@oldmanmoon.bsky.social
Retired builder, dotting grandad who hates bullies. Get up, stand up.. stand up for your rights
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Absolutely ridiculous. So we are just to accept the #GazaGenocide is happening and say nothing. Peaceful protests in support of people being slaughtered daily didn't lead to the Bondi tragedy. Are all those who oppose the #GazaGenocide being labelled anti-Semitic now? #auspol
NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Absolutely ridiculous. So we are just to accept the #GazaGenocide is happening and say nothing. Peaceful protests in support of people being slaughtered daily didn't lead to the Bondi tragedy. Are all those who oppose the #GazaGenocide being labelled anti-Semitic now? #auspol
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The Government launches an urgent review into 'foreign financial interference' in UK politics following Nathan Gill's conviction.
I hear the Gill case and Reform's £9 million donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor have woken ministers up to the potential threat
I hear the Gill case and Reform's £9 million donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor have woken ministers up to the potential threat
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Government launches an urgent review into 'foreign financial interference' in UK politics following Nathan Gill's conviction.
I hear the Gill case and Reform's £9 million donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor have woken ministers up to the potential threat
I hear the Gill case and Reform's £9 million donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor have woken ministers up to the potential threat
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And all without painting any roundabouts…
"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee."
Not surprising, but some observations (1/n)
www.ft.com/content/10da...
Not surprising, but some observations (1/n)
www.ft.com/content/10da...
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
And all without painting any roundabouts…
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That awkward moment when your star columnist was responsible... and you have to write headlines around the Boris shaped elephant in the newsroom
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
That awkward moment when your star columnist was responsible... and you have to write headlines around the Boris shaped elephant in the newsroom
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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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Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
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Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
October 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
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No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
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When the history of the rise of fascism in the UK in the 2020s gets written, the complicity of the BBC will require a full volume of its own.
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
When the history of the rise of fascism in the UK in the 2020s gets written, the complicity of the BBC will require a full volume of its own.
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It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
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Shame, Shame, Shame.
August 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Shame, Shame, Shame.
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Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, claims that #PalestineAction "wishes harm on the British people."
That is simply false. It is yet another retrospective justification by this government for its unjustifiable ban on the group.
That is simply false. It is yet another retrospective justification by this government for its unjustifiable ban on the group.
August 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, claims that #PalestineAction "wishes harm on the British people."
That is simply false. It is yet another retrospective justification by this government for its unjustifiable ban on the group.
That is simply false. It is yet another retrospective justification by this government for its unjustifiable ban on the group.
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Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Yvette Cooper is asked about her decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and she claims she received detailed security assessments & advice & is in receipt of disturbing information that the rest of us don't know about
August 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
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At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people
July 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people
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If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.
July 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.
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It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Not self-defence. Not even collateral damage. Collective punishment. In other words, revenge…
Astonished to find myself agreeing with Lord Sumption but every word of this, on Gaza, from the @NewStatesman’s front page, is powerfully, painfully true.
Astonished to find myself agreeing with Lord Sumption but every word of this, on Gaza, from the @NewStatesman’s front page, is powerfully, painfully true.
July 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Not self-defence. Not even collateral damage. Collective punishment. In other words, revenge…
Astonished to find myself agreeing with Lord Sumption but every word of this, on Gaza, from the @NewStatesman’s front page, is powerfully, painfully true.
Astonished to find myself agreeing with Lord Sumption but every word of this, on Gaza, from the @NewStatesman’s front page, is powerfully, painfully true.
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Read more 🔗 news.sky.com/story/france...
July 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Read more 🔗 news.sky.com/story/france...
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I was absolutely trembling when I spoke with Nick Ferrari this morning on @lbc…
About Gary Lineker and Gaza
One day, I promise you, we’ll all look back with regret
That this was the debate, while a genocide was ongoing.
About Gary Lineker and Gaza
One day, I promise you, we’ll all look back with regret
That this was the debate, while a genocide was ongoing.
May 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I was absolutely trembling when I spoke with Nick Ferrari this morning on @lbc…
About Gary Lineker and Gaza
One day, I promise you, we’ll all look back with regret
That this was the debate, while a genocide was ongoing.
About Gary Lineker and Gaza
One day, I promise you, we’ll all look back with regret
That this was the debate, while a genocide was ongoing.