Patrick Hill
@overhere.bsky.social
Politics, food, music general chat in English and French. Retired to #SouthAyrshire from #Derby #dcfc
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I'm pleased this thread has proved so popular it's such an important and relevant bit of history.
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
static.klipy.com
September 18, 2026 at 8:33 AM
I'm pleased this thread has proved so popular it's such an important and relevant bit of history.
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Simon Wiesenthal Center
@simonwiesenthal.bsky.social
On this day, September 15, 1935, Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, transforming antisemitic ideology into state policy. The laws stripped German Jews of citizenship, prohibited marriage and sexual relations between
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On this day, September 15, 1935, Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, transforming antisemitic ideology into state policy. The laws stripped German Jews of citizenship, prohibited marriage and sexual relations between
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September 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Simon Wiesenthal Center
@simonwiesenthal.bsky.social
On this day, September 15, 1935, Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, transforming antisemitic ideology into state policy. The laws stripped German Jews of citizenship, prohibited marriage and sexual relations between
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@simonwiesenthal.bsky.social
On this day, September 15, 1935, Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, transforming antisemitic ideology into state policy. The laws stripped German Jews of citizenship, prohibited marriage and sexual relations between
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I don't do this often but this BBC story made me smile, using our other languages to find lost oyster beds.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language
Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2026 at 10:37 AM
I don't do this often but this BBC story made me smile, using our other languages to find lost oyster beds.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm from the "jumpers for goalposts" era.
I forgot to add that as part of the money making racket, I have to pay to watch my son’s games, AND then often discover he’s not playing, because they stuff the team with too many extra players to take in more cash. We pay the full team dues, coaching fees etc, then our kids don’t even play! 😡😡😡
With the recent FIFA World Cup scandal, the world got to see the over-commercialized tendencies of US sports. Unfortunately, it extends all the way down to youth sports too, which is becoming an increasingly ruthless, exploitative, money-making racket. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/life-and-t...
September 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I'm from the "jumpers for goalposts" era.
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Why it’s just a matter of time when Merz will have to resign and what needs to happen now. My take on what’s going on in Germany. 👇👇
The AfD is on the path to power. It doesn’t just want to take Germany in a different political direction – it wants to build a new country.
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A hard right extremist party is winning in Germany – could it really happen again?
The AfD is on the path to power. It doesn’t just want to take Germany in a different political direction – it wants to build a new country
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 14, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Why it’s just a matter of time when Merz will have to resign and what needs to happen now. My take on what’s going on in Germany. 👇👇
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A philanthropic gift is a new hospital ward, it’s a CAT scanner, it’s a new library, it’s a school swimming pool it’s not funding fascism.
September 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Just a friendly reminder that your desire to read books and eat pastries in a seaside cottage during a raging thunderstorm is valid.
Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
September 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to read books and eat pastries in a seaside cottage during a raging thunderstorm is valid.
Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
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Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2654559...
Shattering the myth of Scottish exceptionalism will allow us to move forward
DENIAL is a hell of a drug.
www.thenational.scot
September 13, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2654559...
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By François Ravard
September 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
By François Ravard
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really appreciate the solidarity of all those who have been victims of hate due to mistakenly being identified as Muslim or Arab, and yet refused to redirect the hatred back towards its intended targets by correcting misidentification
The DHS just posted a vehemently racist image attacking Sikh Americans. This impacts all of us and we need to stand united and reject it.
September 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
really appreciate the solidarity of all those who have been victims of hate due to mistakenly being identified as Muslim or Arab, and yet refused to redirect the hatred back towards its intended targets by correcting misidentification
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Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
September 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
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The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power?
Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"?
If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy.
That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich
Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"?
If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy.
That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich
Democratic politics will not serve the people when politicians owe their place and their futures to one or two billionaires.
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this.
That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas).
The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much.
It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas).
The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much.
It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
September 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power?
Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"?
If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy.
That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich
Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"?
If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy.
That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich
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We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
September 11, 2026 at 8:57 AM
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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A simple regulatory step that no party may receive or retain a donation from any person convicted of an offence of dishonesty would seem the appropriate reaction.
“Political parties can’t be laundries for dirty money” is not a principle to which I would see the Courts objecting.
“Political parties can’t be laundries for dirty money” is not a principle to which I would see the Courts objecting.
Reform UK has received a second £36m donation in two days, as cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a record-breaking donation announced late on Friday.
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2026 at 12:32 PM
A simple regulatory step that no party may receive or retain a donation from any person convicted of an offence of dishonesty would seem the appropriate reaction.
“Political parties can’t be laundries for dirty money” is not a principle to which I would see the Courts objecting.
“Political parties can’t be laundries for dirty money” is not a principle to which I would see the Courts objecting.
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Here it is: the Lite version of my New Municipalism project. There's an opportunity for local government reform that nobody expected, but it needs to be genuinely local and democratic. Informal and thus unaccountable regionalisation and mergers won't cut it.
newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot/lite
newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot/lite
NM Lite – New Municipalism Scotland
When I’ve published successive versions of New Municipalism, it’s always been with the understanding that I was presenting a somewhat utopian vision with little prospect of implementation. Wholesale…
newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot
September 12, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Here it is: the Lite version of my New Municipalism project. There's an opportunity for local government reform that nobody expected, but it needs to be genuinely local and democratic. Informal and thus unaccountable regionalisation and mergers won't cut it.
newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot/lite
newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot/lite
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A picture of post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on a fortnight of ugly political scenes, why a government-led counter-narrative on asylum is needed, and why these domestic political events are a national security issue: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-pi...
September 11, 2026 at 6:02 AM
A picture of post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on a fortnight of ugly political scenes, why a government-led counter-narrative on asylum is needed, and why these domestic political events are a national security issue: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-pi...
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Obviously you’d have to measure properly with a pair of Cofnas Eugenics Callipers™, but these look suspiciously like the bony, knobbly knees of the criminal classes, not the stout, pallid, unmoisturised knees of the true Spodian Englishman.
September 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Obviously you’d have to measure properly with a pair of Cofnas Eugenics Callipers™, but these look suspiciously like the bony, knobbly knees of the criminal classes, not the stout, pallid, unmoisturised knees of the true Spodian Englishman.
Bonne nuit camarades. Slaapwel.
September 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Bonne nuit camarades. Slaapwel.
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Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on @news.sky.com speaking out against the rampant settler violence he has personally witnessed.
He represents another voice in the Jewish community stressing the necessity of the UK government taking action on Israeli settlements.
He represents another voice in the Jewish community stressing the necessity of the UK government taking action on Israeli settlements.
September 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on @news.sky.com speaking out against the rampant settler violence he has personally witnessed.
He represents another voice in the Jewish community stressing the necessity of the UK government taking action on Israeli settlements.
He represents another voice in the Jewish community stressing the necessity of the UK government taking action on Israeli settlements.
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I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work.
But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
September 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work.
But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.