Reposted by David HallettDr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Paying for the BBC should be compulsory for all households, preferably through taxation. It's a state service which includes radio. Even people without a TV generally listen to the radio. 121
David Hallett @hallett.social · 14/07/2026£10bn is £10,000 million which is £10,000,000,000 "Billion" is starting to sound like nothing. It's the new million. IMO the headline would have more impact if it read... "Johnson government wasted £10,000,000,000 bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comJohnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry findsChair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report 020
David Hallett @hallett.social · 10/07/2026I feel vindicated for my policy of wearing my seat belt throughout entire flights... Eeek! www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRyanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flightSerbian man reportedly saved by wife hanging on to his legs after window shattered on journey from Greece 010
Reposted by David HallettAndrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Reeves confirms she will approve Farage's resignation, saying 'if he wants to spend summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... 48214
David Hallett @hallett.social · 08/07/2026Binface, or Binjuice? The people of Clacton will decide.static.klipy.comFunny Dancing Trash Cans AnimationALT: Funny Dancing Trash Cans Animation 010
David Hallett @hallett.social · 08/07/2026I fully support the BBC and don't hesitate to pay my licence fee... But... The BBC is already full of advertising, for itself. And it's deeply irritating. And... I don't much care for the editorial bias of BBC news. Change IS needed. But, what? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukLicence fee is 'yesterday's model', says new BBC director general Matt BrittinMatt Brittin gives his views on the corporation's future, six weeks after taking over the BBC. 010
Reposted by David HallettFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip 122939507
Reposted by David HallettEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 08/07/2026If Count Binface and Nigel Farage are the only candidates in the Clacton by-election, do news reports and political shows need to give them equal coverage for fairness and balance? 1351376256
Reposted by David HallettSarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 08/07/2026When something is so obviously a terrible idea, it is ok to just...say no thanks and ban it. We don't have to wait 15 years and then slowly ban if after a whole bunch of irreperable damage has been done to individuals and society. 19479134
David Hallett @hallett.social · 07/07/2026"people v establishment’ byelection" = "Meaningless performative people of Clacton v establishment’ byelection" Farage | Reform | Clacton 000
Reposted by David HallettDr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 19/06/2026UKIP, having won one of 650 seats in the 2015 general election, panicked Cameron into holding a disastrous Brexit referendum. Now, seven times Westminster loser Farage, whose party has four MPs and four Tory turncoats, has lost six by-elections in a row and the media still treat him as a future PM. 39932300
Reposted by David HallettWrighty @wrightsnake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Nice thing to see on my way home. 76165645327
David Hallett @hallett.social · 11/06/2026I don't search for, nor do I click on, anything to do with Reform, or Flag sh*gging, or anti-Starmer, none of that sh*t Yet both Facebook and YouTube and others push this stuff at me CONSTANTLY Search fluffy kittens and they show me this crap! They must be stopped. They ARE the problem! 000
Reposted by David HallettNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Migrant homes and businesses being set alight by “protestors” in Belfast tonight. Musk has helped start another pogrom in the U.K. Yet still our Gvt won’t leave X. 18523171
David Hallett @hallett.social · 14/05/2026Trump gets walking lessons from Xi. "Then you put the left foot in front of the other and step forwards. Got it now?" 000
David Hallett @hallett.social · 12/05/2026Say what you want about Starmer, but I'll say this: watching BBC News they appear to be attemting to hound him out of office. Another case of the press trying to create the news. I expect it of the RW press, but the BBC is supposed to be impartial. BBC, impartial? Heck, who am I kidding. 310
David Hallett @hallett.social · 01/04/2026Trump just doesn't understand what NATO is, does he? Sigh. 000
Reposted by David HallettRachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand (via Bill Madden) 😂🤣👇 871912793
Reposted by David HallettBruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Her family owned the aviation company at the airport Epstein used, gave Ghislaine Maxwell housing after her father died, introduced Epstein to his plea deal lawyer & to Prince Andrew, & she joined Deutsche Bank’s advisory board just before they accepted Epstein as a client despite his conviction.kaitjustice.substack.comThe Woman Nobody Asks About Is the Person Connecting Every Thread of the Epstein NetworkLynn Forester de Rothschild connects the Clintons, British royalty, the legal protection apparatus, banking infrastructure, and the physical transportation network. She has never been questioned. 19050862767
Reposted by David Hallettlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/03/2026yes, renewable energy is woke and soy. it's gay and feminine to not have to pay the electric company every month. it's unmanly to drive a sedan that handles like a sports car. you're not an alpha if you don't owe your life and livelihood to the CEO of exxon 492537371
Reposted by David HallettKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Just a reminder that the Washington Treaty defines the geography of NATO’s mutual defense pledge — at U.S. insistence in 1949 — to prevent allies from committing us to their wars outside of Europe. 351754551
Reposted by David HallettGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Funny how all the "free speech" warriors go so quiet when actual state censorship comes along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comFCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran warBrendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of ‘mainstream news’ outlets for ‘misleading’ coverage 661879659
Reposted by David HallettMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread. 19334581705
Reposted by David HallettBill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Chris Christie, recalling a dinner with Trump where he repeated the exact same ideology that Joseph Goebbels espoused. 😳👇 87238
Reposted by David HallettJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 11/03/2026Meanwhile over on Twitter everyone is losing their mind over a change to the design on the banknotes that they haven't used in six years. 3926743
Reposted by David HallettFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Left: Nigel Farage's leaflet says Reform will cut taxes Right: Nigel Farage says he never said he would cut taxes 72603270
David Hallett @hallett.social · 10/03/2026This aged well, eh? Trump. FIFA. Iran. Israel. USA. War. War. What is it good for? Good for the defence industry, mostly. 000
Reposted by David HallettBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him. 627234535757
Reposted by David HallettPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences www.politico.eu/article/medi...politico.euMedia must stop normalizing the far rightEvery uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. 611377439
Reposted by David HallettJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Do recent recruits not realise that their own voters want to deport them and/or their parents or do they just not care? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comMost Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll findsNigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate 69825206
Reposted by David HallettJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Important to remember that the people most enthusiastic about bombing Iran are almost always the people most hateful towards refugees. 882539458
Reposted by David HallettOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Truly, truly, truly disgusting. Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics. 3284010900
Reposted by David HallettStevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If Nigel Farage is angry about voter fraud, wait until he hears about the millions of pounds Arron Banks paid Cambridge Analytica to influence the Leave EU campaign, fronted by *checks notes* Nigel Farage… 7530179
Reposted by David HallettSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Maybe it’s you that’s wrong, Wes. Maybe you’re just not appealing to anyone much. You’re not convincing Reform voters but, in pandering to them, you’re pissing everyone else off. Progressives have had a decade of being scorned and ignored. Don’t criticise us for minding and doing something about it. 63751175
David Hallett @hallett.social · 28/02/2026Then Labour can't have my slightly left of centre middle class white vote. Not while they are "reform lite". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comShabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeatHome secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters 000
Reposted by David HallettAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country. It's got to hurt 552393384
Reposted by David HallettRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Summary: The electorate is restless. Labour is rudderless. Greens are hope. Tories are hopeless. And Reform’s silent majority has once again turned out to be a noisy minority. 23737162
Reposted by David HallettOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Not just a loser. But a bad loser. 3572400404
David Hallett @hallett.social · 26/02/2026This is utterly shameful. I am ashamed I voted for this government, if this is what they have become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.com‘How can I start again at 68?’ Maria has spent 50 years in the UK – and is fighting deportationShe left the Netherlands for Britain in the 1970s at just 17. Now, after receiving a short suspended sentence, she faces removal to a country she hasn’t lived in for five decades or visited since 1999 000
David Hallett @hallett.social · 25/02/2026Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reacts to SOTU speech by Donald Trump 000
Reposted by David HallettThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug. 1370231136307
David Hallett @hallett.social · 24/02/2026Tell us something we didn't already know www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...theguardian.comAndrew ‘rude, arrogant and entitled man’, says minister as MPs debate release of trade envoy documents – UK politics liveChris Bryant says former prince ‘could not distinguish between public and private interest’ 000
Reposted by David HallettTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/02/2026We know X is not all Nazis, but everyone active there is providing content for the Nazis, encouraging their followers' eyeballs to stay there, keeping the site going. 1464
Reposted by David HallettRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2026We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so. 1416241947764