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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Just another Dick with an opinion. Author, journalist, international development wonk, #vegetarian #Humanist, #Unitarian.

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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 13s
Endless inane Marvel movies?😎
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 2m
Wow, outrage about posts onTwitter, how very 2018.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 5h
I've always thought the wonderful thing about watching cricket is you can relax, chat and eat sandwiches, confident that nothing interesting will happen for hours at a stretch. The most delightfully English of sports.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 5h
Well. The native people discovered it before that 😎
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 13h
Trump should be shot on live TV for treason. He's selling out democracy to Russia, for the slim hope of buying votes. He's a traitor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Miranda was right tho, she just didn't stick to her convictions.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
James Blunt isn't tax resident in the UK, and is timing his new album release to capitalise on #CelebrityTraitors. What more reason to murder him do the Traitors need🤨🤔
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's hard to even search for anything these days without training AI.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If the US was proposing public executions for bald dictators with fake hair, I might not disapprove😎
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Perhaps if she called you last, it's your turn 🙃
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Lib Dems are not just "one of the smaller parties" #bbcpm, they're the third largest party in Westminster. Far more important than the Greens and Reform, who dominate the news despite barely having two handfuls of MPs between them.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trans formation eh?
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have a certain malicious glee at people recreating the Adobe Suite purely through vibecoding: I have an ancient version of Photoshop, and it outrages me I can't upgrade without forking out $40 per month. Is it good? Is it safe? Is this troubling or liberating? www.designweek.co.uk/first-ai-cam...
designweek.co.uk
ArtCraft’s Adobe Suite copy was made with AI
ArtCraft have copied a huge chunk of Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite using AI - and it’s going to cause a hell of a fuss.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At 6 years he's the longest serving leader in UK politics!
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They don't affect the fundamental nature of how your brain works and how you process information from birth until death.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ed Davey is a decent chap, but unfortunately he's made himself a bit of a joke, and the party has languished in public attention, despite being the third largest party in British politics. Perhaps it is time for a fresh approach.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Regardless what you or I think, the motion was opposed by the senior leadership including Polanski. It was unconstructive and futile virtue-signalling, which has damaged the party's prospects of gaining mainstream ground.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
True, but those don't impact the very nature of how you interact with people, how they think, learn and work.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It depends who's saying it: I have been at anti-genocide rallies where it's been used in violent hate speech. South Africa's government and apartheid policies were evil, but people didn't call for South Africa and its white population to be wiped off the map, as is happening with Israel today.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My concern - if it's relevant given I'm neither a medic nor autistic - is so many people now have the AuDHD label, with such a wide spectrum of traits and support needs from severe disability to none, that it's become a bit meaningless or hard to know what it actually means.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It calls for "the establishment of a single Palestinian State between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea", and the end of the nation of Israel. "River to the sea" is often used in antisemitic speeches calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Palestine. www.dw.com/en/from-the-...
dw.com
Why 'river to sea' pro-Palestinian slogan is controversial
Amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, "From the river to the sea" has emerged as a contentious pro-Palestinian slogan. Some maintain it's antisemitic, while others describe it as a call for equal rig...
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Overstate" = LIE
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Worth noting: Greenland shark meat is toxic, and they are otherwise harmless and don't attack humans. The only reason fishermen want to kill them is because they are large and get tangled in their nets - which is the fishermens' fault, not the sharks.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"I have conducted a fully independent investigation into myself", insists Nigel Farage, "and concluded that no laws were broken and Nigel Farage did absolutely nothing wrong". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reform internal inquiry says party did not break law over donations sting
Officials were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a potential way to secure foreign donations to the party.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Privatising Royal Mail was foolish, but we have to face the reality that physical mail is in terminal decline. We just don't need physical mail delivered every day any more, and the fact it's become so expensive is fuelling that decline.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ah, but it's perfectly ok for a powerful white man to have a native wife from the imperial colonies, that's just a natural expression of the White Man's dominance 🤔
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And he has a very Aryan name - the Nazis loved Norwegians so much they invaded the country and made little Nazi babies with their women.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Polanski was never likely to win in Holborn even without this racism row, but he's in a tough position: how can a Jewish man lead a party with an anti-Semitic policy he didn't vote for, and is unable to overturn? He may have to resign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
I would not have voted for Zionism motion, Zack Polanski says
A motion declaring Zionism a form of racism was passed by Green Party members on Sunday.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can trace my family back to the Norman Conquest: dangerous fighting age young men who crossed the Channel in small boats. I have English ancestors, but Scottish, Spanish, Jewish, Dutch and who knows what else. Am I English to Jenrick? Of course: because I'm white.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trumpland continues to get more openly fascist and barbaric, and now it's public executions on live TV?! This is almost certainly illegal, and I hope no TV station is evil though to show it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
British people love doing things down. It's part of our self deprecation but most people don't appreciate how good we have it here compared with most places in the world. What do people saying #DefundtheBBC want - purely capitalist owned and controlled media?!
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's what all the polling says.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hannah is a terrible liar so she should've half told the truth: the Traitors tried to recruit her and she said no. She'd get heat but it would explain her nerves. #CelebrityTraitors
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a terribly sad but curious story: three sisters drown themselves, 16 years after their mother drowned. My spidey sense tells me there more to it: abuse? A cult? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Three sisters who drowned in sea off Brighton took own lives, inquest finds
Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters, who lived in London, drowned in the sea in May.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What did police discover, I wonder, that made Mr Mountbatten-Windsor so desperate to invalidate the warrant - and any evidence they found? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Warrants used to search Andrew's homes were unlawful, court says
A criminal investigation into the former prince continues and police have retained material seized from his homes.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's the trouble with having so much of TV and streaming, there's so much that's mediocre it's hard to know what to watch.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was initially excited by the Greens but I've gone off them lately. Nevertheless it would be good for democracy to see Polanski in Westminster, but I suspect he's not going to win today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Holborn and St Pancras by-election under way as polls open
Voters in north London are going to the polls to choose a new MP after Sir Keir Starmer resigned.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pity we didn't see her response.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Foxes only get hens if the hen house is insufficiently secured. We've destroyed so much of the natural environment there's little space for wild animals to live in. Foxes are just doing what they need to do to survive. Losing a few stupid chickens is a small price to pay.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ugh yes I'm suffering from moths too. Tis the season for it.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What's the obsession with Re... Reform, Restore, Renew, Reclaim... how about Refurb UK?
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And dig in my garden. I've put netting and repellent stuff down.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They're extremely good at cleaning up discarded fried chicken bones and the salad people ditch from their burgers and kebabs on my London high street! They're practically public servants. And they're much smarter at crossing roads than stupid cats, who routinely get squished.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wanted to see a cephalopod on the fifty squid.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow, Reform UK candidate for Holborn & St Pancras can't even spell his own party name! And this wasn't a typo, it's hand written!😂 metro.co.uk/2026/10/08/r...
metro.co.uk
Reform spells own party name wrong in crucial by-election letter to voters
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not because of the so-called "ghettoes", it's all the white racist Reformite flag-shaggers I'd like to avoid.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good to see Burnham standing up to Israel, who have no right to close our consulate in illegally occupied Palestine. How about expelling Israeli diplomats and closing the Israeli consulate? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remain
Israel said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Actually no, it's always been the Torygraph in my memory
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You're right and the sad thing is it's better to keep your thermostat on low than wait until it's already very cold, because then it's more difficult and expensive to get the house warm.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I thought KGBeebies was their national newsroom? I guess they're bracing for when it finally goes bust.
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