Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The 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. 000
Reposted by Ellis BeckEllis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Disgraceful 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. 032
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Disgraceful 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. 032
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Well said, the orgy of self congratulation on this thread of comments is nauseating. 011
Reposted by Ellis BeckOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Confessions of a genocidal Zionist ... via Khalid Zar 64842
Reposted by Ellis BeckTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How 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 . 271370380
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’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. 000
Reposted by Ellis BeckOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21/09/2026via The National www.thenational.scot/news/2656573... 414250
Reposted by Ellis BeckVintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 18/09/2026The 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/98lyaNSqPokyoutu.beThe 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. 032
Reposted by Ellis BeckSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026From 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. 34652206
Reposted by Ellis BeckAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles 742029806
Reposted by Ellis BeckHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059822392
Reposted by Ellis BeckOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/09/2026While 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 511269
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’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. 000
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ideas don’t seem to come into it when you attack Iraq for something planned and executed by 20 Saudi Arabians. 020
Reposted by Ellis BeckThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026THE 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. 10472230
Reposted by Ellis BeckFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The 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 361419547
Reposted by Ellis BeckMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026No 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. 1819765
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Maybe the Daily Mail will reprise their infamous ‘Hooray For The Blackshirts’ headline. 0113
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It’s a way of getting into the news without questions of who finances him being the focus. 020
Reposted by Ellis BeckSHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 05/09/2026Will the government be proscribing this lot of bell-ends as a terrorist organisation? 4135
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A 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. 000
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think the frequency of semi colon use is a telling indicator of a writer’s style. 100
Reposted by Ellis BeckNeil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026youtu.beTHE MAKING OF CALLAN: Behind the Scenes Documentary ("This Man Alone")YouTube video by Century 21 Films 1216
Reposted by Ellis BeckRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The 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? 1003262529032
Reposted by Ellis BeckOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Why oh why are workers sacked and then executives given huge rises for 'cost savings' ... meme via Taylor Hayes 115152
Reposted by Ellis BeckSkip 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 11805193
Reposted by Ellis BeckGlobal Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Olivia 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."nbcboston.comOlivia Rodrigo's festival is uniting women and girls behind nonprofits promoting their well-beingFew superstars are better suited to bridge the gap between Gen Z and nonprofits, which have struggled to build relationships with younger donors. 8276241710
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The 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. 000
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Of course, like workers in every industry unfortunately. 110
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If your university course had covered who owns the media it would amaze you less. 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026They’re non contradictory aspects of the same situation. 000
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The media’s horrible sweet prince, sorry to break your heart. 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026When 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. 101
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You’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. 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Look, 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) 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I think the first line of what I said pretty much said what you’ve just said. 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Okay, we’re done. We just disagree about this. All the best. 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Maybe 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. 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026He 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. 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A 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). 100
Ellis Beck @ellisb77.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I’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. 110