Danny van Read
@dannyvanread.bsky.social
Leftie liberal, politics, music, books, records. Mental and physical heath, neurodivergence and Dartmoor.
Expect tangents.
Expect tangents.
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Why we need to tax the super rich more.
Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's.
And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.
Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's.
And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Why we need to tax the super rich more.
Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's.
And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.
Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's.
And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.
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I was already judging everyone involved with this as scum collaborators from the actors to the runners but when you have the royal nonce come visit you really become in cahoots with evil how do you go to work the next day
Just imagining the actors looking at eachother as the UK’s most famous living nonce walks on set to shake hands with the child stars like are we the baddies
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I was already judging everyone involved with this as scum collaborators from the actors to the runners but when you have the royal nonce come visit you really become in cahoots with evil how do you go to work the next day
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"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
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my post claiming it's treason to question my mental and physical health is generating a lot of questions about my mental and physical health, which is treason btw
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
my post claiming it's treason to question my mental and physical health is generating a lot of questions about my mental and physical health, which is treason btw
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“Nothing we can do about this perverse court ruling” says the people who literally write the laws that tell the courts what to do.
Fucking state of this. Acting like they are completely powerless to do anything since the SC judgement.
Any new way of including people without amending the Equality Act will just be all-new segregation, now with added ‘dignity and respect’.
Any new way of including people without amending the Equality Act will just be all-new segregation, now with added ‘dignity and respect’.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“Nothing we can do about this perverse court ruling” says the people who literally write the laws that tell the courts what to do.
Wouldn’t it be nice if govt actually talked to trans people rather than base policy on 12 bigots and a billionaire?
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wouldn’t it be nice if govt actually talked to trans people rather than base policy on 12 bigots and a billionaire?
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Critics argue that the ECHR stops us from being able to deport illegal migrants. In reality, in 75 years the ECHR has only ruled against the UK in 13 cases out of 500k: 0.000026%. The ECHR is being used a scapegoat for domestic challenges, and we must defend it.
Starmer urges European leaders to reform human rights laws to tackle immigration
The ECHR is seen by its critics as a major barrier to attempts to deport illegal migrants from the country.
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Critics argue that the ECHR stops us from being able to deport illegal migrants. In reality, in 75 years the ECHR has only ruled against the UK in 13 cases out of 500k: 0.000026%. The ECHR is being used a scapegoat for domestic challenges, and we must defend it.
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Labour have no values left with which to take on the Greens so good luck with that.
This by @umakumaran.bsky.social is good - and a example of exactly how Labour should be taking on the Greens; on values, direct and on Labour territory. Taking them seriously.
Polanski’s snobbery exposes the Greens’ hollow populism - Labour’s Uma Kumaran
The Greens talk progress but Zack Polanski only delivers put-downs, says Labour MP for Stratford and Bow Uma Kumaran
www.standard.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Labour have no values left with which to take on the Greens so good luck with that.
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"Human rights were never designed only for safe, comfortable times. They were written precisely for moments like this:.. when scapegoating becomes tempting".
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Human rights were never designed only for safe, comfortable times. They were written precisely for moments like this:.. when scapegoating becomes tempting".
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Early morning round of trans women being excluded, ADHD being judged and sneered at, and young people being forced to work for their benefits.
May I say, from the bottom of my heart, fuck this Govt. and all who sail in it. Have voted Labour all my adult life, but will NEVER bloody do so again.
May I say, from the bottom of my heart, fuck this Govt. and all who sail in it. Have voted Labour all my adult life, but will NEVER bloody do so again.
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Early morning round of trans women being excluded, ADHD being judged and sneered at, and young people being forced to work for their benefits.
May I say, from the bottom of my heart, fuck this Govt. and all who sail in it. Have voted Labour all my adult life, but will NEVER bloody do so again.
May I say, from the bottom of my heart, fuck this Govt. and all who sail in it. Have voted Labour all my adult life, but will NEVER bloody do so again.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
You will all know how much I love trudging around the neighbourhood playing Evri’s legendary game ‘Where’s This Door?’ But I’m flummoxed on this occasion as this ‘delivery photo’ features neither my home *or* my parcel.
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
You will all know how much I love trudging around the neighbourhood playing Evri’s legendary game ‘Where’s This Door?’ But I’m flummoxed on this occasion as this ‘delivery photo’ features neither my home *or* my parcel.
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Welcome to Britain’s new benefits lie: disabled people are driving BMWs and Mercedes on the taxpayer’s dime.
My column on Motability and the truth behind the headlines and social media myths. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on Motability and the truth behind the headlines and social media myths. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan
Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Welcome to Britain’s new benefits lie: disabled people are driving BMWs and Mercedes on the taxpayer’s dime.
My column on Motability and the truth behind the headlines and social media myths. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on Motability and the truth behind the headlines and social media myths. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"House of Commons Jerk Seasoning" is 1) an extremely funny concept and more importantly 2) a sign of a complete and total victory for cultural pluralism in a way that is kind of difficult to concieve
Look, I know things aren’t great at the moment for (a) anyone, and (b) the Labour Party, but fuck me that’s bleak
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"House of Commons Jerk Seasoning" is 1) an extremely funny concept and more importantly 2) a sign of a complete and total victory for cultural pluralism in a way that is kind of difficult to concieve
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I very much like it when a cat sits all neatly and then wraps their tail around their toes
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I very much like it when a cat sits all neatly and then wraps their tail around their toes
I cannot even catch a glimpse of Matt Goodwin without hearing @iandunt.bsky.social scribbling ‘what a cunt’ in a margin somewhere…
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I cannot even catch a glimpse of Matt Goodwin without hearing @iandunt.bsky.social scribbling ‘what a cunt’ in a margin somewhere…
Starmer would do well to listen to this former diplomat. He won’t, of course.
Rant alert: Trump’s national security strategy trashing the EU and core values at heart of transatlantic alliance makes it all the more urgent for Starmer to pursue bolder reset with EU. His timidity loses valuable time and risks leaving us even more subject to events rather than shaping them. 🧵
🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Brexit Blind Spot Leaves Britain With a Major Missed Opportunity’
It was striking that the most impressive recent speech on Britain’s future in Europe came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues @alexhh.bsky.social
It was striking that the most impressive recent speech on Britain’s future in Europe came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues @alexhh.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Starmer would do well to listen to this former diplomat. He won’t, of course.
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It's incredible the extent to which the UK is now a warning about what the US could become even as the US is simultaneously a warning about what the UK could become.
The two countries are somehow both dystopian visions of each other's future, and I don't like it one little bit.
The two countries are somehow both dystopian visions of each other's future, and I don't like it one little bit.
This is the UK Labour Party, the left-liberal party who took power in a wave election after the fascist-adjacent conservs melted down.
We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.
We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's incredible the extent to which the UK is now a warning about what the US could become even as the US is simultaneously a warning about what the UK could become.
The two countries are somehow both dystopian visions of each other's future, and I don't like it one little bit.
The two countries are somehow both dystopian visions of each other's future, and I don't like it one little bit.
I managed about 40 seconds of The Liz Truss show. So I appreciate the sacrifice Alex made here. It’s much safer reading an appropriately snarky assessment than actually watching this grifting tripe.
I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I managed about 40 seconds of The Liz Truss show. So I appreciate the sacrifice Alex made here. It’s much safer reading an appropriately snarky assessment than actually watching this grifting tripe.
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It’s at about this point in December when looking out at yet another dark biblical deluge that I start to get fed up with a British winter. I think I’ll post a floral illustration a day for January from my book collection .
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It’s at about this point in December when looking out at yet another dark biblical deluge that I start to get fed up with a British winter. I think I’ll post a floral illustration a day for January from my book collection .
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
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"You're lucky Mom says I can't open my presents until Christmas."
"But I'm not-"
"Tick tock, motherfucker."
"But I'm not-"
"Tick tock, motherfucker."
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"You're lucky Mom says I can't open my presents until Christmas."
"But I'm not-"
"Tick tock, motherfucker."
"But I'm not-"
"Tick tock, motherfucker."
THIS
It is incredible to me how made up this issue is. No one gave a shit ten years ago. Sure there were your individual mad, ignorant bigots but *Theresa May* was pushing for self-ID because it was the last little bit of logistical sorting out of a settled question: we're ok with Trans people
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
December 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
THIS
I had really low expectations of a Starmer Labour govt.
I mean really low.
From a personal point of view I didn’t expect austerity cuts reversed. I just hoped for no further cuts.
I also hoped that the demonisation of the disabled would be reduced.
I mean really low.
From a personal point of view I didn’t expect austerity cuts reversed. I just hoped for no further cuts.
I also hoped that the demonisation of the disabled would be reduced.
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I had really low expectations of a Starmer Labour govt.
I mean really low.
From a personal point of view I didn’t expect austerity cuts reversed. I just hoped for no further cuts.
I also hoped that the demonisation of the disabled would be reduced.
I mean really low.
From a personal point of view I didn’t expect austerity cuts reversed. I just hoped for no further cuts.
I also hoped that the demonisation of the disabled would be reduced.
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I remain very angry that far too little research is going in to ME and post viral conditions. We are failing/abandoning millions of extremely vulnerable people who need and deserve more.
Women are 2-4x more likely to get ME than men.
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Women are 2-4x more likely to get ME than men.
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This is interesting. When I realised/accepted (it took me a while) how disabled I am by #SevereMecfs, I just kind of instantly understood that I wasn't going to be having another relationship. Not just with men*, but at all. Who would possibly want me? That was in my 30s. I'm about to turn 56.
This is really interesting by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social exploring idea men are more likely to leave if a partner gets sick. I cover this in my book and the wider context that disabled women are treated differently than men full stop, especially in dating. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I remain very angry that far too little research is going in to ME and post viral conditions. We are failing/abandoning millions of extremely vulnerable people who need and deserve more.
Women are 2-4x more likely to get ME than men.
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Women are 2-4x more likely to get ME than men.
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It's a purely personal thing, I do get that, but I just don't see how you try and find the balance between, most xenophobic, transphobic, ablest government in pretty much living memory and "well they froze train fares". The payoffs people will accept for a slightly quieter life boggle me tbh. 2/
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's a purely personal thing, I do get that, but I just don't see how you try and find the balance between, most xenophobic, transphobic, ablest government in pretty much living memory and "well they froze train fares". The payoffs people will accept for a slightly quieter life boggle me tbh. 2/