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#QuestionTime: Suella Braverman managed to alienate herself from the whole audience & panel tonight, by giving no hope, being racist, blaming immigration, not saying one positive thing, saying she was British not English. Hopeless or what? Some people never learn.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The bravery of those passengers who fought in the cockpit to wrest the plane off of the terror-inspired pilot who stabbed the main pilot to take over the plane, to try to crash it, then the plane was steadied from a drop of 15000 feet and climbed again to stability once the two spare pilots tookover

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mike Walker ( Novara Media) did a very good round of serious interviews at the Labour Conference with MPs, ministers and supporters. He keeps things light and doesn't over-react, asks good questions, and is himself visibly moved at the climax by Andy Burnham's speech, and the change of tone, and

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you were a national treasure like what I am (not) you'd have to do some special archaeology to dig me up.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham gave an upbeat speech not of soaring rhetoric but of realistic idealistic goals, often pausing after each major statement or proposition: there were moments of sincerity and emotion, as he grasped the nettle of his most fundamental idea, to reform social care through consensus.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Henry Moore was a true original, a sculptor who liked to possess touch, balance, shape, volume in a single form whether organic, inanimate, human or animal. Moore could take you through each of a collection of ancient or exotic sculptures from foreign parts of the world or journey through his own

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Healey carried a miner's lamp as symbolical of working class solidarity, where miners helped each other: he waxed lyrically if nostalgically in his speech giving nothing away; spoke of a symbolical tie he wore worn also by Gordon Brown; aye lad them damn Tories made too many cuts in

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Etes-tu un intellectuelle? Injustice, ethics, ideas, universality, all claims to truth, disciplined sceptic, not owned by anybody or corporation; the practice of the philosopher, knowledge of expertise, a practice: newideas like Keynes, Russell, Wittgenstein,Koestler,Camus and Sartre. Of mind&spirit

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

With all this counternarrative vs. Letby's guilt, we are now getting the return of the repressed in people who paint her as a malicious psychopath, as inevitable as night & day. Truth is a fight vs untruth with its growing legions of followers. Will it take 6 months,2 years to see her walk free?

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The case of Beverly Allit: Murder on Ward 4 is on C5 tonight, and it bears a striking resemblance to Lucy Letby, WHERE NO DIRECT EVIDENCE, is found but they establish through logical deduction and circumstantial evidence of wheabouts, where Allit was on in each case.Allitshowed noremorsea &no confes

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's no comparison between the psychopath Beverley Allet and Lucy Letby: BA was callous, loved the power over vulnerable babies, had Munchausen Syndrome- created crises because she enjoyed being at the centre of chaos; she also put faeces in the fridge of the nursing home she

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

C5 Lucy Letby: Scapegoat? Was done so it simply covered the major possible errors with the lack of any witness observation of Letby's guilt, by a Sun reporter spending a year to establish her intention to murder. He lists 1) the sewage problem; the dropping of the statistical evidence that countered

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Giddily elated like a runaway horse at this time of year, must be something in the air!

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Charles Spencer's book serialised by the Daily Mail is somewhat living off that speech he made in Westminster Abbey at Diana's memorial service: it made a point then for all time. But time moves on and Spencer said he'd never make a profit from his sister's death, yet he clearly

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a medical bureaucracy the weak go to the wall and are scapegoated; the doctors band together to perpetuate their reign.The system itself is at fault and statistics alone could have found this out without Thirwall, which is an attempt to seal the tomb of judgement without evidence.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Lucy Letby case in media again with the Thirwell Inquiry: but this is presumptuous that she was guilty and committed the murders. Hold your horses,carraiges & carts. There is another line up, which asked for this inquiry to be delayed by 6 months, because it has a veritable evidence

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bayeaux Tapestry is not a Tapestry ( no loom involved) but was an embroidery stitched into linen. 1000 years old, crafted in England, used as a propaganda tool by the Normans, made by English women. Only 6 women are depicted on the tapestry, at key emotional moments. William was promised the throne

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wow they're putting old interviews on ITV with the McCanns: white wash or what? The reporter seems to lack self awareness, recounting how she never disbelieved them; even taken her own small kids on holiday there 1 month later. You cannot walk into the same river twice. Something's changed.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's salutary or weird that Donald Trump wants to stand Zelig-like next to all the world's geniuses like Einstein, and put his name on everything that's already there, saying he's the 'greatest ever', when he is truly awful, and really stupid, and a ranter extraordinary, just

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Was 1984 rather than Brave New World closer to the truth today? Well neither; A.C.Clarke came up with the computers would grow so intelligent, we'd be their stepping-stone: well superintelligence is now more like a Bond Villain, seeking to take over the world, and bypass us. Beyond our control.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Razaullah, remember the name of this spirited late batting Pakistani young batsman who batted like hell to rescue his ailing side from the doldrums of defeat: fire in the fists, diamonds in the eyes, youth at its peak, defiant to the end. Swashbuckling, fearless, long may he rein.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Assisted Dying didn't make it off the operation table by 286 votes to 270 votes; even resuscitation couldn't rescue it. What was a misconceived vote in the 1st place because of improper safeguards. It was a dummy run that'll return in 2030. You can't put vulnerable people to death. Coercive control

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ludwig was good this week and had a tense balance between Ludwig and his step sister: the interview with the devious Machiavellian female MP responsible for some murders and the interview and the safety of Lucy with Joanne Kemper; then John snookered by a puzzling murder case. Excellent.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

EastEnders with Max's alley-cat setting a flutter amongst all the eligible ladies, has rebounded off each conquest onto another like a pinball in a hall of lights: even marriage could not contain him, finding a new love among his many conquests. Why do women always go for tramps? Only Max knows.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yaxley-Lennon ( Tommy Robinson) does what all the far right extreme political groups do, he launders other people's money, raises money for funding select people and spends the money on drugs, property, gambling and a lavish spend-thrift lifestyle. None of the victims he claims to support

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Only a Jew ( Milliband) can make his statement in the house, with the supposition that what the govt. criticizes is the Israeli govt. not the Israeli state or people, by allowing the settler expansion at the expense of the Palestinians in the west Bank, a form of terrorism, is not anti-Semitism but

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Omar Al Obeiymi the Saudi American had contacts with 2 of the terrorists who flew planes into buildings on 9/11, found them accommodation in LA, and is videoed welcoming them into an all male worship group. Despite the evidence vs him and Saudi Arabian govt. officials, Saudi Arabia

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The country no more needs Reform than a Covid patient needs a shot of bleach in the arm.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Using attacks vs. Reform to bolster their brand as the coming spectacle: do everything with brighter colours,more fireworks, more spectacle, to land one on those sober suited dullards of the opposition parties. Farage shows he has little control of his runaway train: the babies are taking over.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reform's shine is coming of: beneath the veneer of polish and push, they are really a rather seedy, washed up end-of-pier act, with hints of being the Reservoir Dogs of politics. Farage is looking decidedly tired and burnt-out, being pursued by demons of political morality holding him to account.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Starmer shows he had no holding power: he always saw himself a la Blair, on the world stage; graceless when Burnham starts his parliamentary run. Like Blair, Cameron & Johnson he got out quickly, where he could only be PM in his own eyes. Burnham's honeymoon is over. Cut his teeth

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pompei & Herculaneum suffered natural catastrophes: took 100s of years to uncover, digging through layers of magma dust, earthen rubble by man, revealing the way life used to be preserved in amber. Now instant archaeology, mobile phones, aeroplanes ; man-made destruction where nothing remains,twist-

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Surviving 9/11, the BBC doc: the slow,heavy,grumbling incineration of steel, glass&concrete as it immolates people going about their day. Girders displaced by gravity unlocked from the tensions that keep high buildings in place driven by malignant, inhuman anger. Tilting the moral

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm wary if someone asks for my phone no. but doesn't give me theirs: my phone will treat them as spam, because I haven't got theirs, yet I gave them mine when they asked. Is this a competition? who asks 1st gets; he who asks last doesn't. Still they withhold saying nothing. Is this a game?

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Pseudo-intellectuals, with the rise of the internet, have done to truth and intellectual matters, what dating sites have done to finding love: there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Who are you? Science is the new world authority and everyone in the pseudo-intellectual field clothes their

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wham In China!, a documentary only just released due to the director being sacked ( Lindsey Anderson) at the end of filming. It was a remarkable meeting of western freedom in & Chinese Comunism:this pop duo's being the 1st pop group to make it to China. Ridgely and Michael were forced to act as

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Soon Andy Burnham, who also won his gamble, will be asking the Bill McKay question: " What do I do now?" When the whole Parliamentary session starts, and he has to make the rubber hit the road. You'll remember Robert Redford running for Senator in California in The Candidate.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson went to the Isle of Wight festival of Music: he bypassed the chance to go to Woodstock, because when he said to the host will it be " naked hippies and drugs", he was told " Yes". He chose not to go, being famously drug-free; yet he went to this. Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ludwig with Anna Maxwell Martin and David Mitchell is a game of two competing comic intelligences, which one will win? Martin is the better actor, Mitchell a proven comic: the puzzles they discuss are unsolvable,yet they somehow seem to solve them. The 2nd episode was a riddle in a maze: the comic

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dear Dolly sub specie aeternitas: Jolene, Coat of Many Colours, I will always Love You. R.I.P.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The pagan, what is it, where does it show itself, how long is the pagan or paganism? 1000BCE up to Romano-Christian times. Is there a pre-pagan period? Perhaps from the Mesolithic up to the Iron Age. I've never heard the term used apart from a Yoga teacher who was talking of Holy Wells;

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Modern films are so full of garbage, time-filling CGI, subordination to commercial interests, the multiplex cinemas, Netflix, streaming, that you have to go back to the 70s to get any films worth watching, but are no longer shown on TV. Even film magazines filled with inexpressible jargon.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Prince Harry & Meghan back in UK to live, bring up their children( hounded out by Trump's dictatorship?); a time ago Harry lost a £50 million court case and there's be no way he could come back to England( tho' he loves it): well I see that loss and this move as concomitant acts

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Book Club did a great review of Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls; telling the story of his life as well. It is done with great enthusiasm; he was with Orwell the writer to set the record of The Spanish Civil War. Whereas Orwell who fought in POUM saw the Communists as traitors spreading lies

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

With the death ( murder of Marlowe) and the rise of Shakespeare, we saw how Shakespeare came out of the shadow of the 'mighty line' and volcanic anti-hero of Marlowe: Shakespeare's concentration changed from the usurping villain to an absorbing of the unbalanced set of forces into a

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Libra that DeLillo novel based upon Lee Harvey Oswald and the theories around the lone gunman theory and the so-called 'magic bullet', makes a substantial novel out of a stew of conspiracy theories: the nature of life in the post war Cold War paranoia of the American century. Today dramatized on R4.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Farage is just an empty suit no longer representing the people of Clacton- he is unobtainable if people seek to see their MP- but using them as a pawn in his game, to gain power without responsibility; he is a man of moderate IQ, not outstanding in any way, but by accepting

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Settler terrorism is a new phase of Israeli state -sponsored violence to remove Palestinians from their own land, backed by govt./IDF and police: following their demolition of Gaza the Israeli state is now trying to ethnically cleanse the West Bank, calling it 'Judea/Samaria'. You can't sanctionthis

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Seems Farage had a sense of humour bypass, in that he said the police said there was a danger for him to attend, when they didn't. He just didn't want to attend being surrounded by non-serious candidates( like him, perhaps?), who would show up the farce for what it is. He should at least attend this

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