Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good bit for an SNL UK skit: Andrew Neil setting up re-education camps to teach elder Millennials how bad the Oil Crisis was. 2211
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who was it that predicted the government were going to 'have a look at it' then back off in the face of an obvious backlash? 120
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One gets the sense it would be quite easy to sell Jonathan Hinder a bridge... 1100
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Great skit a few years ago, when someone in the city centre Rangers shop told a group of tourists that yes, this was the 'Belfast team'. Queue the following... 140
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026'...development programmes and the like' just comes across as spectacularly disinterested!? 060
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett...waiting for a new social media platform to gain an Atheist Critical Mass 490
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026'Help, we've promised our investors a $2 trillion valuation and we're stuck in a debt leverage circle with a series of other, vastly over valued companies' 042
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026'Director of the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom at Heritage Foundation' 2623
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026For those who don't remember. A month before Trump was elected, Mother Jones ran this piece on Richard Spencer... Honestly though, the BBC article is even more soft ball. 021
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Webb is, of course, one of journalism's great moral crusaders against all forms of discrimination. A brave truth teller in these dark times. 130
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026'Kent Police are yet to speak with the organisers of Saturday's protest in Kent after 200 masked individuals blocked access to the port of Dover for several hours... More than 48 hours on, ACC Nigel Brookes says Kent Police are inviting the organisers to get in touch with the force'. 043
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Certain bitter irony that its Mike Tapp asking, isn't there? 050
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jump scare while looking through a Special Branch report on an Anti-Internment League conference from the early 1970s. Surely not... 140
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026At least we can confirm that Farage is sometimes in his constituency, I guess. 032
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026He'd know, considering he never stops bloody complaining about how everything 271
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026His presumably self-written Wikipedia page has some revealing bits as well 150
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026'Empire, with William Dalrymple and Anita Anand' listeners right now...* *yes, I know they're produced by the same company 130
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Faced down the Provos but internal Labour politics was just too much etc etc. 1181
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The Bel Tel led its morning email with this long, mostly friendly interview with Shannon... 165
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The @politicalquarterly.bsky.social have made several articles by Roy Hattersly free to read, following his death. This was written in 2011... onlinelibrary-wiley-com.qub.idm.oclc.org/doi/epdf/10.... 130
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Fascinating / horrifying that, a full decade later, influential British journalists and politicians still can't wrap their heads around how the EU works. Or what it actually did regarding Brexit, both pre- and post-referendum. 262
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Mark Rylance can just toll this character out again. 030
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026‘No it’s not an actual economic theory, just a really clear way of explaining the poverty trap, you fools!’ 050
