Reposted by Richard Shilling David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 11hBirmingham locals / #avfc fans - can anyone help here? 011
Reposted by Richard Shilling Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling. 2046895
Reposted by Richard Shilling Robert 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. 541868762
Reposted by Richard Shilling Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he dislikedbylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 861509614
Reposted by Richard Shilling Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I had no idea this was an option. 841182
Reposted by Richard Shilling John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 26/02/2026Have I told you the one about the Muscovite who went to buy a toilet in the early 90s? 1147
Reposted by Richard Shilling Eddie Crouch @eddiecrouch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thanks @LewisAtkinson.bsky.social MP for an important conversation about how we make access to NHS dentistry a higher political priority. With millions facing the choice of paying privately or going without, dental access crisis is not just a healthcare issue, but a cost of living one too. 033
Reposted by Richard Shilling Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home 4301105
Reposted by Richard Shilling Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well. 55377110
Richard Shilling @wildeyedtrot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The short film is mesmerising and the comments worth a read too 000
Reposted by Richard Shilling Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comAngela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdownSpeaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers 22677183
Reposted by Richard Shilling Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359812004
Reposted by Richard Shilling Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values. 3237681
Reposted by Richard Shilling Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Of course, the people wanting to reassert traditional difference are those who 'won' from the old ordering of society: the wealthy, the private school folk, men... 5433
Reposted by Richard Shilling Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Christ, it will almost be reassuring if he is MI5 because otherwise we have utterly abdicated responsibility 310010
Reposted by Richard Shilling Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It is completely right to treat the far right mobs roaming our streets as a national security issue. Government has been far too complacent about this for over two years now. This is interlinked with failures to regulate social media platforms and the collapse of domestic policing and intelligence. 418450
Reposted by Richard Shilling Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol. 81999245
Reposted by Richard Shilling Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action 8698221
Reposted by Richard Shilling Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026Hard to think of a campaigning organisation that did its members more harm than Farmers For Brexit. 1314022
Reposted by Richard Shilling David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@starsandsabers.bsky.social 052
Reposted by Richard Shilling Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433129789
Reposted by Richard Shilling Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Andy Burnham: 'Over the past decade, Labour has taken a very wrong turn over immigration. By doing so we've enabled the rise in racism and anti-immigrant feeling that has led to disasters like the attacks on the RNLI. That stops now. This is not the UK that I love.' Nah. Kidding. He says nothing. 1118044
Reposted by Richard Shilling Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428101169
Reposted by Richard Shilling Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comLifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right actionRNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel 1101929552
Reposted by Richard Shilling Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.independent.co.ukRNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protestsRNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore 27555172
Reposted by Richard Shilling Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So who is condemning this? Will journalists be pushing politicians to explain how these are 'legitimate concerns'? 314942
Reposted by Richard Shilling Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The cost of diesel fuel has increased by nearly 100% since Trump attacked Iran “What we’ve done” is lost 18 troops, injured 813 more, spent about $35 billion and depleted our munitions-while conceding the Strait of Hormuz and crippling our economy And STILL we don’t have Iran’s nuclear material 48931
Reposted by Richard Shilling James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026I'm sorry, but what on *Earth* is that quote from Lisa Nandy? Who does Labour think its voters are? Does anyone in the party have any kind of theory of how they win the next election that isn't just slammjng the "appease racists" button over and over again until it starts working? 3130764
Reposted by Richard Shilling Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“Asking for tax handouts while turning record [unearned war] profits during a #climateemergency takes staggering audacity – even by the fossil fuel industry’s standards" 1/2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comScrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urgesLabour should replace levy in 2027 rather than 2030 as energy bills are poised to surge over the winter, says lobby group 612864
Reposted by Richard Shilling Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297707666
Reposted by Richard Shilling Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#awks for the wrong doers who screamed blue murder. 15419
Reposted by Richard Shilling Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059832394
Reposted by Richard Shilling Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 13/09/2026#Croydon people: share this around 031
Reposted by Richard Shilling Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I ran a marathon to raise money for MSF. Attacks on MSF and RNLI and Amnesty are what fascists literally do. They want to devalue all humane effort, all care for fellow man. These are dangerous, dangerous times. 5337129
Reposted by Richard Shilling David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how). 4156771560
Reposted by Richard Shilling Stella @stella-b.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If all the sensible people sent an envelope to this address their obscene donations would be spent. 273
Reposted by Richard Shilling It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian BBC News: 😊 10773244
Reposted by Richard Shilling Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short. 3128306
Reposted by Richard Shilling Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Honestly, as a sometimes tort defense lawyer, I would suggest less public comments about your prior knowledge of your own products' dangerousness. 461042174
Reposted by Richard Shilling Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land. 8476692172
Reposted by Richard Shilling Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Labour party members have selected the council leader, Sagal Abdi-Wali, to be the party's candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, from a shortlist of three local councillors. She grew up in Camden, after coming to the UK as a young child refugee, over 35 years ago 930261
Reposted by Richard Shilling Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.) 14976325
Reposted by Richard Shilling Robert 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 🧵) 4123731266
Reposted by Richard Shilling Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."nicklowles.substack.comDid Kent Police ignore a 999 call?Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information. 26710282
Reposted by Richard Shilling Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This very much includes the civil service which seems entirely passive in coordinating any response to public disorder. 58522
Reposted by Richard Shilling Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026theres genuinely a way to be an authoritarian bastard home secretary that you can use to rebuff far-right agitation, and i genuinely think mahmood is incapable of making use of it because shes just not very good 612815
Reposted by Richard Shilling South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If no other picture survives Reform UK conference this year, let it be this one. It is a teachable moment. #ReformAssault #Fascism 891168515