Dave Espley
@daveespley.bsky.social
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Dave Espley
@daveespley.bsky.social
· Aug 6
Why do I get the impression the stonemason accidentally hammered his thumb as he was chiselling this?
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.
If the government chooses to keep the 2 child limit and spend money on vouchers and parenting programmes instead, child poverty will rise and this will be a conscious and deliberate political choice in defiance of all the evidence
Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics.
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fucking hell
Last night, Dick Tice launched Students4Reform (See what they did there, the scamps? They replaced "for" WITH THE NUMBER).
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fucking hell
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Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
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What happens when you’re actually offered that kind of courage, lads. Do you welcome and embrace it, or do you rend your garments roaring and screeching and writhing in terror.
"Choose a lane and celebrate it! Say 'this is what I genuinely believe, it might go wrong, but I'm going to go for it.'"
@maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social call for more courage in UK politics - the kind shown across the pond by Mamdani.
@maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social call for more courage in UK politics - the kind shown across the pond by Mamdani.
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
What happens when you’re actually offered that kind of courage, lads. Do you welcome and embrace it, or do you rend your garments roaring and screeching and writhing in terror.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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Right now if the BBC announced Alex Jones as the next DG, I'd have no idea which one.
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Right now if the BBC announced Alex Jones as the next DG, I'd have no idea which one.
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Gary Lineker for DG of BBC.
Let the piss boil
Let the piss boil
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Gary Lineker for DG of BBC.
Let the piss boil
Let the piss boil
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there is only one pick for DG - former Leeds United frontman Arthur Graham
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
there is only one pick for DG - former Leeds United frontman Arthur Graham
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
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NEW - D-Day Veteran Removed From Remembrance Parade After Forgetting His Poppy
Full story here:
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/d-day-vete...
Full story here:
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/d-day-vete...
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
NEW - D-Day Veteran Removed From Remembrance Parade After Forgetting His Poppy
Full story here:
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/d-day-vete...
Full story here:
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/d-day-vete...
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"So I said, 'I'd only support the death penalty in very extreme circumstances, such as high treason or mass murder, and even then only if it was proven 100% that they were guilty...' what did I say Roy?"
"You said, 'Anybody not wearing a poppy from late August onwards should be taken out and shot.'"
"You said, 'Anybody not wearing a poppy from late August onwards should be taken out and shot.'"
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"So I said, 'I'd only support the death penalty in very extreme circumstances, such as high treason or mass murder, and even then only if it was proven 100% that they were guilty...' what did I say Roy?"
"You said, 'Anybody not wearing a poppy from late August onwards should be taken out and shot.'"
"You said, 'Anybody not wearing a poppy from late August onwards should be taken out and shot.'"
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Thank goodness the left wing candidate won the deputy leadership. Phew!
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Thank goodness the left wing candidate won the deputy leadership. Phew!
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Trump Nominates Guy Who Stabbed You With Pencil, Leaving Visible Granite In Your Palm for 23 Years, As New Surgeon General
May 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Trump Nominates Guy Who Stabbed You With Pencil, Leaving Visible Granite In Your Palm for 23 Years, As New Surgeon General
Achieves absolutely nothing but makes me smile.
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Achieves absolutely nothing but makes me smile.
40-odd years of neoliberalism, unnecessary austerity, Brexit and a general shift rightwards initiated by the Thatcherites and facilitated by the galactic-brained centrists currently in power, and this is where we are as a country. Makes you proud.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
40-odd years of neoliberalism, unnecessary austerity, Brexit and a general shift rightwards initiated by the Thatcherites and facilitated by the galactic-brained centrists currently in power, and this is where we are as a country. Makes you proud.
There's a chance for Infantino to do the funniest thing ever in the history of funny. He won't, obv, but can you imagine? "The inaugural FIFA peace prize goes to...[insert name of Not-Trump]"
this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
the first what now
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
There's a chance for Infantino to do the funniest thing ever in the history of funny. He won't, obv, but can you imagine? "The inaugural FIFA peace prize goes to...[insert name of Not-Trump]"
Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa fucking hell just to keep the orange man baby from stealing the WC
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa fucking hell just to keep the orange man baby from stealing the WC
Ally McCoist would be all over a ref making mistakes, so could someone do the same with him and his pronunciation of Haaland?
#mcibvb
#championsleague
#tntfootball
#thefootball
#pettybutidontcare
#hashtags
#mcibvb
#championsleague
#tntfootball
#thefootball
#pettybutidontcare
#hashtags
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Ally McCoist would be all over a ref making mistakes, so could someone do the same with him and his pronunciation of Haaland?
#mcibvb
#championsleague
#tntfootball
#thefootball
#pettybutidontcare
#hashtags
#mcibvb
#championsleague
#tntfootball
#thefootball
#pettybutidontcare
#hashtags
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almost posted a thought about Mamdani then remembered this tweet
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
almost posted a thought about Mamdani then remembered this tweet
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we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate