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Richard Blogger

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Patient advocate, activist, campaigner. Pragmatically left of centre. Considering all the autoimmune conditions I have, I am clearly allergic to me

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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 9h
Come on interviewers, the Tories say that they will "cut the state", so ask them: the biggest part of the state - by a long way - is the NHS. What part of the NHS will you cut?
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bah horsey people are arrogant. Today's walk, like a week ago, goes through horse pasture along a public right of way centuries old. The horsey people put up a sign saying "permitted footpath" to take us another way. Nice to have an alternative, but if I want to use the public right of way, I will.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Weren't we told it was anti-Semitic when an Israeli team known for such behaviour was banned from playing at Villa Park?
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For some reason, I'm being reminded of the plot of Three Lions
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bah horsey people and their "permitted footpaths" that make sure that people do not walk across their paddocks and past the kitchen windows of their posh houses. A public right of way, is an ancient right.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"sorry, my dog inadvertently shat on your doorstep, it's not my fault"
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've said this many times in the past, but thankfully not recently "oh just fuck off Nick Clegg"
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Its quite fun listening to other pollsters saying "of course we do not use the nefarious methods identified by the JL Partners/Reform sting". They all do it! We need to ban polls during the General Election purdah period
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Defecting from Reform to Green says more about the Greens than Reform. #senedd
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"if you taxed me less I'll return to Britain" is the sort of person I really don't want here
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was nodding away as I read this thread. But the last point of this graphic is wrong. MH was actually considered important as you can see from the contents of the white paper for the 1946 Act
Contents page for the introduction to the 1946 NHS act
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Second NATS failure in a month. Privatisation was such a success
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Twice now this #libdem MP has openly lied on #radio4
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Really think Charles Spenser has an unhealthy obsession with his sister
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear Donald Trump, to have a Triumphal Arch you first have to triumph. No doing too well with the Iran War, are you?
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Medieval wall paintings, in the 13th century St Giles church, Packwood
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Listening to #BBCAQ and the Tory MP makes it sound like Piddlington is in the middle of nowhere. It isn't. It is SIX MILES from Bicester. Slightly further to M40. Its a fair bet that most people in that village work in the finance markets in London since no ordinary person can afford to live there
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Layla Moran saying "if this was the private sector they would be sacked" with no evidence. There is ZERO public oversight over what happens in private hospitals. No public safety reports. No complaints reports. No incident reports. By law NHS hospitals make these public. Lib Dems are dim
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I feel a bit queasy, I agree with Anthony Selden #R4 #Today
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And Jenrick says that it is "legal". Would that be the same Jenrick who as a Housing minister was doing personal deals with housing developers? perhaps he should not be the judge of what is right, moral or legal?
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There is a lot of hysteria about AI at the moment, but nothing about the AI companies. If we want control over the development of AI then its clear what to do: nationalise the AI companies.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Crypto in untraceable. We do not know if "crypto billions" are made legitimately since it's so easy to use it to make billions from crime. Hence we must treat all crypto as dirty money. Prove it's legit.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oh gosh these newspaper reviewer guests on R4 BH are awful
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wouldn't it be funny if Tories and Reform spend their election war chests in the next year and Burnham holds out for a 2029 election!
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Waiting for plumbers to leave so I can have lunch...
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Laffer on R4. He asserts a figure tha "for every £1 in tax raised it costs the private sector £5' he was not asked where he got this ludicrous figure
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
US is low tax? US "state pension" social security is a payroll tax of 6.2% on on wages up to a cap of $3,548pw. Median pay in US is $1,251, so the cap is high. The UK equivalent is NIC which is 8% (£242pw to £967pw) and then 2% over £967pw. Median UK is £750pw
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wouldn't be surprised if #Trump "celebrates" 9/11 with a truly monstrous action against #Iran
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh FFS we thought we were getting rid of Reform. The council was going to be split in two, one Reform led the other most likely LD. Currently we have minority Reform aided by Tories abstaining
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One thing we know about Farage is that he uses people and "it's all their fault". In this case, it's his family. I reckon after this statement Reform have put him on Resignation Watch.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They all parked somewhere. I'm guessing they are not too careful about buying tickets or keeping to the time they bought, so it should be possible to identify their cars. The masks are not to avoid the police attention. They are there to intimidate us.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Is this the first of the new low cost neural networks that will rule the world?
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Tories intend to cut one of the big welfare benefits for Tory voting landlords! Cutting Housing Benefit long term will result in falling rents, HB subsidises a dysfunctional rental market. (Short term it would be a disaster for low income families of course.)
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"the tapestry shows the Kings ancestor". Tenuous. His ancestor by law is Sophia of Hanover, the Catholic Stuart line was severed by Parliament, the monarch *had* to descend from Protestant Sophia
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Road between our towns is lined both sides by trees. Not for long. Just noticed marking on trees that are about to be felled. This is for cycle track that was a key election policy of the Greens at last election. The main part of the track isn't used at all. Greens are a bit stupid, aren't they?
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh FFS #undeclatedwar how can you send an emp to a random tower block in China from Cheltenham ? And raising frequency is not the same as raising power. Fucksake who wrote this, Dan Brown?
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Watching C4 Undeclared War. "I dumped the RAM" says the spook, and apparently "the RAM" had all of the keystrokes for several years stored in it. Oh. Well it was clearly a Linux machine, so that's a good reason not to use Linux.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If Executive Orders didn't exist he could not do this. Congress would say "nah, we've more important things than your silly obsessions" Get rid of Presidential Executive Orders
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is getting out of hand
Tube map but with America Water instead of Canada Water. Hilariously.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Well, if enough people tell Google they made an error...
Screenshot of Google Maps option to give feedback to edit the map
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
For some reason my Android phone went into Extra Dim. The instructions to turn it off require you to be able to see the screen. Which you can't.
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Watching C4 #UndeclaredWar GCHQ developers are weird. They're told "work on XYZ code" and they start typing without reading any design docs or talking to the system architect. It's as if the knowledge they need is obtained telepathically
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Damned Microsoft "updated" my PC last night and today I could not connect to my Epson printer. I had to reinstall the Epson drivers to get it to work
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Basically Angela Rayner lied when she said Grey Belt would not mean building on Green Belt land - her Dept specifically made the rules to allow big housebuilder to make huge profits from using up Green Belt land
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
But there is no shortage of dentists. So it's time we got rid of the dentistry monopoly and allowed NHS Trusts and GP health centres to provide NHS funded general dentistry
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Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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