Mick Bramham
mickindorset.bsky.social
Mick Bramham
@mickindorset.bsky.social
Lover of nature, philosophy, art (painting).
Concerned for social justice/equality, planet earth.
An ecological perspective on life.
Critical thinking ever more vital in a world being duped by rich dangerous deluded fools.
Existential psychotherapist Rtd
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Make Asbestos Great Again
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November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry

The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Just embarrassing. Reeves here demonstrating in under 30 seconds why trust in politicians is at an all-time low and @greenparty.org.uk membership is at an all-time high. This, as my children would say, is pure cringe.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'

🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Budget 2025.

The wealthy hardly hit.

Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.

Lobbying and political donations pay
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I am so tired of these ghouls in parliament. Making tiresome, tiresome, badly recited jokes while making us poorer and the future bleaker.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'

🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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How are all those Labour politicians cheering for it?

They were literally whipped to vote for it and then the Prime Minister suspended those who didn't.

They really are totally devoid of any moral principle.

They respond to one thing - and that's political pressure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I'm old enough to remember Labour suspending its own MPs who voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap ...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Trump never had a fan base.

He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.

It’s as stupid as it sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Powerful.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Can coercion in mental health care be justified? See our new OA-paper that is based on an adversarial collaboration approach. Two authors collaborate from completely antagonistic standpoints and come to some surprising results.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PsychsciSky #AcademicSky #philsci
Can coercion in psychiatry be justified? A theoretical adversarial collaboration approach
The use of coercion in psychiatry is one of the most controversial issues in modern healthcare. There are clinical, legal and ethical arguments in fav…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Budget 2025

One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.

UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.

7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.

That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Well said.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Such a beautiful majestic Snowy Egret and photo

bsky.app/profile/bets...
Snowy Egret next to San Francisco Bay Trail. Emeryville, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Reform's Twitter account is showcasing the new range of black shirts they plan to start selling soon.

The metaphors write themselves, and they know it.
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Black Friday discounts fail to offer cheapest prices, Which? research finds.

Pockets picked by hype manufactured in boardrooms.

Why are regulators not prosecuting companies and directors for misleading claims?
Black Friday discounts fail to offer cheapest prices, Which? research finds
Products sold by retailers including John Lewis and Very among those cheaper outside of November discount period
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Bossy headline from The Times letting Farage insist his “Hitler was right” racism was just ‘banter’.
If that were true, his politics now would be different and he’d apologise. He’s defensive because this is what he is and always has been and he’s angry with us for knowing that and for minding.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.

If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM