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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Me again looking back - at times it seems we in the LabourParty don’t learn from our history open.substack.com/pub/newspeng...

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Lessons From History

1997 Seems So Long Ago

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I wrote a thing Progress has been incremental: NHS waiting lists have fallen by hundreds of thousands, interest rates have been cut multiple times (easing mortgage burdens), and net migration has dropped sharply.

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Ho! Ho! Ho! I put down some words “It’s mid-December 2025. The lights are up on Regent Street, the John Lewis ad has already made half the country cry into its early mince pies, and somewhere in the background a brass band is murdering “Fairytale of New York” Almost Christmas!

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I did another Substack thing … “Orwell’s 1984 is without doubt a masterpiece, a warning about totalitarianism, surveillance, and the manipulation of truth In modern Britain, it has been co-opted as a rhetorical bludgeon, wielded by those who see dystopia in every policy they dislike

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I wrote a thing… “many simply don’t believe in the future or at worst believe that the future will be worse than today - that loss of hope drives the retreat into nostalgia - no matter how false or partial the memories are” substack.com/@newspenguin...

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The Path from Nostalgia, Neglect, and Fear to Radicalisation in the UK

In the UK, nostalgia for a “simpler” past and the feeling of being left behind economically and socially are powerful forces that often push desperate people towards extreme politics and easy answers ...

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Dinner at Kennington Lane Cafe An old favourite: corned beef with Branston pickle, baked beans and mash

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Listen up - I did a thing that everyone should read open.substack.com/pub/newspeng...

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Reform gain Surrey County Council seat from tories

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Out to E17 today to visit one of my Top Five #London #Cafes to satisfy my craving for beef stew and suet dumplings - served with bread & butter I had to have a pudding and decided to have a banana split (‘cos I can)

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today was a bit different Greggs Sausage Roll and KFC Gravy A classic combo and it was free

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Harsh by Dan Hodges www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Yeah baby … it’s back! The Regency Cafe! Westminster Council and the new owners deserve a lot of credit here The council for honouring their promise to keep a #Cafe here And the new owners for sticking with proper cafe food and prices Good to see it busy on the first full day after reopening

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Margot Fonteyn bronze statuein Reigate today Statue by Nathan David FRBS Unveiled: 1980 by Dame Margot Simply stunning

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Today this actually happened to me in Belgravia The four people at table across from me were staring at me/my plate I asked if everything was ok - the older male replied in a ‘very posh’ voice “can I ask if the green stuff is avocado or mushy peas?” 😂😂😂😁

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A few clips of #VE80 flypast from earlier First my favourite

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A thing I posted on the other place on those election results and what I think caused it, what it means and what didn’t happen This might mention “Change” a lot The easy bit first - the tories The electorate kicked them out in 2024 and their entire brand in still seen as toxic and associated with

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Happy St George’s Day’ St George was out walking He met a dragon on a hill, It was wise and wonderful Too glorious to kill It slept amongst the wild thyme Where the oxlips and violets grow Its skin was a luminous fire That made the English landscape glow

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Officially “Leaping Hare on Crescent and Bell” but to me it will always be Harebell A stunning work by Barry Flanagan in Broadgate Circle

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My day included this - I popped into the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch looking for a giant egg and saw this beautiful thing

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A bumper day for blue plaques is lovely sunshine

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Mike Amesbury appeal successful in so far as his prison sentence has been replaced with a suspended prison sentence Doesn’t affect any potential recall petition as it applies to suspended prison sentences Rules here

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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Never has Bluesky been more of an echo chamber than a hundred blithe comments saying “but why oh WHY has Labour not just announced an emergency tax increase to fund defence spending?”

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Keir Starmer: "Nigel Farage didn't even turn up for the debate in parliament today. Nigel Farage is fawning over Putin. That's not patriotism, that is not what working people need." www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/putins...

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'Putin's Poodles': Reform UK MPs Criticised Over Commons No-Show

Most were nowhere to be seen as the Commons debated an increase to defence spending.

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Overwhelmed at home? Undervalued at work? Wondering what the **** happened to your once flourishing career? If your life is evaporating in the juggle, I wrote a feature just for you. In @theipaper.com today inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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I thought I could have a big career and kids. But 'having it all' is a myth

Mothers, shocked by the exhaustion of parenting, are being forced out of successful careers - 85 per cent leave the full-time workforce within three years of having their first baby

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thoughts on Runcorn from the other place this morning Subject to any appeal, a recall ballot will be triggered by the 10 week custodial sentence but I would’ve thought Mike Amesbury will resign and trigger a by election without need for a recall petition

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

BREAKING: Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana will not have his sentence of 52 years reviewed by the Court of Appeal. The Attorney General says it won’t be referred under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.

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Efrogwraig @efrogwraig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Sitting having a coffee earlier , youngish (mid teens I think) on a first date So far everything she has said she likes he has eagerly answered “me too” First couple of times she smiled and looked happy On about the sixth occasion she started looking at her phone Changing tactics he

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Grown-up behaviour from the leader of the opposition at prime ministers question-time

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My parents used to say that when things escalated out of control in Northern Ireland in 1969 - 1971 one of the things that happened is you were told atrocity stories and they seemed so outlandish you couldn’t believe them. But later it turned out they were all true and each one radicalised someone.

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Ceejay @ceejay.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Far from being a hermit, the great JD Salinger used to enjoy going out for a burger, bus trips to Niagara Falls, and - I still marvel at this - following the tennis career of Tim Henman! Who'd have thought it?

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Saturday afternoon memory - I used to love this phone, almost cried when work stopped issuing them

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Callum Parslow, the neo-Nazi terrorist who stabbed an asylum seeker at a Worcestershire hotel last year, is being sentenced today I revealed how he was also an online stalker who had targeted at least 11 women and girls, and was on bail at the time of the attack www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Revealed: English neo-Nazi who stabbed asylum seeker was serial stalker

Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and targeted a former GB News presenter

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A bit of culture for me today, a trip to an exhibition

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Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

100% this. I am incredibly patriotic. I love my country, my city, my neighbourhood. I see trying to improve these as a left wing patriotism. And I refuse to cede this word to those who hate my country and many of its people up to and including me.

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Saturday afternoon #HeronGuard with the adopted gull - adopted during lockdown

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This 👇

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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Somebody asked me what to do with leftover bacon. I'd never heard of such a thing.

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My New Year UK political predictions 1: the easy one: Starmer will still be PM on January 1 2026 2: Reeves will still be chancellor, Lammy Foreign Secretary and Phillipson will still be at education 3: Badenoch will still be tory leader on January 1 2026

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A long run of Wordle success comes to an end on a day I had 2nd, 3rd and last letters right after two guesses and 2nd, 3rd, 4th and last after three

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Tim Carter (forwardnotback on Twitter) @newspenguin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Latest moan: Labour commentators referring to Farage as “Nige” they’ve obviously learned nothing from the “Bozo/Boris” nonsense

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