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Andy is good at politics, the challenge has always been his struggle with policy and I actually think broadly speaking a lot of the fiscal stuff so far has been sensible, so the question will be if he can get a grip on the Home Office before they ruin everything.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'll save you the click, he was also dogging.

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Polanski’s “tax the rich” is the same as Badenoch’s “cut benefits”, a one-size-fits-all funding source that appeals to their prejudice but would never generate anything like the money they claim, and prevents them ever having to engage with serious politics

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It must have been good, James has started talking like an advert for Skipton Building Society

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10h

Shabana, did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?

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It's quite fun how basically no-one in labour seems to know which faction they're pretending is in charge instead of themselves anymore.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11h

Cannot stop giggling at the image of being out with your mates, looking forward to a quite afternoon of nicking heating oil. Sun's out, it's warm, you're mooching round Gloucestershire... Dazza's just got the siphon going and suddenly a small army of armed police appear and start screaming at you.

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 12h

are LLMs just an attempt to recreate Americans from first principles

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 13h

If we had a competent SFO I think they'd probably be quite interested by this

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23h

"ABBA is not a guilty pleasure. Gimme Gimme Gimme a man after midnight is not something to feel guilt over, I'm catholic, you need proper guilt, like actually having the man after midnight."

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At an event tonight on Corruption in English Football and I'm actually pretty envious of the panelists whose job basically got a lot easier in the last week...

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Ann Smiley:

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Slightly confused, honestly? If it goes up in line with prices, or 2.5%, and holds its value in line with earnings is that not just the triple lock?

Burnham confirms he wants to abandon pensions triple lock after election
Burnham turns to the triple lock.

It will stay for this parliament, he says.

But after the next election the state pension will go up in line with prices, or by 2.5% each year.

And it will hold its value in line with earnings over time, he says, “so that pensioners will always share in the rising prosperity of the nation”.

Defending the plan, he says:

This change will generate significant savings, which we will use to build up our National Care Service.

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Going to be honest, announcing the Care Service is going to be entirely funded out of current spending is, *ahem* courageous.

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I do find the Americans who are still masking legitimately fascinating? Like, you don't need to do that. We have very effective vaccines.

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On the one hand, it's a relatively small issue, on the other, eesh.

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I do think trying to get a sing song of Wonderwall going was maybe misjudging the room.

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"Have we met?" "No." "Are you sure, I'm at a lot of the events, and you look so familiar." "Yes. I think actually you might have watched a show I was on called the Traitors?"

My friend and I with Ross off the traitors.

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Quick, does anyone know a team or maybe 4-5 guys who might be able to get some from somewhere?

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Also, like, this is just the plot of Batman White Knight?

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The era defining feature has been the right's embrace of cruelty as a primary political tactic. There is truly no justification for this beyond having convinced themselves of their own unimpeachable superiority.

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"Think Different" meets "Think Evil"

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"Well it seems to me Diana that you've still got one of their men in custody and so the CIA are asking you to execute those poor doggers. Now, you might say fairer than that, it'll keep the countryside alliance onside and so on, but I don't. One of those doggers is my joe!"

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Lord does the Park not have any brains these days? WHAT WERE THEY ACTUALLY DOING NEAR RAF FAIRFORD" "Dogging?" "Thanks for the offer Diana, but I'll pass if it's all the same to you, my knees aren't up to it and the citroen's gear stick makes me nervous. NO, THEY WERE ROBBING DIESEL."

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Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.

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Finally, the recognition I deserve

Dogging tweet reposted by William Gibson the author of Neuromancer

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't know why Stephen is criticising an announcement on new floating docks for being navel gazing.

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It has just occurred to me that the British equivalent to numerous words for snow among the Inuktitut (thanks Google!) is semi-illicit sexual behavior.

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Fond memories today of an old school friend who was the single most incident prone camper I knew. Most famously in our school he led his DofE group into Chequers by accident late at night and nearly got them arrested.

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Notable shift from the previous Reform line on Tommo

Richard Tice condemning the blocking of ports

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We had a big argument with his family about the whole day, which he would have liked because he knew they were a nightmare, and they ended up overruling a lot of my music choices in favour of songs he liked growing up. Despite that, my 14 year old self was pleased this made the cut.

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For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.

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