Pam Jarvis

@drpam.bsky.social

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#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator. ‘On Time’ News and Fiction writing blog at:
https://ontimesorg.wordpress.com/

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · Dec 26

What would you do if you had access to a time portal? Try to resolve your granny’s childhood trauma, or try to save the world from global warming? Or even dance along to Hendrix at Woodstock, 1969? 3 generations of the time trekking Anderson family do all this and more in the ‘On Time’ series.

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Sue Beesley @suebeesley.bsky.social · 8h

I read Dickens' 'Bleak House' over Christmas - loved it. Now watching the 2005 BBC series on iPlayer. Just wonderful - phenomenal cast, cleverly edited, beautifully filmed. A delight in 15 priceless parts.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Bleak House

Andrew Davies' adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale.

www.bbc.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 15h

Well, who knows, maybe here in the U.K., we may be heading back onto that road now? 🤞🏻 This resignation message seems very fair.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 15h

Does this opinion make me an ‘OK Boomer?’ I was 14 when Nixon resigned and I remember my (‘greatest generation’) dad shaking his head and saying ‘what a terrible thing.’ I can’t imagine what that generation would make of the world now. Probably ‘it’s your own (collective) fault.’

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 15h

I may be speaking from a past generation here but I think it worked better when there were standards in public life, & if lawmakers were caught in any type of financial and/or vice scandal they had to resign & didn’t come back. In that world, Trump would never have been a presidential candidate 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 17h

I think he was seen as someone who could engage with the Trump White House because they shared background. No one seemed to see the obvious issue. And there is the other issue for us, in that several women MPs have commented that Starmer has appointed a ‘blokey’ inner circle.

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 21h

In all the commentary about the Melania film, which is supposed to be a documentary, Mark Kermode nails it: Melania is a heist movie, showing crooks grabbing the spoils they're after.
The rest of the world should be worrying, not applauding.

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Sarah Gollin @sarahgollin.bsky.social · 23h

Well done Mark Kermode for saying it how it is

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Dr Mike Jackson OBE @jackson1948.bsky.social · 23h

What was on Harry Truman's desk? 'The buck stops here'. The video went out on DJT's Truth Social under his name. Own it!

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

Grotesque.

Trump shifts blame to aide as he refuses to apologize for racist video of Obamas

After first dismissing uproar over depiction of Obamas as apes, White House then said it was erroneously posted by staffer

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

So glad I decided against getting a Substack. I won’t be accessing blogs on there anymore, apologies to all of you who blog on there. But there are other sites. (I’m still on WordPress).

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

‘Absolutely repugnant’ - Mark Kermode. It’s running to empty cinemas in the U.K.

Mark Kermode reviews Melania

YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

Since March 2025, the Trump administration has used tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out “DEI” and “gender ideology" from child welfare programs.

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants

Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed.

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 1d

Bannon and Farage terrifying

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

This is the calibre of GOP candidate in 2008. How, in 8 short years, did the US move from this point to the election of Trump? Is the web of evil being uncovered in the Epstein files at least partially responsible?

Flashback: McCain tells supporter Obama is 'a decent...

YouTube video by CNN

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. This podcast is by 2 people who moved in the same circles as Epstein, Mandelson and Maxwell and it does more than anything else I’ve seen to inform about the depths of this web of wickedness and the necessity to unravel it completely.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed it is. This made me angrier at America in general than anything that has gone before. It is the very depths of vile; if he didn’t post it himself he must have seen it and left it there. He shouldn’t be president any more, end of (or ‘period’ as they say in the US). Wake up, America.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

And one of the main reasons for that is our culture lets them deflect blame on to everyone else - most especially women close to them. So the media mill starts focusing on them - not the person responsible.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

Not one man has received concrete fall out from this release of documents in the US. The U.K. has acted, but our media are desperately looking for women to blame. We need to recognise this as an ancient cultural problem before we can move forward.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

If we look at QEII she was 80ish when she was told there was a problem. She had spent a lifetime covering up for men, often at great cost to herself (Google Philip’s will) and so had her mother (Google ‘Lord Mountbatten scandal’). At the time they had no choice. Now we deflect blame onto them? 🤬

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Ceri P 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺 @ceri38.bsky.social · 1d

It’s always the women’s fault. Right back to Eve in the garden of Eden. A story written by men.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so fed up with all this s**t. Can’t we just press ‘reset’ on both the U.K. and US governments? Go back to the Obamas in the US, and a bit of alternative history in the U.K. - where we did get ‘5 years of chaos’ with Ed Miliband in 2015, not 9 years of carpet bagging with Cameron, Johnson et al?

Labour minister commissioned report on journalists

Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when director of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources

www.theguardian.com

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

QEII knew what her own generation &the generation of men above (esp) got up to& got away with& was programmed into ‘women don’t ask.’ Some sources are also trying to drag AMW’s daughters into this. We need to ask ourselves-why do we keep looking for women to blame? Why not blame the f-ing *men?* 🤬

Queen Elizabeth gave Andrew 'full support' even after Epstein photos emerged — ITV News

Queen Elizabeth II gave her son, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, her

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🌺🌈🦋laura hunter🌈🙏🌺 @laurahunter-88.bsky.social · 2d

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are brilliant, compassionate, and patriotic Americans—classy, smart, and inspiring.

President Obama and the First Lady set a powerful example by prioritizing family, dignity, and public service above all.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

This is simultaneously (1) garbage: Labour has done nothing remotely as bad as the Tories' industrial scale VIP corruption and (2) proof:
of Labour's failure to understand, let alone address, the industrial scale lie-telling machine that is our media.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Well it could be Vance of course. But I think he is marginally less dangerous due to level of predictability. And then he’d have to deal with the considerable GOP reputation damage, while putting together an election campaign. So still a positive option.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

How disgusting does this man have to be before enough Republicans drop him to start impeachment? The longer this goes on, the lower the US reputation sinks across the world.

Donald Trump prompts fury after posting racist video about Barack and Michelle Obama – US politics live

The US president posted a racist video on Truth Social that included disproven allegations about ballot-counting

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2d

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.

The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.

Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said.

It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

So, student loans are a hot topic on #BBC #NewsNight. If people are interested in how we got to this point, I wrote an article on it last year. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Education, education… and bums on seats

A personal memoir of the Blair-era widening participation policy for higher education, that promised opportunity, but left a complex legacy

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

Wes Streeting's links with Peter Mandelson are extensive, with some in the past even saying that the disgraced former ambassador would have picked the Health Secretary for prime minister, had it been up to him

We took a deep dive 👇

Wes Streeting in the spotlight over past links with Peter Mandelson

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