Reposted by Duncan AndersonCold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 1hCable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab... 13379132
Reposted by Duncan AndersonJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 15hHammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds. 11546170
Reposted by Duncan AndersonJoanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 7hBe under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years. 12436131
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 7hYesterday’s answers for today’s problems. Behind the times not ahead of the curve. Bit thick and sad 000
Reposted by Duncan AndersonChris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 19hAt some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?' 3240377
Reposted by Duncan AndersonFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Zack Polanski slams Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's attack on non violent protest, and Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband's indifference to it. "We the Greens say, drop the charges, end the genocide, de proscribe Palestine Action" 414249
Reposted by Duncan AndersonSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026If someone threatens to withdraw investment because they are not getting their way, that does rather suggest that, until now, they have been getting their way. 832270
Reposted by Duncan AndersonToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence 27769208
Reposted by Duncan AndersonDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Free movement unlocks the full range of UK EU relationship options. 89022
Reposted by Duncan AndersonHeather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Leave teenagers alone, ban boomers on facebook www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMan jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blastKevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection". 0247
Reposted by Duncan AndersonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide 431420527
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They wouldn’t invest if they didn’t think they would clean up. They will clean up as they always do, and to our detriment in the long term. They will invest. Tax them, fine them, imprison them if the law finds that just. 021
Reposted by Duncan AndersonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Who radicalised him? news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...news.met.police.ukMan jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosionKevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October. 55716145
Reposted by Duncan AndersonDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Brexit Brexile Brexodus Breturn Brentrer Breaction Brealism Breality Brecognition Brevulsion Breverse Bremorse Brecap Brebound Brevolution Brefreshing Brexecution Breavement Brextinct 5010222
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Special Breu for the cherry-picking exceptionalists 000
Reposted by Duncan AndersonBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They claim it costs £8,000 a month to keep someone in a care home The actual cost including staff, energy, accommodation and food is more like £3,000 But the Landlord, owners, and staffing companies need their vast profits Renationalise Social Care and it will be affordable 1023678
Reposted by Duncan AndersonAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off. 520380
Reposted by Duncan AndersonCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571522052
Reposted by Duncan AndersonAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I first read about the death penalty as a child, I thought it was barbaric. Still do. A state that gives itself the judicial power to kill debases itself and everyone it involves in that repulsive business. 1130636
Reposted by Duncan AndersonCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW: We are one! The @thenerve.news is celebrating its first birthday today!!! With the news that we are financially sustainable!!! THANK YOU so much to the many, many people who helped us get here. Your support is everything! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-ner...pressgazette.co.ukThe Nerve reaches 5,000 paying subscribers in first yearNewsletter-led newsbrand from ex-Observer journalists now said to be financially sustainable. 19662145
Reposted by Duncan AndersonMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17071361954
Reposted by Duncan AndersonRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 211247448
Reposted by Duncan AndersonDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A couple of really radical options - engage in Brussels with why the UK wants to talk and what the EU is actually prepared to offer - learn from what has mostly failed in the approach to the EU question for the last ten years Which would quickly narrow the path forward. 615038
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think he proved his public school boy sell out threshold long ago. No shill disgusting enough that you won’t sell everyone else’s future for sweet, sweet megacoin. Another soul and sense bypass victim. 000
Reposted by Duncan AndersonRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict. 13504124
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is because they are a bunch of ignorant cowardly racists. 000
Reposted by Duncan AndersonNormal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 27/09/2026The terrorists had infiltrated the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Thankfully, steadfast police officers discovered old ladies with deadly weapons such as signs with unapproved words. They have been dragged off to cells and now face up to 14 years in prison. Isn't this brilliant? 10288154
Reposted by Duncan AndersonMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women: 39972142876
Reposted by Duncan AndersonDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread: 6496226
Reposted by Duncan AndersonSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And apologies… as has been correctly pointed out… £4- to £7bn is the cost to the Treasury, not the economy… where the cost is far higher, and should include the opportunities lost also… The relentless drumbeat to cut immigration has become a ruinous and dangerous national madness. 425034
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Near Brexit level idiocy, driven by the same racists and racism-lite politicians. Easier to fix though. We can't get back in Europe by just being kind, humane and thoughtful. Btw racism-lite politicians are just kidding themselves that they are not simple scummy racists too. 051
Reposted by Duncan AndersonThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that. 391004416
Reposted by Duncan AndersonBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism. 18637255
Reposted by Duncan AndersonJuneSim63 💚 @junesim63.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As usual, fine words and little action. The 'poisonous' ideas those thugs hold are fostered by the 'poisonous' actions of his government and his 'poisonous' Home Secretary. Their dreadful Immigration Bill l, which Burnham fully supports, continues to send the message that refugees are fair game. 0885
Reposted by Duncan AndersonTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is 1) very late and appears somewhat cynical, responding to the outrage at his lack of response 2) it's just words 3) we also have the Home Secretary's words, which are somewhat different, and the fact that she's still in her job. 3426
Reposted by Duncan AndersonMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...youtube.comMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetYouTube video by Musk 24159424070
Reposted by Duncan AndersonSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry. 23547965
Reposted by Duncan AndersonLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359802004
Reposted by Duncan AndersonAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The expression is "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel", so when you say "it's just a few bad apples", you're admitting your entire operation is rotten, Chief Constable. 51587
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Eton and humanity by-pass. Coupled with rather too much attention. 1230
Reposted by Duncan AndersonThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026”Which window shall we look through today, children? Through the broken window, through the Overton window, or through the MS word for windows?” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...theguardian.comReady to knock? Play School returns as BBC pushes quality children’s programmingTV heads hope the revamped show – back after four decades – will win over parents seeking quality shows amid concerns about addictive online content 1014819
Reposted by Duncan AndersonSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026Brexit, the Sitcom Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting. 1228961
Duncan Anderson @drdeea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Please stop funding hate by remaining on twitter. It is possible to just close your account. 060
Reposted by Duncan AndersonHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 24/09/2026Yesterday, Lennon said he was detained under counter-terrorism powers and questioned about his views on Russia. Given his record, you can see why Russia might have come up. 14276124
