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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 5m

So close, that's Claudia

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1h

You never have to hand it to Badenoch, you just have to hold and give, but do it at the right time. She can be slow or fast but she will get out her line.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1h

Death of Stalin plays him that way, I think

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1h

Why else do you think he turned to drink?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2h

It's a really weird elite radicalisation that you just... don't see reflected in wider society? And yet it is entirely ventriloquised as the voice of the common man.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 5h

In an abjectly foul mood

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 7h

The Keystone Cops was a documentary

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 9h

I do think the real challenge with Kemi-thought is that this isn't actually that relevant of a question? "How will you find £10mn to pay for it" is less immediate than "how will you put a floating Iron Dome in the channel to protect us from, er, ???"

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 9h

Final scores on the doors: Green: 4 leaflets, 1 newspaper, 1 letter. Labour: 3 leaflets. Lib Dems: 2 leaflets. British Communist Party: 1 leaflet. Christian People's Alliance: 1 leaflet. Reform: 1 letter. Conservatives: Nothing.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12h

Because we produce vastly more of them than other notes!

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12h

Stopped printing them about 7 years ago for that reason.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12h

Not since they captured McGraw

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12h

By weird coincidence I was at an event yesterday discussing how to tackle money laundering and one of the weirder, but quite effective, measures is just getting rid of high value notes because despite being, at least in the US, the most common type printed they are mostly used for crime.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 13h

Joani Reid, quietly, "I could fix him."

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23h

The only think preventing them all going down is control of the judiciary, otherwise they are just that dumb

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hot and cold running crack, open gang warfare, the uncertainty if the turd you stepped in was from dog or man, don't we all miss it?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get the appeal of nostalgia, I really do, but I find it specifically funny to get a leaflet from Reform's candidate talking about how when he was in the Met 31 years ago, he would never have dreamed of lawlessness like the kind we now see in Kings Cross.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I never watch the speeches anymore, I only read them and what's funny about Badenoch's speech is when you're reading it the lack of a throughline is even more clear. Conference, our tax code is too long... [a few paragraphs later'] ...we are going to add more complexity to it

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay, but why not just use GB News?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The flat is actually settling on T+6

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, it's called breaking up with a long term partner and relocating to a new life 100 miles away

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After three of the most aggravating months of my life, I have finally exchanged and a week tomorrow will be a homeowner again and I am absolutely buzzing.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Again, I love Kemi, yeah, sure, the people hate Paddington. Why not liken your opponent to him.

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I hate that fucking bear"

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How much more for one he hasn't customised?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pretty good play, hampered only slightly by it clearly being better as a double hander between Jenkins and Crosland and Dennis Healey's eyebrow nearly falling into his gin and tonic

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And now we move on to the liars

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, like, have I had conversations with friends about kink? Sure, but, you know, it was not me loudly telling them about penises and cross dressing. This would make me uncomfortable!

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Call me even more old-fashioned, but if this is your big announcement for the media rounds I'd have sent the shadow defence minister to do it instead.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do think, if a friend started asking me these questions, I'd probably have to check if it wasn't a weird form of sexual harassment?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Quick game for you, how many lines can we adopt in 24 hours

Cartlidge says 'Iron Dome' just generic term for missile defence, like 'Hoover' meaning vacuum cleaner
James Cartlidge, the shadow defence secretary, has suggested that, when the Tories talked about setting up an “Iron Dome”, they were just using it as a generic term for missile defence – like describing a vacuum cleaner as a Hoover. They were not talking about the Israeli version, he claimed.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Eternally reminded of Sara Pascoe's joke about Britain and France are like siblings, which is why we could never share a nuclear deterrent. Deep down, they're the ones we want to use it on.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's not just that she lies constantly, it's that she sincerely doesn't think she's doing so.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Quietly moving tribute to Jeffrey Archer.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

See, my bolognese is very meat heavy in line with a more traditional recipe so I'm less oppose to a few cherry tomatoes in with the salad for a pop of sweetness.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So, I can sort of see "we need bread to make the lasagna stretch further" but I do basically think a properly made lasagna should feel like a meal in and of itself, and shouldn't really be soupy enough that you need the bread for mopping?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, Lasagna and a simple tomato and rocket salad with a balsamic vinaigrette is the way if you're going to add a side. It just needs to be something light and preferably tart to cut through the richness.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"And is this handcuffed in the listing with us now?"

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So you're calling it Mission Impossible?

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The emotion-prompting loss of Jeffrey Archer has reminded me of the ancient Chinese curse - May your Wikipedia entry have many unusual subsections.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Arched will be remembered largely for his crimes, which were published by Hachette, and later Macmillan

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I swear to fucking god (been sent this on WhatsApp)

The photo of me holding a baby done up as a tory campaign ad.

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