cathbooth
@cathbooth.bsky.social
If Farage's people are real, ordinary and decent then I must be pretend, weird and immoral.
Section 28 values. #Prejudice #LGBTPrideMonth 2016
Dysgu Cymraeg, byw ym Manceinion
Section 28 values. #Prejudice #LGBTPrideMonth 2016
Dysgu Cymraeg, byw ym Manceinion
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My column for @theipaper.com on the @bma.org.uk resident doctors' strike
"The Christmas strikes are on Wes Streeting, not the BMA."
Read in full at: inews.co.uk/opinion/stre...
"The Christmas strikes are on Wes Streeting, not the BMA."
Read in full at: inews.co.uk/opinion/stre...
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
My column for @theipaper.com on the @bma.org.uk resident doctors' strike
"The Christmas strikes are on Wes Streeting, not the BMA."
Read in full at: inews.co.uk/opinion/stre...
"The Christmas strikes are on Wes Streeting, not the BMA."
Read in full at: inews.co.uk/opinion/stre...
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BREAKING: Liverpool FC parade crash driver Paul Doyle is sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Paul Doyle sentenced for 21 years over LFC parade crash
Paul Doyle has been jailed for 21 years and six months after admitting a total of 31 charges, having driven his car into crowds of Liverpool FC fans during a victory parade
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
BREAKING: Liverpool FC parade crash driver Paul Doyle is sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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The fascist free speech playbook is very consistent.
Start with "we should be permitted to believe this hateful thing", then move on to "the hateful thing should be the law", finally you get to "it should be illegal to not also believe the hateful thing".
Start with "we should be permitted to believe this hateful thing", then move on to "the hateful thing should be the law", finally you get to "it should be illegal to not also believe the hateful thing".
And, of course, let's not forget that the members of Kenwood Ladies' Pond recently voted overwhelming to continue to welcome trans women in this space.
So, as well as Sex Matters, Sanchez Manning and The Times being bigots, they're also trying to deny the members control over their own space.
So, as well as Sex Matters, Sanchez Manning and The Times being bigots, they're also trying to deny the members control over their own space.
Sex Matters. Sanchez Manning. The Times.
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The fascist free speech playbook is very consistent.
Start with "we should be permitted to believe this hateful thing", then move on to "the hateful thing should be the law", finally you get to "it should be illegal to not also believe the hateful thing".
Start with "we should be permitted to believe this hateful thing", then move on to "the hateful thing should be the law", finally you get to "it should be illegal to not also believe the hateful thing".
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Laura Ingraham has a peak time show on Fox News and over 5 million followers on X. Those things are not a sign of being bright enough to do some common sense research before tweeting
December 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Laura Ingraham has a peak time show on Fox News and over 5 million followers on X. Those things are not a sign of being bright enough to do some common sense research before tweeting
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Back in 2005 I tried to legitimately put up this billboard. When The Sun found out they contacted the billboard owner & got it cancelled. And then they made sure no one would ever see my sick propaganda by printing it full colour and half a page of a national newspaper
I eventually put it up anyway
I eventually put it up anyway
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Back in 2005 I tried to legitimately put up this billboard. When The Sun found out they contacted the billboard owner & got it cancelled. And then they made sure no one would ever see my sick propaganda by printing it full colour and half a page of a national newspaper
I eventually put it up anyway
I eventually put it up anyway
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Reform UK say they will not be commenting any more on the claims of racism against Nigel Farage when he was younger. Danny Kruger, who was hosting a press conference on their proposed changes to the civil service, told me: "We have nothing more to say on those allegations."
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reform UK say they will not be commenting any more on the claims of racism against Nigel Farage when he was younger. Danny Kruger, who was hosting a press conference on their proposed changes to the civil service, told me: "We have nothing more to say on those allegations."
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December 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Blair, Cameron & Starmer’s dishonest halfway house to NHS privatisation by a million stealth decisions is extraordinarily expensive in terms of management time. Which is why English NHS, just 10-15 yrs ago so administratively cost effective (compared internationally), has rapidly lost that advantage
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Blair, Cameron & Starmer’s dishonest halfway house to NHS privatisation by a million stealth decisions is extraordinarily expensive in terms of management time. Which is why English NHS, just 10-15 yrs ago so administratively cost effective (compared internationally), has rapidly lost that advantage
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This can’t be repaired for the same reason why nothing in British politics and media can ever be fixed: the people responsible are not going to censure and fire themselves and each other. Which is the only way that any of it can ever be made better, by removing the people who made it like this.
December 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This can’t be repaired for the same reason why nothing in British politics and media can ever be fixed: the people responsible are not going to censure and fire themselves and each other. Which is the only way that any of it can ever be made better, by removing the people who made it like this.
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Again: all of this is elite radicalisation and none of it is organically arising from the public. It is MPs and the press flame-grilling their own brains on social media, then inflicting their poisonous spiteful idiocy upon everyone.
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Again: all of this is elite radicalisation and none of it is organically arising from the public. It is MPs and the press flame-grilling their own brains on social media, then inflicting their poisonous spiteful idiocy upon everyone.
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We - the British press - have absolutely fucked it and turned politics into daily breaking news from the cludgie Gestapo, because we were all very angry about being disrespected and not getting our way. This is sad but apparently it’s nobody’s fault.
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We - the British press - have absolutely fucked it and turned politics into daily breaking news from the cludgie Gestapo, because we were all very angry about being disrespected and not getting our way. This is sad but apparently it’s nobody’s fault.
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We will be reporting on this protest today.
This protest has been organised by Norwich Trans Pride following a recent ban on trans women joining the Women's Institute and Girlguiding.
This protest has been organised by Norwich Trans Pride following a recent ban on trans women joining the Women's Institute and Girlguiding.
December 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We will be reporting on this protest today.
This protest has been organised by Norwich Trans Pride following a recent ban on trans women joining the Women's Institute and Girlguiding.
This protest has been organised by Norwich Trans Pride following a recent ban on trans women joining the Women's Institute and Girlguiding.
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I just watched the Kuenssberg interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson in full, and congrats, it's actually far, far worse than the BBC news summary captures.
December 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I just watched the Kuenssberg interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson in full, and congrats, it's actually far, far worse than the BBC news summary captures.
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Increased coverage of Reform UK by Britain’s broadcast media appears to have fuelled the public’s rising preoccupation with the issues of immigration and asylum, according to research carried out in Wales ✍️ Martin Shipton
Is increased coverage of Reform fuelling the public's preoccupation with migration and asylum?
Martin Shipton Increased coverage of Reform UK by Britain’s broadcast media appears to have fuelled the public’s rising preoccupation with the issues of immigration and asylum, according to research c...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Increased coverage of Reform UK by Britain’s broadcast media appears to have fuelled the public’s rising preoccupation with the issues of immigration and asylum, according to research carried out in Wales ✍️ Martin Shipton
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Having appeared on it three times, I can 100% confirm that @robinince.bsky.social *IS* the #InfiniteMonkeyCage.
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
I just want to say @robinince.bsky.social is the very best of humans. How the BBC could have a problem with him is beyond me. The IMC will wither on the vine without the rich, nutritious value of Robin's brain. Go see him perform, and buy all his books. Your soul will feel like it has been hugged.
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Having appeared on it three times, I can 100% confirm that @robinince.bsky.social *IS* the #InfiniteMonkeyCage.
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Robin Ince once more showing what an amazing person he is. It's tragic that we are in a world where opposing transphobia and hate means having to resign, while being transphobic and hateful means getting regularly featured by national media outlets.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Robin Ince once more showing what an amazing person he is. It's tragic that we are in a world where opposing transphobia and hate means having to resign, while being transphobic and hateful means getting regularly featured by national media outlets.
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Ireland has taken a major step in supporting its national language with the launch of the country's first fully monolingual Irish dictionary
Ireland launches its first fully Irish dictionary
Ireland has taken a major step in supporting its national language with the launch of the country's first fully monolingual Irish dictionary.
wp.me
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Ireland has taken a major step in supporting its national language with the launch of the country's first fully monolingual Irish dictionary
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Absolutely ridiculous that you felt you had to resign when so many nasty, twisted people flourish at a much higher level in the BBC.
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Absolutely ridiculous that you felt you had to resign when so many nasty, twisted people flourish at a much higher level in the BBC.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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"Inform, Educate and Entertain"
@robinince.bsky.social embodies the BBC'S mission statement perfectly, but apparently they think he's problematic for being a decent human being who stands up for marginalised people and speaks out against injustice.
@robinince.bsky.social embodies the BBC'S mission statement perfectly, but apparently they think he's problematic for being a decent human being who stands up for marginalised people and speaks out against injustice.
December 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Inform, Educate and Entertain"
@robinince.bsky.social embodies the BBC'S mission statement perfectly, but apparently they think he's problematic for being a decent human being who stands up for marginalised people and speaks out against injustice.
@robinince.bsky.social embodies the BBC'S mission statement perfectly, but apparently they think he's problematic for being a decent human being who stands up for marginalised people and speaks out against injustice.
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Nice one, Spidey.
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nice one, Spidey.
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Au revoir Stanley Baxter. One of the cleverest and funniest comedians of my childhood. He was a better queen than the Queen and came out at 94. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Lk...
Stanley Baxter - Parliamo Glasgow - Mia Farra's farra, the marra & the barra
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December 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Au revoir Stanley Baxter. One of the cleverest and funniest comedians of my childhood. He was a better queen than the Queen and came out at 94. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Lk...
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If you haven't read Stanley Baxter's authorised biography, I highly recommend that you do. May have to give it a re-read, myself.
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If you haven't read Stanley Baxter's authorised biography, I highly recommend that you do. May have to give it a re-read, myself.