Reposted by Sid DipperTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I mean, I’m not being funny but it would be just my fucking luck if I followed “graduated in the middle of a recession” and “tried to get a mortgage the week of the 08 financial crisis” with “became a pensioner when they finally scrapped the triple lock”. 1512113
Reposted by Sid DipperMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 29/09/2026Every day we see Trump and his acolytes make shit up, lie and just invent nonsense that they think makes them look good. Then the BBC reports something that “the Secretary of State” says like it’s gospel truth. We have no idea if Marco Rubio knows what he’s talking about. Trump certainly doesn’t. 918324
Reposted by Sid DipperJoe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 28/09/2026This reporting is basically 15 paragraphs of "chinny reckon". 071
Reposted by Sid DipperMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 28/09/2026Oddly there was a news story I read this morning about a farm having had 1000 litres of diesel stolen along with some hose piping (obviously) and, this is why it stuck in my mind, two chickens. 3131
Reposted by Sid DipperCrime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮♀️ 🚨 415970
Reposted by Sid DipperDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/09/2026One obvious problem here is that both sides are led by bullies who believe the only time anyone would ever make a concession is if they were weak. Therefore any overture or attempt at compromise is interpreted as proof they've got the other guys on the ropes and are close to claiming total victory. 2518552
Reposted by Sid DipperAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well, 25378181
Reposted by Sid DipperDavenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Starting on the Arts Council bid today for our 50 Years On project looking at the impact of five decades of neoliberalism on six towns in Britain. 3196
Reposted by Sid DipperPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply. 19305152
Reposted by Sid DipperCornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 25/09/2026“In attempt to calculate the loss of trade with the EU after Brexit, the IPPR thinktank said many companies have given up selling goods to the EU…governments failed to secure a mutual recognition agreement that would avoid the extra administration costs” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comUK ‘losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade’ without post-Brexit product dealIPPR finds failure to align testing standards costing 0.18% of national income and has seen companies abandon exporting to EU 23313
Reposted by Sid Dipper DJ Markymarc @djmarkymarc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026reform spouted it tories broke it and profited from it labour are solving it Nobody is looking. Especially if you like to wear black short and a balaclava - LOOK at the facts!! 054
Reposted by Sid DipperPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UK food and drink trade deficit largest since 2000 at £21bn. Brexit, Trump tariffs/wars and deindustrialization add to woes. Exports to the EU fall, cheaper imports control inflation but reduce food security. Must support local production, rejoin EU.theguardian.comUK food and drink trade deficit largest since 2000 at £21bnIndustry leaders call on government to protect homegrown produce in the interest of national security 1023899
Reposted by Sid Dipperstvetype.bsky.social @stvetype.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We lost our closest trading partner with brexit, covid, putin invaded Ukraine, trumps tariffs and Iran war. Maybe time to face the reality that we are not such a big player in the world, other countries are not falling over themselves to make 'special' trade deals with us. 052
Reposted by Sid Dippersuperbouf.eurosky.social @superbouf.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026If only we had employed someone with experience in our food and drink sector to negotiate our exit terms. 032
Reposted by Sid DipperDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026His 2016 Love and Hate LP remains an all time favourite of mine and his gig at Exeter Phoenix that year was absolutely spectacular. Wishing him all the best. 161
Reposted by Sid DipperCornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 25/09/2026“trade with Europe has become a maze of red tape…Small businesses which are central to our local communities…have felt this burden most acutely…essential we have frictionless trade with our nearest & largest market…by joining the single market...” #Brexit disaster www.cityam.com/brexit-has-h...cityam.comBrexit has held back investment for a generationAn “Investable Britain” requires a stable and competitive tax environment, regulatory clarity, dynamic capital markets, and a long-term growth strategy capable of supporting companies from early-stage... 14716
Reposted by Sid DipperSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Between 2019 and 2025, export volumes slumped 31 per cent as Brexit added border checks and trade complexity, pushing up costs for businesses” … and threatening our food security. Why TF would *anyone* want this for our businesses and our country? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comBrexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bnIn the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record 29475199
Reposted by Sid DipperJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A) 70/80 hour weeks? Right. When are you working on air con? 9 at night? B) NHS, free education, welfare system, bin collections, roads, wider state services. Go fuck yourself Dave 4763299
Reposted by Sid DipperJustin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I like how Dave managed to squeeze these protests into his not at all made up hours. 6577
Reposted by Sid DipperDave, just Dave @davew66.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My friends son turned 18 recently. These two “men” attacked him without provocation yesterday afternoon at Liverpool St station. 2 lost teeth, broken collarbone, 8 stitches. Hope the #COYS family coming back from the game share this and get them what they deserve. www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/new...btp.police.ukCCTV images released after serious assault at station – Central LondonDetectives investigating a serious assault at Liverpool Street railway station are releasing images in connection. 53348
Reposted by Sid DipperMTDomain 🦋 @mtdomain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations" Now tell me why he isn't considered a criminal and a terrorist. 320426
Reposted by Sid DipperBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Just a reminder Jim Ratcliffe can't stand for Reform or Restore. Because he claims to live in Monaco and therefore cannot be an MP. He doesn't pay any tax either, so I don't know why he is moaning about UK spending. Maybe he should pay some tax or actually fck off to Monaco. 724056
Reposted by Sid DipperDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/09/2026"Enforcing soldier masculinity through mandatory morning-boner checks" is the sort of thing an unsubtle satirist might make up about Russia. 3932279
Reposted by Sid DipperLaura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@barackobama.bsky.social: ‘Imagine if I had pulled Fox News's credentials from the White House Press corp. You're laughing but this is what's happening. It's unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now, would have tolerated behaviour like that from me, or a my predecessors"1/video.twimg.com 1237
Reposted by Sid DipperJeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Remember when he earlier quit the UK to avoid paying lots of VAT his company owed? I think he fled to Switzerland that time. Hope Monaco enjoys having him these days, the old grump. 174
Reposted by Sid DipperOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago. 681750592
Reposted by Sid DipperDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Boris Johnson stuffed the BBC full of Tory placemen, some of whom facilitated six-figures personal loans to support his lifestyle. Now Kemi Badenoch is having a hissy fit because a trade unionist has been given a symbolic place on the Bank of England board. 1225372
Reposted by Sid DipperJill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oi Canada! Cosying up to the EU and pushing UK to the back of the line? my new @instituteforgovernment.org.uk blog on the Carney-VDL love-in in Strasbourg www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/carn...instituteforgovernment.org.ukCarney, Canada and the EU: Will the UK’s Brexit hopes fade further from view? | Institute for GovernmentFresh EU thinking on Canada may not give the UK more post-Brexit options. 73213
Reposted by Sid DipperMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026How bad has Trump screwed America? The White House is considering using the Defense Production Act to expand US oil-refining capacity as the Iran conflict drives fuel prices higher, Reuters reports . US refineries are already operating near full capacity at 98%. 816931
Reposted by Sid DipperCLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson 8084202493
Reposted by Sid DipperSnugbucket @snugbucket.bsky.social · 10/09/2026They live amongst us... www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...devonlive.comPensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claimsAn online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death 102713
Reposted by Sid DipperDawn @justanotherdawn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Wow. That 'party political broadcast'. A horrible, mawkish, exploitative new low. 031
Reposted by Sid DipperMs M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I am absolutely disgusted by Reform‘s exploitative use of the late Ann Widdecomb for their party political broadcast. I couldn’t abide her, but this was just plain wrong. 082
Reposted by Sid DipperDavid/Trout 2.0 @trout61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Farage posted then deleted this. Threatening to prosecute RNLI volunteers. He is absolutely disgusting. 🤬🤬🤬 28374204
Reposted by Sid DipperPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Wealthy want UK govt to ditch pensions triple lock, cut welfare spending. Silence on corporate welfare Oil/gas, water, energy profiteering HMRC not collecting £59bn last yr Poorest 20% paying higher proportion in income in taxes than the richest 20%. It is always about hitting the poor, old, sick.independent.co.ukDitch pensions triple lock and cut welfare spending to calm markets, Burnham toldBond market shock has ramifications for new prime minister’s first Budget, his former adviser warns 42548298
Reposted by Sid DipperRebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Thoroughly and utterly and completely and entirely drained. Younger me thought being a freelancer was so glamourous. Nope. Absolutely knackering. Solidarity with my fellow can’t-say-no-because-you-have-bills freelancers working all day everyday 🎻 1181
Reposted by Sid DipperEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Extreme right-wing protesters are in a stand-off with the RNLI in Portsmouth. The group, led by Danny Tommo, are waist-deep in the sea and threatening to go "under the water" if police try to arrest them. Six lifeboats monitoring. Volunteer rescuers giving up their evening for this. 1921049382
Reposted by Sid DipperDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026I wish I could stay longer to keep discussing ways to conceal illegal foreign contributions to my political party, but I'm late to lecturing on ethics at Cambridge University where I am a live-in landlord for multiple students. 15594136
Reposted by Sid DipperCornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 04/09/2026“Shocking undercover footage places Orr and Farage’s right-hand-man Dan Jukes (as well as Farage himself) at the centre of yet another damning donations row. It’s possibly the gravest scandal we’ve yet seen, which is really saying something.” #LiarFarage bylinetimes.com/2026/09/04/r...bylinetimes.comReform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times WarningsThe extraordinary footage echoes concerns raised by Byline Times over the sources and beneficiaries of money flowing into Farage’s party. 1226
Reposted by Sid DipperMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Farage desperately trying to find a Victim Card that works.bbc.co.ukNigel Farage speech at Reform UK conference delayed over security concerns - live updatesReform's head of policy and Nigel Farage's senior aide stepped down on Friday following an undercover news report on party donations. 1412420
Reposted by Sid DipperSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox. 2041965542
Reposted by Sid DipperCornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 01/09/2026End of EU oversight & loss of access to EU-wide laboratory & certification networks are direct contributors to the deterioration of water quality. Industry experts explicitly linked the post-Brexit regulatory environment to the escalation in sewage pollution. www.waternewseurope.com/uk-growing-p...waternewseurope.comUK: Growing protests over post-Brexit water crisis • Water News EuropeHigh water prices, high leakage rates, bad water infrastructure and water pollution lead to growing protests over UK water crisis 01911
Reposted by Sid DipperSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Trans-Pacific trade deal kicks in today. It “makes the value to Britain’s coffers look like a rounding error” when compared to the ongoing economic cratering of not being in the EU Single Market. The slavish protection given to Brexit defies belief. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... 19418188
Reposted by Sid DipperDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 30/08/20261/ This is 100% true and something all potential authors should understand. My marketing call with my publisher ahead of publication consisted of them asking me who I knew in the media and whether I could ask anyone to hold a book launch for me. 413219
Reposted by Sid DipperBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️ 9496176
Reposted by Sid DipperMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/08/2026Some of London’s detractors are determined to paint a picture of a city becoming less safe. The facts tell a different story. These crimes are down ⬇️ 01266361
Reposted by Sid DipperDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/08/2026I get asked for career advice a shocking amount for someone so goofy looking, so I thought I'd write some of my thoughts down. In this piece, I talk through one approach to thinking about 'reseraching the company and role' ahead of a job interview. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/strategic-...dmitryopines.substack.comStrategic Empathy for Job InterviewsHow I think about the “research the role and the company” advice 1411917
Reposted by Sid Dipperpaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Something Raise the Colours don't seem to have factored in is that they need to be maintained. I got on to my local council to remove them. Some were quickly replaced and others they missed, but the fact is you would barely notice them now. They've become so degraded, they're little more than rags. 2213
Reposted by Sid DipperDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/08/2026Creating a hugely expensive, onerous, and almost certainly cruel nationwide bureaucracy to somehow task, monitor, and manage millions of wildly differently abled people as they do 20 hours of weekly community service... ... to address a 'feeling' that someone may be getting something for nothing. 69547132