James Bottomley
@jamesbottomley.bsky.social
UK-based older project consultant guy with history in both public and private sectors. Enjoys chatting about politics, society, culture, etc. Spent time in many countries, including working in the US, so moderately familiar with other lands.
It's now clear that the US is a nakedly fascist state. The hope that it will turn around at the midterms is implausible, Trump will use ICE troops to prevent and harass the votes all over the US. Here in the UK and in Europe the die is cast and we need to decide if we are supporting this, or not.
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It's now clear that the US is a nakedly fascist state. The hope that it will turn around at the midterms is implausible, Trump will use ICE troops to prevent and harass the votes all over the US. Here in the UK and in Europe the die is cast and we need to decide if we are supporting this, or not.
Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter and Rolf Harris - they'd all be backing Nigel right now if they were not dead or locked up.
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter and Rolf Harris - they'd all be backing Nigel right now if they were not dead or locked up.
Australian government is leading the way, showing the techbro oligarchs that they don't rule the world quite as much as their deluded fantasies say they do. Let's follow suit - time they were cut down to size.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Australia's social media ban for children has left big tech scrambling
The policy is the culmination of years of pressure on firms over online safety.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Australian government is leading the way, showing the techbro oligarchs that they don't rule the world quite as much as their deluded fantasies say they do. Let's follow suit - time they were cut down to size.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
Quite hard to think of a good reason why Apache attack helicopters are cruising around over the Midlands at 6.30pm on a Monday evening in December, unless it's to create some sort of atmosphere of threat. The sound is indescribable, appallingly loud.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Quite hard to think of a good reason why Apache attack helicopters are cruising around over the Midlands at 6.30pm on a Monday evening in December, unless it's to create some sort of atmosphere of threat. The sound is indescribable, appallingly loud.
IDF attempting to execute Sky chief correspondent.
If this is how Israeli soldiers treat Skys chief correspondent & other intl journalists as they report from the occupied West Bank, how do you think they treat Palestinians living under their brutal occupation?
And Wilfred Frost, in your intro you forgot the word 'occupied'.
And Wilfred Frost, in your intro you forgot the word 'occupied'.
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
IDF attempting to execute Sky chief correspondent.
Paul McCartney versus the European meat industry lobbyists. My money's on the meat industry, but he's 100% correct and it's a total travesty that lawmakers have given in to the meat lobby on this.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Let it be: Paul McCartney urges EU to drop ban on veggie ‘burgers’ and ‘sausages’
Former Beatle argues use of terms for meat-free products ‘encourages attitudes essential to our health’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Paul McCartney versus the European meat industry lobbyists. My money's on the meat industry, but he's 100% correct and it's a total travesty that lawmakers have given in to the meat lobby on this.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI doesn't 'hallucinate'. It lies, distorts, makes things up to try to sound positive, proves things that are entirely false, uses imaginary facts to justify bullshit. The old IT maxim 'garbage in, garbage out' (GIGO) is still 100% true. The companies pushing it are also, unfortunately, lying.
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
AI doesn't 'hallucinate'. It lies, distorts, makes things up to try to sound positive, proves things that are entirely false, uses imaginary facts to justify bullshit. The old IT maxim 'garbage in, garbage out' (GIGO) is still 100% true. The companies pushing it are also, unfortunately, lying.
Offshored billionaire Christopher Harborne is the mainstay of Reform funding. He dollops cash all over Farage from his remote fortress in Thailand. Very reminiscent of James Goldsmith, who originally funded Leave from Mexico. Patriots one and all!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Christopher Harborne, the ‘intensely private’ mega-donor bankrolling Reform UK
He has made an immense fortune in crypto and – from his Thai retreat – is putting it at the service of Nigel Farage after a flirtation with the Tories
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Offshored billionaire Christopher Harborne is the mainstay of Reform funding. He dollops cash all over Farage from his remote fortress in Thailand. Very reminiscent of James Goldsmith, who originally funded Leave from Mexico. Patriots one and all!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Looks increasingly like the biggest single point of failure and weakness on the internet is Cloudflare, which their website informs us "is on a mission to help build a better Internet". LMFAO.
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
Cloudflare outage hits major web services including X, LinkedIn and Zoom – business live
Cloudflare reports it is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Looks increasingly like the biggest single point of failure and weakness on the internet is Cloudflare, which their website informs us "is on a mission to help build a better Internet". LMFAO.
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
1998. Jeremy Corbyn is at Sun Hill police station helping the Bill with their enquiries.
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
1998. Jeremy Corbyn is at Sun Hill police station helping the Bill with their enquiries.
The truly dreadful Chris Mason, encapsulating all that is worst about the contemporary BBC news service.
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The truly dreadful Chris Mason, encapsulating all that is worst about the contemporary BBC news service.
NHS drug bill to rise 25% to avoid tariffs on UK pharma exports to the US. This isn't good news and bad news. It's very bad news and it's news that as mass ordinary users of our most important public service, we don't care about, eg, serving corporate interests.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
NHS to pay 25% more for innovative drugs after UK–US zero-tariff deal
Agreement could cost NHS £3bn more in drugs over next three years, industry sources estimate
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
NHS drug bill to rise 25% to avoid tariffs on UK pharma exports to the US. This isn't good news and bad news. It's very bad news and it's news that as mass ordinary users of our most important public service, we don't care about, eg, serving corporate interests.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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“Labour are total bastards. They’ve caused all the problems of the past 2000 years.
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“Labour are total bastards. They’ve caused all the problems of the past 2000 years.
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
Reposted by James Bottomley
This, in case anyone is unaware, is England and this is one of the pillars of our so-called society, Cambridge University, capitulating to the extremist libertarian right without them having to fire a shot.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This, in case anyone is unaware, is England and this is one of the pillars of our so-called society, Cambridge University, capitulating to the extremist libertarian right without them having to fire a shot.
Sounds fascinating.
If you’re in London on Tuesday December 2 & free at lunchtime, why not come to the Society of Antiquaries in Burlington House on Piccadilly to hear me talk about Easter Island (& see my photos), & the origin of the delusional ecocide theory? Free & open to all, details:
www.sal.org.uk/event/rapa-nui
www.sal.org.uk/event/rapa-nui
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sounds fascinating.
This hardcore racist Lucy White is, we read, an advisor to Coca Cola and Astra Zeneca, amongst other corporates and also (of course) works for the Murdoch trashcan. Just watched some clips of her and she's also, frankly, an amateur and not a very good one.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
GB News urged to cut ties with contributor accused of racism
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This hardcore racist Lucy White is, we read, an advisor to Coca Cola and Astra Zeneca, amongst other corporates and also (of course) works for the Murdoch trashcan. Just watched some clips of her and she's also, frankly, an amateur and not a very good one.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Andrew Neil update - now he's claiming that Starmer was not elected. Full-blown MAGA insanity heading to Britain and in your Daily Mail, a newspaper the Guardian describes this morning as 'centre-right', LMFAO.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Andrew Neil update - now he's claiming that Starmer was not elected. Full-blown MAGA insanity heading to Britain and in your Daily Mail, a newspaper the Guardian describes this morning as 'centre-right', LMFAO.
Buckets of Saudi cash are such a soothing salve on the consciences of our politicians as they rush to Riyadh to strike more deals with the devil.
When Rachel Reeves was in Riyadh last month, she paid homage to MBS and agreed to provide £5bn in UK taxpayer guarantees to businesses owned by the Saudi public investment fund. That came a week after the execution of one of her host’s citizens for an “offence” committed as a child.
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Buckets of Saudi cash are such a soothing salve on the consciences of our politicians as they rush to Riyadh to strike more deals with the devil.
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It was Starmer's long standing ambition to end the 2-child cap, he now claims. I'm sure he is sincere and wanted to end it as early as 2041.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Starmer says budget did not break manifesto tax pledge and scrapping two-child benefit cap was ‘long-standing ambition’ – live
PM says: ‘We kept to our manifesto in terms of what we’ve promised. But I accept the challenge that we’ve asked everybody to contribute’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It was Starmer's long standing ambition to end the 2-child cap, he now claims. I'm sure he is sincere and wanted to end it as early as 2041.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
No Andrew Neil. That was the Brexit that both you and the Mail wanted.
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
No Andrew Neil. That was the Brexit that both you and the Mail wanted.