Chris Puttick
@putt1ck.bsky.social
Audiophile, biker, dog-owner, entrepreneur -
just messing with stuff.
just messing with stuff.
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Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation".
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy
Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy
Deputy leader says archbishop should stay out of matter after Stephen Cottrell calls policy isolationist and kneejerk
Reform UK has engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all asylum seekers who arrive in small boats, after the church’s most senior bishop called the proposal “isolationist, short-term [and] kneejerk”.
Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, hit back against the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on Sunday, accusing him of interfering in domestic politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation".
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
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You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
August 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
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Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported
August 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported
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As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
August 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
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Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
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Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
"We should say at the outset what this appeal hearing is not about: it is not concerned with the merits of Government policy in relation to the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers, in hotels or otherwise."
(The "not" is underlined in the original)
(The "not" is underlined in the original)
August 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
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Journalists, and the public, really need to learn the difference between an asylum seeker and refugee, and stop using the terms interchangeably.
This headline is inaccurate. It is people granted refugee status who will have their lives wrecked again by an idiotic, unworkable policy, pushing homelessness for refugees NOT people seeking asylum onto councils
Be cruel & appease racism is the actual Govt strategy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Be cruel & appease racism is the actual Govt strategy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Home Office set to halve time asylum seekers spend in hotels
The time given to people granted asylum to move from hotels to their own accommodation will be cut from 56 to 28 days.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Journalists, and the public, really need to learn the difference between an asylum seeker and refugee, and stop using the terms interchangeably.
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I appreciate the posts from Labour activists about the vital work they are doing on the ground to oppose Reform but Starmer and his Cabinet seem far closer in rhetoric and in substance to Reform than even a centralist Labour government of the past like Wilson's or even Blair's.
August 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I appreciate the posts from Labour activists about the vital work they are doing on the ground to oppose Reform but Starmer and his Cabinet seem far closer in rhetoric and in substance to Reform than even a centralist Labour government of the past like Wilson's or even Blair's.
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These were National Front talking points when I was young, and attacked by everyone except extremists. BNP when I was older: the BNP was run off for being racist cunts. Now The Times is cheerily discussing what might happen “if the population was to be sieved.” Also “camps” is very deliberate.
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
These were National Front talking points when I was young, and attacked by everyone except extremists. BNP when I was older: the BNP was run off for being racist cunts. Now The Times is cheerily discussing what might happen “if the population was to be sieved.” Also “camps” is very deliberate.
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Dear Labour government.
Please grow some balls.
The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate.
Please start calling it out.
Please grow some balls.
The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate.
Please start calling it out.
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Dear Labour government.
Please grow some balls.
The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate.
Please start calling it out.
Please grow some balls.
The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate.
Please start calling it out.
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Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech
Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions
+COMMENT US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.…
dlvr.it
August 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech
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Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
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This is so embarrassing. Just an absolute nonsense.
UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is so embarrassing. Just an absolute nonsense.
Yeah it didn't arrive
The Never Ending Parcel
My package is on the way
It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot
Now to Abingdon, our local depot
It's out for delivery hooray
it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today
3 came and went, now end of day
that'll work I say
My package is on the way
It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot
Now to Abingdon, our local depot
It's out for delivery hooray
it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today
3 came and went, now end of day
that'll work I say
August 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Yeah it didn't arrive
Worth reminding everyone in the UK Farage=Trump
TRUMP: Thank you very much, Vladimir
PUTIN: Next time in Moscow
TRUMP: Oooh. That's an interesting one. I'll get a little heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening
(Trump and Putin then leave)
PUTIN: Next time in Moscow
TRUMP: Oooh. That's an interesting one. I'll get a little heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening
(Trump and Putin then leave)
August 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Worth reminding everyone in the UK Farage=Trump
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Following the Trump-Putin summit I now know it's possible to be disappointed with something you had absolutely no expectations for.
I am in other words I am now fully equipped to empathise with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com when she finally reads my book.
I am in other words I am now fully equipped to empathise with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com when she finally reads my book.
August 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Following the Trump-Putin summit I now know it's possible to be disappointed with something you had absolutely no expectations for.
I am in other words I am now fully equipped to empathise with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com when she finally reads my book.
I am in other words I am now fully equipped to empathise with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com when she finally reads my book.
The Never Ending Parcel
My package is on the way
It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot
Now to Abingdon, our local depot
It's out for delivery hooray
it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today
3 came and went, now end of day
that'll work I say
My package is on the way
It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot
Now to Abingdon, our local depot
It's out for delivery hooray
it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today
3 came and went, now end of day
that'll work I say
August 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Never Ending Parcel
My package is on the way
It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot
Now to Abingdon, our local depot
It's out for delivery hooray
it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today
3 came and went, now end of day
that'll work I say
My package is on the way
It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot
Now to Abingdon, our local depot
It's out for delivery hooray
it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today
3 came and went, now end of day
that'll work I say
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Finally, as I've already pointed out, the "up to 1.2 million illegal migrants" number on which Thames Water and the Telegraph based their false claims, and which included legal migrants, has officially been retracted by Pew.
No journalist should be using it.
www.pewresearch.org/global/fact-...
No journalist should be using it.
www.pewresearch.org/global/fact-...
August 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Finally, as I've already pointed out, the "up to 1.2 million illegal migrants" number on which Thames Water and the Telegraph based their false claims, and which included legal migrants, has officially been retracted by Pew.
No journalist should be using it.
www.pewresearch.org/global/fact-...
No journalist should be using it.
www.pewresearch.org/global/fact-...
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Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
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I've read some bad takes in my time but this one...
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option
For now at least - even though government buying can improve, open-source is not all its cracked up to be
Debate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government's money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year in software licensing, and roughly £9 billion over five years. Not surprisingly, there are plenty of voices challenging whether this is good use of public money. After all, aren't there plenty of open source alternatives?…
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August 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I've read some bad takes in my time but this one...
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Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up'
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Investors are frogs in a Trumpian pot
[FREE TO READ] People are looking at becalmed market conditions and writing them off as the result of a quiet summer
on.ft.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up'
me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ
me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ
What do you call a shellfish that can't get what it wants?
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A frustracean
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A frustracean
August 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
What do you call a shellfish that can't get what it wants?
...
A frustracean
...
A frustracean