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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Ancient Mariner&#xA;Aged heavy helicopter pilot&#xA;Long ago company director&#xA;Avid Europhile&#xA;Centre left politics&#xA;Philosophy and Hispanic studies. &#xA;Despairing of the world’s most powerful country and person.</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social</link><title>@hhbee.bsky.social - Howard Hollingsbee</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mzfylyodfs2e</link><description>MI5:  they lied, they were not prosecuted. Shock, horror!!  Of course they did: of course they shouldn’t be prosecuted: it’s what they do. It’s part of the job description!</description><pubDate>03 Nov 2026 13:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzfylyodfs2e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mzbksjhs2k2y</link><description>Well, I thought Kezia was brilliant!</description><pubDate>01 Nov 2026 19:39 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzbksjhs2k2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mzadto4enk26</link><description>Rachel Reeves is spot on too. We belong back in EU.</description><pubDate>01 Nov 2026 08:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzadto4enk26</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mzadaihhs226</link><description>Burnham has it dead right on slavery, apology and no current taxpayer-funded reparations. Sorry if it blindsided Yer Maj.</description><pubDate>01 Nov 2026 07:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzadaihhs226</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mz6vqrcw3s2e</link><description>Peacefully supporting, vocally and visually  an admittedly proscribed organisation. Should that really be an arrestable offence by elderly people…..?</description><pubDate>31 Oct 2026 18:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz6vqrcw3s2e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mz4bptiyw22g</link><description>Evening, all!</description><pubDate>30 Oct 2026 17:13 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4bptiyw22g</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myzpvst5oc2o</link><description>Incredible. The media, even the BBCdiscussing what Trump might do in the next two years, as if he were a normal, sane, rhinking human.</description><pubDate>29 Oct 2026 16:49 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzpvst5oc2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myrejvohqc2b</link><description>Well, it seems that Brazil and even Serbia haved bucked the global trend towards the nasty right. Can France do it….?  Dunno. The HoR in USA likely to go left  but if the Senate does too, how  will an  infantile lame duck Orange lash out?  Interesting times.</description><pubDate>26 Oct 2026 09:04 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myrejvohqc2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myp6bn6nms2u</link><description>Listening to Harlan Coben. Reminds of all I used to love about America. Lovely voice, intelligence, charismatic, creative, forward-looking. Then, I mistakenly stumbled across the  needy-whiney Fat Orange Buffoon who has done so much damage both in America and to America in the eyes of the world.</description><pubDate>25 Oct 2026 12:07 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myp6bn6nms2u</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myjozjbkec2s</link><description>Can’t bear the sight or sound of Trump. Creep.</description><pubDate>23 Oct 2026 07:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myjozjbkec2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myhncsk53c2w</link><description>I just signed the campaign calling on the PM and Chancellor to tax addictive gambling machines more to help the cost of living</description><pubDate>22 Oct 2026 12:15 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhncsk53c2w</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myfslmp4gs2w</link><description>One US national released. Thousands/millions dead on both sides of  Putin’s war of aggression. Humanitarian?   FFS.</description><pubDate>21 Oct 2026 18:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfslmp4gs2w</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myccg7pmy22v</link><description>The annual Exmoor feral ponies muster. Beautiful animals, running free.  People sitting on some of them look stupid, thoug. And as for breaking similar but specialised creatures for the rich and stupid to bet on……..</description><pubDate>20 Oct 2026 09:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myccg7pmy22v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3myapyscxys2c</link><description>Oh, la belle France…..  Bonne chance, notre amie……..</description><pubDate>19 Oct 2026 18:14 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3myapyscxys2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3my5mppq7222x</link><description>All this lazy, sheep-like crap about ‘anxious, millennial, prepper dads’….  Boomers have always done it.  Post-war rationing, Cold War fear, 1970s oil crisis and more.  That’ll do it.</description><pubDate>18 Oct 2026 12:38 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5mppq7222x</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3my3i3pbupk2y</link><description>Trump is a complete shit. His cynical  selling Ukraine down the river will not save the midterms disaster but the blameless party in Putin’s war of aggression will suffer nonetheless. Fucker.</description><pubDate>17 Oct 2026 16:10 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3i3pbupk2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mxtrj76nus2p</link><description>I’m puzzled as to why any halfway-literate person would use AI to ‘write’ a letter of complaint or a review. It can only undermine credibility.</description><pubDate>14 Oct 2026 14:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtrj76nus2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mxtq5dngak2p</link><description>But not as brutal as 20% in the 70s was to us…….</description><pubDate>14 Oct 2026 14:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtq5dngak2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mxt6xfbtlk2z</link><description>AI Trump wrestling with a tiger.  Tasteless at best but surely there can be doubt no longer. The “leader of the free world” is in fact, barking mad.  Impeach. Now.</description><pubDate>14 Oct 2026 09:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxt6xfbtlk2z</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mxounahm322t</link><description>A very rattled Farage calling Burnham a liar, in respect of Russian interference, can firms for me, the truth of Burnham’s statement.</description><pubDate>12 Oct 2026 15:49 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxounahm322t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mxk6brapec2l</link><description>Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. &#xA;&#xA;The most beautiful, saddest, but beautiful, piece of poetry, ever written, imo.   RIP, wherever those fascist bastards let you lie, Federico….</description><pubDate>10 Oct 2026 18:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxk6brapec2l</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/hhbee.bsky.social/post/3mxk45rqfok2l</link><description>So, you thought the outdated, outmoded and deeply sad Strictly Come Dancing couldn’t get any worse?  Welcome to 2026. It has. The excellent Josh Widdecombe has sold his soul</description><pubDate>10 Oct 2026 18:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:ouf23a2cs4eono5rbdb4ocxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxk45rqfok2l</guid></item></channel></rss>