Ralph Ferrett
@ralphferrett.bsky.social
Trade Unionist, Dog Lover, Food fanatic, Argyle Fan.
Sucks at Destiny 2
Sucks at Destiny 2
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My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
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Morning.
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Morning.
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Couldn’t really be much simpler than this.
Tommy Robinson ain’t trolling, he likes what you’re selling.
Tommy Robinson ain’t trolling, he likes what you’re selling.
Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
Shabana Mahmood hits out at Tommy Robinson’s backing of Labour’s migration policy
Shabana Mahmood has said she finds it “deeply offensive” when MPs quote Tommy Robinson at her in the Commons, after the far-right activist backed the government’s sweeping asylum reforms. Asked about ...
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Couldn’t really be much simpler than this.
Tommy Robinson ain’t trolling, he likes what you’re selling.
Tommy Robinson ain’t trolling, he likes what you’re selling.
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After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
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From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
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I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
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That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
A country where Sadiq Khan can lead London, Humza Yousaf can lead Scotland, and Rishi Sunak can lead Britain is a country where the racists had *lost*. So much of this vicious bile has come directly after that and almost no one seems to draw the connection
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
This screams innocence doesn't it?
White House officials say Trump is plotting retribution after Epstein bill vote
White House officials say Trump is plotting retribution after Epstein bill vote
White House officials say Trump is plotting retribution after Epstein bill vote
www.independent.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This screams innocence doesn't it?
Second shout for my blog on what I think Labour ought to do on immigration instead of the obscene policy they've actually announced this week.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Starmer #Immigration #ReformUK
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Starmer #Immigration #ReformUK
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Second shout for my blog on what I think Labour ought to do on immigration instead of the obscene policy they've actually announced this week.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Starmer #Immigration #ReformUK
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Starmer #Immigration #ReformUK
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Not sure how Labour can fully square the circle between admitting that Reform's proposals to deport children are racist, but their plans for deport children, even if born and raised in the UK, are "fair and compassionate".
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Not sure how Labour can fully square the circle between admitting that Reform's proposals to deport children are racist, but their plans for deport children, even if born and raised in the UK, are "fair and compassionate".
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Good thread. In short, we'd all be better off if Labour leadership obsessed about Spain instead of Denmark, where the centre left's hardline stance on immigration has - and you'll never guess what's coming - hugely alienated their base for few returns elsewhere.
🚨🚨Perhaps a hardline populist stance on immigration isn't the way to go. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/cope...
Danish voters turn on PM Frederiksen over housing costs
After 122 years in power, voters in Copenhagen are turning their backs on the governing Social Democrats and expressing increased dissatisfaction with the party’s rightward turn.
www.politico.eu
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Good thread. In short, we'd all be better off if Labour leadership obsessed about Spain instead of Denmark, where the centre left's hardline stance on immigration has - and you'll never guess what's coming - hugely alienated their base for few returns elsewhere.
@ringwodian.bsky.social following our discussion yesterday I've actually written on what I think Labour should do instead.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
You're clearly pretty forthright in other direction so I'd be interested in your critique of what I say here.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
You're clearly pretty forthright in other direction so I'd be interested in your critique of what I say here.
What should Labour's immigration policy look like?
I wrote a long blog this week about the new immigration policy from Labour which I find both reprehensible and feel won't work even in its own terms. This is what they should do instead.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@ringwodian.bsky.social following our discussion yesterday I've actually written on what I think Labour should do instead.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
You're clearly pretty forthright in other direction so I'd be interested in your critique of what I say here.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
You're clearly pretty forthright in other direction so I'd be interested in your critique of what I say here.
I blogged yesterday about my despair at Labour's new immigration policy.
A few people said "Ok galaxy brain what should they do?"
Here's my answer
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Immigration #Starmer #ReformUK
A few people said "Ok galaxy brain what should they do?"
Here's my answer
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Immigration #Starmer #ReformUK
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I blogged yesterday about my despair at Labour's new immigration policy.
A few people said "Ok galaxy brain what should they do?"
Here's my answer
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Immigration #Starmer #ReformUK
A few people said "Ok galaxy brain what should they do?"
Here's my answer
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
#Labour #Immigration #Starmer #ReformUK
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.
Second shout for my blog on Labour and the latest immigration announcement.
It's no fun to feel actual shame at your membership of a party....
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
#Labour #Starmer #Reform #Immigration
It's no fun to feel actual shame at your membership of a party....
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
#Labour #Starmer #Reform #Immigration
Oh Labour
Why I think the current Labour strategy is so bad, and for once a core vote strategy might actually be the play.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Second shout for my blog on Labour and the latest immigration announcement.
It's no fun to feel actual shame at your membership of a party....
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
#Labour #Starmer #Reform #Immigration
It's no fun to feel actual shame at your membership of a party....
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
#Labour #Starmer #Reform #Immigration
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Nick Timothy, Tory MP most responsible for the Windrush scandal, gives Mahmood his support
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Nick Timothy, Tory MP most responsible for the Windrush scandal, gives Mahmood his support
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The problem with Mahmood's argument is that it not only accepts that we've lost control of the border (we haven't, the processing of claims was stopped by the Tories causing a huge backlog) but that racist abuse is a legitimate response to this supposed failure. It could not be more poisionious
- It is entirely legitimate for the Home Secretary to highlight the overt racism that she receives for taking part in public life.
- Everybody should oppose that racism against her, whatever their politics.
- But it is important to make several other points about this argument about racism.
- Everybody should oppose that racism against her, whatever their politics.
- But it is important to make several other points about this argument about racism.
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The problem with Mahmood's argument is that it not only accepts that we've lost control of the border (we haven't, the processing of claims was stopped by the Tories causing a huge backlog) but that racist abuse is a legitimate response to this supposed failure. It could not be more poisionious
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Think I cracked 2025 capitalism. Going to ask Nvidia to loan me $100M to buy graphics cards from them, thereby valuing my next movie's box office at 1 BILLION dollars!
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Think I cracked 2025 capitalism. Going to ask Nvidia to loan me $100M to buy graphics cards from them, thereby valuing my next movie's box office at 1 BILLION dollars!
Not written a blog in ages...
Felt the need to scream into the void at whatever the hell Labour are trying now:-
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
TL:DR
Aside from being morally repugnant, Labour's strategy on immigration isn't working, and won't ever work.
Felt the need to scream into the void at whatever the hell Labour are trying now:-
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
TL:DR
Aside from being morally repugnant, Labour's strategy on immigration isn't working, and won't ever work.
Oh Labour
Why I think the current Labour strategy is so bad, and for once a core vote strategy might actually be the play.
lunchtimelegend.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Not written a blog in ages...
Felt the need to scream into the void at whatever the hell Labour are trying now:-
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
TL:DR
Aside from being morally repugnant, Labour's strategy on immigration isn't working, and won't ever work.
Felt the need to scream into the void at whatever the hell Labour are trying now:-
lunchtimelegend.substack.com/p/oh-labour
TL:DR
Aside from being morally repugnant, Labour's strategy on immigration isn't working, and won't ever work.
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You get the feeling that McSweeney really does believe that ICE-style raids is what your median Yorkshire and Midlands voter hankers after
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You get the feeling that McSweeney really does believe that ICE-style raids is what your median Yorkshire and Midlands voter hankers after
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
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Tom, I’m a follower and someone who listens to you, and reads what you have to say. Stop arguing with nonsense. Instead, tell us, every day, what we need to do to stop fascism/ authoritarianism. Please.
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Vote. Protest. Vote. Donate. Vote. Organize. Vote. Talk to your neighbors. Vote. Stay informed. Vote. Keep a sense of humor. Vote.
Also, vote
Also, vote