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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Issue, Manchester suicide bombings! Solution, more prisons?

Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dedicating a solid minute of your speech to how the tax code is too long and complicated and then having the main policy proposal be "more caveats and loopholes for inheritance tax" is just *chefs kiss*

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's even weirder than that, they're writing reams and reams about how well it's leader is doing!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Han, Luke and Leia are out here fighting for their lives and Chewbacca is smoking a spliff on Joe Rogan musing how the Emperor kinda has a point.

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The problem is that the last year has shown that she's wrong. The numbers have dropped like a stone, but her framing has contributed to a mood music that borders on perpetual hysteria. And she refuses to see that.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are, of course, only two ethnicities - Cymry (good) and Saes (everyone else, bad)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely this 👇

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

This is true. But also, sometimes you just have to stand up for stuff even if you don't know the effect it will have.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The BBC taking the line that it's "unclear" if Trump offering cash for people to vote Republican is illegal is bizzare, because if it is "unclear", feels like the story should be - contrary to a hundred years of legal theory US electoral law doesn't ban literally bribing the electorate

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026

@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...

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Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery

A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ofgem let sewage get pumped into our seas, Ofcom let a propaganda channel run 24/7, the Electoral Commission thinks dodgy foreign donations aren't its business. When did our laws become guidelines?

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

At some point a Labour politician is going to wake up to the fact that a large part (all?) of the media is a hitman not a debating partner.

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For real tho whose the 10% who see a potted plant and are like "streets gone"

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Deluded” to think it is at the least, *possible* for a charismatic man to succeed in academia while telling tall tales and with questionable research without a helping hand from “EDI”. Can these people hear themselves?

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Only modern Hollywood could make "The Purge but sex", & then take out the sex

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Its bonkers that, "do less as the world burns and we can't grow the food we need" is now seen as the"grown up" & "sensible" position

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The Wales Snr Mens Team stink, the Snr Women's team stink, the Mens U20s stink, and the WRU really think the solution is to cut two Snr Men's pro teams rather than sorting themselves out?

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I don't understand why people can't get that things like an obituary have value because you *did* them. Feels like we're outsourcing our whole lives at this point, so I guess we can outsource our love too. Yay.

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I guess all those "Non-Conformists' must just had radical looking hair or something

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Does feel a bit odd that Winnett was cast out of the team & into the dungeon underneath the Arms Park because he lacked solidity under the high ball, but everyone seems perfectly content with Murray at FB who is seemingly allergic to catching the ball under pressure

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Also come on "Henry V", the guy whose signature achievement was "killed lots of French people and then died before finishing the job". That guy? Not even in the top 5 most impactful English Kings called Henry.

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I've spent 10 minutes staring as this headline trying to fathom a scenario where it's a direct choice between Henry V and "Mr Men"

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Being schmoozed s an unusual feeling as a Millennial. Because our entire political system and most of our practical lives is based on "well you're gonna have to put up with this shit"

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Objectively hilarious that people are very much in favour of other people doing National Service.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

There now follows a short thread of Captain Holt quotes on screenshots of Kratos. Why? Because I wanted to, that's why.

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

In a country where more and more children are going hungry, more and more people have to sleep on our streets and you're spending your money on that?

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Something that the Lucy Connolly case has illustrated - something that is well known to those who work in criminal justice but often overlooked in public debate - is the complexity and nuance in the lives and characters of people appearing before the courts. A short 🧵👇

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

They should invent chess merch that’s good

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I think a lot about canvassing a older woman in 2017 who ranted loudly about immigration and how she'd been Labour and would never vote for us again because of it. We checked our records and so far as we could tell she'd never voted Labour. Keir's strategy seems entirely based on winning her vote.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The first two points contradict each other, and the last is meaningless. Great.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The "island of strangers" line from Starmer is deeply cynical, placed in a paragraph that allows deniability of the worst characterisations of it, but there if their imaginary Reform-Labour switcher wants to hear it (which they won't, because they're imaginary)

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Presuming that there are two kinds of voters, a) those that agree with the below and b) those that don't. Voter B) now won't vote for you and Voter A) still won't vote for because they trust Farage over you to "deal with it". Congratulations, you've played yourself.

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Crisis @crisis-uk.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It has been 3 years since Royal Assent was given to the repeal of the Vagrancy Act (1824). But people forced to sleep rough still face fines or even prison because parliament has failed to complete repeal. Thank you to Baroness Alicia Kennedy for raising this vital issue.

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

this continues to be the most useful metaphor I’ve seen

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Excellent point here about the incompatibility of wanting to, apparently, fundamentally change the UK and also not have any individual policy that could be portrayed as scary or radical

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

What is the point of winning elections if you can't then use your power to help starving children because you're too afraid of the next election?

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Politicians: We should run Government like a business Business:

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The best change they could make is turn it back to the way it was 10 years ago when it was actually useful

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Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Oh youre a fan of St Patrick? Name your favourite hagiography

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