Chris Down 🏳️🌈 @plingetheelder.bsky.social · 3hFerring? Good heavens, it's hardly Frinton on Sea 😅 000
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 16hGOOD FREAKING MORNING! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBurnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trialsThe key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead. 1975485
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026British people: please stop thinking of the USA as your slightly eccentric transatlantic cousin, and instead regard it as the unhinged, dangerous, global bully, as everyone else does. 2435719
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026BBC management now cutting specialist journalists at the very regional BBC news services which garner the most viewers. Reporters in each cut from 8 to just 2. The masochism strategy in action. Genius. @michelepaduano.bsky.social: “If it’s going to go online it’s got to go online distinctively…”1/ 22015
Chris Down 🏳️🌈 @plingetheelder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Josh Widdecombe isn't really contributing anything to the Strictly presenting team really. He's nice enough but feels like a spare part. Emma and Johannes are spot on (mostly) #strictly 020
Chris Down 🏳️🌈 @plingetheelder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is terrible. Thankfully, Ive no memory of it. #totp 000
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate 1225856
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Share good news too www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comHealthy Babies programme to be expanded across EnglandScheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies 1176
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yesterday, French president Emmanuel Macron said it would be “excellent news’ and “a good decision” if Britain decided to rejoin. Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez said Britain would be welcome back to the EU "with open arms". Let’s go! #RejoinEU 🙂 21403114
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Unlike Simon Clarke, I was alive during the 1970s. A combination of low inequality, low crime and aspects of culture made 1976 one of the happiest years on record in the UK. The IMF bailout had zero impact. Lesson for Simon, happiness is not just a function of wealth. 78508116
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A Prime Minister seeking to fix this country's pressing problems and the broken politics and stagnant consensus that underpins so much of it... A PM promising real improvements rather than unicorns sunlit uplands and an agenda of hate... Who knows? This could be catching. 4277697
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17071371955
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...youtu.beMost TV is Just This NowYouTube video by Michael Spicer 55971307
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Great thread, the maritime experience of the Norman invasion, and respect for the channel. 172
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho 38803212
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 766286695988
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none. 23032711210
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Joe Walsh Is Right...... 1003205566210
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026To the 'AI is out of the bottle' folks: so were cigarettes, so was opium, so was uranium in household goods, so was asbestos. It's perfectly possible to look at a financially successful product, decide it's dangerous and work to control it it 611020
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“If managed poorly I even believe AI could be risk to humanity as a whole” CEO of Anthropic said this. And Sam Altman of OpenAI is urging governments to unite in regulating AI. Except these guys have all the power to ‘slow the AI race’. But they won’t because they’re still competing. Mad world! 22815
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 21/09/2026It’s just a conference motion and only from the party with the third most seats in Parliament but it passed resoundingly and I do think that matters. 430436
Chris Down 🏳️🌈 @plingetheelder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is why people need to be directed at an early stage in their careers to do useful jobs and not become columnists who are tasked with writing weird shit about their personal lives. Next column. "My son has cut off all communi ation with me and is sleeping under a railway arch at Xmas" 011
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Harborne: “My £36M is a philanthropic gift to the nation” Delo: “My £36M creates a level playing field for Reform” Farage: “I’ll slash CGT to save you £100M/yr” Reform: bought by millionaires to enrich millionaires. Reform voters… They. Are. Laughing. At. You. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukReform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaksExclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party 10623881023
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPeter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHSA decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds... 18433351812
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026According to the scumbag Times owned by the scumbag Rupert Murdoch the UK needs to be 'weaned off the State Pension', which is actually more than paid for by NI contributions. What the UK really needs to be weaned off is Rupert Murdoch. Get this evil fucker and his disgusting rags out of the UK. 14462124
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bank of England and the British financial system were deeply involved in the enslavement and trafficking of millions of African people. Slavery and colonialism is part of British history. It should be part of school curriculum, so that we can recognize ourselves and do better.theguardian.comSlave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research findsDozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans 36572229
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Sally 🌻 @mamasallysocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#DogDayTuesday 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 257114241607
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Are the Tories making plans for the dead to keep working? 68789157
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige. 13353371299
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat. 781708559
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Medieval floor tile from Hyde Abbey in Winchester. The Benedictine abbey was located near the city walls. The tile is now part of the collections at Winchester City Museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #HydeAbbey #Winchester 015427
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 08/09/2026‘The UK is in talks over rejoining EU #security missions, in a move that would further widen Labour's "reset" in relations with Europe. The agreement under negotiation could see British officials and experts take part in civilian crisis management operations for the first time since #Brexit.’bbc.co.ukUK begins talks to rejoin EU security missions after BrexitThe deal could see British officials take part in crisis management operations for the first time since Brexit. 183
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The entrance passage of Cuween Chambered Cairn in Orkney. The Neolithic tomb is also known as the ‘Tomb of the Dogs’ on account of the skulls of 24 dogs which were found along with human remains. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Orkney 430161
Chris Down 🏳️🌈 @plingetheelder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Ive just caught The Archer's omnibus theme tune after many years of not tuning in. It sounds like the remnants of The Wurzals having a violent punch up with the surviving members of Steeleye Span. 😏 020
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈©️garethaethwy 2024 @garethaethwy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I wonder how many of the "protesters" currently blocking roads at Dover were apoplectic with gammonrage at the sight of Just Stop Oil protesters blocking roads in London? And where is the firm response that the police used when dealing with those protests?bbc.co.ukDisruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protestImages appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings. 33719
Chris Down 🏳️🌈 @plingetheelder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Well. This looks important. Finger on the pulse of the nation etc.. 130
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We don't use billionaire donors. We're powered by you. We can win in Holborn & St Pancras. But only with your help! 👇🏽 10676158
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If you privatise the profits from fossil fuels, you can’t keep socialising the costs of the damage. Those who’ve profited should pay their fair share of the impacts. That’s why Spain’s push for an EU oil and gas tax to help fund climate adaptation is worth supporting. www.ft.com/content/86da...ft.comSpain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change responseRising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy 7528235
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 31/08/2026#RecipeOfTheDay is half pudding (in the English rather than American sense of the word) and part cocktail. I bring you the fabulous Sgroppino, in which lemon sorbet, vodka and Prosecco combine to create a frosty and frothy concoction of celestial lightness! www.nigella.com/recipes/sgro... 1/2 ⬇️nigella.comSgroppinoTake a deep breathe, relax your jaw, get ready to roll your Rs in exuberant Italian fashion and say joyfully with me ‘Sgroppino’! It’s a word, pronounced ‘zgrrrroppeeno’, that I delight in saying, alt... 1632329
Chris Down 🏳️🌈 @plingetheelder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026What a horrible little shit James Dyson is. Really. 000
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/08/20264.4m UK jobs fall below the real Living Wage. Real Living Wage rate is £14.80 an hour for workers in London, £13.45 elsewhere. Statutory minimum wage for workers aged 21 and over is £12.71 per hour. Neoliberals begrudge decent wages. Can't grow economy on the back of poverty. 21281126
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you 21988923212
Reposted by Chris Down 🏳️🌈James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm in Wilford (Notts) this morning. The grooves on the porch door & chancel arch are said to be made by archers sharpening arrows. Instead, the marks are likely the results of parishioners harvesting stonedust to use in curative potions. More info: triskeleheritage.com/mediaeval-my... 1378
