 31% in the local elections in May to 21% in the Mayoral election. I can only think of five million reasons for this.

But at least Fauci isn't in the Epstein files and didn't take donations from associates of Epstein or go on regular trips to Epstein island or rape children like Trump...

New UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting took 10's of £1000's from donors with links to arms firms and controversial US tech firm Palantir. Meanwhile... Old UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting took 10's of £1000's from donors with links to private health firms and controversial US tech firm Palantir.

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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley