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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So the Iranians have closed the Strait of Hormuz and the Cotswolds?

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think there’s a misunderstanding of the term “EU Accession negotiations”. Negotiation, in this sense, is primarily over how and by when an applicant will implement or align with each area of EU law (Acquis Communautaire), and then whether they‘ve done that. It’s not over *whether* they will.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

UK never seemed to understand it in the first place, or did and ignored it to concentrate on the transactional benefits. Either way, education of the population re all aspects of EEC/EU non existent compared to other member states.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There was also Crisis Command, where three captains of industry had to deal with a developing situation, and even with advice from experts messed up mightily. E.g. left it too late to down an airliner in a 9/11 type situation so that it made a mess of central London.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And gratitude for the mass airdrop of food during the following famine.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An effectively blind driver killed a girl on a pedestrian crossing a year or two ago where I live. At the time I was beginning to question my own sight bc of cataracts. Optician said I could legally drive, horrifying to think how bad the driver’s sight must have been & he didn’t even have specs.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So it's to become something like the Flak Towers of Berlin and Vienna? (apols if someone's already mentioned this among the many many replies, there are too many to check).

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That in itself doesn’t mean that he didn’t have a hairline fracture, only that being able to run through such a condition isn’t of itself an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary proof.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Lucy Bronze played through the Euro 2025 tournament with a ‘broken bone’ in her leg, ie a hairline fracture. Painful but doable, see Emma Monk’s thread quoted earlier.

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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When trump backs down and cancels his lawsuit, the BBC should turn and sue him for harassment & possible extortion using his original lawsuit as an example of him filing fake lawsuits and STILL demand trump’s financial records as evidence that his lawsuit was a lie to harass and extort a settlement.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I didn’t even realise any of it was on FTA live TV until ten minutes ago when I was channel hopping.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Same here, except they reopened in time for the final so they still missed out on what could have been a big payday.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s a close relative of A1 Steak Sauce which was originally sold as being good with more or less any fried, roast, or grilled protein.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Mansion Tax as proposed is a trivial amount on top of the Council Tax, which itself always looks proportionally cheaper vs house values the higher the band, especially when properties have been improved but not rebanded.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If that’s the case the headline should read ‘Brussels punctures UK reset delusions’. Uk politicians’ refusal to engage with/admit reality has been an embarrassment ever since 2016 and shows little sign of ending.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The only Wiltshire accent on national TV for nearly half my lifetime, it was great to hear him talking about his find at Bulford the other day. Not that I heard it much when growing up in Salisbury, and whenever my fairly RP Londoner father heard any traces in my speech I got a telling off.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Centuries of English and then U.K. interventions in continental affairs to try to head off threats to developing naval supremacy and then Empire are a difficult habit to give up.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So should we rewind history to 2016 after Cameron’s departure, or further back to Brown replacing Blair? If there wasn’t a constitutional reason to do it then it would be odd to start doing it now. It’s not even as if an MP has resubmit themselves for election when they change party…

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I think that's what you call a hat-trick.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Other old-ish people (who ought to know better than DJT) seem to have to have developed the same habit on social media. Its spoken cousin “so called” is being overused on the BBC by journos of all ages who really ought to know better.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's a good result, the Grace Hill building was no longer fit for purpose as a library in the C21st and the new location will improve footfall in the town centre.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

English names for food animals are basically Anglo Saxon, their meat is named in French eg Swine/pork, Cow/beef.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

That bridge was crossed years ago when Personnel Departments became Human Resources. From that point on there was no pretence that staff were anything other than pawns to be moved around or sacrificed at will.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I was in the choir for O'Brian's memorial service at the Royal Naval College. Wasn't aware of him until them, bought 'Master & Commander' to help pass the time during wife's chemo at Bart's, ended up buying the whole series from the nearest Waterstones branch in the City: fee spent many times over.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This can't, or shouldn't, be even remotely good enough, and surely wouldn't be accepted as such for any other party leader. Amongst many, many other things, it can't have been both 'unconditional' *and* 'to pay for my security'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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No obligation to declare £5m gift, Nigel Farage says

The Reform UK leader says the gift was

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking Iroquois.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

BBC South East got v excited yesterday about an asylum seeker who'd got aboard a ferry, presumably in back of a truck. Obvs a rare thing these days but they didn't put it in the context of overall reduction in irregular crossings. And they (esp Simon Jones) keep referring to 'illegal' crossings.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Ukraine played a major part in USSR tech/arms development and production, eg Antonov planes. It’s heartening to see those skills still exist.

planes.xn--its-so0a

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

ISTR pro EU types saying some time ago that widespread use of enabling legislation to be later fleshed out by SIs could come back to bite the Brexity types.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Just because they can do it doesn’t mean they will, French hypermarkets have used electronic shelf edge tickets for years and prices don’t seem to fluctuate much if at all.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The France Musique channel’s ‘Allegretto’ show has played a fair bit of jolly Hungarian music this morning. Which would be welcome at any time but lifted my heart a little higher than usual today.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

in many ways because they'd work like the originals: our double glazed units were so heavy that even with the densest weights that would fit the existing sash boxes they would only open about half way compared with the originals because the weights were so long.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Exactly, we fitted double glazed sash units to a Victorian house in an Article 4 conservation area in the 90s. No problem getting permission but they cost £2000 each at today's price. Specialist companies offer high performance single glazed units at a price, they'd be more suitable

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Thanks, I was aware of all that because people have been posting it all over social media in the last day or so. It doesn't change the fact that in many modern European languages it's the word for jam.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It’s a generic term for jam in many modern European languages, mostly (but not exclusively) those descended from Latin.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I remember knowing where to stand for the smoking carriages on the Tube, at peak times there was a better chance of a seat even if I didn't want a gasper. Also BR which banned smoking in the 90s, commuting to Reading from PAD meant a smoking carriage to guarantee a seat.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

On a trial basis, made permanent after the KGX disaster.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Popped over to the hellsite for a few minutes to keep my account active, glad to see @vivamjm.bsky.social still battling the zombie apocalypse of hoary old arguments that never made sense in the first place, e.g. 'bUt wE wErE NeVeR iN sChEnGeN' but still get rolled out ad infinitum.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

unlisted house, because we found a company that could replicate existing windows. The biggest windows cost ~£2000 each in today’s prices but were worth it for the looks and heat/sound insulation.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Double glazed replacement sash units have been a thing for years, and these days specialist companies offer high performance single glazed units for cases where double glazed units wouldn’t get consent. We got double glazed units through Planning in a very picky conservation area, albeit for an

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

And they got a large bribe after Brexit to not follow Honda out of the door.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's mad, last year my district council reversed a previous decision to move from cabinet to committee governance bc it wasn't worth spending the money with LG reorganisation immenent. That saved a lot less than deferring elections until unitary authority formed.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Ditto. Ireland proves that a country can drive on the correct side of the road and measures distances in km without any obvious problems.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

He doesn’t realise that all NZ lamb is Halal *and* pre-stunned. Halal isn’t necessarily the same as Kosher.

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