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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"You can't imagine the woke youngsters of today being much use at the D-Day landings!" You can't imagine the older sorts who say crap like this being much use at D-Day either. They clearly lack the wherewithal to operate a machine gun nest.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What is happening now is completely and depressingly predictable.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I carve the wood to fit with a power tool. You can then use wood glue. I go a bit nuts though and use epoxy resin to cement it on but I'm not entirely convinced that this isn't overkill.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just make sure to have treated the wood with your chosen oil etc. before attaching the ferrule.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm jealous. I love silver birch. The advice on linseed oil is also good too.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bark is one of the nicest features. You can carve into it if you like but I think you would regret removing it. I use Danish oil for hazel or blackthorn sticks, but I would use Beeswax for this or ash.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 12/09/2026

Scott "the house" Bessent is doing great. In Japan. His other mission.... not so much. Me, free link for 300 clicks - as.ft.com/r/cfe4aadd-7...

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Is Scott Bessent winning the wrong battle in markets?

Treasury secretary’s intervention in the yen has made an impact but US bond yields are climbing higher and higher

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am once again pleading that people stop using the mushy term "guardrails" in favour of being precise about what they really mean.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The way they are so brazenly open made me think about it as a display of power when I think about how the police secretly infiltrated left wing activists and deceived all those women. Reform don't have to concern themselves with consequences.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great analysis that puts the Borgia President is exactly the right wider context of corrupt enablers and why rooting out corruption is the priority.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

All these impacted harvests are going to quickly add up to hunger and inflation.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's the sheer brazeness at the end where she harrumps about "first, do no harm" without giving a second's pause to consider how this programme will harm ND people in a society that already doesn't believe they have anything wrong with them.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's a bet. They can chuck the capital at making something shiny fast enough to build their reputations fast enough to get the next hit and move on before something blows up. This bet is smart because customers increasingly expect shitty products and it takes time for most risks to crystallise.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You don't understand. Corporate governance and the associated risk management is for legacy companies. We've got more appropriate structures that are far ahead of them. No, you can't see them. And no, we don't write things down. We are moving too fast. We fix forward. Stop asking questions...

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Its only a sense but I think there is a pattern emerging here that every time we have a Foreign Office that might pull us back towards the EU, we get a spoiling action from the Home Office that attempts to poison the well

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And you probably couldn't have the EU without him and his reforms to continental law.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have been hammering on about this with work since Trump returned to power to silence. It's all too hard.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It is. And this is the sort of stakes involved - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...

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Murder of the Quinn brothers - Wikipedia

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🚨🚨 Recorded less than an hour ago! Charlie Gammell on the latest in the Gulf. Is a deal about to be done? Have the US and Israel parted ways? Who is running the Islamic Republic? Hear the latest insights from a real expert.🚨🚨 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Iran Special: Is a deal about to be signed? Charlie Gammell on the future for the Islamic Republic and the Region

Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 9 June · 39min

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This looks great! I will definitely buy a copy and read it.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Corporations are people. AI agents created by those corporations are their offspring. And now these Americans have joined the workforce...

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Combined with disruption to global fertiliser supply from the Strait of Hormuz, this is very bad timing.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Note: no offensive tweets from Trump about MBS in response to this compared to how he treats NATO allies.

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In a normal world he would be toast.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And there is a certain grim inevitability that the resulting political instability with both repolarise the Rest against the West while the far right makes hay out of increased waves of asylum seekers and the ignorance of voters about the knock on effects of our collective over-consumption.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Oi. Get your Prod political factions right.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is only going to change when people have their flights for the May half-term holidays cancelled. And then they will panic.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A lot of otherwise clever people think it can't impact them as its something happening "over there." The more switched on types are looking at it in terms of what could happen to their assets in region. People think it's mad when you join the secondary and tertiary dots.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Followed by the Gandalf brigade to scratch their beards.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

New rule - deploy a full regiment of Jimmy Hills to chinny-reckon in unison at any Trump statement made in advance of US markets weekly open or close.

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reddsprout.bsky.social @reddsprout.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

How is this going to play with a prolonged blockade and potentially further escalation with boots on the ground?

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