mharing
@mharing.bsky.social
Human being. Looking for enlightenment, inspiration, consolation & amusement during the new dark ages.
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The West Midland Police threatened to arrest me for criticising the Reform Party, after I reported a threat to my life.
CENSORSHIP: Police threaten me for criticising Reform UK
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The West Midland Police threatened to arrest me for criticising the Reform Party, after I reported a threat to my life.
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21 year sentence for using a car as a weapon. Good
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But YouTube is full of examples, with 1000s of approving comments. Every driver doing it should be banned, for life. We can discuss how to manage protesters blocking roads: it's not this.
youtu.be/u-8qd_5_sAo?...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But YouTube is full of examples, with 1000s of approving comments. Every driver doing it should be banned, for life. We can discuss how to manage protesters blocking roads: it's not this.
youtu.be/u-8qd_5_sAo?...
Bus driver rams Just Stop Oil protesters blockade nearly running them over
YouTube video by The Scottish Sun
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
21 year sentence for using a car as a weapon. Good
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But YouTube is full of examples, with 1000s of approving comments. Every driver doing it should be banned, for life. We can discuss how to manage protesters blocking roads: it's not this.
youtu.be/u-8qd_5_sAo?...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But YouTube is full of examples, with 1000s of approving comments. Every driver doing it should be banned, for life. We can discuss how to manage protesters blocking roads: it's not this.
youtu.be/u-8qd_5_sAo?...
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In the past 100 years, no neighboring country of Russia has attacked Russia. During the same period, Russia has invaded 19 countries.
Russia should have no say on the terms of a peace deal.
Russia should have no say on the terms of a peace deal.
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In the past 100 years, no neighboring country of Russia has attacked Russia. During the same period, Russia has invaded 19 countries.
Russia should have no say on the terms of a peace deal.
Russia should have no say on the terms of a peace deal.
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Kemi Badenoch is right to remind us that the last Tory government created wealth. It's just that all of it went to the 1%, while everybody else experienced the longest period of falling living standards in 200 years.
December 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Kemi Badenoch is right to remind us that the last Tory government created wealth. It's just that all of it went to the 1%, while everybody else experienced the longest period of falling living standards in 200 years.
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There's a campaign for FIFA's ethics committee to investigate and I'm sure that's not in any way an oxymoron.
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There's a campaign for FIFA's ethics committee to investigate and I'm sure that's not in any way an oxymoron.
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Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.
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Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
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Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.
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"Who gets to complain about housing policy in this country? Depends where you live, and how much your house is worth." Great analysis from @jonathanliew.bsky.social in @theguardian.com at www.theguardian.com/commentisfre..., linked to our budget commentary at www.faircomment.co.uk/p/budget-202...
Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Who gets to complain about housing policy in this country? Depends where you live, and how much your house is worth." Great analysis from @jonathanliew.bsky.social in @theguardian.com at www.theguardian.com/commentisfre..., linked to our budget commentary at www.faircomment.co.uk/p/budget-202...
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My very small company has lost around £60,000 a year because of brexit charges. It is no longer cost effective for our eu customers ( built up over nearly 40years) to send us work.
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My very small company has lost around £60,000 a year because of brexit charges. It is no longer cost effective for our eu customers ( built up over nearly 40years) to send us work.
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I bought a £150 thing from France. I'm truly delighted to pay £40 tax on import: that's for schools and hospitals. The £11 handling fee for DHL, on the other hand, is purely to cover the expensive slow additional bureaucratic admin needlessly created for us all by Brexit voters. Merry Xmas!
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I bought a £150 thing from France. I'm truly delighted to pay £40 tax on import: that's for schools and hospitals. The £11 handling fee for DHL, on the other hand, is purely to cover the expensive slow additional bureaucratic admin needlessly created for us all by Brexit voters. Merry Xmas!
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For all the folks ranting on about how the current UK administration have made electric vehicles totally unusable, here's a bit of an argument about your endless very questionable mathematics.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/the-fuel-b...
llewellyn.substack.com/p/the-fuel-b...
The Fuel Burning Thing.
Is it an impotant part of the discussion?
llewellyn.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
For all the folks ranting on about how the current UK administration have made electric vehicles totally unusable, here's a bit of an argument about your endless very questionable mathematics.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/the-fuel-b...
llewellyn.substack.com/p/the-fuel-b...
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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At least 342 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the truce on October 10.
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
At least 342 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the truce on October 10.
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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.
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I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
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My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
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However these people started out, they have all transmogrified into utter …….not nice people.
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
However these people started out, they have all transmogrified into utter …….not nice people.
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2/2 If this Labour government is serious about rebuilding trust, it should start with the BBC itself.
Turn it into a cooperative. Put power in the hands of its audience and its workers- not a revolving door of wealthy elites.
Turn it into a cooperative. Put power in the hands of its audience and its workers- not a revolving door of wealthy elites.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
2/2 If this Labour government is serious about rebuilding trust, it should start with the BBC itself.
Turn it into a cooperative. Put power in the hands of its audience and its workers- not a revolving door of wealthy elites.
Turn it into a cooperative. Put power in the hands of its audience and its workers- not a revolving door of wealthy elites.
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I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
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Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
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This government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury.
Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog.
Ministers are not listening.
Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog.
Ministers are not listening.
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury.
Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog.
Ministers are not listening.
Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog.
Ministers are not listening.
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Liz Truss due to her brief stint as PM receives a lifetime pension worth £100,000 annually and £1 million in 24 hour year round security.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Liz Truss due to her brief stint as PM receives a lifetime pension worth £100,000 annually and £1 million in 24 hour year round security.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
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Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place. An article by our founder, Julian Richer: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer
I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place. An article by our founder, Julian Richer: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...