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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In today’s instalment of ‘I didn’t mean you.’ @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Me in my garden as a few light flurries of rain pass through Hertfordshire

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He’s also seg’d to claiming that securing a land border a few miles long in length is exactly the same task as monitoring and securing hundreds and hundreds of miles of coastline. There’s a palpable whiff of desperation about Reform plc at the minute.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I don't suppose there's anyone here doing some work in the Archives nationales (Paris, not Pierrefitte) right now who wouldn't mind grabbing a couple of photos for me...?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

imagine if Count Binface won in Clacton

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Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I know tonight’s all about the football, but late-night channel hopping has rewarded me with the last 15 minutes of Blade Runner. I’d forgotten how deliciously unhinged Rutger Hauer’s performance is. “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe….”

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is sooooo good! Lol’d my way through my breakfast. Well played sir!

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This looks absolutely excellent and well worth your time if you can get there. @grindrod.bsky.social and @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social talking suburbs. What's not to like?!

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Your future is here, welcome to the club. As a member you can look forward to mystery injuries, bizarre intermittent ailments and wondering how a couple of glasses of wine with dinner has given you a hangover of undergraduate proportions.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Not to mention finding ways to fall out with a supportive and understanding board willing to give him ample time to build a project. I'm sure he'll find the Spurs hierarchy more to his tastes 😬

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Sad news about the passing of James Tolkan, another one of those iconic faces from the films of the 80s. To celebrate his life, I’ll spend my Sunday letting my ego write cheques my body can’t cash.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

When you come home from the pub half-cut and find a stash of wagon wheels in the kitchen cupboard. So much winning 😜

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I see your Wake up Boo and I raise you Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Another day of rain, another set of cancelled youth football fixtures. Our U11 team haven’t played a match on grass since 30th November and only played twice in total since then. More rain this week and little hope that the pitches will be anything other than flooded.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In the case of Braverman and Jenrick, the thing they find objectionable is that they were both roundly rejected by the membership and their fellow MPs in the respective leadership bids.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I suspect that if you spent a month in the desert wearing a tweed suit, by the time you return, that wouldn’t fit either 😂

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Does that mean we can’t be friends? 😂 How deep does the Decemberists schism run?

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Don’t forget Danny Kruger. Political Secretary to Bozzo as PM and a member of the shadow cabinet at the point of his defection. To be fair to you, it is easy to lose count.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Seeing Ivor Emmanuel’s name up there has brought back a memory of Christmas’s long gone. My grandad, who knew him from their time together in the D’Oyly Cart Opera Company, shouting at the tv ‘For Christ’s sake Ivor, sing something they know’ when ‘Men of Harlech’ failed to quell the Zulu attack. 😂

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

One of THE great threads. Read it, lol, rolf, print it out to show your friends 😂

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The glory days when a highly paid international footballer was happy to have a little bit of fun at their own expense all in the name of a silly tv link. Can’t think of many now who’d be up for it.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Amazing! Looks like the setting for a hostage ‘proof of life’ video.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Fickle things kids. No. 3 has a Christmas list stuffed with gadgets and digital stuff, but still gets the most joy from this plywood castle and siege engines my dad made for him.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In a nice end to the year, I can draw your attention to this short (ish) report on the earthwork survey of Cockroad Wood Castle in Somerset which I led this year. A fascinating, if slightly enigmatic site. historicengland.org.uk/research/res... . One for @castlestudies.bsky.social

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Did result in much hilarity when no.1 son, having been appraised of what it was and why I have it, returned from the study with Somerset vol 12 to read the little ones a bedtime story. Sadly, rather than choosing one of the many fascinating sections, he selected the acknowledgments and preface 😂😂😂

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Assume all other archaeology and local history types have a tree like this @vch-home.bsky.social.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Nativity (only the first one) always gets an annual viewing. Funny and with a stellar Brit cast. Without igniting a Die Hard style debate, I’ve always viewed Gremlins as a Christmas movie and that gets an airing. Also, tripe though it is, I love Jingle all the Way.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Feels like a significant moment @mrjamesob.bsky.social. When those who sold the Brexit con are openly admitting that it has made the country poorer, it opens the door for the government to do something about it. www.thetimes.com/business/eco...

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We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe

Breaking free from the EU has undoubtedly deepened the UK’s malaise, and it’s no use denying it

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social discussion the Reith lecture edit with @rutgerbregman.com it strikes me this might be the greatest ever example of the Streisand Effect. How many more people have now heard the line about Trump who wouldn’t have done had it simply been broadcast as recorded?

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

It’s climate change filth that’s what it is….

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Well, well, well @mrjamesob.bsky.social. Thanks to the Yuka app, I now know that it is far healthier for me to have a full sugar cab of appletiser than it is to have to bottle of freshly pressed apple juice by a well known brand who trade off how unadulterated their product is.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Sorry 617 Squadron, sorry Barnes Wallis, sorry Operation Chastise. Y'all just aren't on Trump's level 🙄

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Fun fact, the text book for that GCSE History of Medicine module was written by the late Ian Coulson of Kent VCH. There’s always a VCH link if you look hard enough.

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Ironically, if that happens, I then need to cheer for a Chelsea win in the Europa Conference final. It’s a funny old game 😂

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Know that feeling. Keeping everything crossed for a Forest win today to keep Chelsea in 7th

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

A couple of pics from our visit to the Devil’s Arrows this week. #standingstonesunday

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I'm not a huge consumer of podcasts, but this one is excellent. If you're into 20th century urban planning and the more 'out there' proposals for the post-war reconstruction of Britain, this is likely to be very much your thing!

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I'm the first guest on an excellent new podcast series by Ewan Cameron on utopian design. I'm chatting about Geoffrey Jellicoe's provocative Motopia scheme. You can find Brave New Worlds on any podcast platform, and here it is on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7n99...

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Now, I’m not saying Historic England should bring out a line of Action Figures but I’m certainly not saying they shouldn’t 😂😂😂

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Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In a functioning world, the SEC would be looking very closely at the positions taken by Trump’s stock portfolio over the past 10 days. Anyone who sold stock before the tariff announcement, bought it back at the dip and sold it again after the tariff pause, made a ton of cash!

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