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John Lappin

@johnlappin.bsky.social
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Journalist, financial, mostly I have opinions on many things.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 4h
I’d say the optimistic case now is: 1. There’s already some momentum. 2. UK rates start from a more restrictive position than US or Euro ones; less tightening ahead. 3. Maybe, just maybe?, it looks like European gas markets have gone a bit overboard and there’s some relief ahead.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social · 2h
I mean City owe Manchester United and Liverpool billions. It's not tens of millions of anything. It is surely in the hundreds of millions for Spurs, Arsenal, even Leicester. And for Arsenal the bizarre idea that the years of the offences didn't set up the 2020s. Otherwise billions to Arsenal too.
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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 14h
A personal view, borne from investigating illegal betting networks, is that one of the best ways to fight financial crime is to criminalise the enablers; the lawyers, accountants and trust managers who are perfectly aware of the criminal nature of their clients' activities but choose to look away.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 19h
"My wife is American, though, and she's been my wife for 36 years, and I do love the place. When I see all this Trump bullshit, all his bombast and stupidity, I think that's not the America I know." Happy Birthday to Ian McShane, born 29 September 1942.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 21h
The link between electricity and gas prices has already begun to break - and the government can take some credit for that... www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-ene...
Chart showing gas bills rising by 88% and electricity bills by 68% between April and October 2022. And then gas rising by 33% and electricity by 9% between April and October 2026
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 18h
The problem is that these vary from really quite minor to outrageous. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
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Test cricket's biggest scandals: Rank BBC Sport's top 10
As memories of sandpapergate are rekindled by Australia's upcoming tour of South Africa, rank the biggest scandals in Test cricket's history.
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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 16h
We’re gonna rock down to The inland revenue They’re winding up Man City
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 18h
This must be up there with the most misleading headlines of all time, it's about the abolition of VAT on domestic electricity bills which will cut the cost of charging an EV at home, whether or not you have a driveway, relative to what it would have been. View this as a public service on my part.
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Jenny Cooper @jennycooper.bsky.social · 18h
Question. Triple lock affects all UK pensioners. But the money saved will be used for a social care system in England and Wales. Will Scotland and NI get an appropriate proportion of the money saved?
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21h
Drop the triple lock/create a national care service is a proper policy offer. But I am slightly confused about setting out a manifesto for 2028/29 in late 2026 with years of governing still to go.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 20h
it might backfire horribly on him but if so, boy is Andy Burnham going out with a bang. Do wonder if that speech could only have been made by someone who was out of Westminster for the madness years & isn't as scared of the public - he's gambling on them still grudgingly respecting conviction
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 23h
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 19h
Sure Ben Johnson was on steroids but it was a big gap to 2nd and he might have won anyway so we'll let him off with a warning 🙄
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20h
The number of people arguing City should keep titles they cheated* their way to is frankly mindboggling *subject to appeal etc etc etc
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 21h
“I will tell you things no leader has been brave enough to say before…” “Thatcher was bad, 1945 govt was good, Tories are bad.” (*wild applause*)
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John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social · 22h
High wire act from Burnham on the triple lock if he dares. Quite remarkable if it's in the speech. But the stuff from Raynor and Kinnock sounds like it's included.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/09/2026
I don't mean to brag, but this is one of the best videos I have ever taken, feat. @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It never stops


Robert Jenrick

The 5 RAF base terror suspects have been released on bail.

Meanwhile Danny Tommo has his bail denied.

It looks insane on the face of it. Are the police going to explain what's going on?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The stupidest suggestion in Britain right now is that Reform supporters are also the country's best critical thinkers. No, they make their first observation their conclusion. Genuine critical thinkers make the same first observation but they then delve several layers deeper in search of truth.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna
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John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"They're out on bail and out of jail and that's the way it goes."
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A bridge broke, and nobody came to fix it....
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A aqueduct broke and nobody came to fix it....
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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
the history of the Roman Empire basically *is* studying engineering like
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Have I mentioned that...
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyone who thinks a history degree is necessarily better than an engineering degree or vice versa are imbeciles.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 26/09/2026
The Weekend FT debut of new feature writer Will Lloyd is a deeply reported and terrifying analysis of how prepared Britain is for omnipresent crisis. Alt headline "Why are we so screwed?" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How resilient is Britain?
As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Released 57 years ago. Abbey Road is one of the greatest albums ever made. Not just my go-to Beatles album but my ultimate go-to. The B-side melody is a masterpiece of creativity and this was the ultimate send-off “And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great documentaries, like life, happen while the director is busy making other plans. I’ve written a little bit about Up in the FT Weekend:
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The ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpiece
This vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Having fun thinking up cruel and unusual punishments. And ceremonies. Obeisance. A handing over of the relevant trophies to the managers who really won in the various centre circles. A treble trophy burning bonfire of the vanities has appeal too. Not that kind of appeal. Sigh. Pencil in 2032.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I guess we're still not ready to acknowledge that Breaking Bad was the dramatic equivalent of junkfood, huh
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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They very much did kill jesus
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtu.be
Mad Men - Sally Draper gets tickets to the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium
YouTube video by Teresa Leandro
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette)
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Rich @richgooner1886.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Solution - simple. Reconstitute the Vauxhall Conference. Put them in it. Award league to all 2nd placed for 15 years. Yes Arse. Well done. Etc. Champions league money upgraded to all teams, but treble to 1st non-qualifier. Replay any FC cups with other finalist and semi team that lost to City.
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John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So Jose. What's it like knowing you won the league with Utd? Oh. And you Brendan? Can we have a word? And so it goes. So it goes.
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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'
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