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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 4h

They’ve sold the Vets to Mike Ashley or some other hedge fund skunk and straightaway he’s upping the prices and cutting the staff - turbo charged Capitalism at its worst (he’s closing the Harvey Nichols in Leeds after closing House of Fraser - ghastly man) #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 4h

Not Paul? Why? What purpose does he serve - bin him off #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 4h

That Pagan ceremony they’re having for Carol #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 5h

She’ll be looking at retiring there after the 2029 General Election - her Runcorn majority over Labour is only 6 votes and that was with Keir Starmer as Leader. She knows she’s on borrowed time

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 5h

That skunk Mike Ashley closed our House of Fraser months after taking over - now he’s shutting Harvey Nichols too (just as I predicted) #bbcpm

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 6h

Should we be worried about the Plague ask Sky News? #bbcpm

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 6h

Katie Razzall always sounds like she belongs on kids tv - Valerie Singleton by contrast who actually came from kids tv always sounded like she had gravitas presenting #bbcpm for 10 years

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 6h

Sorry but I prefer the second version of the PM theme tune which ran from late 70s into mid 80s and was written by Paddy Kingsland and BBC Radiophonic workshop. George Fenton wrote the version that ran 80s into 90s and I’m not a fan of it. #bbcpm

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 6h

Even Badenoch admits the Tories can’t win #bbcpm

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 15h

Archer was never allowed to rejoin the parliamentary conservative party - never had the whip restored despite applying many times so sat as a non affiliated peer! Funny they’re now claiming him as one of their own #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 15h

Tories are the party of work says Badenoch - it doesn’t matter if they earn £10,000! I’d say it matters very much - why are people left to live on so little? #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 15h

People know who the Shadow Cabinet are? Ok - who’s this? Or this? Nope - me neither! #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 15h

Only 4 days until Trump misses out on the Nobel Peace Prize again (a few political dafties have nominated him) - the Committee won’t give it to a struggling President about to crash in the midterms and mired in a War of his own making. Infantino will have to give him another Wooden Spoon! #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 15h

The reality of that Tory Conference - empty seats galore as Shadow Chancellor delivered his speech! #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 16h

All 70 plus LibDem MPs are in Tory facing seats - Badenoch doesn’t seem to realise this

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 16h

Tories are at least 3 General Elections and 3 Leaders away from getting back into office - about another 12 years! That’s how long it took Labour! Badenoch and her crew are polling 4 points lower than they were at the last election when they were wiped out. Who cares what they have to say? #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 16h

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Noon “there is no threat - it was a routine move” Trump five minutes later “there was a threat - we knew all about it”. They can’t even get their lies straight these clowns! #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He made the years most divisive movie - that’s true! The people in it think it’s good - everyone else on the planet knows Digger is a load of old tripe! #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

State of this - these Tories really are buffoons #Newsnight

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I didn’t know that - in Yorkshire it was that you didn’t take the baby out for six weeks or certainly my wife was told that but it was back in the day. Maybe it was a local thing and I just assumed it was universal

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You dirty rotter, you fascist, you dirty fu****

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Implausibly long visit from the District Nurse there - and time for cups of tea too #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Publishers want one word titles not all that guff - short too! Jaws - that sold a few copies #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Back in my day you didn’t take the baby out for six weeks - wonder when that changed #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Single man takes his girlfriend back to the house he owns meanwhile a single woman has a man in the house she owns - only in #TheArchers could this somehow represent a crisis

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tories aren’t getting in at the next election! We’re approaching the halfway point in this parliament and they’re still polling 4% behind where they were in 2024 - when they were wiped out! #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tory dude spouting just now used to run Just Eat and that’s his vision for the working age population going forwards - delivering pizzas riding bikes at all hours for peanuts with an app gangmaster calling the shots #r4today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you - I sort of remember that being referenced on the main show but back then I didn’t listen to Ambridge Extra so didn’t know the rest

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They did a campervan thing circa 2012 when Fallon was on a road trip with Lance Armstrong but he was disgraced soon after and lost all his titles (or something like that - it was an Ambridge Extra thing and almost certainly involved a cyclist) #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A party in Ambridge that isn’t a surprise party - now that is a surprise! #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That daft Vince the meat magnate from the preposterous Casey Clan is back - no idea what he’s supposed to bring to the party #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They’re down in third place and practically polling in the teens - chances of being in government next time almost non existent and with Reform in decline any prospect of a dodgy coalition after the vote is receding too

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just starting to look Autumnal out the window here but still a long way to go #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No - the slurry tank isn’t backing up! It’s Digger stinking out the cinemas as one of the biggest box office flops in history! #TheArchers

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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Put you in a early grave and not pay any pension

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In terms of device and its potential to kill he’s no different from the Unabomber

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What would be the point - currently a 170 seat majority and 3 years to go. Even the best estimate would see that majority slashed and would only gain 2 years on the clock plus there’d be 150 plus hacked off MPs losing their seats and the same number of CLPs losing their sitting Labour MP.

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bad news for The Guardian that Marina Hyde has left (even worse news is that Simon Jenkins is still there)! #bbcaq

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The dog field project will be a huge success as all middle class initiatives in #TheArchers are whereas anything working class has to be ill thought out and chaotic purely for comedic value and end with ferrets being let loose at the Vicar’s tea party - those are the rules!

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fans of #TheArchers might like family fun movie The Substance on iplayer from tonight (as ever - family fun movie is not suitable for children)

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two 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

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Absolutely not because it will never pass - we had that back in 2011 or whatever under the Coalition. Compared to PR first past the post always looks uncomplicated. Should use the 170 seat Labour majority to get it through parliament today

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another 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

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why not Quetzalcoatl - they always choose such daft names in #TheArchers

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29th 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

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hope 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

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lawds 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

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Be 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

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the most deprived communities in Leeds too but not being taken in by the Fascist conmen - I was librarian down there in the early 2000s (literally a portacabin on Holbeck Moor) and these are people who have very little even today yet they won’t entertain the far right

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Asking me not to speculate goes a lot like this #TheArchers

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