Paul Cotterill
@bickerrecord.bsky.social
Nurse by training. Vagabond by nature. Imposter by syndrome.
A Habermas-influenced English pluralist, if that's a thing. An organiser of things, which are definitely things.
He/him/ally
A Habermas-influenced English pluralist, if that's a thing. An organiser of things, which are definitely things.
He/him/ally
From one of the lesser known bits of the bible, in which Paul the Apostle receives an unexpected text message from the Lord Jesus Christ advising him to establish a glamping business.
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
From one of the lesser known bits of the bible, in which Paul the Apostle receives an unexpected text message from the Lord Jesus Christ advising him to establish a glamping business.
I know this is just poor wording but, bloody hell, it would be very hard to have worded it more poorly #policybasedevidence It's almost like he's trolling us.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I know this is just poor wording but, bloody hell, it would be very hard to have worded it more poorly #policybasedevidence It's almost like he's trolling us.
A film where you're from.
(Salford)
(Salford)
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A film where you're from.
(Salford)
(Salford)
This clearly AI-generated image from extremist Darren Grimes, purportedly showing groups of brown men surrounding young girls, looks like incitement to racial hatred to me, though wording of the law on this has not kept pace with technology.
www.darrengrimes.com/p/exclusive-...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This clearly AI-generated image from extremist Darren Grimes, purportedly showing groups of brown men surrounding young girls, looks like incitement to racial hatred to me, though wording of the law on this has not kept pace with technology.
www.darrengrimes.com/p/exclusive-...
www.darrengrimes.com/p/exclusive-...
Went in a charity bookshop earlier. When will I learn not to go in charity bookshops?
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Went in a charity bookshop earlier. When will I learn not to go in charity bookshops?
This is just staggeringly offensive from the Home Secretary about careworkers, demeaning the work we all do and treating those who come to join us in that work as some kind of malignant rabble. It's even starker when compared with the words about NHS staff.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is just staggeringly offensive from the Home Secretary about careworkers, demeaning the work we all do and treating those who come to join us in that work as some kind of malignant rabble. It's even starker when compared with the words about NHS staff.
The Tories have out-LibDemmed the LibDems on the LibDem bar chart chart, with an excellent squiggly line between 0 and 200,000, and by putting a quarter of a year of their being in power into Labour being in power. Impressive.
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Tories have out-LibDemmed the LibDems on the LibDem bar chart chart, with an excellent squiggly line between 0 and 200,000, and by putting a quarter of a year of their being in power into Labour being in power. Impressive.
I see the EHRC is looking to lead the radical new Quiet Piggy movement.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I see the EHRC is looking to lead the radical new Quiet Piggy movement.
The 'golden ticket' rhetoric is indefensible ofc, but in fact the meat of the '20 years to settlement' policy seems to indicate that huge % will qualify for settled status much quicker, possibly even quicker than now, given that that % do work anyway.
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The 'golden ticket' rhetoric is indefensible ofc, but in fact the meat of the '20 years to settlement' policy seems to indicate that huge % will qualify for settled status much quicker, possibly even quicker than now, given that that % do work anyway.
Lurchers sure do sleep weird.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Lurchers sure do sleep weird.
This does look a bit like the White House wants to sell poor children to cults.
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This does look a bit like the White House wants to sell poor children to cults.
Not sure I've ever seen a Labour candidate get less than 10 votes before. Eight votes is three less than nominations needed to stand, plus the candidate.
Odd thing is that Labour didn't contest this seat at all last time round. I think it must have been for a bet.
Odd thing is that Labour didn't contest this seat at all last time round. I think it must have been for a bet.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Not sure I've ever seen a Labour candidate get less than 10 votes before. Eight votes is three less than nominations needed to stand, plus the candidate.
Odd thing is that Labour didn't contest this seat at all last time round. I think it must have been for a bet.
Odd thing is that Labour didn't contest this seat at all last time round. I think it must have been for a bet.
I think perhaps I should state the obvious. Most people were not alive in 1975.
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I think perhaps I should state the obvious. Most people were not alive in 1975.
Fifteen years since I invented the primary school bike bus. Glad to see other places ar now catching up.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Fifteen years since I invented the primary school bike bus. Glad to see other places ar now catching up.
Your reminder that people have been complaining about BBC lies since at least 1929.
(From Clash, by 'Red' Ellen Wilkinson' set during the 1926 General Strike).
(From Clash, by 'Red' Ellen Wilkinson' set during the 1926 General Strike).
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Your reminder that people have been complaining about BBC lies since at least 1929.
(From Clash, by 'Red' Ellen Wilkinson' set during the 1926 General Strike).
(From Clash, by 'Red' Ellen Wilkinson' set during the 1926 General Strike).
This is the first mention of reporting on issues related to trans people in the Michael Prescott report.
He just calls it "the trans issue". If that feels like it's an assumption that the basic right to be trans is open to question, that's because it is.
He just calls it "the trans issue". If that feels like it's an assumption that the basic right to be trans is open to question, that's because it is.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is the first mention of reporting on issues related to trans people in the Michael Prescott report.
He just calls it "the trans issue". If that feels like it's an assumption that the basic right to be trans is open to question, that's because it is.
He just calls it "the trans issue". If that feels like it's an assumption that the basic right to be trans is open to question, that's because it is.
2/ Specifically, s.2 make it an offence to make representations that a) *might* be false; b) via that representation exposes another person e.g. a planning applicant to the risk of financial loss.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
2/ Specifically, s.2 make it an offence to make representations that a) *might* be false; b) via that representation exposes another person e.g. a planning applicant to the risk of financial loss.
A clever prosecutor would, I think, be able to persuade a court that using AI to generate what might reasonably be a "false representation", with a view to creating some form of financial loss to an applicant, constitutes an offence under the Fraud Act 2006 s.2 (Fraud by false representation).
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A clever prosecutor would, I think, be able to persuade a court that using AI to generate what might reasonably be a "false representation", with a view to creating some form of financial loss to an applicant, constitutes an offence under the Fraud Act 2006 s.2 (Fraud by false representation).
The whole ballroom construction thing is just a front for getting industrial quantities of paint into the White House to be used for its real purpose.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The whole ballroom construction thing is just a front for getting industrial quantities of paint into the White House to be used for its real purpose.
My 'new' bike. Early 70's frame, original parts, 5 cog cassette, old style gear shift. Gave a neighbour a tenner (I forced in on him tbh). Great option as the 1980s road bike getting bit much for my dodgy back. Rides like a dream. Neighbour really happy.
ps The AED wasn't needed. It was for a job.
ps The AED wasn't needed. It was for a job.
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My 'new' bike. Early 70's frame, original parts, 5 cog cassette, old style gear shift. Gave a neighbour a tenner (I forced in on him tbh). Great option as the 1980s road bike getting bit much for my dodgy back. Rides like a dream. Neighbour really happy.
ps The AED wasn't needed. It was for a job.
ps The AED wasn't needed. It was for a job.
Hah, I even kept the email chain, I was so proud. The freebies were actually only for year 12s and 13s, so I did have to blag quite hard.
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hah, I even kept the email chain, I was so proud. The freebies were actually only for year 12s and 13s, so I did have to blag quite hard.
I (and the dogs) thought the bangers last night sounded more like rocket launchers.
They were, in fact, rocket launchers.
They were, in fact, rocket launchers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I (and the dogs) thought the bangers last night sounded more like rocket launchers.
They were, in fact, rocket launchers.
They were, in fact, rocket launchers.
I have read this column so that you don't have to. No, really. You don't have to.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I have read this column so that you don't have to. No, really. You don't have to.
I like to think @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's speech bit on NYC as city of immigrants is mindful of his dad's analysis of the essential contradiction between state & nation, salved for a while by notions of toleration & acceptance of minorityness, but resolvable within cityness, however large a city
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I like to think @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's speech bit on NYC as city of immigrants is mindful of his dad's analysis of the essential contradiction between state & nation, salved for a while by notions of toleration & acceptance of minorityness, but resolvable within cityness, however large a city
I am not totally sure a hairy-ness test for using the toilet of your gender is totally practicable, but what would I know?
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I am not totally sure a hairy-ness test for using the toilet of your gender is totally practicable, but what would I know?