Jo Kibble (Political Animal)
@politicanimal.bsky.social
politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
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You’d need to reinstate Radio 4 Longwave in order to cover all the councils with alternate week collections in different parts of the borough.
‘SE7, dry recycling only, becoming non-recyclable waste later.’
‘SE7, dry recycling only, becoming non-recyclable waste later.’
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 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
You’d need to reinstate Radio 4 Longwave in order to cover all the councils with alternate week collections in different parts of the borough.
‘SE7, dry recycling only, becoming non-recyclable waste later.’
‘SE7, dry recycling only, becoming non-recyclable waste later.’
What I really take from this story is that MOU Operations Ltd should really have insisted on…an MOU.
🔥 The row between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana gets even more bitter tonight as the two row over hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of donations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Clash the latest in months of political infighting between the camps of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
What I really take from this story is that MOU Operations Ltd should really have insisted on…an MOU.
You’ve met the anti-bedtime left. Now feast your eyes on the anti-handwashing right.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
You’ve met the anti-bedtime left. Now feast your eyes on the anti-handwashing right.
I hold my hands up to my grossly fraudulent behavior of failing to make a single claim on my house insurance last year.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I hold my hands up to my grossly fraudulent behavior of failing to make a single claim on my house insurance last year.
I initially read this post as though ‘Friends of Robbie Gibb’ was a formally constituted organisation, like ‘Labour Friends of Kosovo & the Western Balkans’. And that would be a fascinating set up.
"Friends of Robbie Gibb" told Nick Robinson that, while he thought there was a problem, he hdidn't see why Tim Davie had to resign. Which raises the amusing possibility that Davie literally just couldn't be fucked doing a job that required him to Robbie fucking Gibb all the time.
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I initially read this post as though ‘Friends of Robbie Gibb’ was a formally constituted organisation, like ‘Labour Friends of Kosovo & the Western Balkans’. And that would be a fascinating set up.
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Nick Robinson closed the Today programme emphasising that the BBC Board is *still* fighting over the wording of a statement over the Panorama programme.
it is very strange that BBC chair Samir Shah is hiding this morning. He should by rights be on the Today programme presenting himself as in charge and hands on the tiller. I wonder if he is frightened for his position
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
Has anyone done a study as to whether pigeons gentrify alongside the parts of London they live in? Take this very polished chap outside Woolwich Crossrail station. You’d never have seen a pigeon that refined-looking in Woolwich a decade ago.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Has anyone done a study as to whether pigeons gentrify alongside the parts of London they live in? Take this very polished chap outside Woolwich Crossrail station. You’d never have seen a pigeon that refined-looking in Woolwich a decade ago.
I'm sure JD Vance, who was so strongly and publicly critical of an alleged 'prayer ban' outside British abortion clinics, will be all over this like a rash. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I'm sure JD Vance, who was so strongly and publicly critical of an alleged 'prayer ban' outside British abortion clinics, will be all over this like a rash. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
I agree with much of this piece but it is an awkward truth that the politician who has been most effective at activating low-propensity voters is…Trump. When he said the GOP’s problem this week is that he wasn’t on the ballot, that (unusually) wasn’t a total lie. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
Zohran Mamdani’s win shows the power of mobilizing non-voters | Ben Davis
Mamdani reshaped the electorate, bringing hundreds of thousands of non-voters out to the polls, from young people to left-behind immigrant communities
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I agree with much of this piece but it is an awkward truth that the politician who has been most effective at activating low-propensity voters is…Trump. When he said the GOP’s problem this week is that he wasn’t on the ballot, that (unusually) wasn’t a total lie. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
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Must be terrible to be able to see it every time you fly a drone.
You sympathise of course. Beware the foreshortening photos. It's quite a way with the Great Western Main Line in between ...
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Neighbours fuming as 'monstrosity' warehouse built near homes
They were not consulted because of historic planning consent
www.bristolpost.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Must be terrible to be able to see it every time you fly a drone.
Excellent night at Kiln Theatre at a preview of a new musical my wife has produced - ‘Coven’: a whipsmart, funny, moving, beautifully designed retelling of the Pendle witch trials. Contains Heinrich Kramer as you’ve never seen him before. Definitely worth seeing, though it’s sold out until December!
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Excellent night at Kiln Theatre at a preview of a new musical my wife has produced - ‘Coven’: a whipsmart, funny, moving, beautifully designed retelling of the Pendle witch trials. Contains Heinrich Kramer as you’ve never seen him before. Definitely worth seeing, though it’s sold out until December!
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Calling all small charities!
The Boring Fund is now open for applications.
It offers small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups to cover boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 Nov
#Funding
The Boring Fund is now open for applications.
It offers small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups to cover boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 Nov
#Funding
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Calling all small charities!
The Boring Fund is now open for applications.
It offers small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups to cover boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 Nov
#Funding
The Boring Fund is now open for applications.
It offers small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups to cover boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 Nov
#Funding
I suppose the small mercy is that the ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ isn’t just DJT in various heroic poses. Bet he’s found a way not to put Biden in it, mind.
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I suppose the small mercy is that the ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ isn’t just DJT in various heroic poses. Bet he’s found a way not to put Biden in it, mind.
Glad this is no longer sub judice. apnews.com/article/sand...
Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington has been found not guilty of assault.
apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Glad this is no longer sub judice. apnews.com/article/sand...
Andrew, sitting among the packing boxes at Royal Lodge, hastily scrubbing ‘Not known at this address’ on every air mail letter that arrives.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Andrew, sitting among the packing boxes at Royal Lodge, hastily scrubbing ‘Not known at this address’ on every air mail letter that arrives.
Running off to get the guy’s vaccination records, presumably.
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Running off to get the guy’s vaccination records, presumably.
Excluding some members of the Labour Party, there can be few sets of people more scrupulously and ostentatiously loyal to something they detest than the Orange Order.
Senior Orange Order figures have written to Britain’s King Charles to “reflect on his coronation oath” over his praying with Pope Leo last month.
www.thejournal.ie/orange-order...
www.thejournal.ie/orange-order...
Orange Order leaders wrote to Britain's King Charles over his meeting with Pope Leo
The Pope’s historic meeting with Charles has come in for criticism from unionist figures in the North and elsewhere over recent weeks.
www.thejournal.ie
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Excluding some members of the Labour Party, there can be few sets of people more scrupulously and ostentatiously loyal to something they detest than the Orange Order.
Me at Nuremberg: ‘Your honour, I was very much in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the NSDAP’.
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Me at Nuremberg: ‘Your honour, I was very much in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the NSDAP’.
Truly, the apex of tedious ‘dead-catism’ with an added garnish of misogyny.
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Truly, the apex of tedious ‘dead-catism’ with an added garnish of misogyny.
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"Everything not a sheep is dangerous" works pretty well for Australia too, tbf
In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Everything not a sheep is dangerous" works pretty well for Australia too, tbf
85-year old person announces retirement. More on this shock development as we get it.
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
85-year old person announces retirement. More on this shock development as we get it.
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If you asked me to come up with the names of politicians who are publicly and unapologetically pro-LGBT and pro-trans rights in particular, two of the most obvious would now both be Muslim mayors of major cities. And both are routinely smeared as regards to 'Sharia Law'.
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you asked me to come up with the names of politicians who are publicly and unapologetically pro-LGBT and pro-trans rights in particular, two of the most obvious would now both be Muslim mayors of major cities. And both are routinely smeared as regards to 'Sharia Law'.
In many ways the FIFA Peace Prize is the real peace prize.
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In many ways the FIFA Peace Prize is the real peace prize.
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Ah yes, much classier.
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ah yes, much classier.