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John Sharman

@jonsx11.bsky.social
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I like travel when I can, day outs in nature, Photography, film, eating out or good food; I am looking to have more leisure pursuits, say, see the Elgin Marbles before they go to Greece. I like reading all sorts.

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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 5h
Christians) as " inferior" "savages", to be " transferred to neighbouring Arab lands; whose land was purchased, who were also driven from their homes by mass expulsion. They 're perceived as the donkeys that brayed at civilization. They were not consulted in this colonial operation. Dispossessed.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 5h
Zionism is racism draws a line that's never been allowed: You own the narrative as much as you can. Palestine existed and was quoted in Jewish documents and organisations( none of which the Palestinians were allowed to have) prior to 1917.The brutalization of the natives( Arabs and Arab
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 22h
This bodes badly for some good dancers being overlooked, ending unfairly in the dance off. These pairings are hard to remember, the names are not yet gelling in my mind. The judges are prone to pick favourites which influences the public. At home we want to deviate, we see something different.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 22h
For some reason I find when it comes to voting on Strictly it's hard to match the names to faces, because all the images are so small, and they give the slightest hint of everybody's dance with a twirling image at the end: so I'm afraid there's a lot of guesswork. When I vote its a stab in the dark
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
said we can't decide for the Palestinians and Israelis whether to ask for a 2State or 1 State solution; Jews should not be excluded if they attend their Synagogues. He's for the basic core argument of the racism of the Israeli govt./Zionism with its occupation, settlement, ethnic cleansing. He'saJew
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think I have been impressed by his no nonsense explanations of being on the ground to see his voters, hence inability to stay at the Conference and oversee and provide leadership as to the vote: he would have only voted for the motion Zionism is Racism with amendments; but not without those. He
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the traps Corbyn fell into in trying to defend his position about attacking Israeli govt. is not anti-semitism.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
after attacks from MSN media and divisions about the Zionism is racism vote in his own party. He will ride the wave of assaults expected with his usual impeccable logic and one-upmanship. He has just to wait until the Burnham Bounce deflates and Burnham makes hard decisions. Polanski needs to avoid
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zack Polanski won't to see this as a defeat but a warm up for future by elections in London like Hackney & Wandsworth; he upped the Green vote; Labour's candidate was not scrutinized due to squeamishness after Reform's attack. Polanski's leadership will come under testing over the next 6 months:
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zak Polanski doesn't have to see this as a defeat but a warm up for future by elections in London like hackney and Wandsworth; he upped the Green vote; Labour's candidate was not scrutinized due to squeamishness after Reform's attack. Zak Polanski's leadership will come under testing over next6month
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
weaponization of anti-semitism to cover he tracks of Zionism.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anti-semitism accusations is a way of spiking the guns of the opposition to Netanyahu's racist govt. The guns of opposition to the genocide of the Palestinian Gazans and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian West Bank have unspiked their own guns to shoot dead the
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
pledged ' the English crown to William of Normandy,which may have been propaganda, as he seems forced to swear on holy books, after being saved by William in France, which he immediately forgot, when Edward died and handed the crown to him. It's a record of the last invasion of England bythe French
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Bayeux Tapestry is really a woollen embroidery on silk cloth : it got called a 'tapestry' by being housed in Bayeux and was called 'tapisserie'. The art work although is more like a cartoon, is really a good record of what they wore, how they fought, their buildings, the 'lie' of Harold who
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
pushes out the native Palestinians, to oppose the support of their rights, to place them in an inferior position vis-a-vis the Jews in Israel, to occupy their lands, destroy their homes, replace their homes with homes by settler occupiers in an apartheid state. Zionism in Israel is a form of racism
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Zionism started out as a reaction to anti-Semitism in Europe and the persecution of the Jews as in the Holocaust; in the early days it had an idealism about the Jews having their own homeland and self-determination. But as time has gone on Zionism has morphed into a movement that
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When things go wrong & will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night- A pint of plain is your only man. Flan O'Brien
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
not good and Jews in this country don't agree with the Netanyahu govt. Peston said this kind of vote has never happened in a mainline party in this country, and he was clearly disgruntled at the idea that the Greens have become devalued. He cut McDonnell off before end of prog. to havethe last word.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Peston is like a big kid: he manipulates people into agreeing with him, and shouts over them if their POV differs from his own: as he did with John McDonnell on the Green vote that Zionism is racism. John put it well the genocide in Gaza & ethnic cleansing in West Bank are
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jesus Christ, try to prove it. How? Go to the Gospels & St. Pauls; go to Josephus; go to Tacitus, go to Suetonius; are we any nearer now after The Beatles of getting anywhere near the idea of divinity, with the lack of credence of the supernatural? Can we envisage a resurrection, withoutwhich noGod.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sylvester Stallone was on Graham Norton: he's a man of few words, but is great at expressions and voices. There's a kind of greatness about him, with his taking on of the Rocky film project at a difficult time in his life, unlucky on the cusp of age 30, this was his one true chance: he got an Oscar
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#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
expression of big ideas: end neo-Liberalism; take water, energy, housing back under public control; end FPTP voting; build up the NHS by bringing in Social Care through ending the triple lock. The enthusiasm of everyone after Burnham's great speech has blown away the effect of Starmerism, endofLabor
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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
Well you can't write policies directed at the next election, only the direction of travel: many of the ideas have to be thrashed out with Louise Casey on Social Care by 2027. There was a lot of emotion and narrative in it: something lacking in recent politicians. Manifestos not written up until 2029
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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
works, reclining figures, madonnas and childs, landscape body shapes, little pebbles, rocks, bones he'd found, geometric shapes, describing in simple language what he liked in the shapes, the power he found in the forms, what he liked drawing from unconscious sources a Mexican or Mesopotamian idea.
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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
Louise Casey and Alan Millburn are two heavy weather store houses which Burnham can draw on. Hope like gas storage is in short supply, but aye lad, it's better coming from Andy Burnham, a practised politician, who will open up his political capital tomorrow with his conference speech. Hang onevery
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
welfare while increasing the nos. on welfare.The difficult decision on social care has been kicked conveniently down the road to election2. Defence is another conundrum, and growth; pension triple lock kicked into next election to be opened for social care. Words, words. We'll notgivetoomanydetails.
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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 · 27/09/2026
OKI you live in a world of disguises, that's your right, but don't try to remove other people's right to freedom & privacy. Bog off.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why don't you name yourself?
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So Brearey took time to call Karen Reece blaming Lucy, AT THE SAME 'forgetting' to ensure the coroner was advised that he himself had inserted a needle blindly in the wrong side of the baby before the infant died.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Note: I meant another doctor.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brearley killed a baby with a needle, but there's a cover up; another nurse too was responsible for a death; Dr Ravi made some dubious errors of practice: yet all the judgements are hoarded on Lucy. Can we wax more lyrically and lavishly on piling up judgements on these questionable medics?
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Lucy Letby trial and conviction is the Dreyfusard moment of our times. Who is its Zola?
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Lucy Letby trial and conviction is the Dreyfusard moment of our times. Who is its Zola?
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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
no confession, ended up in Rampton Hospital. She was regarded as evil by the general public, and had Munchausen Syndrome, as she enjoyed the extra attention she received. In for life. Can we compare the two nurses?
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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
accused by nursing staff of anything; her face didn't fit so she was thought to be disposable. BA is in prison/ psychiatric hospital for life. Allet always had a smirk on her face. Lucy was crushed by a medical bureaucracy/ hierarchy. The system , the poor care given by underfunding , doctors lied.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
stayed in, set fire to a locker there; Lucy Letby was conscientious, had friends who believed in her; was scapegoated by medical staff who made errors, mistakes, told lies, killed a baby or two through medical mistakes; she came from a good background with loving parents; was not
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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 · 22/09/2026
14 normal blood sugar readings were not told to the prosecution. Think what that implies.
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
- but none found; lastly the high Insulin readings were not introduced externally, as the babies had normal blood sugar readings; some of the evidence wasn't introduced into court, which is why the jury convicted her from the misreadings so the case slanted vs. LL from the start. No evidence ofguilt
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
( only OK for a Level1 unit); the 2 Dr's were paediatricians rather than neo-natal Dr.s, and only made2 visits a week ( not as should be 2/day). Experts were brought in to discuss their belief LL innocent; one questioned Dari Evans's himself on saying he thought air embolism should be evidencedX-Ray
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