Pedro VdM
@pedrovdm.bsky.social
Londoner 🇬🇧🇲🇽 Doctor 🏥🩺 NY Giants 🏈
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my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 10:22 PM
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
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“The people we elected choose to serve the wealthy, and not us.”
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January 22, 2026 at 8:22 PM
“The people we elected choose to serve the wealthy, and not us.”
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Good morning.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
January 14, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Good morning.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
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Again, absolutely consistent with decades of right wing politics: *they* have unlimited rights and freedoms, and when you oppose them in pretty much any way, you threaten them intolerably and they are fully justified in meeting that aggression by having the cops smash your face in.
He says that ICE was justified in shooting Good simply because she was (somehow) “impeding” them. So self-defense had nothing to do with it. They can murder you if they feel you’re getting in their way.
January 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Again, absolutely consistent with decades of right wing politics: *they* have unlimited rights and freedoms, and when you oppose them in pretty much any way, you threaten them intolerably and they are fully justified in meeting that aggression by having the cops smash your face in.
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Again: If I was anyone in any position of mild authority, I’d look at the out of control wingnut cranks at this newspaper running a two-month hate and terror campaign against *the police* as being pro-Islamist radicals, and I would conclude that they can do this to pretty much anyone they want now.
January 7, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Again: If I was anyone in any position of mild authority, I’d look at the out of control wingnut cranks at this newspaper running a two-month hate and terror campaign against *the police* as being pro-Islamist radicals, and I would conclude that they can do this to pretty much anyone they want now.
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It’s not fair to pick on Esler in particular when there are far worse to choose from, but it really is worth looking at this, recalling the long years of squealing and horseshit on these and similar topics, and then at everything now bombed to fuck and on fire while our leaders babble excuses.
January 5, 2026 at 11:20 AM
It’s not fair to pick on Esler in particular when there are far worse to choose from, but it really is worth looking at this, recalling the long years of squealing and horseshit on these and similar topics, and then at everything now bombed to fuck and on fire while our leaders babble excuses.
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You mean: where might Labour politicians and staff have got the idea they could achieve incredible personal success, just by screaming abuse at their own core supporters while regularly falling over and pretending to be injured? Gee whizz, it sure is a mystery why they’d have formed that impression.
December 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
You mean: where might Labour politicians and staff have got the idea they could achieve incredible personal success, just by screaming abuse at their own core supporters while regularly falling over and pretending to be injured? Gee whizz, it sure is a mystery why they’d have formed that impression.
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It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
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Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
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James is chin-stroking about the end of democracy here, and I’d point out that the key issue for almost two decades has been a political/media class increasingly making it very clear they will choose actual Norsefire fascism over any kind of backsliding on Thatcherism, if pushed archive.ph/qBzgr
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
James is chin-stroking about the end of democracy here, and I’d point out that the key issue for almost two decades has been a political/media class increasingly making it very clear they will choose actual Norsefire fascism over any kind of backsliding on Thatcherism, if pushed archive.ph/qBzgr
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I agree, and in particular I would look at things like: It could not possibly have been more obvious that Johnson’s “levelling up” plan was back-of-a-fag-packet bullshit and an insult to the public, the second it was announced. Was it received and explained as a pitch black fraud and an affront?
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I agree, and in particular I would look at things like: It could not possibly have been more obvious that Johnson’s “levelling up” plan was back-of-a-fag-packet bullshit and an insult to the public, the second it was announced. Was it received and explained as a pitch black fraud and an affront?
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The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.
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Let me explain what’s happening here: Lewis knows very well this entire incident was a disgusting, wildly irresponsible fraud against the public by people trying to distract from their complicity in genocide. Nandy - a truly abysmal piece of shit - will deny this and keep lying about it, forever.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Let me explain what’s happening here: Lewis knows very well this entire incident was a disgusting, wildly irresponsible fraud against the public by people trying to distract from their complicity in genocide. Nandy - a truly abysmal piece of shit - will deny this and keep lying about it, forever.
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Genuinely amazing watching a bunch of half-wit politicians try to stick their dicks into a blender over this. Just absolutely insane levels of "why the fuck are you getting involved in this? What is wrong with you?"
I do hope someone has run this decision by chief hooliganism understander, tim farron
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Genuinely amazing watching a bunch of half-wit politicians try to stick their dicks into a blender over this. Just absolutely insane levels of "why the fuck are you getting involved in this? What is wrong with you?"
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Genuinely curious what some of the less crazy gaga woowoo centrists think about this. Surely there comes a time when the omerta can't hold and the strategy of keeping your mouth shut just seems intolerable? If you stay quiet for this what else are you just letting pass without comment?
still trying to grapple with a huge chunk of the political establishment including the heads of every major party not headed by a Jewish person along with whole schools of their media pilot fish trying to foster serious civil disorder in a major British city against the will of the cops.
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Genuinely curious what some of the less crazy gaga woowoo centrists think about this. Surely there comes a time when the omerta can't hold and the strategy of keeping your mouth shut just seems intolerable? If you stay quiet for this what else are you just letting pass without comment?
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If you’d said last week that the cops advising bans on notoriously violent and riotous away football fans was either a racist insult or an official conspiracy with Islamists, people would’ve thought you were a fucking crackpot. And they would’ve been 100% correct.
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If you’d said last week that the cops advising bans on notoriously violent and riotous away football fans was either a racist insult or an official conspiracy with Islamists, people would’ve thought you were a fucking crackpot. And they would’ve been 100% correct.
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The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.
Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.
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Latest in Novara (one of those articles that could have been a book....)
The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism | Novara Media
Any analysis of the political situation in the UK that does not account for the media is so incomplete as to be useless, argues Phil McDuff.
novaramedia.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Latest in Novara (one of those articles that could have been a book....)
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The fact that the Labour Right are the most horrible people in politics is about to become common knowledge, which is much better than it not being, but this will still be used to distract from the fact that the basic problem with them is being very right wing, rather than them being rude.
September 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The fact that the Labour Right are the most horrible people in politics is about to become common knowledge, which is much better than it not being, but this will still be used to distract from the fact that the basic problem with them is being very right wing, rather than them being rude.
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It’s grimly amusing to see the British press anxiously handwringing on the topic of “Somehow never noticing the appalling behaviour of wealthy and powerful people who can help your career, if doing so would negatively impact your ability to network and accumulate coins” and “Peter Mandelson”.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It’s grimly amusing to see the British press anxiously handwringing on the topic of “Somehow never noticing the appalling behaviour of wealthy and powerful people who can help your career, if doing so would negatively impact your ability to network and accumulate coins” and “Peter Mandelson”.
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It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
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Damn, I’d forgotten about this. This is the type of stuff that all the lads got very angry indeed at Gavin Williamson over, when the time finally came to notice the things that they had always known about him too.
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Damn, I’d forgotten about this. This is the type of stuff that all the lads got very angry indeed at Gavin Williamson over, when the time finally came to notice the things that they had always known about him too.
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Another wonderful day for noticing who can enjoy being wafted through a long, prestigious, very lucrative career, even if they’re Patrick Bateman coming apart at the end of the movie confessing to murders and executions, vs who will get 200 hacks rummaging in their bins for a suspect Facebook Like.
September 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Another wonderful day for noticing who can enjoy being wafted through a long, prestigious, very lucrative career, even if they’re Patrick Bateman coming apart at the end of the movie confessing to murders and executions, vs who will get 200 hacks rummaging in their bins for a suspect Facebook Like.
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Politics has been a slow-motion car crash since well before the financial crisis because our leaders have no ideas except “everything must stay exactly like this, with us in charge, at any cost”, and they have achieved it by working with the press on increasingly extreme projects like this one.
August 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Politics has been a slow-motion car crash since well before the financial crisis because our leaders have no ideas except “everything must stay exactly like this, with us in charge, at any cost”, and they have achieved it by working with the press on increasingly extreme projects like this one.