Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026They are telling you, over and over and over again, just who they are. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's been a sad descent, though it's been going on quite a while now. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Ah! The Labour strongholds of Monthiste and the bastion of the Tories, Green! 001 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Brexit - the gift that keeps on giving 🙄 110 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Look at how he desperate he is for "allies" to join his self-imposed war with Iran, even though in the same breath he denies needing them at all. 071 7
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Someone should tell him that state foreign policy is not supposed to be based entirely on personal "friendships" 000 0
Reposted by Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦Mobius @enneadgames.com · 05/08/2026In response to the quoted post - YES...YES I FUCKING WOULD 162 6
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Because Jesus was all about drawing firm distinctions between the in-group and the out-group. Oh wait, that was his opponents. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A new government sets its direction early. I've just signed European Movement UK's petition asking Andy Burnham to drop the red lines on Europe and set out a real plan for the UK's European future. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/5_asks_for_a...europeanmovement.co.ukOur 5 Asks for Andy BurnhamAndy Burnham must seize the moment to build a bold, forward-looking agenda for his administration to lead the UK towards a new European future. 010 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There's some great Canadian wines out there. On family visits I've sampled vintages from Niagara, BC and Prince Edward County ON. All very drinkable. 120 2
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Something else that should have died with the 1950s. 010 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I don't even want to listen to#R4Today from within the UK. I have up 15 years ago. It's not good washing up and wanting to throw things at the radio at that time of the morning. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Is it just me or is there some really great potential Binface publicity material being produced? 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I did my theological training in Cambridge (not directly part of the University, but had access to some facilities) and my son later went up. And you're right, it's deadly. 010 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Just wanted to be unambiguous. The Orange Order used to celebrate 12th July in Liverpool when I worked there in the 80s and 90s. I understood its impact was diminishing, partly due to the work done by Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock to improve ecumenical relations in the city 120 2
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026He'll soon be calling journalists who question him "terrible, terrible people". You get the feeling he's been on the brink of saying it for a while now. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026We really don't need this kind of hateful tribal-based "celebration" on mainland UK. 120 2
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I have no idea whether this Professor knows Canon Groves personally, but if not (as I suspect), then yes, it IS disrespectful since it calls into question the discernment process, the judgement of the ordaining bishop, those who appointed him to his present post and the honour of the title Canon. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If only Farage had shown the respect to the voters of Clacton being demanded of "plummy middle class leftists". Hilarious to hear the Spectator, of all publications, complain about the plummy middle class. 100 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026You can be pro-Binface AND still believe it's all a water of time and money. 030 3
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If noone stands against him then surely he gets returned unopposed with no ballot required. We are back to square one and the investigation continues. If he were genuinely concerned for his or his family's safety he wouldn't stand again. I don't see why others need to be complicit in NFs charade. 020 2
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Given that it isn't listed in the 2026 lectionary, I imagine that 2027 will be its first proper celebration, if passed. 120 2
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Many of the so-called "repairs" are now simply surface dressing that breaks down again within weeks and does little to address the underlying issues. That, plus the much greater average weight of cars due to the number of large electric SUVs with heavy batteries. 100 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I certainly understand how we have sunk. When I visited Canada for the first time for my son's wedding 18 years ago I was surprised at the poor state of many of the roads (ok, it was winter). Now ours are much, much worse and have been for years. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I don't think anyone doubts that food charity has been going a long time in the UK. But the food bank model IS a recent phenomenon, as the OP states, as is the way that government agencies have been directed to signpost welfare recipients to them. 140 4
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Just been blocked by an American for pointing out that other contexts exist. Told I was being rude 🤷 020 2
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026No, because he's BRITISH! There's a whole world OUTSIDE the USA. 100 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Although the Trussell Trust opened its first food bank in the UK in 2000, they were still relatively rare until about 2010 when the Cameron government took power. From then their use rapidly expanded as government agencies started "signposting" welfare claimants towards them. 010 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I recall that when Obamacare was being introduced there were lots of scare stories in the US about the so-called "death panels" in our (UK) National Health Service. Well the US has "death panels" and they sit in the offices of your health insurance companies. 010 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I'm no fan of Georgia Meloni, but respect for not taking Trump's BS. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Today on "Things That Only Happened Inside Trump's Head"... 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I don't think Polanski will be too bothered by what happened last night TBH. Kenyon, Streeting and Starmer though... 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Thing is, people like that don't get to be worth a trillion in the first place. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Dear BBC, the word you are looking for is "rioters" NOT "protesters". They are just looking for violence. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It wasn't as if there weren't plenty of people telling them. Apart from the shilly-shallying for the first three years, it's turned out more or less exactly as I thought it would. 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026After several decades of listening regularly to R4 Today, I stopped around 15 years ago - largely because I considered it detrimental to my mental health to be wanting to throw things at the radio within minutes of waking up. 020 2
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026There seems to be a lot of "give them a chance. They can't be worse than the current/previous lot" out there. (They can, and they will be). 130 3
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It's not just that they are not listening, I it's that many of them are *amplifying* the fascist message and ignoring the hard questions. Thank you for what you do. 100 1
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Starving with pride... There's always been a social stigma about claiming benefits, mostly unjustified. It's almost like George Orwell never wrote The Road To Wigan Pier or Down And Out In Paris And London. 0100 10
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The mismatch here is extremely worrying. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comUK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentresDiscrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero 000 0
Simon Nicholls 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @simmyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026IIRC we were two years into a Tory government that wanted to abolish or privatise these things anyway. I remember then-chancellor George Osborne's bewildered look when he was introduced to the sound of booing from the audience. 010 1
