DavidH
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DavidH
@dhbillingham.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Reichstag fire type incident, freedoms curbed, opponents arrested, martial law declared supposedly for security.
As Plato put it “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
Trump will then declare himself President for life down that road.
As Plato put it “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
Trump will then declare himself President for life down that road.
If Russia is still fighting Ukraine in mid January it will have been doing so longer than the Soviet Union fought Nazi Germany.
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
If Russia is still fighting Ukraine in mid January it will have been doing so longer than the Soviet Union fought Nazi Germany.
For months now we’ve had speculation about what will be in the upcoming Budget and now we have speculation that the previous speculation to date was incorrect but it’s reported as though the government has changed its mind which is of course yet more speculation.
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For months now we’ve had speculation about what will be in the upcoming Budget and now we have speculation that the previous speculation to date was incorrect but it’s reported as though the government has changed its mind which is of course yet more speculation.
Tonight’s tipple!
A weak and watery 14.9% and if you believe it’s actually below the 15% cut off I have a bridge you may be interested in buying…
A weak and watery 14.9% and if you believe it’s actually below the 15% cut off I have a bridge you may be interested in buying…
October 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Tonight’s tipple!
A weak and watery 14.9% and if you believe it’s actually below the 15% cut off I have a bridge you may be interested in buying…
A weak and watery 14.9% and if you believe it’s actually below the 15% cut off I have a bridge you may be interested in buying…
Lisa Nandy shows up Richard Holden for exactly what he is with his finger pointing and shouting ‘like an angry man in a pub’
October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Lisa Nandy shows up Richard Holden for exactly what he is with his finger pointing and shouting ‘like an angry man in a pub’
People keep telling me that Labour isn’t losing votes to Reform yet @yougov.co.uk poll today shows Reform potentially winning 231 Labour seats if there was an election now.
September 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
People keep telling me that Labour isn’t losing votes to Reform yet @yougov.co.uk poll today shows Reform potentially winning 231 Labour seats if there was an election now.
If John Bolton was Russian instead of American it’s likely he would have fallen out of a hotel bedroom window…
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If John Bolton was Russian instead of American it’s likely he would have fallen out of a hotel bedroom window…
Another year round the sun clocked up.
Special tipple for today 😋
Special tipple for today 😋
August 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Another year round the sun clocked up.
Special tipple for today 😋
Special tipple for today 😋
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social I don’t know what you had for breakfast but what a bravura performance on Politics Live.
Thank you for speaking so many uncomfortable truths!
Thank you for speaking so many uncomfortable truths!
July 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social I don’t know what you had for breakfast but what a bravura performance on Politics Live.
Thank you for speaking so many uncomfortable truths!
Thank you for speaking so many uncomfortable truths!
The next general election will likely be in 2029 half a century after Trade Unions through the Winter of Discontent brought about the defeat of the incumbent Labour Party ushering in Thatcherism.
Now they seem intent on destroying another Labour government and bringing Farage to power… 😢😭
Now they seem intent on destroying another Labour government and bringing Farage to power… 😢😭
July 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The next general election will likely be in 2029 half a century after Trade Unions through the Winter of Discontent brought about the defeat of the incumbent Labour Party ushering in Thatcherism.
Now they seem intent on destroying another Labour government and bringing Farage to power… 😢😭
Now they seem intent on destroying another Labour government and bringing Farage to power… 😢😭
The Labour government has broken the same golden rule twice in its first year that being if you take money off people who already have it there is hell to pay!
They need to be innovative and find ways to take money people haven’t had yet so will not notice losing out on…
They need to be innovative and find ways to take money people haven’t had yet so will not notice losing out on…
June 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Labour government has broken the same golden rule twice in its first year that being if you take money off people who already have it there is hell to pay!
They need to be innovative and find ways to take money people haven’t had yet so will not notice losing out on…
They need to be innovative and find ways to take money people haven’t had yet so will not notice losing out on…
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A wonderful, sunny mid week tootle today! Then home for breakfast, snoozing and general Sealyhamming! Another music swap on the video but nevermind! Happy #humpday! 😘❤️🐾 ☀️👏🏼 #sealyham #sealyhamterrier #dogs #dogsofbluesky
June 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A wonderful, sunny mid week tootle today! Then home for breakfast, snoozing and general Sealyhamming! Another music swap on the video but nevermind! Happy #humpday! 😘❤️🐾 ☀️👏🏼 #sealyham #sealyhamterrier #dogs #dogsofbluesky
All of those who have left X are missing a treat today. The Tories, Reform, Oakeshott, Montgomerie, Hannan, et al are all venting their spleens and it’s hilarious.
May 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
All of those who have left X are missing a treat today. The Tories, Reform, Oakeshott, Montgomerie, Hannan, et al are all venting their spleens and it’s hilarious.
This one is for @jwsidders.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This one is for @jwsidders.bsky.social
Incredible today how those politically more to the right than the Conservative Party are all invoking Christianity as new way to create divisions in society.
April 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Incredible today how those politically more to the right than the Conservative Party are all invoking Christianity as new way to create divisions in society.
It’s Mother’s Day in the UK but our non religious Prime Minister who has teenage children and a Jewish wife has made no mention of it.
He has posted on X for the 7% of the UK population who have been observing Ramadan.
An own goal that plays right into the hands of Reform.
He has posted on X for the 7% of the UK population who have been observing Ramadan.
An own goal that plays right into the hands of Reform.
March 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It’s Mother’s Day in the UK but our non religious Prime Minister who has teenage children and a Jewish wife has made no mention of it.
He has posted on X for the 7% of the UK population who have been observing Ramadan.
An own goal that plays right into the hands of Reform.
He has posted on X for the 7% of the UK population who have been observing Ramadan.
An own goal that plays right into the hands of Reform.
If Reeves doesn’t announce tomorrow the ending of the state pension triple lock after the rise already announced for April 2025 then it will be with us beyond the next general election being an ever greater drain on the nation’s finances and the tax burden of the young.
March 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If Reeves doesn’t announce tomorrow the ending of the state pension triple lock after the rise already announced for April 2025 then it will be with us beyond the next general election being an ever greater drain on the nation’s finances and the tax burden of the young.
The two most frightening words in the second half of the 2020s are without doubt ‘President Vance’!
March 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The two most frightening words in the second half of the 2020s are without doubt ‘President Vance’!
The new Molotov Ribbentrop Pact carving up a sovereign nation without them being in the room.
February 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The new Molotov Ribbentrop Pact carving up a sovereign nation without them being in the room.
If you didn’t see Politics Live today then I highly recommend you at least watch from 1 hour 21 minutes and 43 seconds in.
Lucy Powell and Richard Holden are certainly not the best of friends…
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Lucy Powell and Richard Holden are certainly not the best of friends…
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Politics Live - 05/02/2025
Our guests discuss Trump’s comments on Gaza and the Chagos Islands deal. Plus PMQs and analysis.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If you didn’t see Politics Live today then I highly recommend you at least watch from 1 hour 21 minutes and 43 seconds in.
Lucy Powell and Richard Holden are certainly not the best of friends…
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Lucy Powell and Richard Holden are certainly not the best of friends…
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
It’s always emotionally difficult to deal with unexpected events that it wasn’t possible to see coming so spare a thought for Spurs fans this evening as they struggle to come to terms with the double whammy of winning a match in the league and keeping a clean sheet!
@jwsidders.bsky.social
@jwsidders.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It’s always emotionally difficult to deal with unexpected events that it wasn’t possible to see coming so spare a thought for Spurs fans this evening as they struggle to come to terms with the double whammy of winning a match in the league and keeping a clean sheet!
@jwsidders.bsky.social
@jwsidders.bsky.social
Enjoyed Politics Live today as @fisherandrew79.bsky.social and Danny Finkelstein always articulate their positions clearly and politely. I don’t by any stretch agree with either on every issue but it makes such a refreshing change to have intelligent reasoned debate.
January 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Enjoyed Politics Live today as @fisherandrew79.bsky.social and Danny Finkelstein always articulate their positions clearly and politely. I don’t by any stretch agree with either on every issue but it makes such a refreshing change to have intelligent reasoned debate.
Once there’s a Cabinet reshuffle I suspect Ed Miliband will have more time to spend with his family!
January 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Once there’s a Cabinet reshuffle I suspect Ed Miliband will have more time to spend with his family!
In 1888 Bismarck told the Bundestag that ‘the most important political fact in the modern world is that the British and Americans speak the same language’. Today the important political fact could be that Donald Trump is half British.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Donald Trump says Keir Starmer doing 'very good job'
The US president tells BBC he will be speaking to the prime minister in the next 24 hours.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
In 1888 Bismarck told the Bundestag that ‘the most important political fact in the modern world is that the British and Americans speak the same language’. Today the important political fact could be that Donald Trump is half British.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well what a surprise it is for @sophyridge.bsky.social to have Richard Tice on the show.
The Lib Dems have 72 but Mr Tice is on more than them all combined.
Maybe he should be tagged as a ‘friend of the show’
The Lib Dems have 72 but Mr Tice is on more than them all combined.
Maybe he should be tagged as a ‘friend of the show’
January 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Well what a surprise it is for @sophyridge.bsky.social to have Richard Tice on the show.
The Lib Dems have 72 but Mr Tice is on more than them all combined.
Maybe he should be tagged as a ‘friend of the show’
The Lib Dems have 72 but Mr Tice is on more than them all combined.
Maybe he should be tagged as a ‘friend of the show’