jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Sagal Abdi-Wali is English. Matt Goodwin is an academic. One of these statements is undeniably true. The other is open to debate. 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I have children & grandchildren but am untroubled about what happens to my "precious" possessions. Most will end up in a skip, charity, or junk shop. If you're getting on get rid othem now if you think anyone might appreciate them. Don't leave a clearance problem behind you. 100
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Let us not forget Ian Duncan Smith approving of and supporting his constituents destroying ULEZ cameras. Pretty direct encouragement of Khan hating too 020
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's the season where the bigger ones start eating the smaller ones 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Also he is in full self destruct mode. He needs more and more ridiculousness to maintain attention. Fortunately he films his own stupidty so he'll be in court again soon enough 020
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's the huge number of occasional and accidental visitors that decide this argument. Numbers almost impossible to discover & certainly not by looking at one's own motivations 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you like to drive like an arse in London then then small, hot and loud is about right. He'll have a dozen other cars too 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I just love that sort of nonsense. When I worked in benefits we got lots. 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Strangely every hedge, verge and path is littered with cans & bottles. Cheap booze from corner shops & supermarkets is closing pubs & encouraging drink driving, under age & problem drinking. Interesting would be reliable stats on effect of minimum pricing in Wales & Scotland 011
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I don't know how easy it is to search for but there was plenty of appalling music in the venerated 1960s. Some of it produced by artists who still retained credibility after turning out such dross 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 01/08/2026If you miss a connection in Italy they are very good at changing your reservation, usually without charge. Bizarre then that to do this you must take your place in a long queue to have it done manually. Swiss trains and their staff deserve their reputation. 021
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I do hope the guides were in costume and that you enjoyed a cream tea in his conservatory 100
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Too much religion has a similar effect. Thiel has overdosed on both and the effects are dramatic 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026He is and always has been a professor of football. All 3 BBC pundits were good 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I thought Khan's London was a violent hellhole 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Unfair on Dixon but Matter face is awful 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Danny Blanchflower, an artist with both pen and ball. 110
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Politicians are terrified of pensioners and the papers they are believed to read. An obvious opportunity exists to address them directly & explain proposed changes. I'm 75 &. like many of my generation have children & grandchildren 000
Reposted by @jo-elsmore.bsky.socialAdam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This is how much cheaper storage costs are getting year on year. (Solar similar). For any new gas and oilfields, by the time they start producing, in 5-10 years, the economic argument for them will make even less sense. bslbatt.com/blogs/curren... 14511
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Home battery storage and cars used as such could smooth out demand also 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 06/06/2026My mother always referred to instant coffee as ersatz coffee. I never encountered anyone else using the phrase but I do occasionally for comedy value 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Let's not forget the considerable free money from Manchester City Council to secure the stadium for football. City have been drowned in money all round, no wonder Ratcliffe wanted some of the action. 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026He's consumed by his own importance, informed by hob nobbing with the mega wealthy and jealous of his legacy. Don't be fooled he really wants and needs Labour to fail 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026If you said they were £2.20 from Aldi I might ignore the ugliness but I'm not the man with the money. Why does Murrell remind me of the crystal methodist minister in less interesting form 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I'll keep saying to anyone who might listen. No member of the senior school at Dulwich college when I was there, a decade before Farage, spent time in the junior School. It would have been considered odd but couple it with bullying racism and it's way out on the extreme fringes of behaviour. 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Underrated as a footballer too. One of our best ever. I'm old enough to have seen Bobby Charlton in his pomp, Rooney was way better at everything. 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 01/05/2026That's a powerful and necessary message. It's an essential truth that we are often ignorant of the real life dramas being played out literally in the next street. It takes attention to appreciate how bad things can be for our neighbours. 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Later you ruminate on how long your body will allow you to continue doing this. At that point it's far too late to stop 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026And then there was Bunter Johnson's phone never reported stolen but somehow unavailable when requested. 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 25/03/2026That's the harbour in La Ciotat, a town I visit regularly. Super yachts there used to carry their names prominently but less so recently. Something to hide 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Display of a level of hate that should shock us all. There are no sides, or qualifications when ambulances, volunteer ambulances for goodness sake, are attacked. 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 08/03/2026So Blair has joined Trump's regime change UK project 050
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Good morning America. Please consider rising up against the Chump in Chief. It's safer for you than the Iranians & we'd all be grateful. 000
Reposted by @jo-elsmore.bsky.socialAdil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Just a reminder, as some question religious influence in UK politics. There are only two major countries in the world that guarantee clergy to hold seats in parliament. The United Kingdom and Iran. The UK automatically seats 26 Bishops in the House Of Lords. 24657225
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 22/02/2026outcome of a not very wide gene pool at present. Not provided much of worth best was a steady postholder. There have been some horrors and much covering up of inadequates. A dull job if we insist on having done then most of us could hack it. An annual contract awarded by lottery and funded by same. 000
Reposted by @jo-elsmore.bsky.socialBylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 12/02/2026"Proud recipient of a £50m taxpayer bailout for Ineos’s Grangemouth plant in October – courtesy of the very system he spits upon was Jim Ratcliffe. Nonetheless he finds the energy to criticise people on benefits." #Ratcliffe #Grangemouth #immigrationbylines.scotJim Ratcliffe and the art of shamelessnessImmigrant billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – just the poor ones, though 55328
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I lost all faith long ago but sometimes light a candle to the prospects of Gillingham FC. It worked a couple of times and Tony Cascading is of course one of our own 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Some long time ago, no excuse I was way old enough to know better, I was walking up the slope to Leeds station. I saw a figure walking towards me and a cry of "Cheggers! " burst from lips undeniably mine. To be fair he looked at least as embarrassed as I felt 000
Reposted by @jo-elsmore.bsky.socialTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social 19644309
Reposted by @jo-elsmore.bsky.socialBBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 04/02/2026"Are you saying the survivors are being identified and the potential abusers are being protected?" "That is exactly my point." Epstein survivor Jess Michaels on survivors’ names and personal information being published in the Epstein files. #Newsnight 31702306
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I think you have unwittingly made a telling and pertinent point. To be seen to be "pro business" is to get a free pass. The reverse of course also true. Explains a lot 100
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026It reminds me of the metal barrier in working men's clubs and the old Yates's Wine Bars to indicate where to queue. 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Worth recalling just how lacklustre Burnham's previous attempts at the leadership were. He lost to Corbyn just think about that. He has a vision for Manchester and the North and a solid record in starting to make it work. He's no PM & would make Started look decisive 0120
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The kids are smart and will get round stuff line only goes so far. Employed against online safety act but porn traffic down dramatically. We still police laws about theft prostitution etc despite some always getting round them. 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026You will get better and better at this with the passing years. 010
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026When contemplating what pragmatic compromises might be made with domestic opponents, consider this. Did you ever imagine you might champion Michael O'Leary in a fight? 000
jo-elsmore.bsky.social @jo-elsmore.bsky.social · 12/01/2026What percentage of those European fixtures are utterly pointless, devoid of risk, uncertainty, or general spectator interest. They are relentlessly cheapening the game& confusing spectators 000
Reposted by @jo-elsmore.bsky.socialProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Critically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc 19408139
