Alan Wardrop
@alangw.bsky.social
Just an older British bloke who is very dismayed by the series of rightward lurches the world has taken lately. I respect diverse opinions, but not flagrant refusal to see the truth.
I still #FBPE.
Unsolicited unwelcome DM = instant block.
I still #FBPE.
Unsolicited unwelcome DM = instant block.
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Alan Wardrop
@alangw.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I decided to change my profile pic back to old greybeard for a bit, as on the other place. I may change it again soon. Or not.
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”
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If the Brexit ref was held today, Remain would win by over 8 million votes. That huge majority is created from old Leavers dying, young pro-EU people entering the electorate, and millions changing their mind. It's time for the big parties to accept this reality and aim their policies toward Rejoin.
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If the Brexit ref was held today, Remain would win by over 8 million votes. That huge majority is created from old Leavers dying, young pro-EU people entering the electorate, and millions changing their mind. It's time for the big parties to accept this reality and aim their policies toward Rejoin.
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Ilhan Omar: "It's completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage ... it's also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president."
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ilhan Omar: "It's completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage ... it's also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president."
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Willfully stupid people
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Willfully stupid people
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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Another nail in the coffins of wisdom and decency.
White Supremacy
In our Parks
If there was ever any doubt as to the direction this administration was heading, look at the latest move by the National Park Service.
The NPS is removing Martin Luther King Day from the Free Entry Day’s roster and adding DONALD TRUMP’S BIRTHDAY!
Fight for him.
In our Parks
If there was ever any doubt as to the direction this administration was heading, look at the latest move by the National Park Service.
The NPS is removing Martin Luther King Day from the Free Entry Day’s roster and adding DONALD TRUMP’S BIRTHDAY!
Fight for him.
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Another nail in the coffins of wisdom and decency.
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The new US Nat Sec Strategy makes it imperative we do everything possible to rejoin as fast as possible.
The damage putin did by making brexit happen has never been clearer.
Time we looked that damage in the face and started fixing it.
I'm just not sure we have the right leadership for it rn.
The damage putin did by making brexit happen has never been clearer.
Time we looked that damage in the face and started fixing it.
I'm just not sure we have the right leadership for it rn.
December 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The new US Nat Sec Strategy makes it imperative we do everything possible to rejoin as fast as possible.
The damage putin did by making brexit happen has never been clearer.
Time we looked that damage in the face and started fixing it.
I'm just not sure we have the right leadership for it rn.
The damage putin did by making brexit happen has never been clearer.
Time we looked that damage in the face and started fixing it.
I'm just not sure we have the right leadership for it rn.
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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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THIS! EXACTLY THIS’
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December 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
THIS! EXACTLY THIS’
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Chump Needs Naps Constantly,
Where's Jake Tapper and The Lame Stream Media.......
Where's Jake Tapper and The Lame Stream Media.......
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Chump Needs Naps Constantly,
Where's Jake Tapper and The Lame Stream Media.......
Where's Jake Tapper and The Lame Stream Media.......
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November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
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This is the remarkable video on which six US senators/representatives with service backgrounds emphasise that those serving should not follow unlawful orders.
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community...
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is the remarkable video on which six US senators/representatives with service backgrounds emphasise that those serving should not follow unlawful orders.
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
I would respect any chancellor who stated forecasts in terms like "between 25 and 30 billion" rather than "28.4 billion".
Or at least didn't quote the third (and sometimes even fourth) significant digit!
Or at least didn't quote the third (and sometimes even fourth) significant digit!
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I would respect any chancellor who stated forecasts in terms like "between 25 and 30 billion" rather than "28.4 billion".
Or at least didn't quote the third (and sometimes even fourth) significant digit!
Or at least didn't quote the third (and sometimes even fourth) significant digit!
Is it just nostalgia, or was there a time when the ratio of party political puffery to actual budget information in the budget speech was much less than one? Now it seems to be about three.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Is it just nostalgia, or was there a time when the ratio of party political puffery to actual budget information in the budget speech was much less than one? Now it seems to be about three.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
However you feel about Corbyn, he’s not wrong here.
Especially when we appear to be on an inexorable march towards plutocracy and feudalism.
Especially when we appear to be on an inexorable march towards plutocracy and feudalism.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
However you feel about Corbyn, he’s not wrong here.
Especially when we appear to be on an inexorable march towards plutocracy and feudalism.
Especially when we appear to be on an inexorable march towards plutocracy and feudalism.
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Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
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My sister is a nurse. My oldest daughter is a nurse. My wife is a lab tech. And...and one time...I was a nurse. Don't tell my family...or the hundreds of thousands of other families...that nurses...and those in the health field...aren't "professionals."
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My sister is a nurse. My oldest daughter is a nurse. My wife is a lab tech. And...and one time...I was a nurse. Don't tell my family...or the hundreds of thousands of other families...that nurses...and those in the health field...aren't "professionals."
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.