Simon Watkins
@simonywaking.bsky.social
Interested in finance, economics, politics, philosophy, literature and childish humour.
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once. (Two for the price of one.)
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once. (Two for the price of one.)
Anyone here knowledgeable about the history of cricket bats in UK? Specifically I am trying to find out more about Alfred Jameson - was it a major/famous bat maker? Used by England team? Etc
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Anyone here knowledgeable about the history of cricket bats in UK? Specifically I am trying to find out more about Alfred Jameson - was it a major/famous bat maker? Used by England team? Etc
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I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
I have downloaded this app. It’s free, though there are in-App purchases. (You have to pay if you want to speak to an apostle, for example.)
It also asks you what denomination you belong to - obviously if you are a Protestant you don’t want to end up chatting to a Catholic Jesus, or vice versa.
It also asks you what denomination you belong to - obviously if you are a Protestant you don’t want to end up chatting to a Catholic Jesus, or vice versa.
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I have downloaded this app. It’s free, though there are in-App purchases. (You have to pay if you want to speak to an apostle, for example.)
It also asks you what denomination you belong to - obviously if you are a Protestant you don’t want to end up chatting to a Catholic Jesus, or vice versa.
It also asks you what denomination you belong to - obviously if you are a Protestant you don’t want to end up chatting to a Catholic Jesus, or vice versa.
It’s got so bad on here now that I can’t even tell whether I am being ironic.
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It’s got so bad on here now that I can’t even tell whether I am being ironic.
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David Allen Green: The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
By apologising, the broadcaster has taken the sting out of Trump's excessive attack
www.newstatesman.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
David Allen Green: The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
Reeves has failed to learn the lessons of Osborne’s pasty tax and is apparently going to target Scandinavian-style buffets.
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Reeves has failed to learn the lessons of Osborne’s pasty tax and is apparently going to target Scandinavian-style buffets.
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Personal theory (based on zero inside knowledge).
Streeting was absolutely gunning for advisers around Starmer and aiming to get them removed.
Those advisers decided to defend themselves by making out this was an attack on Starmer himself.
Streeting was absolutely gunning for advisers around Starmer and aiming to get them removed.
Those advisers decided to defend themselves by making out this was an attack on Starmer himself.
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Personal theory (based on zero inside knowledge).
Streeting was absolutely gunning for advisers around Starmer and aiming to get them removed.
Those advisers decided to defend themselves by making out this was an attack on Starmer himself.
Streeting was absolutely gunning for advisers around Starmer and aiming to get them removed.
Those advisers decided to defend themselves by making out this was an attack on Starmer himself.
Suggested strategy for the BBC.
In recognition of the bad edit in the Panorama edition, they change the programme to remove that fault.
And then re-broadcast it to ensure as many people as possible get to see the corrected version.
In recognition of the bad edit in the Panorama edition, they change the programme to remove that fault.
And then re-broadcast it to ensure as many people as possible get to see the corrected version.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Suggested strategy for the BBC.
In recognition of the bad edit in the Panorama edition, they change the programme to remove that fault.
And then re-broadcast it to ensure as many people as possible get to see the corrected version.
In recognition of the bad edit in the Panorama edition, they change the programme to remove that fault.
And then re-broadcast it to ensure as many people as possible get to see the corrected version.
I am coming round to the view that machines really are very close to being as intelligent as human beings in every sense.
But mainly because human beings appear to be becoming stupider.
But mainly because human beings appear to be becoming stupider.
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I am coming round to the view that machines really are very close to being as intelligent as human beings in every sense.
But mainly because human beings appear to be becoming stupider.
But mainly because human beings appear to be becoming stupider.
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
1/2 Revolutionary counterculture T-shirts.
1960s:
1960s:
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
1/2 Revolutionary counterculture T-shirts.
1960s:
1960s:
Nessus drives one more into Phlegethon.
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Nessus drives one more into Phlegethon.
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Moving a garden object this morning.
Look on my works ye mighty…
Look on my works ye mighty…
November 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Moving a garden object this morning.
Look on my works ye mighty…
Look on my works ye mighty…
Selecting music to blast out at the Halloween kids. Tried the obvious - Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, first Black Sabbath album etc - and then I thought, ‘Not listened to Mozart Mass in Cm for a while.’ Turned up volume. 5 minutes in, I am physically shaking, having undergone some kind of ASMR orgasm.
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Selecting music to blast out at the Halloween kids. Tried the obvious - Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, first Black Sabbath album etc - and then I thought, ‘Not listened to Mozart Mass in Cm for a while.’ Turned up volume. 5 minutes in, I am physically shaking, having undergone some kind of ASMR orgasm.
Me: ‘Shall we do Halloween stuff for local kids?’
Son (20yrs old): ‘It’s a lot of effort going to the front door all the time.’ Me: ‘We could put out a bowl full sweets for them to help themselves.’
Son: ‘Some c**t will just take them all and there’ll be an empty bowl.’ 1/2
Son (20yrs old): ‘It’s a lot of effort going to the front door all the time.’ Me: ‘We could put out a bowl full sweets for them to help themselves.’
Son: ‘Some c**t will just take them all and there’ll be an empty bowl.’ 1/2
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Me: ‘Shall we do Halloween stuff for local kids?’
Son (20yrs old): ‘It’s a lot of effort going to the front door all the time.’ Me: ‘We could put out a bowl full sweets for them to help themselves.’
Son: ‘Some c**t will just take them all and there’ll be an empty bowl.’ 1/2
Son (20yrs old): ‘It’s a lot of effort going to the front door all the time.’ Me: ‘We could put out a bowl full sweets for them to help themselves.’
Son: ‘Some c**t will just take them all and there’ll be an empty bowl.’ 1/2
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
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When you make one of those large Yorkshire puddings, the natural question is: what do you put inside it? The obvious answer is, some more smaller Yorkshire puddings.
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
When you make one of those large Yorkshire puddings, the natural question is: what do you put inside it? The obvious answer is, some more smaller Yorkshire puddings.