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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today I embarked on the annual tradition of wishing people a Happy #Thanksgiving, and enjoying the confused looks on their faces and the replies of "I thought Thanksgiving was in November". (That's what we let the Americans think. Any Canadian will tell you Thanksgiving is in October.)

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't know who Frank Sriracha is, but I can't wait to find out! #Strictly

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Deadly hide and seek IN THE RAIN! This could be juicy. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was not expecting that from Miranda. At all. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't know if Hannah's last contribution was a good idea or not. #LessIsMore #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You're not supposed to do a happy conga line when summoning spirits! Just, no. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Labour has held Holborn and St Pancras. Interestingly, Labour's vote share isn't really down that much from the general election. Green Leader Zack Polanski fell short, with the party's internal rows not helping. #ukpoli #byelection

HOLBORN AND ST PANCRAS

BY-ELECTION RESULT, LAB HOLD (CHANGE SINCE 2024)
SAGAL ABDI-WALI (LAB): 12,292 (45.2%, -3.7%) WINNER
ZACK POLANSKI (GRN): 8,928 (32.8%, +22.4%)
EWAN CAMERON (CON): 1,922 (7.1%, -0.1%)
PETER NEWMAN (REF): 1,612 (5.9%, -0.2%)
PATRICK STILLMAN (LD): 924 (3.4%, -2.4%)
TYLER JOHNSON (RESTORE): 692 (2.5%, +2.5%)
GEORGE GALLOWAY (WP): 314 (1.2%, +1.2%)
BRIONY KAPOOR (REJOIN): 236 (0.9%, +0.9%)
BARMY BRUNCH (MRLP): 87 (0.3%, -0.1%)
HELEN SPIBY-VANN (CPA): 63 (0.2%, +0.2%)
CLARE FISCHER (CLIM): 51 (0.2%, +0.2%)
BEN WALKER (UKIP): 51 (0.2%, -0.0%)
KETANKUMAR PIPALIYA (UKV): 23 (0.1%, +0.1%)
JONATHAN SILBERMAN (CL): 9 (0.0%, +0.0%)
TOM DARWOOD (IND): 7 (0.0%, -20.7%)
OTHERS: - (-0.2%)

SWING SINCE 2024: 13.1% SWING LAB TO GRN

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh my word, James B, that is an absurd theory. I actually laughed at it, it's so absurd. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now, the attentive would have heard Claudia say that there will be a murder, and note the implication that there is a full slate of traitors, and hence whoever was recruited did say yes. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well that was a fun twist. Could make the round table interesting as well. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But what about Hannah's spreadsheet? DID NOBODY THINK ABOUT THE SPREADSHEET?!? #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The way you explain it is "They attempted to recruit me but I declined." Faithful vibes. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The look on her face when she saw which letter it was. She was clearly not expecting that at all! #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's 16 out of 20 votes to banish the worst traitor in #TheTraitors history. #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Polls have opened in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. The by-election follows the resignation of former PM Keir Starmer, who resigned his seat to focus on a role in international affairs. Polls close at 10pm, with a result expected in the early hours of the morning. #ukpoli #byelection

HOLBORN AND ST PANCRAS

CANDIDATES
SAGAL ABDI-WALI (LAB)
BARMY BRUNCH (MRLP)
EWAN CAMERON (CON)
TOM DARWOOD (IND)
CLARE FISCHER (CLIM)
GEORGE GALLOWAY (WP)
TYLER JOHNSON (RESTORE)
BRIONY KAPOOR (REJOIN)
PETER NEWMAN (REF)
KETANKUMAR PIPALIYA (UKV)
ZACK POLANSKI (GRN)
JONATHAN SILBERMAN (CL)
HELEN SPIBY-VANN (CPA)
PATRICK STILLMAN (LD)
BEN WALKER (UKIP)

2024 RESULT
LAB: 48.9%
IND: 20.7%
GRN: 10.4%
CON: 7.2%
REF: 6.1%
OTH: 6.6%

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Parti Québécois has won a minority government in Québec's provincial election. The Coalition Avenir Québec, which won a landslide four years ago, will not win a single seat in the National Assembly. #qcelxn44 #qcpoli #cdnpoli

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Spain will be having a snap election on November 29. It comes after PM Pedro Sánchez's attempts to reform housing laws failed in Parliament.

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was that... supposed to happen? That looked almost like a drop. #Strictly #TabbyAndMark

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Erm... the BBC knows it's not the watershed, right? #Strictly #WillAndDianne

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If I ever go on #TheTraitors and become a faithful, I'm using my strategy from quizzing: don't overthink it. Wait... you're ending it THERE?!? I really hate the producers sometimes. #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If they don't banish Richard tonight then just give him the money now, as they'd be the most useless faithfuls in history. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, treating #TheTraitors like guests on #R4Today wasn't really going to work, was it? #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course that's where you're going to end the episode. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ross already thinks he's been murdered twice in plain sight. There's paranoid. And then there's paranoid. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm trying to think: what reason is there for a faithful to say that they are a traitor? I'm struggling to come up with even one. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If they pick Rob and Romesh to be the two that plead for their lives, and then make it look like one killed the other, that would make be beautiful. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wait... you mean that wasn't an intentional double bluff, Richard? Wowzer. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe one of those who got the shield will become a traitor. Maybe both of those who got shields will become traitors. Maybe... wait, did he actually admit to being a traitor? #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wait, what? Are those all of #TheTraitors? Surely not! I smell a twist coming... #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Claudia really knows how to make an entrance. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nine right answers for me this week (five starters and four bonuses). One of my better weeks. #UniversityChallenge

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In this social media age, where judgment is more important than facts, this is an important read. And it makes me sad that something like this needs to be written. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

themomoftheyear.substack.com

I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder if Bluesky is becoming as intolerant as X.

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BC Premier David Eby has called a general election for October 24th. He's only halfway through his mandate. He already has a majority. He's not that far ahead in the polls. His chances of losing his majority are ~7%. There is marginal upside, but real downside risk too. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #bcelxn44

BRITISH COLUMBIA

SEAT PROJECTION, AT 50% CONFIDENCE (CHANGE SINCE 2024)
NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 55-64 ((+8)-(+17))
CONSERVATIVE: 27-36 ((-17)-(-8))
GREEN: 2-2 ((±0)-(±0))
47 SEATS FOR MAJORITY

SWING SINCE 2024: 2.9% SWING CON TO NDP

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Polls have closed across all of #Russia, which means that I am now legally allowed to tell you that Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has won the State Duma elections.

COUNTDOWN UNTIL WE CAN LEGALLY TELL YOU THAT PUTIN HAS WON

KALININGRAD: POLLS CLOSED
MOSCOW: POLLS CLOSED
SAMARA: POLLS CLOSED
YEKATERINBURG: POLLS CLOSED
OMSK: POLLS CLOSED
KRASNOYARSK: POLLS CLOSED
IRKUTSK: POLLS CLOSED
YAKUTSK: POLLS CLOSED
VLADIVOSTOK: POLLS CLOSED
MAGADAN: POLLS CLOSED
KAMCHATKA: POLLS CLOSED

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 20/09/2026

I was looking something up on Google Maps, and I think I might have found out why successive governments have been so bad at delivery.

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Maybe what Governor Trump means is that he doesn't want HIS falsehoods and HIS lies to be reported.

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The latest example of #AISlopware comes from #Android. I look up a number for my Chinese takeaway. It loads up on my phone. I press the Call button. The number disappears and no call is made. Repeat half a dozen times. Turn it off and on again and it works. I fear for my industry. #AISlop

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What does "severe delays due to train cancellations" even mean, #TfL?

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If Reform is a "party of ordinary people", why do "ordinary people" not want to bankroll them to a point that the "playing field" becomes "level"? #bbclaurak

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just refreshed my UK polling averages. On current polling, Labour would most likely be the largest party in a hung parliament, with little difficulty in governing in a minority. Fieldwork conducted before two multi-million pound donations were made to Reform in the last few days. #ukpoli

UNITED KINGDOM

SEAT PROJECTION, AT 50% CONFIDENCE (CHANGE SINCE 2024)
LABOUR: 237-296 ((-174)-(-115))
REFORM UK: 114-153 ((+109)-(+148))
CONSERVATIVE: 87-119 ((-34)-(-2))
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 63-73 ((-9)-(+1))
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 22-39 ((+13)-(+30))
GREEN: 6-11 ((+2)-(+7))
PLAID CYMRU: 5-10 ((+1)-(+6))
OTHERS: 28-32 ((+4)-(+8))
326 FOR MAJORITY

SWING SINCE 2024: 8.5% SWING LAB TO REF

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We had just come in from morning recess, around 10:30 am ET, to find the TV had been brought out. Unusually, there was an antenna on top of it. The teacher turned on CP24, a Toronto-based news channel. By that point, both towers had fallen. And we watched for the rest of the day. #WhereIWasOn911

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I get it, YouTube. You need to play ads. But you should at least be able to detect that we're at the crescendo of Bohemian Rhapsody, and that waiting would be appropriate.

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

85.5% of the vote has been counted, and while it's clear that AfD is the largest party, it's not clear whether they'll get a majority. Even if they fall short, if BSW abstains from the Minister-President vote, it will mean the first far-right state leader since WWII. #SaxonyAnhalt #Germany #depoli

SAXONY-ANHALT

SEAT ESTIMATE [85.5% IN] (CHANGE SINCE 2021, ADJUSTED FOR 83 SEATS)
ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY: 40 (+21)
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNION: 15 (-19)
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 8 (±0)
ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS: 8 (+2)
THE LEFT: 7 (-3)
REASON AND JUSTICE: 5 (+5)
FREE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 0 (-6)
42 FOR MAJORITY

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You know, even though Sara sounds like a cat being trampled on, she's really giving it in that performance. #TheBox

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Polls have closed in Saxony-Anhalt, and the ARD exit poll suggests that the far-right Alternative for Germany may win an overall majority on its own. It could come down to whether the new BSW gets to 5% or not. If they fail, then the AfD gets an overall majority. #SaxonyAnhalt #Germany #depoli

SAXONY-ANHALT

SECOND VOTE [EXIT POLL] (CHANGE SINCE 2021)
ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY: 44.5% (+23.7%)
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNION: 18.5% (-18.6%)
THE LEFT: 9.5% (-1.5%)
ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS: 9.0% (+3.1%)
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 8.0% (-0.4%)
REASON AND JUSTICE: 5.0% (+5.0%)
FREE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: 2.0% (-4.4%)
OTHERS: 3.5% (-6.8%)
50%

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Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"We live in a complainants' society" is one of dozens of complaints Farage is making. Seemingly without irony. #bbclaurak

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