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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 20h

“Good heavens!” said Frog. “That thing is Toad!”

Frog peers over a rock, pointing ahead with a look of surprise on his froggy face.

From "Ice Cream"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 14h

They came to the top of the mountain. The shadow of a hawk fell over them.

A giant hawk swoops down on Frog and Toad.

From "Dragons and Giants"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Griffiths is trying a Truss 2.0 - it went so well last time.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This guy got people from around the world to teach him their favourite dance moves. 📹Ed People

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StephMac @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Family Guy summed it up very well 🤭 youtu.be/GPzO-kNvEYw?...

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Family Guy - Meg and Monty Python

YouTube video by Meg Griffin Redux

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking at the popular discussion of AI and Trumps response it’s almost as if someone discovered some old scripts from Person of Intrrest and thought yes that sounds like our business model And why don’t we also call it Super Intelligence…

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone trying to press a copy of Economic Facts and Fallacies on you is as infallibly indicative of that person being a total wingnut as them praising Ayn Rand.

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

… Sowell is a minor US libertarian economist. He is warmed over popular Neo-liberalism without the technical fire power of Friedman and Buchanan or the intellectual grandeur of Hayek. Like the falling back on Art Laffer this is all 80s tribute act stuff from the pre-MAGa think tank right.

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So Kemi Badenoch has launched her statement of her political ‘philosophy’ - which matters as she wants her party to fall in line behind her and it - and what is the big idea / thinker? It seems to be Thomas Sowell. Who is that you all cry -

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does LK actually think she is helping Kemi with this…

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Tories asked for this - this is what happens when you outsource Comms to a bunch of (male) sixth formers from minor public schools …👆👆👆

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They’re still a bit torn between Kemi and Nigel. The one seeming critical line in the Kuenssberg piece is about realignment on the right and why she wouldn’t consider a deal with Farage - perhaps Badenoch get Farage is the campaign slogan…👆👆👆

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wearing Rosary Beads ? I know there is a Christian turn amongst the far right but the Rosary is a peculiarly Catholic devotion. Does he know what it is and how to pray it? I wonder what the Pastor who received him into the Church thinks about the Rosary (a Marian devotion) - people should ask him.

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations to all involved - great team and important work👆👆👆

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congrats to everyone involved. What a great team!

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Toad rushed past trees and rocks. “Frog, I am glad that you are here,” said Toad.

Toad speeds down the hill on the sled, thinking Frog is still on the sled with him. Frog is not.

From "Down the Hill"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Frog and Toad sat and watched their kite. It seemed to be flying way up at the top of the sky.

Frog and Toad sit on a bluff at the edge of the meadow, watching their kite soar high above.

From "The Kite"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Margaret Thatcher in NE England (© Ella Murtha) #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a girl juming on top of an abandoned car near a wall with graffiti and houses beyond

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry missed that - it’s in the diary

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not in today so I will miss this hope all goes well …

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They of course just add ‘white man’ to each of the above hence Christian Nationalism….👆

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This looks interesting 👆👆👆

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What you see is the clear warm light of April. And it means that we can begin a whole new year together, Toad.

A gleaming Frog stands with grumpy Toad on Toad's front porch.

From "Spring"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care… More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another addition to the post-liberal collection. For me it will be a slow read but there is much to be gleaned from reviewing references etc. An interesting and important collection covering PL from a European perspective…

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sounds like a Frog and Toad story @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social 👆👆👆

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The night was cold and dark. “Listen to the wind howling in the trees,” said Frog. “What a fine time for a ghost story.”

Frog and Toad craddle warm cups of tea in their hands, as they sit in cozy chairs in front of the fire.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”

Little Frog spies an old worm asleep on a tree stump.

From "The Corner"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But more people voted for Burnham than voted for Goodwin as it turns out …

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Isn’t this what happened with Reagan’s Star Wars - the USSR had an intellectual capability way beyond the means of its economy and consequently bankrupted itself …

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes non libertarian - but don’t they beg the question with their retreat to a common good (Sen / Sandel) or fail to take pluralism seriously Marxism. Feminism is too diverse a cohort - Moller-Okin / Nussbaum are close to Rawls, Iris Marion Young less so but still seeking egalitarianism

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You could always come to LSE and learn about non-Rawlsian liberalism. As for libertarianism perhaps Ian could do Nozick. However I think that libertarianism has really dated and it’s hard to see what the fuss was about. Hayek is different…

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Back after leave First GV100 lecture to bring out the Bow Tie …. @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So we still know little about the Fairford suspects we do know they are not 1.Iranian Nationals who 2. Entered the UK on a small boat. Eventually British politics will have to get serious - not everything is about ‘small boats’ and immigrants…

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meanwhile on GBNews and next weeks Tory conference it will be ‘boats, boats, boats’ and the need for repatriation / re migration.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think. Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.

A glimpse into Toad's mind as he sleeps. He dreams of mountains, giant trees, and sunflowers.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?” “Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.

Toad leans forward in his chair, sipping tea, transfixed by Frog's ghost story.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Starmer's failure is because we're post-material' is one of those analyses that you only believe if you flatly ignore who 'the remaining Labour voters in May 2026 were' and 'who the voters Labour lost under Starmer were'.

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This does read like an appeal to the early postliberal/Blue Labour take before it was destroyed by Glasman’s flirtation with ARC and US culture war nonsense. We need to return to a politics of the common good and material condition. Trouble is class/ identity/civil inclusion are inextricably linked

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