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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 7h

I take it all back - he isn't as stupid as he looks ...

David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 16h

It's the inability to look at the evident failure of various initiatives over the years that is the worry - these are ideologues, and not practical people. It's the same blind spot with Thatcher - decades of evidence that some policies were disastrous, but still they use her as a touchstone.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 18h

OK at the moment, but has been down for short intervals quite a few times lately, in my experience ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 03/10/2026

Anybody truly English would know that "doth become" is much later, linguistically - more like Shakepeare's time (which is where they nicked it from). Plus the tapestry, I believe, is annotated in Latin - so they'd need "Kemi princeps fit" 😉

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/10/2026

It's very unwise to be trumpeting the strengths of someone who has none, a fact that can clearly be seen by even the most disinterested observer ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Ironic that they are so against diversity and inclusion, as they owe their very existence to outfits like the BBC giving artificial weight to minorities ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Well, to be fair, you need to be knocking on to remember it as an adult. I was at uni when she came to power, so started my working life a year or two in. All that "greed is good"/ "no such thing as society" guff made a lot of people a lot of money, but we can now see at what cost ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Not only that, but the evidence of her "legacy" is all around us, and so many of today's problems had their roots in her policies, that it's undeniable how bad she was for the country. Pretending otherwise is a pretty silly look, quite frankly.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Exposes the idiocy of the concept: try to kill someone, fail, and take them to hospital, when the logic of what you are doing would dictate that you should just stick her out the back by the bins ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Pretty safe to assume that he knows nothing as he has yet to come up with anything to suggest otherwise ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Looks like they should rename it Cokeville ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Just imagine if she had an important position in public life - what sort of a mess would we be in then? Oh ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Too many people think it's a real thing, though - the fact that they might be idiots isn't really relevant, as they still have a vote ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Used to enjoy it, but it seems to have turned into a bit of a rag these days ...

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The big reforms Burnham outlined are interlinked. There will be no viable expansion of the social state without Brexit being resolved. To embed the UK's long-term relationship with the EU electoral reform is necessary to reduce minority disruption. Equally, for enabling devolution to work.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 29/09/2026

There will be consequences - namely that they will grow up to be normal, balanced individuals, and not some radicalised imbecile.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Let's hope so ... a few thousand miles of water between us might just be enough to wash off his poison ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 29/09/2026

He's absolutely right that there is two-tier policing - one tier is occupied by people who have broken the law (and, entertainingly, filmed themselves doing it in some spectacularly stupid cases), and the other by people who probably haven't.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The assumption that someone's potential criminality can be assessed simply from ethnicity is one of the most bizarre features of the right-wing mentality. It captures public discourse within seconds, despite being something that a five-year-old would see through immediately ... weird.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 29/09/2026

We should although, to be fair, it's not a huge achievement, given that he does it himself on a daily basis ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Buggers up the bus routes, though, which have already taken a battering in recent years. Nothing on Oxford Street worth going to these days apart from the 100 Club ... 😉

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Never mind "edging" - we could do with getting up a bit of speed ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

It will be hard to tell, as they are normally apoplectically rosy anyway ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

(I am, of course, working on the assumption that they don't genuinely believe any of the stuff they say, as that really would be embarrassing.)

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Credit where it's due - it's quite difficult to maintain a veneer of total imbecility 24/7. Most people who give it a go fail by accidentally being right about something every now and then. I think we should be more respectful of the sheer effort that these two put into life ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I'm a liberal snowflake, but don't agree with this type of thing. All creations (art, literature, TV, etc) are products of their time, and offer valuable insights into how society and culture has changed, and the reasons for those changes. It's damaging to lose that, in my view.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

His usual approach - gives scum a bad name ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Met David Nven's daughter Kristina a couple of times in the mid-80s - the company I was working for published a book by her, and I think we did a launch party, or something similar. A long time ago!

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

My wife worked at the BBC back in the 80s/90s, and once met Michael Palin lost in a corridor somewhere, and accompanied him to the exit, and agrees with your assessment! We've seen him speak a couple of times over the years and, again, he comes over as very affable.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I don't play golf, but certainly wouldn't want to belong to any club that admitted vermin like him to the clubhouse ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 27/09/2026

He really is the most appalling arse ... as shameless as he is toxic.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Nobody cares, never mind Sadiq ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Good God - these people are pathetic babies ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Shame he can't field one of his most prominent supporters, but he appeared to be too busy blubbing in court this week ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 26/09/2026

And she once voted against a smoking ban .. the tobacco guys who give funds to the Tories are not likely to be impressed. Not sure she has thought this one through in her rush for a headline.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Do you think they really don't get it, or are too busy hoping that the rest of us don't get it? Appalling people.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Always intriguing how much the AfD support is concentrated in the old East German areas ...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only way to defeat the extreme right is through left-wing politics. Centrism just enables and encourages fascism through appeasement, collaboration with oligarchs and propping up a neoliberal economic system that has failure built-in.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Liz Truss doesn't know the difference between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. She knocked £425bn off the value of pension fund assets. She thinks Tony Blair set up the Bank of England. And major companies pay her £80,000 a speech for her insights on politics and economics.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Besides, to be honest, we were all far more into the Rolling Stones ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I'm slightly too young for the full "Beatlemania", but I remember the end of it from the late 60s, and boys (certainly at my school) were far too cool to be in to anything seen as mainstream - only when it has been superseded can you claim that it's now an interesting thing to follow ... 😉

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

As Sir Ken Robinson always said, we are set up to penalise mistakes and non-conformism, both in education and business, whereas we only really learn and develop if mistakes and differences are understood to be part of that process. Otherwise many kids are simply put off the whole deal and give up.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Plus the binary simplicity of the view that if you are not on the beaches trying to repel invaders, you are somehow happy to open your house and home to anyone who wanders by looking for a handout.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Perhaps she has hidden depths, although you would imagine that most of them must have been reached by now ...

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 25/09/2026

"Clever" doing a bit of heavy lifting there - cunning perhaps, shifty for sure, and possessed of a sort of streetwise cocksureness, but Farage is not generally considered an intellectual heavyweight, and being brighter than Tice is probably a taxonomic boundary.

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Also notable that many of the areas with the largest non-white contingent also happen to be the most deprived. I suspect that if the population was entirely white but simply poor, they would be getting the same treatment from the Trusses of this world, but not being white makes a handy "category".

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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 24/09/2026

I live less than half an hour outside London, and hardly ever see a non-white face. Take a bus into town and you go through very different areas, but geographically restricted. So yes, some areas have a non-white majority but they are small. There's no "cultural domination" in a widespread sense.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 24/09/2026

Time to block alcohol consumption at the House of Commons. Plenty of taxpayer money going on booze there.

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