@markpownall.bsky.social
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Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers.
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
!["And this is what Keir Starmer’s press secretary has said about Robert Jenrick at the lobby briefing this morning.
[Highlighted] Robert Jenrick was the immigration minister in a government that presided over an open borders experiment [Highlighted], a health minister who left people stuck on waiting lists, and a Treasury minister during the worst decline in living standards on record.”
While Reform continues to welcome failed Tory retreads, this Labor government is putting the country back on track."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cixgmtrg7nzy4gkmyfeosaox/bafkreibe3jczrmbmzfnhj2adl4qe432lbpmcbn6m6qrentwih7vxj4fu7y@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers.
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
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Since becoming leader Starmer has prioritised winning back ‘hero voters’ - & completely failed. Lab won in 2024 despite that busted strategy & we can see the results of persisting with it. Luke et al are more of a danger to Lab than Corbyn ever was. magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/01/09/o...
Only Reform voters can save Labour
A progressive coalition simply doesn’t have the vote share
magazine.newstatesman.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Since becoming leader Starmer has prioritised winning back ‘hero voters’ - & completely failed. Lab won in 2024 despite that busted strategy & we can see the results of persisting with it. Luke et al are more of a danger to Lab than Corbyn ever was. magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/01/09/o...
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The level of quixoticism at this point is like Kemi Badenoch spending all day trying to win over Your Party voters. What part of ‘no’ does Blue Labour not understand?
1% of Reform UK voters have a favourable opinion of the Labour Party, compared to 98% seeing it unfavourably, including 89% who view the party *very* unfavourably.
Conservative voters are more sympathetic.
Conservative voters are more sympathetic.
Only Reform voters can save Labour
By Luke Akehurst
By Luke Akehurst
January 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
The level of quixoticism at this point is like Kemi Badenoch spending all day trying to win over Your Party voters. What part of ‘no’ does Blue Labour not understand?
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The mask dropped sometime ago, but the true face of the brutality of the Trump administration and their lickspittles screams louder every day and remember Farage is made in this image #poetry #reneegood #politics #justice #farage
January 9, 2026 at 9:23 AM
The mask dropped sometime ago, but the true face of the brutality of the Trump administration and their lickspittles screams louder every day and remember Farage is made in this image #poetry #reneegood #politics #justice #farage
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On crucial issues the BBC now barely even tries to report facts, only the perspectives of particular political actors on the facts, & without helping anyone understand which perspectives might be worthy of belief. This helped lead to Brexit & now it‘s helping to normalise fascism internationally
Two starkly opposed Americas laid bare by deadly ICE shooting
The incident is threatening to inflame a deeply contentious debate over immigration enforcement.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 PM
On crucial issues the BBC now barely even tries to report facts, only the perspectives of particular political actors on the facts, & without helping anyone understand which perspectives might be worthy of belief. This helped lead to Brexit & now it‘s helping to normalise fascism internationally
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And the BBC package ends with some crap about ‘in these politically charged times, dualling narratives’
WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS GOING ON!?!
There is no dual narratives
An innocent woman was shot dead and the Trump administration is lying about
THAT in the story
WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS GOING ON!?!
There is no dual narratives
An innocent woman was shot dead and the Trump administration is lying about
THAT in the story
January 8, 2026 at 10:09 PM
And the BBC package ends with some crap about ‘in these politically charged times, dualling narratives’
WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS GOING ON!?!
There is no dual narratives
An innocent woman was shot dead and the Trump administration is lying about
THAT in the story
WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS GOING ON!?!
There is no dual narratives
An innocent woman was shot dead and the Trump administration is lying about
THAT in the story
Like a desperate pitch by a coked up creative team about to lose a huge advertising account.
At political cabinet today, Morgan McSweeney gave a presentation on “three Es” on how the government can connect with voters - emotion, empathy and evidence.
Am told he said the government currently has a “deficit in emotion”
Am told he said the government currently has a “deficit in emotion”
January 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Like a desperate pitch by a coked up creative team about to lose a huge advertising account.
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"What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can?"
"loot" entered the English language in the late 18th century
It's from India - a Hindi word for plunder
"The East India Company: The original corporate raiders"
- @willdalrymple.bsky.social in 2015
"loot" entered the English language in the late 18th century
It's from India - a Hindi word for plunder
"The East India Company: The original corporate raiders"
- @willdalrymple.bsky.social in 2015
The East India Company: The original corporate raiders | William Dalrymple
The long read: For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
"What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can?"
"loot" entered the English language in the late 18th century
It's from India - a Hindi word for plunder
"The East India Company: The original corporate raiders"
- @willdalrymple.bsky.social in 2015
"loot" entered the English language in the late 18th century
It's from India - a Hindi word for plunder
"The East India Company: The original corporate raiders"
- @willdalrymple.bsky.social in 2015
'Captured', 'extracted'. These seedy not-quite lying verbs. He was kidnapped by force.
January 4, 2026 at 9:56 AM
'Captured', 'extracted'. These seedy not-quite lying verbs. He was kidnapped by force.
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Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
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Since it's a tense time of year 🫠
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Since it's a tense time of year 🫠
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I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
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Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄
Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️
Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei
Happy holidays!
Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️
Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei
Happy holidays!
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄
Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️
Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei
Happy holidays!
Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️
Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei
Happy holidays!
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Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
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The jury is still out - and that's being generous- on whether Love Actually is a Christmas Film, but there's another seasonal Richard Curtis effort that's absolutely *brilliant* but you never, ever see anywhere now - Bernard And The Genie.
timworthington.org/2020/12/24/l...
timworthington.org/2020/12/24/l...
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The jury is still out - and that's being generous- on whether Love Actually is a Christmas Film, but there's another seasonal Richard Curtis effort that's absolutely *brilliant* but you never, ever see anywhere now - Bernard And The Genie.
timworthington.org/2020/12/24/l...
timworthington.org/2020/12/24/l...
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Happy unprecedented wave of super-flu season to those who fabulate.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Happy unprecedented wave of super-flu season to those who fabulate.
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Right. Where's the discussion on "what does a good migration system look like from a centre-left perspective?"
Instead, look polls!, something, something working people.
Instead, look polls!, something, something working people.
December 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Right. Where's the discussion on "what does a good migration system look like from a centre-left perspective?"
Instead, look polls!, something, something working people.
Instead, look polls!, something, something working people.
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The 'betrayal of Brexit' response to rejoining Erasmus is obviously predictable, and stupid (Brexit = leaving EU). But what's more striking is how *dated* it seems, like someone still waving a 'Thatcher out' placard.
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The 'betrayal of Brexit' response to rejoining Erasmus is obviously predictable, and stupid (Brexit = leaving EU). But what's more striking is how *dated* it seems, like someone still waving a 'Thatcher out' placard.
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This legal action will be costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's economic warfare waged by a billionaire bigot against decent, tolerant people across the UK.
can someone please for the love of god tell me where i can see a trans woman? i want to career switch into litigation. ... attorney? what do you mean? no you dingus i'm going to be a professional plaintiff
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This legal action will be costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's economic warfare waged by a billionaire bigot against decent, tolerant people across the UK.
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Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.
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 7:28 AM
Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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I do not like ChatGPT,
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I do not like ChatGPT,
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
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Getting barred from the USA for making tea and coffee strong enough to actually taste.
Getting barred from the USA for speaking, spelling and writing English well.
Getting barred from the USA because I insisted on calling it The Spar Mangled Banana.
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Getting barred from the USA for making tea and coffee strong enough to actually taste.
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Sharron Davies has never done anything for women’s rights. She is, however, a racist and transphobic conspiracist
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sharron Davies has never done anything for women’s rights. She is, however, a racist and transphobic conspiracist