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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone see/hear The Rest is Politics this week? Rory Stewart incandescent with rage at Farage. Good on him.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Beginning to think Reform UK may have no legitimate backers at all...

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Brand new bass guitar delivered today. Happy, happy, happy!

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I like Wimbledon, but some of these matches do go on a bit.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In France, they are going to let communes install their own speed radars. Can you imagine that in the UK? Civil war within days.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Chapeau to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for NACHO - Nigel always chickens out - when there's any chance of being asked a "difficult" question.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that two wires in close proximity will become knotted together without any human intervention.

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il Cane Saggio @bardolino.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Podcasters, pontificators and pundits. This phenomenon of 'journalists and ex politicians', pissed on their own self-importance, lounging back in their chairs trying to manufacture clicks for their website, substack, or podcasts by relentlessly slandering the elected PM, is getting rather tedious.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So, the visit by JD "kiss of death" Vance went well then. Perhaps we should invite him to all our countries shortly before elections.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It's all very well the Americans "waiting for the mid-terms." They're in November. The world could be cinders by then.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I see that the RN in France haven't done as well as they'd hoped. Crumbs of comfort!

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Look, Duolingo, I wouldn't "abandon" you if you didn't keep forcing me to commit to "streaks", making me try to compete with other users, and nagging, you little sh1t.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Have you come across Heather Cox Richardson: US Historian on YouTube? She is certain that Trump has dementia & that + malignant narcissism is a very dangerous combination. So reasons? All of the above!

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So, Farage apparently says that Iran is more of a problem for us than Russia. That may be true in the very short term, but you'd have thought, given his previous allegiances, he'd have been better off keeping his mouth shut.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Dear political commentators, if you're all going to say the same thing, then maybe we don't need so many of you. Personally, I think none would be a good number.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It would be funny if Reform, having protested about the postponement of some local elections, lost all of them.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Will Kuenssberg ask Johnson about plotting with Bannon to bring down Theresa May?

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

BBC attempt to rehabilitate the disgraced former Prime Minister, "Boris" Johnson, is it? He's on Kuenssberg tomorrow, sticking his unwelcome oar in.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Do you think Andrew would have been arrested if the Tories were still in power? I'm not sure...

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

How about ditching BBC News altogether? Hourly bulletins could be provided by Reuters/AP. Get rid of the News channel too. Would save loads of money, and it doesn't offer anything original these days. Keep the World Service. Good journalists would find other work easily.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

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The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A good post on the media, Starmer and the public.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Holy shit the Christmas of Christmases.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Is it telling that the media and other parties have made the Epstein revelations all about Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, and not about the victims and the perpetrators?

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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Who was DPP during later stages of the journalists phone hacking scandal? Keir Starmer. Who is being hounded out of office by the media,not the electorate,the media? Keir Starmer. Can you join the dots?? Try it you might get some clarity.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Politics is a mess. I'd like to see - Proportional Representation - MPs paid more but NO other jobs allowed - Parties funded by the state (per candidate put forward), and no donations from business/unions/individuals or anywhere - miscreants immediately barred for life Any other suggestions?

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Diana @neverheardofher.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The media class build people when they want to. It was public knowledge at this point that Mandelson was friends with Epstein.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit. Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Been chucked off Threads because my account or activity on it doesn't meet their community standards. I have no idea what I did, and didn't think my posts were particularly controversial. Anyone else suffered this indignity? Instagram still works.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Would now be a good time for Trump to claim he has dementia and doesn't remember anything before last week?

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We all like a bit of cash, but there are some who value money far more highly than their integrity. Chris Mason always looks a bit desperate to me, as though Gibb whips him every night to big-up Reform and do-down Labour.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Anyone else thinking that Reform are recruiting too many "ambitious" Tories for their own good. One of them might challenge Farage for the top job, heaven forbid. (Trans: bring it on!)

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Has anyone noticed a tendency on BBC News to refer to left wing governments or parties as "leftists"? They don't refer to conservatives as "rightists," so what's going on? I even thought I heard it once on the World Service this morning. More Robbie Gibb?

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social you need to do more to share what Labour do. The work they are doing is transformational & is setting up the foundations up for a much better future. Yet you do tend to be negative & rarely focus on the positives. Let's see more shows looking at policy not personality.

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Westy @westy44.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Starmer has taken a commercial flight and not used a private jet at a cost of millions? How is that possible?

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

They actually explained on BBCPM how Brexit is largely to blame for the "small boats" issue!! Louder, please.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Sports broadcasters: could we ditch the post-match interviews? (All sports). They're invariably cringe worthy & shite. Thanks.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Bet you any money that the news channels will pay a great deal of attention to Farage's speech today - if not show it in full. I won't be watching, obvs.

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

For those too young to remember, nationalised industries weren't brilliant. What if public utilities were made not-for-profit cooperatives instead? All employees being owners/responsible? Would it work?

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

What a fantastic caller to LBC!

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Government officials confirm that imports of hormone-treated beef and chlorinated chicken will remain illegal under the U.K.-US trade deal

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If you go off at the deep end over a headline (especially considering the bias of most of the press), or otherwise plunge yourself into despair about some assumption without knowing any detail, then aren't you behaving exactly like some Leaver/Reform voter might?

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Here's a thing: would you trust a politician more if they occasionally said their opponent had done something well? Does it always have to be a fight?

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Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek.com · 25/04/2025

Labour racked up the wins this week. Lots of new initiatives that just make sense (and make the country safer and greener in particular). 6 things you might have missed:

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm confused. If we are all to be identified by the biological sex we were at birth, and transwomen are not to be allowed in "female spaces", surely that means transmen will be, even if fully transitioned, muscled up and bearded. Is that what the GCs want?

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Mel James @melodij.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In the process of moving, the cost and inefficiency of conveyancing solicitors never ceases to amaze me. Grrr!

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