Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reform UK has received a £36m donation from a British cryptocurrency billionaire called Ben Delo Last year Delo was given an unconditional pardon by President Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022 47286157
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Needed saying. 832561680
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood 1302151650
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialBluesky @bsky.app · 04/06/2026Pssst: We bumped the video upload limit from 100MB to 300MB to make posting bigger videos easier. 634146832112
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialDr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I’m a British Sikh MP. Like you, I was horrified by Henry Nowak’s death. I utterly condemn his murderer. We should reject the division peddled by Farage, and instead follow the path of national unity and grace. Read more in the Guardiantheguardian.comI’m a Sikh MP. Here’s why we should all heed the words of Henry Nowak’s father | Jeevun SandherAs a nation we face a choice: either follow the far-right rhetoric of hate and division, or unite under our values of decency and determination, says Labour MP Jeevun Sandher 513840
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 14/05/2026Does that include the £5mn? 962005406
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The government has delivered on pledges on immigration, NHS, policing and workers’ rights. It clearly isn’t helping. Were they the wrong pledges all along? Were they the wrong things to prioritise? Or has Britain become “ungovernable”, as some claim? (I think there’s a decent argument for each.) 1217259
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6 1413022793
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy. 891817453
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Apart from the actual stats, the most reliable indicator that immigration is plunging (to our obvious economic detriment) is Nigel Farage turning his dishonest attentions to the mythical millions of benefits claimants. 18038921010
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...mirror.co.ukMoment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking rowHenchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland 22133141787
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I wonder why people who profess to be horrified by the practice aren’t shouting their delight from the rooftops… 55982235
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Rummaging through my bag right now and hoping there’s a bottle of champagne and a couple of glasses… If you know you know.... #BruceCockburn 000
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026#Trump says #Starmer shouldn't go into Chamberlain appeasement mode. Exactly why he should continue to stand up to him!!!! 000
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people. 952578421
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026open.spotify.com/album/1DY06Z... My they are back with a vengeance!!open.spotify.comEaster Lily EP 010
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault" 29950461213
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Stunning collection to complete @andrewrumsey.bsky.social triptych. #MusicalBishop andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.com/album/blank-...andrewrumseymusic.bandcamp.comBlank Arcades, by Andrew Rumsey16 track album 110
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026When Trump dies and people celebrate that fact, show this to anyone who complains. 2134465894
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...thenewworld.co.ukScreen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with itSPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing 741357709
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/03/2026It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral. 913123998
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon. 902463365
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f... Sounds like U2 might be back with some good music at last!!!theguardian.comU2: Days of Ash review – six new tracks reaffirm the band as a vital political voiceOn their first collection of new songs since 2017, the quartet have a crispness that has been lacking in their 21st-century material, as they nimbly react to shocking news stories 000
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Absolutely 551724383
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation. 1012176500
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault. 30545980719368
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officialsSuperintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas 27165563292
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialSteve Stockman @stocki61.bsky.social · 12/01/2026RENEE NICOLE GOOD, ICE, FEAR IN THE USA & THE SERVANT HEART OF GOD - I have stayed clear of the US President but he encroached on my congregation this weekend. He got caught up in a sermon on the Servant Heart of God... God rend the heavens and come down! open.substack.com/pub/sstockma...open.substack.comRENEE NICOLE GOOD, ICE, FEAR IN THE USA & THE SERVANT HEART OF GODRenee's murder brought America' obscenity to us... so too friends asking for prayer... so preaching Isaiah 42, I shone the light of a Tender Servant King up to this U.S. President... 013
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialSteve Stockman @stocki61.bsky.social · 03/01/2026WE USED TO LOOK TO AMERICA... Oh my, America! I posted this on my Typepad blog some time back... and an American friend thought about it today and suggested that I blog it here... "more relevant than when you wrote it" he suggests. open.substack.com/pub/sstockma...open.substack.comWE USED TO LOOK TO AMERICAOh my America! I posted this on my Typepad blog some time back... and American friend thought about it today and suggested that I blog it here... "more relevant than when you wrote it" he suggests. 021
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Why has Trump attacked Venezuela? Oil have to have a think about that.. 261135227
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialSteve Chalke @stevechalke.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Any expression of Christian Faith that makes us less respectful, less welcoming and less tolerant of those who are different from us, is a fake. 1113
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right. 491531331
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Simply can't say how much I'm enjoying this #BobDylan 030
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Right. Making deliberate attempt to shift the algorithms for me here from the political dystopia we live in to healing music... 100
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialMartyn Joseph @martynjosephwales.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Nice early review of new album .. thank you! 064
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim? 2254172866
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 07/10/2025A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it 301047165
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them. 652350529
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide. Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice. 221160183
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialSteve Chalke @stevechalke.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Whenever Christianity is co-opted to support violence, misogyny or racism it loses its very soul. Here’s the letter I and a group of friends wrote over the last few days, was then signed by senior church leaders across denominations and published by The Sunday Times & Sunday Mirror today. 1185
mvyn.bsky.social @mvyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Yes. #Starmers Comms are clueless and he's lost every shred of integrity anyway 010
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/08/2025One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkxtinyurl.comJames O'Brien DailyDaily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show. Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever... 45676170
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/08/2025‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest grouptheguardian.com‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest groupMore than 200 have been arrested for alleged support of Palestine Action – and hundreds more are expected to protest on Saturday 1229276
Reposted by @mvyn.bsky.socialParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Not quite sure Donald Trump understands how you get a Nobel Peace Prize. 3051557