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Robert Lyons

@robertlyons.bsky.social
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Author of The Shell Collector, a tale of the City of London. Reading, classical music, art, golf, grandfather to 6. Unsympathetic to political ideologists of either wing.

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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 10h
So AI, known to some as SI, could be of use to medics, says Trump. I asked my AI friend Claude whether approved vaccines work. And guess what? It said they do. Close to 100% of the time. Maybe it’s time Trump had a word with RFK Jr.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 12h
Only a man in love with his own signature would have missed this.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 12h
Only a man in love with his own signature would miss this.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 12h
We called it 'Little Man's Disease'. Napoleon had it, Hitler had it, now Nige has it in spades.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 13h
One way to get the Hispanic vote?
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you. Amazing that we only found out about the deaths in May, and our lost and found family in July! Still coming to terms with it all.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you. The silver lining in this dreadful story is that we have discovered a survivor family and are now in touch.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The bruises are called hematomas. They are not serious. The naps are also not serious. Stupidities that come out of the mouth ARE serious. They are caused by a faulty brain. Their treatment needs more than a doctor.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best to leave it to the grown-ups, Nige.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You sound like a terrorist apologist. Hamas raped, mutilated and murdered women and children. Did you like that?
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sensitive flower!
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You clearly don’t understand the use of a capital letter to single out a person or event. It is as wrong as calling all white houses The White House. There was only one Holocaust. Out of respect for its victims and historical accuracy, do not use its name to describe another event.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gaza is not a holocaust. Israel has not set up death camps in which people are herded into lorries and gassed to death, as at least 22 members of my family were in 1943. I’m far from approving what has taken place in Gaza, but let’s name things as they are, not as they aren’t.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you check, you’ll find that the 1948 war you mention was started by the invasion of Israel by the armies of five neighbouring Arab states with the objective of destroying the new state.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How easy it is to bribe people with their own money…
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only 91%?
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Meanwhile in England the head of a grooming gang which raped two girls is sent to jail for thirty years.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A highlight of Xi’s state visit, one he and his wife will never forget.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What is undoubtedy antisemitic is the wish to destroy Israel and its people. To replace its thriving democracy built over many decades with exactly what? With a regime which treats its women as second class citizens? You really do have to hate Jews to want that. Anyway, that’s my view.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are those who oppose the Israeli government’s actions antisemitic? My view is, some are, some aren’t. Those who toss these terms around like confetti often are. Those who simply object to the over-aggressive actions of the current Israeli government, as many Jews do, usually aren’t.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Zionism is the least understood. It reflects the aspiration of Jews to return to their biblical homeland to build a new life there. Land that was thought impossible to farm was bought from owners happy to get rid of it and cultivated. The actions of West Bank settlers have sullied its true meaning.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For example, the use of the words genocide, apartheid and Zionism are spat out without real examination. Genocide, as you said, is widespread. I would argue that ICE is the USA’s manifestation. Apartheid is an Afrikaans term meaning separate development (of races). It does not exist in Israel.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve been thinking about this. The liberal democratic world I grew up in debated complex issues rationally. The world we live in today is more partisan, one in which sides are taken and argued usually with more passion than reason. I think social media has played a part. I prefer the old way.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They’re going to get awfully hot in those masks.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two leaders with a single objective: How to silence opposition.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Correct. China’s treatment of Uighurs and Myanmar’s of Rohingya are also genocides. But the world is selective. Why?
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You should see mine. Not a pretty sight. But I’m awake.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You didn’t succeed!
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
However poor the Labour, Tory and LibDems may be, the Reform, Restore and Green leaders make them look like political giants.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The decision and the lies were Blair's. What Miliband knew is open to question.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never Rob, please. Robert does fine.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In my own case, absolutely. It happened, and I put family before ambition without the slightest hesitation or regret.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had it been me, I could not have been persuaded.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was the line I used as soon as it happened. I too have brothers. I didn’t need help from the press to know right from wrong.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They had an election. The result has been ignored by the guy who complains about ‘stollen’ elections. He also steals oil.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The good guy” shafted his own brother, a far superior candidate for leader and PM.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You mean Hamas has never fired at the IDF? Ho hum…
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
She’s not too good on the heritage side. If it’s only the Anglo-Saxons who qualify, presumably that rules out those descended from Norman aristocrats, our Hanoverian royal family, and even our Huguenots and our Jews. I’m reluctant to admit it, but Rees-Mogg knows his stuff. Braverman doesn’t.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of the great things about England is that there is no accepted definition of being English. God help us if there were: people who think of themselves as English might be excluded; others who don’t might be included. Let’s not try to settle the unsettleable. It’s really not important.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Executive Order no. 4786 By this Order, the Epstein Files are renamed the Donald J Trump Epstein Files.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you wonder why we will no longer visit your country?
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Give that man a peace prize. Correction: a piece prize. A piece of… prize.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chalk and cheese.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the point! It doesn’t matter how much money a man has, but those who can have a duty to leave the world a better place,
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What, no printer?
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rebranding: the solution of those who have run out of ideas. It costs time and money. It doesn’t work.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
GENIUS! Next week it will be Trump Intelligence.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And we’re going to change the name of that wonderful hospital St Elizabeths in Washington DC - and it’s a very special hospital - to Donald J Trump Hospital, and it’s looking like he’ll be the next patient to be treated there.
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Want to bet on its viewing numbers?
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Robert Lyons @robertlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What? Trump has no knowledge? Don’t have a clue what you mean by “Watch out for younger names.”
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