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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 16h

It's gonna drop that middle arrow, same way that plane fell off the aircraft carrier.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 17h

"Världskände" How far is Las Vegas from Aberystwyth? Seems like quite a distance.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

scrawny woman: °clueless° owl: I am Emu. I am Rory Stewart.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The way Washington talks about foreign policy is weird, and one of the weirdest aspects is how they talk about the foreign policy opinions of the general electorate.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If, when, why, what? How much have you got?

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

US 10yr treasuries doing what they're doing will do that.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trafalgar Square favourite. Painted in Florence. At the time any business England had with God went through Rome.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The only Brexit regular I've heard anything from since Burnham's speech is Lillico, and he was waving a white flag.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dunt's head still reeling from the Burnham speech. Last time he got in this kind of froth he was all in on Jo Swinson calling an early election. Best give him space for a bit.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Drifting across no man's land only the plaintive call of the Lillico.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On "Do geese see God?", no. Important question, simple answer.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"An undertaking of great advantage but nobody to survive what it is."

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 Ian Dunt witnesses the second coming : iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Liz Truss will never not be a laugh line. Clinton, 3 months in: "I'm not doing so bad. I mean, at this point William Henry Harrison had been dead for sixty-eight days."

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or add big black letterbox top and bottom. Don't recompress the video, whichever you choose.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An undertaking of great advantage but nobody.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An undertaking of great advantage, but nobody.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The President of Princeton had been US President throughout the war, including the brief period toward the end when the US deployed troops on the Old Continent. He arrived at Versailles a conquering god. He had left office in 1921, firmly in the grip of Death, the year before this was painted.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The doggerel quote underneath it, by the way, was apparently cooked up together by Sargent and the President of Harvard. the old lie, dulce et decorum est ... The American experience of WW1 was different to the European. Sargent knew this, and was canny enough to please his patrons.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very different from this, dated 1919, for which he was paid by the British Government, and which reflects a different sentiment both about the Victory and about all the Death as well.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not seen this before, what a painting. He was official war artist for the British during the war but this is from three years after and it's for an American audience (he did it for Harvard and it's still there). "HAPPY THOSE WHO WITH A GLOWING FAITH IN ONE EMBRACE CLASPED DEATH AND VICTORY"

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Originally, "I am on my way to the bookies to bet on a greyhound". Became a euphemism, well explained above.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is in the news pages however. The portion given over to coverage of the Economy, to be specific. There was decades of George Will, and there is this, and they are not the same. This looks metastatic and is starting to look terminal.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Agents are heavily incentivised to bid things up. Who ever gave an instruction to the bottom value pitch?

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All this engagement I'm not getting. There's no way I'd enjoy it. Thankfully my posting discourages it. I win. You hear me? I win this game.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Conference merch (genuine). Three of your English pounds. Buy now before they sell out.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Hack mediocrity here. Grazie signore"

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Peak Frean Trotsky assortment" The Young Ones were on their way to university challenge and he threw them off the train.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When the Gorton & Denton campaign started it wasn't clear, but they figured it out. One signal among many: Hannah Spencer got a Corbyn endorsement, which love him or hate him will have affected tactical calculations far beyond the Corbyn fanbase. In Holborn & St Pancras it's ... Emma Dent Coad.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gorton & Denton was all about the tactical vote. "What are my neighbours thinking about which candidate is the Stop Farage one?" There's none of that in Holborn & St Pancras.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Relative (adj) - not absolute

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a clear correlation between shrinking evangelical support for Israel and morbid obesity in the Huckabee family. Chopped out his stomach with a knife. I can't find the exact biblical passage.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To be clear, both: - protesting Netanyahu in New York is correct and good - 2016 Jill Stein voters forever bear the mark of Cain

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CuckaCuckaCuckaCuff Me, Creature of the Night

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting owned from Honduras has got to put a dent in their confidence. Stupidity gives you only so many layers of protection, eventually you burn through it.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"'There'll Always Be An England' ? There'll always be a North Pole, won't there. Unless some fool goes and melts it." - Michael Flanders, 1963

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*Two* of the best songs. Calling Sven a Swede motherfucker? Assume you do it with love, entirely satirically.

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A Song of Patriotic Prejudice

YouTube video by Flanders - Topic

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