Greg P.B. Chatterton
@gregpbchatterton.bsky.social
Writer/Philosopher/Reviewer
Loves other animals.
Likes some people.
Has a little bit of multiple sclerosis.
Middle-aged Cure/RS fanboy.
Loves other animals.
Likes some people.
Has a little bit of multiple sclerosis.
Middle-aged Cure/RS fanboy.
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Same in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)
January 27, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Same in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)
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Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.
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The climbdown may be underway. Hanging all his top people out to dry.
Trump Says Administration Is ‘Reviewing Everything’ About Minneapolis Shooting
“We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination,” he tells WSJ. Won’t say whether the officer who killed Alex Pretti did the right thing.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination,” he tells WSJ. Won’t say whether the officer who killed Alex Pretti did the right thing.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Trump Says Administration Is ‘Reviewing Everything’ About Minneapolis Shooting
In an interview, the president says immigration-enforcement officers will “at some point” leave the area.
www.wsj.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The climbdown may be underway. Hanging all his top people out to dry.
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Fury grows across America over the Border Patrol slaying of 37 year-old US citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Mine for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika TV", courtesy DStv 405
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/884491...
#Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #news #simonmarks #WEF20206 #Davos
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/884491...
#Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #news #simonmarks #WEF20206 #Davos
January 25, 2026 - Fury grows in USA over slaying of US citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by Border Patrol agents
Simon's live report for Newzroom Afrika DSTV 405 with Xoli Mngambi anchoring.
audioboom.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Fury grows across America over the Border Patrol slaying of 37 year-old US citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Mine for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika TV", courtesy DStv 405
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/884491...
#Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #news #simonmarks #WEF20206 #Davos
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/884491...
#Minneapolis #Trump #AlexPretti #news #simonmarks #WEF20206 #Davos
Shameless fascists.
January 25, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Shameless fascists.
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'The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.'
January 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
'The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.'
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A factual reminder that Noem is only lying whenever her lips are moving.
Q: Is this man a domestic terrorist?
NOEM: When you perpetuate violence against a government because of ideological reasons and for reasons to resist and perpetuate violence, that is the definition of domestic terrorism
NOEM: When you perpetuate violence against a government because of ideological reasons and for reasons to resist and perpetuate violence, that is the definition of domestic terrorism
January 24, 2026 at 10:48 PM
A factual reminder that Noem is only lying whenever her lips are moving.
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
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Key aspect of this speech is that it's a lecture instructing Europeans to elect governments that will emulate his mix of policies and his racist ideology. That's the nub of it. Greenland, the attack on NATO, are all aspects of a much bigger, much more threatening picture.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Key aspect of this speech is that it's a lecture instructing Europeans to elect governments that will emulate his mix of policies and his racist ideology. That's the nub of it. Greenland, the attack on NATO, are all aspects of a much bigger, much more threatening picture.
TACO Time
Potential headline: Incoherent, rambling American president backs down on military force on Greenland and pleads for talks, in moment of humiliation for the US
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM
TACO Time
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Once upon a time there lived a funny little man called Trumpy Wumpy.
He had straw hair, orange skin & smelled horrible.
But he could do magic!
He grew back his ear once & he had a strange power called Redaction which made things he didn’t like disappear.
He was jolly nasty…
He had straw hair, orange skin & smelled horrible.
But he could do magic!
He grew back his ear once & he had a strange power called Redaction which made things he didn’t like disappear.
He was jolly nasty…
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Once upon a time there lived a funny little man called Trumpy Wumpy.
He had straw hair, orange skin & smelled horrible.
But he could do magic!
He grew back his ear once & he had a strange power called Redaction which made things he didn’t like disappear.
He was jolly nasty…
He had straw hair, orange skin & smelled horrible.
But he could do magic!
He grew back his ear once & he had a strange power called Redaction which made things he didn’t like disappear.
He was jolly nasty…
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Exactly.
Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Exactly.
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one time US allies are concerned that "trump's America[sic] seems to have lost its mind"
January 21, 2026 at 1:11 PM
one time US allies are concerned that "trump's America[sic] seems to have lost its mind"
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Spot on.
Watching Mark Carney's Davos speech and his total clarity and gravity about the world having turned fills me with embarrassment about Keir Starmer's self-abasement to Trump. It doesn't work!
January 21, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Spot on.
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Trump on Truth Social is now approvingly reposting a claim that "the enemy is within. China and Russia are boogeymen [sic] when the real threat is the U.N., NATO" and Muslims.
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Trump on Truth Social is now approvingly reposting a claim that "the enemy is within. China and Russia are boogeymen [sic] when the real threat is the U.N., NATO" and Muslims.
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I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.
January 18, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.
So many arses, so few chairs.
The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*…
Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.
Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.
January 20, 2026 at 1:26 PM
So many arses, so few chairs.
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At this stage, the Mail using an affectionate nickname in a headline on this story feels a bit like their infamous ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ front page.
Plus ça change…
Plus ça change…
January 20, 2026 at 9:21 AM
At this stage, the Mail using an affectionate nickname in a headline on this story feels a bit like their infamous ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ front page.
Plus ça change…
Plus ça change…
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Shame I can’t put this quote on the cover.
An absolutely amazing insight into broken Britain and brexit and the cunts who inflicted it on us this book. I’ve listened to it many times on audible and if you’ve not read or listened to it you need to. Especially if you think Farage or failed tories are the answer
I suspect Jenrick's read this. The idea that Farage, *any* Tory who backed Brexit/Johnson/Truss or the media that cheered it all on can somehow disassociate themselves from the messes they made is palpably nuts...
So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
January 16, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Shame I can’t put this quote on the cover.
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I suspect Jenrick's read this. The idea that Farage, *any* Tory who backed Brexit/Johnson/Truss or the media that cheered it all on can somehow disassociate themselves from the messes they made is palpably nuts...
So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
How They Broke Britain
Check out How They Broke Britain - <p><b>***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, WITH NEW MATERIAL FOR THE PAPERBACK***<br /><br />THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.</b><br...
uk.bookshop.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I suspect Jenrick's read this. The idea that Farage, *any* Tory who backed Brexit/Johnson/Truss or the media that cheered it all on can somehow disassociate themselves from the messes they made is palpably nuts...
So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
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Bingo. Farage gives them - and the media - vaguely plausible deniability for the mess they personally made.
Sky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Bingo. Farage gives them - and the media - vaguely plausible deniability for the mess they personally made.
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here's what one journalist had to say in 1932 when Hoover deployed military against protesters in DC: "If the Army must be called out to make war on unarmed citizens, this is no longer America" www.nps.gov/articles/bon...
Bonus Expeditionary Forces March on Washington (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
January 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
here's what one journalist had to say in 1932 when Hoover deployed military against protesters in DC: "If the Army must be called out to make war on unarmed citizens, this is no longer America" www.nps.gov/articles/bon...
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Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
January 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:44 PM