Boabspierre

@robbiesj.bsky.social

Retired Scots numpty. Trying not to be set in my ways. Don't usually respond to DMs.

Spare a thought for Rupert Lowe. 16 kids and their teacher were slaughtered in Dunblane, another 15 were shot and wounded. Hundreds more were traumatised and grief stricken, but Rupert's dad had to give up his shooting hobby. There's no violin small enough.

The key phrase there is “as we know it”. Planet Earth will continue to evolve as it has for the last 4+ billion years. We won’t be around to “know it”!

Comparing coverage of the Belfast and Edinburgh attacks, it seems that if politicians politicise and racialise a crime, then it will get far more attention than a crime that is in itself political and racist but doesn’t serve a political agenda. That’s not a good message

This genuinely is the best news I have heard for ages! 🎉 I dare say most of the country is opening a celebratory bottle & cheering! During these difficult times this is the sort of fantastic news that puts a spring in everybody’s step! Thank God for our wonderful Royal Family.❤️

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Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Sorry but hate presenting this as “ooh this is the scary future under reform” like this isn’t the Scary Present under Labour. This is not Reform’s Britain, this is Labour’s Britain. Its here its now and laying responsibility explicitly outside of the Actual Current Gov is a major mistake

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You see these scenes from Belfast? That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way. Except this will be on a much bigger scale. We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?

Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️

Not once in this article is the Tony Blair institute mentioned & how it’s a mouthpiece for ultra Zionist & Trump supporter David Ellison who finances it,or that Blair sits on the ghastly Board of Peace with Trump, Rubio & Kushner .Or that Blair isn’t just a war criminal he continues to profit 👉🏽

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

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Could you help me? Am I right in thinking that after all the shenanigans with The Labour Party over the last few days these are the only DEFINITE candidates emerging to challenge Keir Starmer: Chris Mason Beth Rigby Robert Peston Oh and possibly Andy Burnham? 🤔

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