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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve been an amateur student of WW2 for a long time. Most of this is new information to me. Probably because I’ve mainly read UK/US accounts, which ignored the wider picture.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This prompted me to go back and check the claim that "On current DWP forecasts, from the 2024 election until 2030, Labour will have increased working-age benefit spending by a further £51.6 bn/year." It appears to be equally fictional/spreadsheet error. Correct figure is maybe £36bn..

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This is a horrible idea, what next, auction for places on the firing squad.

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Think there’s a difference between news gathering and news edit and discussion. Still think BBC is very good at the first bit, but wish they would just report without trying to interpret so much, that’s were bias appears.

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I alway said, much to my parents amusement, it’s all Thatchers fault. Glad others are starting to say it.

Gove, probably the most talented Tory in the last twenty years. Tell you how bloody rubbish they are.

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Well, it IS edible, but after eating, it kills you. Lesson, if the question is not watertight, AI can kill you.

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Just started my second year of college, love this song.

Good, Ofcon up to it’s normal standard

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Good on her, spending money to do some actual front line research (I am hopefully being very sarcastic)

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It’s odd, the facts are so much more interesting than the “spun” stories, but for reason some so called news organisations prefer to publish brain dead rubbish, wonder why?

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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems to me all these firms keep looking for a magic bullet. They just need to concentrate on the basics

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For a long time I have heard rumours of secret payments into ReFarage UK: boat loads of crypto fraud money. I have always believed it and still do. If true, it should bring down the party.

Oakeshott on Xitter: “For a long time I have heard rumours of secret flights into Manchester: plane loads of migrants. I have never believed it and still don't. If true, it should bring down the government.”

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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember a Scouser I used to work with, Billy de-Gauser or similar, asked him where the name came from “one of me ancestors fell off a ship near ere”.

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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nope, me neither, half my Grandparents not at all English.

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh This is more than a bit worrying

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#FOTW Daily Post 5 Favourite denier myth - volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans Ask me or any other volcanologist — false Volcanoes: ~300 million tonnes CO2/year. Humans: 130 times more Please pass on the truth. Share and tag 2 others #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable

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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Be wasted in the USA, but the same meme with citizen smith would be amusing.

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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like a trawler at sea, sounds feasible

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Pochin needs to resign

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Well just watched it, and Reform had their arse well and truly smacked.

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Sure is, she does her best to send them to sleep

Hmm, you know what people mean when they say “with respect”. Give me another reason for banning them?

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Obviously, otherwise they wouldn’t be banned.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wonder how many M.P.s Reform have compared to Greens, Reform have little chance of winning next week but they get their arses on QT

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This week's BBC Question Time is from N London. There's a by-election there next week, which looks to be a closely-fought contest between Labour and the Greens. One of those parties is not represented on the QT panel this week. Can you guess which one, boys and girls? Can you?

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well if Labour did that Erm, there’d be almost no reporters there. It would make no odds though, because most of them have very selective hearing on left wing stuff anyway

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The NEET rate basically hasn't changed for the whole of this century (except post-GFC and post Covid). It's been the same with tougher welfare sanctions and weaker. More apprenticeships and fewer. Higher employer national insurance and lower. I draw two conclusions from this....

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does depend on where they start re price, but elec stuff also generally much more efficient than others

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This is an outstanding point

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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Over 65 here, that’s bollox, still hate it.

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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember them, and learning hand signals, which were difficult to do in a mini with sliding windows, but my shoulders were much more flexible then.

Knock knock who’s there? Iran Iran who? I ran off when I saw the police

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Maybe even a member of that extreme left wing communist organisation (RNLI)

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EV’s don’t suffer from this, but floating down a river still doesn’t appeal.

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Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meanwhile, whose money is funding the think tank?

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True, at Uni in the 1970s I took an option of Energy Studies, my boss at the time said I should have taken workshop tech. I ended up an Energy consultant.

Bob Dodd @dodd-bob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Didn’t know Fred was there. Ta.