Andy E
@andyerak.bsky.social
Curmudgeonly europhile, copy-editor correcting AI's nonsense, anti-narcissist, grudging admirer of the Estonian success story. No DMs, ta.
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Yes. They cry that they’re studiously non-partisan but their political editor takes it upon himself to essentially accuse the Labour chancellor of lying. Something that would simply *never* have happened - did not happen - with the Tories in power, when there was far more ammunition.
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yes. They cry that they’re studiously non-partisan but their political editor takes it upon himself to essentially accuse the Labour chancellor of lying. Something that would simply *never* have happened - did not happen - with the Tories in power, when there was far more ammunition.
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Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
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December 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?
It is Profumo on stilts
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Tomorrow’s “narrative” they promote is built on the suffering of people like me. Never forget who they really are. This guy is under duress and will probably say he worked with Elvis if that was their line of questioning. 🇺🇦
RT are agents of the Kremlin and anybody who works for them.
RT are agents of the Kremlin and anybody who works for them.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tomorrow’s “narrative” they promote is built on the suffering of people like me. Never forget who they really are. This guy is under duress and will probably say he worked with Elvis if that was their line of questioning. 🇺🇦
RT are agents of the Kremlin and anybody who works for them.
RT are agents of the Kremlin and anybody who works for them.
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RT weren’t just bystanders, they were complicit in my torture.
They fed my captors the narrative, scripted the lies, and filmed the propaganda that dehumanised me long before any sham courtroom.
They fed my captors the narrative, scripted the lies, and filmed the propaganda that dehumanised me long before any sham courtroom.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
RT weren’t just bystanders, they were complicit in my torture.
They fed my captors the narrative, scripted the lies, and filmed the propaganda that dehumanised me long before any sham courtroom.
They fed my captors the narrative, scripted the lies, and filmed the propaganda that dehumanised me long before any sham courtroom.
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FFS❗️🤦🏼♂️👇🏼
Oh what has become of the UK that people in that position have become spineless, political pimps willing to sell the ethics and integrity of their institution to Reform, a racist party that would have a large percentage of their students deported 🤷🏼♂️
Oh what has become of the UK that people in that position have become spineless, political pimps willing to sell the ethics and integrity of their institution to Reform, a racist party that would have a large percentage of their students deported 🤷🏼♂️
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
FFS❗️🤦🏼♂️👇🏼
Oh what has become of the UK that people in that position have become spineless, political pimps willing to sell the ethics and integrity of their institution to Reform, a racist party that would have a large percentage of their students deported 🤷🏼♂️
Oh what has become of the UK that people in that position have become spineless, political pimps willing to sell the ethics and integrity of their institution to Reform, a racist party that would have a large percentage of their students deported 🤷🏼♂️
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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Just think it’s a bit weird that society has been brainwashed in to thinking that rich people and massive corporations having a bit less money is the main thing we need to avoid no matter what.
November 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Just think it’s a bit weird that society has been brainwashed in to thinking that rich people and massive corporations having a bit less money is the main thing we need to avoid no matter what.
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How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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The video shows Zelenskyy shaking Presidential Advisor Andriy Yermak’s hand outside the presidential palace for the last time before Yermak steps into his car and leaves his post. His resignation, tied to a $100 million embezzlement scandal in the energy sector, marks more than a departure.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The video shows Zelenskyy shaking Presidential Advisor Andriy Yermak’s hand outside the presidential palace for the last time before Yermak steps into his car and leaves his post. His resignation, tied to a $100 million embezzlement scandal in the energy sector, marks more than a departure.
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It's only a golden age for those hoarding the gold.
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's only a golden age for those hoarding the gold.
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Trump has freed another creep- a private equity executive who had served less than 2 weeks of a 7 year sentence for a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Trump has freed another creep- a private equity executive who had served less than 2 weeks of a 7 year sentence for a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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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 1:32 PM
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 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Nigel Farage and the Reform Party UK aren't exactly dispelling the suspicion that Farage is a far right sympathiser with this signed black football shirt, with an arrow pointing to the number 18 and a motto reminiscent of Vichy France.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Moment Israeli forces shoot dead surrendered Palestinians – video report
Moment Israeli forces shoot dead surrendered Palestinians – video report
Video of an Israeli military raid in the West Bank shows soldiers summarily executing two Palestinians they had detained seconds earlier.
The shooting on Thursday evening, which was also witnessed by journalists close to the scene, is under review by the justice ministry, but has already been defended by Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who said 'terrorists must die'. Julian Borger, the Guardian's senior international correspondent based in Jerusalem, analyses footage of the event Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Moment Israeli forces shoot dead surrendered Palestinians – video report
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If true, the Unites States would be directly responsible for shifting millions of people from a democracy to a dictatorship, and telling those dictators that it should seize what it can.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7f62dca...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7f62dca...
Trump hands Putin Ukraine’s occupied territories
US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If true, the Unites States would be directly responsible for shifting millions of people from a democracy to a dictatorship, and telling those dictators that it should seize what it can.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7f62dca...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7f62dca...
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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Hang on, a pause is by definition temporary. Permanent is the opposite of temporary. “Permanent pause” is an oxymoron, a contradiction. If you want to be president of the US, don’t you think you should learn English, @realDonaldTrump ?
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Hang on, a pause is by definition temporary. Permanent is the opposite of temporary. “Permanent pause” is an oxymoron, a contradiction. If you want to be president of the US, don’t you think you should learn English, @realDonaldTrump ?
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Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
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Member of the German Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen: “The 28-point plan shows a fundamental change of course for the USA. Without their support over the past 80 years, Germany would not be the third-largest economy, a democracy, and united. All the more bitter, then, that the USA have sold out Europe.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Member of the German Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen: “The 28-point plan shows a fundamental change of course for the USA. Without their support over the past 80 years, Germany would not be the third-largest economy, a democracy, and united. All the more bitter, then, that the USA have sold out Europe.”
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In case you missed it ...
Here's Nigel Farage celebrating the collapse of the pound after he "won" the Brexit ref.
#VladsArmy
Here's Nigel Farage celebrating the collapse of the pound after he "won" the Brexit ref.
#VladsArmy
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In case you missed it ...
Here's Nigel Farage celebrating the collapse of the pound after he "won" the Brexit ref.
#VladsArmy
Here's Nigel Farage celebrating the collapse of the pound after he "won" the Brexit ref.
#VladsArmy
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Here’s another headline. We are £2,700 to £3,700 per year worse off due to the Brexit your party is refusing to address.
You may have seen some headlines about welfare spending going up to £406.2bn by 2030/31.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Here’s another headline. We are £2,700 to £3,700 per year worse off due to the Brexit your party is refusing to address.
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I have three thoughts on the Budget: 1) EVs use roads, so should pay something to use them, and the fact that the existing fuel duty/road tax system is shite doesn’t somehow create an exception for them; 2) gambling firms moaning can fuck off into the sun, we should bankrupt the cunts;
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I have three thoughts on the Budget: 1) EVs use roads, so should pay something to use them, and the fact that the existing fuel duty/road tax system is shite doesn’t somehow create an exception for them; 2) gambling firms moaning can fuck off into the sun, we should bankrupt the cunts;
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The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...