Marion Turner @potholes48
@potholes48.bsky.social
Antediluvian Jill of all trades. Retired, but not from life. Unrepentant remainer. Lover of baroque opera, all things archaeological and historical. Definitely woke.
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They are right - And any National Commission should be given a rapid timetable to come to a conclusion because the arguments have been obvious for years. Decades.
APPG Members Sean Woodcock MP and Jo Platt MP today warn that Westminster's First Past The Post electoral system could deliver chaos, and call on the government to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform.
🚨"Right now, Labour has the chance to lead this conversation and head off this issue. There is no time for complacency."
Sean Woodcock MP & Jo Platt MP warn that FPTP is headed for chaos.
✍️ For @labourlist.bsky.social @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social @joplatt.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2026/02/labo...
Sean Woodcock MP & Jo Platt MP warn that FPTP is headed for chaos.
✍️ For @labourlist.bsky.social @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social @joplatt.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2026/02/labo...
February 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
They are right - And any National Commission should be given a rapid timetable to come to a conclusion because the arguments have been obvious for years. Decades.
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One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM
One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…
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Turns out firing career diplomats and replacing them with Trump loyalists who learned international relations from Truth Social has consequences. Who knew. #holdfast
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Turns out firing career diplomats and replacing them with Trump loyalists who learned international relations from Truth Social has consequences. Who knew. #holdfast
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If you were looking for an exposition of what British values *could* be you could do a lot worse than Ian McKellen wielding Shakespeare like a rapier.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:13 PM
If you were looking for an exposition of what British values *could* be you could do a lot worse than Ian McKellen wielding Shakespeare like a rapier.
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"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"
Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"
Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
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this is very funny to me personally
The three sites are:
One Oxfordshire (promoted by Oxfordshire County Council) – oneoxfordshire.org.uk
Two Councils (promoted by the rural districts) – www.twocouncils.org
3Councils (promoted by Oxford City Council) – threecouncils.org
One Oxfordshire (promoted by Oxfordshire County Council) – oneoxfordshire.org.uk
Two Councils (promoted by the rural districts) – www.twocouncils.org
3Councils (promoted by Oxford City Council) – threecouncils.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
this is very funny to me personally
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The long and the short of this.
I get how MAGA worked in 2016, but only Epstein explains why all the tech bros coagulated around Trump in 2024.
Epstein's money, his Silicon Valley/Russian-backed libertarian eugenicist ideology, survived his demise
I get how MAGA worked in 2016, but only Epstein explains why all the tech bros coagulated around Trump in 2024.
Epstein's money, his Silicon Valley/Russian-backed libertarian eugenicist ideology, survived his demise
Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
bylinetimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
The long and the short of this.
I get how MAGA worked in 2016, but only Epstein explains why all the tech bros coagulated around Trump in 2024.
Epstein's money, his Silicon Valley/Russian-backed libertarian eugenicist ideology, survived his demise
I get how MAGA worked in 2016, but only Epstein explains why all the tech bros coagulated around Trump in 2024.
Epstein's money, his Silicon Valley/Russian-backed libertarian eugenicist ideology, survived his demise
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Why isn't this a major news story?
February 2, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Why isn't this a major news story?
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Spot on from @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social “The growing list of defectors suggests Nigel Farage’s party is less an insurgency than a refuge for the least appealing Tories” #politics
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Spot on from @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social “The growing list of defectors suggests Nigel Farage’s party is less an insurgency than a refuge for the least appealing Tories” #politics
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Given his appalling remarks about Sunak its absolutely shocking that Konstantin Kisin is anywhere near the mainstream let alone on #bbcqt
Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
January 30, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Given his appalling remarks about Sunak its absolutely shocking that Konstantin Kisin is anywhere near the mainstream let alone on #bbcqt
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Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show
The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Board of Peace - Season 1
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Trump will always lean towards what Russia wants, but hats off to Zelensky for his unwavering efforts and dignity in continuing to deal
with this psychotic, undignified bully
with this psychotic, undignified bully
Zelenskiy, after Trump talks, says territorial issue still unsolved
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos that the terms of security guarantees for Ukraine had been finalised, but that the vital issue of t...
www.reuters.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Trump will always lean towards what Russia wants, but hats off to Zelensky for his unwavering efforts and dignity in continuing to deal
with this psychotic, undignified bully
with this psychotic, undignified bully
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457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
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Analyzing Trump’s musings is a fool’s errand— he’s incoherent, he lies as he breathes, and he makes stuff up. We cannot use his speech to guess whether he plans to use force against Greenland, wants to keep NATO, etc. There’s no point in headlines announcing « Trump rules out/plans XYZ »
January 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Analyzing Trump’s musings is a fool’s errand— he’s incoherent, he lies as he breathes, and he makes stuff up. We cannot use his speech to guess whether he plans to use force against Greenland, wants to keep NATO, etc. There’s no point in headlines announcing « Trump rules out/plans XYZ »
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Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
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Keir Starmer says he won’t yield on UK’s position on Greenland under pressure from US president.
“I will not yield. Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland and the threats of tariffs.”
“I will not yield. Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland and the threats of tariffs.”
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Keir Starmer says he won’t yield on UK’s position on Greenland under pressure from US president.
“I will not yield. Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland and the threats of tariffs.”
“I will not yield. Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland and the threats of tariffs.”
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A joke for the history buffs.
January 20, 2026 at 12:39 AM
A joke for the history buffs.
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Maybe it's another one of his famous "BBC boycotts".
January 18, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Maybe it's another one of his famous "BBC boycotts".
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We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
January 17, 2026 at 7:28 PM
We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
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Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
January 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
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When my late mother got Alzheimer's, we had to label everything too.
The White House has added a new sign above the Rose Garden reading “The Rose Garden.”
January 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
When my late mother got Alzheimer's, we had to label everything too.
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We have politicians who are so riddled with far right ideology, so blinkered by the fundamental need to divide and deny fact that they verge on being traitors. They would happily see their country destroyed for some bizarre vision of an authoritarian hellscape for the wealthiest on earth
No Kemi, Trump threatening to invade a NATO ally is not a "second order issue."
It’s a direct challenge to Britain’s security and the future of NATO.
It’s a direct challenge to Britain’s security and the future of NATO.
January 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
We have politicians who are so riddled with far right ideology, so blinkered by the fundamental need to divide and deny fact that they verge on being traitors. They would happily see their country destroyed for some bizarre vision of an authoritarian hellscape for the wealthiest on earth
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand