Reposted by David WhiteJason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 10/07/2026With Penelope Keith’s passing, I got to thinking about Paul Eddington, in his final days, facing the camera that one last time, despite the shitty hand life had dealt him, and the courage it must have taken to do so. Given the chance to spin some grandstanding bullshit, he chose to say this instead: 25993236
Reposted by David WhiteAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The facade is cracking 4653317914
Reposted by David WhiteTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave 311576395
Reposted by David WhiteColm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I hope Hull History Centre won't mind me sharing this lovely letter from Roy Hattersley's papers, on the sad news of his passing aged 93. RIP. 7381103
Reposted by David WhiteMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 02/06/2026We have an incompetent, demented, buffoon for an American president. He is an endless embarrassment. 47545531265
Reposted by David WhiteStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 02/06/2026We can either drift back towards the flawed but functioning rules-based order a short ferry ride away, or else vanish down a grotesque far-right plughole in isolation. I've always found a little swallowed pride preferable to terror and bestiality, but each to their own. 217628
Reposted by David WhiteStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 22/05/2026For the unpatriotic, those are: Paddington, Winnie the Pooh, Rupert and Sooty. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM. 612248256
Reposted by David WhiteHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/05/2026President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.” 10623832912747
Reposted by David WhitePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This is encouraging. UK third in the G7 for cumulative growth 2323154
David White @dpenberthy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026UK didn't turn ugly because Reform swept the board in the local elections. It became ugly because it was already this ugly. 170
Reposted by David WhiteParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026"You boy - are the media still pretending it's OK that someone who wants to be Prime Minister covered up a £5 million gift?" 171109332
Reposted by David WhitePrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Nigel Farage faces questions over failure to declare use of donor’s helicopter. What will he blame this time? He didn't declare £5m gift from Thailand-based billionaire. His participation in in the House of Commons is low. May be he has memory lapses.theguardian.comFarage faces questions over failure to declare use of donor’s helicopterReform UK leader has used the helicopter to attend rallies across the country, most recently on Friday 24349147
David White @dpenberthy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Compare the confusion of privatised rail company signage today with the simplicity of Margaret Calvert's use of design and typography for our transport modes - and weep. A heroine of design indeed. Happy Birthday! 1110
Reposted by David WhiteDuille @duille.com · 12/05/2026Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co 201695475
Reposted by David WhiteThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Keir Starmer is well within his rights to stand firm and resist calls for him to go. 4294
Reposted by David WhitePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is a “grifter and a chancer” who “took us for a ride” on Brexit and then walked away 👏 5445599
Reposted by David WhitePete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026Invoice for buying up Britain. @theobserveruk.bsky.social 45648
Reposted by David WhiteFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Cathy Newman "Thailand-based Chris Harborne has given you and your party £17 million.. Interfering in democracy" Nigel Farage runs away 57839466
Reposted by David WhiteRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026While Boris Johnson was mayor of London there were 72,000 knife attacks, 16,000 gun crime offences, and at least 62,000 racially motivated violent crimes. But apparently, those didn't count. 1001453615
Reposted by David WhitePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The dumbest headline I’ve seen this year 1231127205
Reposted by David WhiteMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/04/2026 🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 (I'm NOT deleting my post below 👇) 2092252696560
Reposted by David WhiteDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026"Mentally unstable President given huge powers by cowardly party threatens to blow up the world" is the headline you're looking for. 9672170
David White @dpenberthy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026A good reason why Trump shouldn’t put boots on the ground. 000
Reposted by David WhiteStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 26/02/2026(sucks on pipe) Nay, yer not wrong lad... 0625
Reposted by David WhiteStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 11/03/2026I still think about this a lot. 953697712
Reposted by David WhiteJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard. 881782353
Reposted by David WhiteAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I wrote this piece just five days ago - predicting Trump would walk away and leave everyone else to clear up his mess ….and here we are - concluding extract below: 1519373
David White @dpenberthy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Why is it right for a Middle East country with a nuclear weapon of its own to attack another Middle East country because it might build one? 000
Reposted by David WhiteAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I may have my frustrations and disappointments about Starmer as a domestic politician, but internationally, I think he’s serious, responsible and trying to do his best for U.K. in unbelievably complex int’l environment, despite treasonous ghouls like Farage doing their best to undermine him. 631220232
Reposted by David WhiteGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026"One should not give a poisoner medicine, A conjurer fine apparatus, nor A rifle to a melancholic bore." WH Auden Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker. 211250271
Reposted by David WhiteGary1955 @gary1955.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Now you know why we are where we are today. Last year, he said we destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities. That was another lie. 504103003589
Reposted by David WhiteAlistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 27/02/2026Quite something that the fact 70% of voters seem to have rejected insular nationalism, out and out racism and the removal of workers rights doesn’t even seem to have occurred to Reform. Long way to go, but still think I’m right in thinking the chances of Farage in No 10 remain non-existent. 2302159415
Reposted by David WhiteBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law. 558119853472
Reposted by David WhiteThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started 790235557048
Reposted by David WhiteGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional. 301044203
Reposted by David WhiteResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 24/02/2026Council Tax has become increasingly regressive. It now takes nearly 5% of income from the poorest families but barely 1% from the richest. For many, it's become a grinding monthly obligation to rival the Poll Tax. 03320
Reposted by David WhiteKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground 13474017713640
David White @dpenberthy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026How an infamous front page of the soaraway Sun of yesterday might be re-fashioned today 020
Reposted by David WhitePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds. Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comTwo-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll findsExclusive: Voters say they have little confidence that government can control borders despite sharp falls in net migration 91956468
Reposted by David WhiteChris @baron-of-navan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025City and guilds was a wonderful institution, now it will be run into the ground by vampire capitalism, just when we need tec training most 071
Reposted by David WhiteShane Chowen @ukshane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026🚨Breaking: The charity regulator has launched a statutory inquiry into the recent sale of City & Guilds to a private company, including reports of executive bonuses and trustees’ “decision making” feweek.co.uk/watchdog-ope...feweek.co.ukWatchdog opens ‘statutory inquiry’ into City & Guilds saleExecutive bonuses and trustees’ ‘decision making’ to be formally probed 021
Reposted by David WhiteMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Free, Free South America. 10293114
Reposted by David WhiteOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Wonderfully funny man who brought joy to millions of people. How many human beings can claim that? RIP #stanleybaxter 30961132
