Ian Raynes.
@ianraynes.bsky.social
Aged Brit, I worked in the Armed Forces, police, Prison Service and as a teacher , but still surprisingly liberal.
I'm confused. Has he come to play around at Prince Andrew's or play a round at St Andrew's?
I feel badly for Scotland and England but while he’s out of the country, can someone please change the locks?
July 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I'm confused. Has he come to play around at Prince Andrew's or play a round at St Andrew's?
Like the French watching the Nazis march into Paris.
June 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Like the French watching the Nazis march into Paris.
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Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
Judgement Day for the EHRC
How the equality watchdog turned into a culture war campaign group
iandunt.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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What’s really sad is that Sagan has been dead for nearly 30 years, and everything he says here is now 100x more true and more problematic than it was then, and thousands of online goons have devoted themselves to insisting it isn’t.
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
What’s really sad is that Sagan has been dead for nearly 30 years, and everything he says here is now 100x more true and more problematic than it was then, and thousands of online goons have devoted themselves to insisting it isn’t.
April 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
It's like a stag party playing Call of Duty.
it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other
March 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's like a stag party playing Call of Duty.
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2016 Hegseth would be calling for the impeachment and imprisonment of 2025 Hegseth.
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"
March 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
2016 Hegseth would be calling for the impeachment and imprisonment of 2025 Hegseth.
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One of my kids has dyslexia. After a lot of effort, she can and does read every day.
It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.
It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.
March 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
One of my kids has dyslexia. After a lot of effort, she can and does read every day.
It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.
It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.
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I agree, it's one of his best and I miss him too.
I think I notice the massive Eddie Butler shaped hole in rugby the most on a Wales v England day.
Nothing gave me goosebumps like an Eddie pre-match montage. This is one of my favourites.
A land roughly the size of Wales. #WALvENG
youtu.be/h6c5jNiXSMQ?...
Nothing gave me goosebumps like an Eddie pre-match montage. This is one of my favourites.
A land roughly the size of Wales. #WALvENG
youtu.be/h6c5jNiXSMQ?...
A Land Roughly the Size of Wales
YouTube video by Rabbit
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March 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I agree, it's one of his best and I miss him too.
I used to teach in Further Education. Every year there would be at least one clever committed kid who had slipped through the entire school system with undiagnosed dyslexia, life chances stunted, opportunities closed off.
One of my kids has dyslexia. After a lot of effort, she can and does read every day.
It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.
It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.
March 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I used to teach in Further Education. Every year there would be at least one clever committed kid who had slipped through the entire school system with undiagnosed dyslexia, life chances stunted, opportunities closed off.
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
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In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
March 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
March 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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"The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin's puppet. The vice president of the United States is a pogue and a coward who is Donald Trump's puppet” 👏
www.rawstory.com/trump-zelens...
www.rawstory.com/trump-zelens...
'The only hero': Zelensky praised for holding own under Trump and Vance barrage
Reaction to Friday's Oval Office shouting match that pitted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance has been one of disbelief and disgust.
Trump and Zelensky were ...
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February 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin's puppet. The vice president of the United States is a pogue and a coward who is Donald Trump's puppet” 👏
www.rawstory.com/trump-zelens...
www.rawstory.com/trump-zelens...
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America is rock bottom.
February 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
America is rock bottom.
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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Knowledge is power…
February 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Knowledge is power…
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He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion.
But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."
But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."
February 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion.
But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."
But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."
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Incredible from Bishop Budde: "We don't have to go to the highest extremes of contempt when we are in a position of disagreement. I think if we could get that back as a country, we would go a long way in being able to work together to address the many problems that we face." ~AA @maddow.msnbc.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Incredible from Bishop Budde: "We don't have to go to the highest extremes of contempt when we are in a position of disagreement. I think if we could get that back as a country, we would go a long way in being able to work together to address the many problems that we face." ~AA @maddow.msnbc.com
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not just republicans, literally everybody.
January 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
not just republicans, literally everybody.
One of the reasons Tory politics is not serious is the quality of the leaders they have foisted upon us since Cameron. Who can look at Boris, Theresa May, and Truss and think that the Tories take politics seriously?
She says one of the reason is politics is not serious. She said there have been more discussion in parliament of Oasis tickets than of British debt.
January 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
One of the reasons Tory politics is not serious is the quality of the leaders they have foisted upon us since Cameron. Who can look at Boris, Theresa May, and Truss and think that the Tories take politics seriously?