Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it. 1232646517
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comBonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband 621290234
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 08/09/2026If you can look at this photo without your heart breaking, then you don’t have a soul. 14349801318
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Needed saying. 832561680
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you were the first person ever to sneeze, you'd be like 'I hope what just happened was fine but I assume I'm going to die pretty soon'. 141107
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Tories f**cked Britain with austerity and Brexit then made it a whole lot worse by putting Truss in power to test out the batshit ideas of Tufton Street think tanks... They are not only a spent force but proven architects of decline who are in no position to lecture Burnham on anything ... 691617361
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige. 772449723
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialBuck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It’s almost as if immigration is good for the economy…ft.trib.alHealey could suffer £4bn headroom hit because of lower immigration forecastsNew chancellor is seeking to reassure investors as he prepares for first Budget in October 19356101
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Rosie O’Donnell: “Donny Boy": "Oh Donny Boy, it's Rosie, Rosie calling From Hollywood, the Jimmy Kimmel Show Drop that Big Mac that we all know you're holding Because, my dear, I worry for you so Poor Donny Boy, your polls, your polls are falling Your reflecting pool is green as Mountain Dew 362115683332
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing . 11158471558
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialJoe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026He didn’t change. They did. 7831991512854
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Nothing Andy Burnham does will work unless he bins Brexit and applies to rejoin at least the EU's Single Market. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 40394139
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026If Andy Burnham pledges to ban people who were children in 1976 talking about how they "just got on with it" he'll be Prime Minister for life 621351135
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged... 781121199
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to. 1912842758
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Should we have a whip round? Drop a few million quid in his current account. Secretly. And then ask him politely to do his fucking job? Or shall we wait for the donors & disgraced Tories in his ‘top team’ to do it instead? 74998253
olliec.bsky.social @olliec.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Serious question: If rejoining the EU boosted UK growth, trade and mobility, would Brits actually accept the Euro? Or does British exceptionalism still outweigh economic pragmatism? Surely it’s time to have that grown up conversation. 030
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialApplesHardcoreYo @appleshardcoreyo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026 392170514621
Reposted by @olliec.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 @olliec.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social) 36728571296
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I checked this too. *20 seconds* of Reform logo display. *No other* party logo displayed. In local election purdah. This is not normal. At all. 551267505
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Donald Trump is the only person in the world who doesn't realise that the expression "Is the Pope Catholic?" is a joke 211348185
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialSpeakFreely55 - It's that damn simple. @speakfreely55.bsky.social · 12/04/2026If Hungary can get rid of Viktor Orban then America can get rid of Trump. #Politics #Elections 391221183
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Nick Timothy is an uncannily perfect encapsulation of the crapification of public life in the UK: a bigoted failure blithely oozing from one disaster to the next while being rewarded at every turn by the far right media/political ecosystem. A golf club boor with the intellect of a burst balloon. 1552663532
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"The former British home secretary and Buddhist daughter of a Kenyan descendant of Goan Catholics, and a Mauritian Hindu descendent of Tamil, born in Harrow, studied in New York, married to a Jewish South African who lived In Israel says multiculturalism has failed." via Daily Scar 9596240
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious 16649411275
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Mate, it was 1066. Move on. 2782726422
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Fuck me but I'm bored of whingeing, thick, destructive right wing bell ends with power. 4398789
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialDaily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Hi Suella Braverman, when are you going to call a by-election now you’ve defected? Your new leader Nigel Farage calls those that don’t “dishonourable members”. 531863631
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him 1284210456807
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialBuck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Man of fighting age, with long criminal history, arrives in another country to avoid criminal charges. Now what would he and his followers be saying if he was brown and the country was the U.K.? 🤔theguardian.comPolice seek Tommy Robinson after alleged assault at London stationFar-right activist is thought to have left UK after claiming in video that injured man had attacked him at St Pancras 26014
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 13535501068
Reposted by @olliec.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 19/02/2025The equivalent would have been Roosevelt calling Churchill a dictator when the Luftwaffe were bombing London. It's beyond belief, really. 16655150
