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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 20/07/2026

It's a lot easier to achieve from the Treasury though. Handful of bad economic decisions and our defence spending could be at 3% of GDP within a day or two.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 20/07/2026

It's new Prime Minister day! Days like this don't come every year, just pretty much every year.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 18/05/2026

It's going to be a while before the politics I'm interested in has happened, so I'm going to deactivate again for a bit. See you later when things have progressed!

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 15/05/2026

Probably the least objectionable thing so far that a Reform councillor has had to quit for.

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srd88.bsky.social @srd88.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli... According to this BBC article, the audit recommended £1.12m, the total amount repaid was £1.46m but some MPs got repayments on that figure

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MPs expenses: Repayments totalled £1.46m

MPs repaid expenses totalling £1.46m in 12 months before the 2010 election - but some got cash back, it has emerged.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 15/05/2026

Brilliant work by @cocochan.bsky.social and colleagues. Build, don’t buy! Palantir is not magic :)

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 14/05/2026

People are really down on AI but in a few short years we’ve created software that’s smarter, more reliable, and more ethically aware than the President of the United States and the world’s richest man.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 14/05/2026

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 13/05/2026

Starmer may well not be the right person to take Labour into the next election. But surely neither's Streeting? He's unlikely to keep his seat besides anything else.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

Margaret Calvert, designer with Jock Kinneir of the UK’s road signage, with a huge round birthday cake in the shape of a 90 mph speed limit sign.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 08/05/2026

Think I'm going to deactivate in a bit. It's been nice being back and seeing social media, but I'm increasingly of the opinion that it's not for me. Oh, and one last thing before we go that'll be more relevant for those who know me: we're having a baby in September, so that's nice!

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 07/05/2026

While I'm back, I thought I should provide you with some content™, and none of my content does worse than niche facts about music artists, so let's do that.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 07/05/2026

Since there's an election on, I thought I'd pop back to say hi. Everyone doing OK?

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 16/10/2025

Just before sunset, Wivenhoe.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 03/10/2025

Back, for now. Here’s my lovely cats all curled up together.

Two cats on a patterned duvet cover. Both black and white. They’re both making an ellipse shape. One is larger than another but bother are difficult to distinguish accurately.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 14/09/2025

Think I’m going to take a little break from here. You’re all a delight of course, well, the ones I follow and interact with, but a post escaped containment, I had a few Nazis to block and I could just *not* be sharing my silly thoughts? Anyway, be back soon, will temporarily deactivate in a while.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 14/09/2025

Since we’ve set the bar for proscribing an organisation so absurdly low, we should start with Tommy Robinson and all his fascist groups and move on to proscribing X and Tesla for facilitating and funding him.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 13/09/2025

Personally I think the biggest problem facing us today is the lack of civility among university students

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 13/09/2025

Last weekend, peaceful protesters, many pensioners, marched against a genocide: 900 arrested. This weekend, violent racist thugs baying for the overthrow of Parliament storm through central London attacking police and calling for the assassination of the Prime Minister: 9 arrested.

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Politics latest: Nine arrested amid 'significant aggression', Met says, after 110,000 'Unite the Kingdom' marchers rally in London

Roughly 110,000 protesters have been in London for a 'Unite the Kingdom' rally and 'March against Fascism' counter-protest. Meanwhile, local parties and trade unions can start choosing between Bridget...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

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After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Hey Elon. I have some clients for you.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/09/2025

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This is the owner of X actively campaigning to take down the elected government of a country he is neither a resident nor a citizen of - and using threats of violence in the streets to further his aims www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

“My message is to them: if this continues, that violence is going to come to you, you will have no choice. You’re in a fundamental situation here. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.”

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 13/09/2025

It’s *just* possible we proscribed the wrong organisation.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 13/09/2025

Good headline. Good article. It’s increasingly difficult to think of any right that Republicans claim that they believe should also apply to their critics.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 13/09/2025

When I look at this, my first thought is not that they’re uniting the kingdom, strangely.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 13/09/2025

Wait, guys, I’m not sure the right is as committed to free speech as they say they are.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Exactly this. One recurring realisation from my attempts to educate myself about Charlie Kirk is that he would have had no career at all if his supporters’ characterisations of college campuses were even close to accurate.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 13/09/2025

Facebook does primarily seem to be site for the gullible nowadays. Must be handy to have got all of the people with the least ability to tell truth from fiction in one place so you can target scams at them.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 12/09/2025

Lucky that Kirk’s murderer was a right wing white boy since now we don’t need to learn anything from his death. Them right wing white boys gonna right wing white boy, the little scamps.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 12/09/2025

Reading the obituary of Lord Lambton after falling down a bit of a Wikipedia hole and very much enjoyed his excuse of how his sex scandal came about because the futility of his job as a junior minister led him to debauchery and gardening.

The scandal which triggered his downfall in May 1973 arose from a photograph of Lambton in bed with two prostitutes while smoking marijuana. When interviewed afterwards by Robin Day, he claimed he had often used "whores for sex" because "people sometimes like variety. It's as simple as that." Documents released 30 years after the scandal revealed that he told an MI5 official he had turned to debauchery - and gardening - because of the futility of his job.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 11/09/2025

About the only thing we got from Back to the Future II is a watch that will tell you when it’ll stop raining. And facelifts I guess.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 11/09/2025

Before you indulge in any kneejerk reactions it's worth taking a moment to think about how this will affect those who love and depend on him, such as the novel coronavirus

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 11/09/2025

The world is a terrible, terrible place, but there is a new series of Taskmaster which is not nothing.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 11/09/2025

The right are going to have to hope he's not as attractive as Luigi.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Indeed its important to stress that we denounce Kirk's murder even though he was a despicable person who held abhorent views. We don't need to pretend that he did politics the right way or that he was making a positive contribution to society to say that his murder was wrong.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

All social media sites have horrible/unhinged people on them. The difference with X is the owner is horrible and unhinged and is actively trying to push users towards his views.

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 11/09/2025

Fully accept that Twitter is worse because it's run by and for a Nazi, but saying that a very large number of people on Bluesky aren't celebrating Kirk's death is probably down to who you're following, those posts are definitely there and in the majority in search.

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