Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10hArcher’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999. 23917289
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 21hI had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him. 381566617
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. 55938335
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 19h"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 3842981127
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have heard rumours that Richard Tice heads a company called Britain Means Business, that has no employees and sells no products but takes in very large donations from foreign based people and forwards them to Reform UK Ltd. I can't believe this is true, but if it is it should bring down Reform. 391331427
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16hNEW The morality tale of the Bayeux Tapestry The story of the FAFO of Harold Godwinson By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7514...prospectmagazine.co.ukWhat the Bayeux Tapestry is really aboutIts 70 metres can be reduced to a single acronym: FAFO. For that’s what King Harold, the oath-breaker, did 47018
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNovel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic PlagueThe study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice.... 26633199
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 18hKemi’s protective dome has been activated in ‘operation cover up’ of perjury 🤬 Mr Justice Potts told Archer before sentencing him: "These charges represent as serious an offence of perjury as I have had experience of and have been able to find in the books." www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/...theguardian.comArcher jailed for four yearsLord Archer was today jailed for four years after being found guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star. 041
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Dr Dr Dr Alfred PruneTORIUS, PhD, JD, TLA @drprunesquallor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026GET ‘IM! 042
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pennsylvania confirms more than 1,000 measles cases No other state has reported that many measles cases in 35 years. Read more: bit.ly/4ANCqfo 34723
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Major @majorarschloch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Former GOP CongressIdiot: THERE'S A PLAGUE IN RUSSIA! LOCK IT DOWN!! Me: what about the plague we have at home? apnews.com/article/meas...apnews.comPennsylvania's measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the USPennsylvania has more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in decades. 43517
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They still havent a clue have they 🤬🤬🤬 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Tory attack on 20mph speed limits is already a losing battle | Roger HarrabinOnce people have experienced the benefits in their area, there is barely any appetite for bringing the speed back up, says energy and environment analyst Roger Harrabin 011
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For a long time I have heard rumours of secret plans hatched in Moscow by Isabel Oakeshott and Michael Ashcroft to discredit David Cameron ahead of the EU Referendum and I've always believed them. 66921
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For a long time I've heard rumours of Reform UK supporting Islamophobes who warn of dangers of Sharia law happily holidaying and buying flats in Dubai which runs under Sharia law If true, they should be forced to wear a T-shirt proclaiming 'I'm a far right hypocrite' meme via We Demand UK 26597168
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not the sharpest pencil in the box when you take the advice of ‘Neil Record, the chair of the UK’s main climate-sceptic lobby group Net Zero Watch’ They filled the rivers with 💩, now salting the soil to finish the job🤬🤬 www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...carbonbrief.orgFactcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal - Carbon BriefThe leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has shattered the political consensus on climate change in a speech attacking the UK’s net-zero by 2050 target. 031
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 05/10/2026Brexit has failed, loss of exports to the EU, high energy prices, problems getting hold of medications, visa requirements, no more Pet Passport.. the list is endless. Ask your MP to attend the parliamentary discussion about getting closer to the EU again. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...europeanmovement.co.ukAsk your MP to stand up for our future in EuropeOn 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? 39042
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We have answers to the crisis that #climatechange brings, planting trees is just one response but the positive impact would be immense. #ClimateAction is required now. 061
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not the sharpest pencil in the box when you take the advice of ‘Neil Record, the chair of the UK’s main climate-sceptic lobby group Net Zero Watch’ www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...carbonbrief.orgFactcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal - Carbon BriefThe leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has shattered the political consensus on climate change in a speech attacking the UK’s net-zero by 2050 target. 010
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That's pretty smart comms 12687131
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab... 261012329
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/10/2026The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…goodlawproject.orgIs this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law ProjectThe Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t 10411173
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So why is his handler doling out $5K cheques to voters and offering $90 to certain pensioners🤔 The mans a total 🤡 010
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/202690 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️ 523383
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The backer of the hacker, Speaks volumes🤮 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comBafflement over Tory MP's admission she hacked Harriet Harman's websiteFormer hacktivists say action by Kemi Badenoch breaches Computer Misuse Act and question potential for prosecution or reform 020
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“I’m the new thatcher, you can’t have free anything, you’ve got to earn your keep🧙🏿” 020
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Tech Bros won’t stop with the US & Argentina. This is a global project. Please read the thread. #PaxSilica 513267
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🎶there’s no one quite like Grandma🎶static.klipy.comHappy Granny Dances EnergeticallyAlt: Happy Granny Dances Energetically 020
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not just the IED….. Residential terrorist of Sidcup 🤬🤬🤬 1103
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Swinney: “I urge the UK Government to be bold and recognise the benefits of European Union membership and to work towards returning to the EU as swiftly as possible.” www.thenational.scot/news/2660433...thenational.scot'Scotland's best future lies within the EU', John Swinney saysJohn Swinney has urged the UK Government to work towards returning to the EU as swiftly as possible 58930
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ian Hislop on 40 years as Private Eye editor and why Britain “isn’t” broken #Newsnight youtu.be/TCOdomjE0dw?...youtu.beIan Hislop on 40 years as Private Eye editor and why Britain "isn't" brokenYouTube video by BBC Politics 48420
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Bore dastatic.klipy.comBenjammins The Joker Dancing Down StairsAlt: Benjammins The Joker Dancing Down Stairs 030
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'. 11034541288
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼 851934536
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street. 13161221611
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools. 47849287
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026'Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice called for “brilliant British made buses” at his party’s rally in Doncaster - while a Swedish Volvo-branded bus painted in the party’s colours was parked outside.' www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/reform-...doncasterfreepress.co.ukReform UK demands British made buses -as Swedish Volvo bus parked at Doncaster rallyThe deputy leader called for “brilliant British made buses” - with the Volvo vehicle parked outside 42311
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 02/10/2026Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...humanists.ukKeep Christian Nationalism out of our schoolsReform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei... 23362152
Mark Beeney🗿 @markbeeney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Quack foundation Discredited withdrawn bollox pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38221509/ Mccullough, Huschler, Makis, 🤮🤮🤮🤬🤬🤬 & then theyhsve the views of Wakefield🤮🤮🤮 wakefieldmediagroup.com/press/104-mc...wakefieldmediagroup.comMcCullough Foundation - Dr Andy WakefieldDr. Andrew Wakefield first drew widespread attention for his 1998 Lancet MMR autism study; he had discovered a new disease. 030
Reposted by Mark Beeney🗿Reverend Genes @reverendgenes.com.au · 02/10/2026'Thing about risk is it's riskiness. No matter if we play, run, watch, or hide. When records break, we mitigate. There's no other answer. Change we must. Why wait? #ClimateChange ⚖️ 🌏 🌱 ☮️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auSouth-east faces flooding, storms after second-driest September on recordAfter a warm and dry start to spring, heavy rain is expected to sweep across south-east Australia this weekend. 1124
