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David Hall

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The safeguarding lead at Ellis' nursery once came out at pickup to talk to me. "Ellis has been talking about Colin. He says he shouts loudly, threatens to kill people, and he and Ellis play with guns in the garden." I explained Colin was a Dalek. There was a pause. "Is he a real Dalek?" #DoctorWho
Ellis and Colin the Dalek in the garden playing with Nerf guns.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/09/2026
The lesson from this week is that most of the UK media thinks Hot Fuzz is a horror movie about a woke city cop destroying a perfectly admirable local community.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And now more than a thousand reposts of this. Thank you all. Yes, there is perhaps a technical reason why one is ’terrorism’ and the other is not, but sometimes one has to stand back and see the law as simply being the wrong way around.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
'Nigel Farage tells BBC he wasn't listening during foreign donor talks filmed undercover.' So he 'smoked' some dodgy dealings, but didn't inhale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🧵”Dealmaker” Trump. An excellent thread from threads by @chrisfb87 who is not currently on bluesky www.threads.com/share/BASUkZ...
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...
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The 30,000-mile fish finger
There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...
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Mike @mike-umbkm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida parents to get your kids vaccinated?" Byron Donalds: "No. My message is the reason we have seen a measles outbreak is because of rampant illegal immigration."
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David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The spreadsheet that screwed us! russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
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The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
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David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Great stuff on the US Canada trade deal meltdown, & with a helpful glossary for non-Aussies…. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW | So… CHANNEL 4’s NOT SO GREAT ADHD POLEMIC Press coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/channel-4s...
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Channel 4’s not so great ADHD polemic
Press coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 08/08/2026
amazing how this is still relevant a year after i posted it
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 08/08/2026
Blanche’s confirmation underscores a simple truth: a handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Trump's actions as opposed to his words still make clear that Trump is sitting firmly in Putin's breast pocket.
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Linda D @busia11182020.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It really seems that his objective is to destroy our country.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I was at a wine tasting in Franconia 10 years ago and the winemaker said they are already planning replanting different grape varieties, as traditional grapes such as Bacchus can’t cope with higher temperatures. ‘You won’t find a winemaker that doesn’t believe in climate change’.
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James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Just exempting care workers would be ridiculous. Basically it would be a case of designing a policy to kick out care workers, panicking when you realise how stupid an idea that is, and then kicking out a load of engineers, scientists etc out of sheer stubbornness.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
OMG I could spend weeks and months here!
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PlotLines - the classics, mapped
Every journey in the book, played out on a genuine period map - out-of-copyright novels and plays, followed stop by stop from Frankenstein to Shakespeare.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Such a historic image
Andy Burnham shaking King Charles's hand, with Donald Trump from the world Cup award photo pasted onto the edge.
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David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Reaching Moon Megacorp’s *Marsh Attacks!* for #RuneQuest is now 30% off at DriveThruRPG (digital edition). Learn about the Upland Marsh & the Greydog clan, plus ducks and Gloranthan Battle rules. #Glorantha www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 16/07/2026
So Sir Sadiq Khan becomes Lord Khan. That's going to: a) Really annoy the haters b) Really confuse people about the difference between the Lord Mayor of London and Lord Khan, Mayor of London. c) Annoy Town Hall staff who just finished adding Sir to all his letterheads. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Political Peerages July 2026
The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned:
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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 15/07/2026
Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"A closed country will be poorer. A country that underinvests will not grow. A state that refuses to reform tax will ration ambition. And a Labour government afraid to say these things will discover once again that caution, too, has costs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Burnham must learn from Starmer’s mistakes: Labour was elected to transform the economy, not just stabilise it | Jonathan Portes
Devolution, tax, the EU and immigration: these are all opportunities for growth if Burnham abandons the excessive caution of the past few years, says economist Jonathan Portes
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Of course, being forced to appoint a less than congenial Chancellor to appease the factional balance of the Labour machine was exactly what happened to Miliband when he was leader, and didn't that work out brilliantly?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.
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john @snoopster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I think he is misunderstood how the WC works. We didn't win bits of Mexico and Norway because we beat them.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
No intelligible explanation, no appeal, customer of 30 years banned by First Direct for buying a coffee and snacks in Ukraine bit.ly/4gJtpg5 ‘a sanctioned country’ it told him.
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HSBC debanked me after I spent £36 in Ukraine on an aid visit
Andrew Boff, chair of the London Assembly, wants clarity over how sanctions rules are applied after losing access to his First Direct account
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I've already had several emails from bemused American subscribers asking me what "Count Binface" is.
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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I hope serious journalists press him on the feasibility of the space bridge at Northallerton. @countbinface.bsky.social shouldn't get an easy ride just because he's riding a populist wave against an establishment candidate.
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Dan @socialistlefty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Countbinface on GMB today when asked if he had been to Clacton: "I have not been to Clacton, based on the activities of the incumbent, I believed that was the correct process" #CountBinFace #Farage #UKpolitics
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Austin Clemens @austinclemens2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The US hasn’t been humiliated like this since last month’s treaty of Versailles
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Ian Walker @fenlandgent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I would just like to thank Trump and FIFA for making the World Cup suddenly interesting for all us nerds with no interest in football but an unhealthy obsession with political scandals. It's been a difficult time for us these past two weeks. You've really come through
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Very much this. Blistering stuff on America by @iandunt.bsky.social
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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A senior UK judge recently told me that the reason senior courts in this jurisdiction never look at US Supreme Court case-law is that they regard it as so politicised as to be useless as legal analysis.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 29/06/2026
The Constitution grants the power to make laws to Congress, the power to interpret them to the judiciary, and to the executive the power to keep firing the head of an agency until he finds one willing to just ignore those first two.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"It is my strong belief that those who have come to the UK on care worker visas who have played by the rules and have genuinely contributed to our care system should not be required to wait longer to apply for settlement." I struggle to find anything controversial in this statement.
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Keir Starmer and home secretary in row over minister's future
Shabana Mahmood believes Mike Tapp should be sacked for writing an article but No 10 say he remains in post.
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