Curious Robin
@curiousrobin.bsky.social
Pluralist. No borders.
When you ring a bell to go into a jewellers, you enter a social contract - you expect them to have to buzz you out
A supermarket is supposed to offer you the freedom of their aisles - you're allowed to browse, so you feel safe to spend
Locking the gates destroys that. It's not just Sainsbury's
A supermarket is supposed to offer you the freedom of their aisles - you're allowed to browse, so you feel safe to spend
Locking the gates destroys that. It's not just Sainsbury's
Between this and their "scan your receipt or we won't let you out" barriers, Sainsburys ain't what it was.
Presumption that their customers are wrong 'uns...
Presumption that their customers are wrong 'uns...
Sainsbury’s shopper felt like a ‘criminal’ after facial recognition error trib.al/G9pwiHQ
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
When you ring a bell to go into a jewellers, you enter a social contract - you expect them to have to buzz you out
A supermarket is supposed to offer you the freedom of their aisles - you're allowed to browse, so you feel safe to spend
Locking the gates destroys that. It's not just Sainsbury's
A supermarket is supposed to offer you the freedom of their aisles - you're allowed to browse, so you feel safe to spend
Locking the gates destroys that. It's not just Sainsbury's
Japan have been implementing similar schemes ever since their peak in the 90s
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
It's now what makes their economy unique - economic velocity is kept high through tax and spend, and as a side effect they have well looked-after towns
Wellbeing > growth
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
It's now what makes their economy unique - economic velocity is kept high through tax and spend, and as a side effect they have well looked-after towns
Wellbeing > growth
Sir Keir Starmer pledges to 'reverse devastating decline' with £800m extra investment in 40 communities
In a speech on Thursday, the prime minister will attack what he calls the "scorched earth of Tory austerity", while recognising the threat from Reform UK, comparing it to a "contest between renewal an...
news.sky.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Japan have been implementing similar schemes ever since their peak in the 90s
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
It's now what makes their economy unique - economic velocity is kept high through tax and spend, and as a side effect they have well looked-after towns
Wellbeing > growth
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
It's now what makes their economy unique - economic velocity is kept high through tax and spend, and as a side effect they have well looked-after towns
Wellbeing > growth
Entirely my experience too - much easier to get appointments for me and mine
I'll give it a bit longer, but I think I'm gonna sack off the private health (it's was only ever for getting fast examinations)
I'll give it a bit longer, but I think I'm gonna sack off the private health (it's was only ever for getting fast examinations)
Used the NHS for the third time in the space of a few mnths, different depts.
This time I went to minor injuries hospital.
Rang at 12pm
Got a call back 30 mins later.
Got an app for 2:30pm
Seen at 3:00pm
X-ray at 3:15pm
Seen again at 4:00
Out in 1 hr 45 mins.
Our NHS has really improved.
♥️
This time I went to minor injuries hospital.
Rang at 12pm
Got a call back 30 mins later.
Got an app for 2:30pm
Seen at 3:00pm
X-ray at 3:15pm
Seen again at 4:00
Out in 1 hr 45 mins.
Our NHS has really improved.
♥️
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Entirely my experience too - much easier to get appointments for me and mine
I'll give it a bit longer, but I think I'm gonna sack off the private health (it's was only ever for getting fast examinations)
I'll give it a bit longer, but I think I'm gonna sack off the private health (it's was only ever for getting fast examinations)
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Absolutely no mention of this in the right wing press leftfootforward.org/2026/02/refo...
Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy has emails in the Epstein files
In the emails he asks for Ghislaine Maxwell’s email address and phone number and mentions that he'll be in New York
leftfootforward.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Absolutely no mention of this in the right wing press leftfootforward.org/2026/02/refo...
We waste so much money transportation infrastructure that's...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...anything but trains!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...anything but trains!
Spalding's 'road to nowhere' will go somewhere, council says
Only one section of the Spading Western Relief Road, costing £50m, has been built so far.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
We waste so much money transportation infrastructure that's...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...anything but trains!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...anything but trains!
They really ought to be taking the charter renewal more seriously!
So the BBC is showing a programme by Kuenssberg on Nigel Farage's Reform.
Can we expect programmes on the other parties, i.e. Lib Dems, Green Party to show the BBC aren't showing bias?
Can we expect programmes on the other parties, i.e. Lib Dems, Green Party to show the BBC aren't showing bias?
February 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM
They really ought to be taking the charter renewal more seriously!
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This.
If you are calling for Starmer to go over Mandelson, give your fucking head a wobble.
Reform are the real enemy.
The media is a real problem.
You are doing the work of Reform/the media/Russia for them if you are using this as another way to bash Starmer and Labour.
Fight the real enemy!
If you are calling for Starmer to go over Mandelson, give your fucking head a wobble.
Reform are the real enemy.
The media is a real problem.
You are doing the work of Reform/the media/Russia for them if you are using this as another way to bash Starmer and Labour.
Fight the real enemy!
Just a thought, if Starmer is being called in to step down for something Mandelson did in 2009 when Starmer wasn't even an MP shouldn't Farage step down for what Nathan Gill did when he was a Brexit Party Ltd MEP and Farage was party leader🤔
February 4, 2026 at 10:36 AM
This.
If you are calling for Starmer to go over Mandelson, give your fucking head a wobble.
Reform are the real enemy.
The media is a real problem.
You are doing the work of Reform/the media/Russia for them if you are using this as another way to bash Starmer and Labour.
Fight the real enemy!
If you are calling for Starmer to go over Mandelson, give your fucking head a wobble.
Reform are the real enemy.
The media is a real problem.
You are doing the work of Reform/the media/Russia for them if you are using this as another way to bash Starmer and Labour.
Fight the real enemy!
I just think this is lovely and it's nice to share good news sometimes
youtube.com/shorts/nhxue...
And by all well informed measures, it's legit
youtube.com/shorts/nhxue...
And by all well informed measures, it's legit
No more plastic 🙌
YouTube video by Going Green
youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I just think this is lovely and it's nice to share good news sometimes
youtube.com/shorts/nhxue...
And by all well informed measures, it's legit
youtube.com/shorts/nhxue...
And by all well informed measures, it's legit
About 3.4% growth across goods and service exports over 12 months up to the most recent figures - beating the consumer price index
Shouldn’t this be the main news today ? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 9:40 AM
About 3.4% growth across goods and service exports over 12 months up to the most recent figures - beating the consumer price index
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 PM
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.
Everywhere's near a village
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You'd only write this if you were against solar, which is a bias. Why is our BBC allowed to display bias?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You'd only write this if you were against solar, which is a bias. Why is our BBC allowed to display bias?
Large solar farm near Leicestershire village set for approval
Plans state the solar farm could generate enough electricity to power about 19,800 homes.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Everywhere's near a village
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You'd only write this if you were against solar, which is a bias. Why is our BBC allowed to display bias?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You'd only write this if you were against solar, which is a bias. Why is our BBC allowed to display bias?
"wake up" is the battle cry of extremists - both left and right - who can't abide pluralism
You don't have to have extreme views, and you certainly don't have to pick a side
You don't have to have extreme views, and you certainly don't have to pick a side
February 1, 2026 at 11:09 AM
"wake up" is the battle cry of extremists - both left and right - who can't abide pluralism
You don't have to have extreme views, and you certainly don't have to pick a side
You don't have to have extreme views, and you certainly don't have to pick a side
The Epstein files are far from released, but don't underestimate the power of following-the-money
Journalists have far more information now than most people think
Journalists have far more information now than most people think
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The Epstein files are far from released, but don't underestimate the power of following-the-money
Journalists have far more information now than most people think
Journalists have far more information now than most people think
"you need high salaries to bring in the right talent"
You don't. You need it to be run by the civil service
You don't. You need it to be run by the civil service
Remember the thousands of people who went without water for days in the south east? South East Water is putting up bills by 7% (while the boss is paid £400,000 a year)
The profiteering private water companies across England and Wales are putting up bills by an average of 5.4%
The profiteering private water companies across England and Wales are putting up bills by an average of 5.4%
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"you need high salaries to bring in the right talent"
You don't. You need it to be run by the civil service
You don't. You need it to be run by the civil service
The be clear - the fossil fuel energy industry is supposed to collapse! That's the goal.
It’s Not Ed Wot Did It.
Britain’s North Sea Oil and Gas production (and industry) has been in decline since the end of the last century - that’s a fact.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Britain’s North Sea Oil and Gas production (and industry) has been in decline since the end of the last century - that’s a fact.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
January 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
The be clear - the fossil fuel energy industry is supposed to collapse! That's the goal.
Other people have been jailed for inciting murder
Reform UK Councillor Mick Cockerham of Newton Abbot South is showing, through this sick statement, what British values mean to Reform politicians. #UKPolitics
January 29, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Other people have been jailed for inciting murder
Only £350 to have tables out in a town centre for a whole year‽
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He'd make that back from them on a single sunny Saturday in August
I have a lot of sympathy for publicans. I think tax should be almost zero on third spaces. This is just poor business acumen though
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He'd make that back from them on a single sunny Saturday in August
I have a lot of sympathy for publicans. I think tax should be almost zero on third spaces. This is just poor business acumen though
Labour councillors banned from York bar over pavement licence fees
Steve Wood, owner of Plonkers Wine Bar, says the ban is over yearly charges for outdoor seating.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Only £350 to have tables out in a town centre for a whole year‽
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He'd make that back from them on a single sunny Saturday in August
I have a lot of sympathy for publicans. I think tax should be almost zero on third spaces. This is just poor business acumen though
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He'd make that back from them on a single sunny Saturday in August
I have a lot of sympathy for publicans. I think tax should be almost zero on third spaces. This is just poor business acumen though
Bedenoch is uniquely talentless and was voted into leadership by an accident of fate. The only good that could possibly come from her public position would be if she were to highlight the difference between nationality and skin colour
Do that one useful thing, then disappear
Do that one useful thing, then disappear
There is a strong line of attack against Nigel Farage that Kemi Badenoch is uniquely well-placed to make: "How dare you people say my kids aren't British?" It's a mystery that she won't make it. thecritic.co.uk/your...
January 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Bedenoch is uniquely talentless and was voted into leadership by an accident of fate. The only good that could possibly come from her public position would be if she were to highlight the difference between nationality and skin colour
Do that one useful thing, then disappear
Do that one useful thing, then disappear
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Wonder if Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin remembers this.
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Wonder if Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin remembers this.
They're not.
The press would have you believe there are four Labour MPs.
There are over 400 working on a wide range of issues that you never see. But you could...
fullfact.org/government-t...
www.gov.uk/search/news-...
Not much of it is immigration
The press would have you believe there are four Labour MPs.
There are over 400 working on a wide range of issues that you never see. But you could...
fullfact.org/government-t...
www.gov.uk/search/news-...
Not much of it is immigration
It is genuinely astounding how Reform, Labour and the Tories have decided to fight tooth-and-nail for the votes of the same 30-35 percent of the electorate and completely ignore everyone else.
Badenoch's strategic genius on full display here, telling centrist voters to fuck off, including in the 60+ seats the party lost to the Lib Dems, so she can focus on competing with an extreme right party ahead of her in the polls.
January 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
They're not.
The press would have you believe there are four Labour MPs.
There are over 400 working on a wide range of issues that you never see. But you could...
fullfact.org/government-t...
www.gov.uk/search/news-...
Not much of it is immigration
The press would have you believe there are four Labour MPs.
There are over 400 working on a wide range of issues that you never see. But you could...
fullfact.org/government-t...
www.gov.uk/search/news-...
Not much of it is immigration
"GB News is unbiased"
Also, now their presenters (not journalists) are standing for Reform!
Also, now their presenters (not journalists) are standing for Reform!
Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
January 28, 2026 at 1:18 PM
"GB News is unbiased"
Also, now their presenters (not journalists) are standing for Reform!
Also, now their presenters (not journalists) are standing for Reform!
Processing cash isn't free. It takes time. Including your own!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whenever I see signs saying somewhere only accepts cash, I wonder if they're being as honest with the taxman as I am
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whenever I see signs saying somewhere only accepts cash, I wonder if they're being as honest with the taxman as I am
Plea from shop leaders as paying with cash costs more
Paying to process cash is costing businesses more as banks rise prices.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Processing cash isn't free. It takes time. Including your own!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whenever I see signs saying somewhere only accepts cash, I wonder if they're being as honest with the taxman as I am
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whenever I see signs saying somewhere only accepts cash, I wonder if they're being as honest with the taxman as I am
I've had me petition on Parliament.uk rejected because
"It requests action at a local level"
This has clearly been blocked at national level
"It requests action at a local level"
This has clearly been blocked at national level
This new body that was created to prevent blocking infrastructure projects is actively blocking infrastructure projects...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...and not telling anybody why!
@tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social @heidialexander.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...and not telling anybody why!
@tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social @heidialexander.bsky.social
Minister backs decision not to publish West Yorkshire tram report
The report's findings led to a mass transit system for West Yorkshire being delayed until the 2030s.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I've had me petition on Parliament.uk rejected because
"It requests action at a local level"
This has clearly been blocked at national level
"It requests action at a local level"
This has clearly been blocked at national level