David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Crazy how routinely @gwr.com offers a poor service. Train half the size. Packed due to earlier cancellations. No refreshments. One working toilet (if you can get to it through the crowds). And people put up with it and pay £100+ for the privilege! 000
Reposted by David O’LearyCareer We Go - The Football Trivia Podcast @careerwegopod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🚨Watch our pod with Nedum Onuoha on YouTube now! 🤔🧤Which Manager played David James up front? ⚽️🤯Who was an absolute joke in training? 🐈⬛🩵How many Man City & Sunderland players can you name? careerwego.com 243
Reposted by David O’LearySpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Danny Tommo has decided to visit Piddington. If they welcome someone jailed for kidnapping at knife point to their village, it should show everyone their supposed concern for women and girls is just a cover for racism. bsky.app/profile/oxfo... 210144
Reposted by David O’LearyPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby 1663525840
Reposted by David O’LearyJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this. 3324341155
Reposted by David O’LearyPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NB, as sorry as I feel for you guys, I’m not talking about people in the USA, I’m talking about the weirdness of the rest of the world being absolutely done over by the whims of people on the other side of the earth who couldn’t find their arse with both hands. 2733
Reposted by David O’LearyPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026By the end of next year, the projection for the average British household is a reduced income of about two and a half thousand pounds *just as a direct result of the Iran war*. It’s truly insane what this guy has done to the world. 416840
Reposted by David O’LearyPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Do you ever stop and think that Donald Trump has by now probably cost you personally thousands of dollars, regardless of where you live in the world? Like, your actual own money that you could have spent on stuff. 1135090
Reposted by David O’LearyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports 8743341048
Reposted by David O’LearyAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The BBC website hasn’t found space to report on Jenrick’s defence of assaults on a woman protestor by Reform members, but it has devoted an entire page to this puff for Reform’s attempts to appeal to womenbbc.co.ukReform UK hopes new group will attract more women to partyThe party launches Women for Reform at its party conference this weekend, after criticism about its policies. 30583192
Reposted by David O’LearyWill Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Watch the scene in The Death of Yigoslavia where Milošević is confronted by Serbian Nationalists in Kosovo. You can see the gears turning in his head as he realises that this is a force he can tap into to further his own ends. That's the type of man Robert Jenrick is 37119
Reposted by David O’LearyRichard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election? 20243081201
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You can, and should, complain about this “journalism”, which is lazy at best and cravenly biased at worst: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp... 000
Reposted by David O’LearySunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This 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... 1181749522
Reposted by David O’LearyJack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Now the one thing I would not do if I was already in hot water over seven figure sums of money is taunt the newspaper run by accountants into digging deeper. 119744
Reposted by David O’LearyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I mean yes he called a Jewish MP a rodent, founded a Neo Nazi group and assaulted a police officer, but on the other hand he's very sound on the ECHR 622322
Reposted by David O’LearyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I guess he's just lucky there's no record of him supporting Net Zero 29825212
Reposted by David O’LearySteffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet. 209109772166
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Three minutes into the Andy Burnham interview on #Panorama and I’m not sure whether he is supposed to be the star turn, or Laura Kuenssberg. 1100
Reposted by David O’LearyEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 11/07/2026Tommy Robinson is a useful idiot for a hostile state. What kind of so-called British patriot jets to Moscow to rub shoulders with Putin’s cronies, bankrolled by a US trillionaire? We must protect our democracy from far-right thugs, shady tech bros and foreign interference. 48897335
Reposted by David O’LearyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Your regular reminder that the Far Right is a global endeavour.theguardian.comElon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s fatherErrol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures 441117519
Reposted by David O’LearyTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026There is literally nothing Bluesky will have said today that will be remotely as disrespectful as what Reform are about to do 1536
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 10/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKI... I know 'red card' talk by politicians usually gets a (ahem) red card, but surely we can allow this given the pay-off and the circumstances? @footballcliches.bsky.socialyoutube.com‘You Can’t Simply Take A Red Card Back…’: Belgian PM Takes Sharp Dig At Trump While Backing UkraineYouTube video by Hook Global 000
Reposted by David O’LearyIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Me, a rough tough fat little middle aged woman: Regularly walking through London with a laptop, phone, bank cards etc etc just for work like a normal adult Big strapping alpha blokes in Nige's imagination: hewp, is too skewwy to wear watch, pwease tell me how many bongs der time is mister big bens 721627
Reposted by David O’LearyJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Nigel Farage has just claimed that men in London are too afraid to wear watches in public, which is just transparently nonsense 98894123
Reposted by David O’LearyIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026God he's such a whining crybaby 811804183
Reposted by David O’LearySarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087... 861309894
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2026One in five people think Angela Rayner was born into the upper class. Interesting. 020
Reposted by David O’LearyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website' 16259811860
Reposted by David O’LearyTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/06/2026“I have some sympathy for the critique that the centrists and liberals have left the field on X for others, but then if you’re Keir Starmer putting out announcements there, [and] all the replies are garbage or death threats, then what’s the point?” @benansell.bsky.social 👏ft.comLeftwing British MPs quit X — but rightwing rivals post moreMajority of Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians are on alternative social media platform Bluesky, report shows 86117
Reposted by David O’LearyIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity. 611491289
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Given it seems hard for most of the UK media, a protest (see photo on the left) is generally peaceful, has a political message and someamusing placards. What appears on the right is a riot or violent pogrom. It often features angry men setting fire to things and attacking people. HTH 000
Reposted by David O’LearySarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 09/06/2026Absolutely agree. The problem with X doesn’t stop at nudification tools, child porn and AI slop, it’s the deliberate destruction of democracy and security in our country. 31437126
Reposted by David O’LearyThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters' 301703417
Reposted by David O’LearyDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The modern day equivalent of Lord Haw Haw broadcasting from afar. What's different this time though is the British government broadcasts on the same frequency. 771349419
Reposted by David O’LearyMiguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 09/06/2026In 2023, Indonesia were stripped of the under-20 World Cup for refusing to allow the Israeli team entry. Fifa's justification then was the vague "due to the current circumstances". Quite a contrast to the hardline "FIFA is not involved in host immigration processes" now. 11400174
Reposted by David O’LearyBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Nigel Farage didn't comment on this, not once. He didn't even comment on it when one of his Councillors was fired by Reform for celebrating this attack. Not a single word because the offender was the WHITE type of offender. 9347174
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 04/06/2026If only he could do something about it! Well, can’t be helped. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukStarmer accuses Musk of trying to whip up division over Henry Nowak murderX owner Musk has posted several times on the site criticising the police treatment of Henry Nowak. 000
Reposted by David O’LearyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The absurdity of contrived BBC 'balance' on full display here. Apparently choosing not to politicise a tragic murder is somehow the same as choosing to do so. 1201212341
Reposted by David O’LearyStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The cult of savviness will kill us all in the end. 2549986
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 27/05/2026@footballcliches.bsky.social Alistair Bruce-Ball on 5 Live asked whether Palace were going to put the “cherry on the cake” and get a second goal. Don’t you need icing first? Cherry feels very third goal-y. I think you’ve done it before but it just felt very wrong! 000
David O’Leary @daveoleary.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I’m not saying The i Paper has run out of ideas for its ‘Who Broke Britain?’ series (the real answer lies largely in its on media group) but here’s an article blaming a cookery writer because people prefer shakshuka over suet pudding liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/442...liveapp.inews.co.ukThe cooking revolutionary who overthrew traditional British dishesTraditional cooking meant doing good things with simple ingredients. We’ve lost that 000
Reposted by David O’LearyFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/05/2026FT Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. ft.trib.al/dtJOxC3 66447228
