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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 10h

I think someone would have to devote themself full time to the ol' racism to use that particular slur. It's very much one for the aficionado.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What do you expect? When it comes to actually doing anything that will cost him effort, money or political capital our PM is just a tiny smol bean, at the mercy of powers beyond his control.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's always "piss tomorrow!" with you, isn't it Jeff?

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Life's Rich Pageant is such a great album! I remember seeing them do a really angry version of Cuyahoga, possibly on Jools Holland, back in around 2002 - I'd never noticed how political they were before.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Presumably the Boris section is 18+ only and hidden behind curtains.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I DESPERATELY want to see the Lizz Truss panel.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I completely understand that view. I myself may be biased because I moved here from a much less leafy and rural place in north Nottingham. To me it still has a village vibe - I usually see at least two or three people to say hello to every time I go in to the centre.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's also now a critical mass of residential value to make the GII listed manor house worth fixing up, and there's an application in for that at the moment, after nearly 30 years of being a ruin. And as for more growth, there are hard boundaries in every direction, not to mention the green belt.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How do you define ruined? I've lived here for nearly 20 years and it's still thoroughly lovely but with a better leisure centre and a much more sustainable independent shopping and cafe culture. They're also rebuilding the school in the next few years to increase capacity.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a local, I would say it is the obvious place for a distribution centre. It's at the crossroads of the A46/A52, within spitting distance of the A1, and not far from East Mids Airport. However I don't think they've properly thought about access for HGVs so I foresee big roadworks down the line...

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham's speech LIVE on GB News at 7pm tonight."

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've met plenty of public sector management types with their own offices that absolutely LOVE hot desking for everyone else in their organisations...

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would second the Laundry Files, but it felt more like Slow Horses (Slow Shoggoths?) than Tinker Tailor.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Having just today had a kidney stone zapped without needing invasive surgery I'm going to say that I like the modern world EXACTLY the way it is tyvm.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If a nuke blows up a city and there's nobody (me) around to see it, did it really happen?

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So at what point do the "legitimate concerns" stop being a get-out-of-jail-free card?

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fair, but I confess to being less interested in the bits that happen after my own personal doomsday.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In fairness to the poor old balloon, it is more of a post-doomsday thing. We'd already be dead, horribly burned, or mutating into warped cannibal monsters by the time it has anything to do.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tbf there are some quite scary numbers in the yougov polling on RNLI popularity. This is the headline, but as of July, 18% of men dislike the RNLI to some extent. Maybe its turning into a bit of a loyalty test on the right. yougov.com/en-gb/tracke...

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry for misunderstanding you there. Also, I take your point, but I think there's quite a lot of organised shit stirring going on on FB and the like. I'd be hugely surprised if there was a real groundswell of dislike for the RNLI among the general public.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Those "people" know exactly what they're doing and who they're targeting. They aren't naive little schoolkids - they're an organised uniformed political movement that seeks to take power through force, and should be treated as such by the state through confrontation, arrest and swift punishment.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dear Vovek, Brink is just the best sci-fi in any media at the moment, and what a way to "end" this run - heartbreaking and terrifying in equal measure! But I guess that's what they say in the business - always leave the public burned black and hanging in the sun!

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Grown-ups" treating sci-fi as a joke is a good part of why we are where we are. A lot of really worthwhile thinking has been done by authors like Simmons and Saberhagen, but because the books have wacky covers nobody has seriously engaged with the issues they raised and worked through years ago.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2026

On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc...

The close of his statement was an appeal to our better natures. If we were going to ask Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side, he said, Britain also had to be a place where “people of all faiths and none have a right to live without prejudice or fear.” Listening to him was Andy Burnham, who has been strangely absent from our public debate for the last few days. In August, we couldn’t move for social media clips from the prime minister, standing on a ladder to discuss his first job, or sitting in a pub to rate bar snacks. But faced with masked thugs trying to shut down British ports over the weekend, Burnham seems to have lost the password for his phone. For a decade now, Britain has had a series of leaders apparently paralysed by the fear that if they say that racism is bad, they’ll be voted out. It would be nice to get one who had a slightly higher opinion of us.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

These weird, hateful obsessives are not the vanguard of public opinion, and they are eminently beatable if the government can get out of its defensive cringe about "legitimate concerns"

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 07/09/2026

At some point we are going to have to address the fact that these people fundamentally want migrants gunned down in the water and nothing short of corpses washing up on beaches will make them happy - and that that’s not a “legitimate concern”

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Do you know what, the Star Wars prequels were a lot more fun to watch than they are to live through.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cowardice, if not complicity. Why did Burnham spend all that time sleazing his way into no 10 if it wasn't to act like a prime minister and stand up to the enemies of our democracy? Was it simply vanity?

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As a general note: the median British voter is in favour of doing things that would elicit a quiet whistle of worried admiration from Bomber Harris to those who obstruct or target the RNLI, and quite rightly so. If a government cannot see that and react, it has a problem seeing the simple things.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Target acquired Ms. Braverman. Orders? "Weapons free, Major. Terminate."

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"What this is all really about is not a super-complex story - it's a rather simple one. It's about donations to the party from the super-wealthy." No, Nick Robinson, it's about crime. It's about illegally soliciting donations from people who aren't allowed to donate.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nobody books Chesney Hawkes to hear songs from his latest album.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Archaeologist hoodwinks an elderly businessman into funding her pet project, and then her boyfriend and most of her colleagues suffer a series of preventable workplace accidents through their own incompetence.

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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You can ask the owner when he gets back from his "sleepover" at Springfield Aquarium.

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