Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 1hTwo from five of the last General Elections have resulted in hung parliaments (or as good as) so that sinks any argument about FPTP producing clear cut results (and Tories were beneficiaries each time). #r4today 050
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 2hAnother reason people might call the Police - five go mad in dorset style! Fact the men called the Police themselves suggests to me the incident the other morning had blow all to do with terrorism! #r4today 120
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 14hWhy not Quetzalcoatl - they always choose such daft names in #TheArchers 150
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 21h29th September is Michaelmas Day (Feast of St Michael & the Archangels) - A Quarter Day! Lot of celebrations and customs associated with this day including the baking of special loaves and Satan being thrown into a blackberry bush! #wato #TheArchers 121
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hope Again! Not sure that Labour Conference slogan is a vote winner - Hope was an extremely annoying character from the 1980s tv series thirtysomething and was universally hated - nobody wants to see her again #r4today 020
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lawds sake all media shut up about Man City! Either relegate them all the way down to the West of Scotland Fourth Division (that would be my choice) or forget about it and move on! Tedious saga that never ends! #Newsnight 000
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Be aware if you use 3mobile there’s another massive outage again - one that lasted 24 hours last Thu/Fri and same deal since 1pm today. Of course they’re suppressing info on it pretending it’s local etc but hundreds of thousands of UK customers were hit last week #TheArchers 000
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Asking me not to speculate goes a lot like this #TheArchers 030
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Will listen to #TheArchers tomorrow lunchtime because I’m spending the evening speculating about those arrests near the RAF base. 160
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Still the September Full Moon going on out there - The Harvest Moon #TheArchers 060
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Has anyone asked about human rights? Censorship of the media, protestors gunned down in the streets, detention without trial and corrupt politicians lining their pockets! And China’s record isn’t much better! #wato 062
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Even Sky News now has Reform in free fall and on its wrong end #r4today 140
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What was that about Admiral Insurance cutting 500 posts today? Just the start as AI decimates jobs market. What can the newly unemployed look forward to? Badenoch and her Tories treating them like animals - “want to buy a pint - how very dare you!” Rancid! #Newsnight 010
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Absolute state of this! Badenoch will stop jobless spending money on alcohol and cigarettes - well given they only get £400 a month (£338 if under 25) they can’t be buying that much of either now can they (it’s about £18 for a pack of 20 cigarettes and a fiver for a pint)! #Newsnight 121
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Good news from earlier today you may have missed #bbcpm 051
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Admiral cutting staff? Never been the same since they started using Penny Mordaunt in the ads #bbcpm 110
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I agree with the King of the Hill dude - do it the regular way “I love my country and wouldn’t want to enter her in any way which was unnatural” #bbcpm 000
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026On this day in 1943 seven Polish aircrew died when their Wellington bomber suffered catastrophic failure and crashed near Skipton. Not only were they heroes and patriots fighting for their country and ours but something else for Farage and company to note, technically they were refugees. #wato #lbc 022
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Why wasn’t he arrested for having an offensive weapon - he’s already been jailed for attacking an innocent man with a hunting knife. Armed police found him with balaclavas, cable ties and a large knife when he did a drug kidnapping attempt in 2016! #r4todaytheguardian.comFar-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboardThomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover 040
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Reform UK pondering massive tax cuts for the wealthiest (Capital Gains Tax etc) but how to fund these? Abolish the State Pension!! Don’t say you weren’t warned! #r4todaytheguardian.comThinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes 010
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Don’t worry grandma it’s just the so called comedy trying to get down with the kids - #TheArchers will be on soon 170
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m no fan of Putin but what’s with this warmongering codswallop from Sky? If Russia can’t beat Ukraine they’re hardly likely to take on NATO #wato 010
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There isn’t a North/South divide for the LibDems - their MPs are 100% concentrated in very middle class areas. No more Rochdale or Liverpool MPs. It’s a problem of class not geography #wato 120
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Why suck up to Trump? It’s the midterms in 6 weeks then the spotlight shifts to the 2028 Presidential Election as the incumbent becomes a lame duck. Happens to every 2nd term President - even happened to Obama! #r4today 020
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Autumn Equinox tonight - 23rd September in the UK! #r4today #TheArchers 141
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump can launch all the tv channels he wants but if network news doesn’t use the footage it has no reach. Time for journalists to make a stand #r4today 041
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is how Swinging the UK was away from London (from Carnaby Street really because the rest of the place looked like this)! August Bank Holiday 1960s! Yup! #r4today 200
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What’s this nonsense with court cases - the entire White House Press Corps should just walk out and refuse to cover Trump until all the news organisations are reinstated! #bbcpm 020
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sounds like Sauron and Novichok hadn’t been invited to the wedding #TheArchers 110
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Problem for LibDems is any seats they might gain are Tory facing as are the seats they already hold! They aren’t a truly national party - 71 MPs but concentrated in middle class areas like these (and this is just for starters). Gone are the days when they held seats like Rochdale. #r4today 330
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Where are Farage & Boris Johnson in all of this? Promised this wouldn’t happen #r4todaytheguardian.com‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and homeCharles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position 010
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Slow news day so they’re doing mostly foreign affairs #wato 121
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Who cares what filthy old racist Jim Ratcliffe thinks - moved to Monaco to avoid paying tax. ‘Doesn’t that prove the wealthy are leaving the UK because of the Labour government?’ Nope - Boris Johnson was Prime Minister and I think he was a Tory! #r4today 0133
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sad news about Stephanie Cole who I particular remember from Cabin Pressure - a rare 6.30 comedy that was actually funny #TheArchers #bbcpm 1151
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think it was him. There’s the CCTV, the eyewitness testimony and victim statements plus he knocked a cyclist over on his motorbike and fled the scene and was convicted of that. Sorry for their loss but the victim is my primary concern #wato 020
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This crew of con artists are going to get such a drubbing in the midterms in about 8 weeks then the spotlight immediately shifts to the next Presidential Election (in which Trump can’t run)! The countdown to being permanently rid has well and truly begun! #r4today 230
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If you’re establishment #r4today will give your family a platform to plead innocence (Greville Janner/Ghislaine Maxwell etc). Putney Pusher (sorry for their loss) say no ‘forensic evidence’ True - but there’s the CCTV, the victim evidence and his previous, he knocked over a cyclist and fled #r4today 113
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If only they’d known the rural economy could have been saved with Dog Parties! #TheArchers 032
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026She’s even overshadowing Charlie boy from beyond the grave as his AI summit flops #TheArchers 030
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Blimey that Vince from the preposterous Casey Clan and tedious Paul back in a couple of weeks. What they’re supposed to bring to the party is anyone’s guess. Bin them off and do the listeners a favour! #TheArchers 140
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026That book was never stolen off the back of a truck in Holland - publicity stunt to hype it! #bbcpm 000
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Tory Shadow Chancellor delivered his speech from that cupboard under the stairs (seriously). No idea why! #bbcpm 020
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just discovered that the opposite of buyers regret is non buyers remorse - involves not buying that giant chocolate bar earlier and finding there are only custard creams in the cupboard now I’ve looked #TheArchers 161
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Harrison should move back in - if your name is on the deeds (as apparently it is) nobody can stop him #TheArchers 000
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why does Harrison have to justify his presence in his own house? #TheArchers 000
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Kenton has heard the news! Why is this his business? #TheArchers 000
Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This Tory dude was Chair of Just Eat - no doubt he wants benefits cuts to force the disabled to go out riding bikes delivering pizzas in all weathers at unsocial hours on bogus self employment with an App Gangmaster calling the shots #r4today 131
