Malcolm Reed
@malcreed.bsky.social
Tech Author, IT Manager (retired)
Traveller (full time)
Currently clean on OPSEC.
Traveller (full time)
Currently clean on OPSEC.
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Trump said Ukraine “has nothing unless I approve it”, it is pure arrogance. Ukraine is not a bargaining chip and Zelensky is not a subordinate waiting for permission.
People need to understand this invasion is not about Trump’s ego or dealmaking fantasies with Putin.
Fuck Trump.
People need to understand this invasion is not about Trump’s ego or dealmaking fantasies with Putin.
Fuck Trump.
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Trump said Ukraine “has nothing unless I approve it”, it is pure arrogance. Ukraine is not a bargaining chip and Zelensky is not a subordinate waiting for permission.
People need to understand this invasion is not about Trump’s ego or dealmaking fantasies with Putin.
Fuck Trump.
People need to understand this invasion is not about Trump’s ego or dealmaking fantasies with Putin.
Fuck Trump.
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The banality of evil.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The banality of evil.
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“These little ones are mice. … These over here are hamsters. … Ooh! This must be a gerbil!”
December 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“These little ones are mice. … These over here are hamsters. … Ooh! This must be a gerbil!”
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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I've long been convinced that the Treasury's classification of almost all public transport spending as subsidy and almost all road spending as investment is our biggest environmental, growth, employment and social self-harm other than Brexit. Reverse these two and this country changes *instantly*.
December 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've long been convinced that the Treasury's classification of almost all public transport spending as subsidy and almost all road spending as investment is our biggest environmental, growth, employment and social self-harm other than Brexit. Reverse these two and this country changes *instantly*.
I think there was a sizeable number who didn't think it would make this country great again.
They knew the country would be diminished but that didn't matter because they'd be OK.
All that mattered was owning the libs.
They knew the country would be diminished but that didn't matter because they'd be OK.
All that mattered was owning the libs.
A patently stupid and self-destructive idea, pushed by very entitled people who had nothing to lose and Putins disinformation machine and voted for in large part by bigots who thought it would make this country great again.
All to the colossal detriment of the UK.
F*** them all a million times.
All to the colossal detriment of the UK.
F*** them all a million times.
Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I think there was a sizeable number who didn't think it would make this country great again.
They knew the country would be diminished but that didn't matter because they'd be OK.
All that mattered was owning the libs.
They knew the country would be diminished but that didn't matter because they'd be OK.
All that mattered was owning the libs.
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He's making a list
He's redacting it twice
Crossing out the names
implicated in vice.
D███d T██p was
on Epstein’s flights.
He's redacting it twice
Crossing out the names
implicated in vice.
D███d T██p was
on Epstein’s flights.
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
He's making a list
He's redacting it twice
Crossing out the names
implicated in vice.
D███d T██p was
on Epstein’s flights.
He's redacting it twice
Crossing out the names
implicated in vice.
D███d T██p was
on Epstein’s flights.
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This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.
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Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says
Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says
Office for Students accused of ‘glacial’ response to allegations of fraud, bullying and mismanagement
England’s universities regulator has been attacked for being “asleep at the wheel” over its delays in investigating suspected fraud, bullying and mismanagement at the University of Greater Manchester.
Phil Brickell, the MP for Bolton West whose constituency includes the campus, has accused the Office for Students (OfS) of failing to act on whistleblowers’ reports and media investigations for almost a year. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This poor chap had been standing outside my Bangkok hotel in 30°C heat, waving his flag and wearing a lifebelt for the last 3 days.
I'm still none the wiser...
I'm still none the wiser...
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This poor chap had been standing outside my Bangkok hotel in 30°C heat, waving his flag and wearing a lifebelt for the last 3 days.
I'm still none the wiser...
I'm still none the wiser...
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On BBC World Service’s Weekend programme from 6:30 until 9am. We’ll be talking crises in Sudan and Mali, US midterms and attempts at gerrymandering, Venezuela, Blues, AI pilfering creative output, deepfake videos, AND @alexpodyssey.bsky.social Season 2!
Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
World Service - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to World Service on BBC Sounds
bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
On BBC World Service’s Weekend programme from 6:30 until 9am. We’ll be talking crises in Sudan and Mali, US midterms and attempts at gerrymandering, Venezuela, Blues, AI pilfering creative output, deepfake videos, AND @alexpodyssey.bsky.social Season 2!
Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Symbols matter. Yesterday's European Council was not about the narrow question of financing Ukraine (or how that's achieved), but the geopolitics: It was essential to demonstrate decisiveness, unity and strength and the EU vm failed to deliver 1/
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Symbols matter. Yesterday's European Council was not about the narrow question of financing Ukraine (or how that's achieved), but the geopolitics: It was essential to demonstrate decisiveness, unity and strength and the EU vm failed to deliver 1/
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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
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Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls
Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls
Primetime speech – delivered with shouty spirit but no cheer – betrayed a figure dogged by a cost of living crisis and the looming release of the Epstein files
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls
I do like an easy block
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I do like an easy block
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The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
British government backs the BBC as Trump sues it for billions
Stephen Kinnock said the public service broadcaster is “right to stick by their guns.”
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
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For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
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🎶...in heaven the bells are ringing! 🎶
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🎶...in heaven the bells are ringing! 🎶
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Some poor, exhausted US Border agent, emerging from a fetid, windowless office six months from now:
"Who the hell is Janey Godley anyway?"
"Who the hell is Janey Godley anyway?"
December 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Some poor, exhausted US Border agent, emerging from a fetid, windowless office six months from now:
"Who the hell is Janey Godley anyway?"
"Who the hell is Janey Godley anyway?"
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Just seen an article on BBC Sport suggesting that Trump's FIFA peace prize award may have been in someway corrupt. And I am shocked to my core.
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just seen an article on BBC Sport suggesting that Trump's FIFA peace prize award may have been in someway corrupt. And I am shocked to my core.
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Don’t you just hate it when the shower curtain keeps sticking to your bare arse? Worst trip to Sainsbury’s ever.
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Don’t you just hate it when the shower curtain keeps sticking to your bare arse? Worst trip to Sainsbury’s ever.
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.