Alan M
@alan1874.bsky.social
Chair Bournemouth Interpreters' Group CIC. Translator, language consultant/trainer/author, sold more books than Liz Truss. Also 1874Northwich fan/co-owner. Another twitter refugee seeking asylum here
How does Trump seriously think that Ukraine can hold "free and fair elections" in a warzone with huge swathes of the country occupied by enemy forces?
#wato
#wato
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
How does Trump seriously think that Ukraine can hold "free and fair elections" in a warzone with huge swathes of the country occupied by enemy forces?
#wato
#wato
Sorry Nigel Huddlestone, I haven't yet reached the point where I can take any Tory MP complaining about leadership, morals & judgement at all seriously. Maybe in a few years/decades ...
#wato
#wato
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Sorry Nigel Huddlestone, I haven't yet reached the point where I can take any Tory MP complaining about leadership, morals & judgement at all seriously. Maybe in a few years/decades ...
#wato
#wato
Wasn't the peerage given *before* the offender pleaded guilty, while he was still protesting his innocence?
Innocent till proven guilty, even if offence so serious?
#wato
Innocent till proven guilty, even if offence so serious?
#wato
February 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Wasn't the peerage given *before* the offender pleaded guilty, while he was still protesting his innocence?
Innocent till proven guilty, even if offence so serious?
#wato
Innocent till proven guilty, even if offence so serious?
#wato
Sorry, I haven't yet reached the point where I can take Tory MPs complaining about leadership 'psychodrama' at all seriously. Maybe in a few years/decades ...
#c4news
#c4news
February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Sorry, I haven't yet reached the point where I can take Tory MPs complaining about leadership 'psychodrama' at all seriously. Maybe in a few years/decades ...
#c4news
#c4news
An exposé of the walking talking scam that is Grifter-in-Chief Farage & his Reform CoLtd which is definitely worth a read.
#bbcpm
politicalsatirical.substack.com/p/ahhh-grift...
#bbcpm
politicalsatirical.substack.com/p/ahhh-grift...
Ahhh Grifto!™©2026
How Nigel Farage Has Spent Seven Years Charging People Money to Be His Candidates & Why the £250 Reform UK Application Fee Is Just the Latest Instalment
politicalsatirical.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM
An exposé of the walking talking scam that is Grifter-in-Chief Farage & his Reform CoLtd which is definitely worth a read.
#bbcpm
politicalsatirical.substack.com/p/ahhh-grift...
#bbcpm
politicalsatirical.substack.com/p/ahhh-grift...
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Ahhh Grifto!™©2026
How Nigel Farage Has Spent Seven Years Charging People Money to Be His Candidates & Why the £250 Reform UK Application Fee Is Just the Latest Instalment
How Nigel Farage Has Spent Seven Years Charging People Money to Be His Candidates & Why the £250 Reform UK Application Fee Is Just the Latest Instalment
Ahhh Grifto!™©2026
How Nigel Farage Has Spent Seven Years Charging People Money to Be His Candidates & Why the £250 Reform UK Application Fee Is Just the Latest Instalment
politicalsatirical.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Ahhh Grifto!™©2026
How Nigel Farage Has Spent Seven Years Charging People Money to Be His Candidates & Why the £250 Reform UK Application Fee Is Just the Latest Instalment
How Nigel Farage Has Spent Seven Years Charging People Money to Be His Candidates & Why the £250 Reform UK Application Fee Is Just the Latest Instalment
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Olympics Update: Trump Wins Gold in Downhill Presidency
“Obama never won this," he boasted.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Reform UK’s mid-level governance is an utter disaster. Nevertheless, the media are pushing the idea of them in national government as if it would be any better. All of this happened just this week, yet journalists are obsessed with a fabricated ‘scandal of the century.’
February 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Reform UK’s mid-level governance is an utter disaster. Nevertheless, the media are pushing the idea of them in national government as if it would be any better. All of this happened just this week, yet journalists are obsessed with a fabricated ‘scandal of the century.’
The mix of poor policy planning, constant No10 backroom churn, terrible comms operations, restless backbenchers and a generally unsupportive (putting it mildly) media is one which no govt can survive for long, even with a united Cabinet.
#c4news
#c4news
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
The mix of poor policy planning, constant No10 backroom churn, terrible comms operations, restless backbenchers and a generally unsupportive (putting it mildly) media is one which no govt can survive for long, even with a united Cabinet.
#c4news
#c4news
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The mix of poor policy planning, constant No10 backroom churn, terrible comms operations and a generally unsupportive (putting it mildly) media is one which no govt can survive for long.
#wato
#wato
February 9, 2026 at 1:17 PM
The mix of poor policy planning, constant No10 backroom churn, terrible comms operations and a generally unsupportive (putting it mildly) media is one which no govt can survive for long.
#wato
#wato
Sort of half-listening to the prog after #wato on R4 and keep hearing a name that sounds enticingly like Farage in connection with a tale of deportation.
Wishful thinking maybe.
Wishful thinking maybe.
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Sort of half-listening to the prog after #wato on R4 and keep hearing a name that sounds enticingly like Farage in connection with a tale of deportation.
Wishful thinking maybe.
Wishful thinking maybe.
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Reform's new Welsh leader lives down to expectations. Quote from the Tory leader in the London council he left: "We look forward to the former Cllr refunding his councillor’s allowance paid to him during his prolonged absence from Barnet".
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/12/31/f...
#wato
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/12/31/f...
#wato
February 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Reform's new Welsh leader lives down to expectations. Quote from the Tory leader in the London council he left: "We look forward to the former Cllr refunding his councillor’s allowance paid to him during his prolonged absence from Barnet".
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/12/31/f...
#wato
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/12/31/f...
#wato
Presumably mid-level civil servants do vetting donkey work, then pass report up the chain to No10 (which won't have full details), then someone in No10 (McSweeney?) reads & summarises (again) before passing to Starmer complete with top page 'exec summary'.
Too many summaries spoil the vetting
#wato
Too many summaries spoil the vetting
#wato
Clearly the vetting processes employed by both the Foreign Office and the security services are not fit for purpose - and presumably have been so for many years.
#wato
#wato
February 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Presumably mid-level civil servants do vetting donkey work, then pass report up the chain to No10 (which won't have full details), then someone in No10 (McSweeney?) reads & summarises (again) before passing to Starmer complete with top page 'exec summary'.
Too many summaries spoil the vetting
#wato
Too many summaries spoil the vetting
#wato
Clearly the vetting processes employed by both the Foreign Office and the security services are not fit for purpose - and presumably have been so for many years.
#wato
#wato
February 5, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Clearly the vetting processes employed by both the Foreign Office and the security services are not fit for purpose - and presumably have been so for many years.
#wato
#wato
Not sure Johnny-come-lately's like McSweeney would have been across whole Mandelson history & can easily see how he would have phrased vetting summary given to Starmer in a less than negative light to achieve a desired result.
He needs to go. As always when backroom folk become the story.
#c4news
He needs to go. As always when backroom folk become the story.
#c4news
February 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Not sure Johnny-come-lately's like McSweeney would have been across whole Mandelson history & can easily see how he would have phrased vetting summary given to Starmer in a less than negative light to achieve a desired result.
He needs to go. As always when backroom folk become the story.
#c4news
He needs to go. As always when backroom folk become the story.
#c4news
Probably too busy trying to redact Trump from documents (and failing there too) to do a proper job with victim redaction.
It's also already been established that the redaction method can be undone with copy & paste.
#c4news
It's also already been established that the redaction method can be undone with copy & paste.
#c4news
February 3, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Probably too busy trying to redact Trump from documents (and failing there too) to do a proper job with victim redaction.
It's also already been established that the redaction method can be undone with copy & paste.
#c4news
It's also already been established that the redaction method can be undone with copy & paste.
#c4news