@richardkelham.bsky.social
@richardkelham.bsky.social
Member of the arty-farty tendency. European, socialist, atheist, feminist, Unite union member. No DMs.
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Remember when he mocked everyone else for being “low energy”? Look at him now.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Remember when he mocked everyone else for being “low energy”? Look at him now.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
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The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
Reeves has delivered her budget and as usual with this government it's too little, too late. The little is mostly welcome, but she needed to go so much further if she was to have any hope of salvaging this useless government – she needs to squeeze the rich much harder.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reeves has delivered her budget and as usual with this government it's too little, too late. The little is mostly welcome, but she needed to go so much further if she was to have any hope of salvaging this useless government – she needs to squeeze the rich much harder.
WTAF?
Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
WTAF?
The new BBC series 'Civilisations: Rise & Fall started with the lead up to the sack of Rome in 410CE. The administration of the Empire was hollowed out financially, all the wealth was being hoarded by the super-rich while the common people suffered. Sound familiar?
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The new BBC series 'Civilisations: Rise & Fall started with the lead up to the sack of Rome in 410CE. The administration of the Empire was hollowed out financially, all the wealth was being hoarded by the super-rich while the common people suffered. Sound familiar?
The solution to overcrowded NHS hospitals according to think-tank Re:State – make them smaller. Clearly a lot more thinking is required.
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The solution to overcrowded NHS hospitals according to think-tank Re:State – make them smaller. Clearly a lot more thinking is required.
BBC bias? It is, and always has been, blatantly biased in favour of the Establishment, allowing the occasional lefty comedy/satire show as a kind of mask. Calls for right wing comedy shows "to provide balance" falter on the grounds that they are just not funny.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
BBC bias? It is, and always has been, blatantly biased in favour of the Establishment, allowing the occasional lefty comedy/satire show as a kind of mask. Calls for right wing comedy shows "to provide balance" falter on the grounds that they are just not funny.
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392,000 followers on X.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
392,000 followers on X.
The proposed Ukraine cease-fire shows just how good an investment Trump was for the Kremlin. A real asset.
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The proposed Ukraine cease-fire shows just how good an investment Trump was for the Kremlin. A real asset.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Case is not wrong. We've seen Centrist parties all over the world failing because they represent continuity – aka the same old shit. Oddly they are often replaced by Right wing parties that are guaranteed to make things worse. Only the Left wants to improve things
Voters could abandon centrist parties if budget fails, warns former cabinet secretary
Simon Case says voters will look elsewhere if chancellor cannot find solutions to tax, spending and debt problems
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Case is not wrong. We've seen Centrist parties all over the world failing because they represent continuity – aka the same old shit. Oddly they are often replaced by Right wing parties that are guaranteed to make things worse. Only the Left wants to improve things
www.theguardian.com/environment/... I guess you have to take Global Warming seriously when the COP30 venue catches fire.
Cop30 climate summit in Brazil disrupted after fire breaks out in venue
Event thrown into confusion after conference centre evacuated but UN says no one hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... I guess you have to take Global Warming seriously when the COP30 venue catches fire.
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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Farage is just a fascist gadfly. I wouldn't trust to run a whelk stall.
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Farage is just a fascist gadfly. I wouldn't trust to run a whelk stall.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... It's sad, embarrassing, in fact downright infuriating to see the British government – a Labour government supposedly – acting as a Mossad surrogate/patsy. Starmer & Co must go.
Sally Rooney says UK prisoners linked to Palestine Action face ‘shocking mistreatment’
Exclusive: author urges ministers to engage with those on hunger strike, who want better conditions, bail and lifting of ban
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... It's sad, embarrassing, in fact downright infuriating to see the British government – a Labour government supposedly – acting as a Mossad surrogate/patsy. Starmer & Co must go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Everyone has known Trump is a bastard from way back – what's really chilling is just how many ordinary peoples, especially officials, are happy to collude with the bastard.
Death threats and accusations: the professor targeted by the US far right
Mark Bray has become one of the highest-profile people caught up in Donald Trump’s efforts to target Antifa
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Everyone has known Trump is a bastard from way back – what's really chilling is just how many ordinary peoples, especially officials, are happy to collude with the bastard.
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From the US, but it will happen in the UK too.
Cost cutting, under staffed, under experienced, longer waiting times, more profits.
More deaths.
Cost cutting, under staffed, under experienced, longer waiting times, more profits.
More deaths.
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
From the US, but it will happen in the UK too.
Cost cutting, under staffed, under experienced, longer waiting times, more profits.
More deaths.
Cost cutting, under staffed, under experienced, longer waiting times, more profits.
More deaths.
In the UK youth unemployment is rising sharply: another failure by this so-called Labour government. If they're searching for an answer I suggest they look at the massive payroll tax they imposed on employers at the last budget. Join the dots...
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In the UK youth unemployment is rising sharply: another failure by this so-called Labour government. If they're searching for an answer I suggest they look at the massive payroll tax they imposed on employers at the last budget. Join the dots...
Rachel Reeves had better pull a really large rabbit out of her Budget hat. If she doesn't, if it's just more fiddling around the edges, then this government – and likely the entire Labour Party – is toast. Spoiler alert: she won't do it.
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Rachel Reeves had better pull a really large rabbit out of her Budget hat. If she doesn't, if it's just more fiddling around the edges, then this government – and likely the entire Labour Party – is toast. Spoiler alert: she won't do it.
Starmer is a fool – a dangerous fool. He must go and all his team with him.
In Nov 2024, Keir Starmer announced a working partnership with US asset manager Blackrock, who own $11 trillion in assets.
Their endgame?
To turn green spaces into 'natures assets'. Your local park could become a tokenised asset.
Access may become conditional on fees or corporate permission.
Their endgame?
To turn green spaces into 'natures assets'. Your local park could become a tokenised asset.
Access may become conditional on fees or corporate permission.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Starmer is a fool – a dangerous fool. He must go and all his team with him.
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Even with health insurance (through work) our health services are no better. Privatisation will not help the general public, even the ones that think it will. Nothing has ever improved through Privatisation
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Even with health insurance (through work) our health services are no better. Privatisation will not help the general public, even the ones that think it will. Nothing has ever improved through Privatisation
The recent IfG report into "the NHS says it is still struggling to improve productivity with fewer than 10% of areas managing to raise the number of elective procedures they carry out by any more than the number of extra staff they hire." D'oh. You can't rush a delicate operation.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The recent IfG report into "the NHS says it is still struggling to improve productivity with fewer than 10% of areas managing to raise the number of elective procedures they carry out by any more than the number of extra staff they hire." D'oh. You can't rush a delicate operation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Jenkins nails it. The Labour govt should have abolished the Right to Buy on Day 1 then set about a mass council-house building programme instead of pandering to the greedy developers. They said they were going to end 'no-fault evictions'; we're still waiting.
Homelessness is increasingly hard to ignore – unless you are the Labour party | Simon Jenkins
The government is focused on building new homes for floating voters, while landlordism is discouraged and homes stand empty, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Jenkins nails it. The Labour govt should have abolished the Right to Buy on Day 1 then set about a mass council-house building programme instead of pandering to the greedy developers. They said they were going to end 'no-fault evictions'; we're still waiting.
Since the Daily Telegraph long since ceased to be a newspaper worthy of the name, perhaps the kindest thing to do is just close it down, flog the remaining assets and walk away.
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Since the Daily Telegraph long since ceased to be a newspaper worthy of the name, perhaps the kindest thing to do is just close it down, flog the remaining assets and walk away.