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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The virgin US carrier strike group vs the chad RFA Lyme Bay.

"US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now"

"(Royal) Navy fits RFA Lyme Bay with mine-hunting drones to end Iran blockade"

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I didn't know Ed Miliband had been cast as the villain for the next Superman movie.

Headline: Milliband targets 'limitless' clean energy with Nottinghamshire fusion plant.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I mean, should the UK have a few more operational frigates/destroyers at any given time available - sure. But also, the whole thing is part of an integrated NATO force. The idea that THE FRENCH!! might escort a UK carrier with some of their frigates is a very normal thing that's supposed to happen.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking you can partner with the French in a next generation fighter jet programme...

Reuters headline: "Powerful German union calls for Dassault's expulsion from the fighter jet programme"

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Latest three Newscasts have been full coverage of insane contradictory right-wing attacks on the Chancellor. What are we doing here?

Most recent three Newscast episodes all beimg about right wing political attacks on the Chancellor.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"As for financing... any remaining deficit will be covered by the issuance of additional government bonds..."

Japan's government approves US$ 135.4 billion package to stimulate economy. Amount allocated is the largest since the pandemic and includes cuts of R$ 92 billion in taxes. New prime minister says she has the revenue to pay for the package and talks about issuing public bonds

Simpson's Steamed Hams meme. "Good lord, what is happening in there" but the door has "Bank of Japan" written on it.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

British elections until 2029: Only Plaid can stop Reform here, Only the Lib Dems can stop Your party here, Only the Greens can stop Labour here, Only the Tories can...

Spidermen pointing at each other meme. There are 7 of them.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Manufacturers of inflatable frog costumes operating in the Portland area.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The three largest parties are so scared of being Liz Trussed if they even mention the BoE, it leaves room for the smaller parties to claim policy space.

FT article - Green leader calls for BoE to end interest payments to commercial banks.

News article headline: Reform UK clashes with Bank of England over interest payments to lenders.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Farage out there just ruining half good ideas by surrounding them with insanity.

Nigel Farage has escalated his calls for the Bank of England to halt its bond-selling programme, in his first formal meeting with its governor.

The pair also appealed directly to the Bank to relax its approach to cryptocurrencies, accusing it of holding back innovation.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Once launched into orbit, there will be nothing the far-right can do against the might of the Woke Liberal Space Laser.

Liberal Democrats Conference graphic. Shows a satellite orbiting the Earth with its orientation appearing to face the planet. Text reads "Motion passed! A New Hope for the Space Industry"

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

People laughed at the time, but I for one am grateful the Eastern Orthodox Church founded the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team 562 years ago and placed Olga into cryo-sleep, only to be woken when the time came.

Olga Girina, head of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), said that the volcano’s last “lava effusion” happened around 1463, with no eruptions since.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Probably a good sign you should not leave Bolsonaro alone.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Virgin Southampton vs chad Coventry.

Portswood Bus Gate: Cars return as trial is suspended

Coventry City Council rakes in around £2m in bus gate fines

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Cornwall coming in with a very Israeli-snap-election ass result.

Cornwall Council election results showing no clear viable majority coalition.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If you have "run-the-government-like-a-business" people run the government like a business, this is the kind of stupid shit you get. They would see an exchange where you get $20tn worth of things you want in exchange for a $20tn credit note as losing $20tn of wealth. www.ft.com/content/f313...

Quote from Peter Navarro in the FT: "The US cumulative trade deficits in goods from 1976 — the year chronic deficits began — to 2024 have transferred over $20tn of American wealth into foreign hands. That’s more than 60 per cent of US GDP in 2024. Foreign interests have taken over vast swaths of US farmland, housing, tech companies, and even parts of our food supply."

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Since Trump continues to believe that the trade "deficit" with another country is their tariff rate against the US, could we fix this by having every country just quickly set their actual tariff rate to what he thinks it is, then announce huge tariff reductions.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This whole Sky News fiscal 'headroom' segment was completely deranged. Which respectable economists even advocate for this? How are our politicians and media more wrong than even the most wrong economists?

Sky News report on the 2025 Spring Statement. A chart showing Rachel Reeves fiscal rule requiring her to achieve a budget surplus by 2029-30.

Presenter points at the chart where it has forecasted 'headroom' achievable by the year 2029-30.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Isn't this what he wants? Or is it only the #BoE allowed to deliberately induce unemployment and wage cuts as a policy measure?

Andrew Bailey of the BoE warning how NI rise could see companies shed workers. "Something I watch very carefully"

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Your average mortgage holder has a debt/income ratio of like 500% and people only live for like 80 years. Why are we worried about a nation with only a 100% ratio when nations can live for thousands of years?

Graph showing UK debt (as & of GDP). It shows that current debt level is just under 100%.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

31% chose the option "I know it should be legal but I really REALLY REALLY wish it wasn't"

Poll: "Do you support or oppose the ability of Americans to protest against what they see as unjust?"

Support: 80%
Oppose: 7%

Poll: "Should it be legal or illegal to protest Israeli actions in Gaza?"

Legal: 57%
Illegal: 12%
Unsure: 31%

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"Taxing the rich could help cover increased French defence spending" www.euronews.com/business/202...

"In France, super-rich people could be forced to pay more taxes as the country seeks to boost its military spending. The current cabinet is looking at ways of dusting off plans from the previously failed government to tax the super-rich, according to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry - Éric Lombard."

French sickos: "oui...hon hon hon... OUI!" - Pervers.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Been thinking about this today for some reason.

Image of the book - How to Pay for the War - A Radical Plan For The Chancellor of the Exchequer - by John Meynard Keynes

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ban batteries to own the libs.

The Reform party's list of stupid policies to own the libs. Amazingly a real graphic, not fake or hacked account. "Ban batteries" is their actual policy. To make it illegal to use batteries to store energy for the grid.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Not that I'm a fan of defending the chancellor but you really can't win with interest rates news. It's a "fresh blow" if they hold because 'inflation' and it's a "fresh blow" if they're lowered because 'recession'.

Headline in The Standard: "Interest rates 'to be cut within weeks' as weak GDP figures deal new blow to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves"

- The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Comittee is expected to cut interest rates in early February.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Poor Land Rover Discovery owners of Reading preyed upon by the Mafia Council charging them an extra £3.

Table of information showing Reading Council will charge small vehicle like a Ford Focus just over £3 to park, whereas a large polluting vehicle like a Land Rover would be charged £6.

Followed by quotes:
Brian MacDowell, director of the Alliance of British Drivers pressure group, labelled the proposals “absolutely outrageous”.

He said: “It’s an underhanded tax on people’s travel. It smacks of Mafia-like tactics, preying on those whose incomes are limited and unfairly penalising them for choosing a form of motive power.

“Parking rates should be a blanket charge. There should be no difference between vehicles.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I know it's "independent" 'n all.. but the government always has a choice when it comes to interest rates.

Wikipedia screenshot showing that the Governor of the Bank of England is appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rachel Reeves)

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Without the contextual knowledge, this headline really caught my mediocre Portuguese off guard 😬

Headline in Brazilian Portuguese - "Precisamos extinguir os kids pretos", diz deputada Maria do Rosário

Former Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Congresswoman Maria do Rosário (PT-SP) defended, in an interview with Fórum Onze e Meia this Tuesday (3), the extinction of the Army's Special Forces, where the so-called "black kids" are formed, a military group that was directly involved in the attempted coup d'état planned by the criminal organization (OrCrim) commanded by former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Good to see the #Coventry City Very-Light-Rail system demonstrate viable public transit even on planets with medium population densities #SkeletonCrew

Scene from Star Wars Skeleton crew. A humanoid alien child stands alongside an android on the sidewalk awaiting the arrival of a tram. In the background, the 2-carriage tram is approaching around a bend.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm going to hazard a guess that this wasn't an announcement of a #JobGuarantee policy

News article headline: Those who can work, must work, says Kendall in welfare overhaul announcement. - The Work and Pensions Secretary warned the benefits bill for sickness and disability is set to rise by £26 billion by the end of this parliament.

Picture showing Liz Kendall speaking in Parliament.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Some Dune (1984) energy from @dannychambers.bsky.social in parliament today.

Danny Chambers MP wearing a navy blue coat over suit and tie. He is holding a grey/white French Bulldog called Bruce. Speaking with an ITV Meridian reporter.

Patrick Stewart in the film Dune (1984) playing the role of Gurney Halleck charging into battle whilst holding a Pug and a gun.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We need more of this across cities outside of London. Could be popular too. The common enemy of the left and the right is the poorly parked range rover owner.

The Telegraph headline: "Drivers with big cars to be targeted under parking crackdown". There is a picture of a Range Rover pulling out of a junction in a city street. A red-brick building is in the background.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Americans, you think the DOGE is dumb? Here in the UK we get a brand new one every government. They don't even shut the old one down.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Good Lord, what is happening in there?

A diagram showing new data about the Uranus System. It's five largest moons falling within Uranus' magnetic field. For reasons that do not need exploring at this particular juncture, that means ionised gases ... something something, possibility of sub-surface oceans on the moons.

Extract from BBC article:
So, for 40 years we have had an incorrect view of what Uranus and its five largest moons are normally like, according to Dr William Dunn of University College London.

“These results suggest that the Uranian system could be much more exciting than previously thought. There could be moons there that could have the conditions that are necessary for life, they might have oceans that below the surface that could be teeming with fish!”.

Steamed hams scene from The Simpsons.
"Good Lord, what is happening in there?!"

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Does this mean we get to stop doing austerity now?

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