Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 9hCome 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? 100
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Bah 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. 010
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Weren't we told it was anti-Semitic when an Israeli team known for such behaviour was banned from playing at Villa Park? 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For some reason, I'm being reminded of the plot of Three Lions 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Bah 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. 000
Reposted by Richard BloggerAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry. 563251718
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"sorry, my dog inadvertently shat on your doorstep, it's not my fault" 001
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've said this many times in the past, but thankfully not recently "oh just fuck off Nick Clegg" 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Its 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 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Defecting from Reform to Green says more about the Greens than Reform. #senedd 000
Reposted by Richard BloggerJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On 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. 563912736
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 011
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I 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 100
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Second NATS failure in a month. Privatisation was such a success 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Twice now this #libdem MP has openly lied on #radio4 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Really think Charles Spenser has an unhealthy obsession with his sister 010
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Dear Donald Trump, to have a Triumphal Arch you first have to triumph. No doing too well with the Iran War, are you? 010
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Medieval wall paintings, in the 13th century St Giles church, Packwood 021
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Listening 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 031
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Layla 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 120
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I feel a bit queasy, I agree with Anthony Selden #R4 #Today 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And 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? 010
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There 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. 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Crypto 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. 020
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Oh gosh these newspaper reviewer guests on R4 BH are awful 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Wouldn'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! 020
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Waiting for plumbers to leave so I can have lunch... 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Laffer 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 020
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026US 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 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I wouldn't be surprised if #Trump "celebrates" 9/11 with a truly monstrous action against #Iran 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Oh 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 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026One 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. 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026They 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. 100
Reposted by Richard BloggerMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Farage 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. 1111708580
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Is this the first of the new low cost neural networks that will rule the world? 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The 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.) 000
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 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Road 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? 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Oh 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? 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Watching 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. 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If 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 010
Reposted by Richard BloggerAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This is getting out of hand 171104232
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Well, if enough people tell Google they made an error... 010
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026For 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. 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Watching 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 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Damned 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 000
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Basically 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 011
Richard Blogger @richardblogger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026But 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 000