Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Sure, this might be significant and influential, and I get that some others were sort of Catholic, but I love "openly Catholic" which makes it sound like others have previously had mates round to sing some Byrd masses in private and had a Priest hole installed in No10 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Some good people here, Leunig especially, but although I'm sure she does great charity work, being a certain age I can't quite get my head around someone I found to be an annoying kids/tweens TV presenter being in the Lords 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm hearing rumours Shabana Mahmood will be appointed England manager 121
Reposted by Andrew LayJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Ok England, do it for St Alfege. Greenwich is behind you. 2141
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Just realised I forgot to celebrate national picky bits day Unless a can of M&S beer and a bag of sweets chillinlentil tortillas (taste like sadness and air) on the train home counts 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This is some kind of dictation fail on the cricket updates of the BBC Sport pages, isn't it, rather than someone who simply can't write? Either way, does nobody check before it's published? Is there any editorial oversight at all? What's happened to any semblance of standards? 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Not David's point, but I find that headline highly amusing... reads as if they're going to move the whole country. There again, if Antwerp were moved to Oman that would save a lot of transit time 100
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Ah another convert to the "Gift Aid is an undemocratic scam whereby I can make you, my fellow taxpayer, pay to support causes of my own choosing, be they Israel or donkey sanctuaries, and it should be scrapped" view? 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Wowsers, fire at one of the works (scrap metals? Not sure) on Lewisham/Millwall area right next to @serailway.bsky.social mainline into London Bridge. Close enough to feel notably warmer (and smoky) as train went past. Some major disruption about to occur I think! 232
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Fantastic crimes against data (and standard spelling) in this BBC article on lower ranked tennis players 010
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Got to admit, this brightened up my Friday when I opened it last night. If you were singled out as a Dunce at school, you can still make it as a mayoral candidate, that's the British dream 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026So here we have seating arrangements for 10 people, ie it's not just people distancing, but one of these going to the press... Presume it's Vance and/or Rubio, who come out of this article merely spineless (and still hugely complicit), compared with the other enablers 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This is also arbitrary within the area: I'm in such an area and I *think* I'm allowed panels as the location we'd have them is away from the road. But if you're over the other side, and the best roof for solar is towards the road, then no dealthen.no 000
Reposted by Andrew LayJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Just been approached by Huel to see if I'll be part of their paid influencer campaign. I don't think they're quite across what I do for a living. (FWIW, and in the interests of having influence, I regard Huel as a soul destroying, miserable product and the death of all that is worth living for.) 1741858224
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I think the only way to overcome the inadequacies of and debates around the "boots on the ground" metaphor is by sending infantry with advanced hoverboard capabilities 001
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Sorry, attempting to deport whole sections of population/citizenship, restrict freedoms in education, change voting rights and using the unconstrained power of federal govt to do so isn't "centralising power" and "societal transformation"?! What even are words meaning these days? 010
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Under-remarked on aspect of this (presumably false) claim is that it suggests the admin doesn't believe in the power of the US nuclear deterrent, or at least not in this context*. Will anyone ask "so if you think we can't deter bad actors from a nuclear strike, why do we bother with our deterrent?" 100
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Amongst all the other nonsense, have they not got a response already?! This decision was not beyond the wit of man to predict at least as a possibility. Or is the arrogance so deep they really hadn't considered losing? 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Brb, just going to build a house in a fire-risk area, start a fire and then build a new bigger one. Soon my house will be the biggest in the world 000
Reposted by Andrew LayJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him. 101462211
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Ah, a quick read of this and it seems to be "now they've actually had time to do a load of things they previously merely openly talked about, I'll call it Fascism" I.e. the writer just didn't take them seriously beforehand 001
Reposted by Andrew Layjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVMyoutu.beICE Kills Another AmericanYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 371818554
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Oh look, he's back to the pettily suggesting it's only a state "Governor" nonsense 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Just mostly quite surprised he's used the gerund correctly in "Canada's joining" 000
Reposted by Andrew LayAnders Schröder @andersschroder.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Okay, we need to talk about Carney's Havel reference. 🧵 2259
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Yep, and ancillary points like "how high do military wages have to go to recruit another 20,000 personnel?" and " how long does this take?" given stock/flow issues of training pipelines etc etc 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Peston with a rare direct and accurate question alert! Things must be bad 010
Reposted by Andrew LayTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 19/01/2026What a load of rubbish this is. Fails to explain that the US is no longer a close ally and partner. Emphasises benefits Starmer has got over and above others via the special relationship. Not only false [the deal is off!] but this non-solidarity with the EU is what made us all weaker. 7463
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I'm struck, as a Spurs fan,.about a certain affinity between Thomas Frank and Kier Starmer... Directionless, chat about "pragmatism", a claim of values but no obvious example of what those values are Has anyone done this yet?! 010
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Shorter Starmer: say almost nothing, except maybe "I don't like it, but I'll have to go along with it" 020
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Younger than this and maybe a result of slightly more rural living (falling trees etc), but we definitely had a big stock of candles for when the power went down when I was a kid. Extremely rare now 100
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I would simply reject the request and ask to be on R3 Private Passions instead 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 11/01/2026My one pause over this otherwise very plausible Occam's Razor explanation is that he at least phrases it in terms of security, Russia, some kind of manifest destiny... like he at least has the depth, or the advisors, necessary to avoid saying our loud "I just want to make USA bigger" 000
Reposted by Andrew LayAnthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 03/01/2026100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever. 371745717
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 27/12/2025@janinegibson.ft.com is this correct?! Apx = the oysters?! Where on earth were the beans from? 100
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 24/12/2025They've got it right this time (very same track) bsky.app/profile/apwl... 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Pretty sure this was actually BWV615, In Dir Ist Freude 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Just woken up. Time to check the score from day three of the highly anticipated first Ashes Test! Oh, oh yeah #thecricket 010
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Sort of post that makes me regret that Dillow doesn't have more books and wider influence (probably down to same sort of dynamics he illustrates here) - I still have End of Politics on my reading list for my A-Level students but increasingly feels like someomthing from another age even if still true 010
Reposted by Andrew LaySophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 06/10/2025A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵 23380171
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Ha, looked to see what Stephen's reaction to this would be. It was as expected 000
Andrew Lay @apwlay.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Speaking of cold northern places, he really TACO'd Greenland, didn't he? (Thankfully) 000
