Pete Marchetto
@petemarchetto.bsky.social
Boomer postpatriot Englishman, freelance writer in expat recovery (from China), of the social-democratic centre now deemed 'far left', Green Party member. Free sample ebook of short stories at:
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Free sampler ebook, (with details of how to pay me at the end if you feel like it): 'Love Sideways', 3 unromantic romances.
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'We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.'
- Milan Kundera
- Milan Kundera
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.'
- Milan Kundera
- Milan Kundera
Interesting.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Interesting.
Moving from NATO to a security structure based upon European needs is something you, as an MP, really ought to know is now commonly debated. Take a look at the latest National Security Strategy out of the US. Is Labour's plan...
(2/2) From Zack Polanski patronising hard-working social care workers who this Government are supporting with a first-ever Fair Pay Agreement, to waffling about NATO reform at a time when Putin is trying to weaken the alliance, and blocking the clean and green energy infrastructure we need.
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Moving from NATO to a security structure based upon European needs is something you, as an MP, really ought to know is now commonly debated. Take a look at the latest National Security Strategy out of the US. Is Labour's plan...
I'm not The Canary's greatest fan, but between rhetorical flourishes, this is a good takedown of Starmer's recent attacks on @zackpolanski.bsky.social Polanski and the Greens (E&W).
The issue Starmer faces is that he's the leader of THE ostensible party of the...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
The issue Starmer faces is that he's the leader of THE ostensible party of the...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Polanski responds to Starmer saying 'the Greens are nuts'
The 'gloves are off', apparently, as Keir Starmer attacks Zack Polanski and others in a desperate bid to cling on to his failing premiership
www.thecanary.co
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm not The Canary's greatest fan, but between rhetorical flourishes, this is a good takedown of Starmer's recent attacks on @zackpolanski.bsky.social Polanski and the Greens (E&W).
The issue Starmer faces is that he's the leader of THE ostensible party of the...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
The issue Starmer faces is that he's the leader of THE ostensible party of the...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Oops.
Ian Cooper is being probed by the party over racist social media posts
Nigel Farage says "it doesn’t look very good" for the Reform Leader of Staffordshire County Council
Ian Cooper is being probed by the party over racist social media posts
leftfootforward.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Oops.
This, writ large, typifies Farage. If you watch him, most notably in the Commons, whenever someone chucks something at him he laughs. It doesn't matter what it is, that's his response.
What's interesting is when, in an interview or other situation, it's thrown at him a second time, and then a...
What's interesting is when, in an interview or other situation, it's thrown at him a second time, and then a...
Farage Biographer Says Reform Leader Has 'Totally Lost It' Over Racism Allegations
"He's really, really rattled in a way we've not seen before," according to Michael Crick. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage...
"He's really, really rattled in a way we've not seen before," according to Michael Crick. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage...
Farage Biographer Says Reform Leader Has 'Totally Lost It' Over Racism Allegations
"He's really, really rattled in a way we've not seen before," according to Michael Crick.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This, writ large, typifies Farage. If you watch him, most notably in the Commons, whenever someone chucks something at him he laughs. It doesn't matter what it is, that's his response.
What's interesting is when, in an interview or other situation, it's thrown at him a second time, and then a...
What's interesting is when, in an interview or other situation, it's thrown at him a second time, and then a...
Trouble is, Trump will be chuffed by this. He just doesn't get... well, anything much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Trouble is, Trump will be chuffed by this. He just doesn't get... well, anything much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Love this. One of those things that'll set me off giggling every time I think about it.
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Love this. One of those things that'll set me off giggling every time I think about it.
I genuinely do not understand why Streeting keeps being mentioned. He has a 528 (if memory serves) majority. Go to a betting shop and it's odds-on he loses his seat in '29. I don't think a party losing a sitting PM at an election has ever been accomplished before, and I can't see Labour wanting...
Polls of Labour members suggest Angela Rayner is most likely to be PM if Starmer goes www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I genuinely do not understand why Streeting keeps being mentioned. He has a 528 (if memory serves) majority. Go to a betting shop and it's odds-on he loses his seat in '29. I don't think a party losing a sitting PM at an election has ever been accomplished before, and I can't see Labour wanting...
Oops...
December 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Oops...
Really interesting conversation between Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker here.
Just as I feel more warmly towards Sultana after this morning's Kuenssberg, so I feel more warmly towards Bastani after this. I still wish. To. God he'd stop referencing China, a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxWa...
Just as I feel more warmly towards Sultana after this morning's Kuenssberg, so I feel more warmly towards Bastani after this. I still wish. To. God he'd stop referencing China, a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxWa...
DEBATE: Marxism VS Social Democracy
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Really interesting conversation between Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker here.
Just as I feel more warmly towards Sultana after this morning's Kuenssberg, so I feel more warmly towards Bastani after this. I still wish. To. God he'd stop referencing China, a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxWa...
Just as I feel more warmly towards Sultana after this morning's Kuenssberg, so I feel more warmly towards Bastani after this. I still wish. To. God he'd stop referencing China, a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxWa...
The interview with @zarahsultana.bsky.social Sultana this morning on Kuenssberg went markedly better than I'd anticipated. I'd lost considerable faith in Sultana in recent months, and some of her political ideas were starting to sound, frankly, batshit. However, she...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg - Do Young People Have a Raw Deal from Politicians?
Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics. Her guests are Pat McFadden, Helen Whately and Zarah Sultana.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The interview with @zarahsultana.bsky.social Sultana this morning on Kuenssberg went markedly better than I'd anticipated. I'd lost considerable faith in Sultana in recent months, and some of her political ideas were starting to sound, frankly, batshit. However, she...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Wow!
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Wow!
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
When you're too stupid to understand the law of gravity, or too corrupt to obey it.
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
When you're too stupid to understand the law of gravity, or too corrupt to obey it.
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The way I understand antisemitism, anti-Jewish rhetoric isn't antisemitism per se. It's only antisemitism if you question the actions of Netanyahu.
Something like that, anyway.
I haven't worked it out yet. I'll try to get to the bottom of it and get back to everyone.
Something like that, anyway.
I haven't worked it out yet. I'll try to get to the bottom of it and get back to everyone.
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The way I understand antisemitism, anti-Jewish rhetoric isn't antisemitism per se. It's only antisemitism if you question the actions of Netanyahu.
Something like that, anyway.
I haven't worked it out yet. I'll try to get to the bottom of it and get back to everyone.
Something like that, anyway.
I haven't worked it out yet. I'll try to get to the bottom of it and get back to everyone.
Reposted by Pete Marchetto
Keep signing and sharing the arse off of this, unless you want someone like Farage installed in No.10
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Keep signing and sharing the arse off of this, unless you want someone like Farage installed in No.10
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
1 million minutes ago → 9 January 2024
1 billion minutes ago → 5 August 124 CE
1 trillion minutes ago → ~1.9 million years ago, before humans even existed.
I'd settle for being a millionaire myself. (Please feel free to message me if you've got that kind of cash to spare).
1 billion minutes ago → 5 August 124 CE
1 trillion minutes ago → ~1.9 million years ago, before humans even existed.
I'd settle for being a millionaire myself. (Please feel free to message me if you've got that kind of cash to spare).
Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.
The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.
We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.
We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
December 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
1 million minutes ago → 9 January 2024
1 billion minutes ago → 5 August 124 CE
1 trillion minutes ago → ~1.9 million years ago, before humans even existed.
I'd settle for being a millionaire myself. (Please feel free to message me if you've got that kind of cash to spare).
1 billion minutes ago → 5 August 124 CE
1 trillion minutes ago → ~1.9 million years ago, before humans even existed.
I'd settle for being a millionaire myself. (Please feel free to message me if you've got that kind of cash to spare).
What's America concerned about?
It's a Russian ally. Russia in turn is allied with China and North Korea. The USA seems to give unequivocal support to Israel. It supplies the UK's nuclear system. I can't see Pakistan or India attacking the USA.
So, is there something about France we should know?
It's a Russian ally. Russia in turn is allied with China and North Korea. The USA seems to give unequivocal support to Israel. It supplies the UK's nuclear system. I can't see Pakistan or India attacking the USA.
So, is there something about France we should know?
"We will modernize our nation’s nuclear triad.
We will never allow this nation to be left vulnerable to nuclear blackmail.
We will test nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems on an equal basis as others"
— Pete Hegseth
We will never allow this nation to be left vulnerable to nuclear blackmail.
We will test nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems on an equal basis as others"
— Pete Hegseth
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
What's America concerned about?
It's a Russian ally. Russia in turn is allied with China and North Korea. The USA seems to give unequivocal support to Israel. It supplies the UK's nuclear system. I can't see Pakistan or India attacking the USA.
So, is there something about France we should know?
It's a Russian ally. Russia in turn is allied with China and North Korea. The USA seems to give unequivocal support to Israel. It supplies the UK's nuclear system. I can't see Pakistan or India attacking the USA.
So, is there something about France we should know?
I remember a time when any ostensible American patriot wouldn't have dreamed of making public statements against allies.
Now they don't see a problem with doing it and getting it endorsed by a prominent Russian propagandist.
'Remember a time'? Not difficult. It was less than a year ago.
Now they don't see a problem with doing it and getting it endorsed by a prominent Russian propagandist.
'Remember a time'? Not difficult. It was less than a year ago.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I remember a time when any ostensible American patriot wouldn't have dreamed of making public statements against allies.
Now they don't see a problem with doing it and getting it endorsed by a prominent Russian propagandist.
'Remember a time'? Not difficult. It was less than a year ago.
Now they don't see a problem with doing it and getting it endorsed by a prominent Russian propagandist.
'Remember a time'? Not difficult. It was less than a year ago.
Reposted by Pete Marchetto
This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
This should be getting so much more traction than it is. For ignoring it, we're fostering another Ukraine situation. We're getting pretty good at regret-after-the-event.
It's time we stopped talking about taking Putin seriously and started actually doing it.
It's time we stopped talking about taking Putin seriously and started actually doing it.
“The regime is poisoning us—there must be an international investigation”: Protesters block central Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the 374th consecutive day.
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This should be getting so much more traction than it is. For ignoring it, we're fostering another Ukraine situation. We're getting pretty good at regret-after-the-event.
It's time we stopped talking about taking Putin seriously and started actually doing it.
It's time we stopped talking about taking Putin seriously and started actually doing it.
Reposted by Pete Marchetto
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.