Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Needs to be done. House price rises are unearned income, so use the existing CGT mechanism. House purchase price then, sold price now, divided by number of years. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Did you hear In Our Time the other day about the Garamantes? Fascinating civilisation that nobody has ever heard about 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Great on the Jools Holland show a few days ago. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Been expecting it ever since those ex Tories joined. Remember UKIP. He likes to leave a party and start another one so he can collect donations all over again. 1131
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026And when they do it again every 15 minutes after an ad break. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Is that England diagram correct? It only shows those seats that were contested, the total number of seats across England including those that were not contested is a very different picture. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026For me it's the snarling face of Liz Kendall attacking the sick and disabled for benefit cuts and constantly mis-describing what PIP is for, followed by Sir KS and 'island of strangers'. 280
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Another day of our political discourse wasted whilst the world burns around us. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Douglas Adams knew that. Anyone who wants to run the world should on no account be allowed to do so. 0111
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This is not the same list as the BBC was running with earlier. How many iterations are there? 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Because it takes me, for a few seconds, into a well-observed other world. 110
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Everybody knew he was sleazy. He was appointed BECAUSE he was sleazy and thus able to get close to Trump. They had things in common. Everybody Knew. 011
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Note how Trump always comes out with anti UK rhetoric after speaking to, or in this case having dinner with, Farage. 3325
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Solution to fly tipping is longer opening hours and no fees at the council tip. At least we'd have the waste somewhere it could be dealt with. Would reduce costs overall. And no blokes checking your driving licence to confirm which county you live in! 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Thanks for this. I have the Paul Auster New York Trilogy and loved that, so I will try these. 030
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026There's a bloke beside me on some work conference call. He just said 'I very strongly told him....' just wondering how that gets done. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Because back then it was all about abuse of girls. UK authorities sprang into action when it became about government and commercial secrets. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026No he won't, as the Shadow Chancellor is a post owned by the Official Opposition not by some silly minority 'party'. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 16/02/2026And all those recently defected Reform MPs such as Jenrick and Braverman can have their by-elections! Democracy wins. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The word for moving from one crisis to another - shambling? 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Some great forensic journalism has been going on today, only about 15 years after the events in question. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Was Mandelson using his government email / blackberry device, and, were any of those doucments marked Secret? Just working out how long his jail sentence is goint to be. 020
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Great work here. Do we know the privacy markings on those documents, does that matter? If they were 'secret' then he's going to jail surely. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Europe plus Canada should be the way forward. 110
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Does he have to resign the mayoralty in order to run, or, only if he wins? Might labour end up losing both contests leaving Burnham out of politics? 020
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Tipping Jenrick to be leader of Reform by the summer. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Oh ffs. He's the one who wrote the Lancaster House speech setting the hard Brexit red lines. Total chump. 091
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026He was up a lamp-post with a flag a few weeks ago, does that count? 260
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The trouble with the British Right is that it has become the Far Right. Centre-right politicians are hard to find now. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Farage isn't going to stay in Reform with all these big beasts joining. Jenrick could lead Reform. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026He was last seen in the garden centre looking at the extra large wheelbarrows 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 10/12/2025... and will use the benefits system to top it up so workers can actually live. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I'd love to see Labour make the case for joining the CU and put it in the manifesto for the next Election. Make it the Big Idea and stop Reform / Conservatives dead in their tracks. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Funny how everyone opposes tax rises and then start complaining about the potholes and the NHS waiting lists. 000
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025I don't think our day to day bills are the issue. The big-picture issue is long term energy security and zero-carbon. The *only* sustainable future is renewables and perhaps some nuclear. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025So we'll all have to have smartphones by then? Many people, including older / disabled / cognitively impaired, can't use them. 010
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Laughing at the thought of the Tories, who gave us Boris Johnson, going on the attack over ministerial integrity. 290
Alistair Tyrrell @alistairt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025By 'the country' he means France. Note how he does not say 'this country'. All the skilled nuclear tech jobs will be with EDF France. UK will get a small number of short term construction jobs. 000
