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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉

@onebiskuit.bsky.social
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Former tax partner at London Big 4 accounting firm, now retired.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10h
Trump goes for his perfect trifecta in this one; a barefaced lie, a large dollop of racism, and a big dose of insanity--all in one short quote.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 10h
She has a point, but ignores the elephant in the room known as the “Greek” system. Fraternities called things like Phi Upsilon Kappa breed a toxic, entitled masculinity. Think Bullingdon Club. I don’t think - Bullingdon apart - there’s anything like this in the UK.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 14h
Took the navette across from Dinard to St Malo. Personally, I think St Malo is overrated - pretty, and historic, but full of tourist tat shops. I only go for tea and a pastry at Salon de Thé Bergamote 😋.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20h
Midweek update is out, first part free. The US distance blockade of Iran might be seen as a classic case of the US winning a battle but losing a war. Also, the Xi-Trump summit revealed that not only can the Chinese humiliate Trump… phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...
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Midweek Update #29: The American Distance Blockade: Establishing The Best Possible Terms For US Withdrawal
The Xi-Trump Summit, Keeping The US Fat, Weak And Consuming; Taiwan Should Be Nervous
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 22h
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Statistics 101. Now, repeat after me - *average and median ARE NOT THE SAME!!*
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horse’s arse
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Haven’t been following the story closely but releasing people on bail suggests maybe this wasn’t the security threat reported rather than evidence of a woke criminal justice system?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
aljazeera.com
Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just a wild guess, but it *could* be they’re no longer suspected of terrorism?
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That wasn't an explosion - it was a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An electrical event caused the battery, of a type commonly used in vapes, ebikes and e-scooters, to go into “thermal runaway”, Merseyside fire and rescue service said" They might've added phones, tablets, laptops, cameras, e-cars but those are "good" while ebikes are "bad" and that would never do!
theguardian.com
Merseyside blaze that killed mother and three children caused by lithium-ion battery
Local fire and rescue service says tragic incident early on Tuesday highlights risks the batteries can pose
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m going to take a wild guess here - the five men in Fairford were a bunch of clowns up to no good in some fairly petty way who managed to make their nefarious activities look like terrorism, while Daniel Thomas is an actual real-life terrorist.
Robert Jenrick 
 X
 
 The 5 RAF base terror suspects have been released on bail.
Meanwhile Danny Tommo [Daniel Thomas (Ed)] has his bail denied.
It looks insane on the face of it. Are the police going to
 explain what's going on?
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elon Musk invites us to look at his massive erection.
BREAKING
 UNPRECEDENTED TEST
 FLIGHT OF MASSIVE SPACEX
 STARSHIP REACHES ORBIT
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And we have another one. The WSJ reports that Egypt's intel chief, Abbas Kamel, called Netanyahu with a warning days before 7th October. The Atlantic has reported that Kamel visited Israel to warn that Gaza would "blow up in everyone's faces" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Egypt warned Netanyahu of Hamas attack days before October 7, report says
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot said the warnings left 'no room for doubt' that Netanyahu led Israel into the 'greatest disaster in its history.' The prime minister has blamed security chiefs for ...
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I confess that the fate of the Anna Livia statue (the “Floozie in the Jacuzzi”, or “Hoor (pronounced hoo-er) in the Sewer”) had completely passed me by.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Translation: investors perceive this as a boost to the profits of private house(sic)builders. Burnham should spend the money instead on public sector, preferably inalienable, social housing. From that everything else will follow.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Eny fule no this is arrant nonsense. Iranian agents come into the UK in Business Class via Heathrow.
Nigel Farage VE
 @Nigel_Farage
 I have been warning both in and out of
 Parliament for many months about
 Iranian agents coming into the UK via
 small boats across the Channel.
 We deserve to be told the truth about
 the Fairford bomb plotters' identities.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spot the difference.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No. He hasn’t. Literally nothing about trump is “acceptable” to any sentient being. His potty mouth is the least of that.
theguardian.com
Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open
President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shot. Chaser
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It also prompted the cancellation of some Ed Sheeran concerts, which sounds like Divine Retribution to me.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is this what they call a “buried lede”? Near the bottom of the body copy, no@present indication of a link to the base. So why does the headline and the 🦋 wrapper make so much of the geographical proximity?
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know who disgusts me.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When will they ever learn? When will they eeeeever learn…..
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Could this be God’s revenge for Ginge caving to the bigotry of billionaire owners of his planned venues? ⚡️⚡️
bbc.co.uk
Ed Sheeran concerts cancelled becuase of bad weather
The star's concerts in Massachusetts on Friday and Saturday are cancelled after severe weather warnings.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to read down to paragraph 18, out of 26, before you learn *which party* runs this council.
bbc.co.uk
South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
bbc.co.uk
 'Not viable'
A review of the urseries was first agreed by the previous Labour-led
   administration, and continued by Reform UK, which now controls the council.
 South Tyneside Council's lead member for children's services, Michelle Fascione, said she could understand why people were upset, but that she was certain that closure was the best option.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They’re not going to vote for a Democrat, but it may be enough that they simply stay away from the polls.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I met Ratcliffe and Reform Soctland leader Malcolm Offord at the same meeting, when Ratcliffe was leading an MBO of what we now know as Ineos from BASF. One of my KPMG colleagues offered an opinion on a non-accounting matter and was told to “stick to your knitting”. Wise advice, Jim, wise advice.
inews.co.uk
Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe should keep Britain's name out of his mouth
James O'Brien: The tax exile knows a thing or two about chemical companies - but that doesn't mean his other opinions are valuable
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fathers4Justice dropped the Batman costumes I see?
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*Steps on to patio to take in bright sunshine and stiff breeze* THERE IS NO PATH TO LOWER ENERGY CO...oh.
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Jack Fifield @jackfifield.uk · 24/09/2026
I have nothing against drivers. I just don’t think it’s OK for some to decide rules are for other people. And I find it baffling that so many drivers who purport to be law-abiding want to make that argument.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hoo Fucking Ray.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So that guy who live streamed himself trying to drown someone by stabbing their boat with a knife and who has been continually blocking ports and intimidating communities with a band of masked thugs. He’s surely just going to be arrested right? Right?
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At the time of writing this article was 2 hours old. And yet while it bangs on at length about migrant small boats, including the one intercepted by the RNLI near Portsmouth, the word count relating to the RNLI/blackshirt encounter is precisely *zero*.
bbc.co.uk
Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hard agree. My mum decided she wanted to award a Lasting Power of Attorney so we got together and signed/witnessed it. A matter of weeks later she suffered a TIA on a flight to Australia, was never really the same again, and we almost immediately had to invoke it. Mrs M and I have both done them.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But, but - WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT E-SCOOTERS???

TikTok's Global Head of Policy in Trust & Safety Zachary Hecht has said that TikTok has identified 1,600 videos in Ireland showing highly risky driving, vehicular theft or related behaviours since the fatal M9 crash last month.
Speaking to the Oireachtas Committee on Media, Mr Hecht said that TikTok does not classify dangerous driving as its own category outside of "dangerous activity and challenges"
 He said that 42,000 pieces of content from this
 overarching category were removed in total in the first half of this year in Ireland.
 For context, Mr Hecht said that around 400,000 pieces of content are posted on TikTok in Ireland each day.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
...wilfully obstructing or hindering an emergency worker responding to emergency services; breach of section 58 of the merchant shipping act under both deliberate intent and captain’s negligence. That's nine possibilities for starters?
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Beng @bengtang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lest we forget. Many of those commemorated by poppies died fighting fascism so that we could be free. bsky.app/profile/ledb...
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Where’s Ranger Smith when you need him?
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You have to drill 2 or 3 paragraphs down in this article to see that by “life” they mean human life. We could certainly make the Earth uninhabitable by humans - or by advanced human technological civilisation at least - but it would remain habitable by other life. We could be the new dinosaurs.
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