@tara-fayed.bsky.social
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Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines.
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
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However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines.
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
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What The Tube Map Could Have Looked Like If Proposals From 1946 Had Been Implemented
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brilliantmaps.com/tube-map-...
September 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What The Tube Map Could Have Looked Like If Proposals From 1946 Had Been Implemented
brilliantmaps.com/tube-map-...
brilliantmaps.com/tube-map-...
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Someone needs to put a new light-bulb in Melania.
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Someone needs to put a new light-bulb in Melania.
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My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. Live Fridays at 5:50pm or on catch-up afterwards.
This week: Charlie Kirk's assassination stuns America, and why it matters for the U.K.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/877630...
This week: Charlie Kirk's assassination stuns America, and why it matters for the U.K.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/877630...
September 12, 2025 - "American Week": Charlie Kirk's assassination stuns America
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States, dominated this week by the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and the reaction to it. Listen live every week at 5:50pm on...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. Live Fridays at 5:50pm or on catch-up afterwards.
This week: Charlie Kirk's assassination stuns America, and why it matters for the U.K.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/877630...
This week: Charlie Kirk's assassination stuns America, and why it matters for the U.K.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/877630...
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Very good piece from @bengoldsborough.bsky.social. More of this please.
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
Nigel Farage and Reform UK would break what makes Britain strong
When Nigel Farage stood up this week and outlined his so-called “plan” for immigration, he didn’t sound like a democrat. He sounded like Vladimir Putin. He called for uniformed officers to raid Britai...
www.politics.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Very good piece from @bengoldsborough.bsky.social. More of this please.
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
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Paul Nuttalls of the UKIPs, coming over here... youtu.be/Y38pbfJ4i_U
Stewart Lee - ukip and immigration complete
YouTube video by David Charles Rowan MA MSc
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July 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Paul Nuttalls of the UKIPs, coming over here... youtu.be/Y38pbfJ4i_U
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why not decommission it the usual way: launching it into a million pieces over protected wetlands
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
why not decommission it the usual way: launching it into a million pieces over protected wetlands
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Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
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The report by @antonspisak.bsky.social says: “Exports have historically contributed positively to UK real GDP growth. Since 2020, however, exports have become a drag on UK GDP growth, on average subtracting nearly 0.5% per annum”. @theneweuropean.bsky.social
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Is the UK doomed?
A brutal UK economy report makes it clear: the reset is not enough in the face of deeply troubling data on a trade meltdown
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May 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The report by @antonspisak.bsky.social says: “Exports have historically contributed positively to UK real GDP growth. Since 2020, however, exports have become a drag on UK GDP growth, on average subtracting nearly 0.5% per annum”. @theneweuropean.bsky.social
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buff.ly/B7sEZxR
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come to sunny Erith instead at least my pub is there
Sorry but if you write this about Ruislip "Lido" they need to bring back the stocks for you, you are literally just lying to people for no fucking reason.
May 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
come to sunny Erith instead at least my pub is there
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Garfield's AI assistant guides claimants in England and Wales through the small claims court process, including creating 'polite chaser' letters for £2 and filing documents such as claim forms for £50. www.ft.com/content/e56c...
May 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Garfield's AI assistant guides claimants in England and Wales through the small claims court process, including creating 'polite chaser' letters for £2 and filing documents such as claim forms for £50. www.ft.com/content/e56c...
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The penguins aren't fucking around with retaliatory tariffs.
Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa
Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa
Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.
www.bbc.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The penguins aren't fucking around with retaliatory tariffs.
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Do you not own a suit
JD Vance in Greenland: "Denmark has not kept pace in devoting the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of aggressive incursions from Russia, from China, and from other nations."
March 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Do you not own a suit
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Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Elbows up, Canada.
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Boris Johnson endorsing Donald Trump last October with one of the great Freudian slips of all time
March 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Boris Johnson endorsing Donald Trump last October with one of the great Freudian slips of all time
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he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.
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Excellent piece by @tomcalver.bsky.social debunking the myth that migrants who come on "dependant" visas don't work/contribute (1/2)
www.thetimes.com/article/48e9...
www.thetimes.com/article/48e9...
February 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Excellent piece by @tomcalver.bsky.social debunking the myth that migrants who come on "dependant" visas don't work/contribute (1/2)
www.thetimes.com/article/48e9...
www.thetimes.com/article/48e9...
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Five years on: stuck. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on how the latest news (the 'wobble', PEM, AI, regulatory capacity, Trump etc) shows there's still no post-Brexit strategy & perhaps none is possible - but UK is still not ready to admit it: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/five...
January 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Five years on: stuck. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on how the latest news (the 'wobble', PEM, AI, regulatory capacity, Trump etc) shows there's still no post-Brexit strategy & perhaps none is possible - but UK is still not ready to admit it: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/five...
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🚨 "Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy.”
Imagine the shock when they see this
Imagine the shock when they see this
January 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🚨 "Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy.”
Imagine the shock when they see this
Imagine the shock when they see this