@roger93.bsky.social
baker, writer, sea swimmer, probably on the move soon
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Unreal latest from the Inhumane Office
Home Office tells Gaza academic his bid to bring family to UK not urgent
Bassem Abudagga losing hope after being told wife must go to visa application centre, of which none remain in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Unreal latest from the Inhumane Office
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I’m floundering, looking for the apt metaphor here, but this is cool.
January 10, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I’m floundering, looking for the apt metaphor here, but this is cool.
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📈 TESCO
In the past four years, food prices in the UK have rocketed by a staggering 40% – yet between 2020/21 and 2024/5 Tesco saw its operating profit balloon by almost three quarters (72%).
This sort of rampant profiteering is simply a disgrace, and it must be stopped.
In the past four years, food prices in the UK have rocketed by a staggering 40% – yet between 2020/21 and 2024/5 Tesco saw its operating profit balloon by almost three quarters (72%).
This sort of rampant profiteering is simply a disgrace, and it must be stopped.
January 8, 2026 at 11:48 AM
📈 TESCO
In the past four years, food prices in the UK have rocketed by a staggering 40% – yet between 2020/21 and 2024/5 Tesco saw its operating profit balloon by almost three quarters (72%).
This sort of rampant profiteering is simply a disgrace, and it must be stopped.
In the past four years, food prices in the UK have rocketed by a staggering 40% – yet between 2020/21 and 2024/5 Tesco saw its operating profit balloon by almost three quarters (72%).
This sort of rampant profiteering is simply a disgrace, and it must be stopped.
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I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
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Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
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It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.
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The conversation on Threads
January 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
The conversation on Threads
December 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A man needs a hobby…
Picked up the Christmas veg, and delighted to be supporting Scottish agriculture and crime writing @ianrankin1.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A man needs a hobby…
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So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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As Trump attacks Europe, Starmer sends ministers to undermine the ECHR.
The 'West' is not coming back. In 2026 the EU has to face this, move faster, with other democracies around the world in this new global disorder. The UK may find it hard to keep up.
My latest blog
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The 'West' is not coming back. In 2026 the EU has to face this, move faster, with other democracies around the world in this new global disorder. The UK may find it hard to keep up.
My latest blog
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Europe, Brexit, Rights and the Collapse of the ‘West’
The end of the West has, in many ways, been the theme of 2025. As the US becomes more enemy than ally, 2026 is shaping up to be a crunch year.
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As Trump attacks Europe, Starmer sends ministers to undermine the ECHR.
The 'West' is not coming back. In 2026 the EU has to face this, move faster, with other democracies around the world in this new global disorder. The UK may find it hard to keep up.
My latest blog
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The 'West' is not coming back. In 2026 the EU has to face this, move faster, with other democracies around the world in this new global disorder. The UK may find it hard to keep up.
My latest blog
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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UK ceramic artist Marie Prett specialises in figurative and carnivalesque sculptures #WomensArt
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
UK ceramic artist Marie Prett specialises in figurative and carnivalesque sculptures #WomensArt
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THIS is #Scotland
Thanks to @scotslassie.bsky.social for posting and the indomitable @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social for the fine, uplifting and heartfelt words.
Thanks to @scotslassie.bsky.social for posting and the indomitable @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social for the fine, uplifting and heartfelt words.
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
THIS is #Scotland
Thanks to @scotslassie.bsky.social for posting and the indomitable @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social for the fine, uplifting and heartfelt words.
Thanks to @scotslassie.bsky.social for posting and the indomitable @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social for the fine, uplifting and heartfelt words.
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Palantir of course is run by a gleefully evil CEO who smilingly characterized all Palestinians as “useful idiots” at a public Q and A session. He claimed Palantir tech was used only to kill “terrorists” in Gaza - so no connection at all to the genocide there.
Yet this firm now manages NHS data.
Yet this firm now manages NHS data.
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Palantir of course is run by a gleefully evil CEO who smilingly characterized all Palestinians as “useful idiots” at a public Q and A session. He claimed Palantir tech was used only to kill “terrorists” in Gaza - so no connection at all to the genocide there.
Yet this firm now manages NHS data.
Yet this firm now manages NHS data.
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Did Labour MPs ever imagine that they would be ending the first period of their first government in more than 14 years with their own Home Secretary feeling the need to publicly deny that she plans to defect to Reform?
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Did Labour MPs ever imagine that they would be ending the first period of their first government in more than 14 years with their own Home Secretary feeling the need to publicly deny that she plans to defect to Reform?
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Hey, anybody remember Starmer's leadership election pledges? This is what Labour members voted for, but look what they got. He's not to be trusted.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hey, anybody remember Starmer's leadership election pledges? This is what Labour members voted for, but look what they got. He's not to be trusted.
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It's Mobile Libraries Day! #MobileLibrariesDay2025
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It's Mobile Libraries Day! #MobileLibrariesDay2025
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland.
Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!
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When social democratic parties don't like their voters, those voters get the hint...
👏 Congratulations to @sissemariewe.bsky.social who was just elected as the new mayor of Copenhagen.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When social democratic parties don't like their voters, those voters get the hint...
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Happy #MobileLibrariesDay! 📚
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Happy #MobileLibrariesDay! 📚
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚
#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
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Starmer lies and he lies and he lies. No pledge goes unbroken.
No full voting fights for EU nationals
No defence of freedom of movement
No end to indefinite detention
Yarl’s Wood remains open
And no compassion and dignity in our immigration system
Starmer made this ‘pledge’ in February 2020, deliberately lying to get Party leadership
He cannot be trusted
No defence of freedom of movement
No end to indefinite detention
Yarl’s Wood remains open
And no compassion and dignity in our immigration system
Starmer made this ‘pledge’ in February 2020, deliberately lying to get Party leadership
He cannot be trusted
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Starmer lies and he lies and he lies. No pledge goes unbroken.
realise that Starmer's labour makes a fetish out of plumbing moral depths but this one really is beyond unforgiveable. As long as him - and his gang - are in the Labour Party anyone who votes for them is happy to vindicate all the lies of the far right
Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.
My guess is they will end up u-turning on the jewellery thing (you can already see it being softening in interviews) and possibly the 20 years (which is way longer than Denmark).
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
realise that Starmer's labour makes a fetish out of plumbing moral depths but this one really is beyond unforgiveable. As long as him - and his gang - are in the Labour Party anyone who votes for them is happy to vindicate all the lies of the far right
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All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Looking at Stromness when swimming is just so much nicer than having to listen to Labour agreeing with Trump - it was bad enough when they were just agreeing with everything Farage said
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Looking at Stromness when swimming is just so much nicer than having to listen to Labour agreeing with Trump - it was bad enough when they were just agreeing with everything Farage said
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour
#Stromness #offforasnorkel #itwasniceunderwatertoo #stuffLabour