mark fairbanks

Fan of the 3 Ps - Pearl Jam, Porcupine Tree and the mighty POSH | Views are my own.

[Robert HJ Marshall @roberthenryjohn]

This is outragious inequality. . . .
The whole of Britain should be ashamed, especially Royalty!

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

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[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@rocknrollofall Mitch Mitchell

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Fantastic voice

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

Beautiful, heartfelt, perfect words. https://t.co/pK352ZKxys

[russ 💙 @dirk7890]

Afternoon all 👌

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

! #TikTok https://t.co/GyMJVVcAHd

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@PTBenJones Some proper defenders please.

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@theposh The defending has gone beyond a joke and progressed on to being an utter disgrace. Farcical

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@theposh Another defending masterclass 🤡

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@MikeBales “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then”

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Christina Koch’s reflection on Artemis II crew:

“When we saw tiny Earth…what struck me wasn’t necessarily just Earth. It was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe…Planet Earth. You are a crew.”

[Wittig Lyon @ibn_wittig]

This is Christina Koch. The first woman on a Lunar Mission.

Inspirational 💫👏🏾

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

we sent the right crew to the moon 🥹

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@chilternrailway Come on then, talk me through this car crash of a queuing system you’ve got at Marylebone. Which genius thought this one up? Apparently Donald Trump is looking for another advisor and you look like you fit the bill.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

@PTAlanSwann The closing down up front is do half-hearted

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

Check out Dr Andrew Meyerson's video! #TikTok https://t.co/5rQCz1crJf

[mark fairbanks @markposh]

😂😂😂😂

[Spaceballs The X Account @Grunt2A]

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Watch incredible footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off carrying four astronauts on its journey around the Moon as they make history