John Sharman
@jonsx11.bsky.social
I like travel when I can, day outs in nature, Photography, film, eating out or good food; I am looking to have more leisure pursuits, say, see the Elgin Marbles before they go to Greece. I like reading all sorts.
Zionism started out as a reaction to anti-Semitism in Europe and the persecution of the Jews as in the Holocaust; in the early days it had an idealism about the Jews having their own homeland and self-determination. But as time has gone on Zionism has morphed into a movement that
October 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Zionism started out as a reaction to anti-Semitism in Europe and the persecution of the Jews as in the Holocaust; in the early days it had an idealism about the Jews having their own homeland and self-determination. But as time has gone on Zionism has morphed into a movement that
When things go wrong & will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night-
A pint of plain is your only man.
Flan O'Brien
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night-
A pint of plain is your only man.
Flan O'Brien
October 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM
When things go wrong & will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night-
A pint of plain is your only man.
Flan O'Brien
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night-
A pint of plain is your only man.
Flan O'Brien
Robert Peston is like a big kid: he manipulates people into agreeing with him, and shouts over them if their POV differs from his own: as he did with John McDonnell on the Green vote that Zionism is racism. John put it well the genocide in Gaza & ethnic cleansing in West Bank are
October 5, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Robert Peston is like a big kid: he manipulates people into agreeing with him, and shouts over them if their POV differs from his own: as he did with John McDonnell on the Green vote that Zionism is racism. John put it well the genocide in Gaza & ethnic cleansing in West Bank are
Jesus Christ, try to prove it. How? Go to the Gospels & St. Pauls; go to Josephus; go to Tacitus, go to Suetonius; are we any nearer now after The Beatles of getting anywhere near the idea of divinity, with the lack of credence of the supernatural? Can we envisage a resurrection, withoutwhich
noGod.
noGod.
October 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Jesus Christ, try to prove it. How? Go to the Gospels & St. Pauls; go to Josephus; go to Tacitus, go to Suetonius; are we any nearer now after The Beatles of getting anywhere near the idea of divinity, with the lack of credence of the supernatural? Can we envisage a resurrection, withoutwhich
noGod.
noGod.
Sylvester Stallone was on Graham Norton: he's a man of few words, but is great at expressions and voices. There's a kind of greatness about him, with his taking on of the Rocky film project at a difficult time in his life, unlucky on the cusp of age 30, this was his one true chance: he got an Oscar
October 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Sylvester Stallone was on Graham Norton: he's a man of few words, but is great at expressions and voices. There's a kind of greatness about him, with his taking on of the Rocky film project at a difficult time in his life, unlucky on the cusp of age 30, this was his one true chance: he got an Oscar
#QuestionTime: Suella Braverman managed to alienate herself from the whole audience & panel tonight, by
giving no hope, being racist, blaming immigration, not saying one positive thing, saying she was British not English. Hopeless or what? Some people never learn.
giving no hope, being racist, blaming immigration, not saying one positive thing, saying she was British not English. Hopeless or what? Some people never learn.
October 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
#QuestionTime: Suella Braverman managed to alienate herself from the whole audience & panel tonight, by
giving no hope, being racist, blaming immigration, not saying one positive thing, saying she was British not English. Hopeless or what? Some people never learn.
giving no hope, being racist, blaming immigration, not saying one positive thing, saying she was British not English. Hopeless or what? Some people never learn.
The bravery of those passengers who fought in the cockpit to wrest the plane off of the terror-inspired pilot who stabbed the main pilot to take over the plane, to try to crash it,
then the plane was steadied from a drop of 15000 feet
and climbed again to stability once the two spare pilots tookover
then the plane was steadied from a drop of 15000 feet
and climbed again to stability once the two spare pilots tookover
September 30, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The bravery of those passengers who fought in the cockpit to wrest the plane off of the terror-inspired pilot who stabbed the main pilot to take over the plane, to try to crash it,
then the plane was steadied from a drop of 15000 feet
and climbed again to stability once the two spare pilots tookover
then the plane was steadied from a drop of 15000 feet
and climbed again to stability once the two spare pilots tookover
Mike Walker ( Novara Media) did a very good round of serious interviews at the Labour Conference with MPs, ministers and supporters. He keeps things light and doesn't over-react, asks good questions, and is himself visibly moved
at the climax by Andy Burnham's speech, and the change of tone, and
at the climax by Andy Burnham's speech, and the change of tone, and
September 30, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Mike Walker ( Novara Media) did a very good round of serious interviews at the Labour Conference with MPs, ministers and supporters. He keeps things light and doesn't over-react, asks good questions, and is himself visibly moved
at the climax by Andy Burnham's speech, and the change of tone, and
at the climax by Andy Burnham's speech, and the change of tone, and
If you were a national treasure like what I am (not) you'd have to do some special archaeology to dig me up.
September 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM
If you were a national treasure like what I am (not) you'd have to do some special archaeology to dig me up.
Burnham gave an upbeat speech not of soaring rhetoric
but of realistic idealistic goals, often pausing after each major statement or proposition: there were moments of sincerity and emotion, as he grasped the nettle of his most fundamental idea, to reform social care through consensus.
but of realistic idealistic goals, often pausing after each major statement or proposition: there were moments of sincerity and emotion, as he grasped the nettle of his most fundamental idea, to reform social care through consensus.
September 29, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Burnham gave an upbeat speech not of soaring rhetoric
but of realistic idealistic goals, often pausing after each major statement or proposition: there were moments of sincerity and emotion, as he grasped the nettle of his most fundamental idea, to reform social care through consensus.
but of realistic idealistic goals, often pausing after each major statement or proposition: there were moments of sincerity and emotion, as he grasped the nettle of his most fundamental idea, to reform social care through consensus.
Henry Moore was a true original, a sculptor who liked to possess touch, balance, shape, volume in a single form
whether organic, inanimate, human or animal. Moore
could take you through each of a collection of ancient or exotic sculptures from foreign parts of the world or
journey through his own
whether organic, inanimate, human or animal. Moore
could take you through each of a collection of ancient or exotic sculptures from foreign parts of the world or
journey through his own
September 28, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Henry Moore was a true original, a sculptor who liked to possess touch, balance, shape, volume in a single form
whether organic, inanimate, human or animal. Moore
could take you through each of a collection of ancient or exotic sculptures from foreign parts of the world or
journey through his own
whether organic, inanimate, human or animal. Moore
could take you through each of a collection of ancient or exotic sculptures from foreign parts of the world or
journey through his own
John Healey carried a miner's lamp as symbolical of working class solidarity, where miners helped each other: he waxed lyrically if nostalgically in his speech giving nothing away; spoke of a symbolical tie he wore worn also by Gordon Brown; aye lad them damn Tories made too many cuts in
September 28, 2026 at 8:44 PM
John Healey carried a miner's lamp as symbolical of working class solidarity, where miners helped each other: he waxed lyrically if nostalgically in his speech giving nothing away; spoke of a symbolical tie he wore worn also by Gordon Brown; aye lad them damn Tories made too many cuts in
Etes-tu un intellectuelle? Injustice, ethics, ideas,
universality, all claims to truth, disciplined sceptic,
not owned by anybody or corporation; the practice of the philosopher, knowledge of expertise, a practice: newideas like Keynes, Russell, Wittgenstein,Koestler,Camus and Sartre.
Of mind&spirit
universality, all claims to truth, disciplined sceptic,
not owned by anybody or corporation; the practice of the philosopher, knowledge of expertise, a practice: newideas like Keynes, Russell, Wittgenstein,Koestler,Camus and Sartre.
Of mind&spirit
September 25, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Etes-tu un intellectuelle? Injustice, ethics, ideas,
universality, all claims to truth, disciplined sceptic,
not owned by anybody or corporation; the practice of the philosopher, knowledge of expertise, a practice: newideas like Keynes, Russell, Wittgenstein,Koestler,Camus and Sartre.
Of mind&spirit
universality, all claims to truth, disciplined sceptic,
not owned by anybody or corporation; the practice of the philosopher, knowledge of expertise, a practice: newideas like Keynes, Russell, Wittgenstein,Koestler,Camus and Sartre.
Of mind&spirit
With all this counternarrative vs. Letby's guilt, we are now getting the return of the repressed in people who paint her as a malicious psychopath, as inevitable as night & day. Truth is a fight vs untruth with its growing legions of followers. Will it take 6 months,2 years to see her walk free?
September 25, 2026 at 7:44 PM
With all this counternarrative vs. Letby's guilt, we are now getting the return of the repressed in people who paint her as a malicious psychopath, as inevitable as night & day. Truth is a fight vs untruth with its growing legions of followers. Will it take 6 months,2 years to see her walk free?
The case of Beverly Allit: Murder on Ward 4 is on C5 tonight, and it bears a striking resemblance to Lucy Letby, WHERE NO DIRECT EVIDENCE, is found but they establish through logical deduction and circumstantial evidence of wheabouts, where Allit was on in each case.Allitshowed noremorsea &no confes
September 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
The case of Beverly Allit: Murder on Ward 4 is on C5 tonight, and it bears a striking resemblance to Lucy Letby, WHERE NO DIRECT EVIDENCE, is found but they establish through logical deduction and circumstantial evidence of wheabouts, where Allit was on in each case.Allitshowed noremorsea &no confes
There's no comparison between the psychopath Beverley Allet and Lucy Letby: BA was callous, loved the power over vulnerable babies, had Munchausen Syndrome- created crises because she enjoyed being at the centre of chaos; she also put faeces in the fridge of the nursing home she
September 22, 2026 at 5:09 PM
There's no comparison between the psychopath Beverley Allet and Lucy Letby: BA was callous, loved the power over vulnerable babies, had Munchausen Syndrome- created crises because she enjoyed being at the centre of chaos; she also put faeces in the fridge of the nursing home she
C5 Lucy Letby: Scapegoat? Was done so it simply covered the major possible errors with the lack of any witness observation of Letby's guilt, by a Sun reporter spending a year to establish her intention to murder. He lists 1) the sewage problem; the dropping of the statistical evidence that
countered
countered
September 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
C5 Lucy Letby: Scapegoat? Was done so it simply covered the major possible errors with the lack of any witness observation of Letby's guilt, by a Sun reporter spending a year to establish her intention to murder. He lists 1) the sewage problem; the dropping of the statistical evidence that
countered
countered
Giddily elated like a runaway horse at this time of year, must be something in the air!
September 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Giddily elated like a runaway horse at this time of year, must be something in the air!
Charles Spencer's book serialised by the Daily Mail is
somewhat living off that speech he made in Westminster Abbey at Diana's memorial service: it made a point then for all time. But time moves on and Spencer said he'd never make a profit from his sister's death, yet he clearly
somewhat living off that speech he made in Westminster Abbey at Diana's memorial service: it made a point then for all time. But time moves on and Spencer said he'd never make a profit from his sister's death, yet he clearly
September 19, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Charles Spencer's book serialised by the Daily Mail is
somewhat living off that speech he made in Westminster Abbey at Diana's memorial service: it made a point then for all time. But time moves on and Spencer said he'd never make a profit from his sister's death, yet he clearly
somewhat living off that speech he made in Westminster Abbey at Diana's memorial service: it made a point then for all time. But time moves on and Spencer said he'd never make a profit from his sister's death, yet he clearly
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell Coventry City Council to Drop Palantir. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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September 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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In a medical bureaucracy the weak go to the wall and are scapegoated; the doctors band together to perpetuate their reign.The system itself is at fault and statistics alone could have found this out without Thirwall, which is an attempt to seal the tomb of judgement without evidence.
September 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
In a medical bureaucracy the weak go to the wall and are scapegoated; the doctors band together to perpetuate their reign.The system itself is at fault and statistics alone could have found this out without Thirwall, which is an attempt to seal the tomb of judgement without evidence.
The Lucy Letby case in media again with the Thirwell Inquiry: but this is presumptuous that she was guilty and committed the murders. Hold your horses,carraiges & carts. There is another line up, which asked for this inquiry to be delayed by 6 months, because it has a veritable evidence
September 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM
The Lucy Letby case in media again with the Thirwell Inquiry: but this is presumptuous that she was guilty and committed the murders. Hold your horses,carraiges & carts. There is another line up, which asked for this inquiry to be delayed by 6 months, because it has a veritable evidence
Bayeaux Tapestry is not a Tapestry ( no loom involved) but was an embroidery stitched into linen. 1000 years old, crafted in England, used as a propaganda tool by the Normans, made by English women. Only 6 women are depicted on the tapestry, at key emotional moments. William was promised the throne
September 13, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Bayeaux Tapestry is not a Tapestry ( no loom involved) but was an embroidery stitched into linen. 1000 years old, crafted in England, used as a propaganda tool by the Normans, made by English women. Only 6 women are depicted on the tapestry, at key emotional moments. William was promised the throne
Wow they're putting old interviews on ITV with the McCanns: white wash or what? The reporter seems to lack self awareness, recounting how she never disbelieved them; even taken her own small kids on holiday there 1 month later. You cannot walk into the same river twice. Something's changed.
September 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Wow they're putting old interviews on ITV with the McCanns: white wash or what? The reporter seems to lack self awareness, recounting how she never disbelieved them; even taken her own small kids on holiday there 1 month later. You cannot walk into the same river twice. Something's changed.
It's salutary or weird that Donald Trump wants to stand Zelig-like next to all the world's geniuses like Einstein, and put his name on everything that's already there, saying he's the 'greatest ever', when he is truly awful, and really stupid, and a ranter extraordinary, just
September 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It's salutary or weird that Donald Trump wants to stand Zelig-like next to all the world's geniuses like Einstein, and put his name on everything that's already there, saying he's the 'greatest ever', when he is truly awful, and really stupid, and a ranter extraordinary, just