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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Net migration is at its lowest level, outside of the pandemic, for fourteen years, small boat numbers are collapsing and yet you still can't move for 'migrant crisis' stories in the British media

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah but the Normans spoke Viking French :D

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Computer Science is often not the best way to learn to code; its curriculum is far broader than coding

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Singers is a work of genius

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@brettroberts.bsky.social wondering if you're in this picture somewhere...

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Flat coats are basically just giant spaniels and all the oddness and risks that implies

2 dogs on a sofa and one is a flat coat retriever, whose front legs are on the floor while rear end is lying down on the sofa

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Quarrel? Honey Ryder? Kerim Bey?

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hard to empathise with someone from a different era? Someone with PTSD? The racism issue is interesting. I mean against whom? Russians?

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Examples of leftwing governments banning things? Enforcing their own preferences over others, and against evidence? Is that a serious question?

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

No idea. No idea. And probably not.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Certainly Labour shifted right to get elected and seems firmly committed to continuing that movement, at least when it comes to asylum seekers and immigration. But the left are equally prone to reaching for the authoritarian stick.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I think it's the political class as such, though liberals (true, rather than e.g. US insult version) specifically try to avoid it, even though as liberals we're very sure that the world would be better off if it was more liberal.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

For people in Oxford it's not bad, though views would differ depending where you are. Oxfordshire though, bus service is city-centric. The council mandated a connection one. This means despite so many efforts to make car journeys longer it still takes longer on the bus. Working people are time poor.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Oxford is a case in point. Basically the only provider of a number of Oxfordshire health services is Oxford JR. Oxfordshire meanwhile is a long rural county. Driving is the only practical option for most people, patients and staff alike.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Back in old microblogging platform days, my pinned tweet was "Politics isn't a line. It's a circle with a dirty authoritarian bottom". Left and right politicians both end up there because they are convinced that "if people lived like I think they should it would be better"

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This in Oxford JR, which has the stupidest ratio of parking spaces to hospital capacity ever seen; the parking pass allowed use of staff car parks as well as visitors, which meant you could get a space in "as little as" 30 minutes after arrival...

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I think it should be free if you're visiting the hospital for health reasons, like when you have to get a ticket from the checkout at the supermarket. And charged for visitors except in special circumstances (when our son was in critical care after being born, we got a parking pass so I could visit)

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation". If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

He's referencing a global elite plan where the Australian government are being funded by the UK. And Soros.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Vintage Red Leicester is sooooo much nicer than the stuff my mum used to buy

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

You'd think she could be looking into the Epstein papers and whether Trump is suppressing them.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Also when you ran out of tracing paper you could just go grab some toilet rolls

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Bimblinghill @bimblinghill.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/08/2025

Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”. The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

So long as they would understand "train your own model" it'd probably be productive.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

One fears actual innovation is not what they are recruiting for. More "buy stuff from large (US) software/solutions companies"

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eek @eke.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

yo this guy is cooking

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I thought it was a cabal? Maybe a coven.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Journalists, and the public, really need to learn the difference between an asylum seeker and refugee, and stop using the terms interchangeably.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 27/08/2025

I appreciate the posts from Labour activists about the vital work they are doing on the ground to oppose Reform but Starmer and his Cabinet seem far closer in rhetoric and in substance to Reform than even a centralist Labour government of the past like Wilson's or even Blair's.

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

These were National Front talking points when I was young, and attacked by everyone except extremists. BNP when I was older: the BNP was run off for being racist cunts. Now The Times is cheerily discussing what might happen “if the population was to be sieved.” Also “camps” is very deliberate.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Dear Labour government. Please grow some balls. The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate. Please start calling it out.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The vast proportion of people in the world never need to go to the US. Increasing numbers of people with family there don't need to go either, as US-based family has become very understanding of people not wanting to visit (unless they are MAGA, in which case best not to see them at all)

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I repeat you haven't found Rhossili yet. Also Wales, it's rather varied. With Rhossili on top, unless you want an historic beach pub in which case you'd need to go to the Llyn Peninsula

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Because you hadn't found Rhossili?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This is so embarrassing. Just an absolute nonsense.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Also do these people not read American classics? Cheaper By The Dozen is how I found out cheerleaders were *all* male until the 1920s

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