Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’d forgotten what a dire and disappointing experience a British post office can be. Empty shelves, tired carpet and bits of cheap plastic tat for sale, few staff - this in south London. It’s worse if you live in the countryside where Post Offices are like red squirrels - vanishingly rare 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I do love the obituary Page in The Times, I get to marvel at the lives that people have had and it profiles not just the great and the good but also the bad and the truly awful. Today featured Dennis Locorriere, lead singer of Dr Hook and the Medicine Man - I commend it for this great line, see pic 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Listening to a fellow bus passenger talking to his girlfriend and getting to listen to both ends of the conversation because he has her on loudspeaker. What is the matter with people? 001
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The wonderful Dolly Parton, not just a great singer but a great philanthropist too 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 21/01/2026So, no tariffs for the 8 European countries opposing the US on #Greenland. #TACO 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Trump‘s advance guard arriving this afternoon at #ZurichAirport ahead of his pilgrimage to the #WEF. I wonder what sort of welcome he’s going to get in #Davos this time. Last time he came, he was subject to the veneration and adulation that he craves. This time, I’m not so sure. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Apparently I have to be instructed in how to cut carrots in a precise way. Ah it must be Christmas. 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Very tired of ‘Black Friday promotions everywhere in Europe, especially as it’s a US invention for the day post Thanksgiving, which I don’t celebrate. Still, all is well. I’m in an airport departure lounge and listening to ‘Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer’ and it’s not even December. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Snow here near Zug, Switzerland. Have a great weekend! 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Finally a UK politician willing to tell the truth about #Brexit impact on the economy. It’s a start, I suppose www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comNothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael BehrIt is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Oh George, surely @nespressousa.bsky.social could have sent you a free coffee machine when the old one broke? You fronted all their ads, didn’t you get a lifetime’s supply? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...theguardian.comGeorge Clooney says his children have a ‘much better life’ being raised in France than LAThe actor said that life on their French farm will be free of paparazzi, teach them self sufficiency and let them see his handyman skills, such as fixing the coffee machine 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025One of those ‘shout at the radio’ moments when BBC Radio 4 Today program presenter discussing Nvidia clearly doesn’t know the difference between market capitalization and share price. Basic stuff 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025So P&O parts company with auditors @kpmguk.bsky.social opting for a tiny 4-person firm. Prof @premnsikka.bsky.social is right. The public, of whom P&O transports >4m a year, will likely want reassurances that it’s financially sound www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comP&O Ferries hires tiny four-person accounting firm to replace KPMGMove raises questions over governance of ferry company and ‘auditor independence’ of accounting firm 020
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Interesting @nytimes.com piece by Liz Alderman on Europeans boycotting US products, from Tesla to Harley Davidson via New Balance, Nike and even Airbnb. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/b...nytimes.comAs Backlash to Trump’s Tariffs Grows, Europe Boycotts American BrandsA shifting perception of the United States amid President Trump’s trade war is prompting Europeans to pivot decisively away from U.S. goods and services. 020
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Commentators slagged off chainsaw wielding President Javier Milei as ‘the crazy’. They did the same for Elon Musk’s antics. Yet it seems magazine editors can’t get enough of the saw wielded 020
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Former UK Conservative Party leader and foreign secretary William Hague on the astonishing cult of personality gripping Washington, how Zelenskyy walked into a trap and what Europe must now do: “How Zelensky misread Trump’s White House” www.thetimes.com/article/d4fe...thetimes.comHow Zelensky misread Trump’s White HouseAfter walking into an Oval Office trap, Ukraine’s president needs European leaders to live up to their vows of solidarity 020
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Privatized UK utility companies aren’t just greedy. They’re insensitive too. My late mother’s gas and electricity provider keeps writing to her, handily putting ‘(deceased)’ after her name on the bill. I asked them to use my details instead and they said ‘only with the account holder’s permission’. 030
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025You journalists must write every day in defense of personal liberties and free markets. But your personal liberties do not extend to being able to express a contrary opinion. #Bezos #Bozo 040
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The very news organizations you CAN trust in difficult times, @bloomberg.com and my former employer @reuters.com Binning subscriptions is like blindfolding yourself…a very strange move in times like these 020
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Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Listened to this press conference, I heard a fantasist describe an alternate reality with no basis in fact. So Ukraine is to blame for being invaded? Quite wrong. As the article states, every US President for the last 80 years would have disagreed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. PolicyAs peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded. 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Walking around Lucerne, one of the most beautiful cities in Switzerland, if not Europe 030
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025@brosenfeld.bsky.social Hello Barry, your profile says you’re a canoeist…how did I not know we had this in common?! Hope you’re well 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Tim Cox (pictured) and Andy Purvis are rowing 3,000 miles (5,000km) across the Atlantic, raising funds for child bereavement charity Abigail’s Footsteps and @dementiauk.bsky.social - it’s rough out there! Please think of donating to these great causes via the team’s website www.oarmightymates.co.uk 030
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024My mother died in 2024. She had a long life, well lived. But often when I see or hear something she’d be interested in I still find myself thinking ‘I must tell her’. 130
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 08/12/2024In La Gomera, Canary Islands for the #WTR World’s Toughest Row, 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to #Antigua. The organizers are in the other place, hopefully they’ll join us for next year! Check out the website of Tim and Andy, who are competing: www.Oarmightymates.co.uk 021
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Two Britons rowing the Atlantic start next week from La Gomera in the Canary Islands for @dementiauk.bsky.social Check out Tim Cox and Andy Purvis here: oarmightymates.co.uk 030
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024So is #BlackFriday when people rush to buy stuff they don’t need with money they don’t have? 030
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Proud to be helping these guys with comms support as they row the Atlantic from Dec 10. It’s a tough thing to do, as I know. They’re raising money for Dementia UK, which helped our family when Dad fell ill. If you’ve got any spare cash, please check them out: oarmightymates.co.ukoarmightymates.co.ukOar Mighty Mates 2C | Rowing the Atlantic for charityOar Mighty Mates 2C are two friends rowing for charity in the Worlds Toughest Row - Atlantic Challenge in 2024. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Private Eye magazine always has an interesting take on politics… 031
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Tim Cox and Andy Purvis are rowing 3000 miles across the Atlantic next month in the #WTR World’s Toughest Row. Supporting child bereavement charity Abigail’s Footsteps and Dementia UK. Do check out their site with charity links:oarmightymates.co.ukOar Mighty Mates 2C | Rowing the Atlantic for charityOar Mighty Mates 2C are two friends rowing for charity in the Worlds Toughest Row - Atlantic Challenge in 2024. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024RIP John Prescott, former UK deputy PM. Principled lifelong fighter for social justice, banged heads together at the original #COP and his strong union links helped Tony Blair turn #NewLabour into election winner. And a famed left hook… www.thetimes.com/article/606c...thetimes.comJohn Prescott, former Labour deputy prime minister, dies aged 86The former trade union activist died ‘peacefully’ surrounded by his family in a care home 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Please join the stem cell register. You could save a life! @dkms-de.bsky.social www.dkms.org.uk 001
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Got to love the colour scheme on this #Swiss train #sbb #cff It’s promoting the Zurich transport authority, the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) 121
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Today’s London Times, an exclusive extract from Melania Trump’s memoir. I mean, she likely hasn’t read it, much less written it, but lots of nonsense like how she and her boyfriend tried to keep their relationship secret while going to Broadway shows and movies www.thetimes.com/article/c7e9...thetimes.comMelania Trump: The day I met DonaldIn an exclusive extract from her new memoir, the former (and future) first lady recalls her arrival in New York and her first date with the president-elect 310
Reposted by Guy DresserStephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 05/10/2024My copy of @rebeccathorne.bsky.social 's A Pirate's Life for Tea just arrived with perfect timing (it's been a heck of a week, for multiple reasons, so I NEED some cozy romantic fantasy goodness right now!), and I love this dedication. ;) 462293283