@esseph63.bsky.social
Former (m)ad man, historian, writer and dog-walker. Londoner. Degrees from Oxford and Kingston. Scot, European, social democrat. Usually with the underdog. Quite worried about a lot of things.
Infinitely depressing. Utterly plausible.
21.11.2025 14:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Grok iteratively digging holes for its ubermensch.
20.11.2025 00:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post-match, I heard one Scotland player say he thought they had been pretty rubbish.
19.11.2025 17:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And the prize is β¦ a trip to the USA.
19.11.2025 17:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is the stupidest question I have seen in quite a while.
19.11.2025 16:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was obviously a really good idea to put waste disposal on the hands of the for-profit private sector. Look at the efficiency gains and cost savings.
19.11.2025 10:50 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
18.11.2025 22:12 β π 2653 π 470 π¬ 63 π 11Hereβs the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
18.11.2025 18:59 β π 1051 π 291 π¬ 21 π 21As I thought. Arguably more anti-capitalist than anti-Semitic.
18.11.2025 13:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you! All Iβve ever got before was abuse for asking the question. But that was on a different website.
18.11.2025 13:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Have always wondered whether the six businessmen are meant to be recognisable individual plutocrats, or just caricatures of a certain β¦ type? Never found out the answer.
18.11.2025 12:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Priti Patel. Suella Braverman. Shabana Mahmood. Brown women desperate to be good little foot soldiers to white supremacy. Zora Neale Hurston was absolutely right when she said all skinfolk ainβt kinfolk.
16.11.2025 14:02 β π 245 π 51 π¬ 6 π 6A whole heap of excellent questions, the answers to which might dispel a lot of fog and generate some positive feelings about immigration.
Immigrants are good for the UK; the current Home Secretary and three of her recent predecessors are the children of immigrants.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ILLEGAL ASYLUM SEEKER.
17.11.2025 18:42 β π 137 π 30 π¬ 7 π 1So far today Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been showered with praise by - checks notes - Far Right agitator Tommy Robinson, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch, the Daily Express and GB News.
17.11.2025 18:43 β π 246 π 79 π¬ 38 π 9If I was running a criminal gang to transport immigrants across the channel in small boats, one of the very first things I would do would be confiscate any jewellery or other portable wealth they were carrying.
17.11.2025 18:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Property developers, famously, are the only source of new building.
17.11.2025 18:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is that a βyesβ, then? Seems like a yes to me.
17.11.2025 18:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hear she wrote much of it on her phone. Perhaps she over-used predictive text.
17.11.2025 18:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is called dodging the question.
17.11.2025 18:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform.
Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right.
I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
Alastair Campbell for Prime Minister!
17.11.2025 17:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, the phrase βpulling up the ladderβ springs to mind.
17.11.2025 17:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Four recent Home Secretaries have been the children of immigrants to the UK: Javid, Patel, Braverman and now Mahmood. This might suggest that immigrant families, when given the chance, can make a significant contribution to this country.
On the other hand β¦
This thread is even better than the one I was contemplating writing. Bravo and thanks for the excellent work.
17.11.2025 16:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I am having stark memories of Jews having to flee Germany trying to hide jewellery and valuables in the linings of their coats so they would have some sort of currency if they managed to escape death and persecution.
17.11.2025 09:26 β π 59 π 6 π¬ 7 π 1Who knew that the person most in need of reporting to Prevent for far-right radicalisation this weekend would be the Home Secretary?
16.11.2025 22:15 β π 78 π 23 π¬ 1 π 2Drinking distilled water is a really bad idea btw.
16.11.2025 22:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 02015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
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