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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Er maybe @thetimes.com needs to shell out for some better picture research?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That was a nice picture from The Times, btw.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Froggy would a wooing go…
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We are nation of litter louts www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a709...
thetimes.co.uk
From the archive: Our beaches, woods, lanes — all filthy
On this day 100 years ago
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just wondering if the Daily Mail still thinks judges are the ‘enemies of the people’, now that a judge has been attacked by a baroness and a prince.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Are Gilbert & Sullivan headlining?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Cometh the hour… cometh the [man] (or woman?)
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The golden age of Channel 4 commissioning. By Cranach the Elder.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The young people don’t look too bothered about it.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Can we now say “I’m Mandy, spy me” ?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Surely “tentacle up”?
Octopus gets leg up in China with joint renewables scheme, says Times headline.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Rare example of gavel being used (accurately) to illustrate a non-law story. What is the world coming to?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Amazing new photos of N K leadership. From The Times.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Wait! What? A tourist hit some nuns. Because of Emily? www.thetimes.com/article/def5...
thetimes.com
Night with the nuns a tourist hit thanks to Emily in Paris
The hit Netflix series has moved to Rome and one character’s stay in a convent guesthouse has highlighted the benefits of these well-located, cheaper rooms
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Should refugees be allowed to stay if they convert? Refugees from the C of E, I mean. The Times: Hundreds of Anglican priests have converted to Catholicism. www.thetimes.com/article/03dc...
thetimes.com
Hundreds of Anglican priests have converted to Catholicism
Bishops have been surprised by the scale of the exodus, which is partly driven by the ordination of women in the Church of England
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Fat rats leave a taxing ship
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
How long before this person is described as a “Walter Mitty” character? Article from The Times: 'Fake' rear-admiral charged after attending remembrance parade. www.thetimes.com/article/faa4...
thetimes.com
‘Fake’ rear-admiral charged after attending remembrance parade
Jonathan David Carley, 64, laid a wreath at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Llandudno wearing a uniform adorned with 12 medals
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Fake admiral exposed by wearing ‘wrong sort of shirt’. Of course. Knew he was a bit of a rum cove as soon as I saw his dodgy collar. I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: 'Fake admiral' accused of gatecrashing Remembrance Sunday parade. www.thetimes.com/article/a35d...
thetimes.com
‘Fake admiral’ accused of gatecrashing Llandudno remembrance event
Jonathan David Carley, a former teacher, who has attended at least three other parades, wore a rear admiral’s uniform and 12 medals
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
What are “fears businesses” - do they mean social media?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Oh dear, @thetimes.com can’t tell the difference between a cassette and an 8-track cartridge
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Because swearing to do so isn’t apparently enough? www.thetimes.com/article/f5a1...
thetimes.com
Hillsborough law will force officials to tell the truth
The government, prompted by the infected blood and Post Office scandals, is putting forward legislation that includes a legal duty of candour for public officials
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
How badly informed do you need to be not to know that Supreme Court Justices are not styled “Lord Justice” (which relates to judges of the lower Court of Appeal)? Shoddy subbing as usual from the Times. (since corrected, but astonishingly let through initially)
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
main story: Lawyers for Rayner deny giving her tax advice. www.thetimes.com/article/a68e...
thetimes.com
How long can Angela Rayner last? Judgment day looms for deputy PM
Sir Keir Starmer has said he is prepared to sack the housing secretary if she is found to have breached ministerial sleaze rules over her tax affairs
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Sir Laurie is not a saint, is he?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Waiter, there’s a plane in my omelette
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
And if the battery’s flat, they can just push the car itself.
Drivers to be given new grant to push electric car sales (headline)
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Well those are certainly impressive - suits you to a T sir!
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Nom de dieu! Another Times sub-fail
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Why are large sums of money always described as "eye-watering"? Why not "throat-clenching" or "scrotum-tightening" or some other redundant formulation? What makes your eyes water is sadness, or pain, or a howling wind on a cold day. Talk some sense, please, journalists.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This must be galling after twenty years of pandering to Farage and his gang - BBC plans to win over Reform voters who have 'lost trust'. www.thetimes.com/article/18fe...
thetimes.com
BBC plans to win over Reform voters who have ‘lost trust’
Some 85 per cent of Reform voters said they did not trust the BBC much or at all, according to a YouGov poll
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
They broke up, they tore it down, they crumbled it to dust…
I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times:
British soldiers conquer Everest using groundbreaking method. https://www.thetimes.com/article/6c16eb0d-a6da-4a03-b648-5b678a00f7df?shareToken=a9facb62cb1087bd3c6553044f835622
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In what sense can anyone be 'handed' a suspended sentence? Sentences are issued or ordered or given. They're not a handout. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Man handed suspended sentence over role in Blenheim Palace £4.8m gold toilet heist
Frederick Doe, 36, convicted of conspiring to transfer criminal property after 18-carat toilet was stolen in 2019
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
And remember, you can’t climb down until you have ‘stepped up’, eh?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Surely he ‘threw fishermen overboard’ or ‘sold them down the river’? What’s all this about climbing? Are the fish up a mountain?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Not just the prices that are steep. You should try climbing the hills. The Times: Edinburgh tops league for most expensive city break. www.thetimes.com/article/161f...
thetimes.com
Edinburgh tops league for most expensive city break
Staying in a hotel, seeing the sights and eating out all add up to £600, the priciest in western Europe and double that of Lisbon
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
C’mon. “White papers” You’re kidding, right? bsky.app/profile/comm...
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Can’t believe this isn’t their lead story The Times: Alchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flash. www.thetimes.com/article/fddf...
thetimes.com
Alchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flash
Scientists created gold atoms for fractions of a second by making lead particles collide at almost the speed of light
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Can’t believe this isn’t their lead story The Times: Alchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flash. www.thetimes.com/article/fddf...
thetimes.com
Alchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flash
Scientists created gold atoms for fractions of a second by making lead particles collide at almost the speed of light
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
That’s six out of ten, dear. on.ft.com/4jUnV0I Almost 60 per cent of UK women complain of financial ‘mansplaining’
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Almost 60 per cent of UK women complain of financial ‘mansplaining’
More than a quarter of those surveyed say they have been told how to budget by a man
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Forget turning lead into gold; how about we turn Labour into Reform? A matter of some con Cern? www.thetimes.com/article/fddf...
thetimes.com
Alchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flash
Scientists created gold atoms for fractions of a second by making lead particles collide at almost the speed of light
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Won’t you subscribe to my Spudsack?
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
AI forgive you - really? Arizona man shot to death in road rage 'returns' to address his killer www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
AI version of dead Arizona man addresses killer during sentencing
With the help of artificial intelligence, a man was 'brought back to life' at his killer's sentencing to deliver a victim's statement himself.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I really don’t know how they will “make ends meet”. Literally. on.ft.com/4jIXb2U Slaughter and May holds junior lawyer pay at £150,000
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Slaughter and May holds junior lawyer pay at £150,000
First firm to confirm remuneration as ‘magic circle’ rivals hold off in response to market uncertainty
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The Pope had ‘favourites’? Headline from The Times: Two favourites for pope accused of mishandling child sex abuse claims. www.thetimes.com/article/c4a3...
thetimes.com
Two favourites for pope accused of mishandling child sex abuse claims
Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle are among the favourites to succeed Pope Francis at the conclave starting on May 7
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Nigel’s teeth: should they be nationalised?
Nigel Farage’s teeth, in a a smile for the press.
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I thought that subheading read ‘AI-deas’ but of course AI does not ‘have’ ideas. It just regurgitates real people’s ideas. It probably can’t even come up with a portmanteau word. - from The Times: Pope's final interview to feature in Scorsese documentary. www.thetimes.com/article/7f24...
thetimes.com
Pope Francis’s final interview to feature in Martin Scorsese documentary
The American director is producing Aldeas — A New Story, which explores a youth organisation founded by the late pope in 2013
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Victim was not alleged perp’s mother, so why suggest she was? Headline in The Times: Woman, 69, held over killing of British mother in Dordogne. www.thetimes.com/article/8139...
thetimes.com
Woman, 69, held over killing of British mother in Dordogne
Karen Carter, 65, a ‘well-liked member of the local community’, was stabbed to death outside her home in Trémolat, southwest France, on Tuesday
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This one is even better
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...
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idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Net Zero doomed to failure because … no one plays a musical instrument at school?
Front page of Times (app edition) showing headline for Net Zero story followed by text of a story about music in schools. Either subs had an early drink or the page makeup software has gone a bit net zero…
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