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Just done the eat a packet of crisps thing. If I complain of being in pain over the next 24 hours, it's my own stupid fault.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have voted Green before, & I was leaning Green in 2026 before those Polanski fumblings. The Zionism is Racism thing is vilely antisemitic. It's not a small thing that's going away. It's not just people who never voted Green before & Green MPs. It, & the obtuse denial, are hygiene issues.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are many things to hate autocorrect for, but one of the most enraging for me is it always changing correct "its" to "it's". If the techbros can ai that away, instead of concentrating on new ways to make porn, then maybe my dislike of it's shitty implementation might subside.

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Apparently now they back FPTP - at least until their vote share falls below the Conservatives I suppose. Assuming the quoted Tice remarks are actually policy now. (H/t @politico.com )

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Big Farmer nobbled them.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Children of the Sun, See your time has just begun. Searching for your ways, Through adventures every day. Every day and night, With the condor in flight, With all your friends in tow, We search for the Cities of Gold. Aaah, ah ah ah ah, Someday we will find, Those Cities of Gold.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I really could not see the Greens shooting themselves in the foot like this. It didn't seem plausible that a party on the fringe of power for the first time would self implode so absolutely. Why does the left have this antisemitic problem? What disconnect is there to play these purity games?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For me, "doing better" for the Lib Dems means doing more with the MPs they already have. The key question here is "why should you want a large bloc of Lib Dem MPs"? When there are 72 of them, & liberal-democracy is in crisis, they have both an opportunity & an obligation to give a better answer.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm really struggling with my mental health at the moment. I think taking Mounjaro might be contributing. For so long I have only been able to motivate myself with primal needs; Mounjaro is removing appetite, the urge to eat, & I'm struggling to motivate at all.

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Ed Davey LDs are a suicide drone aimed at the Conservative Party which takes all their safest seats and fills them with, essentially, community independents who are very difficult to remove, blocking any potential Tory majority. They do that very well. What they don’t have is policy

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I may have posted before this excellent short video discussing Mar-a-Lago face from an anthropological point of view. It’s so good. I want to quote almost every line. Subtitles are on if you don’t like sound m.youtube.com/shorts/A-1Kf...

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Mar-a-Lago Face #makeup #anthropology #beauty #psychology #womenempowerment #culture

YouTube video by AnthroDorphins

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

One of those videos I have to watch in full whenever it comes up.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Starmer's resignation Lords appointments are going to be weird, aren't they. Lord McSweeney is obvious, but is there anyone else he didn't blame for all his mistakes? Is he giving a lordship to the unlauded who must have run DPP in his stead?

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William Simpson @williamsimpson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just genuinely don't understand what he's thinking from a political point of view, let alone a moral one. What is his theory for why Starmer became so unpopular? That he wasn't Andy Burnham? Surely he sees it was cowardly shit like this that helped tank his predecessor's ratings.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have no idea what I was doing when Diana died. It didn't mean much to me, & I was bemused then & now with how much some people cared. September 11th I remember, I was visiting Liverpool for the first time with friends, & the whispers in the market stalls were that half a million were dead.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Little piece from me for @arguablymag.bsky.social on why we Westminster electoral reform is more plausible now than it has been for generations www.arguably.uk/p/electoral-...

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Electoral reform has never been closer

The three key ingredients are now in place

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't have strong feelings on votes at 16 either way. I do like that the age group 16-29 is much closer to uniform size with 30-44, 45-59, 60-74, 75+, to be able to do mental arithmetic on polling data much easier.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 30/07/2026

oh my god!!!! there's an actual answer!!!! Google Maps does hide Brighton!!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/robi...

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 21/07/2026

Summary of Cabinet Changes that doesn't require you to read a whole article behind a paywall :)

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Mahmood staying at the Home Office. I've seen enough

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Is he keeping them captive until the 6 o clock news finishes?

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Kevin Keegan became Newcastle manager as I was getting into football, & his style of football, focussed on attacking & entertaining was a joy to watch. A sad day to see him go after an England scoreline that could have been from a Keegan team. Brings back a lot of memories from childhood.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Eva Peron, General Galteiri, Diego Maradona, Che Guevarro, Juan Manuel Fangio, Pope Francis, your guys gave a hell of a beating, but Spain beat you at the football. Am I doing it right?

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

You can call me Uncle Jamesy from today!

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is what you get if you're a manager who only watches the final 40 minutes of the opponents last match for your research. Unprepared for England crossing the half way line.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If true, we get 3 things. None good. 1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration. 2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy. 3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

in retrospect, just quite a weird politician www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/07/2026

I'm sure a fair few social liberals who had been chased away from Labour are at least Burnham-curious and may return – I suspect that's the poll bump so far. But I don't think it would take much, at all, to chase them away again. And I think they'd be much harder to pull back a second time.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The air's still smokey from those wildfires on the moors, they think it's going to still take days to put them out.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Apparently the team going 2-0 up means it'll be hard for the other team to come back now. I hate ITV commentary mainly for pretending there was spray for telling players they've been naughty. I don't know if I imagined that bit, or it really happened.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm sorry, does the ref have a spray to tell players off like a cat? Have I had a stroke?

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The New York Times talking about players iq. 127 apparently.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

19 minutes into the game, & I've learnt Yamal plays for Spain, not France.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One of the ways the Starmer people went wrong I think is going beyond "showing you're not so left wing that it mobilises centre-centre right votes against you" to "repeatedly kicking the left". You want to be inoffensive enough not to scare the horses, not yelling "BOO!" at your own fucking horses

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Health warning Find out now published a poll for Gorton & Denton with 51 respondents after don't knows removed. That's +-14%, if it was possible to actually get a representative sample that small. This is Lab +14, Ref -12 since the locals, nationally they have Lab +2, Ref -2 over the same period.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I hate* that you have to asterisk* anything* that's a simplification* or emoji* any sarcasm* on this fun* app* & still you get BlueSkyed.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I don't like dunking on people, but I can't help myself responding when somebody is oblivious to their own partisanship. The responses to the world cup moving to 64 have been a grey area. Do people not know the last cup of 32 was held in a small country the population of Wales?

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Americans just hate to see a chance to stop play and show some adverts missed. Part of their unique folk ways.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A great thing is that most English people don't know or care which player that is. They're English, they play for England. Most people couldn't care less what country the player was born in, or where their ancestors came from. They're representing England today, not a stereotype of 1776 England.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/07/2026

sorry I'll stop going on about it soon but it is so funny to me that last night I kept having to explain to my brother and his friend that watching England play isn't like watching France play, you're not actually meant to be having a good time, it's not a fun activity at all

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Halftime already! That went much faster than I was expecting.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I can't work my phone, I'm an old man who downloads a picture & can't find it afterwards.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Flabbergasted to explain independence of a nation, or not, is different from football. To actual Americans, not English & Scottish nationalists. It's sport. It's a pastime, a hobby, a distraction. If you want to be like that, come visit a holiday park full of Glaswegians in the UK.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I hope everyone's looked up their Norwegian famous people list ready for the match result. Harald Hardrada, Roald Amondsen, Morten Harket, Alexander Rybak, Edmund Munch, your team took a hell of a <record squeak> took a hell of a victory.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Andy Burnham will need a considered understanding of the 2024 election result and the contemporary Labour voter coalition, Keir Starmer tells the BBC.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Why does this guy who's had a job not in London for a decade not know everything that a Londoner knows about the last decade of changes in London? He better be proposing that people get more control of their local area, while he's demonstrating people elsewhere can't be privy to everything local.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The people that need prodding about Farage being on the take are Reform voters. That's mostly old people. Old people watch TV. Old people see outrageously negative stunt about Farage & get angry & complain. OP's friend says "it's not a lie though, is it?" They laugh, agree & the seed is planted.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

People complaining about this place today, but the people that matter, those I follow, are on top form today. I've tried to follow about ten people I already follow, for what I (at least) think is illuminating & interesting commentary.

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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

<Subtweet> Social media has its place, but some people are morons. I remember coming home the night of the MEN Arena bombing, I happened to live 200 yards away. The best place to find out what had happened to local people was Twitter. News was behind & vague.

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