Carlile Vernon
@markgray.bsky.social
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Liberal centrist. 18th/19thc art. DMs=block.
#Kuennsberg
: 3 minutes in, four mentions of Reform 'policies' already. The BBC is editorially unbalanced.
1 day ago
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Oh, what a waste. Crackpot bill incoming... BBC News - Sir Desmond Swayne tops private members bill ballot
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Desmond Swayne tops private members bill ballot
Last session's winner was Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who brought forward the Assisted Dying Bill.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21y1jnpdwo
4 days ago
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It's nagged at me for years. Who does
#arthistorian
#AndrewGrahamDixon
remind me of every time I see him? It's the late actor
#DavidBattley
. Battley right, Graham-Dixon left, or maybe the other way round. Battley made his name in comedy, so I've always assumed AGD's programmes are comedic, frankly.
5 days ago
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So incredibly sad: three daughters, young women lost in a single moment. My heart goes out to the family.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Women who died in sea off Brighton beach were sisters
Paying tribute, their father says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62dn5r4elqo
5 days ago
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Whole morning with JMWT today, my birthday. Pure joy!
6 days ago
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Win = run amok. Lose = run amok. Our problem in Britain is thuggery, isn't it? BBC News - Riot police deal with 'serious disorder' as Celtic fans celebrate Premiership title win
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police pelted with bottles as Celtic fans celebrate Scottish Premiership title in Glashow's east end
Hoops fans gathered in Glasgow's east end after a 3-1 win put paid to Hearts' dream of lifting the trophy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yegmxv883o
8 days ago
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What I've never understood about Brexity folk is how they can bleat on about 'the flaaag', how great we are etc. and then say we were the cowering victims of naughty foreigners in the EU. Make up your tiny minds: are we mighty or cringing?
8 days ago
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At
#SomersetHouse
where flag-bedecked folk who are short of gorm left the Yaxley-Lennon 'march' and are dumfounded to find peaceful people ignoring them.
9 days ago
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The ridiculous fashion of the moment is contrarianism - if you say the sky is blue, a bunch of 'ordinary voters' vox popped by the BBC will swear blind it isn't.
#Burnham
isn't home and dry. BBC News - What does Makerfield make of by-election and can Burnham win?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What does Makerfield make of by-election and can Burnham win?
Andy Burnham says he will look to stand in the constituency, after Labour MP Josh Simons announces his resignation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv26e7yd89o
10 days ago
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'We have a simple choice: do we want to spend this parliament fighting the Tories or fighting among ourselves? You donโt offer an olive branch whilst holding a baseball bat.'
#WesStreeting
, 2017. Strange how people change.
11 days ago
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'I am by instinct a team player โ Iโm not a maverick. So, when there is a team and there is a kind of collective position, Iโll play, Iโll do it. I always did it as a minister, always will now.' -
@andyburnham.bsky.social
in 2011. Funny how people change.
11 days ago
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First, the topics covered by UK legislation to be announced in the
#KingsSpeech
; then, the topics of concern to UK voters according to recent
@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social
polling. The level of disconnect is extraordinary.
12 days ago
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He doesn't get it! Extraordinary! I can hear it now: 'We'll address voters' concerns about force deployment in the Balkans, naval building will be augmented by 24.6%, and subsection 47(b) of the TCA will be renegotiated to reduce phytosanitary dissonances...'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount
The embattled PM will seek to persuade his MPs not to ditch him as Labour leader in a speech on Monday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwpq1dg5q3o
15 days ago
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17 days ago
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Prediction on
#localelections
in England:
@labouruk.bsky.social
will lose a lot of seats and still not understand why,
@reformuk.bsky.social
will pick up many but not enough to hold more than a couple of extra councils.
#Conservatives
will lose out, and some of their councils will move to NOC.
18 days ago
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And now
#Reform
are resorting to blackmail. Weird party. Weird times.
19 days ago
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First
#Trump
wanted the Strait opened, then to close it, then demanded it was open again, then said the US would guide ships through it, but now says that the US won't. Even the most clueless
#MAGA
people must be seasick with the gyrations necessary to believe this idiot knows what he's doing.
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Maga America: Make America Great Again Hat
Alt: MAGA man wearing the MAGA hat
https://static.klipy.com/ii/d7aec6f6f171607374b2065c836f92f4/5a/b8/24hJx8f3.gif?hh=498&ww=498&mp4=NphoyIxOirUMl9QtT&webm=Ws8CjH7awrDCxr1ujWf3
19 days ago
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Do yourself a favour before you vote. Just search, say, the BBC website for stories about
#Reform
. Read the reports. They're truly hopeless: inept, divided, racist, misogynistic, clueless. It's your council tax money, do you really want this barrel of hopeless ineptitude in charge of it?
19 days ago
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Dear BBC, One simple question. When does the snooker end? Is it going to be on forever from now on?
27 days ago
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The waters in the
#StraitsOfHormuz
- why can't he just...part them?
about 1 month ago
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Cancel the King's state visit, now. BBC News - No 10 says Falklands sovereignty rests with UK after report of US 'review' - BBC News
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No 10 says Falklands sovereignty rests with UK after report of US 'review'
An internal Pentagon document reportedly raised the prospect of a change in position in retaliation for the UK not joining the Iran war.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde51y0zgjyo#comments
about 1 month ago
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Dear
#America
, it is
#StGeorgesDay
and
#ShakespearesBirthday
, so - with your current travails under the Orange Blot - I give you lines from Macbeth spoken by Malcolm: 'I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'
about 1 month ago
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#Iran
is playing
#Trump
like a fiddle. He'll now drop blockading and revert to 'keep it open'. The man's neither stable nor a genius. (But he is 'very' - annoying, that is).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Iran says Strait of Hormuz cannot be re-opened due to ceasefire breaches
Iran's chief negotiator says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w3vqv0edpo
about 1 month ago
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During periods of so-called 'mania'
#GeorgeIII
was often frantic, used lots of words to say very little, imagined himself to be the King of Prussia or talking with angels. His personal hygiene was poor and he made unwanted advances to women. Remind you of anyone,
#America
?
about 1 month ago
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#Starmer's
government really wants to alienate everyone doesn't it?
#ShabanaMahmood
says she's like to 'taser and deport' political opponents. In the current frenetic political atmosphere in the west, this can't stand. It's an *appalling* thing to say.
www.thenational.scot/news/2603938...
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'Sickening': Home Secretary blasted over 'taser and deport Zack Polanski' jibe
SHABANA Mahmood has been accused of showing a โsickening indifferenceโ to human life after she joked about tasering and deporting her politicalโฆ
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26039381.home-secretary-blasted-taser-deport-zack-polanski-jibe/
about 1 month ago
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The Hindujas, Deripaska, Geoffrey Robinson, Epstein, the Millenium Dome fiasco. Sleaze, vanity, deflecting blame. Westminster people, some advice. Never. Touch.
#Mandelson
. Again. [Image: UKinUSA from Washington, D.C., USA, CC-BY]
about 1 month ago
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With
#OllyRobbins
testimony surely public trust in
#Starmer
has now gone?
about 1 month ago
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And now Mr
#Starmer
has decided his popularity isn't low enough - he's pressing forward with proposals to ban phones in schools to alienate young people. Short of shooting David Attenborough I can't see much more he can do to hit rock bottom polling in May. It's a government with a death wish.
about 1 month ago
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I wished the government well when elected but, gosh, do they try your patience! How can you personally as
#KeirStarmer
in your role as PM suggest
#Mandelson
(!!) for Ambassador KNOWING he'll be vetted and then NOT ASK ABOUT THE RESULT OF THE S***ING VETTING?!? It. Makes. No. Sense!
about 1 month ago
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'The decision [by the FCDO] was that I wasn't to know and nobody else was to know' say Keir
#Starmer
. In what world does *any* of this make sense? Why would civil servants decide NOT to tell the PM about failed vetting unless the PM was being protected from knowing but approving of Mandelson?
about 1 month ago
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I don't know what to make of Mr
#Starmer
. It's almost as if every week he looks at polling data and says 'How can I make
@labouruk.bsky.social
's poll ratings *worse* today? There's a total lack of even the vaguest political nous. That or he's listening to the world's worst political advisers.
about 1 month ago
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The BBC is showing old
#AntiquesRoadshow
episodes from 25 years ago. Old AR: 'Look at the sweep of the cabriole legs on this 1780 mahogany neoclassical Secretaire.' New AR: 'So you were actually at this Swelled Puffins gig all the way back in 1988 and Zigg signed it?' Dumbed down. Totally.
about 1 month ago
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I give you the *hopeless*
#RAC
. My wife - lone female, car failing to start, stuck in a remote location, called RAC for assistance at 1030 this morning. ETA for the superdeluxe service from this bunch of charlatans? 1130 this evening. 'Complete peace of mind' is their registered mark. Idiots!
about 1 month ago
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Can we all - among the public and in 'political circles' - agree that Mr
#Mandelson
should never, ever again be anywhere near places of power and influence? Never, and no 'fourth chance'.
about 1 month ago
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Staggering, given the
#Mandelson
past, you didn't check!!
about 1 month ago
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'And she'll never spend her salary in the shops, or pay someone to fix the plumbing, so that the rest of the economy vanishes, the Tech Bros end up with all the cash and the underclass embraces 90% of the population. Good times, eh?'
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Carlile Vernon
Trades Union Congress
about 1 month ago
An advert promoting an AI company at Bristol Airport has been pulled after backlash. The advert showed a female AI worker who will 'never ask for a raise'.
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When I saw this first I thought maybe his next move to deflect from
#Epstein
was to come out as gay.
about 1 month ago
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Para 216 of volume 2 has a stinging reproach for the killers' parents. Sir Adrian blames them for 'a total avoidance of responsibility...[so that] they bear a very considerable degree of responsibility for the appalling events of 29 July 2024.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Parents failed in 'moral duty' to report Southport killer - inquiry
Failing to appreciate the danger the killer posed led to
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rgyeqv1yo
about 1 month ago
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Amazed at US
#media
: you give the most inveterate liar a break every time.
#Trump
says something, you find evidence it is untrue, then he denies saying it, you report that, then watch him move onto another lie. For goodness sake, do your job. Show lies where they are!
about 1 month ago
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In the
#Pentagon
,
#Hegseth
describes the surviving war aim...
about 2 months ago
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Hey
#MAGA
, how's that swamp draining going?
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
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https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-2-0-bracing-for-criminals-corruption-and-constitutional-crises/#:~:text=Clause/Trump%20conflicts-,What%20happened%20last%20time?,foreign%20governments%20through%20his%20businesses
about 2 months ago
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So
#Hegseth's
#Pentagon
drunk with power has now threatened the Scouts and the
#Pope
. Who next? Flower arrangers? Hikers? The under fives? What an insane
#America
now stalks the world like a playground bully.
about 2 months ago
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Thinking of voting
#ReformUK
? Here are just a few recent BBC stories about them - not opinions but reports of their own behavior. They're evidently grifting, incompetent, bigoted, loudmouths you'd want nowhere near your council services - and your council tax money.
about 2 months ago
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Can we all just remember, as this weird man-baby threatens NATO again, that his tantrum over
#Iran
had no basis in law, there was no evidence of an attack upon a NATO member, and that it was conducted as negotiations were in train?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump criticises Nato as alliance chief Mark Rutte describes meeting as 'very frank'
The US president says Nato "wasn't there when we needed them" during the Iran war.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05d8j9r5ejo
about 2 months ago
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#Lecce
- so unwelcoming the churches have bouncers kitted out like riot police.
about 2 months ago
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Top: me, gin and tonic in hand in
#Lecce
,
#Puglia
. Bottom: Thomas Jones (1742-1803) in
#Naples
. I suspect Thomas was G&T-less.
about 2 months ago
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An awful decision. The King's Captain-General of the Royal Marines which served in Afghanistan alongside US troops. 60 were killed, 78 seriously injured. Something that Trump denies ever happened. That excrescence you call a President,
#America
, brings you deep shame.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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King Charles and Camilla to meet President Trump on US state visit in April
Despite political tensions between the US and UK, the King will travel to Washington next month.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd8nkezdyxo
about 2 months ago
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Recalling all of those Sunday morning 'Letter from America' episodes (before my hearing made it difficult to hear that affable voice) it was a delight to get closer to
#AlistairCooke
through this. You should too.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The Unseen Alistair Cooke
A revealing portrait of one of the most celebrated broadcasters of the 20th century, Alistair Cooke, whose Radio 4 programme Letter from America spanned 58 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cl5v2/the-unseen-alistair-cooke
about 2 months ago
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Would it not just be cheaper, more productive and economically advantageous to
#UAE
,
#Oman
and the
#US
to create a 'Panama Canal of the Gulf', cut out
#Iran
from control of shipping and reduce the threat of other piracy? Happy to be told I'm talking nonsense and it's impossible.
2 months ago
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