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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That infinitive wasn't split - it was blown apart.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And if Trump had stabbed the mothers of the rabblement, they would have forgiven him with all their hearts . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'Sorry, Mr Lundeen can't talk to you right now 'cause he's tied up . . .'

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Merveillus - or merveillieus, merveilleus, merveileux, merveillous; merveilos, merveillos, merveilous, merveilus, mervelluz, mervelous, mervelious, merveylous, merveylus, mervellous, mervellus, mervelus, mervylus, mereveillus, merveillius, merveyllous; et cetera.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well past time for Cambridge University to 'offer' Professor Orr early retirement.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Er . . . fellow UK resident here . . . my Google Maps does name it 'Lake Ontario', exclusively, like yours, but have a look at the sidebar on mine:

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'd suggest that Farage has said that because he's a muddle-headed snob - and profoundly anti-democratic.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tells you an awful lot about Farage that he thinks he would be humiliated by 'nobodies' *after winning a resounding victory*.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

'Instant results'? You mean, like sending hundreds of ICE goons into New York?

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Date of the by-election is actually Thursday 13 August.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In British English, it's normally called a skip.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And if it did connect to the only remaining label, Cameroon, it would be wildly mistaken - the coloured area on the map, if it indeed is only a single country (doubtful), is Ghana.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Commiserations on your failure to entrap Ulysses.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So much better than the original . . . By the way, which part did you play?

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BINFACE! Cometh the hour, cometh the bin!

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Did you have to pay a fee, Steve, for your images of Count Binhead? If so, you'll get a fantastic return on your investment.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The standing orders of the House of Commons prohibit MPs from concealing their faces in the chamber, though the Count has pointed out that some other officeholders permitted in the chamber are decked out in some pretty weird kit.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I am going to apply the Principle of Charity to Trump's remark and presume that he was alluding to *Monty Python's Life of Brian*, which can be regarded as set 'thousands of years ago' (well, just), and does have two 'People's Fronts', even if they aren't communist.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Brace yourself for a titanic Trump tantrum if the USA don't get past the group stage . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Would have loved to see Ms Ocasio-Cortez challenge Ms Kramer to drink the water from that jar . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Nice of Labour to keep campaigning for the Greens.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So far as England is concerned, I'd say probably since like, 1381 (the Peasants' Revolt).

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

So clever of the Pope to slip in a blatant error about Church history - that the first pope was St Paul instead of St Peter - and so typical of Trump and his epigoni that they fail to notice it.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

And, long before that, into the Psalms . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

PANEL 1. PENGUIN GP: So what's the problem? SEAL PATIENT: My lower jaw is killing me! PENGUIN GP: Let me have a look at it . . . PANEL 2. PENGUIN GP: Er . . . who gave you a Botox injection with an unsterilised needle?

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Six of the justices on the US Supreme Court.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Stranger yet: you'd think that at least Labour voters would be, but their attitude towards this war is almost as unfavourable as those of the Lib Dems and the Greens. Fourteen per cent of Labour voters support it to any degree? Dead impressive, that.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Stupendous. Few people alive today could get so much comedic mileage out of David Hasselhoff.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Hannah's handmade sign is genius.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Cor blimey! If you changed all the first-person pronouns to the third person, this could be a Green Party activist speaking. If (When?) the Labour Party purge you, Mr Lewis, I'd think the Greens would be willing to have a word with you . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Excellent article, but there is no such thing as the UK Green Party - Hannah stood for the Green Party of England and Wales. The Scottish Greens are organised separately.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

'Not a Goodloser' - to put it mildly! He said of the Greens, 'This kind of campaign, in different languages appealing to specific groups based on their characteristics, is unacceptable in modern Britain'. I'd call that a racist dog-whistle, but the sound of a dog-whistle is inaudible to human ears.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

And a shout out to Matt Goodwin for being such a good loser . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Moreover, there are twelve justices on the UK Supreme Court.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As a Green Party member and activist, I am veritably *shaking in my totally recyclable boots* . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

What really takes the biscuit is the fact that, just above their signatures, they say that their filing is 'Respectfully submitted.'

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Perhaps invidious to single out anything in this piece as especially brilliant - but the (anti-)climax to which it builds, namely the equating of Nigel Farage's narrative talent with Chaucer's, is for me the master-stroke - and *so* New Yorker.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

King Ubu: episode twenty-six thousand, four hundred and forty-seven . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Depends on the angel . . . look up 'avenging angels' on your favourite search engine . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

More loose-bowelled squawking from Ms Bondi, I see . . .

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Agreed. Or, if you want to produce your own Franklin cover, have Franklin meting out justice instead of getting his due for committing injustice: he is, after all, a virtuous character.

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Timothy Bartel @t-w-bartel.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

And now, our sport correspondent, Steve Vladeck, reports from the latest Calvinball match in Washington, DC . . .

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