Alex Bellars 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱
@alexbellars.bsky.social
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Clipper Race Crew 2023-24 on-board 'Perseverance'.
Blue Bird ex-pat, rebuilding a network in the sky...
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teach / hockey / paint / cycle / sail / act / GreenParty / #RejoinEU
Clipper Race Crew 2023-24 on-board 'Perseverance'.
Blue Bird ex-pat, rebuilding a network in the sky...
Not keen on unprompted DMs
Reposted by Alex Bellars 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱
There needs to be massive pushback against Farage's narrative about how he was only 11 / 12 and it being pointed out reports show he was an adult - 18 - at the time he was doing this.
He was 12 in 1976. He was 18 in 1982.
Whilst racism was rife in the 70s, Nazi-ism wasn't acceptable throughout.
He was 12 in 1976. He was 18 in 1982.
Whilst racism was rife in the 70s, Nazi-ism wasn't acceptable throughout.
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
There needs to be massive pushback against Farage's narrative about how he was only 11 / 12 and it being pointed out reports show he was an adult - 18 - at the time he was doing this.
He was 12 in 1976. He was 18 in 1982.
Whilst racism was rife in the 70s, Nazi-ism wasn't acceptable throughout.
He was 12 in 1976. He was 18 in 1982.
Whilst racism was rife in the 70s, Nazi-ism wasn't acceptable throughout.
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I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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Oh Farage actually used the "banter" defence.
He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
bsky.app/profile/raks...
He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
bsky.app/profile/raks...
ITV Evening News had another few seconds of this interview, where he says it’s “banter on a playground”
Farage starts to say “But, isn’t it funny…”
ITV: “Okay, so you did say stuff to these people then?”
NF: “I've never directly racially abused anybody. No.”
What was funny, Nigel? 🤔
Farage starts to say “But, isn’t it funny…”
ITV: “Okay, so you did say stuff to these people then?”
NF: “I've never directly racially abused anybody. No.”
What was funny, Nigel? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Oh Farage actually used the "banter" defence.
He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
bsky.app/profile/raks...
He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
bsky.app/profile/raks...
Parking a *LOT*
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Parking a *LOT*
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I'm rustling up a tentative hypothesis that Anglo-American populism has peaked.
Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM