Jamie Baxter
@jamiebaxter.bsky.social
Distiller and Distillery builder, Scotland Rugby fan, Cocker Spaniel slave
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Murray knows far more about rugby than I do, but from my neutral’s point of view albeit one affected by watching the game in a raucous bar in Barcelona, the reason that Ireland stayed in that match was by repeated cynical infringements. I can’t blame the ref for giving cards, What else can he do?
Conor Murray: Rugby is in serious trouble unless match officials get a handle on decision-making process - The Irish Times (✍️@IrishTimesRugby) #Rugby #RugbyUnion #ConorMurray
Conor Murray: Rugby is in serious trouble unless match officials get a handle on decision-making process - The Irish Times
Conor Murray: Rugby is in serious trouble unless match officials get a handle on decision-making process The Irish Times
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November 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Murray knows far more about rugby than I do, but from my neutral’s point of view albeit one affected by watching the game in a raucous bar in Barcelona, the reason that Ireland stayed in that match was by repeated cynical infringements. I can’t blame the ref for giving cards, What else can he do?
My hot take is that people in UK are voting Reform because that is easier than admitting to themselves that the neoliberalism policies that we have followed since Thatcher was elected don’t work.
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My hot take is that people in UK are voting Reform because that is easier than admitting to themselves that the neoliberalism policies that we have followed since Thatcher was elected don’t work.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
C’mon Scotland. Let’s boogie all night long
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
C’mon Scotland. Let’s boogie all night long
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I'll share some more specific thoughts on it later, but please do have a look if you can.
It was an extremely DIY endeavour - lots of late nights spent wrangling charts, editing each other's prose, even learning how to build a website from scratch - so I hope it sparks plenty of debate!
It was an extremely DIY endeavour - lots of late nights spent wrangling charts, editing each other's prose, even learning how to build a website from scratch - so I hope it sparks plenty of debate!
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I'll share some more specific thoughts on it later, but please do have a look if you can.
It was an extremely DIY endeavour - lots of late nights spent wrangling charts, editing each other's prose, even learning how to build a website from scratch - so I hope it sparks plenty of debate!
It was an extremely DIY endeavour - lots of late nights spent wrangling charts, editing each other's prose, even learning how to build a website from scratch - so I hope it sparks plenty of debate!
New business idea: safety deposit box scheme based in Calais
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
New business idea: safety deposit box scheme based in Calais
This foul weather has meant that my boycott of American-made products until the numpty has gone has had to have a bit of a break
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This foul weather has meant that my boycott of American-made products until the numpty has gone has had to have a bit of a break
The main takeaway from these accidental prison releases is that the people of Finsbury Park are grasses
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The main takeaway from these accidental prison releases is that the people of Finsbury Park are grasses
“Trump represents a return to a past that Europe barely survived. We lost tens of millions of people learning that lesson.”
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Mamdani Proves That Americans Want What We in Europe Already Have
On the warning signs we recognize and the hope we share
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November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Trump represents a return to a past that Europe barely survived. We lost tens of millions of people learning that lesson.”
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The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
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Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
With the success of Mamdani in New York and the rise in the polls of the Greens in UK are we seeing the tipping point in demographics where the young, more progressive voters, who have been ignored for years, now outnumber the older voters as this cohort dies out?
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
With the success of Mamdani in New York and the rise in the polls of the Greens in UK are we seeing the tipping point in demographics where the young, more progressive voters, who have been ignored for years, now outnumber the older voters as this cohort dies out?
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What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
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Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
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Look. The point I was making is that the English football team has gone DEI mad and is now unrepresentative of British society as a whole. There should be more overweight, middle-aged, unfit, clumsy, one-footed Scottish numpties like me
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Look. The point I was making is that the English football team has gone DEI mad and is now unrepresentative of British society as a whole. There should be more overweight, middle-aged, unfit, clumsy, one-footed Scottish numpties like me
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(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)
That a judge feels the need to say this to a head of law enforcement shows how batshit mental America has become. Best stay clear and hope there is enough resistance to force a vote in 4 years time
"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
That a judge feels the need to say this to a head of law enforcement shows how batshit mental America has become. Best stay clear and hope there is enough resistance to force a vote in 4 years time
In fairness to Sarah Pochin it must have been very difficult for her to phrase her racist views less clumsily under the pressures of a live programme
October 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In fairness to Sarah Pochin it must have been very difficult for her to phrase her racist views less clumsily under the pressures of a live programme
Roasted a chicken for lunch and now the carcass is bubbling away to make a stock. I don’t know a more soothing smell
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Roasted a chicken for lunch and now the carcass is bubbling away to make a stock. I don’t know a more soothing smell
I’m not an expert in judge led inquiries but I note that the last one into child sexual abuse took over 8 years to conclude
October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’m not an expert in judge led inquiries but I note that the last one into child sexual abuse took over 8 years to conclude
For context, the Tories would have wanted to deport my Mother who fell in love with and married my Father, a Scotsman, and lived here for 60 years, never working but raising three sons before she died. Horrible racists cunts. I’m beyond angry
Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
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But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
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October 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
For context, the Tories would have wanted to deport my Mother who fell in love with and married my Father, a Scotsman, and lived here for 60 years, never working but raising three sons before she died. Horrible racists cunts. I’m beyond angry
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?
Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇
Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇
October 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?
Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇
Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇
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Glasgow Warriors make nine personnel and three positional changes to the side that beat Dragons for a trip to Bridgend to face Ospreys on Saturday.
For al the team news 👉 shorturl.at/pfluy
For al the team news 👉 shorturl.at/pfluy
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Glasgow Warriors make nine personnel and three positional changes to the side that beat Dragons for a trip to Bridgend to face Ospreys on Saturday.
For al the team news 👉 shorturl.at/pfluy
For al the team news 👉 shorturl.at/pfluy
Given what was learnt from tragedies like Heysel, Hillsborough and elsewhere I think it would be wise for politicians to steer clear of operational decisions about safety at sporting events
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Given what was learnt from tragedies like Heysel, Hillsborough and elsewhere I think it would be wise for politicians to steer clear of operational decisions about safety at sporting events
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Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture.
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.
October 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture.
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.