Michael Partridge
@sloopthereitis.bsky.social
Highly Partridgian. Ramblings on whatever. Urbanism, transport, finance, politics.
Wait till brits hear how much property taxes in the US are annually
Can’t one of the other people who live in her 6-bed house chip in?
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Wait till brits hear how much property taxes in the US are annually
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
Can’t say I’m shocked. Once a cunt, always a cunt
🚨🚨 Huge revelations about Farage from those who knew him in his youth. On the record.
"He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs”
“I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
"He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs”
“I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Can’t say I’m shocked. Once a cunt, always a cunt
Brilliant thread, this
Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country
October 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Brilliant thread, this
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A lot of people who are not scientists love to break out the word “polycrisis” but global warming is one of the most monocausal crisis ever: the vibrational modes of CO2 have an absorption peak around the same wavenumber the earth’s surface has a reflection peak at. We’ve known this for centuries!
October 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
A lot of people who are not scientists love to break out the word “polycrisis” but global warming is one of the most monocausal crisis ever: the vibrational modes of CO2 have an absorption peak around the same wavenumber the earth’s surface has a reflection peak at. We’ve known this for centuries!
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The best quote from @politicshome.bsky.social’s Lib Dem conference wrap
Courtesy of @matildamartin.bsky.social
Courtesy of @matildamartin.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The best quote from @politicshome.bsky.social’s Lib Dem conference wrap
Courtesy of @matildamartin.bsky.social
Courtesy of @matildamartin.bsky.social
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NATO has invoked article 4.
September 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
NATO has invoked article 4.
I second this
an idea for Sadiq Khan: London roads should be closed off to cars from 7pm every evening when the weather is pleasant, so I can have a nice cycle home even if I've had a fun little drink
August 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I second this
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UK's HS2 consortium bids for Italy's Messina Strait Bridge...
August 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
UK's HS2 consortium bids for Italy's Messina Strait Bridge...
So fucking pathetic
Trump cold-called a Norwegian minister to ask about his bid to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump cold-called Norwegian minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize
American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
www.politico.eu
August 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So fucking pathetic
The role of ai here to data mine, bio-mimic and then iteratively optimise the resultant molecule is so interesting
August 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The role of ai here to data mine, bio-mimic and then iteratively optimise the resultant molecule is so interesting
Tabbed browsing in the Wikipedia phone app is such a game changer. Been wishing for this for years
July 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Tabbed browsing in the Wikipedia phone app is such a game changer. Been wishing for this for years
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starting your weekend by finding the first safe place to smoke a spliff before taking the bike path home is unironically self-care
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
starting your weekend by finding the first safe place to smoke a spliff before taking the bike path home is unironically self-care
Hey @garethdennis.uk here’s a question for you. Why is that an under utilised branch line like St Albans abbey to Watford is electrified, and yet doing TRU still hasn’t happened.
July 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hey @garethdennis.uk here’s a question for you. Why is that an under utilised branch line like St Albans abbey to Watford is electrified, and yet doing TRU still hasn’t happened.
@weinersmith.bsky.social you were really great on The Infinite Monkey Cage
July 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@weinersmith.bsky.social you were really great on The Infinite Monkey Cage
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On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised.
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
July 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised.
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
Red sky at night. Shepard’s delight
July 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Red sky at night. Shepard’s delight
Does anyone else’s web browser on the phone just get clogged up with endless tabs of links to urls that then launch into an app?
July 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Does anyone else’s web browser on the phone just get clogged up with endless tabs of links to urls that then launch into an app?
This was such a well researched and enjoyable read. The salt path saga is weirder than you could imagine
I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This was such a well researched and enjoyable read. The salt path saga is weirder than you could imagine
This administration is so fucking dumb
In April, the Trump administration was saying "100 countries are knocking on the door" begging for trade deals...now it's "many of them never even contacted us" lmfao
July 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This administration is so fucking dumb
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When I hit the French border officer at St Pancras with “merci” after they stamp my passport
June 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
When I hit the French border officer at St Pancras with “merci” after they stamp my passport
Tree of the day
June 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Tree of the day
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i had to smoke so much weed to get this photo but it was worth it
June 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
i had to smoke so much weed to get this photo but it was worth it
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I criticise Kemi a lot, and rightly so, but what truly helps her stand apart is that she manages to find wrong answers that no one was even imagining she'd give.
fair to say Kemi Badenoch’s last interview on BBC wasn’t a storming success
June 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I criticise Kemi a lot, and rightly so, but what truly helps her stand apart is that she manages to find wrong answers that no one was even imagining she'd give.
This is a really astute observation. Quickly becoming apparent Starmer is clueless politically, and this is happening at precisely the wrong time in the arc of politics in this country
What's weird is that he refused to be pinned down on a lot of issues when he was in campaign mode and instead sat on the fence to starve those issues of oxygen. Now he's PM, he's choosing to do the opposite rather than focusing on what message the government is trying to fashion.
May 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is a really astute observation. Quickly becoming apparent Starmer is clueless politically, and this is happening at precisely the wrong time in the arc of politics in this country