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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The moral degradation wrought by Trump and his gang will not be undone at the flick of an electoral switch.” Quite.

jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

‘Dad, is it true that 4,000 people have died of the plague in Russia?’ Somewhat surprised to be asked this by my daughter at bedtime yesterday… and saddened…

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“It hasn’t been ok to be smart in the United States for centuries” - Frank Zappa youtube.com/shorts/KPtrf...

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Frank Zappa on American Education (1986)

YouTube video by Dr. Dot

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

" The headline on Juliet Samuel’s comment piece ('Kemi Badenoch invites excellence back to the party') must surely lead to Excellence demanding a right to reply for being so thoroughly slandered: 'I’ve never met the woman and certainly never partied with her.' " - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social 😆

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Keep political activism out of classrooms. Oh goody, that old chestnut - bashing irresponsible lefty teachers. I am surprised the hall was largely empty though, Tory delegates usually love that stuff www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Shadow minister says Tories would ‘keep political activism out of classrooms’ – UK politics live

Laura Trott delivers conference speech to near-empty hall on supposed political correctness excesses in schools

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Inspiration for Don Jr perhaps 😱

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a load of absolute toss just spouted by #IDS re how wonderful #Badenoch is on #5live just now. He really isn’t fooling anyone

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was never a particular fan of either Nick Robinson or Andrew Marr but they are absolute titans of political analysis compared to the drivel produced by Kuenssberg and Mason.

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Their responses to the charges reveal quite a lot about who they are… #mancity

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

great zoom call this evening. person A and person B couldn't hear person C (me). person A could, however, hear person B, but B couldn't hear A. Person C couldn't hear A or B. so that was all good.

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The big takeaway was thus,' says the Times review of the War Game. 'In case of Russian aggression, without the Yanks coming to our aid, the people of these noble isles have about two weeks until we’re all eating bortsch [sic].' So we'd all be a lot healthier then?

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“When I was young, I was heavily into drug abuse. I used to run into Boots and shout insults at bottles of paracetamol.” Alexei Sayle

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The @privateeyenews.bsky.social review of ‘Hyperpolitics’ has a great opening line: ‘This is a wonderful book to take to the beach, if what you’re intending to do at the beach is drown yourself.’

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'The author offers an affecting meditation on art, mental fragility and faith.' I'll give it a miss, thanks - I'm highly suspicious of anything that reviewers describe as a 'meditation'. It's usually code for 'tediously self-indulgent'

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ahh. Isn’t it nice that Zuck* and the Winklevi are on the same team now. So glad they were able to set aside their differences for the greater good 🙄 * yes I know he’s not on this list but I think we know where he stands in relation to the OPOS

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You may be cool but you'll never be peyote-eating, best-selling crime novel-writing, jazz-playing, French-being Boris Vian.

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good to see the Met has stopped wasting time being woke and is focusing on catching criminals. I assume #Farage will be pleased

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Of course #Farage didn’t go to the count. Like all self-styled ‘men of the people’ he simply cannot abide plebs. Unless they worship him, of course.

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Chapeau, Count Binface... or should I say Couvercle de poubelle? #Clacton

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some politicians are capable of basic civility; others aren't.

Andy Burnham shaking hands with Count Binface at the Makerfield by-election result declaration

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good grief, #Anderson is such a moron. Sunak has a lot to answer for, making him deputy chair of the Tories, thereby gifting him a national platform to spout rubbish

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I see Laurence Fox is standing in #Clacton. Who knew? Or cared?

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The 'Fridamania' stuff incldued in that @tate.bsky.social #fridakahlo exhibition may have some value but I couldn't help feeling a lot of it was little more than fan fiction

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"We expect to have movements in the next few weeks, obviously," said #Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. A bit too much information there, Mikel. He went on to say "we won't sit still," which isn't ideal when you're having movements 😬

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Wait… Kuenssberg isn’t on?? Dammit, I was really looking forward to that, said no one ever

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Heh - sounds like my kind of author

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

'Alongside Farage and Truss will be Jacob Rees-Mogg, Toby Young, Suella Braverman, US conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and Lucy Connolly, jailed for inciting racial hatred during the 2024 riots.' Hmm, great lineup 😱

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A bit like when the useless David Davis tried this trick...

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This really is below the belt. Typical lefty gutter press...

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Actually, I think it is. These days, if you make any money, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Reggie Perrin would be furious 😄

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Everything he touches turns to s**t

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

'Done no wrongdoing'? That in itself should be enough to disqualify him from political office

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hopefully Pocchetino will do the decent thing and leave Balogun out of the team. The smart thing, too, as his presence on the pitch would be massive extra motivation for Belgium 🇧🇪 #FIFA #WorldCup #allezlesbelges

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“Trump-branded Bibles” 🤮🤮🤮

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Pff. Our entire political culture for as long as I can remember is an epic failure of journalism

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

‘We can’t go on like this,’ says Burnham. Now where have I heard that before? Is it 2010 again?

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

One of the good things about getting older is that you are much less likely to get annoyed about England not playing that well at the World Cup. Vs Morocco 1986, Ireland 1990, Romania 1998, Sweden 2002, Portugal 2006, Algeria 2010, Uruguay 2014, Tunisia 2018, USA 2022... seen it all before mate

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Don't have anything to say about the Brexit anniversary except: What a goddamn waste of time.

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Isn't this the chap who said the #EU was like the USSR without the gulag? Makes it a bit difficult to take him seriously. He also wrote a book arguing that the euro had failed and would cause the bloc to unravel. How's that going?

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It will be my son’s eighth. He’s 17. My eighth prime minister didn’t arrive until I was nearly 39

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“Mainstream conservatives seem to have given up on the idea that they can see off the insurgents on their flank, preferring the old adage, ‘If you can’t beat them join them’ – if not institutionally via formal pacts or mergers then ideologically” says @timbale.bsky.social cf. 1930s Ger cons & NSDAP

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jrwatson @jrwatson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I've been reading Harry Potter with my daughter, and never has Occlumency, the magical practice of protecting one's mind from external manipulation or penetration, felt more relevant

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