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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 17h

Once he'd done the vital a grateful world could give him prime steak

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 17h

I hope an actual tiger eats him

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 19h

Finally we have found a solution to climate change

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

By contrast the coverage of Jeffrey Donaldson's trial by @belfasttelegraph.co.uk was exemplary but also did a good job of introducing people to legal concepts from the group level

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think it's more that no one is allowed to take any images in a courtroom - even chalk drawings

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The thing I didn't realise until recently was that these drawings are done from memory outside the court

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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.

An ad for a ghost movie with the tagline "See it. Séance. Haunted."; a reference to the British Transport Police's long-running "See it. Say it. Sorted." ads encouraging the public to report anything vaguely suspicious.

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Things are going great in the UK, clearly

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Earlier this year, E3G released a big report with the Department of War Studies at Kings College which showed that our dependence on gas is a major national security risk. Cutting heat pumps to fund defence is like not paying for a flu jab so you can buy lemsip. It makes no sense.

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mean tbf macro economics is notably stable at the moment

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Most of my experience of pop culture is stuff I have no affection for doing really well

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is true, it will probably be really successful, particularly with the Goal hanger money behind it

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tbh I haven't listened to it much recently - it's not actually very interesting most of the time.

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Beyond being not that interested in reading her stuff it is also going to make The Rest Is Entertainment insufferable as it becomes a cross-promotional platform, so I'll probably unsubscribe from that as well

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah, I read plenty of Hyde's columns because they were moderately entertaining and I was already on The Guardian site where they were served to me - can't imagine seeking them out or paying for them

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where the governments in Washington and Moscow didn't try to replace each other's choice of government with puppets of their own Monkey's paw curls

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Maybe if there'd been enough red tape maybe 72 people wouldn't have died at Grenfell and millions of others wouldn't have had to live in potential death traps Source: The Times share.google/blDodWxiQfjG...

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Red tape makes many new homes unviable, former minister warns

Lord Barwell said well-intentioned ‘policy inflation’ often made it impossible for private sector homebuilders to make money on developments

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't want to imagine what a comedian hired by a Reform Christmas party would be like

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have heard various people say that Holborn and St Pancras is not as fertile territory for the Greens as say Walthamstow, but no explanation as to why

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think that's as close as we are going to get because this scenario is so unusual

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Another question for the group. If Polanski had won he'd have become a party leader succeeding a party leader as MP for the same seat - has this ever happened?

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Between 2022 and 2024 Sagal Abdi-Wali served as councillor for Camden Square with Danny Beales, who became MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in 2024. Have there ever been council wards with multiple councillors represented by people who all became MPs

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This evening, I am having one of the better experiences in life - being out of a period of depression and anxiety

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At last they are trying to find out

A podcast entitled What makes a great politician with Therese Coffey and Michael Goce

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How much of the case does this endanger?

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well this is great - going to make most of the evidence inadmissible

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well done guys, great process

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She'll just shrug and say the Laffer Curve and move on

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some time about @stephenkb.bsky.social tried to reassure me that the great Late Junction would never be cancelled because it's exactly what the BBC is expected to do and is cheap - but Free Thinking and You and Yours are the same

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Couldn't agree more, what does the BBC think it is for?!

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.

bbc.co.uk

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'd not considered quiz questions as ASMR, but I like it

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this really sucks I learnt so much listening to that show - I am really sorry for you and other presenters

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Obviously as the season demands I will now be looking for jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love how the change in weather changes my taste. There's a chill in the air - I find a jazz playlist and start looking longingly toward the Dickens (I love autumn)

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

“Ooh that’s one of my favourite Sporcle quizzes!” says my cool and handsome boyfriend, followed by “please don’t leave me”

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Of all the baffling things she's done this week why did she admit to taking advice from Jeffrey Archer

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The level of rudeness and entitlement that this indicates

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks (sarcastically) to the campaign of a series of mirrors in Victoria underground station which meant I saw my full length disabled body - which I didn't need

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sent two slightly scary messages before 8.30 - on about 4.5 hours sleep.

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is one of the most excoriating obituaries I have ever read, certainly on the BBC BBC News - Jeffrey Archer: successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Jeffrey Archer obituary

Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look, Jeffery Archer died within 24 hours of being interviewed by Gyles Brandreth, won't that do?

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun Jeffrey Archer fact, his parents bought their home in Weston when they moved there - with their son - from the mother of John Cleese

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Really wish that was the other way around

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As someone who wears leg supports with metal bits to hold the straps in place I see going through an airport security an opportunity to see how high the terror alert is, depending on whether I set them off

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah I liked it, when I read it as a teenager and i found it was a decentish guide to how Parliament worked

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