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Captain Haddock

@realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social
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The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place Brexit is shite 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 16h
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13h
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 17h
Absolutely mad
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 22h
Leaving proof of ID to the private sector just to avoid tabloid “your papers please” bilge is so pathetic www.ft.com/content/b303...
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Britain has turned digital ID into a growth industry
Start-ups such as Yoti and Luciditi are meeting demand for age and identity verification as the government retreats
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 22h
The UK does not need Iron Dome but it does need to raise its game on air defense at a number of levels
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 22h
what if I told you that there was a huge loophole – that allowed billionaires, whether based in the UK or otherwise, to spend unlimited amounts influencing our general elections? You’d be shocked, right? And probably pretty appalled. Well, there is. goodlawproject.org/the-loophole...
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The loophole allowing foreign billionaires to spend unlimited sums influencing UK elections | Good Law Project
To try and limit the influence billionaires have over our elections the law limits how much both ‘non party’ campaigners - anyone spending more than £10,000 on activities intended to influence elector...
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 22h
Archer pioneered the way in being and staying in public life for many other serial liars and wrong ‘uns who followed on
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
LD -> REFUK shifter? I really struggle to believe such people really exist
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Under Labour large swathes of the UK outside of London and Manchester are losing access to much of Europe and Britain's cultural heritage. Burnham talks a good game about regional pride even as his government mindlessly watches many of its foundations collapse beyond the Southeast and Northwest
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It used to be assumed there was a sense of shame per Profumo. Archer was an example of how that didn’t exist after 1979.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer is yet another example that there are no penalties for failure in British public life.
But his time behind bars and his political disgrace did not terminate his career at Westminster, and he returned to the red benches of the House of Lords, until he retired in 2024.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They created a policy to fit the moniker Britannia’s Shield didn’t they
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi realises that Coalition requires compromise? (Not that they really made very many) Right? Oh
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But John “what would Bibi do” is the only question that matters
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Just feels like maybe as an island nation, with every viable flight path towards us travelling over thousands of kms of allies, our missile/drone defence needs might be somewhat different to Israel.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration is openly interfering in the politics of supposed allies
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He’s an absolute loon
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 60% tax trap is dumb and we should get rid of it for that reason
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Q: Do you support Corina Machado going back to Venezuela? TRUMP: She's a very fine woman. She gave me her Nobel Prize because she knew I earned it. It's all gonna work out
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And Churchill wasn’t English
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They’re desperate to be an ethnic minority.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Or Lib Dem. A lot have decamped to LibDems.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Which they must think is its own distinct ethnicity. Which is mad.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What are people from Berwick according to these rules, given it’s gone back and forth between England and Scotland.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The idea there is an ethnic difference between people from Kelso vs Berwick is 🤪
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On that basis, what is the ethnicity of Ian Wright? Born here so he can’t be Afro Caribbean. And indeed what even is Afro Caribbean on this analysis because it can’t be a singular ethnicity.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What does Hannan think his ethnicity is out of interest? Irish? Peruvian?
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My horizons are defo overcrowded
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Though even the most extreme QCs don’t offer to sell themselves to Trump etc
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 05/10/2026
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Alberta separatists’ talks with GOP spark outcry, call for legislative change
Calgary Liberal MP says Canada needs to consider overhauling its laws to address the kind of freelance negotiating trips that separatist leaders have made to D.C.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The whole thing is just performative stupidity
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Tory party is fundamentally unserious
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Honest Bob Jenrick much deeper in the doo-doo
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bang on
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s his son
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🤦🏻‍♂️
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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well so much for Brazil being the stand up example of a country that got past its mad right-wing nutjob phase without too much violence.
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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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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Everything Is Fine All Ok - Chemical Ali
ALT: Everything Is Fine All Ok - Chemical Ali
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
16% of Albertans would support Alberta joining the United States as a state. 75% would oppose it, including 66% who strongly oppose. From our Alberta Referendum Study, fielded Sept 4-7.1
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
His party is wedded to a death grip of right wing boomers
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Even now i can recall the first login code was Australia
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Buddhism Now @buddhismnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Buddha saw life as a flowing procession of conditions, events and circumstances, with one thing leading to another without beginning or end—timeless and limitless. 'Understanding Karma and Rebirth' A Buddhist Perspective, by Diana St Ruth tinyurl.com/BPGDKR ISBN9780946672301
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https://tinyurl.com/BPGDKR
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Come off it Garmin You’re drunk Go home
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Real life lab leak Sadly for the conspiracy theorists it’s in their beloved Russia www.turkiyetoday.com/world/russia...
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Russian scientist dies in suspected plague case in Siberia - Türkiye Today
A 28-year-old scientist died in a suspected plague case in Siberia, prompting quarantines and medical monitoring of contacts
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