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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know he's doing Wheel of Fortune on ITV now, having left BBC Radio 2, but I didn't realise he was a Congressman for South Carolina as well
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the reference is probably lost on anyone not without an interest in the history of NI, but Terence O'Neill's "Ulster Stands At The Crossroads" speech from December 1968 is available in full on YouTube it's not the historical reference i'd be making right now, tbh www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPSe...
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Ulster stands at the cross roads: O'Neill broadcast
YouTube video by David Boothroyd
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is a good column, and I think speaks to how the issues facing the Lib Dems are structural, and changing them is not in the gift of the leader, whoever the leader is Lab/Con/Ref/SNP/Plaid leaders can make the political weather to a greater or lesser extent, LD leaders can only react to it
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
you were all dressed in green rising in the sky was an unfamiliar star and you know what I mean yeah I remember who you are (8)
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*slaps roof of Scottish Labour* this political party can fit so much more transphobia and fossil fuel advocacy in it
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
with a little water and a little bit of sunlight and a little bit of tender mercy tender mercy (8) bsky.app/profile/usap...
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
huge news for anyone who, like me, did Professor Layton cosplay for Halloween at some point during the thirteen-year gap between game releases
an image of Bluesky user @notthathunter doing Professor Layton cosplay
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
can I be the @stephenkb.bsky.social of examining every casting/wardrobe/production decision in the Channel 5 Nicola Sturgeon/Peter Murrell miniseries
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
ah, go on then Baz
a table of predictions for the upcoming football season, with Arsenal winning the title, Celtic winning the Scottish Premiership, and PSG winning the Champions League
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
drives me somewhat insane to be visibly seeing the way in which climate change is already pushing up inflation and the cost of living and causing economic as well as ecological harm while our politicians have the complete opposite conversation and act like climate *action* is the problem
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
don’t think I can convey quite how bonkers it is that Northern Ireland’s quarterly opinion poll has found the *UUP* as the most popular Unionist party in the year 2026, what the actual fuck
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
it's a great bit how Northern Ireland has loads of stuff progressive voters in the rest of the UK want - EU market access, integration of health and social care, STV at local and devolved elections, publicly-owned bus, rail, water and energy infrastructure - and has no good outcomes to show for it
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Prime Minister Burnham, your Labour government is a disgrace and it’s time to resign
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
men’s international trophies won since the moon landing by England: zero men’s international trophies won since the moon landing by reigning British champions Northern Ireland: also zero
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
quite something how global forces of authoritarian nationalism are trying to destroy both the ICC and the ICC simultaneously, and will only get more extreme in pursuing both outcomes
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
appropriate archive newspaper clip for the week: on the day before the Hand of God game, right after the Falklands War, the Belfast Telegraph couldn't find a single person on the streets of NI who wanted England to beat Argentina
a newspaper clipping from the Belfast Telegraph on June 21st 1986, showing Northern Ireland fans wanting Argentina to beat England
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@acscricket.bsky.social What are the highest List A team totals not to contain an individual century? England's 400 against WI is the ODI record, but curious about all List A cricket, since the Northern Knights are in contention to get up there today...
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
negotiated my future brother-in-law’s stag do to avoid a clash with the World Cup Final which means I will be watching an English quarter-final in a World Cup, in England, surrounded by English people please send thoughts and prayers
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
really curious why the modern SNP are so poor at parliamentary by-elections - since 2007 they've fought 13, won only four, and lost four seats they were defending failure of the party machinery? or is it something about their modern coalition?
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
a message reading "btw I’ve had a think and the most Scotland outcome tonight is them going one or two up early then sitting on the lead inexplicably and getting dumped out on goal difference as a 3rd place team in 10 days time"a meme about Apollo bestowing the gift of prophecy
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@finalwordcricket.bsky.social @geofflemon.bsky.social just because this was pod areas and got mentioned before - today Australia played their 24th bilateral ODI of the World Cup cycle, the same number as under the ODI Super League - only scheduled for 34, fewer than India (38), SA (38) and NZ (40)
a league table of bilateral ODI cricket since the 2023 Cricket World Cup, with New Zealand at the top and Zimbabwe at the bottom
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
HOLLY CAIRNS FOR TAOISEACH, MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT
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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Labour defending Twitter is a good example of why they are so ineffective in government: utterly unwilling to take decisions which have any controversy attached.
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
this is good, particularly because it is rooted in real experiences, but also because it points towards support for the way out of this mess, which is through new legislation
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
the developing centrist consensus in British politics and political journalism is that attempting to do anything about this visible climate breakdown is stupid, and caring about it a lot is a fringe, unserious perspective
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
the real-world impact of awful policies matters far more than the short-term politics but it is important to note that Labour have now explicitly broken pledges in their 2024 manifesto to "remove indignities for trans people" they were either lying making this pledge or are lying now
page 89 of Labour's 2024 election manifesto, promising to reform the gender recognition process and remove indignities for trans people
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
discourse about marches, is it?
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
LATEST BY-ELECTION POLLING
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
at least this week we can all take our minds off the global rise of fascism, the unpicking of social progress, the moral cowardice of European leaders, and the fragility of democratic systems to hostile bad actors with *checks notes* the Eurovision Song Contest ah, shite
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
idle post-election thought: Holyrood 2026 might be the last-ever Scottish election where the Scottish Greens do not field a full slate of candidates in Scotland's major cities
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
hitting 10 MSPs is great psychologically, but this result is also good for avoiding the gender balance of the LD Holyrood group being extremely bad - before this election, there had only been four female Lib Dem MSPs in the devolution era
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Paul O’Kane, Scottish Labour’s Equalities spokesperson, went out of his way to pander to a journalistic class opposed to LGBT rights as a whole, and lost anyway
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Edinburgh and Lothians East has an MSP using they/them pronouns and an MSP who is a prison abolitionist, looking forward to the total meltdown from 90% of Scotland's political journalists at the idea that social liberalism might be popular
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
hey @angusrobertson.bsky.social, since you're fond of them, I made you an Edinburgh Central bar chart, I think this one is a bit more accurate that the ones your campaign was putting out?
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Holyrood elections are simple, everyone casts their votes, we find out the national result, and then Jackie Baillie wins Dumbarton anyway
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
don't see a route to an SNP majority now, they simply aren't going to win in enough constituencies
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
it's a great bit how on the island of Ireland there is the Labour Party, the Social Democrats, and also the Social Democratic and Labour Party, but they won't all merge because the leaderships/members, in general, don't like one another
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
this poll could be an outlier, but I think this gives a solid theory for potential SNP (and Reform) underperformance compared to some polls: undecided voters breaking late to mainstream Unionist parties, particularly in marginal seats, and the Green list vote holding up
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
personally i would like to run a normal political magazine in Scotland
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
people pointing out that Burnham has no obvious route into Parliament are missing the fact that it would be extremely funny for him to take a run at either Aberdeen South or Arbroath and Broughty Ferry this July and lose to the SNP
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
unfortunately my brain read this serious post about Irish politics then set the names of the whole clan to Nineties one-hit-wonder “Are You Jimmy Ray?”
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
extremely hard for me to articulate how bizarre it is for me personally that the greatest men's golfer on the planet is a guy from Holywood who went to Sullivan Upper the same guy I first heard about on BBC Newsline when he shot 61 round Royal Portrush in 2005 www.bbc.com/sport/golf/a...
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The Open 2025: 'McIlroy's got it going, you need to see this' - Rory's record 61 at Royal Portrush told by those who were there
As the Open Championship returns to Royal Portrush, those who saw Rory McIlroy shoot a record 61 around the course as a 16-year-old remember it as the day he went to
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
righteous and correct to demand a cordon sanitaire in Scottish politics but I strongly fear that it's essentially a request to politely and firmly close some stable doors while the Grand National finishes in the distance
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
considering an amended version of this, where all politics, everywhere in the world, is gradually becoming more Northern Irish over time
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
incredible both to find missing Doctor Who episodes sixty years later, and to do it while one of the original cast is still around to see it
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
this is very fun, and exactly the kind of thing I wish I had the time to write
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
this post made me consider how strange this state of affairs is, considering Aontu has (just about) established itself as a viable political party in ROI, when you’d think circumstances would’ve made it much harder to stick around
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
probs my most unpopular, miserable, Bluesky opinion is that the UK’s budget for every Winter Olympic sport except curling should be zero, and us spending £6million of taxpayers money on a world-class skeleton racing programme should pretty much be treated as a scandal
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