Reposted by JoeSebastian Murdock @sebastianmurdock.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation. 1253287762
Reposted by Joe🇪🇺 #AgainstLies 🦋 @againstlies.bsky.social · 03/01/2026No abstention. That would be the end of Starmer’s career. I have supported him all the way because I believe he is a good man with principles. The criticism of Trump’s invasion cannot be fudged. 14642
Reposted by JoeAnthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 03/01/2026100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever. 371745717
Reposted by JoeLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Everyone in the command chain for this deserves to be kidnapped and rendered in shipping crates to The Hague. 1364
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I don’t know how possible this would even be, but I would like to boycott all American products and the American economy, and I think we all should. 010
Reposted by JoeWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to 524224824
Reposted by JoePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026FIFA peace prize in action 1423764
Reposted by JoeTony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026“I’m illegally bombing Venezuela on some trumped up charges to detract everyone from the Epstein files, my dementia and the fact I’m a greedy imbecile trying to make political change.” 4164
Reposted by JoeCharlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · 02/01/2026There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will. 862519751
Reposted by JoeJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Think @sundersays.bsky.social is accurate here. The UK has not suddenly become much more racist. However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes 12424134
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025It’s not about NHS services failing and much more about people being overreactive idiots after Covid. I would be so embarrassed to rock up at A&E to get treated for a cold. 000
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 27/12/2025This really annoys me. Pinkman’s has five stores in Bristol while Gail’s has three. Why is Pinkman’s still an ‘independent’ and Gail’s is destroying the local economy? www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/foo... @bristolpost.co.ukbristolpost.co.ukCoffee shop chains 'invade' Bristol - and independents fight backYou may think Gail's took over the city - but there's at least one other bakery cafe in Bristol that beats them in numbers 000
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Excellent. Just read a little bit further in, you’ll see why. grokipedia.com/page/Ty_Mitc...grokipedia.comTy MitchellTy Mitchell (born c. 1991) is a British southpaw boxer from Derby, England, standing at 6 feet 4 inches with a professional record of 5 wins and 2 losses as of 2025. A promising amateur prospect in hi... 000
Reposted by JoeSpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I had hoped for a Labour government whose sole purpose was not to be in office. I am quite far to the right of the Bluesky consensus, but am very disappointed. I appreciate the problems are intractable. But they governing. 2131
Reposted by JoeTony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comAsylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary saysShabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system 1151294374
Reposted by JoeOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment. 1961833537
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025I am starting a petition to ban Erling Haaland from #FPL. Simply by having him as your captain you can trash all other teams. It’s ridiculous. 2/3rds have him anyway. Get rid and it’ll be a fairer, more proper game. Signed: Me, rueful I didn’t select Erling #Haaland in August 110
Reposted by JoeJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/10/20251980: NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1% Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5% 2024: NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9% Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2% This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit. 1533885
Reposted by JoeSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Is saying that the Jews run the world antisemitic or just vigilant? Tune in for next week's episode of "is it racist to be racist" 17683162
Reposted by JoeTom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025News media "impartiality" has spread from party political disputes to much more basic matters of right and wrong, even matters of true and false. But where there is growing bias is in favour of the sensational and superficial. The result is a media environment ideal for boosting far-right populism. 1238
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Moderating freedom of uninformed speech would of course carry great risk, and at the moment fuck knows how we’d do it, but I present the argument so we can use freedom of informed speech to begin the discussion. 14/14 ends 000
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025We do it a little bit, like with Ofcom, but also not really as it has very, very little impact, and certainly none on freedom of uninformed speech. We need to find a way to do it properly and effectively. 13/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025We must do the same with speech. Uninformed speech will destroy speech, like fully free markets would destroy the economy. 12/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025And so, we moderate free markets: we use taxes, competition laws, government oversight etc to sustain true freedom in markets. 11/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025However, free markets require moderation. Markets without limits would quickly lead to a collection of wealth in the hands of the few, such as in monopolies. This would result in fewer products, price rises and ultimately a reduction in liberty. 10/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025There’s a strong parallel with markets. Some will disagree I’m sure (and that’s OK) but I believe free markets provide enormous benefit to society and to individual liberty. We are able to easily obtain things of benefit to us and the economy grows with power, improving standards for all. 9/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025We need freedom of speech. But warped freedom of uninformed speech will kill it off. The rise of authoritarianism will see to that, no problem. And, of course, it will be because of freedom of uninformed speech. 8/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The mainstream media has a horrendous role in perpetuating an echo chamber of fear and falsehood derived from this freedom of uninformed speech. However, it never ends because people can access falsehoods in seconds through their phones. 7/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Someone has heard something about immigrants on the news, or in the paper or someone they know has said something: they google, they research, they get presented with these 28 different viewpoints (many of which will be full of false information) and then they become entrenched. 6/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025In this article, we see exactly how in a town with basically no immigrants (except the nice white ones from Ukraine) immigration has become an utterly terrifying issue for them. 5/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025This freedom of uninformed speech means people can go online, find 28 different viewpoints on thousands and thousands of topics on which they have no/limited prior knowledge or experience, and in doing so they develop some very, very warped ideas about society more generally. 4/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025This is presented to us as freedom of speech, but it is really a freedom of uninformed speech (whether unintentionally or deliberately uninformed). 3/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The pure, unadulterated, rampant ability of anyone to post anything they like on the internet or social media with very few/no limits is frying our brains and destroying society. 2/14 100
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025This article confirms it: to protect free speech, we must limit free speech 🧵1/14 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk 100
Reposted by JoeJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/10/2025This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comBuxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UKHow national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District. 291158217
Reposted by Joethebelovedaunt.bsky.social @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Once upon a time senior politicians would have been falling over themselves to condemn this within the parameters of the legal process, yet nothing... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWoman's rape in Oldbury was racially aggravated, say policeThe two men involved are reported to have made a racist remark during the attack in Oldbury. 16513
Reposted by JoeChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 01/09/2025The arc of British politics is long, but it bends toward convincing progressives that New Labour was the best government of their lifetime. 910620
Reposted by JoeStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way. 181006225
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Do we really have to do the ‘I keep my heating off during the winter months’ story each time the price cap goes up? I understand the impact for lots of people, but the story is old and does no good for those people. The media must discuss ways to change, not ways to complain for cheap clicks. 000
Reposted by JoeSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Sending people to face torture or persecution may indeed be a technical problem. But first and foremost it is a moral and ethical depravity. (I mean, if Iran *did* agree to take people back, would it be fine to send them there even if they faced torture or persecution?) 413749
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025When thinking about the rise in populism and the appalling acts that may follow its enactment in law as movements become governments, I often wonder what the eventual inquiries/investigations in this time period will conclude. Is it social media? Is it 24 hours news? Is it over-democratisation? 000
Reposted by JoeSteven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 26/08/2025That’s nuts but saying it is so doesn’t mean you can dismiss the sentiment. Labour’s culpability here is obvious - it simply can’t go on with the same tried, tested & failed policies. Time to embrace some inconvenient truths instead of pretending to a disbelieving public it has a magical solution. 133
Reposted by JoeDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"Nine out of 10 people in England agree that those born in England who identify as English should be accepted as English." Excellent piece by @anandmenon.bsky.social on the increasing "normalisation" of racism in politics, but it still remains at odds with the majority observer.co.uk/news/opinion...observer.co.ukPolitically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ... 413444
Joe @joesc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The Covid effect won’t ebb for at least another eight years. Any child who started school in September 2020 will have had their education disrupted. We’ll feel the effect of that in their GCSE’s through 2032. 000
Reposted by JoeSir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Sarah, if the silent majority want to say things like "Set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b******s for all that I care" then they are violent arseholes and they should stay silent 4946481
Reposted by JoePeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This is an urgent and important question from @adambienkov.bsky.social Again this summer, British citizens are being terrorised by the organised far right and the silence of mainstream media and our political leaders is astounding and dangerous bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...bylinetimes.comWhere Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov 25721274
