Swissmikey
@swissmikey.bsky.social
Lover of walks, bike rides, music, and pints in country pubs.
Stephen Collins nailing it as usual!
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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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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October 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Stephen Collins nailing it as usual!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social on how the lack of housing creates problems and robs people of dignity and opportunity.
Also managed a glimpse of the Belmont pub round the corner from where I grew up. All those streets looked very familiar!
Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social on how the lack of housing creates problems and robs people of dignity and opportunity.
Also managed a glimpse of the Belmont pub round the corner from where I grew up. All those streets looked very familiar!
The city that reveals Britain's biggest problem: there's nowhere to live – video
After a long summer defined by flags, protests and tensions over asylum, John Harris and John Domokos go back to Liverpool to explore the lives of people dealing with a huge housing crisis, while tryi...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social on how the lack of housing creates problems and robs people of dignity and opportunity.
Also managed a glimpse of the Belmont pub round the corner from where I grew up. All those streets looked very familiar!
Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social on how the lack of housing creates problems and robs people of dignity and opportunity.
Also managed a glimpse of the Belmont pub round the corner from where I grew up. All those streets looked very familiar!
BBC News - Danbury cricketers stumped as council bans all play - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Given the car park is clearly too close to the 200 year old cricket pitch, it seems the obvious solution is to ban the parking of cars there and not cricket...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Given the car park is clearly too close to the 200 year old cricket pitch, it seems the obvious solution is to ban the parking of cars there and not cricket...
Danbury cricketers stumped as council bans all play
People in an Essex village are upset the sport has been banned after a passer-by was hit by a ball.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
BBC News - Danbury cricketers stumped as council bans all play - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Given the car park is clearly too close to the 200 year old cricket pitch, it seems the obvious solution is to ban the parking of cars there and not cricket...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Given the car park is clearly too close to the 200 year old cricket pitch, it seems the obvious solution is to ban the parking of cars there and not cricket...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is just performative cruelly now, and a British version of ICE in the US.
Come over aged 12, do your GCSEs, get a national insurance number, work, pay taxes and freely travel in and out of the country on trips without any problems until now?
This is just performative cruelly now, and a British version of ICE in the US.
Come over aged 12, do your GCSEs, get a national insurance number, work, pay taxes and freely travel in and out of the country on trips without any problems until now?
Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants
Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is just performative cruelly now, and a British version of ICE in the US.
Come over aged 12, do your GCSEs, get a national insurance number, work, pay taxes and freely travel in and out of the country on trips without any problems until now?
This is just performative cruelly now, and a British version of ICE in the US.
Come over aged 12, do your GCSEs, get a national insurance number, work, pay taxes and freely travel in and out of the country on trips without any problems until now?
BBC News - Ex-Superman actor says he's becoming ICE agent
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I mean, he's an actor and it's a fictional character, but I can't imagine any iteration of Clark Kent deciding that the right thing to do is to join ICE and detain immigrants and citizens without any due process
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I mean, he's an actor and it's a fictional character, but I can't imagine any iteration of Clark Kent deciding that the right thing to do is to join ICE and detain immigrants and citizens without any due process
Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain says he's becoming ICE agent
Dean Cain says he'll be "sworn in as an ICE agent asap" following a recruitment drive by the agency.
www.bbc.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
BBC News - Ex-Superman actor says he's becoming ICE agent
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I mean, he's an actor and it's a fictional character, but I can't imagine any iteration of Clark Kent deciding that the right thing to do is to join ICE and detain immigrants and citizens without any due process
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I mean, he's an actor and it's a fictional character, but I can't imagine any iteration of Clark Kent deciding that the right thing to do is to join ICE and detain immigrants and citizens without any due process
I keep on getting this error - videos play for 2 secs or so and then an error. Anyone else having this problem on a web browser?
November 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
I keep on getting this error - videos play for 2 secs or so and then an error. Anyone else having this problem on a web browser?