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ENORMOUS hat-tip to Nick Muller on Instagram for this... @lilnickmuller on Insta...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h

Ringo Starr, encountering an earlier version of Jeffrey Archer in the 1960s, described him as “the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it”. www.ft.com/content/5235...

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Jeffrey Archer, author and politician, 1940-2026

Best-selling novelist and Tory MP was defined both by his great successes and his headline-grabbing scandals

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I dare say. But I think they mean the one from the Terminator films.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hazarding a guess here. Could it be that Helen doesn't know anybody who is on benefits but she might know one or two wealthy people who could advance her political and financial standing? Just asking questions, as the saying goes.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She's been sold Skynet, hasn't she? "Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence".

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So then, not Kemi 'Iron Dome' Lady but Kemi wannabe 'Tin Pot' dictator?

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

💯 I cannot help but think that BBC news and current affairs coverage is going the same way as the Times and the Telegraph - once respected for their reporting (though obviously 'of the establishment' but now shadows of their former selves and heading into Daily Mail territory.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A bit risky to also redefine yourselves as Fans of Teenagers, too!

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'cause Chris Mason likes him? That's usually good enough for the BBC these days.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This from the man who has had his face and hairline surgically altered to gender-affirm himself as a prize dickhead.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dancing is so much more fun than fighting, and you're much more likely to meet nicer boys at a social dance. A martial arts teacher once told me that the best form of self defence is to run away & to be always alert and spacially aware so you see trouble. Dancing helps develop spacial awareness.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And the table decoration is strategically placed so you can't see the car-crash that his 'chefs' will be serving.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I believe Heston Blumenthal tried that once, but decided not to put it on the menu.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He is smirking a fag. Or a cigar, if the cameras aren't looking.

Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke's Wayne and Waynetta Slob.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a young commercial insurance broker in the City in a division that dealt with French companies, when the filing clerk lady retired, we set to, to refile everything that had previously been filed under L for 'le' or 'la'.

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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andy Burnham needs to tackle this immediately. People should have the right to peaceful protest without fear of being arrested.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's fashionable these days to appoint parliamentary candidates from the ranks of people with no clue but enormous self-belief. Sharp-elbow syndrome, I suppose. But what is 10x worse is that the BBC and other once respectable organs treat them as if they actually know what they're talking about.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From the 'Most Wrong Man in Britain', I take that statement as a huge comfort. 😜

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💯 The past few years have been like "Well yes, firing a pistol into my foot was probably a bad idea, and yes, the wound has gone a bit pussy and I can't walk any more, but there's no point in getting myself to hospital because what's done is done, and there's an end to it!"

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thoughts and prayers to Chris Mason at this difficult time.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a classic. c.f. the Jews in 1930s Germany. And if you can't find a real one, you can always invent one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwit...

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Gleiwitz incident - Wikipedia

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony... ...but if they won't sing Christian songs, I'll make them FORCEFULLY!" .... "O hear us when we cry to Thee Sue Ellen's rod is come for me!".

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Back to the 1830s then. The workhouses were such wonderful Christian institutions. It's a wonder why anyone would possibly want to do away with them. 🤔 Is there a market for oakum these days? I'm sure Trump could find one.

A picture of a men's section of a Victorian workhouse. The regimented ranks of men, mostly elderly, are eating, by means of a long narrow plank on which their meagre ration was served.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"It's called the Cube". Sign-writer "OK, let's do something really radical and make the sign an oval, and just, kind-of, throw the letters at it."

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DougBlueWahoo 🦋💙✌️🌈🌊 @dougbluewahoo2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He’s a hollowed out sociopath….

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'd rather be fat than Camilla Tominey.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is that evidence of the first Mexican on Mars? 😜

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I fear it's going to get worse. Climate change + El Nino is going to destroy next year's food harvest. Many UK farms will give up. Imports super expensive.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Appeasing bullies never ends well. Somehow, someone, or some people in Labour decided it would be a good idea to run after the opinion writers in the Daily Fail & Torygraph & try and woo the people who think Nigel Farage has some pretty good ideas because educating them is in the 'too hard' bucket.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Except he wouldn't ever go to these things himself. He'll sit at home with his Hush Puppies up on the coffee table, glass of claret in hand, watching his thick-as-mince black shorts risking getting arrested for making ordinary people's lives hell.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sunshine Desserts - "I didn't get where I am today by...". Some damned fools promoted her beyond her abilities - the Peter principle on steroids. And it has gone to her head, in spades. In fact, she's giving a good impression of a person who's had a spade to the head.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once they've got rid of the immigrants they'll come for the unemployed, the disabled and the old.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 I believe that towards the end of the month there were many 'business lunches' to use up the monthly allowance so it didn't get cut the following month. I suppose Westminster is a throwback to those days 30 or more yrs ago, because many of that generation are still in residence.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I first started work in the City, a subsidised staff bar wasn't unusual, and people in financial services had expense accounts where they were expected to wine and dine clients.🧵

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I presume you're not referring to the Wichita Lineman. 😜

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'll watch out for it on other streaming services. I don't subscribe to HBO Max.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's the Nazi playbook -the one Netanyahu is using. Tell people the child isn't a human being but is an Untermensch & you're not committing murder, you're getting rid of vermin. It's much easier if you're in a mob, & easier still if you're doing it by drone or missile so you can't see their faces.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Funny, I'd have put them down for the feathery community.

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l'Esprit de l'Escalier @espritescalier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This rhetoric implies that unemployed people are all work-shy layabouts. I think many young people straight out of education would love to get a job but nobody's hiring, especially not people with no experience. I could walk straight into a paid job but now you're lucky to find an unpaid internship.

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