Reposted by Patrick OwensParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 7h"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs" 701433468
Reposted by Patrick OwensMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5hIn bragging about the power of genetics, Donald Trump always trots out his uncle's job to piggyback on his higher IQ. But he never mentions his own father's dementia/Alzheimer's, which got so bad that the family had a fake office for him to pretend to go to work in and sign blank pieces of paper. 610715
Reposted by Patrick OwensWilliam Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 13hFinal Episode in our @EmpirePodUK Stalin series: Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy With the remarkable Fiona Hill 1193
Reposted by Patrick OwensOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In (one of) my happy place(s) (Carry On, Jeeves - short stories from 1925) 512013
Reposted by Patrick OwensJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...bylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 29445203
Reposted by Patrick OwensAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Putin: "Russia cannot run around the world begging for handouts with an outstretched hand. First, because it is humiliating. Second, because no one will give us anything. And third, we do not need it. Russia’s financial system and economy are doing well. The main thing is not to make any mistakes." 1716134
Reposted by Patrick OwensBen Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it honestly blows my mind that the same country which does King’s Day and Carnival and epic World Cup celebrations thinks *this* is a perfectly fine way to celebrate your 29th birthday 🤯 5221
Reposted by Patrick OwensYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026STOP calling Israel The world's ONLY Jewish state It's a nation state therefore there's only one like every other nation state Unless you don't actually think Jews are a nation In which case what are you talking about 4387
Reposted by Patrick OwensDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread: 6496225
Reposted by Patrick OwensAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 28/09/2026So this is the UK in 2026? Actively wishing desperate poor people to die, and not hiding it. Putting it all out in public for people to see... How do we even come back from this? How do we deradicalise and deprogram a proportion of an entire population to return their humanity and empathy? 145614
Reposted by Patrick OwensStephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An Israeli Foreign Ministry official just openly called for a terror attack on Ireland. This is the kind of sub Russian barbaric scum of the earth that Zionists really are. Anyone who still in any way supports their continued genocidal, ethnic cleansing and war crimes please unfollow me 1411984
Reposted by Patrick OwensThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/09/2026⚡️Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi liberates 3 more settlements, inflicts 2,000 Russian losses, 3rd Army Corps announces The villages of Ridkodub, Nove, and Katerynivka were liberated amid newly-reported territorial gains of 51 square kilometers.kyivindependent.comUkraine's Operation Vivaldi liberates 3 more settlements, inflicts 2,000 Russian losses, 3rd Army Corps announcesThe villages of Ridkodub, Nove, and Katerynivka were liberated amid newly-reported territorial gains of 51 square kilometers. 323431
Reposted by Patrick OwensJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here's a mad idea: when you have a 150-seat majority why not break manifesto commitments you think are ridiculous and then let the electorate decide in three years' time whether you were right to do so? 37510
Reposted by Patrick OwensRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵 41658249
Reposted by Patrick OwensThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/09/2026⚡️ EU defense fund unblocked, and with it new support for Ukraine. "That’s good news for Ukraine and bad news for Russia," said the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas, after EU countries agreed on how to unblock new money for Ukraine.kyivindependent.comEU defense fund unblocked, and with it new support for Ukraine"That’s good news for Ukraine and bad news for Russia," said the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas, after EU countries agreed on how to unblock new money for Ukraine. 525052
Reposted by Patrick OwensMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The mayoral discourse in Berlin continues to be *utterly* unhinged. If the AfD had topped the polls the narrative would be “finally the people have been heard!” but since the Left won, it’s all “Queer Islamofascists and Woke are trying to conquer us with, er, affordable rents!” 191013207
Reposted by Patrick OwensAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"I can’t..." "You can. You’ve held on this long. You can do it now. You’re a strong woman." Ukrainian combat medics carried out a complex evacuation of an injured resident of frontline Kindrativka. Because of the dangerous situation, reaching her by regular transport was too risky, 526965
Reposted by Patrick OwensMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do... 341298511
Reposted by Patrick OwensMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yesterday I went mildly viral on Twitter/“X” for the first time in a long while - and my god, so many men on there are deeply Not Okay. I'm 99% off Twitter, but kept my account to stop the username being stolen. Then I posted that thread about Mars. What happened next will not surprise you. 1/ 5667
Reposted by Patrick OwensPhilip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Much better if everyone just shut up about these voter intention polls 1103
Reposted by Patrick OwensInstitute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 24/09/2026Cutting benefits doesn’t get people into work. If you want to reduce the benefits bill, you need to focus relentlessly on the barriers to work. 13214
Reposted by Patrick OwensAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/20261/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions. 26895469
Reposted by Patrick OwensMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In all the grandiose discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us. This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth. Any human contact with Mars dust? Super-bad news in the long run. 1/ 1461368432
Reposted by Patrick OwensSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The difference between the performance of immigrants in England and Western Europe is staggering. (20 pts equals a year of learning.) I looked at this in detail in the post - it can't be explained away by language or relative advantage of different immigrant communities. There is a policy factor. 3529496
Reposted by Patrick OwensFT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe 8236120
Reposted by Patrick OwensAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LOL -- Fox News cuts away from Vance's speech and a host says, "we will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news" 49486021756
Reposted by Patrick OwensSamira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have spent the last three days at and around Monte Cassino. The Benedictine monastery was rebuilt after the war. 810312
Reposted by Patrick OwensJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn. 21624128
Reposted by Patrick OwensIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime. 591608422
Reposted by Patrick OwensJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’ve posted this painting before, but it's still a mystery ~ no-one really knows what’s going on, but everyone seems to have a firm view about it! So, is she waving to the spectral child outside, or warning her, or maybe something else? ~ Jacobus Vrel's ‘Woman at a Window’ (1650) 2324634
Reposted by Patrick OwensChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Present in Sweden for 9 years and married to a Swedish citizen. Looks like a clear breach of the Brexit withdrawal agreement but also of his right (and his wife's) to a family life. Really shameful conduct by Sweden.theguardian.com‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and homeCharles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position 213145
Reposted by Patrick OwensSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Always enjoy it when @ldfreedman.bsky.social quotes Russian military bloggers panicking. 311433
Reposted by Patrick OwensJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428081169
Reposted by Patrick OwensMujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Beyond additional basing rights & a few other demands, the US was seeking a guarantee that Greenland won’t become independent. Obviously an unachievable goal that the Admin was never going to secure Deal is a big win for Denmark & GL - all their key red lines have been respected 79626
Reposted by Patrick OwensAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026From the information available, it seems this US-Denmark deal over Greenland changes almost nothing. US had bases there before; US continues to defendsl Greenland because it s in NATO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...nytimes.comU.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump SaysThe full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon. 1541770520
Reposted by Patrick OwensBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.bestforbritain.orgFarage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain 671035518
Reposted by Patrick Owenscelinawords.bsky.social @celinawords.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Of Mahmood's vile policies, Europe, sandals & the #Norfolk PCC, this week's @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social is a thoroughly engrossing start to the w/end. 074
Reposted by Patrick OwensTom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What would it cost to save 87m lives this year? Less than 1% of what the world is spending right now on war. As the biggest week of the year for the United Nations gets close, will world leaders listen? 👇 #UNGA 0238
Reposted by Patrick OwensEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026More than 4 years on, Russia Today is still busy trying to deny the Bucha massacre, despite multiple investigations by human rights organisations, international bodies, and investigative journalists that showed Russia's responsibilities. 361033359
Reposted by Patrick OwensChris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A titan. A wonder. Waiting for God, Cabin Pressure and all of the rest. 121017
Reposted by Patrick OwensAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ahead of Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, scheduled for September 23, Russia decided to join China in presenting a united diplomatic front. Russia has demanded that Japan remove U.S. Typhon missile systems from Japanese territory. 1716264
Reposted by Patrick OwensDutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For anyone looking for a Dutch refresher class, struggling with stalled motivation or wanting to start truly speaking Dutch, have you tried being brainwashed? www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/brai...dutchnews.nlBrainwash: Anatomy of a Dutch language course - DutchNews.nlReady to start speaking Dutch? The Dutch Brainwash school, which sponsored this piece, invited DutchNews’ Lauren Comiteau to visit a class. On the sweltering August day I visit Albert Both’s… 011
Reposted by Patrick OwensJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Eek. England "needs 120% of typical rainfall over the next seven months for all areas to be considered out of drought." Probably a good time to fix the insane level of leakage... www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.ukGovernment, Environment Agency, and water companies step up efforts to prevent England remaining in drought by next springWater bosses updated National Drought Group on winter plans, as research shows above-average rainfall needed to end drought by April 2027. 1829487
Reposted by Patrick OwensGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.” 675791287
Reposted by Patrick OwensPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?bbc.co.ukThe Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract showsThe Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows. 21993072833
Reposted by Patrick OwensThe Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is "Stormtroops & Freikorps Again!" - our parody of "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror Picture Show, taking on the topic of the emergence of #PatriotPlatform last week & putting it in an outrageous and glam 👠European context. One of us may have made a mistake towards the end 🤨 youtu.be/R0DGY3iH9aoyoutu.be"Stormtroops & Freikorps Again" - Marsh Family parody of "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror Picture ShowYouTube video by Marsh Family 10190102
Reposted by Patrick OwensThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/09/2026A retired archaeologist and his friends unearthed remains inside a Dutch church that may or may not belong to D’Artagnan, the French historical figure upon whom Alexandre Dumas based the main character in “The Three Musketeers.”nytimes.comHow One Man’s Quest for a Musketeer’s Bones Got Him Locked Up 99930
Reposted by Patrick OwensMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible. 561221357
Reposted by Patrick OwensHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059762393
Reposted by Patrick OwensSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access. www.reuters.com/world/americ...reuters.comCarney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reportsThe EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported. 63884392
