Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026‘We don’t have the money for that’ says the former Chancellor who cut NI twice when we couldn’t afford it for purely political reasons. 10563118
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15/10/2026It's amazing how Hunt keeps popping up on the media as the wise old greybeard of the Exchequer, and is absolutely never questioned on his own disastrous - and highly partisan - choices in that job. 1124940
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 15/10/2026It’s almost like they’ve never heard of mad cow disease. 000
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I gotta say nobody is falling for Trump’s tall tales about a great diesel deal to benefit Americans, a diplomatic strategy to restart peace talks, and the bad Zelensky who doesn’t want peace. Everyone understands what’s going on— Trump is helping Russia and trying to force Ukraine to surrender. 518738
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society 1402162344
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Top three articles on the Times website are currently a barrage of hate against funding for disabled people, including an attack on Access to Work *which is money to help disabled people find/stay in paid work* 13334125
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I see the Times is going full on attack disabled individuals as scroungers and layabouts with no consideration for how PIP is not an "out of work benefit" and how for many it is essential support to actually work and live. 25310100
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Oh, fuck off, Anna. You had no right to speak on your mother’s behalf. #TheArchers 060
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It seems indisputable that this is fact, and that Burnham has read intelligence service documents that have details. The public question shouldn’t be ‘what effect did it have?’ Because that cant be proved or litigated. It should be ‘why did Putin think Russia’s interests would be served by this?’ 65211
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time 34831227
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026…they’ve wasted that opportunity. I now think the return of Carol and this Alan storyline with the histrionics from Anna are simply an unpleasant, totally unnecessary ‘interesting’ storyline that will see the lovely, kind Alan lose everything. Sometimes I hate the editor and his team. #TheArchers 030
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I initially thought that the Carol Tregorran storyline was going to be about the difficulties of helping/caring for an elderly parent long distance (echoing the storyline of the difficulties of helping/caring for the hideous elderly Bert Horrobin from the immediate vicinity), but no… #TheArchers 120
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That’s what my memory leans towards as well. 000
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026As the details were being entered into Carol’s banking app (annoyingly I can’t remember whether it was by Carol or Alan), the one doing it was being distracted by the other’s chatter. I remember thinking that there’d be trouble ahead as the amount would be much more than was due. #TheArchers 140
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That’s my memory as well, that Alan ordered and paid for the flowers (by debit card I assumed, but how is, I think, irrelevant) and Carol insisted on paying him back. But the most notable thing for me was that as the details were being entered into Carol’s banking app … #TheArchers 200
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Zelenskyy is the greatest Western leader of the modern era. Trump is the worst. Zelenskyy is the leader of the free world. Trump is its most treacherous betrayer. Zelenskyy saved his democracy. Trump destroyed his. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 738291
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If you think a distinct sub category of human exists because some medieval warlords agreed that the border of England should be on the River Tweed, you are, Im afraid, an absolute maniac bsky.app/profile/theh... 10661119
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I thought I had seen it all, but this is an astonishing new low, putting the US in the company of Iran, Afghanistan and N Korea. I abhor the death penalty. The idea that kids, including my own, might see such an execution shocks me to the core. Abhorrent, barbaric, sick, warped, cruel and twisted. 46531132
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Take these effects into account, and the proposal won't cost the £6bn the Tories claim. We estimate £7.7bn–£10.9bn. (full working for this on our website) 19113
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the new Private Eye 572734988
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/10/2026if true this is bonkers for a party supposedly committed to defending free speech 22386101
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes. 161775280
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them. 1051193344
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialWill Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Racist thugs forming paramilitaries to close ports, attack refugees, intimidate the free press & threaten the RNLI are legitimate concerns but making a sport with known issues regarding violence & wider anti-social behaviour, ban alcohol at pitchside is discriminatory. Give me a fucking break 1349
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In 20 years when I’m 80 and in a care home, will we be having a singalong to ‘Baggy Trousers’ by Madness? 100
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening to this country? This is horrifying, chilling. 011
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialPaolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026WHERE IS THE UK GOVERNMENT? 814950
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5943728613399
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAnti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tacticsPatriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right. 41664207
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026As I wrote yesterday, the press have hugely downplayed the seriousness of this, and it is partly driven by the government doing the same. bsky.app/profile/joxl... 829758
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/09/2026🎯 by @ellabaron.bsky.social The abuse directed towards RNLI volunteers is horrendous. Solidarity with RNLI volunteers. They are doing incredible work. 701987509
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What a country we have become when the RNLI has to post things like this. Just over 1% of their total rescue work is in the Channel. Meanwhile Reform and Restore continue to badmouth the service. 16627
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026But she couldn't. Because some people said her life wasn't hers, her death wasn't hers. That she must suffer. ... and that will linger with me, with all of us who knew her, forever. How dare they. 13564
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My brilliant, erudite, funny mum was forced to die in this horrible way because some people didn't think it was right for her to have a dignified death. That it was wrong for her to choose her own way to leave the world when *she was dying anyway*. 2497
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145181509
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We've had a "Number 10 spokesperson" briefing to journalists, and reported comments from Burnham in a closed door meeting That's pissweak. If you can make videos about chicken nuggets or whatever, you can make videos about violent fascists 6675113
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."nicklowles.substack.comDid Kent Police ignore a 999 call?Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information. 26711282
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 06/09/2026Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children. There’s a problem with that story. 43664440
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026If someone acts on their 'concerns' by attacking people in their homes and by biting and throwing rocks at cops, no one should assess if those concerns are 'legitimate' or not. That violent behaviour waives any claim to 'legitimacy'. The phrase comes across as justifying violence, not condeming it. 18665199
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/20262) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad. 341090340
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The only reason senior figures in Reform have condemned the fascist protest in Dover is because they want to distance themselves from the ugly face of the xenophobic politics that they have legitimised. Stop giving them credit. 52952205
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034391278
feester.bsky.social @feester.bsky.social · 06/09/2026You go, boy! If an infinitive isn’t meant to be split, it shouldn’t be made of two words. 010
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt 491821642
Reposted by @feester.bsky.socialDavid Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026No arrests. When environmentalists block roads to protest about climate change, they are prosecuted and jailed. When masked fascists do it to promote race hate, they are allowed to go home without a fuss. How about that for two-tier policing? 313152
