@pigsandneedles.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Danish PM Mette Frederiksen praises British 'pragmatism' in a meeting with Keir Starmer at Downing St after Trump dropped tariff threats over Greenland
'You have a cup of tea & then you think a bit about everything. You get the facts on the table & then you find a way forward'
'You have a cup of tea & then you think a bit about everything. You get the facts on the table & then you find a way forward'
January 22, 2026 at 3:54 PM
BREAKING: Danish PM Mette Frederiksen praises British 'pragmatism' in a meeting with Keir Starmer at Downing St after Trump dropped tariff threats over Greenland
'You have a cup of tea & then you think a bit about everything. You get the facts on the table & then you find a way forward'
'You have a cup of tea & then you think a bit about everything. You get the facts on the table & then you find a way forward'
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Reform leader Nigel Farage committed 17 breaches of Parliamentary Standards by late-registering payments from GB News, Direct Bullion, Baron App/others totaling £384,000
He got no punishment
Imagine how you would be punished if your tax returns on £384,000 were 120 days late
He got no punishment
Imagine how you would be punished if your tax returns on £384,000 were 120 days late
January 21, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Reform leader Nigel Farage committed 17 breaches of Parliamentary Standards by late-registering payments from GB News, Direct Bullion, Baron App/others totaling £384,000
He got no punishment
Imagine how you would be punished if your tax returns on £384,000 were 120 days late
He got no punishment
Imagine how you would be punished if your tax returns on £384,000 were 120 days late
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Darren Grimes isn’t governing Durham.
He’s haunting it
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He’s haunting it
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Darren Grimes isn’t governing Durham.
He’s haunting it.™©2025
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January 3, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Darren Grimes isn’t governing Durham.
He’s haunting it
politicalsatirical.substack.com/p/darren-gri...
He’s haunting it
politicalsatirical.substack.com/p/darren-gri...
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Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
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All you need to know about Nigel Farage is that as soon as he 'got Brexit done' he applied for a German Passport so it wouldn't apply to him.
August 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
All you need to know about Nigel Farage is that as soon as he 'got Brexit done' he applied for a German Passport so it wouldn't apply to him.
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Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
@philmoorhouse.bsky.social doing good work here bigging up Labour's positive moves, Stevie is obviously a big fan
July 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@philmoorhouse.bsky.social doing good work here bigging up Labour's positive moves, Stevie is obviously a big fan
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UK welfare spending "too expensive".
Also UK Welfare spending, almost the lowest in Europe.
Also UK Welfare spending, almost the lowest in Europe.
July 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
UK welfare spending "too expensive".
Also UK Welfare spending, almost the lowest in Europe.
Also UK Welfare spending, almost the lowest in Europe.
Awful to see a cygnet killed by a boat at @durhamregatta.bsky.social this afternoon. Completely avoidable, there had been a couple of near misses and they managed to move the family away after the collision, no reason why they couldn't have acted earlier
June 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Awful to see a cygnet killed by a boat at @durhamregatta.bsky.social this afternoon. Completely avoidable, there had been a couple of near misses and they managed to move the family away after the collision, no reason why they couldn't have acted earlier
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Every office I've ever worked at has been dominated by middle class people with posh voices. Every time I work with the civil service I hear working class regional accents. They're alright the civil service. A genuine and very rare meritocracy.
June 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Every office I've ever worked at has been dominated by middle class people with posh voices. Every time I work with the civil service I hear working class regional accents. They're alright the civil service. A genuine and very rare meritocracy.
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What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
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Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
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June 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
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Responding to the prime minister’s speech today on immigration, PCS warned against blaming migrants for the country’s problems.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
May 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Responding to the prime minister’s speech today on immigration, PCS warned against blaming migrants for the country’s problems.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
Do we do Ed Balls Day on BlueSky?
April 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Do we do Ed Balls Day on BlueSky?
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The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
April 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
So no-one on the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social front bench can say why disability benefits have increased since a virus struck which, among other things, can cause long term disability? Don't worry, though, if we deprive them of income, & therefore, potentially, food & shelter they're bound to recover
March 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
So no-one on the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social front bench can say why disability benefits have increased since a virus struck which, among other things, can cause long term disability? Don't worry, though, if we deprive them of income, & therefore, potentially, food & shelter they're bound to recover
Wes Streeting's comments about mental illness, stated without presenting evidence, are reckless and dangerous, especially so from a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social minister. If you have a mental health issue, diagnosed or not, it is real, and it does matter. Help is available
March 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Wes Streeting's comments about mental illness, stated without presenting evidence, are reckless and dangerous, especially so from a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social minister. If you have a mental health issue, diagnosed or not, it is real, and it does matter. Help is available
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Traitors spoilers
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Gutted that Minah has gone. Recruiting Charlotte was fatal, she has been doing a fake accent from day one purely because the lies already built into #TheTraitors aren't challenging enough for her!
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Gutted that Minah has gone. Recruiting Charlotte was fatal, she has been doing a fake accent from day one purely because the lies already built into #TheTraitors aren't challenging enough for her!
January 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Traitors spoilers
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Gutted that Minah has gone. Recruiting Charlotte was fatal, she has been doing a fake accent from day one purely because the lies already built into #TheTraitors aren't challenging enough for her!
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Gutted that Minah has gone. Recruiting Charlotte was fatal, she has been doing a fake accent from day one purely because the lies already built into #TheTraitors aren't challenging enough for her!
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This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.
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“Unfortunately, the latest data out today makes it clear that we are in a flu wave close to the very large wave of 2022/23, and it hasn’t peaked yet.”
It's definitely not a quad-demic, but we are in a very large flu wave this winter and it's not peaked yet
Will this change flu vaccine eligibility next year?
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January 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“Unfortunately, the latest data out today makes it clear that we are in a flu wave close to the very large wave of 2022/23, and it hasn’t peaked yet.”
I think I'm figuring out Bluesky. Is this right?
December 22, 2024 at 9:48 PM
I think I'm figuring out Bluesky. Is this right?
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Inexplicably, it is that time again! Your annual reminder that every Christmas, all proceeds from White Wine In The Sun go to charity. Specifically, these legends: @aspectaus.bsky.social.
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White Wine In The Sun (2021) by Tim Minchin: BACK
YouTube video by Tim Minchin
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November 30, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Inexplicably, it is that time again! Your annual reminder that every Christmas, all proceeds from White Wine In The Sun go to charity. Specifically, these legends: @aspectaus.bsky.social.
youtu.be/x1rw1fx170s?...
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Today is November 20...birthday of James Collip
One of the unsung heroes in discovery of #Insulin-he helped to purify insulin for use in humans
Also credited with one of the very first descriptions of hypoglycaemia & its treatment with glucose solution
Amazing!!! #Diabetes
#gbdoc 💙
One of the unsung heroes in discovery of #Insulin-he helped to purify insulin for use in humans
Also credited with one of the very first descriptions of hypoglycaemia & its treatment with glucose solution
Amazing!!! #Diabetes
#gbdoc 💙
November 20, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Today is November 20...birthday of James Collip
One of the unsung heroes in discovery of #Insulin-he helped to purify insulin for use in humans
Also credited with one of the very first descriptions of hypoglycaemia & its treatment with glucose solution
Amazing!!! #Diabetes
#gbdoc 💙
One of the unsung heroes in discovery of #Insulin-he helped to purify insulin for use in humans
Also credited with one of the very first descriptions of hypoglycaemia & its treatment with glucose solution
Amazing!!! #Diabetes
#gbdoc 💙
Sunday afternoon chilling with Marcie. So pleased I don't work weekends anymore 😁
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Sunday afternoon chilling with Marcie. So pleased I don't work weekends anymore 😁