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Die Capuccinogruft @thomas.escritt.eu · 03/09/2026

Well that's the beauty of these mystic past cults, no? You can take them in any direction. It can be populist - the King and all the Etonians are Normans; but it can also be cruelly libertarian - the Anglo-Saxons were rugged individualists before those Franco-Papist institutions coddled us

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fresherwinds.bsky.social @fresherwinds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just a thought: if Trump wants to use a nuclear weapon on Iran, it‘d have to be at least three. Truman used two, and Trump can’t be less than Truman

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Joe Egerton @joeegg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As James Callaghan & Harold Macmillan have gone to their divine reward I repeat HM to JC in 1978 against going early: “You are enjoying all the things you socialists have denied the rest of us. A country house and a town house with staff. A Chauffeur. Private planes. I would not put it at risk.”

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Odyssey: sanitized action movie without any moral depth. Fun in parts. Way too loud (I’ll have to start bringing earplugs to the cinema).

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fresherwinds.bsky.social @fresherwinds.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

See above re: the filming in Western Sahara. You don’t see it get mentioned in reviews

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

CB routinely privately expressed his exasperation with the king over the water, as in this marvelous letter from Dec 01. I'd like to think Starmer occasionally mutters to himself "I do not care a dump either way".

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As of today, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has gone on longer than the First World War.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It’s impossible to take this government seriously over online harm whilst it remains on X.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.

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fresherwinds.bsky.social @fresherwinds.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just rejoined Labour after 28 years away to add my +1 to whoever’s against Streeting

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Small boat crossings are still increasing" reports the BBC's flagship Radio 4 Today programme. Editors could check BBC Verify, which reports they are down 35% year on year. The trend began Sept 2025, though crossings rose before that, but falling for over 6 months now if compared like with like.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Did you mean Otto? (MEP 1979-1999 as a CSU deputy representing Bavaria.)

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In, Twist, Out, as they say in bayonet drill.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row

Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The rich got outrageously richer during this period, but that still wasn't enough for them. When the crisis came, they propped up their own portfolios with quantitative easing whilst the rest of us got austerity.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/04/2026

I'll bet Ghislaine is threatening to release stuff on Melania unless she gets a pardon. Remember: all the really bad Trump stuff that's been released came from Ghislaine's discovery files, and those stories leaked to the WSJ came just before her sex offender status was waived.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Paying someone billions they didn't previously earn so they let you stop attacking them is a chapter I missed in "Art of the Deal".

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Stop calling him a master strategist. He may have wrecked his economy, failed to change a regime and had to make a massive "goodwill gesture", but he has NOT taken 1.3 million casualties doing it. 😤

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2026

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — #Iran includes 'acceptance of enrichment' in Farsi version of its ceasefire plan, something missing from English versions.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

1/ Goldman Sachs analysts report that the biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit globally, with profound and highly destructive consequences. A new report asks ""Are We Running Out of Oil?", and concludes that the answer is yes. ⬇️

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Call for papers: Historicizing the China–Africa Relationship, Durham, 26 August 2026

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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fresherwinds.bsky.social @fresherwinds.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Martin Lewis: the Esther Rantzen de nos jours…

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

To prevent Donald starting WW3, American nuclear codes should be hidden in the Epstein files.

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Nia Molinari @niamolinari.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

*taps mic* *clears throat* -- Ahem. *points to post beneath this* @gregolear.bsky.social

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

NOTATO - Not America Treaty Organisation. You say Notato, I say Notato, let's call the whole post-war international security order off.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 15/03/2026

❗️Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani claims he has heard that a conspiracy is being devised to stage a 9/11-style incident and blame Iran for it, adding that Iran "has no war with the American people." #Iran

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

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fresherwinds.bsky.social @fresherwinds.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Happy International Day of Riesling to those who celebrate

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

1/ Iran's Kharg Island is reportedly under consideration as a target for capture by the Trump Administration. However, declassified US government documents show that the same thing was considered in 1979 but was rejected because it was too difficult and risky. ⬇️

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