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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

In the good old days, our beloved BBC (as it then was) broadcast a weekly Letter from America - the musings of veteran journalist Alastair Cooke. One has to wonder what a commentator of Cooke’s ilk would make of Trumpleshitstain’s present day empire …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026

I’m confused - do posts here on W automatically post to Bluesky as well or have I done something to link my accounts?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026

If ever you wanted to consider the incongruity of the House of Lords consider the fact that the Church of England has a say in Laws that affect Wales but no say in matters affecting the Church in Wales …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026

Whenever you feel that life has dealt you a crappy hand remember that Sarah Pochin has children …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026

Can anyone help? Since hearing Sewerella Braverman I am worried that I may have an identity crisis. I was born in Wales and have lived here all my life but my mother is English. Does this mean I have to become English or can I rely on the fact that my father is pure Welsh going back generations?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026

Seeing what Swerella Braverman has been up to it’s another day to be glad that I’m Welsh and not English …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 29/09/2026

The confected hysteria over a change proposed for three years hence - which if it had been introduced from next year would have meant a difference of less than 20p a week - is indeed something to behold …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 29/09/2026

Today I shall be mainly blocking people of my own generation whining about the fact that Andy Burnham may have the temerity to suggest that the triple lock should be reviewed …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 29/09/2026

@bbc - you need to get your shit together on your online weather forecast. How does today’s graphic of sunshine and thunderstorms tie in with the actual forecast showing clouds til 1700, with a bit of sun for an hour, then rain and a thunderstorm at 1900 for an hour?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 28/09/2026

Today I discovered that canned condensed cheddar cheese is a thing in Amurica. No wonder Trumpleshitstain got a second term as President …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 28/09/2026

You have to live out the remainder of your life in a British soap opera - which are you going to choose and why?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 27/09/2026

Is it time that the UK Government admitted that the Home Office is unfit for purpose and removed all its senior Civil Servants together with ther Home Secretary and started again from scratch? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status

Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 27/09/2026

Am I the only one to be totally aghast and affronted when someone offers 20% less than the asking price on Vinted? I should stress that most of the things I offer for sale are priced below a tenner …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026

I wonder if Trumpleshitstain’s minions realise that - come the day of reckoning (if the grim reaper hasn’t got him first) - he is going to pull a Ponochet and claim that his dementia means he can’t be tried. Meanwhile they will have nowhere to hide …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 23/09/2026

Has anyone heard from Young Bob after his roasting at the hands of two of Liverpool’s finest? I feel sure he will be ruing the day he took that ferry across the Mersey.

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 23/09/2026

Will anybody ever now be able to request statistical information without slipping into full scouse mode?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 23/09/2026

Ok W - do you really have to log me off every time I move from my chair? It’s getting a bit of a pain now to be honest.

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 22/09/2026

We see a lot about the ‘fact’ that the UK state pension is one of the lowest in Europe but does that take into account things like free travel, prescriptions, discounted entry etc? Not banging any particular drum, just curious …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 21/09/2026

I’m not quite old enough to remember but before the cult of Thatcher were we in the UK really that obsessed with the leaders or was the party line more important?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026

Good to see Ed Sheeran speaking from the heart - I mean autocue - on Gaza …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026

Just had the misfortune to catch Laura K’s ‘programme’. Has she given up any pretence at being a serious political journalist? FFS - Giles Brandreth and Sting had way more airtime than Ed Davey!

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 18/09/2026

I want to go back to a time when villages kept their own idiots and grumpy old men just shook their sticks at kids instead of beating young women over the head with them.

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 17/09/2026

Am I the only one wondering how Fartrage will manage to keep busy during the HoC conference recess seeing as the Reformistas have already had their bash?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 17/09/2026

Anyone taking bets on how long it will be before there are actual fistfights between Reformista politicians like their Ukipper forbears?

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 15/09/2026

An award-winning website specialising in the science and policy of climate change has listed 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy made by Reform UK politicians ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tco

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

I sometimes feel that my sparkling wit and sarcasm are wasted on social media …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

Now then, now then - what’s all this about then? Not like a Reformista to get on the wrong side of the law … www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

walesonline.co.uk

Dan Thomas stands down as Reform UK's Wales leader after police report- live

The politician was selected as leader by Nigel Farage in February 2025

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

Good to see Fartrage’s cult putting that £72million to good use …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

Some days I wish I belonged to the cult of Fartrage where everything wrong in my life - and the world - is someone else’s fault, and that the simple solution is to get rid of everyone who doesn’t look like me or speak like me or believe in the same things as me. Am I the only one?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

I wonder if they’re going to make Mitch McConnell a nice case like Jeremy Bentham …?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

Can someone explain how pensioners and those on minimum wage jobs (or unemployed) look at who funds Reform UK and think that it’s a party (business) that’s going to make their lives better? To my mind it takes a special kind of stupid …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

Anyone who posts ‘good old days’ content should be required to live as they would have done at that time (if it is actually identifiable and not AI slop) but without cakeism - so internet access is the first to go. Let’s see how that goes …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

Is it me or is this an odd way to say thank you for paying £1.65 for the product for which the producer received 17p? Yes I do realise that there are on-costs in bringing it to the shelf but ‘given back’ rather than paid?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 11/09/2026

Am I the only one who is totally repulsed by A.I. generated event posters? Every one I’ve seen seems to have some sort of perverse retro theme going on with 1950s graphics and 1970s oranges and browns …

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 10/09/2026

It can be hard to know if a person is feeling suicidal and it’s understandable to feel worried or unsure how to help. World Suicide Prevention Day gives people across Wales the chance to come together and be reminded that suicide can be prevented ✍️ @mindcymru.bsky.social

nation.cymru

World Suicide Prevention Day: Being open to supporting others could help without you even knowing

Mind Cymru It can be hard to know if a person is feeling suicidal and it’s understandable to feel worried or unsure how to help if you think someone might be. World Suicide Prevention Day on September...

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2026

Hannah Arendt called it 75 years ago - ‘Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.’ This is how civilised society will end …

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

Dear rest of Germany - please do not be like Saxony-Anhalt. Sincerely yours, the civilised world.

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

Why do airport departure areas and coach stations work on the basis of one seat for every ten passengers?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

Am I the arsehole for allowing 2 hours before my flight to get through passport control and then refusing to let some whose flight is in 30 minutes push in front of me?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 04/09/2026

Fartrage & Co PLC, trading as Reform UK, is an absolute cult. Prove me wrong.

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 04/09/2026

It’s interesting how Fartrage & Co PLC got away with so much for so long and yet now the storm clouds are gathering all at once. What’s changed that the mainstream media seem suddenly to have grown some balls and are willing to challenge the frog faced fraud?

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 04/09/2026

Poor old 30p Lee looks like he’s going to cry on BBC Breakfast just now - I feel so happy for him 😆😆😆😆

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 03/09/2026

Facebook is the Daily Mail of social media. Andy Burnham is planning to murder pensioners by scrapping the triple lock and taxing pensions! Woe betide you if you point out that the tax would only be 20p of every £1 increase or that there were pension increases before the triple lock existed

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Michael Ian Powell @michaelianpowell.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026

Has the person/company that came up with these lids ever actually tried drinking from them? They have a strange taste and the texture is most unpleasant. I’ll take my chances with getting scalded thanks!

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