Dan Bratton 🇺🇦
@danbratton2022.bsky.social
Dad, scientist, cyclist, works in biotech. Fan of anything that flies. Cambridge UK
Actually a sensible policy.
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UK ministers plan to ban the resale of tickets for live events above their original cost, in an aggressive crackdown on touts and resellers who sharply increase the price of admission to concerts and sports events.
www.ft.com/content/e76d...
UK ministers plan to ban the resale of tickets for live events above their original cost, in an aggressive crackdown on touts and resellers who sharply increase the price of admission to concerts and sports events.
www.ft.com/content/e76d...
UK to ban resale of tickets above face value for live events
Aggressive crackdown on touts comes after backlash over cost of watching live music and sport
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Actually a sensible policy.
I should bloody well think so too.
There's a few ministers considering their position.
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I should bloody well think so too.
Bloody kids
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Bloody kids
Visitor to the garden this morning
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Visitor to the garden this morning
I suspect this speaks to the average age of Telegraph readers rather than anything else.
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I suspect this speaks to the average age of Telegraph readers rather than anything else.
Saw my first Christmas tree up today, lads. Local house had a tree, lights and wreath up.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Saw my first Christmas tree up today, lads. Local house had a tree, lights and wreath up.
Genuinely getting hard to defend Reeves and Starmer at this point.
If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Genuinely getting hard to defend Reeves and Starmer at this point.
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An excellent, impartial analysis of Trump's incendiary January 6th 2021 speech. From the....BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
Capitol riots: Did Trump's words at rally incite violence?
Donald Trump was accused of inciting violence that left five people dead. So what did the president say?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An excellent, impartial analysis of Trump's incendiary January 6th 2021 speech. From the....BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
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If you ever feel like a fraud, just know that "the UK's richest living artist" and former Turner prize winner Damien Hirst is flogging prints of crudely drawn Space Invaders for 3,000 dollars a pop.
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If you ever feel like a fraud, just know that "the UK's richest living artist" and former Turner prize winner Damien Hirst is flogging prints of crudely drawn Space Invaders for 3,000 dollars a pop.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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The year of our Lord 2025 and DVLA has just issued me a car tax refund by cheque.
(First world problems, but still)
(First world problems, but still)
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The year of our Lord 2025 and DVLA has just issued me a car tax refund by cheque.
(First world problems, but still)
(First world problems, but still)
Oofff…
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Oofff…
I don’t normally buy beer simply based on the label but I couldn’t resist here.
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I don’t normally buy beer simply based on the label but I couldn’t resist here.
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A snippet of folklore for #Halloween 🎃
If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year 💀
#Wales #History
If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year 💀
#Wales #History
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A snippet of folklore for #Halloween 🎃
If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year 💀
#Wales #History
If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year 💀
#Wales #History
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Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off
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I’m quite happy to wear a poppy, but those tacky plastic things tied to lamposts and crappy soldier silhouettes are just crass.
I'm old enough to have grown up with family who fought in WWII. They rarely talked about it and when they did it was to warn, not glorify. Remembrance Day was a time of quiet, sombre reflection. They would be horrified at the twisted celebration it has become.
October 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’m quite happy to wear a poppy, but those tacky plastic things tied to lamposts and crappy soldier silhouettes are just crass.
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I don't think enough people talk about how great BBC Bitesize is. Secondary school textbooks are now vanishingly rare and Bitesize content is (a) not in a terrible app, (b) engaging and interesting and easy to understand, and importantly (c) FREE. A properly great digital public good.
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I don't think enough people talk about how great BBC Bitesize is. Secondary school textbooks are now vanishingly rare and Bitesize content is (a) not in a terrible app, (b) engaging and interesting and easy to understand, and importantly (c) FREE. A properly great digital public good.
Are they aye
October 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Are they aye
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.
Staggered to discover that Katie Lam is 34. Her views are those you might have heard from a more extreme Grandparent in the early 90’s. Just where is all the crazy coming from?
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Staggered to discover that Katie Lam is 34. Her views are those you might have heard from a more extreme Grandparent in the early 90’s. Just where is all the crazy coming from?
Maggie’s woke now lads.
October 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Maggie’s woke now lads.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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These Sumo boys are all living their best lives.
October 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
These Sumo boys are all living their best lives.