alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026you clearly still live in the spirit of X 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026massively narrowed the Green party appeal and dedicated selves to more solipsistic naval gazing - going the way of David Icke 200
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026its what is called a Crick in the neck 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026though there are too many administrators and managers still (and most of them are off sick) 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026pay social workers more and begin by reversing the real terms decrease in salary since 2010 #c4news 110
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 03/09/2026nothing "establishment" about a public school banker 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 27/08/2026they were also ahead of the curve on global heating 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Biden pulled the plug on Afghanistan but he was only executing Trump's plan, cynically negotiated with the Taliban, with no concerns about the consequences @therestpolitics.bsky.social Donald Trump’s administration negotiated and signed the U.S.–Taliban withdrawal agreement in February 2020 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Trump is the disease of a failing neo-liberal model and a stagnating democratic system confounded by plutocracy #newsnight 030
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026in the future everyone will be prime minister for 15 minutes Andy Warhol #newsnight 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I am surprised if they even have a mortgage rather than an inheritance 010
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Iran likes nothing more to sticking a series of photos of teenage "martyrs" on every available roadside lamp post - Trump is a real opportunity for the deaths of innocents for political advantage - bring it on they are saying, Mr Trump #newsnight 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026rug states: Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Axminster #newsnight 001
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026perhaps he mean Iran is a "rug state" due to its export of numerous carpets? #newsnight 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Trump should employ Obama as special envoy to solve the Iran crisis - he did so before so why not again #newsnight 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Where is Britain - that country always referred to by @nytimes.com ? 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If the contest was based on sweaters City St Georges would win hands down (fortunately its not, to my knowledge) 010
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 17/08/2026the real spider man would have probably dissed the review real bad 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 16/08/2026saying Trump is mad or obnoxious proves and achieves nothing but is just a statement of fact 031
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 16/08/2026could it be due to all the fools who elected him or those that let the system slip so much under previous presidents that they previously reasonable people felt they had to? 031
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 15/08/2026something reminds me of David Kelly in 2003 who also took his life in face of media frenzy and being thrust into the public limelight involuntarily #c4news 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 10/08/2026could Britain be part of the Irish Isles? 100
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I am not British or a nationalist just a respecter of facts and history and different people and different ages have different interpretations and agendas - there is a good and very ancient case for using the term British Isles to include Ireland and not to include one being superior to the other 110
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 09/08/2026if you got an issue take it up with the Greeks 100
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026its not disgraceful or rude - using the British Isles to include Ireland goes back thousands of years and can be reference in Greek and Roman sources. It may counter your nationalist prejudices but its the reality, sorry. I might add, I am half Irish myself. 300
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The term goes back 1000s years - Pytheas of Massalia, the Greek explorer who sailed to Britain around 330 BCE used the term Prettanikē. Nēsoi Brettaniai (British Isles) included Ireland, with direct ancient evidence from Greek and Roman authors who preserved or commented on Pytheas’s terminology. 100
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026extremists don't allow other opinions 200
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Also 'Great Britain is not made up of multiple islands; rather, it is one single, large geographical island. It contains the mainlands of three countries:England, Scotland, and Wales.' To say Great Britain would not include the Hebrides,Anglesey, the Isle of Wight etc which are part of sovereign UK 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026and also www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/whats-t...ordnancesurvey.co.ukThe difference between UK, Great Britain and the British Isles | Blog | OSA common mistake people make in this country is to confuse the UK with Great Britain, so we thought we'd clear it up once and for all! 100
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026the Ordnance Survey thinks there is too, plus numerous encyclopedias, though probably many of them UK based and the Irish view is different no doubt 200
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026see also (nowhere called Britain at all) 100
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 08/08/2026you need to update Wikipedia then en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...en.wikipedia.orgBritish Isles - Wikipedia 100
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@nytimes.com Stop referring to the UK as Britain - it holds no meaning - You may feel its a corrective for anachronistic hubris but Britain does not exist. You have Great Britain - as opposed to little Britain (Brittany) or the British Isles (inc. Ireland) but the correct word is probably the UK 510
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Frankopan presents very right wing arguments when potential income reduction in Europe suggest scope for more welfare and redistribution of wealth, not less, as a way to softening the social impact and consequent unrest #c4news 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What does a Nazi actually look like? 100
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 30/07/2026he's the wicked witch of the West and his twitter chronies just winged monkies 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Trump is the new autocratic face of the tech class and its antidemocratic core 000
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 23/07/2026and three born within three months ruling for 22 of last 33 years 010
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 19/07/2026interesting fact - Thomas Tuchel is Werner Herzog's nephew (probably) 010
alectorious.bsky.social @alectorious.bsky.social · 10/07/2026he's got all the cards, they got all the chess pieces 000
