simonroyall.bsky.social
@simonroyall.bsky.social
Twitter refugee, Ex-X.
That’s Bored of Peace, right?
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Trump doesn’t have a goal. He has an ego. There is no plan. No scheme, evil or otherwise. Just reaction to whatever slings and arrows bounce off his impossible inflated and sensitive self-image.

His ego would suffer nothing less than being president and can suffer nothing of what comes with it.
January 21, 2026 at 11:12 AM
It’s January, new beginnings, willpower month, but sadly I’m working from home in a house filled with chocolate left over from Christmas.
January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Simple test for whether or not a pizza is ultra-processed:

Is it an absolute bastard to slice?

Then it’s not ultra-processed.
January 15, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I know, I know, making policy is harder than it looks, but surely “stop issuing government comms via a Neo-Nazi child porn site” is among the lower hanging fruit?
January 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
A portrayal that is “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious” pretty much ticks off his character traits and presidential style so that’s an interesting basis for litigation.
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
An Armistice Day thought: Wilfred Owen’s ‘Strange Meeting’ gives us the only truly Shakespearean poetry outside of Shakespeare. And these lines proved all too true, didn’t they:
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So how are my fellow licence fee payers feeling about potentially paying Trump damages?
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Did not have “the new Predator film pays tribute to the Wrong Trousers” on my bingo card.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trump dedicated his life to the falsehood that he had actually won in 2020 - and got to be president again.

The BBC made a single clumsy edit in a current affairs programme - and the Director General and head of news have to resign.

Disparity. Grotesque disparity.
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
“BBC Director General and News CEO out as Trump welcomes their departures”
Translation:
“As a convicted felon found liable for sexual abuse welcomes their departures”
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
For my whole life the right-wing press has wielded far, far too much power in the UK. But this is especially dangerous now that they, and the right in general, are more or less completely given over to conspiracy theory.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Hang on to your hats, people. Retain your objectivity. Trump is a convicted felon who, at the absolute least, failed to discourage a mob of his supporters from staging an insurrection on Jan 6. One clumsy exit in a current affairs show on these events is not propaganda.
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Who’s going to can to a very exciting Elon Musk that that’s not the sound of fu fire from civil war; it’s fireworks.
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In five years’ time, when the swivel -eyed chancers of Reform are in power and laughing all the way to the bank, we’re going to miss someone resigning because they broke the ministerial code.
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There’s such a sense of exhausted accomplishment at the end of the C-sharp minor fugue from Book 1 of the Well-tempered Clavier. You can almost feel the music slumping down breathless and saying: there, I did it. Bach takes the Picardy 3rd from Baroque convention to full expressive tool.
January 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just joined and already loving this place. It’s how Twitter used to be. And I’d forgotten how it used to be.
December 3, 2024 at 12:34 PM