Neil Parsons
@eglosbrekneil.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 he/him, Kernow, leftie green
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What's interesting about Trump is that he openly declares that his government is by and for the oligarchy, and yet there are still people who absolutely refuse to acknowledge this.
January 18, 2026 at 10:59 AM
What's interesting about Trump is that he openly declares that his government is by and for the oligarchy, and yet there are still people who absolutely refuse to acknowledge this.
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Well yes, but to understand this you need to go deeper.
*Why* is the right wing press so pro-Trump? It's not about "obsessions" but is always, *always* about their read on their class interests.
*Why* is the right wing press so pro-Trump? It's not about "obsessions" but is always, *always* about their read on their class interests.
These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all.
They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.
They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.
They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.
They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.
January 18, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Well yes, but to understand this you need to go deeper.
*Why* is the right wing press so pro-Trump? It's not about "obsessions" but is always, *always* about their read on their class interests.
*Why* is the right wing press so pro-Trump? It's not about "obsessions" but is always, *always* about their read on their class interests.
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All facilitated, by US military might, and state apparatus, which will make Trump and his billionaire buddies, vast fortunes, very quickly, out of speculation. Utterly corrupt, and it's a corrupt game, Trump knows very well.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
All facilitated, by US military might, and state apparatus, which will make Trump and his billionaire buddies, vast fortunes, very quickly, out of speculation. Utterly corrupt, and it's a corrupt game, Trump knows very well.
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The motivation, is not to wait until climate change/warming, makes these mineral and oil reserves, available in 30+ years time, for exploitation. But the value of that land and those rights NOW, based on money that can be made in the future. Trump's billionaire mates, can make a shed load now.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
The motivation, is not to wait until climate change/warming, makes these mineral and oil reserves, available in 30+ years time, for exploitation. But the value of that land and those rights NOW, based on money that can be made in the future. Trump's billionaire mates, can make a shed load now.
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Trump, Greenland, speculation good short 🧵
Basically, it's a crooked real estate deal, of the type Trump loves. Currently with a ban on new mining, oil exploration, the land/mineral rights in Greenland are worth very little. But if Trump gets Greenland and opens it up for free for all, exploitation, that all changes.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Trump, Greenland, speculation good short 🧵
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A squirrel came to say hello on Jody Dobrowski’s bench, Clapham Common.
Jody was a barman who was brutally beaten to death in a homophobic attack, just over 20 years ago.
Another light extinguished too early.
Jody was a barman who was brutally beaten to death in a homophobic attack, just over 20 years ago.
Another light extinguished too early.
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
A squirrel came to say hello on Jody Dobrowski’s bench, Clapham Common.
Jody was a barman who was brutally beaten to death in a homophobic attack, just over 20 years ago.
Another light extinguished too early.
Jody was a barman who was brutally beaten to death in a homophobic attack, just over 20 years ago.
Another light extinguished too early.
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Not a mention of the woman who’s trans, who did nothing wrong. This ruling is in direct conflict with the Gender Recognition Act. How is this happening? It is wrong on every level, and will be used to push trans people even further out of society and into danger @kateosbornemp.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Not a mention of the woman who’s trans, who did nothing wrong. This ruling is in direct conflict with the Gender Recognition Act. How is this happening? It is wrong on every level, and will be used to push trans people even further out of society and into danger @kateosbornemp.bsky.social
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I don’t know what to say anymore. Really, I don’t. The equivalent of playground mean girl terfs are championed by a UK court - who say THEIR dignity was violated by being near a woman who is trans. When they were the ones doing the harassing and being vile.
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
I don’t know what to say anymore. Really, I don’t. The equivalent of playground mean girl terfs are championed by a UK court - who say THEIR dignity was violated by being near a woman who is trans. When they were the ones doing the harassing and being vile.
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⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️
Wind across the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall
Thursday 16:00 – 23:00
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Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
Wind across the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall
Thursday 16:00 – 23:00
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Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
January 8, 2026 at 2:14 PM
⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️
Wind across the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall
Thursday 16:00 – 23:00
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
Wind across the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall
Thursday 16:00 – 23:00
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
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Rare red wind warning for Cornwall issued as Storm Goretti 'weather bomb' approaches UK
Rare red wind warning for Cornwall issued as Storm Goretti 'weather bomb' approaches UK
Rare red wind warning issued as Storm Goretti 'weather bomb' approaches UK
The Met Office warns of
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January 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Rare red wind warning for Cornwall issued as Storm Goretti 'weather bomb' approaches UK
Rare red wind warning for Cornwall issued as Storm Goretti 'weather bomb' approaches UK
St Valentines Day Cornish bus route massacre. First ending all their services in Cornwall inc U4 PZ to FH via Breage
Go Ahead bus2 already covers part of U4 route but no buses on Sundays, evenings or direct to FH
Nationalise all buses, sb service not for corp profit
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Go Ahead bus2 already covers part of U4 route but no buses on Sundays, evenings or direct to FH
Nationalise all buses, sb service not for corp profit
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bus firm steps in as First Bus announces plans to leave Cornwall
The leaving bus operator says 275 jobs are at risk in its
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January 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
St Valentines Day Cornish bus route massacre. First ending all their services in Cornwall inc U4 PZ to FH via Breage
Go Ahead bus2 already covers part of U4 route but no buses on Sundays, evenings or direct to FH
Nationalise all buses, sb service not for corp profit
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Go Ahead bus2 already covers part of U4 route but no buses on Sundays, evenings or direct to FH
Nationalise all buses, sb service not for corp profit
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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And the press coverage was utterly vile
Apparently he had been seen “dancing with his shirt off” in a club #clutchspearls
So, it seems, he deserved to die
Such is the nature of our tabloid press
Apparently he had been seen “dancing with his shirt off” in a club #clutchspearls
So, it seems, he deserved to die
Such is the nature of our tabloid press
January 6, 2026 at 10:22 AM
And the press coverage was utterly vile
Apparently he had been seen “dancing with his shirt off” in a club #clutchspearls
So, it seems, he deserved to die
Such is the nature of our tabloid press
Apparently he had been seen “dancing with his shirt off” in a club #clutchspearls
So, it seems, he deserved to die
Such is the nature of our tabloid press
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Ian Charleson’s final role was as Hamlet at the National Theatre.
He was less than three months away from death.
A friend of mine in the production counted it the most extraordinary performance he’d seen: a dying man playing the melancholy Prince, grappling with his own mortality.
He was less than three months away from death.
A friend of mine in the production counted it the most extraordinary performance he’d seen: a dying man playing the melancholy Prince, grappling with his own mortality.
January 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Ian Charleson’s final role was as Hamlet at the National Theatre.
He was less than three months away from death.
A friend of mine in the production counted it the most extraordinary performance he’d seen: a dying man playing the melancholy Prince, grappling with his own mortality.
He was less than three months away from death.
A friend of mine in the production counted it the most extraordinary performance he’d seen: a dying man playing the melancholy Prince, grappling with his own mortality.
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Ian Charleson, star of the Oscar winning Chariots of Fire, died of AIDS on this day in 1990.
He was 40, one of a generation decimated by the disease.
We didn’t just lose friends, lovers, brothers; we lost the roles never played, the songs unwritten, the art never created.
The loss is incalculable.
He was 40, one of a generation decimated by the disease.
We didn’t just lose friends, lovers, brothers; we lost the roles never played, the songs unwritten, the art never created.
The loss is incalculable.
January 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Ian Charleson, star of the Oscar winning Chariots of Fire, died of AIDS on this day in 1990.
He was 40, one of a generation decimated by the disease.
We didn’t just lose friends, lovers, brothers; we lost the roles never played, the songs unwritten, the art never created.
The loss is incalculable.
He was 40, one of a generation decimated by the disease.
We didn’t just lose friends, lovers, brothers; we lost the roles never played, the songs unwritten, the art never created.
The loss is incalculable.
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The other big problem, and not just for Britain, is how capitalism - a system premised on infinite growth - can manage with a shrinking population. And the answer for that too is ... it can't.
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 AM
The other big problem, and not just for Britain, is how capitalism - a system premised on infinite growth - can manage with a shrinking population. And the answer for that too is ... it can't.
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As the US extends its naked imperial violence to Venezuela, what is under threat is ‘a strategy of socialist construction’ that is of historical importance
monthlyreview.org/articles/a-s...
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A Special Issue on Communes in Socialist Construction - Monthly Review
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January 3, 2026 at 8:53 AM
As the US extends its naked imperial violence to Venezuela, what is under threat is ‘a strategy of socialist construction’ that is of historical importance
monthlyreview.org/articles/a-s...
monthlyreview.org/articles/a-s...
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It is about oil. But just as important - if not more so - is eliminating opposition to the US assuming the entire of the Americas as its “operational space”.
This is part of the US response to its role as global hegemon being gradually undermined
This is part of the US response to its role as global hegemon being gradually undermined
“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
It is about oil. But just as important - if not more so - is eliminating opposition to the US assuming the entire of the Americas as its “operational space”.
This is part of the US response to its role as global hegemon being gradually undermined
This is part of the US response to its role as global hegemon being gradually undermined
The petrodollar system has helped to keep America the dominant economic power. Venezuela threatened to end it and with 20% of the worlds oil could fund de-dollarisation for decades 🧵
A very long and important THREAD -
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
January 4, 2026 at 11:20 AM
The petrodollar system has helped to keep America the dominant economic power. Venezuela threatened to end it and with 20% of the worlds oil could fund de-dollarisation for decades 🧵
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"Trump's international piracy ... typifies a wider trend across the West: the assertion of authoritarianism and, with that, the open and unquestioned dictatorship of capital."
Trump's Venezuelan Oil Piracy
Donald Trump knows how to surprise. The bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores was audacious. As a spect...
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January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
"Trump's international piracy ... typifies a wider trend across the West: the assertion of authoritarianism and, with that, the open and unquestioned dictatorship of capital."
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It's almost as if Maduro's kidnapping has nothing to do with drug trafficking at all.
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
It's almost as if Maduro's kidnapping has nothing to do with drug trafficking at all.
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"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty"
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
Fisherfolk Resisting Imperialism: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part IV) - Venezuelanalysis
The US blockade brought much suffering to Lake Maracaibo communities, but people responded and resisted by deepening their bonds of solidarity and cooperation.
venezuelanalysis.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 AM
"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty"
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
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