Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I agree the motion was unnecessary, counterproductive and damaging. But I understand the other side’s view. It’s not wrong to say the Israeli apartheid state is racist. I’m jewish (& quaker) and a Green party member and I’m still angrier about the genocide itself and Labour’s proscription of PA. 000
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If someone tells you not to worry and Flavio is somehow more intelligent/competent, less bigoted/corrupt than Jair they are lying to you. 021
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nice piece. When I think of Englishness, Powell and Pressburger immediately come to mind for me as well. 020
Reposted by Stephen BoydJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud has visited a historic Birmingham swimming pool dating back to 1907, while it undergoes extensive repair + redevelopment. Restoration work on the Grade II*-listed Moseley Road Baths in Balsall Heath has been underway since 2023" Can't wait to get our pool back 4405
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I don’t really understand the party either. Zack Polanski and Liz Truss both started out in the Lib Dems. 001
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I can’t remember cannibalism but I can remember dismembered bodies and Maggie’s machine gun boobs! 100
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What an amazing story and I’m happy your grandfather chose the name Boyd. My mother’s mother was a Jewish refugee from Hamburg and my father’s mother’s father was a Jewish refugee from Warsaw. 020
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Probably not many - most Americans get Irish citizenship through a different route (FBR) 040
Reposted by Stephen BoydRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123711265
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Obviously pandering to the far right. If they genuinely wanted to modernise rules and be more consistent with other countries then naturalised citizens should be treated on a par with other citizens in terms of living overseas and acquiring a third citizenship. 040
Reposted by Stephen BoydDr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Not loving seeing this record broken about 6 months ahead of schedule... 24816
Reposted by Stephen BoydSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Professor Jason Arday's former students want to "gather everything good about Jason Arday, in the words of the people who were there" to make their contribution to the public record about him (rather than to debate events + controversies of recent months) leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...leilacancode.github.ioEverything Good About Jason ArdayFirst-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students. 413039
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I haven’t looked at Twitter for ages and just took a look at the replies to Simon Baron Cohen’s tweet from July 31st - now seething with anger. 2160
Reposted by Stephen BoydDaniela Abade @danielaabade.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Isso aqui foi + de um ano de trabalho. Só c/ a @revistapiaui.bsky.social 2 meses de apuração. E as informações sobre os Hammerskins ninguém no mundo tem isso, foi o que me levou para Universidade do Texas no Investigathon do @icfjorg.bsky.social. Leiam. piaui.uol.com.br/web/captura-...piaui.uol.com.brA captura de um neonazista latinoComo um jovem do interior do Paraná se tornou um extremista procurado pela Interpol – e como a polícia conseguiu encontrá-lo depois de um ano em fuga 25639207
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I’m in my 50s with a son of around the same age so Glen Hansard’s death has hit me hard. Last time I was in Dublin I saw him walking near Stephen’s Green. So sad. 000
Reposted by Stephen BoydJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026A very good point as usual from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social The main objective of Mahmood's proposals was always to kick out care workers (as she has more or less said). That was always an economically, politically and morally bankrupt policy. Without it, the whole package falls apart. 5551172
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Just followed this recipe from @nigelslater.bsky.social and it was very refreshing and perfectly hit the spot. www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...bbc.co.ukNigel Slater's gazpacho recipeThis simple, refreshing, chilled Spanish soup is perfect on a hot day. Crumbled boiled egg makes a tasty garnish. 000
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Me - at about 18 months as well - from bacterial meningitis 000
Reposted by Stephen BoydDaniela Abade @danielaabade.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Algum seguidor/jornalista nas imediações de Paris? 21410
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Not sure I would have chosen the words “cannibalising” or “cannibalises”… 100
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Spot on - so many people who should know better need to grow a spine and some common decency 000
Reposted by Stephen BoydSimon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026New post: The Consequences of Tolerating the Far Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... The rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes, but is due to the political elite eroding the social norms we used to have against racism and dehumanising minorities.mainlymacro.blogspot.comThe Consequences of Tolerating the Far RightAs I have argued in previous posts , the rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes. In many ways over the las... 36546
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Crazy that Scott Pelley (68) is younger than the average age of the remaining three. 140
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026And we’re all descended from immigrants somehow or other. My grandmother and at least three of my eight great grandparents were refugees. 120
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Bad for everyone including the people who want it 120
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I felt the same about their Latin American coverage after living in Brazil for a few years. And after living in Dublin for 8 years (back in the UK now) I can see how this article completely misses the mark. 010
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Glad to see @janetphorner.bsky.social doing well in the Dublin Central by-election. I would have voted for her if I was still living in the constituency. She will hopefully win a seat in the next general election. 030
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026It deserves the top spot and George Eliot’s childhood home should be a museum not a Premier Inn/Beefeater Grill. 120
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I try to look on the bright side. If Burnham or Rayner, say, can deliver electoral reform - something like the Irish system for instance - they would be the best PM for a long time. 400
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 09/05/2026www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...prospectmagazine.co.ukPrime Minister Starmer is governing against his younger selfA more youthful Keir Starmer would have been turned off by the elder Starmer’s Labour party—and that is becoming a political problem 100
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Only been to one of these - Linnane’s Lobster Bar in County Clare - which was pretty great actually 000
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Funny how Jeremy Irons, Dominic West and Daniel Day-Lewis all have big houses/castles in Ireland. 000
Reposted by Stephen BoydBoston Married @bostonmarried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Oh he's good. He knows the Irish immigrants didn't always stay open minded once we became white, but he's reminding us to be our better selves 051
Reposted by Stephen BoydThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes. 431660769
Reposted by Stephen BoydJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026What a dignified spectacle. The worst people in the world somehow manage to gain brutal authoritarian power, and then support each fighting wars costing countless billions and, collectively, hundreds of thousands of lives, just to put off being tried in domestic courts for criminal offences. 69622
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Lula, the president of Brazil, was born in Pernambuco and moved to São Paulo when he was 7. He is considered white in Brazil and the prejudice against him among many in the south and southeast is more to do with class snobbery. 020
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 08/03/2026It’s complicated - there’s a certain element of racism. Someone like Ghirotti in the film would be a descendant of Italians (or Germans etc) and obviously considered himself superior to people from Pernambuco with more of a mixed origin. 210
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I also had no idea there were Angolan refugees in Brazil at that time. But unfortunately prejudice against people from the north or northeast is still all too common in places like São Paulo. 110
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I loved it and appreciated it more on 2nd viewing - I thought there were many themes that you don’t have to be Brazilian to understand. It was as much about fatherhood, machismo, generational trauma, remembering vs. lying about/forgetting the past as it was about the absurdity of the dictatorship. 120
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I wouldn’t object if a few of the better Labour MPs defect to the Greens now. 040
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 27/02/2026My question would be are we now likely to see a wave of Labour to Green defections? 000
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 23/02/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNorway's former PM Jagland charged with gross corruption over Epstein linksThe charge was brought after the Council of Europe lifted his immunity, which he had as its former secretary general. 010
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Whoever designed this (1) has incredibly bad taste or (2) had a lot of fun imagining the worst kind of chintzy brothel. I bet it was (2). 000
Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Time for a comprehensive reboot of British politics - proportional representation, strict controls on party funding, abolish the House of Lords, move parliament to Birmingham or Manchester, no more lobby/client journalists… 000