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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Listening to TS Eliot reading the Waste Land almost ruined it for me forever. It feels so cool when I'm reading it. His voice makes me hate it. Especially at the end when he babbles out thisisthewaytheworldendsx3 really quickly. Awful.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Prompt: make it look like there's no way we could possibly have used AI for this post

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI only wants to kill us because people force it to produce such abject shite 24/7

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I once had to write a LOT of speeches that felt fairly pointless. There's a lot of time to fill in the Commons. Paradoxically, there was always a list of vital issues we couldn't secure parliamentary time for. Private Members Bills that timed out. Is the issue AI or awful timetabling?

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you're a billionaire and you still worry about how much personal tax you pay then you'll never be happy

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm used to us grinding it out, I'm not used to smiling so much and being entertained. And I've not even mentioned Grealish. More of this UTFT

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's advanced warning that they really do not give a shit about what they serve. Why cook when there's a pre-made microwave option?

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hopefully he'll be thrown on a few more times now. Loved the bit of the game with Dibling, George and Charlie. We've got lots of players who are young, entertaining and likable. I've not felt this way for a long time.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Charlie continues to be an enigma, who pretty much always looks to have game changing potential. The ideal sub who is rarely subbed on. Weird.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026

Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me on a normal sized chair

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sending people an alert that you don't need to use water before you put toothpaste on your toothbrush

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That's the parents of kids who go to bed at 7 vote lost

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I find it hard to have sympathy for Starmer given the ease and regularity with which he dispensed with advisors and civil servants

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The police should confirm absolutely everything about an investigation immediately unless it's about me, in which case the absolute opposite Something something two tier

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

4 defence secretaries from the good old days of "the old, messy, violent men who win wars"

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I don't think that people can begin to grasp that there's a whole group of working people who permanently go without. The cost of living crisis plunges too many into poverty, but many more into just about getting by in a really miserable way. £2 on a working day is huge. Don't let anyone deny it

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If I was still a young worker getting the bus to my job in retail, I could save £2 every working day. That £2 would have mostly been banked, but sometimes would have gone towards getting myself a little treat at lunchtime. These are the little things that make life worth living.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

it turns out that Ed Miliband was really great at that - unlike his former boss

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Andy's reshuffle looked a lot like something that hadn't really been thought through at all. I'm really pleased to see people like Reeves, Jones and Reed gone, and there are a couple of great appointments like Reynolds back and Fahnbulleh in. But other than that, it's difficult to see the point.

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ***THURSDAY***

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don't think Hermer did anything resembling a good job, despite his apparent eminence. Hopefully like any good Minister, his successor will surround herself with experts and take decisions on the best way forward.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This shows why sacking Darren Jones was a no brainer. Promoted way beyond his very limited abilities. Now he thinks that a slam dunk is saying "bad luck loser! One of our flagship policies was unfunded the whole time!"

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Everyone I talk to in business was completely perplexed by the fact that he was moved away.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In fairness, I don't think Andy is in the business of making arguments for the Lords

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That this is seen by many as pie in the sky is as great a signal of our decline as I can imagine.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The important thing is that there's a very clear sense to everyone in the civil service and government as to what the guy is trying to do across a few different areas. We have not had that in many years.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

the Prime Minister said he'd do an entirely achievable thing and end rough sleeping and clever people in one of the biggest economies in the world are already sneering as if it's a stupid thing to say

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is the first game I've watched at the pub so far and it turns out that I actually do support hydration breaks

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Rather than attacking Andy Burnham for having no mandate and calling for a General Election, Reform have instead decided that actually in a by-election, one constituency can be the judge on a national issue. Ok then

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THEY NEED TO INTEGRATE NO NOT LIKE THAT

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You should invite yourself round!

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I had a vague memory of when Sam won. Obviously it's normally the leader rather than the deputy stood next to them, but he'd just decided to resign

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

They always do this shot to welcome the winner after a by-election

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The speech genuinely made me a bit sad because he *still* has not got that the job of the prime minister is not to spend five years talking about the next election. He never realised he was not leader of the opposition and now he never will.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Labour won 4/5 of the last by-elections when they were the opposition party leading in the polls. They were apparently never popular wanted by the country. Reform have won 1/5 by-elections when they are the opposition party leading in the polls. They are apparently popular and unstoppable.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My dad told me that blueberries were not a real fruit, but we're just a flavouring used to market muffins. I then confidently repeated this to my friends.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just tried to go to the shop and got surrounded by a gang of teens forcing me to use my old man face as verification so they could post memes

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The social media ban is THE example of everything stupid about Starmerism. Expending political capital on a doomed policy, which is unlikely to happen and wont work as intended even if it does.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The saga over this plan and this sorry conclusion is going to be *the* case study of why Starmer failed as PM.

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Ben🦉 @bendoespr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

He's trying to be more of a needed voice by launching his leadership campaign

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