tonybarrett
@tonybarrett.bsky.social
Ex-Bloomberg editor, Pontypridd Observer reporter and NCP carpark ramp sweeper.
This is definitely not money laundering
December 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is definitely not money laundering
Please say you made that up
December 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Please say you made that up
“We became a human rights lawyer by accident”
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“We became a human rights lawyer by accident”
Was he the baddies?
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Was he the baddies?
‘In order to end abuse, we must punish the abused’
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
‘In order to end abuse, we must punish the abused’
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Does he have parents?
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Does he have parents?
People just assume Chinese healthcare is nationalised when it was privatised decades ago and there are multiple tiers of hospitals depending on your insurance, and lots out of pocket and scams. Buy five chemo shots, get three "free." Didn't live to get the three "free"? Oh well.
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
People just assume Chinese healthcare is nationalised when it was privatised decades ago and there are multiple tiers of hospitals depending on your insurance, and lots out of pocket and scams. Buy five chemo shots, get three "free." Didn't live to get the three "free"? Oh well.
A lot of people get paid to spread that portrayal internally and around the world. What's funny, in a way, is that the Western investigative journalism that rightly points out failings in our own societies gets repurposed remorselessly inside China to show how terrible we are in the West.
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A lot of people get paid to spread that portrayal internally and around the world. What's funny, in a way, is that the Western investigative journalism that rightly points out failings in our own societies gets repurposed remorselessly inside China to show how terrible we are in the West.
Not even failed states. Middle class people in Beijing, by far the most privileged place in China (may as well be in another country if you live in a rural area), have a privatised healthcare system that would have British people rioting.
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Not even failed states. Middle class people in Beijing, by far the most privileged place in China (may as well be in another country if you live in a rural area), have a privatised healthcare system that would have British people rioting.
And yet you have to go searching for any reference on the BBC website. Nothing on the front page, from their own interviews. Just Farage accusing the BBC in the politics page, third item. Amazing
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
And yet you have to go searching for any reference on the BBC website. Nothing on the front page, from their own interviews. Just Farage accusing the BBC in the politics page, third item. Amazing
I use it mostly for day trips. I could maybe rent a car slightly cheaper but I'd have to go in to town, stand in a queue, pick up keys, have some fella inspecting the shiny brand new vehicle before and after. Maybe have to try to match whatever amount of petrol was in it when they handed it over.
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I use it mostly for day trips. I could maybe rent a car slightly cheaper but I'd have to go in to town, stand in a queue, pick up keys, have some fella inspecting the shiny brand new vehicle before and after. Maybe have to try to match whatever amount of petrol was in it when they handed it over.
I hate the irrelevant personal attacks and the backstabbing gossip perpetuated by people whose biggest trade off is deciding whether to use a semi-colon or an em dash.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I hate the irrelevant personal attacks and the backstabbing gossip perpetuated by people whose biggest trade off is deciding whether to use a semi-colon or an em dash.
This is really confused, IMV. Taxing wealth is nothing to do with being anti-business. The opposite. The stuff about envy is tosh.
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is really confused, IMV. Taxing wealth is nothing to do with being anti-business. The opposite. The stuff about envy is tosh.
Sorry, I had to stop reading when the story and/or its sources made it a binary debate between a lump of "business" and the Treasury/left MPs. British political journalism can't get its head around the fact that many businesses destroy value and contribute only to the nation's crap productivity.
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sorry, I had to stop reading when the story and/or its sources made it a binary debate between a lump of "business" and the Treasury/left MPs. British political journalism can't get its head around the fact that many businesses destroy value and contribute only to the nation's crap productivity.
All the AIs in the company's pics are female...
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
All the AIs in the company's pics are female...
Ah. Small mercies
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Ah. Small mercies
That is a great location. Edinburgh is now full of wizard-based tat shops whose only magic trick is to make their taxes disappear
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
That is a great location. Edinburgh is now full of wizard-based tat shops whose only magic trick is to make their taxes disappear
“I’m looking for a copy of Wild Swans”
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“I’m looking for a copy of Wild Swans”
Thanks. Yeah, I guess so. Right, back under my rock.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thanks. Yeah, I guess so. Right, back under my rock.
Thanks for this.
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Thanks for this.
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"