Dr Adrian McMenamin
@adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social
I write Forth compilers for fun. Living with cancer. E pur si muove. Social democrat.
@profanity.accountant do your thing
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
@profanity.accountant do your thing
It turns out that when you start attacking Reform, instead of just briefing a few hacks that you are going to and then doing no follow up, it has an effect. Imagine that.
New Survation poll. Have Reform peaked?
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It turns out that when you start attacking Reform, instead of just briefing a few hacks that you are going to and then doing no follow up, it has an effect. Imagine that.
Do we think anyone looking at the absolute shambles and political bloodbath that is Corbyn’s new party is going to reconsider the view that his leadership of Labour failed because of treachery and betrayal and concede that maybe, perhaps, just a little, his own lack of capability played a role?
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Do we think anyone looking at the absolute shambles and political bloodbath that is Corbyn’s new party is going to reconsider the view that his leadership of Labour failed because of treachery and betrayal and concede that maybe, perhaps, just a little, his own lack of capability played a role?
Guess what - parents who want their children to grow up out of poverty are aspirational too.
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Guess what - parents who want their children to grow up out of poverty are aspirational too.
Your Party conference is a bigger Stalinist stitch up than the Reichstag victory banner. You have to laugh.
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Your Party conference is a bigger Stalinist stitch up than the Reichstag victory banner. You have to laugh.
Sultana says she wants to ‘nationalise the entire economy’ - Stalin left the collective farms in nominal peasant ownership so she’s going beyond that. Or, just guessing, she employs empty platitudes and has never thought about any of this in any detail.
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sultana says she wants to ‘nationalise the entire economy’ - Stalin left the collective farms in nominal peasant ownership so she’s going beyond that. Or, just guessing, she employs empty platitudes and has never thought about any of this in any detail.
Interesting that they have followed the post-modern route of a totally ideology or class-position free name. Communalist Party should have been in the list.
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana’s Your Party reveals shortlist for official name
Leftwing party asks members to pick between Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Interesting that they have followed the post-modern route of a totally ideology or class-position free name. Communalist Party should have been in the list.
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I am impressed that Your Party have somehow managed to communicate via national mainstream media the feeling of being in an interminably feuding local political organizers WhatsApp with so many daily notifications that it's impossible to keep track of the feuds
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I am impressed that Your Party have somehow managed to communicate via national mainstream media the feeling of being in an interminably feuding local political organizers WhatsApp with so many daily notifications that it's impossible to keep track of the feuds
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Just like that. After a week of frantic diplomacy and U.S. threats against Ukraine, Putin rejects ANY agreement.
The only path forward is pressure on Russia to change this stance—sanctions and resumed US military assistance to Ukraine. Otherwise, the last 10 months were a waste.
The only path forward is pressure on Russia to change this stance—sanctions and resumed US military assistance to Ukraine. Otherwise, the last 10 months were a waste.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just like that. After a week of frantic diplomacy and U.S. threats against Ukraine, Putin rejects ANY agreement.
The only path forward is pressure on Russia to change this stance—sanctions and resumed US military assistance to Ukraine. Otherwise, the last 10 months were a waste.
The only path forward is pressure on Russia to change this stance—sanctions and resumed US military assistance to Ukraine. Otherwise, the last 10 months were a waste.
Well if that is Martin's last game as manager it was a great and fitting way to ending magnificent service.
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Well if that is Martin's last game as manager it was a great and fitting way to ending magnificent service.
Putin has ‘no more territorial demands to make in Europe’
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Putin has ‘no more territorial demands to make in Europe’
The BBC's continual use of vox pops is a significant editorial failing. Their own editorial guidelines deprecate their use but still they are in almost every single major domestic (and many foreign) news packages.
They're now playing vox-pops from a radio phone-in. The World at One is one of the better news programmes, but this is not a vintage day.
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The BBC's continual use of vox pops is a significant editorial failing. Their own editorial guidelines deprecate their use but still they are in almost every single major domestic (and many foreign) news packages.
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Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
rEaL wEaLtH taXeS hAvE neVeR bEeN tRiED
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
rEaL wEaLtH taXeS hAvE neVeR bEeN tRiED
The Green Party continue to follow the trajectory of Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems and have now got high on their own supply of propaganda about how ‘the rich’ could have paid for everything in the budget and more.
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Green Party continue to follow the trajectory of Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems and have now got high on their own supply of propaganda about how ‘the rich’ could have paid for everything in the budget and more.
The amazing thing is that once upon a time the electrons and protons and neutrons in your body were just centimetres from this galaxy’s building blocks but we can never meet
A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.
It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.7 million years) with coordinates (155.76054, 15.65037).
28 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.7 million years) with coordinates (155.76054, 15.65037).
28 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The amazing thing is that once upon a time the electrons and protons and neutrons in your body were just centimetres from this galaxy’s building blocks but we can never meet
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Ross Career has spent his whole parliamentary Greer so far voting for SNP budgets that push brutal austerity onto councils
Today's UK budget could have delivered for people and planet by taking on the rich and powerful.
But that's not what it did. 👇
But that's not what it did. 👇
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ross Career has spent his whole parliamentary Greer so far voting for SNP budgets that push brutal austerity onto councils
Lots of supposed lefties on here thing that their tax is going up to help the poors aNd whY dId’Nt keEf tAx thE riCh InSteAd
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Lots of supposed lefties on here thing that their tax is going up to help the poors aNd whY dId’Nt keEf tAx thE riCh InSteAd
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If you have to put £8k into a taxable savings account instead of a cash ISA, and you're getting 4% interest, and as a higher-rate taxpayer your interest is taxed at 42%, then that'll cost you £134 a year. I don't think that's "big" relative to £100,000.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you have to put £8k into a taxable savings account instead of a cash ISA, and you're getting 4% interest, and as a higher-rate taxpayer your interest is taxed at 42%, then that'll cost you £134 a year. I don't think that's "big" relative to £100,000.
@unitesharon.bsky.social here with tinpot Tory tribute act
Rachel Reeves could have taxed wealth & profits.
She could have invested in jobs & services.
“The chancellor has picked a side. Health workers, engineers & tanker drivers will pay through stealth taxes, while city bankers & billionaires go largely unscathed” @unitesharon.bsky.social
She could have invested in jobs & services.
“The chancellor has picked a side. Health workers, engineers & tanker drivers will pay through stealth taxes, while city bankers & billionaires go largely unscathed” @unitesharon.bsky.social
Unite budget response: Stealth taxes are workers paying the price, this is the wrong choice
In response to today’s budget Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said:
www.unitetheunion.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
@unitesharon.bsky.social here with tinpot Tory tribute act
Far too long, meandering, speech from Badenoch
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Far too long, meandering, speech from Badenoch