Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Brexit refugee living in Italy. Singer, writer, teacher, director and Italophile.
The Guardian says this should be the BBC's response to Trump. I tend to agree!
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Arkell v Pressdram [1971]
In April 1971, Private Eye carried the story of how James Arkell, a retail credit manager, had dispensed with the services of two bailiffs who were on bail on charges of conspiracy to create a publ…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Guardian says this should be the BBC's response to Trump. I tend to agree!
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
Remembering the sacrifice made by South Asians in WW2 seems particularly important in these times of division and hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain
Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world war
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November 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Remembering the sacrifice made by South Asians in WW2 seems particularly important in these times of division and hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This was one of the effigies blown up at the Lewes bonfire celebrations this week. If they're already making effigies of Starmer just one year into his government it gives you a pretty good indication of just how unpopular he and his government are.
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This was one of the effigies blown up at the Lewes bonfire celebrations this week. If they're already making effigies of Starmer just one year into his government it gives you a pretty good indication of just how unpopular he and his government are.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
What a fabulous "up yours" to Trump! The world feels a little better today.
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
What a fabulous "up yours" to Trump! The world feels a little better today.
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Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
How inconvenient for the fascists and Reform politicians, who were quick to portray Saturday's appalling knife attack as Islamist extremism.
1st the perpetrator turns out to be a black Briton and then we discover the heroic LNER worker is of arab extraction, and very likely Muslim.
Well done Samir!
1st the perpetrator turns out to be a black Briton and then we discover the heroic LNER worker is of arab extraction, and very likely Muslim.
Well done Samir!
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
How inconvenient for the fascists and Reform politicians, who were quick to portray Saturday's appalling knife attack as Islamist extremism.
1st the perpetrator turns out to be a black Briton and then we discover the heroic LNER worker is of arab extraction, and very likely Muslim.
Well done Samir!
1st the perpetrator turns out to be a black Briton and then we discover the heroic LNER worker is of arab extraction, and very likely Muslim.
Well done Samir!
Some useful information with which to bash those knuckle draggers who, despite all evidence to the contrary, still seem to think that Brexit and Farage was/is the answer.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
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November 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Some useful information with which to bash those knuckle draggers who, despite all evidence to the contrary, still seem to think that Brexit and Farage was/is the answer.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
So much for Trump's "peace."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Fears Gaza ‘temporary’ ceasefire line could become permanent new border
Yellow markers installed by IDF entrench divide that cuts strip in two, as hopes of moving to next phase of truce fade
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October 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So much for Trump's "peace."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This is fun. We can vote Farage down in popularity. He's currently on 74% popular, as opposed to 24% unpopular. I'm sure we can turn that around!
#LucyPowell, #Labour Deputy Leader, says Labour had let #NigelFarage “and his ilk run away” with the political agenda.
Show what you think of Farage by voting him up or down MP League.
MP League® is the only empirical way to show what you think of any MP any time.
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Show what you think of Farage by voting him up or down MP League.
MP League® is the only empirical way to show what you think of any MP any time.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is fun. We can vote Farage down in popularity. He's currently on 74% popular, as opposed to 24% unpopular. I'm sure we can turn that around!
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I get annoyed if I drop something on my toe or lose my keys..
But Sarah gets annoyed by Black or Asian people which is racism summed up 🤷🏼♂️
But Sarah gets annoyed by Black or Asian people which is racism summed up 🤷🏼♂️
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I get annoyed if I drop something on my toe or lose my keys..
But Sarah gets annoyed by Black or Asian people which is racism summed up 🤷🏼♂️
But Sarah gets annoyed by Black or Asian people which is racism summed up 🤷🏼♂️
I agree with most of this apart from the sentence "In order to successfully mobilise anti-Farage votes, Keir Starmer needs to start actually offering centre left voters something beyond just keeping out Reform."
Caerphilly has shown that we can vote both to remove 1/2
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...
Caerphilly has shown that we can vote both to remove 1/2
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The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
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October 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I agree with most of this apart from the sentence "In order to successfully mobilise anti-Farage votes, Keir Starmer needs to start actually offering centre left voters something beyond just keeping out Reform."
Caerphilly has shown that we can vote both to remove 1/2
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...
Caerphilly has shown that we can vote both to remove 1/2
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...
Plaid winning in Caerphilly is proof that progressive voters do have alternatives to this right wing Labour government. It's also proof that Progressives can defeat Reform.
Labour is spinning it as not being an anti Starmer vote but they need to wake up or they'll follow the Tories into oblivion.
Labour is spinning it as not being an anti Starmer vote but they need to wake up or they'll follow the Tories into oblivion.
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Plaid winning in Caerphilly is proof that progressive voters do have alternatives to this right wing Labour government. It's also proof that Progressives can defeat Reform.
Labour is spinning it as not being an anti Starmer vote but they need to wake up or they'll follow the Tories into oblivion.
Labour is spinning it as not being an anti Starmer vote but they need to wake up or they'll follow the Tories into oblivion.
Ed Davey asks the PM to negotiate a customs union with the EU, since Labour is now admitting that Brexit is a disaster. Starmer rejects that idea. I wonder what's happened to Starmer's brain?
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ed Davey asks the PM to negotiate a customs union with the EU, since Labour is now admitting that Brexit is a disaster. Starmer rejects that idea. I wonder what's happened to Starmer's brain?
Isn't there some sort of listing system for historic buildings in the US? Surely Trump can't just demolish part of an important building with no consequences? Ah, sorry: I forgot that laws don't apply to him.
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White House’s East Wing partially demolished as work begins on Trump’s $250m ballroom
Ex-congressman calls major renovation ‘utter desecration’ as demolition in East Wing reportedly under way
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October 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Isn't there some sort of listing system for historic buildings in the US? Surely Trump can't just demolish part of an important building with no consequences? Ah, sorry: I forgot that laws don't apply to him.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It's many years since I was last in Zurich, so a trip to admire the Chagall glass in the Frauenmünster was a must!
October 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's many years since I was last in Zurich, so a trip to admire the Chagall glass in the Frauenmünster was a must!
Farage and all the other fascists should be forced to listen to this brilliant poem daily.
Well done Elander Moore and the British Museum.
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Well done Elander Moore and the British Museum.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Farage and all the other fascists should be forced to listen to this brilliant poem daily.
Well done Elander Moore and the British Museum.
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Well done Elander Moore and the British Museum.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPUBC3l...
If this is what conduct at sporting events in the US has descended to, who will want to attend either the World Cup or the Olympics?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America | Bryan Armen Graham
European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down
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September 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If this is what conduct at sporting events in the US has descended to, who will want to attend either the World Cup or the Olympics?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Whilst I sympathise with Clive Lewis, I fear it's already too late to save Labour.
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Starmerism has almost destroyed the Labour party, but I still have hope for renewal | Clive Lewis
As our party conference gets under way this weekend in Liverpool, we must start to work out how we can inspire the country, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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September 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Whilst I sympathise with Clive Lewis, I fear it's already too late to save Labour.
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What an appalling example of a human being Trump is.
As for J D Vance: he clearly has no understanding of what being a Christian means. Maybe the Pope can school him.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As for J D Vance: he clearly has no understanding of what being a Christian means. Maybe the Pope can school him.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Charlie Kirk memorial: Trump says he ‘hates’ his opponents at event attended by tens of thousands
President delivers mix of eulogy and campaign speech while JD Vance calls Kirk ‘martyr for the Christian faith’
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September 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What an appalling example of a human being Trump is.
As for J D Vance: he clearly has no understanding of what being a Christian means. Maybe the Pope can school him.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As for J D Vance: he clearly has no understanding of what being a Christian means. Maybe the Pope can school him.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...