botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Barrett is odious. He thinks that being a barrister means he has some sort of intellectual superiority. If you analyse what he says, word for word, sentence by sentence, it is truly vacuous, quite bizarre and irrational nonsense. 020
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Also see barrister Steven Barrett. If he waffles on in court like he does on X, never making a point but just hurling stupid insults, I’d be surprised if he ever won a case. (He himself says 95% of one-on-one cases ‘settle’). 111
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I hope your gig at the Union Chapel will highlight the extraordinary amount of hounding and bile that The Daily Telegraph rained down on Mr Arday over the last couple of weeks. A disgrace. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026So it’s being reported that Buckingham Palace has confirmed that Prince George will go to Eton. So much for the Wales’s ‘having the common touch’. Apart from that observation, who gives a flying one? 010
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026As a Barnet born-and-bred boy (Whetstone, Friern Barnet. North Finchley) all I can say is… good on them. 010
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026All this shows is how bloody stupid and gullible the British people are. The rhetoric about UK being a ‘tolerant, welcoming country’ is complete bollocks. The UK is a racist, intolerant, inward-looking country. 1222
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026They’re not bright enough to be satirical. They’re just stark raving bonkers. 020
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026On the other hand, the bookies are usually the best predictors. I may even have a big bet on Forest to go down, it may soften the blow but pretty unethical! 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I’m a Forest fan and to be honest, I’m not hopeful. Leeds are just a better team than the other three, and Hammers are on a bit of a roll. I think it’s between Spurs and Forest, and the manager will work the oracle at Spurs. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Most people, though, don’t understand that once people get here and claim asylum they have legal protection as asylum seekers and their claims must be processed, however they arrive (including ‘small boats’). The rhetoric around ‘illegal migrants’ is almost wholly at best misleading, at worst, lies. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I do know exactly what you mean. Meanwhile, let’s all have a good laugh (although it’s more serious than that) at the Reform House Journal (Telegraph) and the Mail’s response to G&D. ‘Rise of the Green Menace’ (Mail). I’m sure that was a Dr Who series in 1972…. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The Mail, in competion with the Reform House Journal (Telegraph) takes its normal considered approach to a by-election result it doesn’t like. ‘The Green Menace’🤣. Is that a Dr Who episode from 1972? 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Thank you. Maybe i was a bit over sensitive. I was (of course, this was the ‘60s) brought up to offer a seat to women, and I still, despite very dodgy 66-year-old knees, offer mine to people visibly less able to stand, or otherwise encumbered. To me,that’s the measure! 😇🤣 120
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Zoë, I love your writing, but please explain why women(generically, as in your post) are less able to stand than men? Is ‘chivalry’ in and of itself, a progressive theme? 100
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Woke up. Checked result. Phew! Going back to sleep. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The bookies and the punting public look as they got it right. 4/7 Greens, 4/1 Reform, 11/2 Labour. Ie, Greens clear favourites. I’m going to look a right eejit if I wake up in the morning and Reform have won. 020
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I keep reading that the Greens are the bookies’ favourites for Thursday’s by-election but i didn’t check because i thought it was neck-and-neck. Just checked Betfair. Greens are 1/2 - ie, 66% chance. Reform ~ 21% chance and Labour ~ 13%. Oh please let the punters be right. 010
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 23/02/2026‘Rebarbative’ is good. The think that gets me shouting at the telly is that she constantly interrupts and talks over people and then says ‘if I may, finish rather than you constantly talking over me’ when someone else does it. 010
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Hi @simoncalder.bsky.social just for your collection of stories, I am in the passport queue at Krakow Airport. 45 mins so far, I estimate still less than half way to Border Control from where I started. Fun and games. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026All this proves is that the general populace is pretty stupid and believes everything the Telegraph, Mail,GBNews throws at them. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Happy birthday mate! I hope you have had a great day. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026He obviously has absolutely no evidence or data that supports this, because the data indicates otherwise. It’s just rabble-rousing to the gullible, which is all he has got. 020
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026When is someone with an influential voice going to stand up and say loudly and clearly that under international law it is legal to cross the Channel to claim asylum, and once someone does, they have to be processed, fed and housed under the law. There is no such thing as an ‘illegal’ asylum seeker 020
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 25/01/2026RIP. One of my journalistic heroes. Always incisive, honest, and true to the BBC mantra of being informative and impartial. Love all his books. It feels like the end of an era, but then again, great correspondents such as Bowen, Guerin and Doucet carry his flag. 010
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 12/01/2026So Zahawi says there is an ‘avalanche of illegal migration that would be national emergency anywhere else’. Pathetic. It is not illegal to cross the channel to claim asylum AND France, Germany, Italy and Spain all receive more asylum seekers for the same sources as the UK does. Twat. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Always thought of him as a great journalist and broadcaster. Another one not mentioned as far as I can see is the brilliant Orla Guerin. 0120
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Yes, that could have been the end. But Diane and Bojack escaping the party and sitting on the roof together, just shooting the breeze and saying everything and nothing, is unbearably poignant. (And then people remind me that Bojack is an animated horse. But we know better! 210
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The last 10 minutes of Bojack Horseman, the most criminally under-seen and underrated series in history. 110
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 22/10/2025So how do you explain the polls and the imminent victory of Reform in Wales? It may be terrifying, but the momentum is there. I see it every day in neighbourhood conversations, the media, social media, the polls and behaviour on the streets. I wish I shared your optimism. 130
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I think the main problem this country has is that ‘most British people’ are not decent and do not have an inherent sense of fair play. That is a myth. Otherwise Reform would not be anywhere near their status in the polls. 350
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Best wishes Sam. From a subscriber who immensely values your contributions to the debates. 010
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Wow. Excellent responses by @heidialexander.bsky.social to what I thought was an unnecessarily shouty and over-assertive interrogation by @jeremyvine.bsky.social . Asking her to apologise for not ‘smashing the gangs’ in 14 months was absurd. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Ooh look, a completely sane, reasonable, erudite person at the heart of the US Government. I don’t think I have seen or heard anything as scary apart from footage from, let’s think…about 1935. 021
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025This is the scariest, maddest stuff I have heard since…..well, ever. I am 66 years old. 000
botsworth.bsky.social @botsworth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Yup. My home town club is Barnet - look like they may blow an ‘unassailable’ position. Know the feeling. This evening’s game is huge. 000
