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Howard Hollingsbee

@hhbee.bsky.social
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Ancient Mariner Aged heavy helicopter pilot Long ago company director Avid Europhile Centre left politics Philosophy and Hispanic studies. Despairing of the world’s most powerful country and person.

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Susan 🐝🐓🪴🌻🇪🇺🇺🇦 @susanf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BBC Breakfast airing Farage again as ’most attacked politician’ and his lies about being ‘refused’ protection - all without challenge. No politician should fear for their life, but sick of BBC pushing Refuk narrative without fact checking
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watching Widerness with Simon Reeve. What a joy to hear the soft, gentle First Nation Canadian accents. Relief fromthe shouty, whiny Trumpish noise.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Richard E Grant’s art programme. Quite interesting. He’s unwatchable/unlistenable. Shame.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Any country retaining judicial death sentence is barbaric and unfit for respect in the modern world. One that uses primitive and patently unsuccessful and injurious methods of execution is way beyond the pale.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Creek, early this morning. What a lovely September we’ve had!
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If Wes Streeting turned up on my doorstep trying to sell me something, he would get very short shrift. Slick Willie.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Orange, in a faint-praise acknowledgment of UK police forces claims “we’ve been following them [the 5 arrested near RAF Fairfoed for some time……”. CTP spokesperson - “this was not intelligence-led”. Wonder whom agonna believe……🙄
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think I heard the ‘leader’ of the free world say , about climate change “ they said we’ll all be dead in 12 years”. What?? Nobody ever said that. Is he conflating the recent POTENTIAL dangers of AI? Anyway, Trump clearly has mental health issues. A much bigger worry, for all of us.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Islamic centre overwhelmed by support after damage This is heartening, but the idiots causing the damage are the pits. No time for religion of any kind but, living in an “Islamic state” (a strange concept ) for several years, we experienced only friendship and kindness from a gentle people.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Tulcayo. Possibly the most endearing feline I’ve ever seen. Long may she/they survive, as we slash and burn her habitat.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SO sad that the media think we should take interest in the gaslighting going on between members of two vastly overprivileged families. Even sadder that so many of ‘us’ seem to be.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And so, one evil, not-very-clever FOF continues to undermine the very best elements of the excellent Constitution of what used to be one of the very best nations in the world. It could be again, it’s still the most powerful but being corrupted from within. Be very afraid, World.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dow Jones today….. fuck…….
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hate Piddington’s driving motive, but love the idea of UDI!
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
‘Pearl, held in black fingers…. bird inside the ribcage is beating to be free…. Use me while you can…..’ Bruce Cockburn. So powerful.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is something REALLY creepy about those camera-embedded RayBans…….
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EU and Canada making post -Brexit Britain’s position even more pathetic and ridiculous.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What kind of country have we become, when not only migrants but also RNLI crews, some of the very best people in society, are being trolled and harassed by thugs and idiots?
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first item on the new PM’s list. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich
Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first it...
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
America….. Your president is insane. Every day brings further evidence. You (mostly) deserve better.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The predictable reaction to Miliband’s speech yesterday. Jewish people may well feel less safe in UK but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. It means that people either don’t understand or choose not to understand, the difference between Jewish people and the corrupt and vicious Netanyahu regime.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Surely, the IKEA names are just made up words…? I mean. - orangeade - ISKUB…? They’re ‘avin’ a larf.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excellent speech by Ed Milliband today. Pity the media destroyed him as leader. I wish I could talk about it with my late younger brother. Jewish antecedents. But hate the ghastly Netanyahu and Likud and their ethic cleansing actions. Sanctions will have minimal effect but send the right message.1/2
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Anonymous Choice ☮️ @tcepser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I remember. And if you substitute the words "old Iran" for "Vietnam", this song is still relevant! youtu.be/ft0vkKCadgk?...
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Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969 - Full HD Video
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I very much like the non-judgemental, non-pigeon-holing term ‘neurodivergent’. Sure I’m not alone though, in wondering if Soviet-style brainwashing techniques used neuro-detergent…
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Concerned to hear the local Portsmouth police chief almost sympathising with the “spontaneous, peaceful” protesters (masked and uniformly dressed in black…..). Very unhappy with what is happening in my country.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It was only there, on this secular public place, for a short while so the presumption of the cult that placed it shouldn’t annoy me as much as it does…..
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Just you try and leave, while I’m having a zizz…….”
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wacko American Narcissist Knocks Everything Rational.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Chris Mason is a weasel, lacking any grace. At all b
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PMQs are symptomatic of all that’s wrong with British politics. Words and scoring points off each other are more important that policy and more important still, making it happen.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The last day of summer tomorrow:- ‘Fly away, fly away over the sea, Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done; Come again, come again, come back to me, Bringing the summer and bringing the sun.’ Christina Rosetti
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
BBC Proms. Crappy movie themes. WTAF?
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I need to beat myself up. In spite of how bad Season1 of ‘Vigil’ was, I watched the much worse Season 2…. Bad acting, terrible main character, laughable plotting, full of holes. And why can actors never wear a military beret without looking like a casting interview for Dad’s Army….?
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Those ghastly scenes in Nepal/Tibet, where I once spent some time….. gut wrenching. A wake-up call for climate change deniers. But they won’t listen slow-boiling frogs……
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
AI and data centre demands on land, water and energy: MAGA/Trump climate change-denial and more. Hendrix’s symbolically fucked-up Star Spangled Banner has never been more approriate. Time for Pete Townshend or someone, to do a similar job on our anthem/dirge.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton. An artifice on the outside, smart, funny, compassionate, philanthropic, genuine, on the inside. A thoroughly good egg. Shame about the music, but never mind…. A loss.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And so: The Royal Family transitions. From unifying wartime influence, through hugely expensive, if mildly amusing irrelevance, to hugely expensive,nnoying soap-opera of irrelevance.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The glorious Natalie Haynes. Intellectually brilliant; very, very funny. Stands up for the Classics. Love it.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Those Gaza ?killings. FFS. How can Netanyahu be given yet more leave to slaughter on a whim….?
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REMEMBER: They all knew.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Well into the brave and articulate Lindsey Hilsum’s “I Brought The War with Me”. Wonderful. Pertinent essays and her anthology of relevant poetry.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I really hated “ Total Eclipse of the Sun’” Sorry. Still sad that she’s gone.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I’m going to think that the needs of the person or persons who just stripped our apple crop, are greater than ours……
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
End of the Day The old world turns in its rusty socket; a ragged sky burns; the sea slops in the moon’s bucket; the sun’s penny drops Anthony Watts.
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Bit quiet on the usually (white-) noisy Trump-petty front atm, innit?
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Howard Hollingsbee @hhbee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I haven’t quite felt able to vote Green, although I agree with many (but not all) of their policies. Much respect for Caroline Lucas. However, am I alone in sensing something deeply phoney about the loquacious Zack Polanski?
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