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Tim Grubb

@gubb71.bsky.social
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Jaded archaeologist who doesn't dig holes. Between gardening, fixing & caring, likes music, genealogy & makes models to keep the voices out. (All views definitely not those of my employer or, indeed, my very reasonable wife)

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1h
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h
They definitely are gaining huge momentum, towards cult-like conspiracy and electoral oblivion.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h
This is absolutely damning. A must-read.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We were discussing just that at the SW HER group yesterday.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sent back an AI-"written" grey lit report a couple of weeks ago. It was drivel...
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Would it kill politicians to look something up occasionally other than exist in the world of “this is what I prefer to remember”
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The good thing about doing it while making stuff is that the super glue is never far away! Top tip from an ex-A&E wife!!
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When Alice said everything was much better when we were growing up I took 'pleasure' in countered with all the 'high points' of the 1970s and 80s - IRA bombings, pollution, Thatcher, strikes, shit cars, shit TV, sexism, racism, everything brown, no family holidays, no money, Saville, unemployment.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who radicalised him? news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
news.met.police.uk
Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Up yours, grandad
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Interestingly there's still a very successful one in Charlton king's, Cheltenham. One of the nicest parts of a very 'nice' town and somewhere with none of the traditional industrial heritage you'd associate with such clubs.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City unveil their 2027-28 kit
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Public Service Broadcasting HQ @psbhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big thanks to Mike Palmer for the footage here, Thomas Coe-Brooker for the edit and everyone who came along on Saturday and helped make it such a great night.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Twas a great night! Well done everyone. (And my cunning plan to walk to Highgate to get home worked!)
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
humanists.uk
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love Star Wars and used to say I'd watch anything to do with it. But FFS, please stop now.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
View from Alexandra Palace. Waiting for Public Service Broadcasting. Hamish Hawk is off to a good start. Play it cool.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having a grumpy morning made worse by looking at some crop marks to the east of a scheduled Roman villa site with clear class consent to farm pigs. Notoriously low impact farming.... Only not. There is actually no point in that site being scheduled.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 23/09/2026
You disingenuous cunts. The Guardian can fuck right off. This guy is a convicted criminal, done for knife crimes and kidnapping. He is no more an activist than I am the Pope.
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World news
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to disrupt arrival of' asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Indiana Jones never had to deal with this stuff. Where do I get my refund?
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reminds me of the time and American tourist commented how helpful and friendly it was for the tube announcements to instruct anyone who saw an unaccompanied bag to report it to staff on the tube in the 80s....
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a fuck-up but a class consent no doubt. Even now farmers can carry on what they have been doing on a site after it has been scheduled. Often, before the 5 years in an agricultural scheme are up where they have been paid not to plough they will plough again not to lose the class consent.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yup, my daughter is at Edinburgh University and they've been culling staff for the last two years. Those remaining are about to go on strike. Students all pissed off as courses dropped. Not a peep, anywhere, about it.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to it!
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lovely walks up that valley with the railway to one side and the river on the other. Great swim spot up the top as well.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes. But I did ruin it a bit by drinking till 4am with university friends!
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Worse places to be picking cider apples in the sun
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've never once heard him say what he actually likes about this country
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a Monaco tax exile can, quite frankly, shut the fuck up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can't remember which one but it ended with someone driving a car into the house!
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can they turn up the heat any more?! That episode showing their family meal was the most stressful piece of television I have ever watched!
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FFS, have they really got nothing better to do? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One Sunday in the early 80s when my dad took us to work and my brother and I randomly made up numbers to ring. The chances of someone picking up in the Vatican City ? High it turned out!
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks.
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Coco pops will eat itself
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
War Fest Finley's Touch build out in the wild!
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yet again, it’s the satirists I feel sorriest for…
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Needed saying.
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Sweary Spider @swearyspider.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s a thing.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 07/09/2026
“Hundreds of Far right protesters descend on the Channel Islands, 1940.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Black and white photo of Nazi band marching through Guernsey with Lloyd’s Bank in background. Guardian screenshot:

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Hundreds of far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival
Influencer livestreams event calling for men to travel to port to block coaches carrying asylum seekers from leaving
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 07/09/2026
“It’s an older code, sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear them.”
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Basically Hazelnuts aren't they? Says someone from Kent who had never heard of them before moving away!
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Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Choose some colours, any colours. Ah, maybe not those.
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