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Retired, live in France, play golf, ski, ride motorcycles and cut the grass. Interests include politics, economics and World affairs.

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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 1h
Is he proposing tarrifs on the migrant's home country or the country where they boarded a dingy to get to the UK? I'd like to see what he thinks would happen of he imposed tarrifs on France!
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 5h
Why do you focus on the EU - there are other countries who do (also already) aid and other who do not!
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I own a 13 year old car with only 80,000km on the oddomoter (I bought it from new). When we go on holiday I hire a car from #Avis etc so get a new car when on long journeys. Perhaps I will never need to buy another car if these schemes continue to improve and more people get access!
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An excellent article in "The Local" highlighting the growing number of companies that let you use a car when you need it (similar to the urban scooter and bike schemes). www.thelocal.fr/20260527/aut...
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Autopartage: The scheme that helps you get by in France without owning a car
Across both urban and rural France, a rapidly growing network of vehicle hire schemes for locals is making car ownership optional, as journalist Katy Wright explains.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our trip to England is over but the memory remains #Photography #Landscape #Stonehendge #Cornwall #Horsetrials
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#Cornwall #photography #naturephotography
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am sure that developers are currently working with AI to replace it. But... Does that give you confidence??
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump has done a lot of things and caused a lot of problems - this one is going to become one of the biggest (to date)
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A little late...
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well said but too little too late. Numerous people have been arrested or even jailed for holding A4 sheets of paper citing genocide whilst UK government buried their heads.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What an interesting point of view. On one hand people complain about the parents hoarding money and having had it easy yet here, it is the children's inheritance! To run a country costs money and it has to come from somewhere and someone. One way or another we have to pay..
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Without even reading the article or comments, I know that what Trump says is untrue.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump is forcing the west to go green!
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It costs more than that!l unless you have a small house ! Solar panels, batteries, air source heat pump and air conditioning - more like £40k
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If that is the case then good for the savers but bad for the pension pot! Insurance companies count on people not being around to spend their cash to help build their pot - what will they do now?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“Only a deliberately uninformed electorate… could believe that Brexit, former prime minister Boris Johnson or Farage could be the solution to their problems” And there you have it. Why we’re here and why we’ll stay stuck here until we learn to act in our best interests, rather than theirs.
Meanwhile, the right wing has spent years denigrating knowledge, education and expertise in favour of feelings, vibes and bogus victimhood. Gove's infamous disdain for "experts" during the Brexit referendum paved the way for a world in which you do not have to explain, account for or even understand your own "opinions" for them to be considered "legitimate" by commentators, politicians and racist grifters.

Speaking of which, there was an under-reported moment at the last rally held by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (the real name of the man who otherwise calls himself Tommy Robinson) that showed where all this can lead. Other members of the crowd abused a bespectacled woman for, as one put it, having "a right f**king lefty look on her face." They demanded her removal. Yaxley-Lennon's goons obliged.
Two very different politicians nail the real issue here.

In 1952, Nye Bevan, key architect of both the NHS and the welfare state, explained right-wing politics thus:
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power?"

Today, one answer to Bevan's question trumps all others: deny "poverty" a decent education by persuading "poverty" that it has no value. Only a deliberately uninformed electorate, after all, could believe that Brexit, former prime minister Boris Johnson or Farage could be the solution to their problems.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The two most plausible explanations for this most dangerous move are: 1) Trump plans to sell this extremely valuable information to foreign states and make billions and billions. 2)The US is run by an agent of a foreign country that desperately needs this information.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What change, Mr £5Mill? An even more ruinous Brexit cos you’ve binned the reset and huffed out of the ECHR? More Farage riots on our streets? Mass deportations and ICE-style thug gangs? Removing our rights and protections in a race to the bottom, so your crypto mates can profit? Absolutely not.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
If he imposes 100% tariffs he will be doing Europe a favour. We can move away from our reliance on US products and stop wasting our time trying to export to the US. The sooner we do so, the better. An initial hit but a long term gain.
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 27/06/2026
10th anniversary of the Brexit vote Big Red Bus of Brexit Truths tour marks the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum @markcunliffe.bsky.social
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10th anniversary of the Brexit vote
Big Red Bus of Brexit Truths tour marks the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Badenoch has no grace. And only arrogance where empathy and social intelligence should be. She is what the Tories have now become. Unelectable. Deeply unpleasant, unprincipled and really very dim.
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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Graeme Keyes @KeyesGraeme on #AndyBurnham #PrimeMinister #KeirStarmer – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And not a squeak from Farage, Lowe, Robinson or Tice. Nothing. Literally nothing.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Will Israel now blackmail Trump with the release of damaging information (Epstein perhaps) to gain support and restart this never ending war?
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
International stability and the security of their own countries requires Trump and Putin, and their inner circles, to recognise that the 21st century world isn't the great power playground they thought it was. But neither seems personally or politically capable of doing that.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I wonder who is backing them financially i.e.who are their paymasters and what have they promised..
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
All Trump had to do when he started his term was JDFU. Like, he literally just could have played golf for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, and literally done NOTHING and we would be in a 1000% better situation in every conceivable dimension
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Trump: conspiracy claim Welker: do you have evidence to support your claim? Trump: CLAIM Welker: evidence? Trump: ad hominem attack Welker: evidence? Trump: either/or fallacy as ad hominem attack Trump: more ad hominem attacks, storms off Trump: grumble, mumble, snort, stomp
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Trump isn't interested in a peace keeping role! His only interest is to increase his and his Family's personal fortune and interests. It would be better if the US pulled out completely. The former Yugoslavia is such a tinder box!!
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I fell foul of a website which appeared to be a US government site when I applied for my ESTA yesterday. The visa, which should cost $44 has cost me $179 and there is nothing I can do about it! I hate it when this happens 😔
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
What is it to do with him?
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
If politicians and government employees used the secure systems that they were given then none of this would happen.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me…
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Theatre and politics. Not always in that order @wmtheatreguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Shamelessly stolen from elsewhere (happy to credit the creator if I knew who it was)
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
He managed to pay 4000-5000€ to smugglers after already paying them perhaps 1000€ the first time he crossed so obviously has funds or funding. Why has he chosen the UK? He may well want to work but what if he cannot find work or, if he works illegally, is he taking someone's job? It isn't simple
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Teflon #Farage will simply blame the EU
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Corruption is the guiding principle of the administration and has been from day 1. What is happening now is nothing new, it’s par for the course. It is what the USA is now. Face it squarely.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Something is wrong when project to advance mankind are actually deprimental to our drive to reduce emissions which, effectively, impact mankinds ability to survive on this planet.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
How many years or decades will this go on for? Why are the papers with his emails still kept hidden? It is because too many powerful people were wrapped up in his sordid life and they are too important and rich to allow this information to see the light of day. Absolutely corrupt.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Is it a real or perceived boost? A quick buck or a long term drain on both finances and resources? Is it a vote winner or a necessity? Brexit was a £350m per week economic boost - have the same people done the sums here?
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
You can tell when Reform are worried by the mobilisation of the gutter press to deflect attention anywhere but on themselves.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I am against Jews being attacked but not any more so than I am against Muslims being attacked, or immigrants, or Italians, Germans, French etc Just because the government is in bed with Israel doesn't mean that we should be too.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
49% of Americans are struggling to buy food even as Trump has made himself $4 billion richer as their president and cut taxes for the wealthiest 1%
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The state pension (£184 per week), for many, simply allows them to pay their bills to essentially continue to live their lives without resorting to financial aid, starving or freezing. Is this something that needs to be reviewed as per the article? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
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Tony Blair’s thinktank urges Labour to scrap ‘unaffordable’ pension triple lock
State pension was ‘built for a different era’, says former PM’s organisation amid pressure on government finances
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/04/2026
WARREN: Do you have any explanation for these perfectly timed spikes in trading activity other than insider trading? HEGSETH: Everything we've done is completely above board WARREN: What does that mean? HEGSETH: I'm focused on doing my job W: You're not paying attention to this insider trading?
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ncperiodista.bsky.social @ncperiodista.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Jimmy Kimmel is 'not' backing down. This may be the best pharmaceutical ad I have ever seen.
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Nicodeamous @nicodeamous.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Why shouldn't they - they are the elite, the ones who decide what the plebes will do, the ones we pay our taxes to. They are above us, above the normal social rules and quite often above the law. If we were to do the same, we would lose our jobs but different rules apply to us.
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