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Ken Matheson

@kenem.bsky.social
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Too old to be noticed / Too much experience to be ignored / Always see the bigger picture / Often out of place, now running out of time / Traditional left leaning

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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 18h
There's a lot of "deep" stuff around.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Journey Into Space' on the BBC Radio Light programme. I found it spellbinding and slightly frightening.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🙄 no shit....
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TNT is killing televised cycling.... for me anyway.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wonder what history will be taught about the current era in 50 years time? (If we last that long.)
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🤣
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Syed: the man who gave wankers a bad name.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And intercity rail transport instead of huge HGVs. 'Just in time' stockholding improves profit at the cost of the environment.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
More from the world of truth or fiction.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's the world we live in, too many people are blind to reality, are unable to think further than their nose and refuse to accept the obvious - that change is needed on our roads, probably because it may inconvenience them. It will get worse until enough people see the need for change.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My abiding memory from the Wimpy on The Headrow, Leeds, in the 1960s.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That too.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
...now I have a problem being a socialist and disliking so many people.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When I emigrated to South Africa in 1976 I was apolitical. My experiences there changed me. I returned to the UK in 1982 and was shocked to see my working class family supporting the anti-working class politics of Thatcherism. My political attitudes became entrenched....
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BBC logic innit?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
👏
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today, in lying: Trump: “The arrest in the UK was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. “We had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort, and working with the British worked out great. “We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.”
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But seemingly no real concern about the increasing numbers and noise from modified and dangerously driven motor vehicles? I suppose it's easier to police one than the other.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tell me, Mr Hargreaves, how did you become a £billionaire?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Data is good but understanding, perception, feel and common sense will never be replaced by instrumentation and AI." I wrote this 4 years ago, in a longer piece about sport. I now think that I was wrong, but right.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I went to school for about 11 years and left in 1961. I'm still re-educating myself about history.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Give up Robbie, you're co-commentating with an idiot.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone get the feeling that humanity has run its course?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not giving him/them the oxygen of publicity and avoiding martyrdom isn't working is it?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Isn't that terrorism? Pre-planned damage to equipment used to save lifesaving.
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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.org · 22/09/2026
Connecting changemakers to explore what's happening and discuss what's next! Please join us and invite your networks! @greenspacetrust.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @caltonhill.bsky.social @scotlink.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/what-if-edin...
events.humanitix.com
What if Edinburgh was designed for wildlife as well as people?
A networking discussion for changemakers working for environmental and social change: exploring how we can respond in the climate, nature and human crisis.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do it!
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Give Money To Charity – Donate And Support the RNLI In Saving Lives At Sea
Donate money to the RNLI and help us save lives at sea. Your donation provides volunteers with the kit, equipment and lifeboats they need to save lives.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the most odious men I hope never to have the misfortune to meet.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg has put out a video about how everyone needs to "grow up" and put childhood things behind them and show a bit more backbone and be prepared to do things fir themselves. That's Jacob Rees-Mogg who as an adult ... quite literally went canvassing with his nanny.
Rees mogg and and an AI image of a man in a bowler hat
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
😂
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes, even the ephemeral standards of a senile infant psychopath.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Same with the sports he washes his money in. Very British except for most of the people he employs
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For those in the UK and other countries where the lie is called a “war on motorists” rather than a “war on cars,” here’s a poster version for you to use and share. Either way, never forget, if there’s REALLY been any war in cities, it’s been a century-long WAR ON WALKING. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking
Black text on white background. “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on motorists. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century. Via the Urban Truth Collective. 
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Equality of outrage and action would do for me.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just sitting here, blood boiling......
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
😳 😂
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bilbao is certainly powerful but everything about his riding style seems to be indexed. #vuelta2026
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Votes=power=personal gain. Good governance and the welfare of people are of no concern.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You may not be interested in the views of an 80+ year old Brit but here goes. Reagan and Thatcher sowed the seeds of decline (neoliberalism, free market, deregulation) but we, the public, were happy with their giveaways. Then came corruption & lies on steroids and the disappearance of shame.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Orwell 1963?
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The vast majority of the civilians [in Gaza] were killed by two groups. One is the lawyers that legitimized the attacks, and the other is the pilots. And these groups are loved by Israel." Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law, on The +972 Podcast.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And yet this man is still President.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He's sinking into his second childhood so quickly that soon he won't be able to speak at all, just gurgle.... oh wait.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Everything about that is obscene.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Also the world goes round.
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