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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 2016 Leave had all the emotion and Remain was stuck defending the ‘boring’ status quo. Soon Rejoin may get all the longing and the loss while Leave have to factually defend how it’s gone. There’s a beautiful symmetry in there somewhere.Meanwhile: (not sourced-but funny nonetheless) #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I’ll serve that podcast. Never felt able to fully trust someone who worked for Baron Lebedev, of Hampton and of Siberia… #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does Mr Rajan still get paid? #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The 50,000 prison places? That’s a nice round number to quote. Perhaps they’re being built where the 50,000 nurses, 40 new hospitals and nationwide gigabit broadband were meant to go. Tories love an infrastructure promise, especially one with a catchy number. Put Lord Grayling on it… #r4today

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Why is the public confused about wealth taxes and climate change? Because for 40+ years, lobby groups and think tanks have been paid to confuse them. And it started with Thatcher pulling off one of the greatest financial cons in modern history. 🧵 @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🤔 A divided 🇬🇧 within the 🇪🇺 or a divided 🇬🇧 out of the 🇪🇺 Let me just think about that for a moment… #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course. He can’t win on the economy. The house he inherited has been trashed beyond repair, so he’s offering to build a new one next door. His opponents are either invested in what wrecked the old house or are exploiting the damage. He’s simply moved the game elsewhere (imo) #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Before AI deepfakes, I distinctly remember Michael Gove’s daughter posting a TikTok of him asleep on the sofa while she mimed vomiting at the camera. Her old TikToks did exist and were later wiped. If only someone had saved that one. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Andy Burnham has done in 10 weeks what Keir Starmer failed to do in two years: use a huge majority to push a bold agenda aimed at reconnecting with large parts of the electorate. Naturally, the right will attack it, but what’s the point of a massive majority if you’re afraid to use it? #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gove’s cynical and performative media rehabilitation strategy is vomit inducing. It’s a pity that #r4today don’t remind him of his Ian Hislop ‘HIGNFY’ roasting.

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I agree. Clever voter psychology too: it flips 2016 on its head. Rejoining becomes the new “sunlit uplands”, while staying out becomes the supposedly rational choice that’s increasingly hard to justify emotionally after the shit show of the last decade.

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In fairness my white car may have looked like a silver car under sodium lighting. Easy mistake to make - especially when you’re armed and hyped. Clearly I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. See, after all those years I’m still gas lit…

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fair point. I’m not analytical and conjoint analysis sounds a more robust way of testing a hypothesis. The Tories courted pensioners with the triple lock. I suspect the reverse calculation is being made: engage a younger demographic to swing elections but first you have to engage them. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I suspect it’s focus groups suggesting we do away with the triple lock. Knowing a few in that likely consulted demographic, I suspect they don’t think contributing to a personal pension is worth it either.That’s the paradox of populism: unintended consequences. Careful what you vote for. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I once innocently blew a police armed-robbery surveillance because my car matched the reported getaway car make (not the colour). The scramble to CYA was rather impressive & initially I got blamed. That was a local & costly op. Fairford may have cost more. Now watch the blame find someone. #r4today

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human—sweat, bad breath, everything

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That’s a lot of angels dancing on this particular pin head

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Chagos deal: negotiated largely by Mr Sunak’s Conservative government which conducted 11 rounds of negotiations versus Labour’s two before the October 2024 political agreement. Mauritius would obtain sovereignty while the UK retained control to operate Diego Garcia for 99 years. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I remember growing up in the 60s/70s, there were many classmates who today would be ADHD diagnosed. Back then the poor kids were just naughty or disruptive and moved to the back of the class whereas the middle class kids were ‘dyslexic’, wore special eyewear and moved up to the front #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The Force is strong with this one" #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wonder how the inhabitants of the small Oxfordshire village of Nimby are feeling today after their recent 15 minutes of fame, given that nothing has changed? #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

By his own admission, as the youngest chancellor, he had to show the world how just how tough he was. That’s it, that’s what all that austerity was for… I also know someone who was his babysitter, and they suggested that even back then he was “a little 💩 ”

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Radiohead of lettuce 🥬

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I started running regularly back then-with earphones, because I thought it was the thing to do-this was always the first track on the playlist. I’ve been earphone free for over 20 years - but thanks @kylie. You got me started

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great insight - but which comes first? #C4News

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What is it about far right influencers, protests, racism, drugs & prison? #C4News

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

‘You, Boy! Get me a walking stick. I’m off to hit loads of women on the head who disagree with me!’

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If all new migrant crossings were stopped, and let’s go one further - if every asylum seeker currently in the UK could be repatriated, that chaps life (from Portsmouth) would not improve one iota. The chip on his shoulder wouldn’t disappear. #wato

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s no longer rational, then again cults never are…

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I haven’t verified whether this is AI, but if genuine, seeing disabled men and elderly women physically attacking someone for holding opposing views is deeply concerning. History (1930s Germany) reminds us how quickly intolerance of opposing views can become normalised by ordinary citizens. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I listened to Farage’s speech live yesterday. Mostly laughable hot air until the “first 100 days”. Then came an ominously familiar 1930s authoritarian playbook to weaken Parliament, purge the Civil Service, neuter the judiciary, then use a plebiscite to legitimise the new order. #r4today

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Half of Reform left the Tories because they were tired of being associated with a bunch of serially corrupt incompetents. The other half were kicked out because they WERE the serially corrupt incompetents. It's like watching a snake eat itself.

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reform UK Ltd tying itself in knots over impermissible donations and the imaginative stories surrounding them. Luckily, Head of Policy Dr James Orr has a doctorate in Theology and Religion. When your defence requires faith and parables it pays to have a theologian on staff. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In response to the Leader of the Opposition’s bleating about public spending being too high. Her generation benefitted directly from such socio-economic policies, but now I’m alright… This was lifted from the other place before it became a cess pit. A letter to The New Statesman in 2023. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My take. Populist stuff with a human face. The electorate seem to respond to populism and Burnham is scoping what rings the centre left bell. The antithesis of Reform. Starmer managed behind the scenes with no populist messaging. Unlike Reform I trust Burnham will do some good behind the populism

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Why is Ms Badenoch wearing walking shoes on a track sprint and are her shorts the Winfield brand ? Asking for someone who likes to understand the detail…

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nightingale hospitals were a headline and nothing more than an expensive PR stunt. Any health authority that proposed sending a patient to one would have had to provide the staff to escort the patient there and the nursing staff to care for them during their admission. In lockdown! Imagine that…

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

James Cleverly: Nominative indeterminism, when the name and reality never meet. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor #sinkingships #Conservatives

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Blue Danube. Original post

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She was a lock down puppy. They wanted to give her back to the charity. We took her in. She’s our other dog’s bestie…

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly 😭 I will always love you!

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My guess is that Mr Palmer was bullied at school - probably only a couple of years ago #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There’s something wonderfully circular about the Royal Correspondent: inherited status generating manufactured news, which in turn sustains professional commentators whose job is to explain why the inherited status is newsworthy. #wato

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You know… Just stand up to them. Take no nonsense. Tell them what’s what. Pull their finger out. #r4today

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

news.sky.com/story/politi... Britons who backed the two main right-wing parties - 67% of Conservative supporters & 79% of Reform, believe UK should stand up to France about small boats rather than co-operating. Whilst perhaps saying it slowly and loudly - and in English… #r4today

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Politics latest: Stand up to France to stop small boats, more Britons say in exclusive Sky poll

More Britons believe efforts to stop small boat crossings are more likely to succeed by standing up to France rather than co-operating, an exclusive poll by YouGov for Sky News has found. While Andy B...

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.

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