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richardpaulsimms.bsky.social
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The anger we see everywhere, that is fuelled by bad faith actors, distorts realities. It obscures achievements, exaggerates problems, heightens fears. Instead of solutions, it looks for culprits. The change everyone wants, starts with truth. #GoodMorning, everyone.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 6 days ago • 395 comments

The truth has become basic. Trump is a fool who is fucking everything up. There's no more to it than that. But there's only so many times you can write that column. So people are forced to construct 'well actually he has a point' arguments and 'hidden strategy' think pieces.

submitted 21 days ago • 102 comments

Would very much like “heading off the threat of Reform/Farage” to STOP being the way government decides on policy. It’s done nothing but profound harm since 2016 and Farage is still going strong. It doesn’t work for anyone, except him. on.ft.com/42eewsY

submitted 23 days ago • 130 comments

Sigh…..😞 Another day, another wildly misleading Daily Mail headline. I mean, it certainly would be headline worthy if police had turned up and accused her of committing a crime by writing innocent FB posts. But that's not what happened… 🧵 1/

submitted 68 days ago • 15 comments

What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.

submitted 79 days ago • 246 comments

Posting footage of deportations impresses no one. Reform voters don’t think it’s enough hatred and the rest of us turn away from yet more performative cruelty. The Labour vote disintegrates. If Labour can’t decide who it should be talking and listening to, then it ends up without an audience.

submitted 80 days ago • 98 comments

For @vittles.bsky.social i wrote about my two most formative male influences: my father and Rick Stein www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/rick-stein...

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments

What I do not understand about the enthusiasm for preservation of a "culture" is: 1. A culture that has ceased to innovate and is blind to other creative influence is dead. It is preserved in the sense that stuffed animals are preserved; and 2. If it has to be forced upon people it is not a culture.

submitted 95 days ago • 10 comments

I have just sent a message to the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of Washington.

submitted 100 days ago • 24 comments

It’s been so depressing to watch the issue of grooming gangs, child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse become more of a political football than ever. It’s true that at the time concern around cultural sensitivities played a role in preventing these crimes coming to light.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Stop at the First Lie…

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

Banter is like sex. It is a two way process based on mutual respect and understanding. If you're doing it on your own, what you are is a wanker

submitted 146 days ago • 65 comments

For a perfect illustration of the weird contradictions of populist Conservatism, compare Oakeshott (Bristol) & Hartley-Brewer (Oxford) sneering at @marina-purkiss.bsky.social with Goodwin on how Russell Group & Oxbridge graduates are the 'new elite' of lefties sneering at 'ordinary people'.

submitted 147 days ago • 8 comments