Reposted by misterbazJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I now have a standing order with the RNLI cos of all the crap Farage came out with a few years back. You can either set one up or make a donation here: rnli.org/support-us/g... 57312
Reposted by misterbazAdrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏 541006569
Reposted by misterbazTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 31/08/2026FUCK IT! Who'd like to win a signed book from me & Jim? 3 of these going to 3 randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. YOU MIGHT LIKE IT IF YOU LIKE: Weird stones Bookshops Mysterious pensioners Badgers The devil fungi Deer Pixies Sample story here: www.tom-cox.com/the-date/ 120188130
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026May be time to get my Plastic Bertrand LP down from the attic. And didn't you write about that museum in one of your early books? 110
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"The anarcho-confectioner refused contract pie attacks" I still remember a fab profile in The Guardian from some time in the late 90s. He really had it in for Henri-Levy! uk.news.yahoo.com/belgian-pie-...uk.news.yahoo.comBelgian pie-thrower, scourge of celebrities, dies at 80Belgian comedian Noel Godin, who made a name throwing custard pies at celebrities from French film legend Jean-Luc Godard to tech titan Bill Gates, has died at the age of 80, his partner told AFP Mond... 120
Reposted by misterbazPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026What connects a lettuce, the storming of the Capitol and Trump’s gutting of anti corruption legislation? A very different Democracy for Sale newsletter this morning - if you like it (or hate it) let me know! democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dont-eat-t...democracyforsale.substack.com“Don’t Eat the Lettuce”: Notes from Trump’s USFrom tainted salad to a $400m ballroom, I got a preview of democracy hollowing out from within – and a warning Britain can't afford to ignore. 45937
Reposted by misterbazRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The amazing Emma Monk 👏 Are we happy that citizen journalists like her (or me during Tories), acting with no resources, working in our own time, untrained and unpaid, can so easily expose so much that the BBC, Telegraph and Times *somehow* manage to miss? It's almost like they're not trying. 16419107
Reposted by misterbazChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This is Packard's The Hidden Persuaders for the 21st C: whereas our preferences then were shaped by advertisers, now they are shaped by algorithms. Both undermine the neoclassical fiction that preferences are autonomous: laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...laurenleek.substack.comTemperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the SameWhat 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it. 23315
Reposted by misterbazMick Fealty @mickfealty.bsky.social · 10/08/20261/4 For eight days, 1.6 million people wandered a city with no ticket, no gate, no plan, and against expectations it worked. The Belfast Fleadh may be the biggest traditional music festival ever held. My new piece on what it actually taught us 🧵 sluggerotoole.com/2026/08/10/b...sluggerotoole.comTen things we learned from the Belfast Fleadh?Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann came to Belfast for the first time and drew a crowd that may make it the biggest ever held. It also put Ulster Scots music in front of an all-island audience and got a DUP de... 184
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I believe there's a school of thought that says if the acronym is pronounceable it becomes lower case? But don't see why that should be so. 000
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The annual address book hunt takes place during the first week of December. Every year I put it somewhere I won't forget... 010
Reposted by misterbazRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel 24071602112
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Can you prosecute an ambassador for wasting police time? 010
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Ireland also beat the West Indies back in the day.. cricketeuropearchive.com/HISTORY/MATC...cricketeuropearchive.com 100
Reposted by misterbazEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"I've no idea whether Musk is an engineering genius, or just a savvy and lucky venture capitalist. The scientific world is divided on that question. I do know that he's a monstrous human being." My Swamp Notes with @robertshrimsley.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/6b1d09da-4...as.ft.comElon Musk is a real-life Bond villainThe X owner is using his platform to amplify extremist opponents of multiculturalism in Britain 45507138
Reposted by misterbazWarrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 12/06/2026Imagine being lauded a genius, having a trillion dollars and not thinking of using it to help anyone else. Some fucken genius. 1317116
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I have read the whole of War & Peace! Have yet to finish Ulysses (my annual summer visit is imminent) but if you include attempts at that and The Brothers Karamazov, my strike rate is around 40%, far higher than the original list. 010
Reposted by misterbazPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Listening to Nigel Farage this week keep thinking of Ian Paisley. Farage lacks Paisley’s rhetorical flair but the style, the dog whistles, the plausible deniability is all there Crucially, both men sent others off to do violence with their words 17391111
Reposted by misterbazIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi... 791190501
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026🗳️ ConstituencyClick 473/650 — Shadow Cabinet 🟩🟩🟨🟥🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟥 play.jmoxley.co.ukplay.jmoxley.co.ukConstituencyClickCan you find ten UK parliamentary constituencies on a map? Click inside for full marks. 000
Reposted by misterbazPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026If the mainstream press refuses to investigate Reform’s candidates and their scandalous backgrounds and attitudes, I guess @bylinetimes.bsky.social will have to do it. These are just some of our exclusives from the last couple of days Www.bylinetimes.com 17588335
Reposted by misterbazReunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026From today, for thousands of couples and families staying together in the UK just got even more expensive. Visa fees are rising again — quietly wrecking lives. We know that around 60–70% of many visa fees are profit This is not cost recovery, it is excessive charging at the expense of families💔 311877
Reposted by misterbazLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/03/2026I’ve long covered MAGA politics but I was shocked by what I heard at CPAC. It has radicalised yet further. It’s a movement convinced it must not only save the US but Western civilisation. Because in their mind, the UK and Europe has already “fallen” to Islam. Watch 👇 youtu.be/t3Y_ozT_p3g?...youtu.beWhy MAGA hates Britain | The News AgentsYouTube video by The News Agents 89441124
Reposted by misterbazSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Giving in to Trump in the end having resisted at first is the worst of all possible plays. He’ll never forget you defied him, but now he knows you’re weak if pressed a bit. You get neither the brief favour of eagerly kowtowing, or the respect of him and your allies & peers for standing up to him. 410637
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Maybe Gareth Bacon should stick to potholes... www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...mirror.co.ukStarmer hits back over Trump question and UK-US special relationship at PMQsThe US President said the PM was 'not Winston Churchil' after the initial decision not to allow American planes to launch the first strikes against Iran from British bases 101
Reposted by misterbazPress Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 04/03/2026A crowdfunder for £3,000 has been started to preserve the Brixton Blog & Bugle's archive permanently after its editor Alan Slingsby died suddenly and it will no longer continue publication www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-b...crowdfunder.co.ukSave the Brixton Blog & Bugle archiveTo preserve the Brixton Blog & Bugle as a permanent archive accessible to the local community and beyond 0118
Reposted by misterbazEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Did you see this headline? Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you? Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷♀️ Would you like to know the reality behind the headline? Course you would!😜 Let's take a look 🧵 1/25 25556357
Reposted by misterbazPetra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Since a handful of hate filled people protested outside RNLI HQ yesterday because they're angry that crews don't discriminate in their rescues and work to save all lives at sea you might want to show your support with a one off or regular donation. rnli.org/pages/ig/new...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 9194134
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026You keep saying it's obvious but your argument is neither obvious nor intuitive and calling people who don't get it reactionary and economically illiterate isn't really helping your case. 100
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I get that UC is an effective anti-poverty measure. But I'm less clear on why a tax cut, where a govt takes less money from a pay packet, is effectively the same, in terms of corporate subsidy, as a business not paying enough in the first place. 141
Reposted by misterbazBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world. 10436791179
Reposted by misterbazRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/01/2026This is a huge problem: humans are not wired to cope with this daily torrent of disgust & dismay. It's exhausting & unbalancing. It's tempting just to switch off the news. But that surrenders the political arena - & the lives of all those it affects - to the hooligans & vandals who are trashing it. 27795208
Reposted by misterbazLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole. 571654281
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Feel like the UK should be in here too www.politico.eu/article/denm...politico.euDenmark and allies boost Greenland military footprint as Trump ramps up pressureThe deployment comes as U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies talk of taking over the Arctic island. 000
Reposted by misterbazRafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime. 43933375
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Breaking: "Sweden has sent military to Greenland". Remember to read beyond the headline 100
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025'God rot you' is a curse of earlier times, 'God love you' was a common phrase when I was growing up. It's not a big stretch to suppose that 'God rest ye' might be an injunction to lay off the sauce and go to bed. 210
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025merry is an adjective so the comma goes before it. God rot ye, tedious nitpickers. 100
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025What planet etc? I have a teenage daughter and I worry about teenage boys and the likes of Andrew Tate, not about immigrants. 060
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025If interviews with untalented and uncaring people were banned Trump would never have been president. What an imbecile. 010
misterbaz @misterbaz.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Not so long ago I was getting the Observer AND the Guardian for less than that. 000
