Graham Simmons
@grahamsimmons.bsky.social
Long-standing admirer of Dunedin railway station
Very much looking forward to seeing who wins the inaugural FIFA Award for Literature ...
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Very much looking forward to seeing who wins the inaugural FIFA Award for Literature ...
The utter absurdity of Labour's position summed up in one sentence.
Admitting that rejoining the customs union was not “currently” the Government’s official policy, Deputy Prime Minister Mr Lammy did concede that the growth potential of rejoining was “self-evident”
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Lammy refuses to rule out Brexit reversal admitting rejoining EU would 'boost UK growth' | LBC
The Deputy PM joined the News Agents as he said that 'our future is inextricably linked to the European Union'
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December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The utter absurdity of Labour's position summed up in one sentence.
Trump has the financial and military clout to blow Putin clean out of Ukraine.
Instead, the White House offers grovelling peace deals to which Putin thumbs his nose.
Which leads you conclude; just how damaging is the 'kompromat' that Putin holds on Trump? Worse even than Epstein files?
Instead, the White House offers grovelling peace deals to which Putin thumbs his nose.
Which leads you conclude; just how damaging is the 'kompromat' that Putin holds on Trump? Worse even than Epstein files?
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Trump has the financial and military clout to blow Putin clean out of Ukraine.
Instead, the White House offers grovelling peace deals to which Putin thumbs his nose.
Which leads you conclude; just how damaging is the 'kompromat' that Putin holds on Trump? Worse even than Epstein files?
Instead, the White House offers grovelling peace deals to which Putin thumbs his nose.
Which leads you conclude; just how damaging is the 'kompromat' that Putin holds on Trump? Worse even than Epstein files?
Steve Cropper telling it as it was. Amazing story; a truly great tune; a lovely bloke. RIP
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December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Steve Cropper telling it as it was. Amazing story; a truly great tune; a lovely bloke. RIP
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I'm going to play it right now. RIP 🙏
(AP) — Steve Cropper, influential guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the MGs, has died at age 84.
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I'm going to play it right now. RIP 🙏
‘What Ireland? Again? Mother of Christ. Okay, but in R16 we get someone like Italy, right? Japan? Wales? Say that again? France? Are you serious?'
Scotland, and others, weigh up the vagaries of todays 2027 Rugby World Cup draw. Time for a major rethink?
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Scotland, and others, weigh up the vagaries of todays 2027 Rugby World Cup draw. Time for a major rethink?
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RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN?
THE 2027 RUGBY WORLD CUP
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December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
‘What Ireland? Again? Mother of Christ. Okay, but in R16 we get someone like Italy, right? Japan? Wales? Say that again? France? Are you serious?'
Scotland, and others, weigh up the vagaries of todays 2027 Rugby World Cup draw. Time for a major rethink?
rugbyplus.substack.com/p/rip-it-up-...
Scotland, and others, weigh up the vagaries of todays 2027 Rugby World Cup draw. Time for a major rethink?
rugbyplus.substack.com/p/rip-it-up-...
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
'... his resting heart rate was so steady the EKG machine asked whether he was meditating or just naturally enlightened.'
Perfect. 😘
Perfect. 😘
Governor Newsom releases his advanced imaging results...
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
'... his resting heart rate was so steady the EKG machine asked whether he was meditating or just naturally enlightened.'
Perfect. 😘
Perfect. 😘
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
Big, big, statement win from Bath at Saracens in a cracking. game.
And without Underhill, Pepper, Lawrence, Carreras, Coetzee, Barbeary ...
#GallacherPrem #BathRugby
And without Underhill, Pepper, Lawrence, Carreras, Coetzee, Barbeary ...
#GallacherPrem #BathRugby
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Big, big, statement win from Bath at Saracens in a cracking. game.
And without Underhill, Pepper, Lawrence, Carreras, Coetzee, Barbeary ...
#GallacherPrem #BathRugby
And without Underhill, Pepper, Lawrence, Carreras, Coetzee, Barbeary ...
#GallacherPrem #BathRugby
'You don’t - ever - go waist-up on Andre Esterhuizen unless you’re measuring him for a new suit. It’s Ankles Esterhuizen only.'
Wales/South Africa revisited. Not for the squeamish ...
#WalesSouthAfrica #AutumnNationsSeries
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Wales/South Africa revisited. Not for the squeamish ...
#WalesSouthAfrica #AutumnNationsSeries
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A POSITION OR A PREDICAMENT?
THE 2025 AUTUMN NATIONS' SERIES
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November 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
'You don’t - ever - go waist-up on Andre Esterhuizen unless you’re measuring him for a new suit. It’s Ankles Esterhuizen only.'
Wales/South Africa revisited. Not for the squeamish ...
#WalesSouthAfrica #AutumnNationsSeries
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Wales/South Africa revisited. Not for the squeamish ...
#WalesSouthAfrica #AutumnNationsSeries
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
Stade Français Paris have a 6/5 record in this season's Top14. So, too, do Racing '92.
Except SFP are 4th and Racing are 11th. Ludicrously tight league.
Except SFP are 4th and Racing are 11th. Ludicrously tight league.
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Stade Français Paris have a 6/5 record in this season's Top14. So, too, do Racing '92.
Except SFP are 4th and Racing are 11th. Ludicrously tight league.
Except SFP are 4th and Racing are 11th. Ludicrously tight league.
The man was a genius. RIP Tom Stoppard.
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The man was a genius. RIP Tom Stoppard.
'In Alan Bennett’s ‘The Madness of King George’, Rupert Everett, as the heir to the tottering throne, bemoans the fact that ‘being the Prince of Wales is not a position; it’s a predicament.’ Right now, being the Head Coach of Wales is looking much the same.'
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A POSITION OR A PREDICAMENT?
THE 2025 AUTUMN NATIONS' SERIES
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
'In Alan Bennett’s ‘The Madness of King George’, Rupert Everett, as the heir to the tottering throne, bemoans the fact that ‘being the Prince of Wales is not a position; it’s a predicament.’ Right now, being the Head Coach of Wales is looking much the same.'
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Drug traffickers. Do you launch wars against them or do you pardon them when they've been convicted and sentenced to 45 years behind bars?
It's a tough one, isn't it?
It's a tough one, isn't it?
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Drug traffickers. Do you launch wars against them or do you pardon them when they've been convicted and sentenced to 45 years behind bars?
It's a tough one, isn't it?
It's a tough one, isn't it?
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
'South Africa fed Ireland into the maw of their voracious set piece and spat them out. Farrell’s boys were either in Casualty or the clink for much of the match - ‘we’re gonna need a bigger bin’ - and yet Ireland won the second half 6-5.'
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#AutumnSeries
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#AutumnSeries
'SOMETIMES NOTHIN' CAN BE A REAL COOL HAND ...'
THE 2025 AUTUMN NATIONS' SERIES
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November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
'South Africa fed Ireland into the maw of their voracious set piece and spat them out. Farrell’s boys were either in Casualty or the clink for much of the match - ‘we’re gonna need a bigger bin’ - and yet Ireland won the second half 6-5.'
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#AutumnSeries
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#AutumnSeries
Not sure this is how you win a Nobel Peace Prize ...🤨
We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Not sure this is how you win a Nobel Peace Prize ...🤨
Europe? Where are you?
BREAKING: The US is threatening to cut intelligence and weapons to Ukraine unless it accepts the “peace plan” Trump officials have been quietly crafting with Russia.
-Reuters
-Reuters
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Europe? Where are you?
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Government, what are you waiting for?
Nathan Gill’s sentencing should be the final wake-up call for Britain to take the threat of Russian interference seriously, says @benbradshaw.bsky.social
Nathan Gill’s sentencing should be the final wake-up call for Britain to take the threat of Russian interference seriously, says @benbradshaw.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Government, what are you waiting for?
Nathan Gill’s sentencing should be the final wake-up call for Britain to take the threat of Russian interference seriously, says @benbradshaw.bsky.social
Nathan Gill’s sentencing should be the final wake-up call for Britain to take the threat of Russian interference seriously, says @benbradshaw.bsky.social
TACO.
The president’s Oval Office meeting with New York’s incoming leader is not open to the press.
Trump, 79, Chickens Out of Public Showdown With Mamdani, 34
The president’s Oval Office meeting with New York’s incoming leader is not open to the press.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
TACO.
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That's 23,000 deaths 'in England alone'. Johnson's negligence was criminal. Five Cobra meetings missed in January/February 2020 when he was otherwise engaged? Herd immunity? Let the bodies pile high? Piss ups? Tea Parties? The worst human being in the worst place at the worst time.
Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
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Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths
A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock
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November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
That's 23,000 deaths 'in England alone'. Johnson's negligence was criminal. Five Cobra meetings missed in January/February 2020 when he was otherwise engaged? Herd immunity? Let the bodies pile high? Piss ups? Tea Parties? The worst human being in the worst place at the worst time.