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Ellis Beck

@ellisb77.bsky.social
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Some people think they’re in a bar with a live band, I know I’m an audience member at a small venue (trying to listen above the sound of annoying drunks).

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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Greens were on the cusp of something; the current rhetoric (and hopefully action) within Labour wouldn’t be happening now without the recent mainstream success of the Green left. Now 1000 members of a 250000 membership have led to a position being adopted that makes zero real world impact.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Disgraceful easy ride just given to Badenoch this morning on BBC Radio 4, the presenter allowing her to frame the Conservatives as the party of high behavioural standards then segue into a hagiography of Jeffery Archer without challenge about his record. The BBC doesn’t even pretend to be balanced.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Disgraceful easy ride just given to Badenoch this morning on BBC Radio 4, the presenter allowing her to frame the Conservatives as the party of high behavioural standards then segue into a hagiography of Jeffery Archer without challenge about his record. The BBC doesn’t even pretend to be balanced.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well said, the orgy of self congratulation on this thread of comments is nauseating.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Confessions of a genocidal Zionist ... via Khalid Zar
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m sure many people who oppose abortion rights do want a more equitable society that helps children and parents but I still wouldn’t agree that conveys the right to take away others’ choices.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
via The National www.thenational.scot/news/2656573...
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He took a stand but he didn’t do time in prison.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 18/09/2026
The Harris Brothers - Summers Gone [USA, Folk, Country] (196-?): One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Who were the incredible Harris Brothers? Truly transcendent. redd.it/pph72g youtu.be/98lyaNSqPok
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The Harris Brothers - Summers Gone [USA, Folk, Country] (196-?): One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Who were the incredible Harris Brothers? Truly transcendent.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A lot of people wanting gold stars in the comments.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From a party that plans to *retrospectively* remove basic human rights from those already granted asylum and leave to remain *and* demands we flounce out of the ECHR to control immigration, this is some next level arseholery from Jenrick, Tice and Reform.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
While the police pussy-foot around far right thugs terrorising UK streets ... "Police raided the home of an 84-year-old priest following her arrest last week at a Just Stop Oil protest. Sue Parfitt had been arrested alongside other protes ...” www.facebook.com/novaramedia/... meme via Novara Media
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s great, it really is and I’m not in any way being snarky about Bale and his wife doing something so wonderful with their money. However, it’s grim that we live in a world where we’re increasingly having to just hope that the wealthy are nice people.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ideas don’t seem to come into it when you attack Iraq for something planned and executed by 20 Saudi Arabians.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026
THE REPORT THEY TRIED TO HIDE. Empty shelves. Water shortages. Food security at risk. The government cannot keep hiding the scale of the threat. It must release the report in full and act on it.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No sense of skepticism in this headline or social media post, unless you think quotation marks do the trick. I don't. Why are major media so lame in the face of the most blatant liar in American political history? It's either cowardice or complicity, or both.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Maybe the Daily Mail will reprise their infamous ‘Hooray For The Blackshirts’ headline.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s a way of getting into the news without questions of who finances him being the focus.
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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 05/09/2026
Will the government be proscribing this lot of bell-ends as a terrorist organisation?
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A piece of punctuation that’s specifically designed for linked ideas, expressed in often long clauses, indicates a certain level of sophistication I suppose, if used sufficiently sparingly.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think the frequency of semi colon use is a telling indicator of a writer’s style.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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THE MAKING OF CALLAN: Behind the Scenes Documentary ("This Man Alone")
YouTube video by Century 21 Films
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why oh why are workers sacked and then executives given huge rises for 'cost savings' ... meme via Taylor Hayes
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." ~ James Baldwin
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show featuring a women-led lineup. Her show raised $10 million and Melinda French Gates pledged another $10 million. Rodrigo said the festival's artists and activists give her hope despite the “regression of women's rights."
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Olivia Rodrigo's festival is uniting women and girls behind nonprofits promoting their well-being
Few superstars are better suited to bridge the gap between Gen Z and nonprofits, which have struggled to build relationships with younger donors.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The people who vape are taking part in a huge real life case study lasting decades. We’ll see and fully understand the health consequences emerging in the next decade or so.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Of course, like workers in every industry unfortunately.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If your university course had covered who owns the media it would amaze you less.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They’re non contradictory aspects of the same situation.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes, totally agree.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The media’s horrible sweet prince, sorry to break your heart.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When did I say the media was ethical? The point I’ve repeatedly made is that constructing a performative self with achievements that are (let’s charitably say) highly questionable as a public figure is akin to putting your head in a hungry crocodile’s mouth. It’s just that simple.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You’re ill advised if you make striking, self aggrandising and untrue statements as a public figure; it will lead to scrutiny. It’s just a fact he , as an intelligent adult , should have known .The rights or wrongs of how far beyond norms the media transgressed in this case are separate issues.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Look, it’s not a motte argument. I just believe two non contradictory things, one which you agree with and the other that you apparently passionately disagree with. It’s just that simple, you don’t have to construct a narrative where I’m saying anything in bad faith (because that would be arrogant)
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think the first line of what I said pretty much said what you’ve just said.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I can’t say I agree but no worries.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fuck off🤡
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Okay, we’re done. We just disagree about this. All the best.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Maybe because being non verbal until age 11 leaves a considerable paper trail in the education system and is clearly verifiable. I also don’t see any motivation for the former classmates who said he’d regularly sing, do impressions and joke to lie.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
He said he was non verbal until age 11. I didn’t know him but people who were at school with him say that’s not the case, so maybe they’re lying. He said he couldn’t read or write until he was 18. Again, I didn’t know him then but people who did say that isn’t true; so there you go.
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A witch hunt isn’t ever justified, some degree of scrutiny of his autobiographical claims is justifiable. The press largely acted in bad faith and Arday was dishonest and naive; neither side of that equation mitigates the other (that’s what I think but if you disagree, that’s fine; no worries).
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Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m happy to engage with anyone on here but not people who presume to tell me what I think, or that I really mean things I didn’t remotely say. So I think it’s better if you and I call it a day at this point.
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