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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah - that alternate reality. This reality is below inflation pay rises. And with AI taking jobs I cannot see that changing.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In what world do average earnings outperform inflation by 2%?

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This isn’t particularly surprising news though is it - there have been countless examples of MPs, Councillors etc all posting very similar wording to each other about key events for years. Not saying it plays right with me, but it is all part of the social media algorithm ‘game’.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Isn’t that exactly how most political parties instruct their X users to behave to big up their leaders content?

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nokia was very innovative back in the day. That they were prepared to take that concept as far as market shows they were prepared to take risks. It shows they knew data use of mobiles would become more important than voice - even if that was a 3G only device.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always happens at this time of the year. The child germ factory (I.e. school) restarts, and a week or two later the families are infected, and then those individuals go on to infect everyone else. And they think because they have to suffer it everyone else deserves it too.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m sure they will arrange it to only affect under 60s who aren’t due a pension until well after the first 5 years of a Reform government - people who have no qualms about pulling the drawbridge up after them.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are all going to get wiped out by AI so who needs numbers in a bank account any more? 🤷‍♂️

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Isaac Asimovs quote on anti-intellectualism sums up these times exactly.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I always assumed those people asking for extra hot coffee in the queue in front of me just had a longer walk back to their office desk. That they actively want to burn the cells off the roof of their mouths and their oesophageal tube is bizarre.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

But still happy for the Government to use the hell site.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Press coverage to get others to tag along with their ‘cause’.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Because it was the other lot, not his lot.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Maybe, just maybe, they have matured. They got into politics in a rage of wanting to burn everything down with Reform. Then after understanding the reality decided that actually that was not the way to do it. Reforms lack of control over who they selected has actually created cases like this.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I got a USB-C to headphone adapter free with a phone some time ago and have used it ever since.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Neither were the opposites of those.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Because until he has an election on his own manifesto he has no choice. What did you think he could do?

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hey - I’m not defending it. It is the reality of our political system and the fourth estate.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have high hopes for your opening monologue this morning James.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes - and the right know this and act on it so much better than the left (who are held back by having principles still).

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This investigation related to a specific poll, albeit one that made the front pages.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes the people I heard it from had clearly picked it up from social media which it turn out was influenced by these polls. So the method worked - he became unpopular. It may have been unfair means but that was the outcome achieved.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So that still means he had become unpopular even though it was through fowl means.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nah - they will be oblivious or dismissive. They have wholly bought that it is the ‘establishment’ out to get their man.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I guess you won't be listening tomorrow then 😆

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just listen to what Nick Watt said to him at the end of the piece 😆

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Apparently will be on Newsnight shortly

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Was that in the 2024 manifesto? Thought not….

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You are bound by the 2024 manifesto. That was not a leftist manifesto. Burnham has no mandate for deviating to the left before the next election no matter how hard you wish it.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Advertisers famously do not value older people because it is felt they are too set in their buying habits to be influenced. If broadcasters can maintain say 95% of their income whilst ditching the Freeview network then they will. Pure capitalism.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Well the problem is that it isn’t free to the broadcasters - and when everyone has high speed internet into their houses then why should they spend £millions a year paying for the masts and transmitters for the handful left behind?

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And yet where they are in power in local government - silence…..

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Don’t forget there will be many ‘dutiful’ voters who would normally vote Tory who felt compelled to vote for a ‘serious’ candidate. But if you know the Clacton demographic the appeal of Reform and Farage in particular should be of absolutely no surprise.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just ditch clothes - you become a lot more tolerant to heat then!

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social The answer to your radio question rests with someone working in an office above your studio! DAB can be better than FM but it is all down to how many stations the broadcaster wants on the available capacity. The more stations the lower the quality of each.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

These ‘fans’ are completely blind to the damage they are doing - a huge scar in the sand dunes and relocated pebbles and old socks left on a huge pile. Yet any mention of rectifying the damage and the ‘fans’ go mental.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why is it nonsense? Do you have another explanation for what is being detected in the waterways that the scientists haven't thought of?

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I remember the days when M&S were famous for white Y-Fronts. These are Y shaped too, but definitely not the same coverage…..

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Understanding South African history helps.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You think that is the reason? Solving staffing issues depends on the effort put in by management, and there is no indication of how hard they are trying.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is he actually going to hand the trophy over to them though?

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Absolute filth - throwing punches after the whistle had blown. The worst of bad losers. And they must know they absolutely deserved to lose.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Plus you conveniently forget everyone has a mobile phone and hardly anybody has a LW radio so it is useless to convey information to the population at large.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Or a single cruise missile on Droitwich. What is less secure? There is huge redundancy in mobile communications networks.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It is the emergency alert system on mobile phones which has been tested several times now.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Same at Men’s final as well!

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Empty seats on centre court? You pay that much for a ticket and don’t use them because of a bit of sun?

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Seems more popular in the north, even if the Chilterns is more his natural homeland.

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Colin @forestlights.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It was discussed on the Today programme with Ed Davey just after 7am so is now on the agenda.

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