idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Er maybe @thetimes.com needs to shell out for some better picture research? 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 21/08/2026That was a nice picture from The Times, btw. 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We are nation of litter louts www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a709...thetimes.co.ukFrom the archive: Our beaches, woods, lanes — all filthyOn this day 100 years ago 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Just 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. 010 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Are Gilbert & Sullivan headlining? 001 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Cometh the hour… cometh the [man] (or woman?) 011 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The golden age of Channel 4 commissioning. By Cranach the Elder. 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The young people don’t look too bothered about it. 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Can we now say “I’m Mandy, spy me” ? 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Rare example of gavel being used (accurately) to illustrate a non-law story. What is the world coming to? 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Amazing new photos of N K leadership. From The Times. 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Wait! What? A tourist hit some nuns. Because of Emily? www.thetimes.com/article/def5...thetimes.comNight with the nuns a tourist hit thanks to Emily in ParisThe 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 031 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Should 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.comHundreds of Anglican priests have converted to CatholicismBishops have been surprised by the scale of the exodus, which is partly driven by the ordination of women in the Church of England 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 15/11/2025How 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 paradeJonathan David Carley, 64, laid a wreath at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Llandudno wearing a uniform adorned with 12 medals 022 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Fake 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 eventJonathan David Carley, a former teacher, who has attended at least three other parades, wore a rear admiral’s uniform and 12 medals 110 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 21/10/2025What are “fears businesses” - do they mean social media? 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Oh dear, @thetimes.com can’t tell the difference between a cassette and an 8-track cartridge 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Because swearing to do so isn’t apparently enough? www.thetimes.com/article/f5a1...thetimes.comHillsborough law will force officials to tell the truthThe government, prompted by the infected blood and Post Office scandals, is putting forward legislation that includes a legal duty of candour for public officials 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 14/09/2025How 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) 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/09/2025main story: Lawyers for Rayner deny giving her tax advice. www.thetimes.com/article/a68e...thetimes.comHow long can Angela Rayner last? Judgment day looms for deputy PMSir 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 010 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Sir Laurie is not a saint, is he? 100 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Waiter, there’s a plane in my omelette 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 15/07/2025And if the battery’s flat, they can just push the car itself. 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Well those are certainly impressive - suits you to a T sir! 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Nom de dieu! Another Times sub-fail 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Why 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. 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This 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.comBBC 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 011 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 22/05/2025They broke up, they tore it down, they crumbled it to dust… 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/05/2025In 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.comMan handed suspended sentence over role in Blenheim Palace £4.8m gold toilet heistFrederick Doe, 36, convicted of conspiring to transfer criminal property after 18-carat toilet was stolen in 2019 101 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/05/2025And remember, you can’t climb down until you have ‘stepped up’, eh? 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Surely he ‘threw fishermen overboard’ or ‘sold them down the river’? What’s all this about climbing? Are the fish up a mountain? 100 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Not 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.comEdinburgh tops league for most expensive city breakStaying in a hotel, seeing the sights and eating out all add up to £600, the priciest in western Europe and double that of Lisbon 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 15/05/2025C’mon. “White papers” You’re kidding, right? bsky.app/profile/comm... 000 0
Reposted by @idioms4idiots.bsky.socialidioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Can’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.comAlchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flashScientists created gold atoms for fractions of a second by making lead particles collide at almost the speed of light 112 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Can’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.comAlchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flashScientists created gold atoms for fractions of a second by making lead particles collide at almost the speed of light 112 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025That’s six out of ten, dear. on.ft.com/4jUnV0I Almost 60 per cent of UK women complain of financial ‘mansplaining’on.ft.comAlmost 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 020 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Forget turning lead into gold; how about we turn Labour into Reform? A matter of some con Cern? www.thetimes.com/article/fddf...thetimes.comAlchemists rejoice as Cern turns lead into gold — for a flashScientists created gold atoms for fractions of a second by making lead particles collide at almost the speed of light 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Won’t you subscribe to my Spudsack? 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 11/05/2025AI forgive you - really? Arizona man shot to death in road rage 'returns' to address his killer www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAI version of dead Arizona man addresses killer during sentencingWith the help of artificial intelligence, a man was 'brought back to life' at his killer's sentencing to deliver a victim's statement himself. 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I really don’t know how they will “make ends meet”. Literally. on.ft.com/4jIXb2U Slaughter and May holds junior lawyer pay at £150,000on.ft.comSlaughter and May holds junior lawyer pay at £150,000First firm to confirm remuneration as ‘magic circle’ rivals hold off in response to market uncertainty 000 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The Pope had ‘favourites’? Headline from The Times: Two favourites for pope accused of mishandling child sex abuse claims. www.thetimes.com/article/c4a3...thetimes.comTwo favourites for pope accused of mishandling child sex abuse claimsCardinal Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle are among the favourites to succeed Pope Francis at the conclave starting on May 7 010 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Nigel’s teeth: should they be nationalised? 010 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I 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.comPope Francis’s final interview to feature in Martin Scorsese documentaryThe American director is producing Aldeas — A New Story, which explores a youth organisation founded by the late pope in 2013 010 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Victim 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.comWoman, 69, held over killing of British mother in DordogneKaren Carter, 65, a ‘well-liked member of the local community’, was stabbed to death outside her home in Trémolat, southwest France, on Tuesday 000 0
Reposted by @idioms4idiots.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025100 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... 16885333111417 0
idioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Net Zero doomed to failure because … no one plays a musical instrument at school? 100 0