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 · 03/06/2026Health was an Army officer in WW2, not untypical of MPs of his era. The House of Commons today does have some ex military politicians and is all the better for it. 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 · 21/05/2026Yes there’s cringe alright. I hadn’t thought of it as a working class attack, rather my question was why you’d want to hear any kind of person talk on something they know nothing about… 110
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Opinions are like ***holes, everyone has one and they’re the cheapest form of content for the media. But when I hear a vox pop it often becomes a shout-at-the-radio moment. Editors should ask themselves, who cares what a random member of the public thinks about a topic they know nothing about? 180
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The whiff of scandal. Does the media, which platforms him so lovingly, have the cojones to really go after this story? 020
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Is it though? As Trump said in 2016, he could stand on 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and it wouldn’t affect his poll numbers. Where is the opposition, thr protests? Rather muted, it seems. Do we just wait for elections to find enough Americans sufficiently embarrassed to vote accordingly? 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Very good point, Andrew, which just proves the old adage that a week is a long time in politics. A month is plenty of time for a total u-turn! 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026One can but hope, David. I don’t understand why Starmer hasn’t pinned Farage with blame for our poor economic outlook. Seems like an open goal to me. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Ignore the fact that in many parts of the country, people saw no benefits. Rightly or wrongly they voted for a change, hoping for a better future. Helped by the untruths of Johnson, Farage et al. Starmer’s biggest mistake by far is not to have pinned blame for the UK’s dire economic growth on Leave 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Burnham’s comment that “the last thing we should do right now is revisit those arguments” reflects the views of his constituents - and frankly friends of mine who also live in Leave-voting areas. Those of us fortunate to have benefitted from globalisation and who could see gains from EU membership 100
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026He’s probably a bit short of cash for the deposit, given that he’s just had to pay three years’ worth of council tax in the last couple of days 040
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026When my employer last paid for me to fly business, a mere glance at the heaving BA lounge at Terminal 5 was enough for me to realize access to it is not the benefit you think it is. And with tiny legroom (29”) on short-haul, the same as EasyJet, I view BA as a budget airline in all but name. 110
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 10/05/2026And I’m betting there are many other barely-vetted Reform politicians with dodgy tweets and assorted other skeletons in their cupboards still to be uncovered 270
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 10/05/2026UK politics feels like Britain’s Got Talent. Give people a short time to show what they can do then everyone tires of them and it’s ’get the next act on’. The UK has serious issues and a change of PM isn’t going to fix them. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Another oil futures trading opportunity for those in the know, no doubt 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026There’s always someone with a bucket of negativity to chuck over other people…jeez 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026That is indeed sad. So many hours spent listening to him at his peak, discovering stuff I hadn’t heard of before he played it 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Let’s look at trading patterns for oil futures, shall we… 0420
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 · 20/03/2026I used to work in Richmond, it’s a great place. But as a trainee journalist neither I nor any of my colleagues could afford to live there 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Having kayaked at exactly that part of the Thames since 1984 as a member of Royal Canoe Club I can confirm I would never willingly swim in the river there. Each time I’ve fallen in there I’ve ended up being very sick. Sadly the river is too polluted to make swimming safe here 000
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 · 18/01/2026My mother died in June 2024. I told DWP, HMRC, etc. HMRC said they’d let me know if tax was owed. In fact she’d overpaid. The refund came in the first post after Christmas. Exactly 18 months. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Great headline, from 2013. But if the Great British public is wrong, maybe it’s just been misinformed or lied to. What is the mainstream media doing to combat misinformation, dare I ask… 120
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 03/01/2026On the plus side, there’s zero chance of a Nobel peace prize now… 010
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 · 22/12/2025Love these, reminds me of my days on the Birmingham Post, our subs were brilliant at turning these out 020
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Agreed…I think it says a lot about people making choices on their ballot paper which they don’t want to admit to their friends and family! 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 06/12/2025It was an awful dining experience. Mean, thimble-sized portions and premium prices, even the staff were embarrassed. Anyone with a half-decent memory will know to avoid. 000
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Who is surprised, really. Governance is not a FIFA strongpoint, never has been. 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 · 21/11/2025It’s probably also true that Boris Johnson will not be held to account for the 23k lives estimated to have been unnecessarily lost because of his COVID failures. 080
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Good question, Tom. Better to criticize the program if it turns out to be dull rather than this unwarranted hatchet job. I’m sure there was scepticism about the prospects for a baking show on a mainstream channel, and look how that turned out. 010
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Let’s be honest, the City of London has been awash with part-laundered money for years 120
Guy Dresser @guydp.bsky.social · 01/11/2025And the brand is contaminated, as most Tesla owners realize 020
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