Brian Corney
Archaeologist, Bristol City FC supporter, Labour Party member, Republican, pro European
- Thames Water executives are set to receive new bonuses, funded by a staggering £3 billion emergency bailout from the Government. Sign 38 Degree Petition @https://38d.gs/dlqc
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- The Right claim we don't need experts then offer any spurious academic who will reiterate their malicious rhetoric. Orr, a lawyer, turned religious philosopher following a boozy night, is a friend of Vance and Thiel. His opinion has no grounding in political study. It is no more valid than mine.
- Pat McFadden blames the 700,000 people who aren't claiming pension credit who are entitled to the Winter Fuel Allowance Martin Lewis criticises him for linking WFA to Pension Credit and then not doing enough to ensure that everyone entitle to it gets it Absolutely disgusting from Labour
- I know McFadden can't help the way he is but his looks and demeanor bring as much joy to a room as the presence of Banquo's ghost did at Macbeth's feast.
- Dining out in the converted skittle alley of my local last night suggested to me why we are becoming an island of strangers. Pubs used to be a focal point of community interaction with darts and skittles. The price of beer and the necessity to sell food has shut down this source communal activity.
- Horrified by BBC report today on shop lifting. Can't help feeling that a crack down on crime would boost growth more than any other measure. The Black Economy is costing the nation millions of pounds that could be directed into improving living standards without increasing taxes.
- One of the things which I find increasingly annoying is when I go to an event or attend the dentist or the doctors I get a text message asking how I rate my experience. Believe me, if I receive poor treatment I will complain. If I don't complain you can be assured the service was ok by me.
- Telling contrast in approaches here
- I really do like this man and not simply because he makes the right wingers so angry. For a politician he has integrity (a pretty low bar these days) and conviction. Sure he makes mistakes but the man who never made a mistake never made anything.
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- They will be even more unhappy when we tell them the original Mesolithic inhabitants of Britain were dark skinned and blue eyed
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- Given the controversy surround Letby's representation at her trial a return to capital punishment will resolve nothing. It just makes it harder to compensate any miscarriages of justice.
- Nigel Farage should be a notifiable disease. Everyone in the same vicinity as him seems to become infected by his toxic bile. I even heard a Lib Dim refer to immigration as a problem. Apart from the SNP the whole of the House of Westminster seems to be leaping on the bandwagon.
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- She was magic, especially following the 2 twits who were on before conflating poor road manners with immigration, and not being able to name a single British value
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- Damn I wanted them to take Bristol City's Liam Manning please.
- MPs! An important event on how our elections are at grave risk from foreign interference while Russia continues a campaign of sabotage across Europe. Tonight: Committee Room 11, 7pm. Please join @alexsobel & @peterjukes & the star of the Sergei & the Westminster Spy podcast
- Precisely. Instead of vilifying immigrants Starmer should have released the Russia report and implemented Levison 2.
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- Smart phones have contributed more to us becoming a nation of strangers than immigrants. Maybe if we had offered a few integration programs targeted at migrants we might all be living as one homogeneous mass.
- I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt.
- Hear, hear mate. I backed him to be leader, I didn't mind him being a bit dull and I knew that he couldn't fix everything in one day but I never thought he would be such a coward in the face of a few bad opinion polls.
- 12 hrs on from Starmer's speech and I am still seething. The people voted for change he says then gives us the Tories 2.2 with a dash of Reform on the side. I think he has displaced Blair as the best PM the Tories never had.
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- Wonder if her husband has bought any porn films recently. Amazed at how brazen these people are. Discredited in public office only to re-emerge and pontificate to the public.
- The thing that makes the James O'Brien's show the stand-out King of talk shows is the intellectual quality of the people who phone in but all the idiots seem to be getting through today.
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- I have resigned my membership of the Labour Party. You can do it on line. Not as satisfying as a letter but much quicker.
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- A shameful U-turn but what more should we have expected from a weasel of a lawyer who will argue black is white in return for the biggest fee.
- Have just resigned my membership of the Labour Party. An activist since 1994, I cannot believe how disillusioned and betrayed I feel by Starmer's speech. I voted for the man to be leader. What a fool I was.
- Farage’s immigration hysteria is now setting Labour’s agenda. I’m seriously doubtful - to put it mildly - of the political wisdom of accepting and amplifying Reform’s migration myths 👇🏻
- The Riot Meister will realise that a faster route to power is to take over leadership of the Labour Party. Absolute madness. The Left must retain faith in its principles and convictions.
- 2025: Yvette Cooper repeatedly calls to reduce migration 2020: Keir Starmer, "We have to make the case for the benefits of migration"
- This has the stench of Blue Labour all over it. Starmer must expel them or withdraw any claim of being a socialist.
- This isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to the U.S. government. But Trump GETS TO KEEP THE PLANE??? It’s simply a cash payment to Trump in exchange for favors. Just wildly illegal.
- Let them give it to him. It's a Boeing and will fall out of the sky after a couple of flights, hopefully when he is on it.
- Care homes will be prevented from recruiting staff from abroad as part of an overhaul of rules to drive down net migration, Yvette Cooper has said today The UK is already facing a desperate shortage of care workers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- And from where will these underpaid, under appreciated workers be recruited now?
- I've been reading English Social History; a survey of 6 centuries from Chaucer to Qn Victoria by G M Trevelyan. Amazed at how history repeats itself. In 1834 faced by the cost to the rates of rising unemployment, the solution was to make life in the workhouse even more unpleasant. Sound familiar
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- Kent should hang its head in shame.
- Shorter Stephen Miller: The president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants--including American citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- To view Trump as the singular threat to democracy is a mistake. The Hydra has many heads and Hitler enjoyed unwavering support from his inner circle of Goebbels, Bormann, Hess, Himmler, and Heydrich. Given Trump's age and mental state he may not last but Millar et al will continue his mission.
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- He is so wooden. I know it is our fault that our MPs are too afraid to embrace issues thanks to a rabid media prepared to distort every word they say but just for once I would welcome some candour. As things stand we know the answer before it is given Little wonder people are bored of politics.
- It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to hear that Reform UK’s policies add up to an agenda of fiscal recklessness that rivals, and may well exceed, the disastrous 49-day, hair-raising, market-tanking premiership of Liz Truss in 2022 econ.st/42WSuLG
- They offer politics at the stroke of a pen and sadly in world that expects instant gratification it is a message that resonates with people. It is a regurgitation of neo-liberal trickle down economics, long past its sell by date but all but a few will admit it.
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- Showing your age there Otto.
- Interested in the talk around an English test for immigrants. Maybe we could also apply it to supporters of Reform UK. To judge from the poor standard of literacy demonstrated in some of their tweets, I think a very large proportion would fail. Maybe we could deport them instead.
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- As always the devil will be in the detail. If we have to pay more for pharmaceuticals, eat chlorinated chicken and hormone injected beef then it is capitulation.
- 38 Degrees claiming Labour will drop legislation for installing Swift bricks in new build house because they are afraid of upsetting Reform voter. F.f.s. Just the very existence of Labour upsets Reform voters. I can't think of a better reason for doing it.
- Red Wall Labour MPs are demanding ministers "act now before it's too late" and reverse the unpopular cut to winter fuel payments news.sky.com/story/red-wa...
- That ship has sailed. Just raise the threshold for initiating the means test and most people would be satisfied.
- Kemi Badenoch agreed to trade deal tax arrangement, say Indian officials www.ft.com/content/7f13...
- Of course she did. How are the "trade deals" with Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, North and South Carolina et al going?
- Please sign this NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
- It's good to see The Guardian accurately describe Reform
- This flag banning edict by Farage is just gesture politics. It has nil costs and nil benefits. However, it does show his respect for free speech is as faux as his patriotism. Why shouldn't a council pay homage to countries of cities/towns they are twinned with.
- Andrea Jenkyns walks away from an interview with #C4News when she is asked how she's going to move asylum seekers out of hotels into tents
- Hopefully, this woman will, single-handed, bring Reform down and she won't even know she is doing it.
- I have been v. harsh criticising Starmer and the Labour government. However, may I say that in my memory no PM and Party, have been so universally and unjustly pilloried by the MSM. Starmer has been engaged in difficult international diplomacy from day 1 weighed down by the 14yr Tory legacy.
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- The Riot Meister's grasp of British history is selective. If he had any understanding he would know that we are the descendants of immigrants with a lexicon and culture borrowed from many different countries. Probably no longer fashionable but Trevelyan's "English Social History" could help him.
- Trump: "Everyone says, 'When, when, when are you gonna sign deals?' We don't have to sign deals ... they have to sign deals with us. We don't care about their market ... they'll either say, 'Great,' and they'll start shopping, or they'll say, 'Not good.' That's okay. You don't have to shop."
- Seeing Trump dressed as the Pope put me in mind of the notorious Borgias family. Steeped in sin and infamy, they were suspected of many crimes, including adultery, incest, simony, theft, and bribery. The similarity ends there but its close enough for me.
- Seeing Trump dressed as the Pope made me think of the Borgias.
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- The people's flag is deepest red, It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, Their hearts' blood dyed its every fold. So raise the scarlet standard high, Beneath its shade we live and die, Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here
- Not enjoying the VE Day celebrations. I have nothing but admiration for all who played a part in the victory. My parents were among them but really nothing has changed. We did not build a world fit for heroes and the very people the war was meant to eradicate are again in the ascendency.
- This frankly chilling quote from an unnamed cabinet member was in the same article. Gleefully talking about squeezing the party's own base. They appear to hate their own voters. "If the next election is versus a Farage-Jenrick coalition then we can squeeze the progressive vote very hard."
- I really think Labour should be the Green Party. There is nothing in the Green's agenda that conflicts with socialist ideology and in coalition they would make the perfect partner.
- Here's a Reform party election leaflet... distributed in Kent in the run up to May 1st. It's making A LOT of promises there and mentions stopping the boats TWICE 1/2
- Reform now have a majority on Kent County Council and immediately their newly elected politicians are saying they can't tackle the boats crisis... because they're councillors
- As the saying goes: "All mouth and trousers."
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- Morgan McSweeny is a right-wing fifth columnist. Spawned by Blue Labour he is only serving his own interests and should be removed at the earliest opportunity. A real snake in the grass, he allegedly briefed against Sue Grey.
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- Need to get rid of the Blue Labour movement. We are a socialist party or we are nothing. What happened to the "you can't have a party within a party" ruling as happened with Militant Tendency.
- It’s so exciting when a new archaeological technique is developed - promising to unlock more secrets from the past. PhD student Maddison Crombie has just worked out a way to test ochre (mineral pigment) and find out where it’s come from:
- Yep, the days of interpretation at the point of a trowel are rapidly moving into the science lab and leaving the humble field archaeologist behind. It is now less of a quasi-scientific discipline and more like the real thing. Hope there is still some room for me.
