Tom Roberts
@tpgroberts.bsky.social
One of the most consistent principles in his life is to become unbelievably partisan in every conflict he encounters, and then to win the conflict using a barrage of extreme verbal force.
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Tom Roberts
@tpgroberts.bsky.social
· Jun 23
Going to keep plugging this for now, but after years of just food posting into the ether I have made an Instagram of my food pictures as well as tips for recipes etc.
www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Some example photos here, but please follow if of interest:
www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Some example photos here, but please follow if of interest:
I don't think I have any idea what about half the words in this mean.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I don't think I have any idea what about half the words in this mean.
In a just world, no government minister should ever have the slightest clue what Kemi Badenoch is on about.
I think banning it would be bad, because:
1. It would backfire domestically
2. It would backfire HUGELY internationally
3. Democratic governments shouldn’t ban social platforms.
BUT: they really, *really* should stop using it.
1. It would backfire domestically
2. It would backfire HUGELY internationally
3. Democratic governments shouldn’t ban social platforms.
BUT: they really, *really* should stop using it.
genuinely hard to think of another single move the UK govt could do that would do as much good as banning twitter. it's the poison at the root of so much ill
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In a just world, no government minister should ever have the slightest clue what Kemi Badenoch is on about.
"No Matt, our anthem cannot be Tomorrow Belongs to Me."
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"No Matt, our anthem cannot be Tomorrow Belongs to Me."
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Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
One observation I would add to this is that the right-wing press has a long history of picking up these weirdos, using them, and then leaving them with no career path back to normal.
Grimey, Sophie Thingy, Reem, Harwood maybe the most successful?, the one who likes incest, the list is endless.
Grimey, Sophie Thingy, Reem, Harwood maybe the most successful?, the one who likes incest, the list is endless.
I'm giving it maybe 6 months before it is shut down due to a expose that reveals massive racism/sexism and support for political violence among members
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
One observation I would add to this is that the right-wing press has a long history of picking up these weirdos, using them, and then leaving them with no career path back to normal.
Grimey, Sophie Thingy, Reem, Harwood maybe the most successful?, the one who likes incest, the list is endless.
Grimey, Sophie Thingy, Reem, Harwood maybe the most successful?, the one who likes incest, the list is endless.
There's an old rule that you shouldn't mock people you don't like's appearances because someone you do who has the same traits might hear and you'll hurt them too...
This does not really work when they insist on looking like no other mammal ever has.
This does not really work when they insist on looking like no other mammal ever has.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
There's an old rule that you shouldn't mock people you don't like's appearances because someone you do who has the same traits might hear and you'll hurt them too...
This does not really work when they insist on looking like no other mammal ever has.
This does not really work when they insist on looking like no other mammal ever has.
It's good they were prevented from issuing an apology, because it's clear to anyone with eyes that they don't need to. To do so is capitulation.
If, as several people are suggesting this morning, the DG and News CEO were prevented from issuing an apology re Panorama last week by the board, it seems extremely urgent that the chair of the board clarify what happened
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's good they were prevented from issuing an apology, because it's clear to anyone with eyes that they don't need to. To do so is capitulation.
I do think it's fundamentally worth remembering that everything Michael Prescott has written is bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I do think it's fundamentally worth remembering that everything Michael Prescott has written is bollocks.
We really should do this occasionally, it does seem to cheer everyone up.
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We really should do this occasionally, it does seem to cheer everyone up.
Off the back of this, unsurprisingly, I have been listening to a lot of the Arctic Monkeys, and god if you can't track both aging, class and the shifting state of Britain through those albums.
The Arctic Monkeys couldn't form now etc
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Off the back of this, unsurprisingly, I have been listening to a lot of the Arctic Monkeys, and god if you can't track both aging, class and the shifting state of Britain through those albums.
My dream Rian Johnson project is unironically a Muppets film because everything from Brick onwards, and if you haven't watched Brick, you should, is basically a love letter to the exploitation and reimagining of genre tropes which is also what makes the most successful delivery of Muppets.
The unironic skeleton key to TLJ is Knives Out because they are literally doing the exact same thing: they spend 75% of their length unpicking genre tropes and hinting the genre itself may be outmoded before the entire final act is one big celebratory reaffirmation of all of them
I remember someone summarising the theme as "it's more complicated than that.... but also, it isn't"
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My dream Rian Johnson project is unironically a Muppets film because everything from Brick onwards, and if you haven't watched Brick, you should, is basically a love letter to the exploitation and reimagining of genre tropes which is also what makes the most successful delivery of Muppets.
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“You think what? I'm gonna walk out with a laser sword and face down the whole First Order?”
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“You think what? I'm gonna walk out with a laser sword and face down the whole First Order?”
One thing I will miss about Beeston is that we were a perpetual source of these stories because the hole they'd installed years ago was never actually deep enough to stabilise the tree, so it always fell over.
Yes! One of my favourite times of year, the inaugural "crap Christmas tree" story. It's not quite as special as the first "shit Winter Wonderland" one, but it's nearly there.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
One thing I will miss about Beeston is that we were a perpetual source of these stories because the hole they'd installed years ago was never actually deep enough to stabilise the tree, so it always fell over.
Genuinely in awe of how bad JJ is that he heard Luke end this speech with "See you around kid" just after "I'll always be with you, like your father" and never even considered having Luke be the most annoying Force Ghost to Ben in TROS.
Given Luke literally looks into the camera and says “I will not be The Last Jedi”, I’m not sure even spelling things out helps
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Genuinely in awe of how bad JJ is that he heard Luke end this speech with "See you around kid" just after "I'll always be with you, like your father" and never even considered having Luke be the most annoying Force Ghost to Ben in TROS.
I genuinely still think this might be one of the funniest shorts I've ever seen.
youtube.com/shorts/_EqrI...
youtube.com/shorts/_EqrI...
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I genuinely still think this might be one of the funniest shorts I've ever seen.
youtube.com/shorts/_EqrI...
youtube.com/shorts/_EqrI...
An absolutely beautiful piece on grief and the small holes left behind from loss. My family have never been without a cat for very long precisely because the world feels emptier without them and it acutely felt.
I've had this in the drafts for a while. One month after she went seems like a good time to publish. ❤️
The Unbearable Weight of Small Absences
This morning my dog Jingles wasn’t in the kitchen while I was making coffee.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
An absolutely beautiful piece on grief and the small holes left behind from loss. My family have never been without a cat for very long precisely because the world feels emptier without them and it acutely felt.
Rose, the series most underappreciated character, very explicitly is the counterweight to DJ! She despises the profiteering and also never lets that distract from fighting the First Order being the right thing to do! The only one who does is DJ, who is very clearly a wrong un.
"The First Order and the Republic are two sides of the same coin, and people are making fortunes off their war"
"Ok, probably, but also: the First Order are Space Nazis who blew up like 10 planets in the last movie, so equating them here is really fucking weird and tasteless"
"Ok, probably, but also: the First Order are Space Nazis who blew up like 10 planets in the last movie, so equating them here is really fucking weird and tasteless"
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Rose, the series most underappreciated character, very explicitly is the counterweight to DJ! She despises the profiteering and also never lets that distract from fighting the First Order being the right thing to do! The only one who does is DJ, who is very clearly a wrong un.
3p on Income Tax, 5p on the 45p rate, ditch the taper and childcare removal, and you've basically made it look fair, provided better headroom, and, crucially, removed one of the most annoying marginal rates in our tax system.
I’m with Vince.
And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
www.ft.com/content/9e56...
And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
www.ft.com/content/9e56...
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
3p on Income Tax, 5p on the 45p rate, ditch the taper and childcare removal, and you've basically made it look fair, provided better headroom, and, crucially, removed one of the most annoying marginal rates in our tax system.
"Hi, Andrew, yes, I heard. It's been a long year...so, we've had great fun this season with a contestant who loves a flop sweat and that got us thinking..."
The most difficult jobs in Britain are Chancellor of the Exchequer and #CelebrityTraitors series 2 casting director
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Hi, Andrew, yes, I heard. It's been a long year...so, we've had great fun this season with a contestant who loves a flop sweat and that got us thinking..."
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I think it’s worse than the 70s because then it was a bottom up phenomenon, and while their response was often inadequate, there was at least a sense that the elite were pushing back. Now it’s much more top down and the attitude of elite liberal circles is “leave me alone, I CBA to deal with it”
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I think it’s worse than the 70s because then it was a bottom up phenomenon, and while their response was often inadequate, there was at least a sense that the elite were pushing back. Now it’s much more top down and the attitude of elite liberal circles is “leave me alone, I CBA to deal with it”
I have used, intermittently, the same alterations tailor for 15 years, hadn't actually seen him in 3 but needed a jacket doing, and it is astonishing how much better he is that every other, far more expensive, one I've met.
This jacket: take in waist, shorten and trim sleeves, soften shoulder: £75.
This jacket: take in waist, shorten and trim sleeves, soften shoulder: £75.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I have used, intermittently, the same alterations tailor for 15 years, hadn't actually seen him in 3 but needed a jacket doing, and it is astonishing how much better he is that every other, far more expensive, one I've met.
This jacket: take in waist, shorten and trim sleeves, soften shoulder: £75.
This jacket: take in waist, shorten and trim sleeves, soften shoulder: £75.
Well, firstly the last government cut them by £50bn of that, and then you announced a 25bn green energy plan, that should probably have given you a hint.
“Nobody thought a Labour government would have to raise taxes by more than £70bn,” claims one insider in this excellent piece. Shows the problem of the climate of fear in meetings created by some of Starmer’s aides, in that plenty of Labour insiders, did, in fact, think this!
The politics of breaking manifesto promises
The history of politicians who go back on their words has lessons for Rachel Reeves as she mulls raising taxes
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Well, firstly the last government cut them by £50bn of that, and then you announced a 25bn green energy plan, that should probably have given you a hint.
Nicola Coughlan - Faithful, Banished immediately.
Shirley Ballas - Traitor, gives self away and goes out week 2.
Krishnan Guru Murthy - Faithful, murdered.
Jay Rayner - Faithful, Banished for being annoying.
Toby Jones - Traitor, lasts a surprisingly long time.
Shirley Ballas - Traitor, gives self away and goes out week 2.
Krishnan Guru Murthy - Faithful, murdered.
Jay Rayner - Faithful, Banished for being annoying.
Toby Jones - Traitor, lasts a surprisingly long time.
The most difficult jobs in Britain are Chancellor of the Exchequer and #CelebrityTraitors series 2 casting director
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Nicola Coughlan - Faithful, Banished immediately.
Shirley Ballas - Traitor, gives self away and goes out week 2.
Krishnan Guru Murthy - Faithful, murdered.
Jay Rayner - Faithful, Banished for being annoying.
Toby Jones - Traitor, lasts a surprisingly long time.
Shirley Ballas - Traitor, gives self away and goes out week 2.
Krishnan Guru Murthy - Faithful, murdered.
Jay Rayner - Faithful, Banished for being annoying.
Toby Jones - Traitor, lasts a surprisingly long time.
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Fucking hell he's not gone and got another name.
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Fucking hell he's not gone and got another name.