Reposted by David ShepherdArt Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026NO! The BBC should not be closed down... that is EXACTLY what the international press-barons want. It just needs its politically appointed directorate replaced with people who will uphold its original mission instead of pushing / both-sidesing far-right agendas and views of racists and deniers. 2405
Reposted by David ShepherdThe Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026And they used to call the Conservatives the "nasty party"... 54721
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Stings: an explainer for the Reform hard-of-thinking 1 a singer you can choose to listen to 2 an insect defence you don't choose 3 a context where a someone freely chooses illegal acts, thinking they are hidden, revealing their true nature This was number 3, not a sort of 2! 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Even if Farage is only trying to do the right thing (🤣!), losing one trusted aide to treason is unfortunate, losing another to a sting careless, losing a third proves such appalling judgment he should never be allowed to choose a cabinet! 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Looking forward to the extensive coverage of Reform corruption on R4 Today program tomorrow am... ... with not a peep about small boats 020
Reposted by David ShepherdChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46894593991
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Enjoying my new #GB2026 T-shirt! @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social The colour? 'Pronoun purple' obviously 051
Reposted by David ShepherdGill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 03/09/2026After the release of yesterday’s UNEP report about the urgent necessity of radical climate action and the death of any hope of keeping temp rise to 1.5, BBC R4 Today leads, predictably, with small boats. 142
Reposted by David ShepherdDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a... 5435201808
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Enjoying the obvious discomfort of #R4Today programme having to admit that Kahn's London ULEZ scheme very likely improved children's lung health "but it might have been COVID blah waffle blah incoherence' Just rejoice at having healthier kids won't you? 1120
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 17/08/2026How do we know anti net-zeroers are dangerously dishonest? Simple When they see this same pattern in a stock chart they are very keen investors! Oh, they know full-well what this graph means They are paid to say otherwise 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Having won a stunning victory against the establishment you'd have thought a rousing speech in presence of adoring supporters would have been an opportunity too good to miss... Somebody with a fridge/catering van could have snuck him in/out for well under £5m 030
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Snapped an early #Perseid this am heading down the Milky Way past the Andromeda Galaxy into Cygnus 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The only plus of the unignorable predicted(!!) floods/wildfires is it's now undeniable that anti-net-zeroers are either inconceivably stupid.. ...or paid for 010
Reposted by David ShepherdDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations. 3023031315
Reposted by David ShepherdProf Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Utterly nonsensical. No good science backs this up but a lot of data says it could be bad- inconveniece is a huge barrier that prevents people getting vax or completing full course so splitting vax up further will compound this. In a country where measles clearly now endemic this is utter insanity 13615
Reposted by David ShepherdLaurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026It’s on iPlayer, prog fans. And it’s awesome! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...bbc.co.ukBBC Proms - 2026: Prog Rock at the PromsClassic tracks on an orchestral scale from Genesis to Tubular Bells with epic new arrangements of works by ELP, Yes and more, featuring Guy Garvey and curated by Stuart Maconie. 231
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Strange, how for the likes of Reform, getting 'sovrinty' back was worth the price but the ecosystem and human race surviving via net-zero isn't 020
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026At what point does insisting on more safeguarding training, exposing people to reports, resolutions, procedures, books which they should all read, learn and adhere to - or else, itself become abusive? 😉 Asking for a friend 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Create your pseud cosmetic additive by combining:- 1 a 'boosting' phrase 2 a word ending in 'o' 3 a cell component 4 a number 1-9 Eg enhanced with proto golgi 6 000
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Presumably Farage has calculated that spending weeks publicly arguing with a Binfaced Recyclon from Sigma IX is less embarrassing for him and fellow Reform MPs than talking to a standards committee about his finances in private Just what is he hiding? 011
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Imagine Farage had gone to his GP, got an opinion he didn't like, screamed "It's a medical establishment stitch-up" and self-righteously called a by-election to 'let the people decide' It's exactly that loony Clacton voters are as well-equipped to judge parliamentary rules as medical diagnosis 030
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Is see FIFA failed to do their mandatory training 'Tackling Fraud and Corruption' module ...again 110
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Poor Farage Hasn't clocked that the 'lie and blame anyone' strategy has been totally busted by his US hero Daylight is a wonderful thing 000
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The USA, on its 250 birthday, is surely a contender for the unfunniest joke of a government of all time The WH for what it does and the rest for not stopping them 000
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Excellent tap tackle on Kane by DRC goalie - sign him up for Tigers! 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I'm old enough to remember when the footy was a game of two halves instead of four quarters 020
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Many years from now an alien archaeologist gazes sadly over the remains of a civilisation that destroyed its own ecosystem Its seminal paper: 'We got global growth to 4%!', followed by an exo-facepalm The title was based on an obscure post retrieved from something called BlueSky 020
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 25/06/2026You've had:- far too much water too little too hot to sleep lost elderly relatives to heat forest fires accelerated coastal erosion food shortages so what kind of net-zero are you? Carbon or IQ? 020
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This pool business reflects very badly on the US 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 21/06/2026All together now... "If you're racist and you know it But you don't want to show it Immigration is your go-to talking point" 011
Reposted by David ShepherdGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV. 281291569
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Imagine if a fraction of the goodies Brexiteers promised in 2016 had come true Farage and his crew would be a shoo-in As opposed to something deeply unpleasant on its underside 000
Reposted by David ShepherdChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Despair. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog about how politics is stuck whilst violence intensifies, how ‘the first lie wins’ in constructing political narratives, and how Brexit ruptured the 'cordon sanitaire'. Long and depressing read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/desp... 26312168
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Reframe asylum seekers as winners of 'Hunted' and 'Race Across The World' combined, but where you might actually die taking part Having passed that 'interview', ask if they might make very capable citizens if you treat them well at last 020
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 09/06/2026If the world's referees can't see that banning one of their own from doing his job because he's non-white is a red card, I question their on-pitch credibility 010
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Poor Trump Putin clearly has one of his balls in a vice Looks now like Netanyahu has the other Just how compromised is US? ...by it's President! 010
Reposted by David ShepherdAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads 4358172545047
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026That the urgency and appetite (nay, rage) for correcting injustice to a white person in custody feels so much greater than it has for other groups strongly suggests our media/country still has a race problem 000
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Why don't these NEETs go and look for work in Europe? Oh! 000
Reposted by David ShepherdEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21 391000531
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Remember folks drugs are best done as directed by your doctor 000
Reposted by David ShepherdMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026🔥 Now over 75,000 signatures! So an increase of 5K in less than a day. Keep going folks. Share to friends. 12306228
Reposted by David ShepherdPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Amazing work from @hopenothate that found ANOTHER account for Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate, after my deep dive yesterday into his suspended one 8235123
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 17/05/2026You were (wrongly) told a cosmetic op would solve a problem! After 10 years of the pain of repeated botched surgery that was never going to work anyway, remarkably, a real path back to the status quo ante opens Why on earth would you let another plastic surgeon near you? #Brexit 000
Reposted by David ShepherdAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂 342135164166
Reposted by David ShepherdAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Isn't it interesting that the first instinct of these "freedom of speech warriors", who lose their mind if someone takes down one of their cheap polyester flags, is totry and destroy property in order to shut down anything that might challenge their view? 231707149
David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Dear Eurovision You can't unite people by pop-washing genocide and ethnic cleansing I won't be watching 000