Matthew
@calmeilles.bsky.social
🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @[email protected]
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Matthew
@calmeilles.bsky.social
· Jan 31
What do you do about fascism?
In my early teens I learned about Hitler and Chamberlain and Churchill in a formal education setting.
In my early teens I learned about Hitler and Chamberlain and Churchill in a formal education setting.
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth UNDER INVESTIGATION for DEADLY CRIME!
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Psychopathy is the word they needs. Trump displays his psychopathy.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Psychopathy is the word they needs. Trump displays his psychopathy.
Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only:
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only:
« a 250-mile journey to a GP, costing the Home Office £600. »
1. Don't send people 250 miles for a GP.
2. That could buy a week's bus pass for an hotel's worth of asylum seekers.
3. How does that level of stupidity arise?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#IK #politics #asylum
1. Don't send people 250 miles for a GP.
2. That could buy a week's bus pass for an hotel's worth of asylum seekers.
3. How does that level of stupidity arise?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#IK #politics #asylum
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
« a 250-mile journey to a GP, costing the Home Office £600. »
1. Don't send people 250 miles for a GP.
2. That could buy a week's bus pass for an hotel's worth of asylum seekers.
3. How does that level of stupidity arise?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#IK #politics #asylum
1. Don't send people 250 miles for a GP.
2. That could buy a week's bus pass for an hotel's worth of asylum seekers.
3. How does that level of stupidity arise?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#IK #politics #asylum
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Quebecois accents sound like Toulousain to me. Amirite? 8/10⭐️
📺 📽️ 🎞️ 🎭
www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
#TV #drama #Canada #Franch #crime #police
📺 📽️ 🎞️ 🎭
www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
#TV #drama #Canada #Franch #crime #police
The Wall: The Orchard
Céline Trudeau’s dark past surfaces. French-Canadian crime thriller from Walter Presents.
www.channel4.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Transparency" for ▉▉▉▉▉ and ▉▉▉▉▉▉ and maybe even ▉▉▉▉▉ ▉▉▉▉▉▉.
To be clear, the FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime over a FIVE DAY PERIOD last March. And yes, part of it was to find and redact Trump's name. I spoke to sources who reviewed the files for the FBI and DOJ and wrote about it here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"Transparency" for ▉▉▉▉▉ and ▉▉▉▉▉▉ and maybe even ▉▉▉▉▉ ▉▉▉▉▉▉.
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Exhibit A at the War Crimes Tribunal questioning defendant Pete Hegseth.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Exhibit A at the War Crimes Tribunal questioning defendant Pete Hegseth.
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This Reuters headline is emblematic of a wider problem: Russian information warfare has successfully diverted global attention away from Russia's crimes against humanity in Ukraine. What Reuters calls "strengthening Russian identity" is in fact the crime of genocide in its purest form.
Putin says authorities must 'strengthen' Russian identity in Ukraine
Russian authorities must increase the number of people who identify as Russian and speak Russian in the parts of Ukraine incorporated into the country since Moscow's 2022 invasion, according to a docu...
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Another damaged cop. But an engaging one. I'd really like there to be be more.
8¼/10⭐️
www.channel4.com/programmes/i...
#drama #Italian #TV #crime #thriller
8¼/10⭐️
www.channel4.com/programmes/i...
#drama #Italian #TV #crime #thriller
Inspector Gerri
Italian psychological crime drama from Walter Presents. The past haunts an intuitive cop.
www.channel4.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Great library of Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Libreria 1537-1560, designed by Jacopo Sansovino, influential Italian Renaissance architect & sculptor, died #OTD 1570; the library originally housed rare Greek manuscripts bequeathed to Venice by acclaimed scholar Cardinal Bessarion.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Great library of Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Libreria 1537-1560, designed by Jacopo Sansovino, influential Italian Renaissance architect & sculptor, died #OTD 1570; the library originally housed rare Greek manuscripts bequeathed to Venice by acclaimed scholar Cardinal Bessarion.
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✨I always lose myself in this photo. 📷A moment of serenity: the jaw-dropping Gothic beauty of Salisbury Cathedral, mirrored in the shimmering reflection of William Pye’s font. 📷 #throwbackthursday
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨I always lose myself in this photo. 📷A moment of serenity: the jaw-dropping Gothic beauty of Salisbury Cathedral, mirrored in the shimmering reflection of William Pye’s font. 📷 #throwbackthursday
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Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a02...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a02...
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
This ‘peace plan’ is not only a tragedy for Ukraine, but an immediate crisis for Britain
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a02...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a02...
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When Reeves announces her plans for 250 neighbourhood health Centre today, I wonder if she will tell us how many will be PFI funded? 🤔
(Clue: she won’t)
A reminder that the National Audit Office (2018) found these schemes cost NHS and taxpayers billions of pounds of extra cost. #r4today
(Clue: she won’t)
A reminder that the National Audit Office (2018) found these schemes cost NHS and taxpayers billions of pounds of extra cost. #r4today
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
When Reeves announces her plans for 250 neighbourhood health Centre today, I wonder if she will tell us how many will be PFI funded? 🤔
(Clue: she won’t)
A reminder that the National Audit Office (2018) found these schemes cost NHS and taxpayers billions of pounds of extra cost. #r4today
(Clue: she won’t)
A reminder that the National Audit Office (2018) found these schemes cost NHS and taxpayers billions of pounds of extra cost. #r4today
For the older generation there may be a feeling of deja vu, the region having lost vast swathes of vines in the 70s dealing with the "wine lake" of excess production.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#wine #economics #farming #climate
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#wine #economics #farming #climate
Vineyards are disappearing in France
As wine-drinking slows, farmers are uprooting vines
www.economist.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
For the older generation there may be a feeling of deja vu, the region having lost vast swathes of vines in the 70s dealing with the "wine lake" of excess production.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#wine #economics #farming #climate
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#wine #economics #farming #climate
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There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.