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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for doing this work, Emma. We are all indebted to you. As government considers the proposed takeover of ITV and ITV /(C4) News, your work is a salutary reminder of the benefits of plurality and critical thinking when so few media owners seem able to do it.

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 17h

Please retweet

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 6h

What is it about an armed patriarchy that leads to violence and abuse of women and children?

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Thank you. It’s so welcome and helpful to have smart people in the room.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Sorry Otto. I’m an OAP freedom fighter bringing down corrupt corporate-state, blood-soaked marriage by not buying anything from tech-bro companies. I hope you won’t not mind me buying the book?

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Oh yes. Thanks. So birds and fish are more akin and less of a food group risk then. Is that due to digestive processes in fish or the physiology of the two species?

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Is this how we ended up with mad cow disease?

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 13/10/2026

For the first time, the British government has acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. So who did BBC Newsnight invite on to discuss what happened? Sergei Markov, Putin’s former spokesman. Par for the course, says Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 1/

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

He is a comic book monster with bad taste. He belongs in Broadmoor prison.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm so pissed off that I've taken to ranting into my empty kitchen cabinet. Here's me on why Farage is wrong about everything. Thank you for listening.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Adam is my friend, so I'm biased. But he's a darned sight better than the rest of them. Which presumably is why Badenoch fears him. Which is presumably why he's banned.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

via Campbell Finnie

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#GeorgeMonbiot said it perfectly… People pay taxes. Rich people pay accountants. Very rich people pay lawyers and the super rich pay politicians. Let’s see who’s on their payroll.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I recently re-watched the movie Heaven’s Gate. Whatever the artistic merits of this movie it’s sharp observation of “monied greed” using cruelty and barbarism to blame immigrants to control its power-money monopolies is as irrelevant today as it’s always been.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the reasons they went for the BBC so early and covertly was because our broadcast media is world leading - in no small measure due to the BBC. Sadly the same cannot be said for print which is why the daily mail et al continue to produce Fox News like right wing propaganda.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why did the UK keep re-electing a government whose austerity economics was killing their communities and future? Why did a content European nation allow itself to leave Europe? The answer is complex and simple I suppose. Cf readership of Daily Mail.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This isn't fundamentally an affordability question. It is about inequality, political priorities and whose interests government chooses to protect. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...

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Why is the state pension under attack?

The old age pension triple lock is under attack again. The Financial Times wants it scrapped. The Resolution Foundation wants it ended. The Tony Blair Institute says it is unaffordable. But they are a...

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great article. Thanks for sharing it.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s chilling isn’t it - I truly believe it’s already much later than we think.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"We're not broke, we're being robbed" #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme via Joshua ABD

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A British political commentator made an observation about our appalling ex Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He said any man who is willing to cheat on his wife/s as many times as he has will be very comfortable in lying and cheating the public… apply the same formula to Trump and his cronies.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@ottoenglish.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social Dear Otto. Huge congratulations on coup getting this interview in Byline Times. It’s a great insight to the thinking of the man and a masterpiece of client journalism I will treasure always

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jon Stewart hit the nail on the head. For decades, politicians used 9/11 heroes as photo-ops, only to turn their backs when those same first responders needed healthcare for toxins that destroyed their bodies. Basic human decency shouldn't require a public shaming campaign!

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As an old age pensioner reliant on state pension income, I can assure you that £12,000 a year is not enough to live on.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You must see (if that’s possible outside UK?) the new BBC documentary on 9/11 and the mysterious Saudi spy who never was.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s also very clever as it allows all the wrongly convicted Palestinian protesters to be released from gaol and thus alleviate the prison crisis. Who could have imagined such a thing?!

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How many times and in how many ways does this man how to show the world what a danger he is. Broadmoor has plenty of these personality types and they are very very disturbed - and dangerous people when empowered.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And of course the Antarctic treaty, dividing the mineral rights in proportion to the states adjacent to it, just happens to make the lonely desolate place a winning lottery ticket too.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Spot on Sarah. When it became clear that the Thatcherite cult’s promise of nation building was a lie many cult members doubled down abandoning morals decency in the process. Austerity, Brexit, Covid parties, corrupt Covid contracts and who knows what else we are yet to discover are the symptoms

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh, they see it right. The question is why the silence and complicity… are they all bought off? Too scared, too corrupt or dull of wit to they’re building their own gallows?

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In 1988, Sesame Street mocked a greedy real estate tycoon named Ronald Grump who wanted to bulldoze the neighborhood for luxury towers. Sound familiar?

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ahaha! Yes, thats what they said about cigarette advertising. Publicity doesn’t work they said!

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes! Only the Greens in the UK have the courage to even broach these ideas. The toxic legacy of Thatcherite-economics has left our media, education, BBC and our voters weak-minded, seekingly unable to conduct basic critical thinking and fearful.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

God I hope so. I fear the Trump regime will fix/stop/curtail the elections and impose martial law. Then in full fascism with the international bases loaded with Putin, Netanyahu, et al we will have full Orwell. Only the EU will be safe/democratic but the UK has already damaged that coalition.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have wondered if he knowingly remains in the prevailing economic paradigms so as not to provoke the fearful and mass media?

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes I can believe that. We’ve prioritise profit over people and revered wealth over wisdom so now we reap what we’ve sown. The thing is, people agree modern capitalism is not fit for purpose but then cite the same system’s economic models for why it can’t be changed. Paradigm blindness?

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Deke Fanboy (welcome back lad!) @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Southend United head coach Kieran Dyer was challenged by his players to see how many Michael Jackson songs he could reference in his answers to the media…not a single person noticed and the money will be going to charity.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have wondered to what extent computer programming and computer technology is a filter for these personality types. Boys who perhaps might be on the spectrum or have personality disorders unable to get along with the other lads et cetera.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It does feel like the world is at a tipping point. What worries me most is that the people with the money and power now acquired that quickly and with skills that are borderline sociopathic. Colonising planets & cryogenic fantasies set against planetary & human barbarism reveal their true values.

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markofbattersea @markofbattersea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#BBCNews has a cosy chat with Nigel Farage, while #c4news investigates him. That's why Channel 4 News is the best news service in the UK.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The BBC was always an establishment platform but it stood for something, like the World Service promoting British values etc. When the lie of Thatcherite nation building crumbled, Tories doubled-down & abandoned any pretence of values. Preferring an ideological coup. They poisoned the BBC.

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And the footage shows clearly how the alleged professional pollster took payment for commissioning a poll to a specific outcome. I hope they all go to gaol!

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John Crowley @jc-2001.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s bad enough that we have sold our water, electricity, gas, rail, telecoms and postal services to corrosive and voracious (vulture) capitalism but it now seems our culture is for sale too. Not even a culture benefactor! www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

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