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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 16h

Yes it is. Though it leaves me scratching my head about how he came to be head of the No 10 Policy Unit under Thatcher.

Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A bell is a tiny expense but some people think it's rude. So I announce myself by speaking to them. And sure I am very occasionally asked "don't you have a bell?"

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the extraordinary things about Harborne's Telegraph article is that he refers to climate change as one of the three existential threats facing humanity. How he thinks Reform can help deal with that, I have no idea.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Did you see the stuff in there about climate change? He thinks Reform are the party to do this? Thank goodness I wasn't eating my breakfast when I read this.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So he doesn't explicitly say Reform are the best option for addressing climate change, but that is rather the implication.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this in Christopher Harborne's piece in the Telegraph, in which he describes his donation to Reform as a "philanthropic gift to our country".

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The most extraordinary 'proof of delivery' I have seen was a photo of one of those cages on wheels used in depots, with lots of packages in it. Perhaps it included the one that was allegedly delivered

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

They'd have had to designate under section 158 and then publicise the designation. Which does raise again the question of whether they didn't do that out of choice (for whatever reason) or because of an intelligence failure.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That last bit must be 20% or more

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good stuff. Bad start for Palace. No draws at all yet in PL.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Do you know what is meant by "solutions" in Portugal, Sweden and France?

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thank you! I have been trying to decide on some holiday reading for next week. Looks promising.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

They'll be back, the climate "skeptics", when we move into La Niña. The world's getting cooler, they will say. I hope I'm wrong.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sweeping the forest? Like Trump believed they do in Finland - to the surprise of then President Niinistö

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The way Jim Allister has written this it seems to me that he is describing himself as an EU fanatic. Obvs not his intention but that is the structure of the sentence.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

At a restaurant in Islington North I was once wished good luck at the forthcoming election (I think it was 2017)

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

And yet they looked like they might just manage an equaliser. Glad they didn't

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yes it was brief interlude when the clouds parted

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They can and they did for a few minutes at the end, when they had to.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And a fairly recent Palace alumnus, namely Michael Olise

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He'll spend more time there, so that will tell them there's an election, had they missed the news

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And if they do he will present the trophy to himself.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Could be that will be needed in the next 75 minutes

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And Adam as a midfield option when a defence splitting pass might make the difference

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Don't know. I haven't been there for years

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It is striking how just a few hundred meters from the East London Mosque there is a pub which calls itself "the most famous in Great Britain" (should probably be "infamous")

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Quite. If you go down to that level I wonder if there might be entirely residential areas where there isn't any measured economic activity at all.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They are horrible to fit and also heavy and sluggish. But I liked them for commuting as the puncture protection was very good. One of the benefits of retirement is that I no longer use them.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

First time I fitted a (not tubeless) marathon plus with only thumbs I was very smug until I noticed that I had rubbed a patch of skin off one of said thumbs.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Absolutely dismal decision Guy. Bad for the BBC for all the reasons you give and I personally will miss hearing your coverage

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

And a low turnout giving Labour 20% of the electorate.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Me too. Though I'm still puzzled by this. It's about people who will "fill his cabinet". So, PLP members and a few Labour peers. How many of them have blue hair?

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

But then they'd check your social media....

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I admire your public service in engaging on Nextdoor. I can't bear even to look at it.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

And did that prompt further frothing?

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I really like grilled fish. The first step is always, switch off the smoke alarm.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

And I (in North London) was hoping the defeat on Saturday might persuade them to wear something else. Quite a few women too btw

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

What's the name of the climb? Not sure if it's visible on the sign.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I know. We had that buying at a ticket machine at a SNCF station. Also struggling with bike reservations

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

That leapt off the page for me too. Not the most important thing of course but still...

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

a significant source of support for Reform. ends

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Also looks like Labour had the largest share of 2024 voters who did not vote this time. Maybe some of that is people who don't like the things Labour has done to chase after voters switching to Reform. As far as I can see the Yougov polling has not looked at 2024 non-voters who may have been...

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Quite pleased about this, as a Palace supporter. It means for both sides on Sunday the priority should be avoiding injury ahead of a European final. Glad we are not facing an Arsenal side that has to win. Oh and congrats.

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Andrew Walker @andrewwalker01.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I went through this at Gare du Nord on Sunday. Pretty painless though we arrived early so it wasn't busy and my EU citizen wife did get through a bit quicker than British me.

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