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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Staggeringly good article, this. Sublime mix of intelligence and snark, and a structural device that's hilarious in and of itself.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Snickering schoolboy in me has just noticed the somewhat 'below the waist' names of several members of the current England cricket team. Right now we have Gay, Root, Cox and Tongue on the field.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/08/2026

imagine your whole thing, aside from the day job, being "reading and tits", imagine being this much of a legend

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On the eve of the start of the season, a prediction: Cheltenham Town will, at a minimum, make the League Two playoffs.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The last sentence here is the key point. I do not defend the mobs at all, but in many of the protests of recent years a specific and serious crime had either been committed (Southport, Southampton, Epping) or was plausibly alleged (Epsom).

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Antonia Romeo is going to be a hugely under-priced factor in the success or failure of the incoming Burnham government. She's about 5 months into her tenure as Cab Sec, which has coincided with Starmer's long goodbye and the choreography of Burnham's return.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Rare twitching of optimism here, but based on the last week of signings, I can think of a lot worse bets than Cheltenham Town for the 26/27 League 2 title at 66/1 each way.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I think there is a basis for cautious optimism about the reports of progress on US-Iran peace talks, simply because it's being claimed by Rubio as well as by Trump. Rubio still has some relationship with the truth and some needs to retain some credibility for the 2028 election.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The World Cup is going to create a real headache here because that's one of the few occasions when plenty of non-racist mainstream people might fly the flag. The same colours will simultaneously mean "Come on, Bukayo Saka" and "Fuck off, brown people". The bigots and the normies will look very alike

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Has the feeling that it will need one or two Cabinet level departures to truly force the issue. Jess Philips was news, but other three departures today have all been very low key. Will need at least one more 'name' or it will limp on ...

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Time for a reliable old meme, UK politics nerds.

Justin Timberlake of N-Sync, captioned "Guess what? It's gonna be May!"

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is fantastic. It sounds like a comedy bit but it's actually true

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Fair to say this lived up to expectations. 0-0 on 90 minutes. Rochdale score in 5th minute of 6th added, 1-0. Crowd invade pitch, 7 minute delay before play restarts. About a minute and a half left. York equalise in final seconds, 1-1. They are promoted. Unbelievable finish.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's happening! The mad, epic National League title race somehow gets the only finale it could ever have, and the one it deserves. After 45 of 46 games, York have 107 points, Rochdale have 105. Winner in the 9th minute of added time for Rochdale tonight. Final fixture: Rochdale v York, next Sat.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

All great fun, but am I the only person whose first thought on seeing this was "fuck me, Prince Harry's been smashing the weights"?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Me when a British politician does this: You ****ing donkey Me when Mark Carney does it: Oh dear, oh gorgeous

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Trump's criticisms of the Pope are predictable arrogant and graceless but we shouldn't accept suggestions that any criticism of the Pope is ipso facto unacceptable.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Which I always thought was a missed opportunity, because the Centrist Dad Types Who Quite Fancy Heidi Allen segment of the electorate was bigger than it first appeared. Er ... so I've heard.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

And I would do fucking anything for love (but I wouldn’t do you up the arse)

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Anyone searching for some sporting light relief from Current Events could do a lot worse than get stuck in to the National League title race, which is shaping up to be an all-time duel between Rochdale and York City.

League table showing Rochdale on 94 points, York on 92, having played 39 games each.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Very insightful point that explains that vague 'naked in the chamber' feeling. Also a prima facie argument for closer European security cooperation. Britain alone liable to be pushed around. Britain, France, German, Spain and Poland in lockstep ... bit less.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Or possibly even "George W". One for the teenagers there ...

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Ok I am actually *from* the Cotswolds and there are multiple layers of bollocks to this.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I could throw some waspish snobbery at a number of these places, but surely a core requirement here is to actually be a *city*. Blackpool, Ipswich, Swindon all fall at that hurdle. And what are "The Highlands" - the most not-a-city place anywhere in the UK - doing welded to the Inverness bid?

fall.ar

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
Replying to @janky jane
I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
Replying to @janky _jane
My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
Replying to @janky_jane
Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright
@dufflest
Replying to @janky jane
I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
@L20_MTN
Replying to @janky_jane
I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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John West @jwestjourno.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My finest work.

Hand drawn cartoon of an anthropomorphic pear under the heading “Conference Pear”. The pear is saying “…more of a comment than a question.”

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is absolutely true, but it's written from the perspective of a journalist for whom 'relevance' metrics have an obvious professional value. I'm a government accountant. It makes no difference to my income of anyone reads my occasional posts.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

One observation on the Farage teenager racism story ... I am 15 years younger than him and was at secondary school in the early 1990s. I grew up in a very white area but never saw or heard any open racism to the small handful of non-white kids in the playground.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hello, I am a civil servant in a film. I am also old, grey and dull, and while my secret vice is something much more mundane and furtive (alcohol?, porn?) it still leaves me open to blackmail. However, I also have a dependability and stoicism which benefits the main characters at unexpected moments.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This is true and a great way to frame the key generational fairness point. Full disclosure ... I am 46

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I do not have any dog in the fight of Northern Irish politics but the Unionist bonfires are objectively a huge Health and Safety risk that would be banned without a second thought in any other part of the UK.

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My email from a few weeks ago. EU diplomats’ worst-case scenario was a “dirty Brexit” of Britain simply ignoring laws in a disorderly unwinding of membership. It would have been a bad idea - but one that, tellingly. never seemed to occur on this side of the channel

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Why hasn’t someone in Cerne Abbas started a fashion brand called Tommy Hill Figure?

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Made two minutes of small talk with Alexander Armstrong while our respective kids were on the same bouncy castle.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Forest Green eliminated, at home. Huge tip of the hat to Southend United ... Get in! #ctfc

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If Starmer was good at politics, he would have linked his fresh review of winter fuel payments with an expected dividend from the UK–EU Reset deal.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

One of the more baffling search engine outputs here ... doing a bit of research for a pub quiz round via Bing to find the UK's top-selling autobiographies ever, and I get - Three random and very much not bestselling autobiographies - A novel - Some women's underwear

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This wasn't me but I heartily endorse the view that Stonehenge - globally significant ancient site and all that - is Britain's shittest day out. There is nothing, but nothing, to do there. If you opened a bowling alley just over the down, you'd make a fortune.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If Shawn Fain has fellow union leaders named Fiona Fall and Finn Gale then the historic Irish influence on US organised labour may be more enduring than we think ...

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

One thing about the Trump tariff mayhem ... it probably upgrades the chances of Trump being impeached by Congress. Upgrades them from substantively zero to still pretty slim, to be clear, but upgrades them nonetheless.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A rare Cheltenham Town post ... but I have two thoughts on this story

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Possibly the greatest local news story Im going to see this year, and it’s only March

Woman slams selfish paragliders who ‘made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster’

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is hands down the best news story of the year so far and these two squaddies-on-the-piss have added richly to the gaiety of the nation at a time when it's sorely needed.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Evidently The Shamen were right all along...

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Whenever anyone is mentioned as having passed on - "X has died", "Y is dead", etc. - responding with "and he'd be the first to admit it".

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