Alastair
@as-j.bsky.social
Mobility as a Service (MaaS), Cycling, Rugby, France, Steely Dan. Familial Hypercholesterolemia victim. Scottish.
Once ate Prince Phillip's Pavlova. #NoCarBiggerThanAGolf #RadioParadise
#Rejoin
Once ate Prince Phillip's Pavlova. #NoCarBiggerThanAGolf #RadioParadise
#Rejoin
Our first Christmas without my xenophobic, Farage Lite brother. He disowned me during 2025 because of woke and GB News. Don't ever feel obliged to indulge and look after someone simply because they're blood. Best Christmas I can remember.
December 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Our first Christmas without my xenophobic, Farage Lite brother. He disowned me during 2025 because of woke and GB News. Don't ever feel obliged to indulge and look after someone simply because they're blood. Best Christmas I can remember.
So, adieu Brigitte Bardot. Good actress and a solid campaigner for animal rights. On all other fronts, an absolute shit of a person.
December 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
So, adieu Brigitte Bardot. Good actress and a solid campaigner for animal rights. On all other fronts, an absolute shit of a person.
Hectic Christmas is over. Back to the normality of watching my dog bark at Gordon Buchanan making wolf noises.
December 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hectic Christmas is over. Back to the normality of watching my dog bark at Gordon Buchanan making wolf noises.
I am under the weather. I've been treated to lunch in bed. Suddenly, I have company.
December 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I am under the weather. I've been treated to lunch in bed. Suddenly, I have company.
Hitting the Talisker late on Christmas Eve wasn't my smartest move. Anyway, Happy Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hitting the Talisker late on Christmas Eve wasn't my smartest move. Anyway, Happy Christmas.
Very sad to say goodbye to #ChrisRea today. I will never begrudge someone their hits but some of Chris's lesser known stuff was sublime. Water Sign and Shamrock Diaries will be in the turntable tomorrow. Adieu Benny.
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Very sad to say goodbye to #ChrisRea today. I will never begrudge someone their hits but some of Chris's lesser known stuff was sublime. Water Sign and Shamrock Diaries will be in the turntable tomorrow. Adieu Benny.
Having a conversation on speaker on a train should be a capital offence.
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Having a conversation on speaker on a train should be a capital offence.
Also, I can't think of anywhere else in life, other than on a train, where I am told I can or cannot alight. I've never alighted from a car or an aircraft . So why trains?
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Also, I can't think of anywhere else in life, other than on a train, where I am told I can or cannot alight. I've never alighted from a car or an aircraft . So why trains?
Why do people queue to get off a train which hasn't even entered the station yet?
December 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Why do people queue to get off a train which hasn't even entered the station yet?
Oh the joy of getting up early to do a 6 hour journey to go to the team's Christmas Party hosted by a boss who has made the last 18 months a misery. Stay sober Alastair, stay sober.
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Oh the joy of getting up early to do a 6 hour journey to go to the team's Christmas Party hosted by a boss who has made the last 18 months a misery. Stay sober Alastair, stay sober.
Oh how I wish Great British Railways had chosen comic sans for the new logo just to watch the train nerds on here having a total melt down. (Apparently the lower case L is "wrong").
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Oh how I wish Great British Railways had chosen comic sans for the new logo just to watch the train nerds on here having a total melt down. (Apparently the lower case L is "wrong").
Brazil v Scotland on next year's Football World Cup. It will be art. Like ballet in grass.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Brazil v Scotland on next year's Football World Cup. It will be art. Like ballet in grass.
Getting the title of the Chess competition you won, aged 14, slightly wrong. This government must go. Going around school aged 15 making gas chamber noises to Jewish kids. Nothing to see.
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Getting the title of the Chess competition you won, aged 14, slightly wrong. This government must go. Going around school aged 15 making gas chamber noises to Jewish kids. Nothing to see.
#JeremyVine doing his Monday show direct from Conservative Party Head Quarters.
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#JeremyVine doing his Monday show direct from Conservative Party Head Quarters.
Gotta love the next door neighbours going on holiday for a week and spending their evenings ordering stuff on Amazon for next delivery to my house.
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Gotta love the next door neighbours going on holiday for a week and spending their evenings ordering stuff on Amazon for next delivery to my house.
Feeling myself getting more socialist by the hour as Bluesky fills with sob stories from people in £3Million homes that they bought for a sixth of that but can't think of a way to find £4k in tax. My heart bleeds.
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Feeling myself getting more socialist by the hour as Bluesky fills with sob stories from people in £3Million homes that they bought for a sixth of that but can't think of a way to find £4k in tax. My heart bleeds.
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
The most shocking thing so far on this year's I'm a Celebrity is Ant and Dec's wardrobe.
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The most shocking thing so far on this year's I'm a Celebrity is Ant and Dec's wardrobe.
People submitting their comments about songs on internet radio stations, clearly using AI. Is it me?
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
People submitting their comments about songs on internet radio stations, clearly using AI. Is it me?
This is pretty niche but it really gets on my wick. When will people like Starmer learn that going tieless isn't just a case of taking your tie off. You need a shirt that sits right with an open neck. He just looks scruffy.
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is pretty niche but it really gets on my wick. When will people like Starmer learn that going tieless isn't just a case of taking your tie off. You need a shirt that sits right with an open neck. He just looks scruffy.
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ELECTRIC CAR DRIVERS, dodge the per-mile tax by simply checking your manual for the process to switch your vehicle to working in kilometres.
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
ELECTRIC CAR DRIVERS, dodge the per-mile tax by simply checking your manual for the process to switch your vehicle to working in kilometres.
#Mamdani looks like an intelligent ,competent, talented man. I'm sure he will make a great NY Mayor. I look forward to the day when nobody feels the need to define him or his successors by his religion, whatever it is. One day.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#Mamdani looks like an intelligent ,competent, talented man. I'm sure he will make a great NY Mayor. I look forward to the day when nobody feels the need to define him or his successors by his religion, whatever it is. One day.
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.