Reposted by Martyn HornerMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a nice idea, but the 'goneth' ruins it. It's so jarring. I wish people would try just slightly harder with this kind of thing. And if there's one place I expect to find sympathy for this pointless peeve, it's here. 5534918
Reposted by Martyn HornerIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film. 4703150840
Reposted by Martyn HornerBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "We will contest the next election with a manifesto commitment to change the electoral system, so that everyone's vote counts. And everyone's voice is heard." 1528065
Reposted by Martyn HornerBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026🚨BREAKING🚨 "Caring for other people's parents on poverty pay, but doing it with huge skill, humor, and humanity, holding a threadbare system somehow together, yet invisible to the political class of this country" "I want to speak directly today to our care workers. You are not invisible to me." 1027559
Reposted by Martyn HornerBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies." 831622421
Reposted by Martyn HornerAlan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Plain speaking with a touch of humour (delivered straight faced) is sometimes the way to go Give that man a 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 411633
Reposted by Martyn HornerMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Don't download the Trump app. Everything he does is underhanded and dishonest. 1391614708
Reposted by Martyn HornerMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Apparently, Donald didn't wait until he left to start sulking. 62744100
Reposted by Martyn HornerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda) 15246382043
Reposted by Martyn HornerMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026God/Jesus: "Flatter me and I will save you." Human: "Save me from what?" God/Jesus: "Me." 3933294671
Reposted by Martyn HornerDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage. 93934462234
Reposted by Martyn HornerRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it. 17348203
Reposted by Martyn HornerJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243894011284
Reposted by Martyn HornerCold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Haywain 2026 501955812
Reposted by Martyn HornerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Call me old-fashioned, but I do think we could be losing our sense of proportion. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHarry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach 701020163
Reposted by Martyn HornerAngus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Satellite images reveal evidence that there may have once been water on the surface of the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 0366
Reposted by Martyn HornerEllory @thelocalmuffin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you are cutting corners with art, photos, and even text, I will assume you are cutting corners elsewhere. I have been proven right one too many times. If I see AI in your flyers, I'm now just avoiding you. I don't care if it's rude. I'm dropping you mid order. 16522144
Reposted by Martyn HornerMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026An important reminder to a nation full of pious busybodies: 462694838
Reposted by Martyn HornerBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/07/2026Under Trump green policies are not merely dismantled, but increased fossil fuel use is being pursued with heinous glee. Such a conflict effectively pits the US against the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…theguardian.comEurope is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander HurstThe White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change c 26520
Reposted by Martyn HornerPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It is very hard to see how anything other than a secession of all UEFA countries from Fifa (which other confederations would follow, as the WC is worth very little without European teams and markets) can put a stop to the assault Infantino and his US friends are leading on football. 691312281
Reposted by Martyn HornerRichard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A new government is setting its direction. I and many others have just signed the European Movement’s petition asking Andy Burnham to drop the red lines on the EU and set out a plan for Britain’s European future. Why not add your name? Click here: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/5_asks_for_a...europeanmovement.co.ukOur 5 Asks for Andy BurnhamAndy Burnham must seize the moment to build a bold, forward-looking agenda for his administration to lead the UK towards a new European future. 25537
Reposted by Martyn HornerThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 21/07/2026These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of July 21, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 830858
Reposted by Martyn HornerJack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 20/07/2026What a weird worldview 8257233
Reposted by Martyn HornerCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface 11188462999
Reposted by Martyn HornerTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13/07/2026So many memes, so little time. Source: substack.com/@nigelfarage... 728679
Reposted by Martyn HornerThe Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Ann Widdecombe was one of the most regressive people in modern politics - an enthusiastic supporter of Section 28, a climate change denier, an alternative medicine crank. An absolute dinosaur. And like the dinosaurs, she is rapidly becoming part of the local geology. 0132
Reposted by Martyn HornerMark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The media always try to rehabilitate people's reputations when they die. Ann Widdecombe was a nasty, hateful, homophobic, racist bigot. That's all her epitaph should read. 1121
Reposted by Martyn HornerPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The death of Ann Widdecombe has triggered the memory of all the Brexit MPs turning their back when Ode to Joy was played in the EU parliament. It was absolutely shameful and one of the many reasons she deserves zero respect. 1935357
Reposted by Martyn HornerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...henryfudgeofficial.substack.comDegeneracy is a SymptomOn Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you. 49531216
Reposted by Martyn HornerAlistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 30/06/2026Excuse me. Has anyone seen the FUCKING LABOUR PARTY? 2253
Reposted by Martyn HornerMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Donald Trump’s design aesthetic makes Liberace look like Mies van der Rohe. 2870794
Reposted by Martyn HornerDr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time - Carbon BriefFor the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, according to Carbon Brief analysis. 16516131
Reposted by Martyn HornerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The founders, in the Treaty of Tripoli -- begun under Washington, signed by Adams, ratified by a Senate filled with other crafters of the Constitution -- said "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Tom Emmer is a dumb-as-dirt bigot. 1353144929
Reposted by Martyn HornerDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat 451231642
Reposted by Martyn HornerDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Can't believe it's been 10 years of being told that you mustn't call ignorant bigots ignorant bigots. You just have to politely live with the mess they've made 221411273
Reposted by Martyn HornerJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Andy Burnham’s government should reverse 40 years of privatisation with a long-term plan to take over failing utilities in administration, issuing “bonds for shares” and setting up state competitors, according to a new blueprint for “Manchesterism”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comBurnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of privatisationExclusive: Productive State policy paper envisages state regaining control of basics to make life affordable, in fleshing out of Manchesterism 1911817
Reposted by Martyn HornerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?" 468320826924
Reposted by Martyn HornerAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I don't think I like the narrative of being in a divided country. When somebody is racist I don't have a difference of opinion with that person. they have a moral failing. I'm not obliged to reach over the boundary and explain that we could probably swap kidneys if we needed. Who has the time lol 202256497
Reposted by Martyn HornerChris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It is absolutely the perfect metaphor for this myopic and utterly thick US administration. Government By Unintended Consequences. 213716
Reposted by Martyn HornerDutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 14/06/2026On the birthday of dictator Trump, let us above all enjoy what it was like to have a president who commanded respect throughout the world and was very loved by almost the entire population. When I see this, I have to smile. Obama was amazing. Share this, if only to tease Trump. 24558237
Reposted by Martyn HornerParis Marx @parismarx.com · 10/06/2026more countries need to follow this example 1530151
Reposted by Martyn HornerJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 10/06/2026Realistically, Keir Starmer is probably in his final month as prime minister. There a freedom in that, or there would be if he chose to embrace it. So it feels especially telling that even in the face of what's happening in Belfast he's still so…absent. And tepid. It's consistent, I guess? 2128847
Reposted by Martyn HornerWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same. 8136031128
Reposted by Martyn HornerProf Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I often see this with EDI stuff 👇. Serious problems are identified in an organisation, which mean that minoritised people are being treated unfairly. When folk in leadership learn this, they wring their hands and say they wish they could do something about it. But they can. And they choose not to. 112025
