Joe Blair
@joezblair.bsky.social
I will post about Wimbledon football, guitars, the blues and Bruce Springsteen a little more than might be healthy for you
Sorry, not sorry
Sorry, not sorry
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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Am starting to wonder if this whole Prescott report thing doesn't end up backfiring as people start to ask increasingly loud questions about Robbie Gibb and right wing influence at the BBC
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Am starting to wonder if this whole Prescott report thing doesn't end up backfiring as people start to ask increasingly loud questions about Robbie Gibb and right wing influence at the BBC
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ps Anyone old enough to remember Truss threatening to sue Starmer for saying she crashed the economy?
That was in January this year.
That was in January this year.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ps Anyone old enough to remember Truss threatening to sue Starmer for saying she crashed the economy?
That was in January this year.
That was in January this year.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
New York City marked safe from Kid Rock
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New York City marked safe from Kid Rock
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New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Polish deputy PM/foreign minister @radek-sikorski.bsky.social - on Trump, Putin, and why it matters so much to the west that Ukraine wins. This, and much more, including a plea to U.K. to get back in the EU
alastaircampbell.org/2025/11/161-...
alastaircampbell.org/2025/11/161-...
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Polish deputy PM/foreign minister @radek-sikorski.bsky.social - on Trump, Putin, and why it matters so much to the west that Ukraine wins. This, and much more, including a plea to U.K. to get back in the EU
alastaircampbell.org/2025/11/161-...
alastaircampbell.org/2025/11/161-...
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In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".
Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...
Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...
Boris Johnson condemns Trump after Capitol attack: 'Completely wrong'
YouTube video by Guardian News
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".
Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...
Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
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It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Absolutely nailed him.
The MAGA lot, pretty much without exception, revel in ugliness.
The MAGA lot, pretty much without exception, revel in ugliness.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Absolutely nailed him.
The MAGA lot, pretty much without exception, revel in ugliness.
The MAGA lot, pretty much without exception, revel in ugliness.
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Thinking about what those who sacrificed their lives during ww2 would make of how many people in the UK, Europe and US have been seduced by fascism again.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Thinking about what those who sacrificed their lives during ww2 would make of how many people in the UK, Europe and US have been seduced by fascism again.
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Beyond the bog standard racism, I think this may explain why the right is going after David Lammy so aggressively at the moment ...
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Beyond the bog standard racism, I think this may explain why the right is going after David Lammy so aggressively at the moment ...
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I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
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Can’t believe I’m having to post this again.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Can’t believe I’m having to post this again.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
Things you don’t get to choose; Sexuality, gender, ethnicity, disability, mental/physical health, religion you’re born into.
Things you do get to choose; Whether or not to be an arsehole to someone about any of these things.
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Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
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The unsettling message for investors from the financial cycle on.ft.com/4p0mfoy | opinion
The unsettling message for investors from the financial cycle
The next bailout is likely to involve inflationary financing of fiscal deficits by central banks
on.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The unsettling message for investors from the financial cycle on.ft.com/4p0mfoy | opinion
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
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