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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Substack version, if that's your thing... sprintguy.substack.com/p/time-is-an...
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Time is an illusion – lunchtime doubly so – Part 3 of 3
Fourteen years logging every minute of my working day. Fourteen years logging almost none. The same broken clock throughout.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another Medium post - this one on a dramatic change in my work environment which radically changed the way I think about work and managing my time - and the self-managed model that followed. It does link quite closely to the two recent planner-related issues. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Time is an illusion – lunchtime doubly so – Part 3 of 3
Fourteen years logging every minute of my working day. Fourteen years logging almost none. The same broken clock throughout.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Substack version - sprintguy.substack.com/p/why-i-keep...
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Why I keep coming back to Franklin
How I’ve adapted the Franklin Planner for an ADHD brain – and what still frustrates me about it.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last week I posted on Medium (and Substack, if that's your preferred platform) about the planners I'd tried that had failed to work for me. It seemed to resonate with people. Here's the follow-up - about the one I have (mostly) got to work - and how I had to adapt it. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Why I keep coming back to Franklin
How I've adapted the Franklin Planner for an ADHD brain – and what still frustrates me about it.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Murder/manslaughter don't take your genes out of the gene pool. Suicide does if you've not yet had offspring; infanticide might (and that's what anti-vaxx can result in). Being anti-vaxx does not lead to car wrecks. Being rich/poor isn't a causal factor. Education might be. Stupidity is.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Broadly, it is. It's removing genes from the gene pool. Unfortunately for the victims of antivaxxers, it's removing them a generation later than would be optimum, but it's still working.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Think of it as evolution in action.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Or on Substack if you prefer sprintguy.substack.com/p/20-planner...
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20 Planners I've Broken Trying to Manage My ADHD
Forty years, two acquisition habits and one golden rule I've broken with every single one of them.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Staying on top of things with ADHD is an ongoing struggle. Here's me wittering on about 19 planning systems I've broken (and how) and one I'm still trying to break. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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20 Planners I've Broken Trying to Manage My ADHD
Forty years, two acquisition habits and one golden rule I've broken with every single one of them.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And for Substackers sprintguy.substack.com/p/time-is-an...
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Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so - Part 2 of 3
Three very different corporate structures, one ADHD brain, and why the ones that looked like they worked often didn’t.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you read last week's Medium piece - and I know some of you did - here's part 2. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so - Part 2 of 3
Three very different corporate structures, one ADHD brain, and why the ones that looked like they worked often didn’t.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh, and it absolutely isn't socialism. It's corrupt right wing politics 101. It isn't usually cash - it's usually a tax cut the country can't afford. Or, in 1980s UK, the chance to buy your social housing at below cost or shares in a nationalised company you previously owned all of.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's the third bribe he's promised. Incredibly, he failed to deliver the other two. Predictably, people are falling for it again.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm at it again. It's a little bit late this week which, as you'll see, is ironic... medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In parliament 24 hours a day? So, to the nearest hour, about 24 more than he spends there currently?
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think Johnson will save him from that. And Thatcher really deserves the title. But he's right up there.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Or on Substack if your prefer - sprintguy.substack.com/p/the-ones-t...
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The Ones That Stuck: Ten Ideas That Changed the Way I Think About ADHD
It took a magazine from 1994 and a CompuServe forum full of other ADDults to start to find the words that finally made sense of my brain.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My weekly post Two Track Mind post on Medium - a little more personal than the last one but hopefully of interest to fellow ADHDers. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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The Ones That Stuck: Ten Ideas That Changed the Way I Think About ADHD
It took a magazine from 1994 and a CompuServe forum full of other ADDults to start to find the words that finally made sense of my brain.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
For those who prefer Substack, it's there, too substack.com/@sprintguy/n...
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No, I’m not going to rate my hotel check-in
I’ve spent forty years building systems to compensate for a mind that won’t focus on what other people think matters. Hotels.com built a system to manufacture caring about something nobody does
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I do understand the obsession with surveys, I really do. But... medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I see Farage has honked out another one of his ‘racist ideas for idiots’… Don’t solve the problem by building more social housing, make people in the queue angry with each other instead. What a little racist shit-stirrer with his £5mill and 5 homes, whipping up hatred to make himself richer. (Times)
Put working Britons first in housing queue, says Reform
Matt Dathan
British-born workers under 35 would be placed at the front of the queue for social housing, with priority given to married couples with children, in a new pledge from Reform UK
Nigel Farage's party has announced radical plans to overhaul the way such accommodation is allocated,
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veterans also given preference.
Those on benefits would be regarded as a lower priority under the new policy, to be announced by Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader.
The party has already pledged to bar foreigners from social housing and said they would be evicted after a "short grace period. Reform UK estimates that 540,000 social homes are occupied by foreign citizens and that of the 1.3 million people on waiting lists, 15 per cent - about 195,000 households — are foreign.
Tice said: "There are now 1.3 million people waiting for social housing in Britain. The vast majority of them do not have jobs. In terms of the social houses we have, less than half of households are in work and over half a million social homes are currently occupied by foreign nationals.
"Meanwhile, young British men and women, who are working hard, can't afford to move out of their family home… It is time for us to prioritise young British workers, and that is what our policy is about."
A Labour spokesman described
Reform's plans as unserious and unworkable. "Access to social housing is already tightly controlled. Illegal migrants, asylum seekers and migrants on student or work visas are not eligible for social housing," the spokesman said.
"This policy would go after long-term
UK residents that have contributed to our country but are not British citizens, including NHS staff. It would leave more families at risk of homelessness and drive up use of temporary accommodation at the taxpayers' expense. It would also mean renegotiations with the EU, resulting in years of wrangling"
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I shoot things for fun - and money medium.com/two-track-mi...
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I shoot things for fun - and money
How a bad mountain bike racer accidentally became a professional photographer
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Apparently Reform's useful idiot ceased to be useful.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
More tiny experiments medium.com/two-track-mi...
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The Importance of Career Planning
How a Grand Prix, two E-grades and eight weeks in the coldest house in Liverpool started a forty-year habit.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And given the Reform to Conservative trend, they appear to have forgotten the ideological vandalism, incompetence and corruption they endured for 14 years...
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last week I posted a story on Medium about the consequences of leaving your phone at home while travelling abroad. And I promised a list of things to do to minimise the impact. So, here it is... medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Ten Ways to Survive a Trip Without Your Phone
Last week I left my phone on the sofa and flew to Singapore. Bottom line: it’s almost impossible to function without a phone. From airline…
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm taking the win, because I've been saying for some time that life's little annoyances should be an issue for government. Now tackle the ones caused by government... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Subscriptions you can’t easily cancel, sales that aren’t sales – I’ll end the rip-offs that British people hate | Andy Burnham
These everyday hassles are small, but they add up – especially in a cost of living crisis. That’s why my government will tackle them head-on, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is excellent.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Given his comments when Mandela died, I think it's fair to assume - or, as he would have done, assert - that it's what he would have wanted. If you want people to say nice things about you when you're gone, be a decent human being when you're here. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
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Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Post preview Holidays. They're relaxing, right? And they'd be more relaxing if you didn't take your phone with you... right? medium.com/@guyaswarbri...
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The Two-Factor Holiday
I left my phone at home for a two-week trip. Every ADHD coping system I’ve built in forty years turned out to live inside it.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Also, the Faragists like what she says, but they don't like what she is. She says she'll do what they want done, but it's people like her they want it done to.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'm sorry, but you've just been lucky. Yes, they're good, but they're not THAT good. I've missed several connections and one flight as a result.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I just published Keeping things on tracks medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Keeping things on tracks
Forty years of productivity systems, one butterfly mind, and one more tiny experiment.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com While the upcoming increases in the energy cap are of the same order of magnitude as the VAT cut, without it they would have had VAT on... so either way people will be better off than they would otherwise have been...
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 13/06/2025
@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
That's an answer to a different question.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
(Listened from Oman using Saily - which I found about from Fish, which is nice)
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@andrewhunterm.bsky.social Just listened to No Such Thing as a Fish 587. No biplanes in WWII?! The Royal Navy ended the involvement of the Italian Navy in the Med with Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers in Nov. 1940. In May 1941, Swordfish sank the Bismarck. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_...
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Fairey Swordfish - Wikipedia
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
They are. The one destroyed by the lack of the other. But nobody planned for that.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Historically, a sane administration and a strong alliance.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Who? Lockheed-Martin? Or the US Government? The former wouldn't; the latter couldn't.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If they did, nobody would buy them. And they're not made by the US Government, they're made by a commercial company. And most of this stuff isn't just US. Rolls Royce, BAe are involved. However, 5th generation fighters are essentially computers with wings, so they could withhold software updates.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just £9k to go... www.gofundme.com/f/buy-a-new-...
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Donate to Buy A New RNLI Hovercraft - The Flying Farage, organized by Simon Harris
I am trying to raise enough money to buy a new lifesaving hovercraft for th… Simon Harris needs your support for Buy A New RNLI Hovercraft - The Flying Farage
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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'Quite the opposite': GOP's 'Make America Healthy' promise torn apart in fact-check
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't want Americans to think of him as an antivaccine conspiracy theorist as he seeks confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services — rather, he wants to be thought of as a guy who wants to…
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Fake news. Dumpster's not on fire.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🔴Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government The UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution? bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/k...
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Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer's Government
Both the UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The Telegraph who hate illegal immigrants, advising Brits how to be illegal immigrants.
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