Reposted by SomersetchrisLaurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The French have no US bases on their mainland or any French territory. They threw the Americans out in the mid-60s, even though the French owed the Americans big time for rescuing them from WW2 German occupation. Yet the UK, which was never occupied, let the Americans stay on. That was a mistake. 055
Reposted by SomersetchrisPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion 591083303
Reposted by SomersetchrisCouncil Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 04/10/2026The fact the British media is angrier about a "Zionism is racism" motion than about Zionists committing genocide speaks volumes about the British media 323979
Reposted by SomersetchrisAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump’s “Super Intelligence Force” puts AI, intelligence, trade and defence officials under his control while giving tech companies direct access to policy decisions they could profit from, creating fertile ground for corporate profiteering, regulatory capture and corruption. 59582265
Reposted by SomersetchrisTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump AlliesPresident Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 691382652
Reposted by SomersetchrisPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026 ‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk 7244102
Reposted by SomersetchrisSouth-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Daniel Hannan has been spectacularly wrong about everything to do with Brexit, so this is hugely encouraging for all #RejoinEU voters. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 63902184
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If anyone wants to imagine life under a Reform Government, this is a good place to startwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 034
Reposted by SomersetchrisOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Rachel Johnson who was interviewing her didn't push back at all and even seemed to be agreeing with her. Here's a fuller account from the police. Absolutely scandalous that an MP is not condemning this act of terrorism 2647593
Reposted by SomersetchrisOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice." 2882546924
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t even want to think about all the Brexit ones 010
Reposted by SomersetchrisAl Hatch @alhatchauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The NHS is a bottomless pit", "There's no magic money tree", "the country is full" 131
Reposted by SomersetchrisRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding. 541899772
Reposted by SomersetchrisAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The way they are so eager to murder Christa Pike makes you wonder if any of her multiple rapists is somehow connected to the US government today. 1832072
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” 010
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“How hard he fights for humanity”. What a load of bullshit. 001
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“How hard he fights for humanity”. What a load of bullshit. 180
Reposted by SomersetchrisMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The most exclusive dinner in the world hosted by Trump, apparently, though you wouldn’t know it by the AI image which has lost about six stone and 30 years. For the 185 top purchasers of his meme coin - or “suckers”. Buying $1m-worth gets you in. 5123370
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gulf War 3?news.sky.comUS forces to leave last bases in Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawalIraqi security experts have warned the departure could give Tehran and its allies free rein while also risking a comeback from ISIS. 000
Reposted by SomersetchrisAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 02/10/2026People rally against the US tech company Palantir outside its office in London, urging the UK government to use a break clause to prevent a contract between the AI giant and the National Health Service (NHS) being renewed beyond March 2027 📸 Henry Nicholls 111049
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump banned CNN, MSnow and Politico. The rest of the US media stood with them. Why is this not happening in the UK? 111
Reposted by SomersetchrisProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five yearsAlpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution 8167100
Reposted by SomersetchrisWinderful @winderful.uk · 01/10/2026Right now #wind is meeting 25% of the National Grid's electricity demand. winderful.uk 031
Reposted by SomersetchrisRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict. 13504124
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can I suggest that you sit back with an open mind and read this three post thread 111
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I assess how good people are by how they treat animals 000
Reposted by SomersetchrisMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, in Russian propaganda: 50962352
Reposted by SomersetchrisNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...independent.co.ukSpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital tripMission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth 1931795975
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Released on bail or pardoned by Trump? www.itv.com/news/2026-09...itv.com 000
Reposted by SomersetchrisGerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nigel Farage is now a desperate man. Chasing every headline; no low too low; the politics of the gutter, racism and fear embraced. His pronouncement on Fairford trying to link with ZERO evidence to asylum is beyond pathetic. 97810196
Reposted by SomersetchrisUnion Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Good morning #BlueSky from the nor’easter soaked NYC. 🌧️ 1334289890
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They are being 'promised service far from Ukraine'. Yes, they are being duped into the war, but I honestly believe that they do not know what they are signing up for 000
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If only she was a white male of fighting age wearing black shorts and a balaclava #TwoTierPolicing 010
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I know that gullible is one word, but there are a lot of desperately poor people in Thailand. The average wage is just £455 a month so £61,000 a year is life changing for the poorest 100
Reposted by SomersetchrisDavid @zero-4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Why are people having to pay for successive governments failure? A sentence Kuenssberg never uttered under a 14 year Tory government, which consisted of 5 Prime Ministers and 3 General Elections #bbclaurak 27017
Reposted by SomersetchrisWalking Pete @walkingpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Pink Ladies: a soft front for the far-right: The story of a women’s group in Stainforth, Doncaster which could have been emancipating and community led but was usurped by far right segregation and hate… www.counterfire.org/article/pink...counterfire.orgPink Ladies: a soft front for the far-rightThe far right continues to develop with the emergence front organisations posing as concerned community groups. 042
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can you legally live with someone in a no fixed abode? 120
Reposted by SomersetchrisRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trump invited his billionaire pals to the state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping last night. Since he’s been back in office, the wealthiest households have gained 8,000 times more wealth per household than the bottom 50% of households. It’s clear who he governs for. 631665770
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wonder what attracts that great patriot Nigel Farage to the far right, authoritarian petrostate run by billionaire Arab Muslims? www.desmog.com/2026/09/23/u...desmog.comUAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – ReportThe ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches... 020
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thongs of Praise sounds like a B3TA picture challenge 010
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The grift and therefore the profit is greater if he says Crown Court when begging to his followers 050
Reposted by Somersetchrisflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Times continues to push on scything public pensions, a thing they can do because they do not have to worry about public opinion. Their audience is the country’s ruling class, not you. 2522469
Reposted by SomersetchrisGreenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 25/09/2026Just thinking out loud here. Maybe billionaires should NOT be allowed to silence free speech? 14613
Reposted by SomersetchrisJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention. 211134388