Catherine
@catherinehh.bsky.social
Grumpy dog-lover. Worries: shit in our rivers, state of politics, climate change, genocide, chaos
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"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?"
via Very Brexit Problems
via Very Brexit Problems
September 24, 2026 at 9:26 AM
"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?"
via Very Brexit Problems
via Very Brexit Problems
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Good.
Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson.
And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson.
And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Good.
Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson.
And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson.
And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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In this world… don’t be an Ed Sheeran.
Be a Macklemore and a Ms Rachel.
Be a Macklemore and a Ms Rachel.
September 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
In this world… don’t be an Ed Sheeran.
Be a Macklemore and a Ms Rachel.
Be a Macklemore and a Ms Rachel.
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Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
July 28, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
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All cancel culture is bad, but rightwing cancel culture is more pervasive and has more powerful backers than leftwing cancel culture. These people are hypocrites as well as Inquisitors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have no doubt: the campaign to sack Misan Harriman is part of an assault on black figures in public life | Afua Hirsch
The move against the boss of London’s Southbank Centre sends a forbidding message about who is and isn’t seen as fit to lead in UK culture, says Guardian columnist Afua Hirsch
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2026 at 7:01 AM
All cancel culture is bad, but rightwing cancel culture is more pervasive and has more powerful backers than leftwing cancel culture. These people are hypocrites as well as Inquisitors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vote Reform.
Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you.
It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you.
It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
May 4, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Vote Reform.
Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you.
It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you.
It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
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£5m from a donor before he even became an MP. Reform UK: "anti‑establishment" – until the cheques clear. Farage is just another politician bought and paid for. 💷👀
April 29, 2026 at 12:43 PM
£5m from a donor before he even became an MP. Reform UK: "anti‑establishment" – until the cheques clear. Farage is just another politician bought and paid for. 💷👀
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The richest man owns X.
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
April 23, 2026 at 11:01 PM
The richest man owns X.
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
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War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽
Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼
Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼
April 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽
Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼
Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼
❤️ spot on
Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
April 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM
❤️ spot on
Billionaire owned media and predatory white men with fragile egos and too much power is a horrific mix
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
March 7, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Billionaire owned media and predatory white men with fragile egos and too much power is a horrific mix
If you have time, read the pinned post on her account. It is profoundly moving 💔
I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
Trans youth suicide - the truth we've always known. What it means to me and what I've been doing about it.
Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data.As the parent of Alice a trans woman who...
www.carolinelitman.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:02 AM
If you have time, read the pinned post on her account. It is profoundly moving 💔
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
I don't understand who the Labour Party are anymore
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I don't understand who the Labour Party are anymore
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
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UK politics live –latest updates
The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
The document also has stinging criticism of a “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then prime minister actively embraced – in which the loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... An NHS Trust made a decision to close an innovative service for people with Parkinson’s in July but waited until November to tell patients. “A complete failure of communications coupled with discourtesy” says one patient
Patients left in the dark after Home Based Care closure
Innovative Parkinson's scheme closed - patients told months later
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... An NHS Trust made a decision to close an innovative service for people with Parkinson’s in July but waited until November to tell patients. “A complete failure of communications coupled with discourtesy” says one patient
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Complicit.
This government is despicable 💔
This government is despicable 💔
Meanwhile as their media mates swarm around us and their police publicly open a meaningless investigation after Glastonbury on us (only to drop it silently)...
They are complicit in war crimes.
They are complicit in war crimes.
August 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Complicit.
This government is despicable 💔
This government is despicable 💔
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I really don't want Palantir to have access to my NHS data
So why are we in the UK allowing Palantir - closely allied with Musk’s DOGE - access to our NHS data?
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I really don't want Palantir to have access to my NHS data
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
March 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
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