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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It's hard to overstate the sheer dullness of Paul Robinson.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The number of times I've read in the Grauniad, Spurs fans slagging off Richarlison. Now he's your hero.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

BBC radio commentary on the Arse Everton game is shamelessy (or shamefully) partisan for the gooners.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

What utter twaddle. England were beaten fair & square by better teams.

Pressure of representing England has shown - Borthwick

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Alan Whittle (whose contributions brought the title safely home in 69/70) for Everton, scoring against Forest (I think). Bought this to help rekindle memories of these times for a friend now afflicted by dementia.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A helpful definition of chutzpah is when the traitor Farage gives lectures on probity.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/01/2026

Throughout the new documentary “Melania,” the camera seems desperate to find action. Sophie Gilbert on what the film actually reveals:

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The Melania Trump Documentary Is a Disgrace

The exorbitant film captures the rotten state of our entertainment industry.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Revealing another shadowy figure, Nile Gardiner, with connections to the traitor Farage & the money that flows from the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant

A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

My Trade Secrets today. Mark Carney’s speech: nice truth bomb even if not totally original. But the middle powers finding a new way to run the world requires a massive shift in political will which Carney’s Canada itself has had trouble making.

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Carney’s new global order needs a huge shift in political will

[FREE TO READ] Middle-power diplomacy of the sort the Canadian PM calls for requires governments to throw off domestic constraints

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Richard Gould (son of Bobby no less), McCullum & Key should be tendering their resignations with humility to the ECB, rather than think that they're the people to investigate themselves so that everyone can have another crack. Lessons learned etc etc.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Very sad news of Robin Smith being called back to the pavilion, one of the three centurions in the Lord's test 1990 against India. Gooch rightly took the plaudits but Lamb & Smith plundered the bowling. Fortunate to occupy a ringside seat by the Tavern on the second day.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hitchens on Orwell. No explanation or comment necessary, other than relevancy. youtu.be/iPytZsF2Kew?...

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Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

YouTube video by Abradacamera2

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Middle of redecs, so the Len Deighton collection has had to come off the shelves. Not complete (Airshipwreck & Fighter, Ipcress on another shelf, tut). The sheer weight of his output. Pick one: despite the extraordinary achievement of the Samson roman a fleuve, The Ipcress File. Bloody minded.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Blessed to have seen Jimmy in concert twice.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Nice interview of a few years back with the late Colin Addison & the history he created. Condolences to his family & the people of Hereford who have lost a favoured son. youtu.be/RNsirlsqgWo?...

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Colin Addison Interview

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Often wondered what this might once have been. Turns out it's a spigot mortar emplacement (not a popular weapon apparently). A bloke called Colin in the Pillbox Study Group has penned some interesting lines (I thought so anyway) on the topic. www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/spigot-mortar/

Spigot mortar emplacement Kings Road Haslemere

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Let it never be forgotten that it was Cameron who elevated Mone to the HoL. Another egregious example of Dave's sheer bloody incompetence.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

You really do have to be delighted for Rashford.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

@governor.ca.gov That offensive fascist trope now hanging outside the Dept of Labor needs denouncing.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

For Leeds? Why Dominic, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Leeds? (With apologies to Robert Bolt)

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The tiresome 'barmy army' render the radio coverage of the test match unlistenable.

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315e RI @ri315e.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

📢New Video Now & Then at Verdun Some really haunting images from around the battlefield Thank you to @ChristinaNoyes8 & @stug75020 for providing photos to make this the best video yet Link below on Youtube youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU

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Verdun: Trenches to Tranquility: WWI Now & Then

YouTube video by 315e RI

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We recorded this pod about 20 hours ago to help folks understand the consequences of tariffs. And so of course there have been big changes since. But it likely will become relevant again next week, when the administration re-imposes tariffs using a new (maybe legit, maybe not) legal authority.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

@mickpuck.bsky.social Terrifically memorable concert tonight before a (frankly, near delirious) crowd at Guildford's Glive. A band of superb musicians and the warmest of hosts. Will ye no come back again.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Right now would be a good time for Starmer to close trade deals with Mexico & Canada. Everyone benefits in demonstrating that life beyond Trump exists.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We so miss Bill McLaren at times like these to say "16-15, what a score!". #CalcuttaCup

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Reunited after 55 years. My baptism at a mist blanketed Goodison & the Gwladys to see the Toffees dispatch Ipswich 3-0. (My uncle offered to get the original signed by the team & needless to say, never seen again.) Saw the following match at The Dell where Mick Channon danced on mud to score twice.

Everton v Ipswich Town 10 January 1970. Kendall in the first half and two from Joe Royle.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Stuart Pearce's word mangling & glottal stops inflicting great damage on my ears. Makes one almost wish for Clinton 'to be fair' Morrison.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Arne Slot's very own Barry Endean moment. By my calcs, Hardie's goal will be talked about in 2080. These things just have a life of their own.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Pritchard isn't up to the job of running the NHS if she can't be straight with the SC. Shades of Vennells & the Post Office, where it seems that yet another insider is promoted to the level of their incompetence. Maybe get someone else who can be less dissembling.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

THE MOST important legal analysis I have read on the Trump presidency. It offers a unifying theory of the administration's unprecedented claims to extreme executive power. The claimed power to override Congress at a policy whim. By two brilliant scholars. Trevor Morrison and @adambcox.bsky.social

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Trump’s Dictatorial Theory of Presidential Power - What the Executive Orders, in the Aggregate, Tell Us

Trump's recent actions appear to assert an authority to override or ignore federal legislation whenever it interferes with his policy aims.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The thing about Denis Law was that yes, he was a great footballer, but he was, far more importantly, a great man. Condolences to his family.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Radio 5 footy commentary is a hard listen for anyone who affectionately recalls Jones & Butler.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Vijay Rangarajan CEO of the Electoral Commission predictably having difficulty today in defending the shamefully egregious photo ID requirement. The Tories' own attempt at gerrymandering that should be repealed by Labour.

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Presenting our 2024 BBC News/Channel 4 News musical Christmas collaboration. Ciaran Jenkins and I perform In The Bleak Midwinter. Wherever you are in the world, whatever you may be celebrating, our very best wishes. @c4ciaran.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @petroc.bsky.social

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In The Bleak Midwinter - Ciaran and Steve (cello and piano)

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

@sawlady.bsky.social Hi Natalia! Glad to see you here; looking forward to your future updates. Best wishes for a merry Xmas to you & your family. (sadly had to drop the Colonel Stok moniker). Nx

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

@spybrary.bsky.social Delighted to see you here! Hoping for more analysis of the Master's (Len Deighton) canon.

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Neil Meadows @neilmeadows.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

@halsparks.com Another refugee from the Musk-rat happy to follow you here.

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