@mvyn.bsky.social
Work for int devt charity, trustee and governor in spare time. Passion for social justice. Opinions my own. Enjoy rugby, guitar, good theology.
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Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
Right. Making deliberate attempt to shift the algorithms for me here from the political dystopia we live in to healing music...
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Right. Making deliberate attempt to shift the algorithms for me here from the political dystopia we live in to healing music...
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Nice early review of new album .. thank you!
getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/10...
Album review: MARTYN JOSEPH – Troubled Horses #musicsky @martynjosephwales.bsky.social
Album review: MARTYN JOSEPH – Troubled Horses #musicsky @martynjosephwales.bsky.social
Album review: MARTYN JOSEPH – Troubled Horses
Share the post "Album review: MARTYN JOSEPH – Troubled Horses" FacebookTwitterLinkedInE-mailBookmarkPrint Website [Release date 07.11.25] Well I’m ashamed to say, Martyn Joseph has released a stagger...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Nice early review of new album .. thank you!
My what a wonderful surprise!!
October 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My what a wonderful surprise!!
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"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
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A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit
Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in.
After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it
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Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
October 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
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Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
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Whenever Christianity is co-opted to support violence, misogyny or racism it loses its very soul. Here’s the letter I and a group of friends wrote over the last few days, was then signed by senior church leaders across denominations and published by The Sunday Times & Sunday Mirror today.
September 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Whenever Christianity is co-opted to support violence, misogyny or racism it loses its very soul. Here’s the letter I and a group of friends wrote over the last few days, was then signed by senior church leaders across denominations and published by The Sunday Times & Sunday Mirror today.
Yes. #Starmers Comms are clueless and he's lost every shred of integrity anyway
I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion.
Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.
Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.
A debate Labour badly needs to have:
September 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Yes. #Starmers Comms are clueless and he's lost every shred of integrity anyway
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One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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August 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group
‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group
More than 200 have been arrested for alleged support of Palestine Action – and hundreds more are expected to protest on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group
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Not quite sure Donald Trump understands how you get a Nobel Peace Prize.
June 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Not quite sure Donald Trump understands how you get a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Even the most conservative estimates of turnout (4-6 million) make No Kings the largest protest in American history
www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...
www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...
‘No Kings’ Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst
For reference, that’s between 1 and 2 percent of the total population of the United States.
www.thedailybeast.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Even the most conservative estimates of turnout (4-6 million) make No Kings the largest protest in American history
www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...
www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...
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It is extraordinary, but grimly inevitable, that the people most responsible for hobbling the UK have become the loudest & whiniest critics of the consequences of their own actions. A big part of the process lies in people like ‘Lord’ Hannan actually being *rewarded* for their ignorant delinquency.
June 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It is extraordinary, but grimly inevitable, that the people most responsible for hobbling the UK have become the loudest & whiniest critics of the consequences of their own actions. A big part of the process lies in people like ‘Lord’ Hannan actually being *rewarded* for their ignorant delinquency.
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We still over-think his motivation/game plan. He’s filling his boots, even if it impoverishes his own base. That’s all there is. That’s all there ever was. (Great piece.)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist
He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We still over-think his motivation/game plan. He’s filling his boots, even if it impoverishes his own base. That’s all there is. That’s all there ever was. (Great piece.)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
May 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
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You can only presume that Trump & his cronies make an absolute killing every time the markets balk at his latest tariff tantrum. And another one when he inevitably backs down. Jimmy Carter putting the family peanut farm in a blind trust for the duration of his Presidency feels very, very far away.
May 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
You can only presume that Trump & his cronies make an absolute killing every time the markets balk at his latest tariff tantrum. And another one when he inevitably backs down. Jimmy Carter putting the family peanut farm in a blind trust for the duration of his Presidency feels very, very far away.
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A clearly insane and cognitively diminished President Trump rambled at length about a far-right conspiracy theory in front of the president of South Africa at the White House yesterday. Now here's eight articles about Biden's halting pauses and memory lapses.
May 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A clearly insane and cognitively diminished President Trump rambled at length about a far-right conspiracy theory in front of the president of South Africa at the White House yesterday. Now here's eight articles about Biden's halting pauses and memory lapses.
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There are no depths to which he can not sink - none.
JD Vance's reaction to Biden's cancer diagnosis: "Whether the right time to have this conversation is now or some time in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job."
May 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
There are no depths to which he can not sink - none.
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The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour
As the FT has noted this morning (and I share this information in the pubic interest, since it is vital that this is widely known, hence the longer than usual quotation):
The UK’s water watchdog has p...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
May 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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How Keir Starmer has made foreign-born people in the UK feel…
Brave, brilliant callers.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
Brave, brilliant callers.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
James O'Brien Daily - Podcast Episode | Global Player
Is Keir Starmer targeting all immigrants?
www.globalplayer.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
How Keir Starmer has made foreign-born people in the UK feel…
Brave, brilliant callers.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
Brave, brilliant callers.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
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Stand up. Speak up. Netanyahu and his monstrous government must be held to account for their genocidal crimes against the children of Gaza. We will never condone the murderous brutality of Hamas but the ongoing slaughter of countless innocents is equally beyond any and all words.
May 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Stand up. Speak up. Netanyahu and his monstrous government must be held to account for their genocidal crimes against the children of Gaza. We will never condone the murderous brutality of Hamas but the ongoing slaughter of countless innocents is equally beyond any and all words.