David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why is he allowed to keep coming to the UK is one question that immediately comes to mind? Producing and disseminating disinformation about the country should be disqualifying. 081
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A rush and a push and this land we stand on is ours. (All standard Morrissey disclaimers apply) 020
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hated the EU because the freedoms he already enjoyed by accident of birth and elite membership were also being shared with the non-deserving working classes. 040
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The National should know that Reform MSPs don't storm out, they sturm out. 040
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Irish grandmother is qualifying. Parent can't prevent registration on the register of foreign births. Passport application can follow. If it's a question of information/obtaining documents a lot is available on-line from registrars. Ps. This is intended to be helpful not a Bluesky lecture. 132
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Interesting - kept his trap shut during 14 years of Tory rule. Now two years into a Labour government (a less than stellar one admittedly) all is lost. 000
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Not explicitly a spy series but Star City on Apple TV has an amazing cast and alongside the space theme runs a fairly strong espionage element. 010
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nicola's gonna have to do what she's got to do to earn a crust on the circuit even if it means further reputational damage. I wouldn't even rule out a berth as an independent in the HoL in a few years. 010
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026From fading memory even Starmer made a better job of the Southport riots than the Beadle is doing here. But something something buses, norf, no currant bun interviews (but The Times is fine). 120
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Only a matter of time before a motorised column of these people is blue lighted by police to Dowing street for a peaceful handover of power (all in the name of public order of course). 011
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Almost finished it now. Really enjoyable, well written and funny. Never mawkish or anthropomorphic. As a spaniel owner I even learned a few new things about the rascals. 141
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Emerald MFI (pronounced emm-eff-eee by those in the know) 000
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I can see that LinkedIn profile now : "Passionate thought leader, relentless on delivering value, disruptor, dislikes complacency, .... destroyer of Wales, dark Lord of the two Essexes" 1130
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Halfway through my preview copy of 'The Wolf that Chews Rocks' by @russincheshire.bsky.social and enjoying it immensely. Well written, funny but never mawkish or anthropomorphic, it's been a pleasure to read and as a time served spaniel wrangler I've even learned a few things about the rascals. 000
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Their minds can't handle the mutuality/altruism involved in immunisation. 010
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Ah yes that glorious sepia toned holiday in France of fond memory with smoke in the air, dried up rivers, cyanobacteria filled lakes and stifling days of shut up houses and closed shutters. 000
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Assuming Britain turned into an Islamic Republic yesterday (hadn't noticed) wouldn't Pakistan already hold the title? 070
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I'd always assumed that Steeleye Span was a Steely Dan tribute band and I was completely wrong. 141
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 13/08/2026There are serious points to be made about course choices and employment but the biggest motivation for these columns is their overwhelming desire to reduce competition in professions and careers from working class graduates. As if good old nepotism, discrimination etc... weren't already sufficient. 090
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 02/08/2026If only he used 1% of the energy he's using to bait civilians on Bluesky to ask questions of the politicians and civil servants who absolutely botched the management of Covid in the first place and made longer and stricter lockdowns inevitable. 020
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I support the main thesis of the croquettes discourse. Tonight's restaurant meal - veal shoulder cromesqui (croquette by any other name). Was delicious. 120
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Hard not to see a state actor behind this surge - probably America. 000
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Farah way in some lovely way I hear your call" - Martha Wainwright 010
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I finally got there but took too long for comfort. 011
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Sweeney possibly or he might be waiting for a Glasgow mayoral opporchancity. Something something about buildings and the cooncil. 000
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Like a stick of rock the brass neck runs all the way through. 040
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Everyone here except for that weird crime scene photographer guy that has crept in. 050
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 16/07/2026There are dimensions up his own backside that only he inhabits. 010
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 16/07/2026It's Sanchez vs. Milei. Let's hope Spain wins and once Trump realises Spain the football team are Spain the country it will hopefully ratchet his BP up a few points. 020
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Love the big boy military coded speech - Jones can FRO and keep going. 070
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Spooky - 10 minutes ago I had a tall glass of red, three ice cubes all ready to go. Proceeded to spill it due to clumsiness and now spent the last 10 minutes cleaning up the spill, then I read this. Lost the will to pour another one or is it fear I do it again. 020
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Set in a tram depot where 'that new mayor bloke' gets the trams to run on time using unspecified magical Northern powers. 020
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 12/07/2026A few years of government like an 'Up North' Channel 4 state of the nation drama from the 2000s await. Warren Clarke or equivalent to play Burnham's economic adviser Jim O'Neill. 120
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Just some Jocks in a far off place to Rupert. No great mischief and all that. 030
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Just some Jocks in a far off place to Rupert. No great mischief and all that. 020
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Ah yes - Dunblane, a far off place of which we know little. 010
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 08/07/2026On the other hand, alongside his inner Swifty is the post punk guitar jangling McGuinn fringed Orange Juice fan, falling and laughing his way into government. If only he had let that side out more or at all. 020
David McAvenue @dmcarps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Not sure one episode of acute care makes for anything other than a subjective judgement. YMMV. I don't exactly stay in the wilderness but it's a dental and primary care desert and there are many pleas on the local Fb from people trying to stitch their care together from a fairly disjointed system. 140
