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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BBC indulging in a little click bait

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Proud of my boys running Vitality 10000 London

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The latest in my occasional series of a match made in heaven.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are so screwed as a planet. I bought an "Indian Meal for One" from our local convenience store yesterday. It was the day of its 'best before' date. It was £1. The next day it would have been thrown in the bin. This was the plastic. We are so screwed as a planet.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Madam Secretary Season 4 Episode 12...what a laugh!

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@docusign.bsky.social FFS get your ads on streaming services to turn the volume down on that music!!!

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

😳 A giant polypore on today's dog walk...amazy

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh good. Can't see anything that should give us cause for concern. I mean, it's not as though a superpower is going to instruct its AI system to win a war...

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does every cool start up turn into a blundering capitalist bully? Airbnb gets it spectacularly wrong in threatening a small BnB (kindly autocorrected by my phone) on the isle of Portland

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is poor from the BBC. What kind of journalism refers to 'experts' without any specificity. The disparity between UK and European economies is the whole point of the piece. And I don't buy that 10 year bond yields are caused by changing PMs frequently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Christopher Harborne has enough money for the rest of his life so... he funds grifters and bigots. Clean energy? Starving children? World peace? Nope, bigotry it is.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Before we go any further, let's just ban political parties spending ANY money on social media. It's not necessary, it's not a 'right', and it can't be regulated or even monitored properly so as to avoid unethical targeting or messaging. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Interesting use of the word "irreplaceable"

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘Footage of party officials talking about concealing payments and taking money from foreign donors is all too familiar to me: I am an expert on state capture.’ Terrific piece from anti corruption professor @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social on D4S democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-un...

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Reform’s undercover donations pave road to state capture

By making rule-breaking a selling point, Reform is signalling it's open for influence trading, says anti-corruption expert Liz David-Barrett.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The fact that Israel feels it has the authority to close the UK's diplomatic mission TO PALESTINE tells you a lot

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know I'm not the only person to point out the double standards. You can be arrested for pointing out the rights of juries or for slowing down traffic, pointing out climate change but... "And what if an ambulance needed to get through?" etc

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well, disappointed in Maureen Lipman (with the caveat that any newspaper is capable of whipping this up into more of a story than it is). Gerard McCarthy comes out with way more class. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

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Maureen Lipman slams ‘cowardly’ co-star after BBC actor quit show over her Gaza views

Lipman is set to star in new West End play ‘Right Before I Go’ later this month

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well done Farage, Johnson, Gove and 51% of those who could be bothered to vote...oh, and Russian bot farms and Cambridge Analytica www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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British man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhood

John Sellers, 34, who moved with his family to Sweden aged 10, has been ejected despite his recent marriage to a Swede

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm not an economist. But. The prescription from the FT and "the City" that the Govt will have to cut spending, increase taxation (on everyone) AND guarantee growth seems dumb. If the next Budget follows their advice, the downward spiral will continue.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wonder what will happen when Trump is facilitating just this kind of betting? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So, if you asked AI to write a copyright notice for the front of your book, and it came back with one that expressly forbade electronic storage and retrieval, wouldn't that prove it was knowingly built on copyright theft?

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She gets too hungry to lay knives and forks, She won't use spoons and she don't own a spork, She's spooning soup from her dumplings and pork, That's why the ladle is damp.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wonder if this placard would get you arrested outside Westminster Magistrates Court?

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I just checked. This couldn't be more "Hey AI scraper, F-off" if it tried... How are the AI tech bros getting away with this?

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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And wait until the next price cap to really hear how cheap gas is. As an aside, front month gas closed at a post-Iran high yesterday, pretty much double the price of the same contract two years ago, which would be 50% higher than the same contract three years previous of that. So cheap guys.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So much wrong with the modern world would be made slightly better if social media platforms were treated as media owners (they are) because they choose what to publish (they do) and so should be held responsible for its veracity and its effect. If it ruins their business model, that's their problem.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Wokeness" (aka respect for others) has certainly been pushed back, but the implied "oh well, back to the beginning"? Social democrats of various shades will bounce back into positions of power, then they must embed principles of equality in permanent structures. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He didn’t change. They did.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What is the mechanism by which the government enacts an immediate ban on the sale of disposable barbecues? Why can they not act as quickly on, oh I don't know, the spread of hate or AI porn on X, for example?

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Life is a series of buying things you can't afford, interspersed by short, bemusing revelations of how little things cost ten years ago.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Number crunching: Compensation Fujitsu has so far paid to victims of the Post Office scandal vs value of contract for police network software awarded to Fujitsu by the Home Office. From the latest Private Eye, out now.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Muting bigots is great, isn't it?

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm not sure, but I think this may be illegal...

The picture shows a group of pale stein's with the word 'action' inscribed on them

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Just thought I'd watch a film on Amazon, clicked through and I read the synopsis "You have 30 days to start watching this video. Once you start, you'll have 48 hours to finish it." Hmmm. Intriguing premise I thought... 😐

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today only - ebook for 99p. What have you got to lose? (Oh yeah - 99p) 5⭐ A superb novel. 5⭐ I couldn't put it down. 5⭐ Fantastic. Wow! Just wow! 5⭐ Absolutely brilliant book! 5⭐ This is how to write a psychological thriller. amzn.eu/d/0cuR7A9j

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Peter Bleksley is a f****** racist #gbnews

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... You have to laugh, haven't you? 🅽🅾-🅾🅽🅴 believes this is going to work out well.

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is exactly how gangsters operate. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you've recently been in the New Forest, and been in or near streams/water, please take a moment to complete this questionnaire from my talented son. #newforest #rewilding #conservation #ecology #nature southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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New Forest stream use questionnaire

A questionnaire recording habits and behaviours around the use of streams in the New Forest.

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