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fbowles.bsky.social

Permanently on holiday. Liberal 🔸. Likes intelligent good humoured debate. Politics (particularly Scottish), travel, photography, single malts Student der modernen Sprachen. “Jet setting” - Clydebank Post (http://bit.ly/3HwD4U4) Not an -ist.

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The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine. This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.

submitted 63 days ago • 95 comments

"optimism has drained as Starmer appears either committed to this hardest of Brexits or too worried about the next election to risk losing the votes of red wall Brexiters.  But really he has nothing to lose."

submitted 77 days ago • 51 comments

When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives now

submitted 83 days ago • 163 comments

Trump has clearly not spoken to a single Palestinian about this plan. Gaza is our land. Palestine is our home. Peace cannot come at the cost of our country. I urge the UK and the whole international community to resist him. Recognise Palestine now, before it's too late.

submitted 83 days ago • 54 comments

This is officially one of the most idiotic things Labour could do. Playing to Reform emboldens Reform. You can't out anti-immigration them. Labour has both the majority and time to implement policies which actually benefit people, and put the case for immigration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 83 days ago • 109 comments

Just take a moment to imagine the reaction to Barack Obama pardoning 1,500 black people, involved in a riot, which led to five police officers dying, calling them "heroes" & "hostages".

submitted 97 days ago • 21 comments

Superb essay on where the liberal left has gone wrong in America… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/opinion/piketty-sandel-liberals-open-borders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU4.UhKx.0eiqGexbpXk1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

The TikTok thing reinforces my unhealthy instinct that if I ignore something for long enough it will go away.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Badenoch’s pensions triple lock remarks.. Daisy Cooper:“bungling Badenoch” had come up with a policy of slashing the state pension. The Lib Dems are proud we introduced the triple lock and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to weaken it.” #LibDems www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

This company likes to portray itself as akin to numerous small local brewers. It is, in fact, a giant corporation backed by a US private equity firm.

submitted 101 days ago • 61 comments

A Real Pain is superb in every possible way. Not a moment wasted. That is all

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 106 days ago • 224 comments

Excellent news. 👇

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not.

submitted 112 days ago • 167 comments

This remains, and I say this advisedly, one of the best exchanges I have ever seen on social media

submitted 122 days ago • 1160 comments

Yep... That's all I want... #bikeped

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

😂

submitted 124 days ago • 4 comments

Christmas just got even merrier… Wordle 1,285 2/6* 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

JOB INTERVIEWER: What’s your biggest weakness? ME: I’d say my greatest strength is listening.

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Net leader ratings in tonight's @opiniumresearch.bsky.social poll: Davey +3 Farage -9 Badenoch -12 Starmer -32

submitted 128 days ago • 8 comments

“We may need to row back on some of our spending commitments” From the new Private Eye, out now.

submitted 129 days ago • 4 comments

Boy, someone needs a refresher course in what kings always end up doing to over-mighty barons...

submitted 131 days ago • 17 comments

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

submitted 134 days ago • 209 comments

Yup

submitted 136 days ago • 26 comments

Did you know, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid, that doesn't fit any of your containers.

submitted 139 days ago • 23 comments

submitted 144 days ago • 16 comments

This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.

submitted 144 days ago • 105 comments