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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Threatening to shut down thousands of what are the most hated outlets on the highstreet might not be the 'scaremongering' they think it is. Have they considered that the purpose of taxing them is to make them shut down stores? That's what people want!

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

He just rolled a 20. It happens.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nolan: I want the audience to understand that the Trojan Horse was the ultimate betrayal and one that continues to reverberate through the ages. We should not sickly celebrate it as heroics. AMC: Got it. We have just the thing for that.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

He means the Watergate kind of gates.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Watching House of the Dragon and all I can think is - If only Rhaenyra Targaryen knew how to issue a state currency backed by the threat of dragon fire, she could solve her problem paying the Gold Cloaks overnight.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

What if he picked one of the 2024 MPs with econ backgrounds? There's a bunch with the credentials, just not necessarily the proven media experience to not be eviscerated in that role.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

True, but when those guys on the deck with the paddles do a little dance then a jet takes off, it does look very cool.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Maine had an experienced loveable oaf this whole time and they decided to push Mills and Platner?

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The real political scandal of the day.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

really cool going from the 2010 World Cup, where Ghana’s little run seemed like a magical anomaly, to a bunch of African teams contending across the bracket and participating in the global pastime of causing fear and misery in England.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Brazil always has a presidential election a few months after the #WorldCup. Please, no country defeat them in a humiliating fashion. The last time that happened, they elected Bolsonaro. If it happens again, they might do something stupid like electing Bolsonaro's idiot son.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Would you also consider it somewhat inaccurate to define national debt as "the ... overdraft if you like"?

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A few more logical steps and Carns could be proposing a state funded job guarantee scheme.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I think i'd rather take inspiration from FDR or post-war European reconstruction than pre-war Germany! Civilian infrastructure has better regenerative effects. I make the war comparison just because it seems it's the only type of emergency which gets govt's to actually act more radically.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Imo, a perfect excuse to enact emergency WW2-style Keynesian industrial mobilisation.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Disclosure Day feels like a film that was originally twice as long, they cut half of it, but accidentally showed us the half that was cut.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think to many people, "more moderate" means "be less insane". Democrats want a democratic socialist who is very very moderate. Reasonable opinion to have.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's not unlike watching current coverage of net zero or the EU prior to 2016 or Boris Johnson's ascent to power or Liz Truss taking control of the Treasury or Donald Trump etc etc. The BBC should be a bulwark against obvious propaganda & demonstrable lies, not an 'impartial' chronicler of it...

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Find Mozambican food. E.g. Chiveve Restaurante.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

1) Taxing billionaires more would absolutely help teachers. 2) Even if it didn't, taking obscene power out of the hands of billionaires is in itself a good, and the main reason to tax them. We don't need a single $1 of billionaires money - we just need them not to have it.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

...there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment, at this time...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

An organisation's culture is set by its leader, Starmer dislikes making political arguments and has essentially convinced himself doing so is silly symbolism, so "persuasion" has dropped out of the government's mental toolkit entirely.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I bet they want to ban them from driving cars too.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Ah but do swimmers really count? At least half their events are fake.

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Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Besides these excellent reasons not to cut tax and diesel taxes, there’s a more straightforward one: it’s perverse to respond to a shortage of something by increasing the incentive to buy that thing. If we want to compensate people of limited means who have to drive, give them cash payments.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In order to help guarantee this ceasefire, Britain should probably now request all US bombers leave UK bases as soon as possible.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#Artemis II - A beautiful new image released The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a the solar eclipse. Captured by one of the cameras on Orion’s solar array wings. A bright spot visible below the Moon’s right edge is Saturn. Then a bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. 🚀🌓🌒

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

On the day humanity witnesses a new Earthrise, the planet's most powerful leader thrratens annihilation for one of the oldest civilizations ever to exist upon it.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/04/2026

Don't subsidise energy prices during a supply crisis: give cash transfers to low-income and vulnerable households instead.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Trump's war on cars is having sickening global consequences. When will it end?

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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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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/03/2026

Pay attention to Lebanon. Trump and Netanyahu started a regional war in the Middle East, creating a humanitarian disaster. And now, the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon—about 20% of them are kids. Congress should not bankroll this escalating war of choice.

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

if Trump doesnt TACO, this crisis will be a March 2020 kind of crisis - over that year, the Bank of England purchased 90% of all gilts issued by the Conservative government. why are we not talking about that reaction function, instead of absolutely mad interest rate increases?

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

There's a whole array of strategic bungles in this operation, it deserves a thread. 1/ below

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Oh no, a supply shock! Let's make it more expensive to invest in measures which could mitigate that supply shock" is what the world's central banks are likely to do by raising rates.

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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 · 17/03/2026

Seems pretty clear Israel's objective is to prevent any possible diplomatic off-ramp for the USA by assassinating anyone who could conceivably make any agreement on a national level for Iran.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Some of the world's largest businesses urging governments to back the electrification of economies as quickly as is feasibly possible. This is so self-evidently true that it remains utterly mad that it is somehow still up for debate. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526980...

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Top businesses urge Europe to accelerate electrification to curb reliance on 'volatile fossil fuels'

Corporate Leaders Group and We Mean Business coalition of leading blue chips urge governments to respond to energy market crisis with renewed push to accelerate electrification

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Fully expecting Keir to just go along with this without even trying to get anything from Trump in return. www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

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Trump calls on UK and others to send warships to Strait of Hormuz | LBC

President Trump has threatened to

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

All Iran had to do was paint one of these things gold and gift it to Trump as the inaugural "Middle East Peace Prize" and they'd have had all sanctions lifted by now.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I wonder why he'd say this now, of all times 🤔.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills

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

Thank you for your attention to this matter - IRGC!

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

Jesus christ. All UK Labour had to do was say "That Trump fella.. not a great guy." about once a month and do normal centre-left things and they could have this.

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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 · 07/03/2026

Starmer approval +5pts if he calls a press conference specifically to tell Tony Blair to go throw a shoe at himself.

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