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David Ward

@davidwardsays.bsky.social
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Mancunian in exile...Cricketer...United and Lancs fan...politics...construction...arts/culture

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Small business isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Big companies are the engines of economic growth. The more an economy is dominated by small businesses, the more likely it is to be a weak one.
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David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Politically, the best option would be to keep the name of the 'triple lock' but change the formula - say, to the middle of the three components rather than the top one. Too many people will confuse 'scrapping the triple lock' with 'scrapping increases' or even 'scrapping the pension'.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
IRN BRU, I admire you as our proud national drink, but in the present atmosphere, don’t you think you timed this REALLY badly with the balaclavas?
IRN-BRU unleash balaclava-clad grannies across Scotland for 125th anniversary.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026
"Wait until the Sundays" people told me discussing why the papers weren't going hard on Farage being caught in the Channel 4 sting. Ok. It's Sunday. Times - front page has Farage's 'I wasn't listening' denial, inside is double-page spread on 'Nigel's Motley crew' (that's them covering the sting)
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Frankly amazed that despite wall-to-wall Bayeux Tapestry coverage nobody has mentioned the Playmobil version I made back in 2016.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please excuse my total silence on the events in Middlesbrough, but as there are no immigrants involved it is of no interest to me whatsoever.
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I know it ended badly before, but it’s so good to see Rashford playing well in. United shirt again #mufc
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 13/08/2026
Most young people describe themselves as almost always online, and they're also the age group most likely to describe themselves as lonely ⤵️ buff.ly/v7pfxOa
Proportion who are almost always online (left side) and are often lonely (right side), by age group: UK
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🏘️ NEW - As we spend another day overheating in our homes, we look at the simple changes needed to the planning system to allow installation of passive cooling options (things like external blinds, awnings etc) common in many other European countries - www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...
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Britain's cooling debate is blind to passive options
Britain is in yet another heatwave. Whilst the policy debate has revolved around air conditioning, are we missing a more sustainable fix?
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
dlvr.it
EPC-led compliance won’t improve people’s lives
MEES is in danger of driving the sector towards a culture of compliance and box-ticking, writes Bob Spedding, director of assets and sustainability at Yorkshire Housing
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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...
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UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race
Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Note to England: you are not obliged, in fact, to let the French attempt to rescue their reputation
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Had to put the sad 13 yr old to bed with words ‘you’ve got plenty of tournaments left in your life to see England win one’. Get downstairs and im thinking “Christ how many have I got left at this rate!”
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New post, on why people shouldn't 'never-skill' themselves with AI: kucharski.substack.com/p/dont-never...
kucharski.substack.com
Don’t 'never-skill' yourself with AI
If you rent your abilities from AI companies, other people can rent them too
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
are we closed because of the game? or are we closed because we're never open on Mondays? the answer to one of these questions is yes, and you must look inside your heart to learn which
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Bring on the megafauna finale of Haaland versus Dan Burn
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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
No way we win that game in extra time given 10 men and players exhausted. Taking Kane off literally bets the whole World Cup on winning it in 90. Not convinced Rogers was the right sub on, but that’s big management chutzpah. No way Southgate does that.
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Henderson reaching John Terry levels here. Doesn’t play but manages to get booked and get stretchered off in front the media
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Pickford should be knighted after this game
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Pickford is turning into Gordon Banks here
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So glad I have Shearer here to tell me it’s a good idea not to concede another goal.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/07/2026
But great men tremble when the lion roars
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
All the evidence points to conclusion that Cottrell doesn’t have serous money. So where is he getting the money he spent on Farage?
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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The BBC could steal a march on that pompous-looking Christopher Nolan film by putting this up on the IPlayer.
Odysseus: the Greatest Hero of Them All with Tony Robinson
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The team writing the strategy are going to have a lot of corporate lobbyists selling them Kool Ideaz™️ just now, but a good strategy for a PM who wants to be liked is to start by talking about skills and jobs for young people, who are quite literally the future of the tech industry
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Scott Innes @flyinginside.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 01/07/2026
England hasn't attacked this ineffectually on 1st July since The Somme.
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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Spotted at Walton on Thames Cricket Club yesterday….
Plaque at Walton on Thames Cricket Club that reads “The Prince of Wales played in the world’s first recorded game of baseball on 12th September 1749 here in Ashley Park, Walton-on-Thames”.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
England could have won this by playing normal Test cricket against a bowling attack held together by elastaplast and bandages. Stokes should have been prevented from opening the batting and playing like there were three overs left. #ENGNZ
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Reminder of Great British Patriot!! Nigel Farage, laughing his socks off as the pound crashed on the night of the EU Ref 10 years ago Making the rest of us poorer
A laughing Farage pointing at a chart of the pound crashing
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 17/06/2026
Who wants to see a job listing with several escalating jump scares www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cg...
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I hope Hull History Centre won't mind me sharing this lovely letter from Roy Hattersley's papers, on the sad news of his passing aged 93. RIP.
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Busby Babes will NEVER die @trevthered.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Andy Mitten is so much better to listen to than Goldbridge. Andy talks facts & has links with United including 20 years knowing Michael Carrick. He goes to watch United every week Goldbridge's views are based on promoting his own image and simply guesswork that any of us could offer
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We’ve seen it all, we’ve won the lot!!! OT rocking #mufc
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
What a goal from Mainoo! #mufc
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Nightmare second half for united this
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
'Ooo remembers Macclesfield v Man City?'
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received.

What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Pouring one out for Jimmy Hill tonight.
Jimmy Hill, in his later years, sat in front of his statue at Coventry's CBS Arena.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Today in THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, we always assumed that the dickhead in this meme was Heston. We apologise to Heston, but not to Gregggggg. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. #Mastertwat
A pile of Waitrose Weekend magazines, folded so that the bald head on the front looks like a penis. The whole front page of that edition, where the penis is revealed to be Gregg Wallace.
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Finally a bit of good news for the UK economy
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
He's finally gone full Macbeth.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump: “I could be Pope, you know, if I wanted. And they’re saying I should be. Isn’t that right? Some people said this. They say I’d be the most powerful pope the world has ever seen. Who knows? I might do it. I like white clothes. But I’d probably change it to 24-karat gold. It’d be so expensive.”
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David Ward @davidwardsays.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Unbelievable statement here in the impact statement for the Govts policy on energy standards in social housing. They have chosen the option that will bring LESS people out of fuel poverty! www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Aerossurance @aerossurance.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A job for Darrius Jedburgh and a Harrods carrier bag (Edge of Darkness Ep 5, Northmoor, Tx 25 November 1985)
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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It is absolutely stupid that a major focus of policy response to the Iran War is on the planned 1p rise in fuel duty in September (watching Trevor Phillips interview Bridget Phillipson). Of no help now to anyone to abandon it. Shows how trivial our political debate has become.
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