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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social

@thomasfelpersham.bsky.social
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Connoisseur of everything. Craftsman & psychogeographer. Academic in hiding. Campaigning for complexity. Favours the wines of Alsace #gewurztraminer4life

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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Wow 😯 That’s crazy
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The vibe he’s going for there reminded me of the bad guy in Spooks who murdered someone in a chip fryer.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I think the SI just doesn’t work now because there is no longer a match scheduled to take place at 1am
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
An interesting little vignette is this passage in Reed’s evidence to the Constitution Committee. It’s perfectly possible to say that that the courts are just doing their job under the HRA and their judgments under it are constitutionally unexceptional. For Reed: “what planet are you on?”
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
They forgot to mention that they bought Harriet Harman a pink minibus, which always sealed the deal for me
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I suppose it’s a fair enough for their position to essentially be: “We are staring into the abyss, we don’t like the look of the abyss”. But it’s also to deny the political reality.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This was my one
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Been at the nanomachines again
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Although this mountaineer uses Ainslie + Ainslie Night Powder (£75 for 28 servings) he also thinks you can't beat water "in its raw form". That's not very HTSI.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Well, I’m here for it
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The paragraph will be music to Jonathan Haidt's ears.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It reminds of Ben Swain’s book in the Thick of It called “It’s The Everything Stupid”. I just don’t think Starmer is right where he says you have to do everything all at once: no, you need to make hard choices, which means *not* doing some things - and then explain why!
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I’d love to see the coaster. Currently this the most expensive one they’ve got: the one he got was £750 more almost 10 years ago!
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Similar thoughts about a station on the Northern Line
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is great but also very—
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Government want us to think “This is fine” when it absolutely isn’t
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This was the quote that came to me re the Starmer / Streeting meeting
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
You’re right. I also love this shot of David Schneider.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Farage’s line of argument is what eventually gets you to Bexhill-on-Sea in Children of Men
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"How can we make a Nokia 3010 sufficiently addictive so we can continue to monetise children and their anxieties?"
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Seen this a few times, always makes me think of this bit in Jerry Maguire.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Really enjoying this
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The old jokes are the best!
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I’m reminded of this particularly savage line
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I’m sure it’s possible to construct a compelling political vision around litter-picking etc. But it ain’t going to be this Government that does it.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Whoa, I didn’t realise cinemas did that - what’s the incentive for them to do so? From the sounds of it, the Melania doc takes the problems of the Meghan show but turns it into the experience of being in the prison from Minority Report
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Working for the FT politics team be like:
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Just realised who he reminds me of
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
✋ 🛑 Cease and desist talking down London! It’s actually quite nice in parts!
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
British politics has been variants of this meme for years
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This bit is a mysterious outbuilding with no internal pictures as far as I can tell, but appears to have fences for containing small children.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Hmm 🤔
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Appreciate this is a bit 2023, but aren’t these guys just angry Deanos?
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Ah yes, the Turnip Surprise Act 🫜
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I love the “room where the kids go so we don’t have to parent them”
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Took this photo in Tunbridge Wells. Was genuinely unnerving.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I was initially embarrassed by this one, but sometimes you just need your kitchen to sound like suburban bistro.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
There’s a weird bit during the Ride of the Rohirrim, where an orc archer fires an arrow at our heroes, it cuts to his face and his expression is like “oohhh, that was a lovely shot”
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
When we’re getting ready to go over the top in the final battle for humanity, it’ll be this meme we will turn to
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
That article weirdly slips in “There are some, however, that support the proposed taxes.” as if being anti-gambling is a kooky position and then goes onto say—
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You go for a colonoscopy, and it’s Dame Louise Casey shoving the hose in.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
There’s a steak thing at Tesco which I’ve been using as an inflation tracker. It’s now £7.30 (!) for two slices of poor quality off-cuts - but for some reason they’re still happy to chuck it into an £8 deal (which used to a be a £5 deal)
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Luxury! I’m on an iPhone 12 mini, the battery lasts until about lunchtime and it still has that U2 album on it.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It’s the new version of people going on about how much they hate London
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
There’s some lovely skewering of this peppered throughout the recent Partridge series.
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thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is where we need to be
This is where we need to be
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