eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 10hKeep one eye on Braverman and go where she goes.... 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 15h38d.gs/wsa-38d.gsIt's time for them to pay up.Oil and gas companies who make BILLIONS are trying to get out of paying tax while we all freeze this winter. 000
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22hMy teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning. 251576322
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 16hWell, excuse me for repeating myself, but it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of chaps... 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Indeed. But it's not just them. We are being gaslighted every day by journalists, economists and politicians who should all know better with nostrums for our current problems based on Thatcher's jam jar metaphor for the UK economy. 131
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thanks for doing this research on European state pension costs. I did a similar check today on costs of state benefits, after the Torygraph stringer at Labour conference referred to the UK's "bloated benefits bill". Turns out, as with pensions, that UK is half way down the Euro league. 142
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And find more wholesome people than Amazon to do business with, obvs.... 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Labour has fallen down the mother of all rabbit holes share.google/g21BAjVahquD... Usual tendentious Torygraph guff. As a proportion of GDP, the UK's "bloated benefits bill" she refers to is below the European average and behind most other western European countries.share.google 001
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Indeed. We are being swamped with media reports based on it cod economics presented as if such tendentious theories were written on tablets of stone. 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Watching Angela Rayner's conference speech with despair as the next round of tinkering with the broken housing market is announced. Like all the mainstream parties, Labour assumes that wider access to decent housing must come primarily from growth in home ownership. 110
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Chancellor says 'it's a hard truth' that Labour doesn't have the money it had in the '90s share.google/WgENrdcuGGLl... As there's no final arbiter on what is a soft truth let alone "a hard truth", & given that govt can instruct Bank of England to create as much £ as it wants, this has to be bullshitshare.googleChancellor says 'it's a hard truth' that Labour doesn't have the money it had in the '90sEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's every man for himself in these uncertain times and the competition for the accolade of knobhead of the week can get extremely intense. 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Indeed. Trump rather let the cat out of the bag when he referred to "our fort". Very unhelpful... When I had a fort my mum insisted that I cleared it up and put it away after I had finished playing with it. Still a good general rule I think. 012
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Source: The Times share.google/YldfVku1BMq3... Bring it on!share.googleAvanti West Coast main line set to be nationalised in MarchThe transport secretary says the operator’s Manchester to London route ‘hasn’t been good enough for far too long’ and passengers have been paying the price 010
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. 18872083002
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ronnie was reputed to have a few of the filth on the payroll, but I never knew that he got them to do his gardening... 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He's clearly heading for a difficult convo with Mohammed bin Salman... 010
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Indeed. See new film "Republic" about how five years of community efforts were sold down the river in Stokes Croft, Bristol. 010
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The only elephant in the world who walks around with his own china shop..." Harsh, but fair... 🤣🤣🤣 110
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Lib Dems green credentials revealed as wafer thin... 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Such cobblers from Hinchcliffe. UK is right down the bottom of ranking of European countries' spending on state pensions. In Denmark (which is not even top of the list) value of state pension is twice that of UK. 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Standing out from the general enshittification of much of the rest of broadcast TV, another extraordinary series from Olusoga. BBC Two - Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga, Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga Trailer (short) share.google/8GincrIJReAh...share.googleBBC Two - Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga, Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga Trailer (short)David Olusoga reveals the most comprehensive picture yet of British slave traders. 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On BBC Politics Live today David Gauke (Tory) and Poppy Coburn (Telegraph journo) repeat Thatcherite trope "there's no money left.." Suggests they don't understand how money is produced, used and accounted for. Coburn then goes on to accuse Lib Dems of having economically illiterate policies 031
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If we ever doubted that Lib Dems were in thrall to big oil, we can now get over ourselves. 221
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Also, n ear Saddlers Wells where George Brown leaked... and also near Clerkenwell close where Brian Helliwell scored a £3 deal of grass that turned out to be tarragon... Give me a ¥£#**!? break... 010
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Source: Channel 4 share.google/KSToOKOWwObP... This guy is a lapsed vegan and still seems to be flying around the planet. So, hard to take him that seriously really.share.googleBenedict Cumberbatch: ‘We are grieving huge amounts of loss in nature’The Oscar nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch has plunged into environmental politics with a new feature-length documentary that asks - rather than moving to Mars, how can we continue to live on Eart... 001
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If Davey's argument is that new North Sea gas supplies would have a much lower carbon footprint than equivalent LPG supplies from distant sources, could he please produce some evidence that gas produced will feed into UK energy market and not be exported. (or else maintain a decent silence) 011
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialKate Oliver @kateoliver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hell, why is #BBC #R4Today giving an uncritical, headline platform to one, self-serving, voluntary tax-exile, billionaire oil magnate slating the UK’s tax and benefits welfare - with no mention of climate catastrophe, air quality, vitality of migration, distribution of wealth, social responsibility? 1111
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It would be more accurate to say that the UK has been ,"colonised" by a coterie of extractivist billionaire oligarchs. In that sense the news of Radcliffe's impending departure is most welcome. 020
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Happily, we haven't "lost confidence" in Lucky Jim, primarily because we never had any in the first place... 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Exactly. Take them at their word. I'm sure those inventive people in Piddington will find ways to collect and filter rainwater, treat their sewage, organise an import/export trading system for their food supply and look after each other's health problems. 100
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialRobert Ramsay @robertramsay.org · 10/09/2026All those white sheet ghosts you see are people who died changing their duvet cover. 072
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Big win for the hard of thinking brigade.... Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK? - BBC News share.google/M4Ud8NqkWxwO...share.googleWhy is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday. 000
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialA Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I will follow up with more details... 692254146328
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialDr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry. Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warnBig manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres 32016
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059782393
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Good point. Some justification from the historical record for thinking of Ireland and Wales at overwhelmingly "Celtic". But Scotland was formed from the amalgamation of a number of pre-existing polities, only one of which, Argyll, had a "Celtic" culture. 100
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ah yes. Well, sprat to catch a mackerel business model with some Regen and some new build could work. Certainly nice to see maltings repurposed if the sums can be made to stack you up. 001
Reposted by @eyehouse.bsky.socialDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Billionaires who don't pay taxes give tens of millions of pounds to the racist right while newspapers owned by billionaires who don't pay taxes smear the politicians who challenge them. Because they want to ensure 'a fair fight and a level playing field', apparently. 10469154
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A lot of vacuous warm words, which could mostly be applied equally well to any other party share.google/pS3eJRCyWpGl...share.google 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of chaps. 010
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Poor old Tim. Such an inveterate plonker... 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026One might be excused for thinking that the local S&M club has had to empty the dungeon for a fire drill... 010
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Not a big deal, but I think Mosley's crew had black shirts. It was the German Nazi Sturmabteilung or SA, who had brown shirts. 000
eyehouse.bsky.social @eyehouse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This demonstration of the staggering entitlement of some car drivers is very common in Bristol. I regularly log cars parked blocking the pavement on blind corners on double yellow lines. 051
