Phil Truckel
@flippytrux.bsky.social
Writer, musician, retired Higher Education lecturer. Anti Brexit and opinionated socialist
Reposted by Phil Truckel
I get it, Kitara, she’s a
prosecutor and as President, she sure as shit would not have pardoned your fucked up, felonious ass.
prosecutor and as President, she sure as shit would not have pardoned your fucked up, felonious ass.
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I get it, Kitara, she’s a
prosecutor and as President, she sure as shit would not have pardoned your fucked up, felonious ass.
prosecutor and as President, she sure as shit would not have pardoned your fucked up, felonious ass.
Reposted by Phil Truckel
On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
December 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
Reposted by Phil Truckel
"With a bit of luck, hopefully William won't be King. All I want for next Christmas is a republic," says Lewis Goodall.
"And hope Prince George gets away from that gilded prison sentence, to be perfectly honest"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/all-...
"And hope Prince George gets away from that gilded prison sentence, to be perfectly honest"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/all-...
'All I want for Christmas is a republic – hopefully William won't be King’ | The News Agents
New Year, new king? King Charles is less than three years into his reign but some people are already looking ahead to William’s time on the throne. Will this ever happen – and would the Royal Family…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"With a bit of luck, hopefully William won't be King. All I want for next Christmas is a republic," says Lewis Goodall.
"And hope Prince George gets away from that gilded prison sentence, to be perfectly honest"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/all-...
"And hope Prince George gets away from that gilded prison sentence, to be perfectly honest"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/all-...
Reposted by Phil Truckel
Reposted by Phil Truckel
President Clinton is right. This is not getting as much attnetion as it should. The USA under Trumpstein is betraying this promise, which means any agreement involving Russia and the USA is not worth the paper it’s written on 🤷♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
President Clinton is right. This is not getting as much attnetion as it should. The USA under Trumpstein is betraying this promise, which means any agreement involving Russia and the USA is not worth the paper it’s written on 🤷♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
Reposted by Phil Truckel
“My life was fundamentally changed in that moment, and it remains to be the case today”
Jess Phillips reflects on Elon Musk calling her a “rape genocide apologist” and the impact this had on her safety
Jess Phillips reflects on Elon Musk calling her a “rape genocide apologist” and the impact this had on her safety
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“My life was fundamentally changed in that moment, and it remains to be the case today”
Jess Phillips reflects on Elon Musk calling her a “rape genocide apologist” and the impact this had on her safety
Jess Phillips reflects on Elon Musk calling her a “rape genocide apologist” and the impact this had on her safety
Reposted by Phil Truckel
Regarding Reiner, I have known a lot of musicians and been in bands myself. I can’t overstate the importance of This Is Spinal Tap in adjusting the self-importance of musicians. Everyone knows the movie, everyone has identified Spinal Tap moments, everyone is humbler and funnier as a result.
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Regarding Reiner, I have known a lot of musicians and been in bands myself. I can’t overstate the importance of This Is Spinal Tap in adjusting the self-importance of musicians. Everyone knows the movie, everyone has identified Spinal Tap moments, everyone is humbler and funnier as a result.
Reposted by Phil Truckel
Reposted by Phil Truckel
This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act
December 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act
Reposted by Phil Truckel
Thanks to those coming forward, trainee teacher numbers are at a post-pandemic high.
We're getting more children back in classrooms, more teachers in front of them.
We promised 6,500 new teachers driving up standards in our schools. Labour is delivering.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
We're getting more children back in classrooms, more teachers in front of them.
We promised 6,500 new teachers driving up standards in our schools. Labour is delivering.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Surge in graduates becoming teachers boosts recruitment for maths and sciences
DfE figures showed an 11% increase in teacher trainees in England this year compared with 2024, the biggest rise after the pandemic
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Thanks to those coming forward, trainee teacher numbers are at a post-pandemic high.
We're getting more children back in classrooms, more teachers in front of them.
We promised 6,500 new teachers driving up standards in our schools. Labour is delivering.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
We're getting more children back in classrooms, more teachers in front of them.
We promised 6,500 new teachers driving up standards in our schools. Labour is delivering.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Reposted by Phil Truckel
Heidi Alexander: "We're putting the railways back into the service of passengers, not being focused on profit & shareholders"
So why aren't you nationalising the private rolling stock leasing companies? And why doesn't the same argument apply to e.g. the private water industry?
So why aren't you nationalising the private rolling stock leasing companies? And why doesn't the same argument apply to e.g. the private water industry?
December 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Heidi Alexander: "We're putting the railways back into the service of passengers, not being focused on profit & shareholders"
So why aren't you nationalising the private rolling stock leasing companies? And why doesn't the same argument apply to e.g. the private water industry?
So why aren't you nationalising the private rolling stock leasing companies? And why doesn't the same argument apply to e.g. the private water industry?
Reposted by Phil Truckel
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
Reposted by Phil Truckel
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
Reposted by Phil Truckel
D'you remember Sid - the tagline used by the Conservative government in 1986 to push the idea of privatising gas?
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
D'you remember Sid - the tagline used by the Conservative government in 1986 to push the idea of privatising gas?
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
Reposted by Phil Truckel
The hounds are yapping at Farage’s heels. Interesting to see how he wriggles out of this one.
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The hounds are yapping at Farage’s heels. Interesting to see how he wriggles out of this one.
Very well said
I'm a late convert to test cricket but now absolutely love it.
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Very well said
Reposted by Phil Truckel
"It gives more power to a smaller number of people - 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺."
Is scrapping jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of under 3 years the right move?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
Is scrapping jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of under 3 years the right move?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"It gives more power to a smaller number of people - 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺."
Is scrapping jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of under 3 years the right move?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
Is scrapping jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of under 3 years the right move?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
Reposted by Phil Truckel
At last!
Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
At last!
Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Reposted by Phil Truckel
I know how #R4Today team love to bash along with the same story day after day after dull day … long after the country seems ready to move on
So here it is …
So here it is …
Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged racism and antisemitism
Exclusive: Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, says Reform leader ‘clearly deeply hurt’ many people with his alleged behaviour
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I know how #R4Today team love to bash along with the same story day after day after dull day … long after the country seems ready to move on
So here it is …
So here it is …
Reposted by Phil Truckel
TfL's cycleway network had 90km of routes in 2016. Now it’s more than 430km.
And Londoners are cycling like never before, with 1.5 million bike trips every day.
We’ll continue to work with TfL and London’s boroughs to make cycling safer, easier and more accessible for all.
And Londoners are cycling like never before, with 1.5 million bike trips every day.
We’ll continue to work with TfL and London’s boroughs to make cycling safer, easier and more accessible for all.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
TfL's cycleway network had 90km of routes in 2016. Now it’s more than 430km.
And Londoners are cycling like never before, with 1.5 million bike trips every day.
We’ll continue to work with TfL and London’s boroughs to make cycling safer, easier and more accessible for all.
And Londoners are cycling like never before, with 1.5 million bike trips every day.
We’ll continue to work with TfL and London’s boroughs to make cycling safer, easier and more accessible for all.
Reposted by Phil Truckel
🎩Get this POS outta the White House! 🇺🇸
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🎩Get this POS outta the White House! 🇺🇸
Reposted by Phil Truckel
Just because it's reached the 100,000 threshold, doesn't mean anything will happen.
So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just because it's reached the 100,000 threshold, doesn't mean anything will happen.
So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Reposted by Phil Truckel
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson claimed there was a "very real prospect" the new Employment Rights Bill would not be in place by April without the U-turn
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Minister defends watering down Angela Rayner's flagship Bill amid backlash
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said there was a 'very real prospect' that key measures in the Employment Rights Bill would not be in place by April without the change
www.mirror.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson claimed there was a "very real prospect" the new Employment Rights Bill would not be in place by April without the U-turn
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reposted by Phil Truckel
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Reposted by Phil Truckel
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.