Mike Bailey
@linusd.bsky.social
20th century art, surrealism; Georgian antiques, porcelain and silver; cats; Europe; Woke; pro Palestine & two states; taxing wealth not work; climate change action; reentering CU & SM then EU; pro multiculturalism & immigration. Anti fascist, anti racism
Polanski gets the viewers’ vote to tax the rich
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Polanski gets the viewers’ vote to tax the rich
Did auntie Karoline get her nephew’s mum deported?
Sure looks like Karoline Leavitt had her nephew's mother deported right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Did auntie Karoline get her nephew’s mum deported?
The Clapton racist exposed again
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Clapton racist exposed again
Noam thrown under the bus by justice department open.spotify.com/episode/3Rkr...
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Noam thrown under the bus by justice department open.spotify.com/episode/3Rkr...
The Wreath lecture censorship the BBC now hobbles itself with
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Wreath lecture censorship the BBC now hobbles itself with
All the way from Banbury to display political ignorance and a bit of R and M prejudice perhaps?
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All the way from Banbury to display political ignorance and a bit of R and M prejudice perhaps?
Join the Green Party and add your name to reducing child poverty in the UK
Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Join the Green Party and add your name to reducing child poverty in the UK
Reform policies are driven by the greed and wealth accumulation desires of their donors not the needs or even beliefs of their supporters
"Most Reform UK voters don’t object to green policies, so who is its climate crisis denialism designed to serve?"
Why Reform UK hates net zero … follow the money!
Most Reform UK voters don’t object to green policies, so who is its climate crisis denialism designed to serve?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reform policies are driven by the greed and wealth accumulation desires of their donors not the needs or even beliefs of their supporters
Zack Polanski sums up the budget. Music to the ears of the fifty richest families in the country as they get to keep the growth of their immense wealth untroubled by new taxes
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Zack Polanski sums up the budget. Music to the ears of the fifty richest families in the country as they get to keep the growth of their immense wealth untroubled by new taxes
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One more reason to boycott @ryanairofficial.bsky.social (as if anyone needed another one). Corporate greed has replaced good sense and common compassion. Don’t fly Ryanair if you can help it
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
One more reason to boycott @ryanairofficial.bsky.social (as if anyone needed another one). Corporate greed has replaced good sense and common compassion. Don’t fly Ryanair if you can help it
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It’s like spending the rest of your life with an artificial leg or in a wheelchair because a narrow majority of the people around you voted to cut off one of your legs nine years ago. Where do you even start?
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It’s like spending the rest of your life with an artificial leg or in a wheelchair because a narrow majority of the people around you voted to cut off one of your legs nine years ago. Where do you even start?
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Lobbying Lords get slaps on the wrist. They’ll be back after Easter.
NEW: Lord Dannatt and Lord David Evans of Watford face suspension of 4mo/5mo respectively from the House of Lords after a parliamentary watchdog ruled they had broken lobbying rules. Reports from the conduct committee follows Guardian investigations into the peers.
w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social
w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Lobbying Lords get slaps on the wrist. They’ll be back after Easter.
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Serious warning, there are some things you didn’t know that you can’t unknow once you know. Ignorance is not only bliss in this case, ignorance is sanity and sanitary.
The letter ‘F’ brought to you by — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., United States Secretary of Health and Human Services… 😳
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Serious warning, there are some things you didn’t know that you can’t unknow once you know. Ignorance is not only bliss in this case, ignorance is sanity and sanitary.
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Lavrov threw Trump and his administration under the bus over the Russian 28 point plan. Why did Trump try to help so hard when once again Putin and Lavrov hang him out to dry?
BREAKING - Lavrov Admits What Washington Won’t: The 28-Point Plan Was Russia’s All Along
The White House is now scrambling to contain the fallout from its disastrous handling of the 28-Point “Peace Plan,” a document that now appears to have come through a Kremlin-influenced ...
#OSINT
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The White House is now scrambling to contain the fallout from its disastrous handling of the 28-Point “Peace Plan,” a document that now appears to have come through a Kremlin-influenced ...
#OSINT
1/14
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Lavrov threw Trump and his administration under the bus over the Russian 28 point plan. Why did Trump try to help so hard when once again Putin and Lavrov hang him out to dry?
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Government led by a man who can’t spell, pronounce, define or model respect tells young people not to dress comfortably for travel which has had all elements of comfort removed for reasons of profit maximisation.
Okay, if we're gonna go all out for 1950's nostalgia: I'll dress up when I fly if you go back to collecting an average of 42% tax from the rich like they did back then.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Government led by a man who can’t spell, pronounce, define or model respect tells young people not to dress comfortably for travel which has had all elements of comfort removed for reasons of profit maximisation.
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Covid-19 bereaved families for justice should launch a class action against Johnson. Failure to act with urgency. His cavalier, irresponsible and contemptuous behaviour when he should have been leading the public health response and setting an example. All amply documented.
ICYMI: Boris Johnson responded to the Covid Inquiry via his Telegraph column - he failed to apologise
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice: "It is beyond contempt that he has chosen to respond to the Covid Inquiry by attacking the Covid Bereaved for "wrangling" about the deaths of our loved ones"
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice: "It is beyond contempt that he has chosen to respond to the Covid Inquiry by attacking the Covid Bereaved for "wrangling" about the deaths of our loved ones"
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Covid-19 bereaved families for justice should launch a class action against Johnson. Failure to act with urgency. His cavalier, irresponsible and contemptuous behaviour when he should have been leading the public health response and setting an example. All amply documented.
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If Gove and Johnson, Farage and David and all the others had known that they’d be in jail if they lied before the Brexit referendum we wouldn’t have voted for Brexit because they wouldn’t have lied as easily as they breathe
In case you missed it ...
Brexiters swore we'd stay in the Single Market and that the EU would let us cherry pick whatever we wanted. If people had known they were lying before the ref, Brexit would have been rejected.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Brexiters swore we'd stay in the Single Market and that the EU would let us cherry pick whatever we wanted. If people had known they were lying before the ref, Brexit would have been rejected.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If Gove and Johnson, Farage and David and all the others had known that they’d be in jail if they lied before the Brexit referendum we wouldn’t have voted for Brexit because they wouldn’t have lied as easily as they breathe
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Back up what you are saying with evidence or shut up. Tories had 14 years to stop this welfare culture of taxpayer funded luxury and they didn’t so doesn’t even exist in significant numbers? I don’t think so.
Millions bust their arses daily just to survive, while Tories whinge about “welfare culture” from taxpayer-funded luxury. They crashed the economy, made work not pay, and now blame the poor. Cutting support for kids isn’t “responsible” - if anything needs a cap, it’s Tory hypocrisy. #ukpolitics
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Back up what you are saying with evidence or shut up. Tories had 14 years to stop this welfare culture of taxpayer funded luxury and they didn’t so doesn’t even exist in significant numbers? I don’t think so.
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Unhung traitor of neutrality and impartiality more like. Mason makes Kuenssberg look left leaning. Who does Gibb think he is kidding? No one, he is just feeding headline writers.
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Unhung traitor of neutrality and impartiality more like. Mason makes Kuenssberg look left leaning. Who does Gibb think he is kidding? No one, he is just feeding headline writers.
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The biggest dead cat in history?
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The biggest dead cat in history?
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Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC? Because Farage’s lies so often contradict the reality even a distorted BBC presents. Reform voters trust Farage more than the BBC so the BBC needs to better reflect Farage’s distortions of reality. Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb said this with straight faces.
BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC? Because Farage’s lies so often contradict the reality even a distorted BBC presents. Reform voters trust Farage more than the BBC so the BBC needs to better reflect Farage’s distortions of reality. Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb said this with straight faces.
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I get a lot of push back on my Zack Polanski enthusiasm by people who say he is just a left wing Farage or Truss, shallow and simplistic. Here he is facing a BoE adviser and a Labour rising star. See what you think, does he make sense?
Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I get a lot of push back on my Zack Polanski enthusiasm by people who say he is just a left wing Farage or Truss, shallow and simplistic. Here he is facing a BoE adviser and a Labour rising star. See what you think, does he make sense?
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Farage insists his antisemitism wasn’t intended to hurt as he only used soft soap slurs snd a chamois leather evocation of Hitler
Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Farage insists his antisemitism wasn’t intended to hurt as he only used soft soap slurs snd a chamois leather evocation of Hitler
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The Dutch once cooked and ate a prime minister who displeased them. Just saying.
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The Dutch once cooked and ate a prime minister who displeased them. Just saying.