Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 26m2. Reform must be blocked by any means necessary in parliamentary terms. What is a repulsive argument is 'oh dear Labour destroying the lives of trans people and immigrants isn't great, but this Green motion is actually far more serious and immoral' 1112
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialChris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 19hGreat to see my two favourite cinemas are in the BIFA Cinema of the Year 2026 longlist of 15. Congratulations @hippfest.bsky.social and @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social ! 052
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 08/10/2026THE RAT (1925) is a rather silly British film about the French Apache with the lead played by a Welshman and an American leading lady. It asks the important question: do you want to see a movie that is entirely a vehicle for Ivor Novello's profile? Many people did and do say yes. 1507
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives. 9857226
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There's a special kind of trauma from the official national equality watchdog specifically become a high profile campaigner against your rights specifically (and cast you as an oppressor in the same breath), which is then called upon by some still as an arbiter of moral authority on bigotry. 08311
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialJolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Let’s go! (Again!) #nzpol Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Map 6573 kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll... 58122
silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland 000
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Excellent news. The good thing is that Palantir isn’t unique and there are many options, all of which will save the taxpayer money. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comAndy Burnham searches for UK alternative to PalantirPrime minister’s ‘Buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts 12482143
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialJustin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 22/10/2024How about a thread about a rather special train, the TMST (Trans Manche Super Train)? This was the project name for the high-speed train designed to link London, Paris and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel when it opened in 1994. 1323832
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialFlicker Alley @flicker-alley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Coming 11/24, we are thrilled to reveal our first 4K UHD title with THE ART OF THE BENSHI, a box set celebrating Japan’s venerable history of silent film narration with 23 audio presentations across nine different titles! flickeralley.com/products/the... 13217
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables 833728948
silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026💯Agree - coming from NZ where there are no land borders and not that many more train lines, I never stop being thrilled at train travel in Europe - you can be on a train and end up in a completely different country, all the while looking out the window and seeing the scenery change 010
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002200777
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialLuca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it?? 219067
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The best English film ever made 6303
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That fucking shower of human piss reckons it acts for the British people. Let's have a 'this-or-that' referendum then, as with Brexit. - RNLI or - Angry racists with past convictions for violence. When we discover that most of us prefer heroic volunteers to wife-beaters can we bang the cunts up? 315320
silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And if you want to donate the site to do so is here www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema... If you want to discuss a major donation please email helpusbuy@cinemamuseum.org.ukcrowdfunder.co.ukThe Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOMEAfter 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it! 027
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yoohoo! The Cinema Museum in London is fundraising to buy its building with a gala show. The theme is movies about movies and it looks amazing. September 30, if you can get to London! cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/ex...cinemamuseum.org.ukExtravaganza of Silent Films About Filmmaking – to Help The Cinema Museum Buy its Home – The Cinema Museum 33717
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026they should study him in a lab. I don’t think I could write this badly on purpose. still, glad this has higher billing than coverage of last night’s far right escalation 78627138
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialPaulAJoyce v2.0 @pauljoyce07.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Queen Kelly @BFI splendid introduction from Pamela Hutchinson & ace accompaniment from Neil Brand. So much to say there needs to be a book on it and, luckily there is from PH! Astonishing cinema and an amazing story of three almost immovable objects! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/09/unfi...ithankyouarthur.blogspot.comUnfinished empathy? Queen Kelly (1929), BFI with Neil Brand and Pamela HutchinsonA work of barbaric splendour… LA Times Culture doesn’t exist in a vacuum and I don’t just mean Ed Sheeran here. There was a blea... 0154
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialTanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just going to casually have this image from the Lucas Museum projected when my students walk into “Women Filmmakers” class tomorrow and see what happens 23913
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's enormously depressing to see the Lib Dems loyally falling in behind the collective fantasy of our times: that you can cut taxes, rebuild public services & solve the massive problems confronting the public finances by pulling some magic lever marked "increased growth". This is just not serious. 1614427
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541632390
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20/09/2026President Trump proposes the world’s first memorial arch that can also kill you. 891302240
silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026An anonymous donor will match any donations to the Cinema Museum crowdfunder up to £5,000 until Monday night - get donating everyone! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema...crowdfunder.co.ukThe Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOMEAfter 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it! 036
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialPamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026QUEEN KELLY in NFT1 tomorrow! Restoration by @milestonefilms.bsky.social plus music by the amazing @neilkbrand.bsky.social and intro and book signing by moi. Ambition and audacity by Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim. 0176
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc...... 481140256
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised" 4563358
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialNeil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm at the NFT on Sunday 2.30 to provide musical support to silent movie royalty Gloria Swanson and Pamela Hutchinson in a cracking presentation of Stroheim's Queen Kelly. A mindbender of a film, the silent equivalent of The Devils! Don't miss it, folks! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...whatson.bfi.org.ukBuy cinema tickets for Queen Kelly + intro by film critic and historian Pamela Hutchinson | BFI Southbank 083
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it. 51957215
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy. 792176499
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'd vote for the future where there's the option of a box that pops up when lazy nonsense appears and says "this looks like AI slop. Would you like me to find a piece written by a thoughtful human on this topic - something that's valued by other humans and is actually worth reading?" 18881132
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of? 271296341
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The dark irony of people pearl clutching about the ethnic cleaning statements is if you actually spoke to the average hill top settler they would tell you: yes, we are ethnically cleansing - that is exactly what we are doing 524159
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We've had a "Number 10 spokesperson" briefing to journalists, and reported comments from Burnham in a closed door meeting That's pissweak. If you can make videos about chicken nuggets or whatever, you can make videos about violent fascists 6675113
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What Sam said. Meanwhile, in Denmark, migrants' kids lag 20/30/40 points behind on average -and there are still people here who think *we* should copy *them* on immigration/integration. 12451140
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My legitimate concern is that this world leading success story of multicultural integration is being usurped by racist hoodlums and thugs who want to tear it all down, and many in power think that's just dandy. 421772
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...as.ft.comLabour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggeryA government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse 22863322
silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Me too! It was extraordinary and the first time that I've been able to relate the composer of the orchestral music to the one who composed all those wonderful songs and piano music. The transparency of the textures was stunning made the music all the more impassioned and powerful. 121
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 07/09/2026If only there were some legal term for where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety. 16360115
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/09/2026From the same piece, written a week ago: 019651
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt 491821642
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialTom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026almost word for word 363652846
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone... 491160372
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Chris Mason watching Channel 4 News. 491086208
silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is a good answer to those people who say politics doesn't change anything 010
silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Radio 3 has listened to you - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... about the role of the conductorbbc.co.ukBBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Arranging the Air, The Unheard MusicianMartin Handley explores the role of the conductor. 033
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialSilent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026On Wednesday 9 September, Museum of Dreamworlds presents Emperor Nero and the Spectacle of Ancient Rome - QUO VADIS? (1913) accompanied by live music at the Cinema Museum. cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/em...cinemamuseum.org.ukEmperor Nero and the Spectacle of Ancient Rome – Quo Vadis? (1913) – The Cinema Museum 121
Reposted by @silentsweeney.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’m aware when I’m throwing these stones that the new Justice Secretary is in an impossible position, caused almost entirely by previous governments. But at some point somebody in politics is going to have to consider the idea of not structuring a criminal justice system on the whims of tabloids. 1228534