Tom McEnroe
@tommcenroe.bsky.social
Bikes are nice.
Cycling commuter when an aging back allows it, gardener, photographer, amateur mixologist
Rants about the state of the world, and the UK in particular, by appointment.
https://www.flickr.com/people/tommce/
Cycling commuter when an aging back allows it, gardener, photographer, amateur mixologist
Rants about the state of the world, and the UK in particular, by appointment.
https://www.flickr.com/people/tommce/
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Tom McEnroe
@tommcenroe.bsky.social
· Oct 10
A friend has a small library of books whose titles may not mean quite what they did when they were originally published - friends and family have been adding to it over the years.
Mr Pink Whistle features....
Mr Pink Whistle features....
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🔴If Nigel Farage’s Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse'
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP
bylinetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🔴If Nigel Farage’s Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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Brilliant piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social on why the Nigel Farage racism allegations matter.
If we end up rewarding a politics based on the instincts of a racist schoolyard bully, we should't be surprised at what follows bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
If we end up rewarding a politics based on the instincts of a racist schoolyard bully, we should't be surprised at what follows bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse'
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP
bylinetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Brilliant piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social on why the Nigel Farage racism allegations matter.
If we end up rewarding a politics based on the instincts of a racist schoolyard bully, we should't be surprised at what follows bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
If we end up rewarding a politics based on the instincts of a racist schoolyard bully, we should't be surprised at what follows bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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London Centric has got hold of Reform UK's internal candidate training plan for next year's local elections, where it hopes to make big gains in London.
"Don't drink and tweet", focus on bin collections, and copy the Lib Dems' tactics.
www.londoncentric.media/p/reform-uk-...
(£/free trial).
"Don't drink and tweet", focus on bin collections, and copy the Lib Dems' tactics.
www.londoncentric.media/p/reform-uk-...
(£/free trial).
"Don't drink and tweet": The leaked Reform UK plan to win in London
Plus: Is this Google Map the way to unlock London's real hidden gem restaurants, are you the driver who owes Hackney council £250,000, and is the Bakerloo finally getting new trains?
www.londoncentric.media
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
London Centric has got hold of Reform UK's internal candidate training plan for next year's local elections, where it hopes to make big gains in London.
"Don't drink and tweet", focus on bin collections, and copy the Lib Dems' tactics.
www.londoncentric.media/p/reform-uk-...
(£/free trial).
"Don't drink and tweet", focus on bin collections, and copy the Lib Dems' tactics.
www.londoncentric.media/p/reform-uk-...
(£/free trial).
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With flu on the rise in London, now is the time to get protected.
The flu vaccine can help keep you well throughout the festive season - check your eligibility and book your appointment today:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
The flu vaccine can help keep you well throughout the festive season - check your eligibility and book your appointment today:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
With flu on the rise in London, now is the time to get protected.
The flu vaccine can help keep you well throughout the festive season - check your eligibility and book your appointment today:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
The flu vaccine can help keep you well throughout the festive season - check your eligibility and book your appointment today:
www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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Oh, and [SPOILERS] if any of you were watching The War Between the Land and the Sea afterwards, this is how far they threw the Titanic...
bsky.app/profile/mary...
bsky.app/profile/mary...
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Oh, and [SPOILERS] if any of you were watching The War Between the Land and the Sea afterwards, this is how far they threw the Titanic...
bsky.app/profile/mary...
bsky.app/profile/mary...
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Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.
December 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.
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Today, Helen Oxenbury and I will be signing our latest book 'Oh Dear, Look What I Got'
at Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly.
It'll be fun.
at Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly.
It'll be fun.
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today, Helen Oxenbury and I will be signing our latest book 'Oh Dear, Look What I Got'
at Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly.
It'll be fun.
at Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly.
It'll be fun.
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Electoral Reform Society: “We are seeing an alarming trend of parties receiving larger and larger donations from single super-wealthy donors and the public are rightly asking what these very rich people expect in return for their money."
https://bit.ly/4rAErap
https://bit.ly/4rAErap
Farage denies crypto billionaire wants anything in return for £9m donation to Reform
The Reform UK leader promoted the cryptocurrency company which Christopher Harborne holds shares in – one month after receiving a record donation for the party
www.independent.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Electoral Reform Society: “We are seeing an alarming trend of parties receiving larger and larger donations from single super-wealthy donors and the public are rightly asking what these very rich people expect in return for their money."
https://bit.ly/4rAErap
https://bit.ly/4rAErap
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Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
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No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.
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I don't understand why the British media allows a far right party funded by the super rich and stuffed full of former Tories to continue to present itself as "anti-elite". It's such a blatant and risible lie yet Farage is never called out on it.
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I don't understand why the British media allows a far right party funded by the super rich and stuffed full of former Tories to continue to present itself as "anti-elite". It's such a blatant and risible lie yet Farage is never called out on it.
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He’s either a shit businessman who spends £millions on nothing or Farage is lying.
So hard to know isn’t it.
So hard to know isn’t it.
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
He’s either a shit businessman who spends £millions on nothing or Farage is lying.
So hard to know isn’t it.
So hard to know isn’t it.
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Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
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Hey, wanna support a cool* small business this Xmas? We have hundreds of excellent hand sculpted and hand cast minis, many of which are hitting nazis.
www.badsquiddogames.com
*my mum says I'm cool
www.badsquiddogames.com
*my mum says I'm cool
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hey, wanna support a cool* small business this Xmas? We have hundreds of excellent hand sculpted and hand cast minis, many of which are hitting nazis.
www.badsquiddogames.com
*my mum says I'm cool
www.badsquiddogames.com
*my mum says I'm cool
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Farage should just marry a Mitford sister and be done with it.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Farage should just marry a Mitford sister and be done with it.
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🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
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December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
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Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.
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While this BBC article on ever-bigger SUVs is perfectly good, it's absurd the way there has to be quotes from people who insist they could not get around without a vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. It's just bollocks. I'm one of three kids and we were all ferried around in a Vauxhall Astra estate.
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
While this BBC article on ever-bigger SUVs is perfectly good, it's absurd the way there has to be quotes from people who insist they could not get around without a vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. It's just bollocks. I'm one of three kids and we were all ferried around in a Vauxhall Astra estate.
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Surely you’d type this number, this initial line, and you’d think “hang on a moment, what on earth am I claiming here?”
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Surely you’d type this number, this initial line, and you’d think “hang on a moment, what on earth am I claiming here?”
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From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.