PhilT602
philt602.bsky.social
PhilT602
@philt602.bsky.social
Retired engineer. Wargamer & Archer.
https://longrangegaminggroup.blogspot.com
#spreadthelard
This must be heartening news to all Americans waiting on Snap payments!!
November 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Choose your friends carefully and your politicians even more carefully!?!
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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October 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.

Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It is pure & simple intimidation!!!
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Aaaand they’ve just covered it up.

Which is just another layer of irony…

…given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.
September 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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O'Rourke' lawyers told the court that X sent him about £1400 a month for his radicalised and eventually criminal hateful posting, that the platform did not remove even after the conviction

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lincoln 'keyboard warrior' jailed for part in UK disorder
Wayne O’Rourke posted misinformation about the killing of three young girls in Southport on 29 July.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
An After Action Report from our 2nd Chain of Command 2 game, repeating the same 'Entering St Lambert' scenario, that we have played under Version 1. Very positive opinion.
#chainofcommand2 #spreadthelard #toofatlardies
longrangegaminggroup.blogspot.com/2025/06/chai...
Chain of Command 2 – Entering St. Lambert, Take 2
This was our second trial game of Chain of Command 2, so we wanted to up the ante slightly. We also wanted to have a direct comparison with ...
longrangegaminggroup.blogspot.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Kaja Kallas, "Our democracies should not be spaces where foreign actors can pressure us to think in certain ways"

"Russia has invested over a billion euros in their state
controlled propaganda"

"We must consider the integrity of our information space as important as our territorial integrity"
March 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you ever wanted a clearer statement about how much Presidents Trusk care about people, this has to be it!!
youtu.be/dNkPuZ0gRdI?...
Hotline
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtu.be
March 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This description of the current situation by French senator Claude Malhuret is worth watching in full.

"This is not merely an illiberal drift. It is the beginning of seizure of a democracy." ~AA

youtu.be/QIK9vbQRwBQ?...
Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )
YouTube video by Alain Cazes
youtu.be
March 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Now I wonder where MiniMe got this notion from? 💀
February 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A very important win for Germany. German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform.
Researchers’ court win has secured crucial access to social media data on X to probe potential election interference. www.politico.eu/article/berl...
German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform
Researchers win a legal battle against the platform formerly known as Twitter, securing crucial access to social media data to probe potential election interference.
www.politico.eu
February 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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‘It’s an utter distortion of the truth’

Andrew Norfolk, the journalist who broke the grooming gangs story 14 years ago, tells The News Agents he wants to 'set the record straight.'

@maitlis | @lewis_goodall
The truth about the grooming scandal - from the journalist who broke it
The Times reporter Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gangs scandal in 2011, speaks to The News Agents to “set the record straight” on whether there was a cover up, Keir Starmer’s real impact…
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January 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
January 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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"Populists offer simple solutions to complex problems. A wise establishment takes the issue and solves it."

Poland's foreign affairs minister on what the UK can learn from his country's experience of a populist government
Should the UK look to Poland to learn how to combat populist politics?
Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s foreign affairs minister, tells The News Agents about the dangers of populism, and why Elon Musk poses such a threat to political stability in the UK.
articles.globalplayer.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:52 AM
@mogsymakes.bsky.social James, It may have already been pointed out, but there seems to be a typo on page 126. The Warriors(Formed Archers) are down as Stamina 2 rather than Stamina 4.
December 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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With Nigel Farage back on Question Time and with around 300,000 reads in over 144 countries but still with no response from Question Time

Here's @docrussjackson.bsky.social's open letter to the BBC about widely held concerns about why bias on #bbcqt is not going away
@yorksbylines.bsky.social
An open letter to the BBC
Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR

Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says

“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”

Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR

youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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I've watched Benn Jordan video on YouTube and immediately deactivated Twitter and it will be deleted in 30 days. That was eye opening and completely messed up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5X...
The Really Dark Truth About Bots
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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#Wargaming and #TTRPG's are for everyone, regardless of colour, sexuality or gender and as long as your respectful, all are welcome in my feeds.
November 11, 2024 at 8:35 AM
F**k me! The Con-Serve-Yourselves are not even in Office and yet we are still plagued by their scandals!!!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
‘Scam and scandal’: ex-aid chief raises alarm over £4bn Tory asylum contracts
The former top civil servant at the Department for International Development has warned a lack of oversight in spending echoes corrupt contracts awarded during Covid
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2024 at 8:46 AM