schultzy.bsky.social
schultzy.bsky.social
@schultzy.bsky.social
Whoa ⏬
This is wonderful and also true.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Yup! ✊
I don't think there can be much doubt now that Burnham is preparing for a leadership contest.
In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.
September 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dead right.
We did an Origin Story on Netanyahu, did a ton of research, and he remains the only person we've covered who has no redeeming features whatsoever. He started out an arsehole and became a monster. That's basically the story.
July 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yup.
To cheat that brazenly over something that unimportant is a true mark of how little there is in that creature.

That American élites have let so tawdry a thing treat them as serfs shows how little there is in them.
Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️
July 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yup, in a nutshell.
If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
WTAF
Special mention to Boston Consulting Group for working on the unworkable, and potentially illegal, Israeli plan to deliver aid, which has ended up in many shootings: www.ft.com/content/2b23...
June 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza.

Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.
May 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Yup
One wonders if societies have lost the crucial knack of telling the very, very important difference between the two concepts.
May 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Stiffs, every man jack.
Ah lovely. Another bag of rubbish gets tipped into the House of Lords. The place must absolutely reek of stale Tory failure, corruption and abuse of power.
Honours handed out like sweeties to some of the most undeserving, underachieving, overpromoted clowns and liars to have ever held public office.
April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Not before time.
April 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yup, just this.
"The limits of power" I weep atop my three-figure majority, in a parliament I control the schedule for, aided by a powerful whipping system, at the heart of one of the most centralised political systems in the democratic world, and alongside a wide selection of extra-parliamentary powers.
Above all, there is genuine shock amongst many people who have gone into government at just how bad things are, how slowly things move, the limits of power and the obstructiveness of systems. There is a lot of working out as they go along what needs to change about the way the state functions
March 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
@michellescrogham.bsky.social
Please ask the PM to rethink the proposed cuts to disability support.
March 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Jim Hamilton clutching his pearls about Mauvaka. FFS.
March 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Yup.
Many memorable lines in this. “Forget shining city on a hill. The United States is now the world’s drunk uncle-by-marriage, showing up at a family dinner to spout off ugly nonsense while everyone looks away from the stains on his clothes and tries to ignore the odours wafting from him.”
I left northern Ontario 25 years ago, but it’s always in my blood (and in my accent when I get mad). Pretty much everyone there is mad right now. Here’s how stupid the tariff threat looks from a border town.
March 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Brilliant!
February 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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One thing I have benefitted from during my travels to Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff&the North of England last year: There are plenty of incredibly informed, nuanced experts in all of these places who can tell you a lot about devolution & local government IF ONLY someone took the trouble to ask them. 🙄
Just had to switch off a radio discussion about local govt reorg in which London based commentators largely concluded “dunno really” and “I suppose in London we have a very straightforward structure so trying to understand what happens everywhere else is really hard”
February 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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💯 this (and for starters!)
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If Labour want to shore up support then easing the cost of living should be priority. Get to grips with energy, water & grocery bills. And pursuing the likes of Mone & Abramovich for tax rather than squeezing the pensioners and lower paid. Most of Reform’s appeal to the disenchanted would dissolve.
EXCL: Labour MPs whose seats are under threat from Reform UK have set up pressure group to urge Keir Starmer to take tougher stance on migration and crime @kiranstacey.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
February 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Can't see any mention of Mitford's friendship with Lord Rothermere or the positive write ups she got in the Mail in the 30s. I'm sure that's referenced inside.
Daily Mail: Found after 80 years, secret diary of Hitler’s English girlfriend #TomorrowsPapersToday
January 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Happy New Year everyone.
Joining the list of images that are soft and calming so as to not jar the hangovers from last night.
Castle Crag from Isthmus Bay, Keswick.
January 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Wtf is he wearing, an old United shirt?
Supporter of Orban and Trump: not a surprise.
New: Tim Montgomerie, founder of ConHome, has left the Tories and joined Reform UK
December 3, 2024 at 9:00 PM