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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More likely a pretext for a fishing expedition?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yes, Jim Crow public lynching standards and values.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You’re quite right but all the EU member states are also members of the CoE whose aims and values align nicely with those of Greco.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I like that.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For comparison, the mandated U.K. adult minimum living wage is £12.71 per hour. That’s around $16.81 dollars.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It would be interesting (in the entertaining kind of way) to have him explain where the fraud lies.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are you sure that’s right? There are 4.5 litres in a UK gallon, not 3.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’m a Brit and I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. It’s yet another example of the way some people can be very successfully manipulated into hate and resentment by political lies and propaganda. Why should they get a free fork/duvet cover/etc., when I, a home grown Brit, don’t get one? Sickening.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I’m a Bevan baby born a couple of weeks after the birth of the NHS from which I’ve benefited all my life. I like this quote of his too. “.. no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Oh dear, I knew it was bad but not that bad. Grotesque. Not exactly classy elegance is it?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Quite right. And I somehow can’t see even Vance (as next President) carrying out Trump’s orders. If it wasn’t all so horrific it could be quite funny and bring a whole new meaning to what I know as ‘letter of wishes’ to apply post death.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How much is Trump paying them?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Here in the UK more than 55% of the petrol price we pay is tax. Our current price per gallon is (approximate average) £6.70 (or $8.86). I’d love to pay US prices.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The NHS has, on occasion, not been as fast or responsive as we might have liked but without it I have no idea how we would have paid for the cancer treatment, heart operations, hip and knee replacements, spinal surgery, various serious broken bones and injuries etc., etc.,. Please don’t knock it.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
RoboGOP.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Loved that, thank you.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Anyone hungry and finding it difficult to afford proper food are invited to go and lick them a few times completely free of charge.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I don’t worry about the US. I’m just astonished by it currently.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s extraordinary to me that as a Brit I have free health care but people who live in the US, one of the richest countries in the world with probably the largest economy do not. It seems disgracefully negligent and uncaring.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Slumber party.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Delighted to see and hear you again Michael. Please come by more often.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Note that his concern is for the credit company CEOs rather than the cash strapped people. Completely misses the point of the question.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Indeed. Especially as Trump seems to be bent on emulating Putin’s Ukraine invasion strategy in Iran, Cuba and Greenland. Not to mention what he’s done in Venezuela.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Trump wants an empire. An emperor is better than a measly king.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Forgot to say though that the actual May Day holiday is on the first Monday in May. In keeping with our usual practice.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May Day is a bank holiday here in the UK. I hadn’t realised I lived in a communist country. What an ignorant and careless lot!
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What is there to investigate?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
How vulgar.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Well, I’m sure he’ll be on the list of Great somethings.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Anyone who goes to Salisbury cathedral can see an original Magna Carta. He has no idea what it is does he?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I think I’d rather you and your pals didn’t do that because the Normans brought lots of good things to the country and advanced the culture enormously.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Of course it is. The Normans spoke French which was what Richard the Lionheart was speaking when he used the phrase as his battle cry. The Anglo Saxons were Germanic tribes who migrated to England centuries before the Norman invasion bringing their Germanic language with them.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Doesn’t he think people are forming their own opinions of Trump and his admin based on what they’re doing? Don’t Trump’s actions hit home far more strongly than anything the Democrats say? And what about the blatant hypocrisy? Trump and Co can out rhetoric (and disgustingly so) anyone on the Left.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Makes you wonder what’s being said to the grand juries to gain the indictment.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’m a person of Starmer’s country and I’m very happy that he’s sticking to his guns about not getting involved. Everyone else here I’ve spoken to is happy about it too. We would be extremely unhappy if he took any notice of this kind of baiting and taunting to try to get him to change his mind.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Do you think he realises just how ridiculous all this pantomime makes him look?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Just what you need. A battleforce readiness diminished by avoidable infectious ailments.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Recipe for disaster.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Bravo.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Trump - ruler of the world.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’ve just read that Iran had declared the strait open ‘for the duration of the ceasefire’. Not forever.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Could anyone explain to me what the nuclear dust is? Of course Bibi will obey Trump commands …
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I’ve read somewhere that what Trump might be intending to do is wait until ships leaving from Iranian ports are out of the Strait and into open international waters and then attempt to board and capture them. Just as they’ve been doing with Venezuelan ships. Steal both ship and oil cargo.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
According to what I’ve just been reading the ‘blockade’ is likely to take the form of attempted piracy once Iran origin vessels are out of the Straight and into open waters. Trump does seem to like stealing other people’s oil.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
But he isn’t blocking the whole straight is he? Aren’t they planning to just blockade all Iranian ports and let other traffic through?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Iran never ratified the treaty to make Hormuz an international passageway for maritime traffic.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Isn’t this also about wanting to legally avoid the need to leave a paper trail of what they’ve been up to?
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Fabulous.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
That’s a tad harsh. But I’m a Guardian reader so understand what you’re saying. However, the DM generally concentrates its attacks on the ‘woke lefties’ and MAGA definitely doesn’t fit that description so I wouldn’t be too fast to dismiss this.
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hesperantha.bsky.social @hesperantha.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And she knows it is.
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