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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We'll see, but not getting a warm feeling about this govts commitment to climate change from multiple angles

DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Below thread is good; I'd add to annoy people further: the left is split. So is the right. This is a left dominant seat, so only the left split mattered here, but these splits are bad news for both blocs where the blocs are closer. And the LD centre does not exist, at least here.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trade off of "Electrification" vs "conservation area" (= half of England) and the govts decision is...sigh...vote Labour for prioritising petrol cars I guess. Mad. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

thetimes.com

Blow for EV drivers in conservation areas who need pavement cables

Last-minute government amendments will exclude some 100,000 electric car owners without driveways from automatically being allowed to use cables

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I could care less about football, and realise the sport is more corrupt than Trump, but allowing some idiot and evil Middle Eastern sheik to openly buy his way around the UK law.....is morally wrong and needs to be stopped.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

British politics resembles a cruel psychological test: how much pain of Labour doing nutty left things can you take before you vote for crazy Kemi to make it stop?

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Churchill to Truss. Life's unfair.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Labour's London constituencies such as Hammersmith are basically invulnerable, and er, well, perhaps not! www.thetimes.com/money/tax/ar...

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London borough considers 150% council tax rise

Hammersmith and Fulham has the fourth lowest bills in the country — but not for long

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Left-wing parties boasting about left-wing things and right-wing parties boasting about right-wing things is the hot new trend

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In other words the Iranian operation was a success; it pushed the US operations back from a base with weak security? Funny thing to admit.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Making Stalin's show trial judges look respectable:

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, unrepentant hard core philistinism. Quite a bit of it in the Labour party too, truth be told, but usually kept a lot more quiet, in both parties. Again, I see a huge space for a party that cares about culture, community spaces, for all.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not really able to handle Big Debate right now but isn't it just that some people are using "Zionism" to mean "the core proposition of a 19th century nationalist movement i.e. that the Jewish people get a state" some people to mean "the ideology of the present expansionist settler movement"...

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Burnham's Man City comments made me realise why I haven't bothered writing an article about politics since he became PM; he's so incoherent that there's nothing to properly engage with. He's very like Johnson where it's all a ragbag of random beliefs shaped by youthful idealism or career experiences

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As Robert says, step 1 - discussions have continued since 1918; no result so far. No sign of one. Any system will favour someone; others will thus unite against it.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haven’t we renamed la manche, “The American Channel” in recognition that the Murcans won “the war”.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One issue on the PR referendum, or neverendum, is if we have another in say 2030, 19 years after the last, what is the reason not to have a Scottish one 3 years after that?

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Its not a sustainable message for Labour for 3 years. I don't think that means an early election, so either they deliver something before May 29 or perish.

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Its a very solid piece by Burnham; as in, he can write and make an argument. Starmer never could write anything, even using ghosts. I wonder if Kemi can come up with any counter beyond shrieking about the triple lock. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The U.S. has withdrawn its last troops from Iraq, 23 years after a Republican president launched a war of choice based on lies that cost trillions of dollars, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and unleashed regional chaos. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hague puts it politely, but more blunt: by May 29, what is Burnham going to get done? Can he tell us? Not including "I made a plan for change in the future" that doesn't count. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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PM, just doing something isn’t nearly enough

Burnham’s bounce may encourage him to coast to 2029 with incremental changes, but that would be to fall into a trap

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm interested to know if the previous PA action on a base exposed lax base security, and as a result base security was improved, and actual terrorists (not just vandals) were caught. (Or was it all a public tip off and nothing really had improved?)

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Struggling to process this; if accurate, Burnham's mind appears both small, parochial, and bent on suicide for his party. An election on Social Care?! Children, young people, jobs, NHS, sure, but, really? www.ft.com/content/23cd...

ft.com

Burnham signals he will fight election on tax rises to fund social care reform

Prime minister says shake-up would be ‘hard’ to do in current parliament

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Respect for Ed: up one notch

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Somehow, the FT photo editor here managed to omit all the great Arab grocers, the coffee, sweet and nut shops. The bakeries do exist, with the flat breads preferred by residents, and a polish one. www.ft.com/content/1bc8...

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The west London high street fighting against bookies and chicken shops

Residents’ campaign to diversify Uxbridge Road comes as prime minister pledges to tackle UK’s ‘hollowed out’ neighbourhoods

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These are words to describe a vehicle designed to be operated in public space: "Everything else about the TRX is so aggressively in-your-face, from its additional 20 centimetres of width and blood-red badging to the T-Rex on its tailgate and the banshee wail of the engine’s supercharger."

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So the Telegraph has a story that's a "Jesus these cops, WTF?" shocker. And the guy is still employed on active duty by the Met it appears, as is the senior officer who protected him. Cost taxpayers 6 figures+++ already www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At one level this is true, but it makes me think of Mencken, "who cares...that's one bastard dealt with". Action guys, action.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trying to think through the learning of a week in Beijing it is to be less worried about the economics and far more about the politics globally and domestically. That I suppose is always the likely outcome of a massive productivity shock.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A good question for the LibDem problem.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I did Organic Chemistry, where you have to memorise 2000 reactions, and accounting, where you have to memorise the rules, but most professions are like this: my doctor should know, memorise, lots of stuff, not look it up. Its core.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean build the pretty Abingdon reservoir or give up governing, and England should just forget about building anything. www.ft.com/content/cea8...

ft.com

Campaigners launch legal challenge to Thames Water reservoir plan

Company should fix leaky pipes instead of pursuing £2.2bn Oxfordshire project, say activists

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gotta recognise progress: The unbearable noise on the Central line is much much better now. Good for TFL. Especially the Shepherd's Bush to Queensway bit.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great typical customer service story

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, there is a navy right, if not for people who are using knives at sea to attack boats, then for what? Astonishing thread. Astonishing lack of govt.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not for the first time, I have thought the Brits must have something on Donald.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Something I've 100% changed my mind on: smart phones in and being taken to and from secondary school. It needs banning, and by the govt, to give the school a mandate to enforce it, since its the parents who sabotage it otherwise. Very illiberal of me, but.

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Martin Smith @martinpompeyfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes. I naively hoped the Starmer govt had it a plan in their back pocket. I assumed growth based on life sciences, universities(!!), film/TV(!), trade liberalisation with EU … how wrong I was :(

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I am not done with her”. The language of a gangster. It’s a disgrace. Our legal system facilitates it, and the Government won’t act.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I move closer to being a non-voter. Tax policies by party: Lab - we refuse to do anything Lib - terrible gimmicks Green - craziness like wealth taxes Tory - mad cuts that can't happen Ref - we'll cut & subsidise our friends

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Defining tradwives as “women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Nazis” is <chef’s kiss> for our moment.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's the world in which we now live. I doubt that I'll see the duty raised again in my lifetime. All a very long way from the idea of raising duty to cut emissions introduced by *checks notes* that closet socialist Norman Lamont back in 1993 www.theguardian.com/business/200...

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How the tide turned against the fuel protesters

Timeline: Julian Glover charts the fluctuating fortunes of petrol taxation, its advocates and enemies.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's only 2 choices: 1. "I am your obedient servant" or 2. "Here is my list of demands cause you owe me". Anything else is chatter, and Trump will push for 1.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a hilarious example of Americans not realising, and being unable to cope with, a different society. He's lucky he didn't meet friendly seeming local offering to be a guide. He needs to spend some time negotiating prices in a souk.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country

Topographic map of Yemen showing low lying green areas along the coast, and more elevated brownish areas in the interior, with a ridge of greyish mountains running down the western edge of the elevated areas before the coast

A map of Yemen's (non-perennial) waterways

A map of population density by governorate in Yemen with the eastern 2/3 of the country being relatively lightly shaded and the western one-third darkly shaded, especially in the southwest in Ta'iz and Ibb

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