Daniel Owen
@danieljowen.bsky.social
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, coated in breadcrumbs and dipped in ketchup.
Refugees welcome. Hate AI. Love fountain pens and baseball.
He/him
North Devon, UK
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Refugees welcome. Hate AI. Love fountain pens and baseball.
He/him
North Devon, UK
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Daniel Owen
@danieljowen.bsky.social
· Nov 17
An alternative, updated version of Star Wars in which Keir Starmer, as Obi Wan Kenobi, persuades Luke Skywalker that the only way to stop Darth Vader and the Emperor is to get out there and destroy Alderaan first.
Greta Thunberg is under arrest and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor isn't, and there's absolutely nothing about that that's right or makes sense.
December 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Greta Thunberg is under arrest and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor isn't, and there's absolutely nothing about that that's right or makes sense.
At what point do we go "hey, maybe automatically giving loads of unearned wealth and power to this one dysfunctional family for absolutely no reason at all is a bad idea" and stop doing it? How about soon, can we make it soon?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Email from ‘A’ at Balmoral urges Ghislaine Maxwell to find ‘inappropriate friends’
Epstein files reveal messages between his accomplice and a man who appears to be Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
At what point do we go "hey, maybe automatically giving loads of unearned wealth and power to this one dysfunctional family for absolutely no reason at all is a bad idea" and stop doing it? How about soon, can we make it soon?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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My full page comic for the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Christmas issue. With sincere apologies.
![This is a comic pate drawn in the soft pencil style of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Basically the story is this:
- Keir Starmer in dressing gown presses face up to window, excited that it is snowing
- He runs outside, builds a snowman
- It comes to life, taps on his window
- He invites it in, gives it clothes (yellow trouser, green jacket, flat cap) and we realise (face close up) it looks like Nigel Farage
- Snowman takes him outside, launches off the ground
- They fly over the landscape, we see a town below
- A man ziptying a St George’s Flag to a lamp post waves at them as they pass
- As in the original, they head for the sea - we see a light by the coast
- Instead of Brighton pier as in the original, it is an Asylum Detention Center
- They land, we see people queuing behind a fence
- Snowman Farage points excitedly at a large bin marked VALUABLES
- Snowman Farage pulls a child's E-scooter out of the bin, he and Starmer look excited
- They take off again and go back to Keir’s home
- Farage resumes his place in the garden, Starmer walks back inside to go back to bed
- The next day Snowman Farage has melted, leaving only his clothes and the scooter - now with a bow and label attached to show it is a Christmas gift.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My full page comic for the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Christmas issue. With sincere apologies.
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lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them
Inheritance tax for farmers to kick in at £2.5m, not £1m as planned, in government U-turn to help farming community - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them
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What idiot called it Fairytale of New York and not Police Navidad
December 8, 2023 at 9:33 PM
What idiot called it Fairytale of New York and not Police Navidad
The surreal absurdity of this.
Between peaceful protestors with hand-made paper signs, and asylum-seekers delivering pizza, Labour's ruthless crackdown on victimless crime really gives you a sense of their priorities: protect the rich and powerful, punish the vulnerable.
Between peaceful protestors with hand-made paper signs, and asylum-seekers delivering pizza, Labour's ruthless crackdown on victimless crime really gives you a sense of their priorities: protect the rich and powerful, punish the vulnerable.
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The surreal absurdity of this.
Between peaceful protestors with hand-made paper signs, and asylum-seekers delivering pizza, Labour's ruthless crackdown on victimless crime really gives you a sense of their priorities: protect the rich and powerful, punish the vulnerable.
Between peaceful protestors with hand-made paper signs, and asylum-seekers delivering pizza, Labour's ruthless crackdown on victimless crime really gives you a sense of their priorities: protect the rich and powerful, punish the vulnerable.
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Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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I think the people who make a technology that makes nudes of children should be put in jail. this should not be in any way controversial
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I think the people who make a technology that makes nudes of children should be put in jail. this should not be in any way controversial
As ever, I'm left wondering what Labour thinks it was elected to do. If we wanted continuity Sunak, we could have just kept Sunak on. If we wanted a government with no serious interest in policy or in making anything better, then again we could have just kept Sunak on.
An English local council innovates, evaluates what it did, finds it works (replicating an earlier study in Scotland) … and all councils are told by the Labour government not to try it. What message does this convey? Another victory for ideology & cowardice
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Councils warned against adopting four-day week
Local Government Secretary Steve Reed has told council leaders to not introduce four-day working weeks.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
As ever, I'm left wondering what Labour thinks it was elected to do. If we wanted continuity Sunak, we could have just kept Sunak on. If we wanted a government with no serious interest in policy or in making anything better, then again we could have just kept Sunak on.
My wife works in retail and she was just telling me yesterday about how 23 December is 'any old shit' day. They can pull any old unsold stuff out of the stock room and some clueless bloke in a hurry will buy it.
December 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My wife works in retail and she was just telling me yesterday about how 23 December is 'any old shit' day. They can pull any old unsold stuff out of the stock room and some clueless bloke in a hurry will buy it.
Christmas food shop was delivered yesterday evening so we now begin the week-long process of eating just to make room in the fridge.
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Christmas food shop was delivered yesterday evening so we now begin the week-long process of eating just to make room in the fridge.
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call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
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The language being used for people seeking refuge abroad is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The language being used for people seeking refuge abroad is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
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For many of our hosts, travel and family obligations means they’re unable to host over the festive break.
However, for Alice, having lodgers means that it’s only when they go home for Christmas that she’s able to welcome a guest.
Read about her experiences here:
refugeesathome.org/case-study/h...
However, for Alice, having lodgers means that it’s only when they go home for Christmas that she’s able to welcome a guest.
Read about her experiences here:
refugeesathome.org/case-study/h...
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
For many of our hosts, travel and family obligations means they’re unable to host over the festive break.
However, for Alice, having lodgers means that it’s only when they go home for Christmas that she’s able to welcome a guest.
Read about her experiences here:
refugeesathome.org/case-study/h...
However, for Alice, having lodgers means that it’s only when they go home for Christmas that she’s able to welcome a guest.
Read about her experiences here:
refugeesathome.org/case-study/h...
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If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
Starmer has set us on the path of mass deportations and a policy discourse that will demand increasingly extreme and cruel displays of performative racism just to stay electorally credible. There is the strong odour of 'at least he made the trains run on time' about this opinion piece.
Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee
Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee
It’s all there: more apprenticeships, more rights for workers and renters – and most of all, a focus on children. What a shame Labour wavers about saying so, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Starmer has set us on the path of mass deportations and a policy discourse that will demand increasingly extreme and cruel displays of performative racism just to stay electorally credible. There is the strong odour of 'at least he made the trains run on time' about this opinion piece.
When Chris Rea's death was first announced, I was going to joke that someone would depict him driving a car with Paddington in the passenger seat, but I decided against it because I felt it might have been in poor taste. I should have stuck to my guns.
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
When Chris Rea's death was first announced, I was going to joke that someone would depict him driving a car with Paddington in the passenger seat, but I decided against it because I felt it might have been in poor taste. I should have stuck to my guns.
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🎄 Missed the last post before Christmas? 🎄
For the cost of a card and a stamp, you can send one of our festive eCards right up until Christmas day!
Choose how much you want to donate, and spread some joy to your loved ones while helping to support our work.
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
For the cost of a card and a stamp, you can send one of our festive eCards right up until Christmas day!
Choose how much you want to donate, and spread some joy to your loved ones while helping to support our work.
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🎄 Missed the last post before Christmas? 🎄
For the cost of a card and a stamp, you can send one of our festive eCards right up until Christmas day!
Choose how much you want to donate, and spread some joy to your loved ones while helping to support our work.
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
For the cost of a card and a stamp, you can send one of our festive eCards right up until Christmas day!
Choose how much you want to donate, and spread some joy to your loved ones while helping to support our work.
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
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I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
Legend tells of a mythical creature - the Labour MP - which went almost extinct in 2029. Born without spines, and the males without testicles, they had necks made of pure brass. Their cry, intended to be seductive like the Sirens, was instead filled with hypocrisy and repellent to all who heard it.
Children should be able to thrive no matter where they’re born.
Scrapping the Two Child Cap lifts 450,000 children out of poverty - and over 1,200 in Kensington & Bayswater.
This is the difference that only a Labour government can make.
Scrapping the Two Child Cap lifts 450,000 children out of poverty - and over 1,200 in Kensington & Bayswater.
This is the difference that only a Labour government can make.
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Legend tells of a mythical creature - the Labour MP - which went almost extinct in 2029. Born without spines, and the males without testicles, they had necks made of pure brass. Their cry, intended to be seductive like the Sirens, was instead filled with hypocrisy and repellent to all who heard it.
Sure, because OTHER PEOPLE violating copyright is terrible and completely wrong, whereas Google violating copyright is essential for the survival of the human species.
Google is suing SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, accusing it of violating copyright by accessing Google search results “at an astonishing scale” then selling that data to customers www.theverge.com/news/848365/...
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
Scraper no scraping.
www.theverge.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Sure, because OTHER PEOPLE violating copyright is terrible and completely wrong, whereas Google violating copyright is essential for the survival of the human species.
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Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
Turns out @jeevunsandher.bsky.social was right - there IS something that unites Britain after all. 🤣
What "being right" looks like
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Turns out @jeevunsandher.bsky.social was right - there IS something that unites Britain after all. 🤣
I really think so many Labour MPs and activists are in deep denial about the path Starmer and Mahmood have put the party - and the country - on. There is a clear common thread running through their rhetoric and that of Farage, Jenrick, Yaxley-Lennon, Braverman and the rest.
Farage and Polanski have something in common. They are both wrong about Britain.
Thread & link at the end 🧵
Thread & link at the end 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I really think so many Labour MPs and activists are in deep denial about the path Starmer and Mahmood have put the party - and the country - on. There is a clear common thread running through their rhetoric and that of Farage, Jenrick, Yaxley-Lennon, Braverman and the rest.