Alison
@alicemerray.bsky.social
Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!) But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. Will never be persuaded that empathy is bad. She/her. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
A Brexit-supporting billionaire who fled abroad so he didn’t have to pay any tax to help the people of his country says he’s lost confidence in the UK.
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.
Yeah, this is how it has been for a long time. Decades. Nothing has changed.
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Somebody in Nato, Denmark or Greenland seems to have spotted that telling Trump he can have an enormous victory + then offering him the status quo of the last 25-50-75 years is an off-ramp
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoTrump: "We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many"
Someone very smartly re-dated the 1951 DGA treaty with “2026 DGF” and told our presidential toddler it’s “new” …then popped a pacifier, told him “here, shut the fuck up”. It’s come to that, fortunately he’s as illiterate as his crowd
Baby Crying in Crib
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My latest for The Skeptic, on the network pushing extremism at the University of Cambridge and into the wider media, including organisations like The Free Speech Union, UnHerd, The Critic, Quillette, and Aporia.
The Skeptic@skeptic.org.uk · 20h ago
Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough?
Axios@axios.com · 10h agoBREAKING: Trump announces ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House
A very sad farewell to Stephanie Cole, queen of British comedy in every form. May an inexpensive charter jet fly her swiftly to her rest on gilded wings.
Can't call it. Think it's either Lauren or Emily though. #CelebrityMasterchef
Will Shakira lose it for an onion? Lauren seems like front runner right now. What will Emily bring? #CelebrityMasterchef
Without sounding our own horn, or disparaging an excellent piece, a lot of this was reported two months ago by @nafeez.bsky.social on @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk. It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...
Passport to Piddington
Last week an Oxfordshire village declared independence from the United Kingdom - ostensibly in protest at a local refugee centre. But is something darker going on?
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LOL I wonder how the farmers and villagers of Piddington will feel about hosting fascist glasto…
Ed Wilson@eddwilson.bsky.social · 18h ago“How powerful would it be if 5,000 men … surround the [Piddington] camp. We take tents. We sit there for days and we don’t let them [the asylum seekers] get in. And then we reinforce [the blockade] with members from the north, from Scotland, from Ireland.” #WATO
Reform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaks www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaks
Exclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party
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I’m old enough to remember when Ted Cruz accurately called Donald Trump a pathological liar and the worst narcissist anyone had ever seen
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
Daniel Thomas's Patriot Platform are a curse on England. #YouAintNoPatriotBruv
Nicola Kelly@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · yesterdayI have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
“It's about privilege. I don't even get to vet who moves in downstairs, let alone feel that I can dictate to gov't how it can use land it owns a mile away. Why do they think they get to dictate what happens on public property within miles-radius of their country living? It's not a reasonable ask.”
B-Side: Passport to Piddington
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 18 September · 59min
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Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 24h ago🛃 B-SIDE: Passport to Piddington 🛃 Piddington wants independence. "Legitimate concerns" or mewling privilege? How do we empower communities, before they are groomed? A new podcast @everythingproblem.bsky.social has ideas. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7Hzv... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
PS we all remember the "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" bit but in fact Harmsworth went off Mosley pretty quickly. The much bigger issue was that he and his star columnists continued to praise Hitler for his "superhuman work" right up until the dawn of WW2
Instead of questioning what was going on and why.. the establishment, the media and even otherwise sane people all jumped on board with it - and here we are again. If you want to learn more about this really shitty chapter in British history it's all there in my current book... under 'Dunera'
So thousands were crammed onto boats - which were essentially prison camps - and deported first towards Canada (only to be sunk) and then south to Australia on the HMT Dunera. When they got there guess what - the locals didn't like them being there .... and the hate and rage started all over again
Federal Prison Entrance - Bfb Da Packman
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Despite almost all of those 'fighting aged men' being Jews and political dissidents who had fled the Nazis under Defense Regulation 18B thousands were rounded up and put in camps - even that did not satisy the Mail (a paper which had supported Hitler in the 1930s) and they wanted more, more, more
Star Demands More!
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In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
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A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
Do sign if you can UK residency required. Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform
Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...
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Do you think that nobody knew what all these people were, back when they were doing daily interviews handing them tissues to sob into? Or do you think everyone knew they were exactly like this, they all approve and wanted this type of person back in charge ASAP
@solomonhughes.bsky.social · 21h agoFrom earlier this year - Mandelson + Watson working for Palantir (Watson joined Palantir in 2024) are part of a general move from the Labour Right to Corporate Lobbying which has run since the Blair years morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
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The Selsey Shantymen's performance at the RNLI Selsey this Sunday has been cancelled
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Such a shame on so many levels
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What's the reason
The Selsey Shantymen. 1d
Regrettably due to the current circumstances, and following discussions with the RNLI, we will be postponing our planned performance at Selsey RNLI this Sunday (20th September). We're very sorry.
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