Ben McKenna is Unwell
@benmckenna.bsky.social
Founder and CEO of @solidaritech.com, digital information and infrastructure consultant. Southerner in the north, builds things both virtual and real, accidental gardener and 🏴🇮🇪🇪🇸 mongrel. North London is red, and so am I. ¡Venceremos!
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This is one HELL of a victory speech for someone doing the right thing when no other choice presents itself.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is one HELL of a victory speech for someone doing the right thing when no other choice presents itself.
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
Reeves having a dig at Polanski, saying the only thing that would go up if he was in charge would be debt and inflation.
Inflation is a whole percentage point higher since Labour have been in power.
Inflation is a whole percentage point higher since Labour have been in power.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Reeves having a dig at Polanski, saying the only thing that would go up if he was in charge would be debt and inflation.
Inflation is a whole percentage point higher since Labour have been in power.
Inflation is a whole percentage point higher since Labour have been in power.
There's always money to placate the tech bros, just like there's money for guns and tanks and bombs.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
There's always money to placate the tech bros, just like there's money for guns and tanks and bombs.
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There's actually nothing this government cannot fuck right up, is there?
When are the Grown Ups we were promised getting here?
When are the Grown Ups we were promised getting here?
BREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
There's actually nothing this government cannot fuck right up, is there?
When are the Grown Ups we were promised getting here?
When are the Grown Ups we were promised getting here?
There's a lot of attempts at mitigating what he did here. Normal family man, royal marine, moment of madness, road rage etc.
This geezer drove a people carrier into a crowd ffs, he should not be in polite society. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This geezer drove a people carrier into a crowd ffs, he should not be in polite society. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Former Royal Marine pleads guilty to injuring 29 people at Liverpool FC parade
Paul Doyle, who drove into a crowd of celebrating football fans in May, changes plea unexpectedly
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There's a lot of attempts at mitigating what he did here. Normal family man, royal marine, moment of madness, road rage etc.
This geezer drove a people carrier into a crowd ffs, he should not be in polite society. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This geezer drove a people carrier into a crowd ffs, he should not be in polite society. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Should have gone with the PSV Eindhoven armoured vehicles instead
Ajax armoured vehicles paused after soldiers report hearing problems on.ft.com/49zJEZr
Ajax armoured vehicles paused after soldiers report hearing problems
Suspension raises fresh questions around Ministry of Defence’s procurement processes
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Should have gone with the PSV Eindhoven armoured vehicles instead
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Adding this again, just in case there is still someone in the UK who doesn't know that this government is now being controlled by US corporations
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November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Adding this again, just in case there is still someone in the UK who doesn't know that this government is now being controlled by US corporations
bsky.app/profile/lexi...
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Just impossible to not love this lad.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just impossible to not love this lad.
Another cracking idea from the government, which I’m sure will absolutely not backfire in any way.
💥Jury trials for all except most serious crimes such as rape, murder and manslaughter set to be scrapped under radical proposals drawn up by David Lammy.
Proposals drew swift backlash from senior lawyers who said they would not reduce court backlogs & could “destroy justice as we know it”.
Proposals drew swift backlash from senior lawyers who said they would not reduce court backlogs & could “destroy justice as we know it”.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Another cracking idea from the government, which I’m sure will absolutely not backfire in any way.
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Three unrelated things
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Three unrelated things
This is how a grown up country acts when the outgoing president attempts to stage a coup to stay in power.
Brazil's Bolsonaro exhausts appeals, will have to serve 27-year sentence: court
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is how a grown up country acts when the outgoing president attempts to stage a coup to stay in power.
There appears to be quite a few Eurofighter Typhoons running up and down the east side of the country right now.
Nothing to worry about, I'm sure
Nothing to worry about, I'm sure
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
There appears to be quite a few Eurofighter Typhoons running up and down the east side of the country right now.
Nothing to worry about, I'm sure
Nothing to worry about, I'm sure
This is how Michael Jackson would fuck you up.
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is how Michael Jackson would fuck you up.
I feel like there should perhaps be some limits on people advocating for their own existence pointedly being called "activists".
What's she meant to do, lay down and die or turn back into a boy to make them happy? What is life without a voice?
What's she meant to do, lay down and die or turn back into a boy to make them happy? What is life without a voice?
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I feel like there should perhaps be some limits on people advocating for their own existence pointedly being called "activists".
What's she meant to do, lay down and die or turn back into a boy to make them happy? What is life without a voice?
What's she meant to do, lay down and die or turn back into a boy to make them happy? What is life without a voice?
Excellent as ever from Zack, but the paper mache head of Rachel Reeves is giving me nightmares.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Excellent as ever from Zack, but the paper mache head of Rachel Reeves is giving me nightmares.
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Are the press going to run front pages and news items for months to ensure this man never reaches high office or is that only for Jeremy Corbyn ?
How else is racism delivered than in "a hurtful or insulting way”?
So reassuring to see again how how easy it is for racists to forget their funny bantz from decades ago and dress it yup as schoolboy japes. Not so easy for those who suffer it
This timeline too:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So reassuring to see again how how easy it is for racists to forget their funny bantz from decades ago and dress it yup as schoolboy japes. Not so easy for those who suffer it
This timeline too:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline
Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Are the press going to run front pages and news items for months to ensure this man never reaches high office or is that only for Jeremy Corbyn ?
I kind of feel like this should be written on a bus.
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I kind of feel like this should be written on a bus.
Some of my best friends are red
"I'm hugely impartial" BBC board member and former spinner for Theresa May, Robbie Gibb, tells the DCMS select committee. He has friends across the spectrum, apparently.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Some of my best friends are red
I'd like to say that I got into art as a fuck you to anyone thought my social class was beneath it, but I've always just been drawn to visual and graphic stuff.
Films, paintings, comics, games, design, I never really cared what it was, I was just into it.
Films, paintings, comics, games, design, I never really cared what it was, I was just into it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'd like to say that I got into art as a fuck you to anyone thought my social class was beneath it, but I've always just been drawn to visual and graphic stuff.
Films, paintings, comics, games, design, I never really cared what it was, I was just into it.
Films, paintings, comics, games, design, I never really cared what it was, I was just into it.
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Just had yet another letter from the hospice I support. I play their lottery every month and made am extra donation a few months back. I'm finally starting a new job next week after not working since July.
Someone get Will Stancil, tell me my economy isn't dying.
Someone get Will Stancil, tell me my economy isn't dying.
I honestly don't know a third sector organisation who aren't having to model the outcome of them closing down in the next year.
Challenges deepening across the charity sector.
Rising demand, falling income, fewer volunteers, and growing regulation are pushing charities – especially small ones – towards crisis.
Rising demand, falling income, fewer volunteers, and growing regulation are pushing charities – especially small ones – towards crisis.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Just had yet another letter from the hospice I support. I play their lottery every month and made am extra donation a few months back. I'm finally starting a new job next week after not working since July.
Someone get Will Stancil, tell me my economy isn't dying.
Someone get Will Stancil, tell me my economy isn't dying.