Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wouldn't a conspiracy between rodents and birds of prey be subject to certain, ah, internal frictions? 010
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They enjoyed Brexit so much that they just want the chance to do it all again. 090
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Clearly, in Rupert's view, reducing cases of spina bifida and other conditions does not justify a tiny increase in flour miller's costs. 040
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Pike not telling him on the £20. Some people on the pitch, thinking it's all over, on the £10, except in Wales, which will feature Joe Jordan's handball at Anfield in 1977. 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well, that and the USAF. Although it seems that the latter can be deterred with half a 45 gallon drum of red diesel. 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Most branches of Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda sell it, so if you have one of them near you, they should be able to sort you out, unless you specifically want an independent shop? 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We have a problem with people from the settler-colonist countries who seem to derive their personal sense of identity from a one-dimensional understanding of what it means to be 'English', 'Irish', 'Italian', or whatever, and project it back onto us. 000
Reposted by Adrian Hallam.Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026hold up - will confidently interject on any subject, often with significant errors - can't actually read, instead relies on an elaborate method of parsing context through structure & likely words - looks financially impressive, actually built on huge amounts of unsustainable debt 28022
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The engine of your Transit will get quite, er, warm, if you run it on Avtur. So I'm told. 010
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Casting someone from Ireland to play a character from Birmingham didn't seem to stop people from watching Peaky Blinders. 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tbf, I think Healey is pretty explicit that he isn't talking about re-opening the coal mines. 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Are there many if those, any more? Probably a lot of liaison with local civil authorities (councils, police etc). There's a big airshow at Fairford once a year, so probably a big role in co-ordinating with the various bodies involved in that. 010
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dunno, but a fair proportion of the average working day dealing with low-flying complaints etc would be my guess. 100
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, there's a clear power imbalance there, yes, and I doubt that the officer concerned is all that busy, or involved much in the operational activities of the base. 100
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026All of the US bases are, technically, RAF stations, with an RAF Officer Commanding, usually a Sqn Ldr (NATO OF-3). The USAF presence will typically number in the thoysands and include several officers much more senior than a Sqn Ldr. 121
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It IS unusual to see the Aurora Borealis this far south, Entirely localised inside the kitchen, of a house. 050
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In th UK, you would also be pushing against a strong institutional scepticism about conscription from the armed forces themselves. 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about Europe, it's the little differences.static.klipy.comPulp Fiction: Royale With Cheese DialogueALT: Pulp Fiction: Royale With Cheese Dialogue 020
Reposted by Adrian Hallam.Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026cities that are much nicer for a wander than their reputation would have you believe, number 726 in a continuing series: having a lovely afternoon in Newport 5614
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Welsh Guards. I mean, I could name a number of similar institutions, but you get my (Rorke's) drift. Of course, that just leads you on to a declining identification as British maybe being partly linked to military service no longer being a mainstream part of British life. 110
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026But this is all just a silly parlour game, really. If you choose to identify as part of the imagined community, (England or wherever) and the overwhelming majority of that community accept you as such, then you're in. 140
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you choose a foundation date of 948AD, it would also mean that nobody became English for 150-200 years after that date, which takes us past 1066 and all that. 100
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To claim that Englishness or Britishness cannot be combined with other layers of identity seems a very odd road to go down, for a party that aspires to leadership of an explicitly multi-national state. 010
Reposted by Adrian Hallam.Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is simply far-right terrorism. And right now it’s being done with impunity. 1230278
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Is it 'because it would annoy Ed Sheeran'? If so, I'm all in. (Nothing to do with recent events, you understand, I've held an obscure grudge against him since before it was trendy). 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Who's going to break the bad news to the non-indigenous populations of the USA, Australia, Canada etc? 050
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Some of us remember the 3 consecutive nights of TRAFFIC CHAOS that he caused on the M4 in summer 2022. Streets don't forget, and neither do motorways. 020
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dylai wneud un mewn iaith wahanol, bob dydd tan diwrnod etholiad. 010
Reposted by Adrian Hallam.Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New YouGov Welsh Voting Intention: PLC: 27% (-3) RFM: 19% (-7) LAB: 18% (+10) CON: 16% (+4) GRN: 8% (-5) LDM: 5% (-1) 1313215
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026RUK will presumably demand access to the Sovereign Base Area that its taxpayers paid for, in the subsequent negotiation. There are presumably some things that Piddington wants in return. 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Something slightly unethical or unwise, (in a 'Pals battalion' kind of way), about putting identical twins on sentry duty in the same foxhole, at the same time? 010
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The lesser-spotted 3-engine Spitfire, in the window poster? 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Meh. Nearly 50-year-old book franchise looks dated and hackneyed to Generation Zed. This is normal, and will happen to you and your stuff too, teenyboppers.static.klipy.comAbe Simpson: It'll Happen To You ZoomerALT: Abe Simpson: It'll Happen To You Zoomer 1190
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Maybe needs a new fill valve. Fairly srraightforward fix. 000
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Of course, whether that would happen, or endure to the present day, is completely unknowable. Almost certainly not. The words 'England', 'Scandinavia' and even 'North Sea' would mean something very different to us, in a conversation conducted in a very different language. 110
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I guess the counterfactual is 'an England that is part of a North Sea-centred Scandinavian world.' 391
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The ONS is based in Newport, which should be enough to keep anyone stimulated. 010
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ah, *that* Lewis Page. At least he's moved on from fulminating against nefarious RAF plots against the Fleet Air Arm. 020
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Porridge us obviously Richard Beckinsale, and Auf Wiedersehen Pet was made at Lenton Labe studios, I think? Don't know what the Likely Lads connection is, though. 000
Reposted by Adrian Hallam.Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage. 93934452234
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yes, I think people perceiving Cameron and Miliband as both being equally posh, in the run up to 2015, brought this home to me. 010
Adrian Hallam. @adrianhallam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026As in 'incredibly sad, mostly.' A great reminder to be thankful that we live in the times that we do, for all its faults. 030
Reposted by Adrian Hallam.Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Um you might want to watch channel 4 news right now. A lot of people's careers are over, it seems 85412
