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The Chelsea Podcast @chelseapodcast.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

NEW EPISODE: Chas. and guest host @robertrea.bsky.social are joined by CST member and author of numerous Blues-related books Tim Rolls to discuss last weekend's disappointment against Burnley. #CCF #ChelseaFC #ktbffh open.spotify.com/episode/41Uv...

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The Dubai-abolical Episode

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/02/2026

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI. AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Sorry, the annual no what now?

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Thought he’d been given it for services to comedy

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The spy who kinda liked me Sometimes say never again Rainyball

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Festive stuff from my son’s London Top Tens series on TikTok. Gotta love London at Christmas! Enjoy 😀🎄 vm.tiktok.com/ZNR2LG1wB/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Can’t think what it is about not having to get up at 5.30 in the morning that’s so appealing, but yes 😀

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Topper @topperuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

My wife and I had a horse-drawn wedding. It was a disaster. We should have just hired a photographer.

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Can’t they just fuck off and stay fucked off?

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Actually the real winner is anyone in the world who buys stuff

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

They were, of course, never that bothered about free speech…

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Magnificent stuff. Thanks for this

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What the living fuck is he going on about? They need to cart him away and find him a home somewhere. A secure one. With orderlies

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

That’s why he needs to practise

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Russell T Davies is really ramping up the scandal in this new series

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Excellent article. Won’t make any difference to the sort of people who want to pin a “violence celebraters “ label on those with liberal opinions, sadly

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Have you SEEN the cost of tap water????

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

…stance on issues, I have been unhappy to watch the craven way its bosses have buckled under to pressure to move to the right. The BBC should never cower to politicians and activists

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Who was that? I know some of the foreign correspondents who were treated abysmally - people like Jon Sudworth. I left because I didn’t support what they were doing with the news teams, and partly because they threatened to make us apply for own jobs. As for its….

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Who are you to tell them? You’re the Surgeon Fucking General, you dopey cunt. It’s literally your job to tell them

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Yup. I mean, not an ineffective policy tbf….

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Of course, the difference between a Communist regimdd ex and a corruptocracy is in practice pretty small

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

He is the government. Currently. And he’s not taking the 10% of Nvidia into his personal account. It s now the US government’s property

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

So he believes the government should own as much of the economy as he can get? So he’s a communist

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Britain has played an exceptional role in global history over the last 5 or 6 centuries, some of it good, some of it bad. Due to many factors, not least of being in the right place at the right time. But no - we didn’t “invent” law or democracy or global exploration. It’s bad history to claim we did

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Parliamentary democracy is a little more our thing, or at least the Parliament bit. But you said “democracy” originally, which as I’m sure you know comes to us (in a somewhat different form) from Ancient Greece

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

It’s not of course. It’s the basis of the legal system in the UK and some of our English-speaking ex-colonies (like the US). It’s not the basis of law in, say France or Italy. And the idea of the rule of law predates the English common law system by many, many centuries

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

No, we’re addicted to accurate history. Of course we did things “of consequence”. We had an empire that spanned a third of the world. But we didn’t invent law or democracy, modern or otherwise. And the Spanish, Italians & Portuguese led Europe’s “Age of Adventure”. We were very much JCLs

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Much as I love my country, a cursory knowledge of history would alert you to the facts that we invented and led none of that

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

So glad you said this. I got worn out from all the inaccuracies after the first 15 minutes. And it gets worse rather than better as it goes on

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Let’s have a little think, shall we? Does it sound serious? Or does it, you know, sound like someone taking the piss. Give it time. It’s not a hard one

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

How can people like cats when there is poverty in the world…

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

So….he thinks government officials should “dictate the political narrative” ? That seems, umm, a little dictator-y?

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

He’s fooled you over and over and over again

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Which doesn’t make my point any less true

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It’s accurate because the only thing a trophy is is something presented to a team or athlete for winning an event. Even if Trump has one that was made first, it’s now effectively a replica because it’s never been presented as a trophy. It’s just a bauble

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

No. He doesn’t have it. What they won was what they were presented with. That IS the trophy, and will always be the trophy. If Trump has something, it’s now a replica because it was NEVER PRESENTED TO TGE WINNING TEAM. It’s just an expensive gold bauble

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Including BBC boss Tim Davie

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The “real” one is whatever Chelsea were presented with. Because that’s the one that will have winners’ names engraved on it and be passed from winning team to winning team. If there IS one sitting in the OO (which I doubt) that’s now become a replica of the one the winners get presented with

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Cole is not good enough with words to have said all that. I love him dearly, but this is AI

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

No, the actual trophy is the one presented to Chelsea. It being presented makes it the trophy, even if it was made second.

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Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The one given to Chelsea “is” the trophy. Because that’s what they were presented with for winning. If Trump really has another in the WH (I doubt it, but anyway) that’s the copy because it’s never been presented as a winners’ trophy

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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Why are multicultural cities (from NYC and London to Singapore and Sydney) so remarkably safe? And why are populists from Trump down to David Goodhart and Matthew Goodwin so determined to think otherwise? Me @FT on.ft.com/3GbCcHL with murder stats on.ft.com/3GbCcHL

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Myth of the big, bad megacity

[FREE TO READ] What the right feels about metropoles isn’t physical fear. It’s discomfort

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