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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The English/Welsh Greens won their highest number of votes, their highest percentage of votes, and their highest number of MPs at the 2024 general election. The opposite of the doldrums.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I doubt his leadership is under any threat, but when Caroline Lucas is ambivalent about him staying in post, it at least points to everything in the Green garden being less than rosy.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When the imminent AI armageddon arrives, in some ways it'll be a blessèd relief.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Kemi bounce we hear so much about is an absolute game-changer. She's taken the Tories from 23% 2 years ago to 17% today. Can't wait for the raft of articles this week explaining how well she's doing.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fine, just leave the years that City won the league by cheating blank, or if Rooney wants to decline a medal, that's up to him. His teammates who didn't win multiple championships like him might be more keen on being awarded the title.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Streaming and algorithms have changed the way people interact with music, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot were familiar with the song, and they'll definitely be aware of it after Zack Polanski's recent 'Making Plans For Nigel' retweett snafu.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do hope the black velvet and oysters are up to standard in The Scrubs these days.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Has hapless Tim not seen what happens to anyone who criticises Farage's hero Trump? How naive to think he could point out how shabbily run Reform are and carry on as if nothing had happened. It also suits Farage quite well to use a peripheral figure like him as an example. "My way, or the highway."

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The then EEC changed its rules over pooled access to member states' fish just before the UK accession talks. EU boats taking 'British' fish became a running sore for some parts of the country and played a part in Brexit. Now it's dissuaded Iceland from closer ties. Be careful what you wish for.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is the level of 'free speech' we could expect under a right-wing regime.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Evil? Is this the same JD Vance, the performative Christian, who was ok with his boss stopping aid to millions of people in desperate need? "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

John Major, Gordon Brown, and Theresa May also showed that it wasn't all about them by sticking around. Blair, Cameron, and Johnson...

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Heisenberg's 'This Whole Thing' Moment

Alt: Heisenberg's 'This Whole Thing is about me' Moment

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Do people care (or even know) if someone is talking a GLP1? It certainly doesn't affect anyone in the way inhaling secondhand smoke/vape does, and children aren't likely to start injecting Ozempic for the glamour and buzz.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Judging by the popularity of vape shops and how successful it is in helping people quit the fags, we can expect smoking to become a thing of the past within a matter of weeks.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When Count Binface was on Newsnight, he lamented the show's move from a serious investigative current affairs programme to a souped-up podcast. Victoria Derbyshire is excellent, but the hollowed out format doesn't really add anything that can't be found elsewhere.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The actual polls are tremendous, but you wouldn't know them because they go to a different school. In the great 51st state of Canada.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Part of me just wants to pull up a chair and settle down with a bowl of popcorn to enjoy the spectacle, but 3 parties continually trying to outbid each other in coming up with the more batshit right-wing policies isn't a good thing in the long run.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's why supermarkets put the fruit and vegetables (foreign reporting) at the entrance and all the crap (Royal/celebrity gossip) later on. People start with good intentions but still end up filling their trolley with junk food.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"we know that stereotypes generally have a basis in reality" Theoretical and empirical? Or if we're being generous, laughable.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Meh. Burchill was phoning in ragebait articles long before ragebait had a name.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It would definitely help. You can't do a whole lot of recovery in a day, but you can do some, and you're not inflicting any more damage on that day, so a rest day helps in 2 ways.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yes, it's possible to 'jog' a marathon in, say, 5 1/2 hours without taking so much out of yourself that you couldn't do it on subsequent days. My perception is that it's mostly non-runners who are dismissing the marathon feat as impossible 600 miles (even in 12 days) is much harder, imo.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'd say the exact opposite. To a non runner running for 26 miles is an incredibly difficult thing to imagine yourself doing, and doing 30 in 5 weeks is impossible. For an experiment runner, not so much. And it is a great feat of endurance, but unless they were done at a fast pace, not elite.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just completing a marathon isn't an outlandish accomplishment for a fit young man. Obviously completing 30 in 35 is on another level again, but by no means impossible.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He wasn't taking part in organised marathons, so there was no winner.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I listened to the podcast. It was pretty scathing of both Farage and Yusuf. It's true that Farage can't run a large organisation, is a poor strategic thinker, and comes across terribly in any mildly difficult interview (especially with a female journalist) but Montgomerie saying it in public...

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The media and public love an embellishment/outright fabrication/successful person being brought down a peg or two scandal. Who can forget the acres of coverage dedicated to every aspect of the life of the author of The Salt Path?

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If someone always seems to favour one side over the other, then polemicist or partisan might be a more accurate descriptor than contrarian, but the internet has given us an even better term for someone who writes something purely to garner a reaction: a troll.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

His polling numbers are amazing. They just go to a different school.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Do they normally announce good news on a Monday and bad news on a Friday to manipulate the oil price and the stock market or vice versa? This definitely-not-a-war war has been going on for so long that I'm beginning to lose track.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Jeez. Code red at Reform HQ. "We've lost the BBC. I repeat, we've lost the BBC. Agent Mason's whereabouts currently unknown."

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

To be fair, in the UK we'd 'had enough of experts' before Trump was even elected the first time. Maybe Lewis will start to speak up for the 'legitimate concerns' of Brexiteers on his podcast.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anyone who paid a passing interest in Brexit already knows that Frosty is so dense that light bends as it passes him, but even for him, that's a stupid comment. 'At the margin'

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

He's been offering his inner circle early access to impending announcements so that they can clean up in the stock/commodity/prediction markets, so this is the logical next step to squeeze even more money out of his presidency.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yes, we learned early on who the more vulnerable groups were, but teachers and pupils alike went home to their families. The higher the R number, the higher the proportion of vulnerable people who came into contact with covid.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What was the pitch to Netflix? "It's the all the same cast and all the same jokes we did in Afterlife, but get this *giggle* this time it's animated cats.

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Phill has auditioned for Britain's Got Talent many times. Never successfully, he says, because "they've turned the weans against us".

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Sweet Bird of Truth @sweetbirdoftruth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Lowe thinking that appearing on Joe Rogan is the same as wooing British voters. When Reform platformed an anti-vaxxer who claimed the covid vaccine caused the King's cancer, it went down like a bucket of sick, and they were soon distancing themselves from him.

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