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Simon Murdoch

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Unhappy with the political world. Wish we could go back to about 2012 and the London Olympics when everyone was nice to each other.

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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rather than one big points penalty which would lead to relegation where they would come straight back up, they should be docked say 20 points a season for multiple years, maybe 9 or 10 since that’s the length of time they seem to have cheated for. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Manchester City guilty over Premier League charges after £900m of ‘sham’ contracts
Manchester City breached Premier League financial rules by creating ‘sham’ contracts to help inflate revenue and reduce costs by more than £900m over a nine-year period, an independent commission foun...
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From a couple of days ago but I’m now hooked on Tim Snyder posts. Please listen and seek out his other stuff. substack.com/@snyder/note...
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Timothy Snyder (@snyder)
Dispatch from Kyiv, Ukraine, where the consequences of Trump’s decisions come into much sharper focus. From here, it is increasingly clear that the U.S. is continuing to fight a losing war in Iran—whi...
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Maybe the black shirts in Portsmouth will be happy with the increased risk on their beaches? They aren’t the majority of course. Innocent people may drown.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Trump’s incompetence has no bounds. Let’s hope this does backfire on him hugely.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Dan I just wanted to say you have a very respectful tone in this thread. Kudos for writing about this as you have. Gary is passionate but misguided. His policy won’t work.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We pray! That would be a totally wonderful outcome!!
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Crybaby Nigel is running away from scrutiny.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Why are you posting on here then?
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Crabby Husky Lady @crabbyhuskylady.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is precisely what happens when you have an administration who has zero qualified scientists on staff and denies science.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It’s $300bn which is a little bit more. 1,000 times more to be precise.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trumps blue pool is a disaster. A beautiful example of his incompetence. The blue pool was blue for one day at a cost of $14m. What a pathetic man he is. Btw I thought the Guardian had the dates wrong way round at first, but I fact checked with Claude. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Before-and-after photos: Trump’s $14.2m makeover delivers … a blue pool
President steered no-bid contract for project that went from $1.8m to $14.2m to company that worked on his golf resort
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Note it’s US spellings…
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nice puzzle to take the mind off the awful news at the moment… puzzmo.com/play/ribbit/...
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Finished a game of Ribbit #970 on Puzzmo
Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s wonderful how a big enough speaker fee brushes away any scruples Farage pretends he has.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Nice analogy. Well worth reading this post. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The Rumble Strips Are Gone
Something is wrong. And nobody around him will say it.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Very good writing… open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump has chosen his next enemy
At 2:50 PM Friday afternoon, the President of the United States completely lost control on camera. While being asked questions for an interview released this morning, Donald Trump lost his temper mult...
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Good article about this obnoxious speech. Loved the last quote in particular. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
President Slump? In more ways than one.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Brilliant article. Must read. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Retribution Is Incompatible With Leadership.
Great leaders have always known the difference. Trump does not, and we are all paying for it.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Once a sh1t always a sh1t.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Liar Farage caught with his pants on fire
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Surely it’s bound to fail if, you know, people realise that Polanski is Jewish.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Great picture with Nixon. Our boy is now a king - and an orator. And yes the president is still a crook.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The people running the US are so stupid they couldn’t pass gcse maths. That’s ok if they just keep quiet about it. But to publicise their stupidity is pretty stupid
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Great article and especially worth listening to the last carney clip if not all of them. True leadership. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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BREAKING: Mark Carney Officially Put A Bullet In Canada's Relationship With Trump's America
Mark Carney simply never misses. This morning, he kindly put our relationship with Trump's America in a body bag while reminding us who we are.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Great writing from Heather Delaney Reese open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Trump’s power took a significant hit today
Shortly after 9 pm tonight, the president of the United States carefully gripped the handrail of the stairs of Air Force One as he made his way down onto the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, before walki...
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Trump is a fucking moron and is impossible to deal with. Come on America you need to get rid of this gobshite. Everybody except Russia North Korea and Israel is going to hate America if you let him do what he wants to do.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Great writing from Heather Delaney Reese substack.com/@heatherdela...
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Heather Delaney Reese (@heatherdelaneyreese)
At 1:26 this afternoon, while spending yet another weekend vacationing at Mar-a-Lago, away from Washington DC, and the Situation Room where he should be during this time of war, Donald J. Trump took a...
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The sooner Trump can no longer hurt innocent people the better.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The boy (Trump) cries wolf. The press keep reporting what he says but the rest of the world shrugs it off: oh that pathetic kid again, we’ll just have to ignore him.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
How to win friends and infuence people. Donald Trump is a total idiot if he thinks this is going to work. The US caused the problems so they can sort it out. Idiots. May he rot in hell. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Trump decries Nato allies as ‘cowards’ as strait of Hormuz impasse goes on
Comments come amid reports US is preparing to send three more warships and thousands more troops to Middle East
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Sad to read but important to do so. Trump has to go, surely. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Nobody trusts the President of the United States
At 3:56 p.m. Eastern time, Donald Trump sat behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, surrounded by yes-men on either side and the press directly in front of him. He told the world that someone els...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
So there we have it. The Bully-in-Chief, King Stupid, starts an illegal war thinking his previous bullying will mean countries that were allies hitherto will leap to his aide when Iran takes steps to defend itself And when they don’t leap to his aide because it is illegal he threatens them
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I agree with this which ends with: “Trump deserves our contempt”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Even taking Trump’s confused reasons for the Iran war at face value, it’s still a total disaster | Jonathan Freedland
Two weeks in, it’s increasingly clear that the US-led war has taken every problem it aimed to solve – and made it worse, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Forthright and yet hard to disagree with… open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters
Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
On this I agree with you. He’s a selfish sod just like James Dyson. Only sees these issues in the lens of what is better for him personally.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great writing from Heather Delaney Reese: open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Trump embarrassed our whole country today
At 7:39 AM this morning, the President of the United States decided to attack an American Olympian on social media. While world leaders across the globe are sending well-wishes to their athletes and c...
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
They really sound like they’re taking his side. Was there some more critical part of the report too? Trump’s action really needs to be called out as racist and not minimised.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Admittedly it is anecdotal including my children’s school friends my but most people have not understood the whole trans debate, then folks like Trump and Tate rail against all non white male groups, and they are dangerous to all of us.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Perhaps it is very strong support from a very small number of young men…
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The trouble with woke on woker wars is it just helps the far right. I just wish sensible people could be civil and realise the much bigger threat of handing the whole playing field to people like Trump and Farage.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I don’t think this is helpful to conflate those two people. You don’t help your cause that way with most of the population.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Interesting perspective on the Epstein files. Disturbing view of our world. Well worth reading. See what you think. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Absolutely f**king love this movie review. Watch it all!
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Let’s hope that’s a kiss of death ie negative fir the chances of his re election
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is incredible. Please watch especially if you are in the US and can have some influence.
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I think it’s fair to say the Guardian didn’t like the film. Excoriating and enjoyable review!
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Should we rejoin? Take the Mirror poll. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Mirror readers debate whether the UK should rejoin the EU
After a bitter campaign, the UK left the European Union ten years ago sparking political chaos that triggered the resignation of Tory PM David Cameron and continues to impact Britain
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Hello everyone Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social is a must read every day to find out what is happening in Ukraine. Thanks Tim!
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Simon Murdoch @smrdch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Surely Buttlick, though that is gross admittedly.
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