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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Let the bride and groom adjudicate the doubtful ballot papers

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

well this has ruined my day, thanks Stephen.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I started Uni in 2007 and I remember being optimistic mid way through that things might get better by the time I finished in 2010. Things did not entirely pan out...

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My fingers aren't in great shape from tag though

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ha not me on this occasion, though easily could have been!

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

See now you have set an incentive for me to make stupid takes.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think we've ended up with a worse system than before. Thanks to an extension of the register (from parliamentary passes to parliamentary email addresses) actually ending up with less transparency.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This feels like the road to madness

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

a free bicycle for every adult and child in the country.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I haven't found him that funny before, I think all this is making me change my mind and become increasingly pro-binface

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Is there anything about the cost of postage too? Since candidates get a freepost each.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Won't anyone think of the Democratic Services team at Tendring District Council who might have to run two by-elections in the coming months.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I think this applies more widely, e.g. if you want Sarah Jones for example to be meaningfully reforming policing, surely she should have one or more spads.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There are plenty of people down where I live in Croydon who still insist they live in Surrey more than 60 years on!

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I was actually ambivalent about it until I went and was completely converted.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

James, this is a terrible take.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ah, this is New Esperance Morris (full disclosure I am married to one of them)

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

crikey, not one to listen to if you need cheering up

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I went to university in Southampton and lived relatively close to where this took place so this feels quite personal - I think this is the best thing i've seen written about it.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

you should add that to you bio....

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thank you for this thread, I appreciate you taking us to visit - though possibly a different one of their sites, a few years ago.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I take your point and was being slightly facetious, from listening to the podcast earlier, it doesn't sound like there was a viable option for the Zoo to stay on the previous site and it has already relocated.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

As a Croydon resident this would be great!

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

it's also (I think) a bit of a shame that Local Trust, who have been supporting the Big Local programme and learning from it, won't be around to share experiences - full disclosure I am a former LT employee....

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I gave up and let my son be Ryder from Paw Patrol for the last World Book Day...

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Do you think they have an equivalent of the postcode address file?

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I've had to manually disaggregate the bits of history I picked from Age of Empires 2 from the actual history I studied in school....

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Also see when the proposal for Crossrail 2 threatened Balham Waitrose!

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Happy Tram day to all those celebrating.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Is there a club for sleep-deprived nursery obsessives that one can join? Counting down the days until September and I go down to one child at nursery.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Outstanding caption in the latest @londoncentric.media newsletter about London's murky pedicab industry.... www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-pe...

Photo caption: A pink Lamborghini-branded pedicab illegally parked on Westminster Bridge. It is not known whether this pedicab is an officially-licensed Lamborghini product.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

do you think he ever played world of warcraft?

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I like that her children are mentioned in the intro but then go completely missing.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I think 40 (coincidentally I am approaching 36)

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Also and I fear I'm getting on my hobby horse, it seems likely it will be largely built via private finance, so what's not to like?

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Also one of the strong benefits is a more reliable connection to channel ports for businesses north of London....

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I've been wondering about this since I read the piece (which is genuinely crackers)

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/03/2025

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

londoncentric.media

Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill

A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I've subscribed to London Centric and you should too!

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Enjoyed this blast from the past list of former Farage challengers from @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter this morning.

Text: So, in many ways, Rupert Lowe giving remarkably unhelpful interviews to newspapers is just what we should expect to happen. It’s the same old set of criticisms that Farage has attracted from within his parties: he doesn’t have what it takes to expand appeal, he is too dictatorial, the party needs to be more open to its right flank.
Frankly, I don’t think Rupert Lowe is going to be any more successful than Gerard Batten, Patrick O’Flynn, Douglas Carswell, Robert Kilroy-Silk or any of the other politicians who thought they knew how to better steer the ship. (That it was a struggle to remember some of those names tells its own story.)

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I know people are distracted by other things but this is a very curious response in Politico from the Shadow MHCLG team given that the Plan for Neighbourhoods is a remodelled version of the Long-Term Plan for Towns launched under the last government. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Text: On the grid: Meanwhile, Angela Rayner has announced a new £1.5 billion “plan for neighborhoods” fund for 75 deprived areas across Britain. Communities including Darlington, Scarborough and Great Yarmouth will be handed £20 million to invest in things like youth clubs and cultural venues. Rayner said the plan “puts local people in the driving seat of their potential, having control of where the Whitehall cash goes.” The Mirror’s Ashley Cowburn has more.
Tory response: Shadow MHCLG Secretary Kevin Hollinrake said: “Labour erased the phrase ‘levelling up’ from government and instead of delivering for local communities are now spending taxpayer cash on wasteful pet projects this country can’t afford.”

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I'm sorry, but I hate these scumbags so much.

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Nick Beall @nickbeall.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Yes, definitely not trying to suggest it is a good strategy.

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