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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If they provided immaculate customer service, they might have a case. I have just experienced 3 months of dysfunction, lies, manifestly defective systems, disconnection and false billing in the course of simply switching service from one of their existing brands, Plusnet, to another EE.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The sign being used in stores across Canada, thanks to Trump. =====================
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More fool the farmers who actually believed charlatans and bigots like Gove, Eustice, Johnson & Farage that they would better BRITISH support outside the Common Agricultural Policy.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Of course not - because supine Ofcom would allow his own MPs to report on him!
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As was Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron...and what went through their heads when they elected William Hague as Chancellor?
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you live in West London or east Berkshire, yes. No other densely populated area in western Europe has to tolerate the volume of overflying aircraft with minimal night flight restrictions that Heathrow brings with it.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Indeed. Is it just me that thinks all these reports used to begin with the words 'Tory-run', 'Labour-run' etc.? Why so coy, BBC?
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a vital point - and the more measured the pace of privatisation, and varied the method in former Communist territories, the better the outcome socially and economically: Poland and Czech Republic relative successes. Treuhand in DDR also a disaster but West Germans pumped in billions instead.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What will this one be known as...The Bay of Orange fiasco?
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
3 state/Senate elections in eastern Germany, panic at AfD topping the poll in rural states - aggregated including Berlin stays true with AfD 30%, SPD 17%, Left 16%, CDU 15%, Green 11%. So the traditional centre coalition partners still on 43% and nationwide (unlike in Yeats) the centre can hold...
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely. Billions have probably been wasted on fantasy or manifestly stupid plans to build a new Thames estuary airport or Heathrow 3rd runway, increasing intolerable noise, pollution, congestion and sucking investment away from Stansted & regional airports.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hasn't the beverages industry taken enough knocks from higher duty and declining alcohol consumption already?
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The only thing that would make any sense that a government can drive through is...rejoining the EU!
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Once bitten, twice shy...the Tories have been so totally wiped out, reduced to a handful of seats in all cities, no local organization and the big money going to Reform, that it is very difficult to see them recovering even to 200 seats. Surely the more likely scenario is a Con-Reform deal
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*groans*
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Decades ahead of its time, as adults everywhere struggle to manage even the vaguest squiggle of a digital signature with a stylus or finger!
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Second that.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now is the reason she's announcing it in Oxfordshire because it will apply to visitors from Piddington to the UK too? is she about to launch humour as a Tory policy tool?
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And of course told them their pension benefits and healthcare would have to be 100% funded by the village taxpayers.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seems very unlikely. None of these seats/council have that comfortable centrist vibe that has very successfully enabled Davey to drive the Tories out of swathes of Southern English seats. A defensive strategy simply to hold onto these in a 2029 hung parliament might be best to hope for.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
March of far right not unstoppable. Berliners won't vote for them next weekend either. Sweden’s left on course to retake power - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Sweden’s left on course to retake power
Social Democrats poised for rare European victory in blow to far-right
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The one useful thing Trump has done on this trip is remind any fawning foreign fans - in this case the anti-EU, anti-reunification, formerly sex-offender led anti-migrant Democratic Unionist Party - that sooner or later he'll shit on you too.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Don't underestimate how much of this is likely to end up in the bank accounts of the great steersman and his cronies...
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Israel’s hapless British defenders - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Israel’s hapless British defenders
Many Jews still feel kinship to Israel, but refusing to recognise its failings is not an act of support
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism
The misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why is it bad ideas never die? The Ribbentrop - Molotov pact didn't end well for either side and the looming Siegmund (AfD)- Wagenknecht (BSW) pact in Sachsen-Anhalt putting the far right in power supported by the far-left won't either.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Isn't the approved Musk-Restore-Vance line now that Hitler was a defender of Christian civilization?
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Financial markets will think the UK has a deluded man in charge of its money if John Healey speechifies today on how it's all looking up with growth & innovation when the facts are unchanged of Brexit-buggered trade & employment, a double deficit, mismanaged public debt, a weak currency & no plan.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Only 72 years since the last V2 was launched - quite a big rocket by the way, go to see it in the Deutsches Museum in Munich - finally the V3!! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe
Isar Aerospace plans rapid expansion amid race to capitalise on expanding satellite-launch market
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And likey most of them - as with the Southport rioters - have either convictions for ABH , GBH, no contact or non-molestation orders against them
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So procuring illegal political donations is 'pub talk' 'Jack the Laddery' which is presumably what Cambridge expects of its HTB Alpha 'born again Christian' theology professors? Or normal trash talk for the suited posh boy Dan Jukes (education obscure)? liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/474...
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Farage has a Trumpian plan for power – but can he survive this crisis?
Reform faces more questions – the party and Farage need to answer them
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It is historically true that the UK system avoided descent into fascist violence & overthrow in the 1930s, or McCarthyism & segregation in the 1950s. Equally, had England been occupied by the Nazis, there is no evidence to suggest there would've been less collaboration than in France.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So will the Police and DPP treat these white thugs who've caused misery and disruption to thousands the same as they have climate change or pro-palestine demonstrators, and charge them with terror offences? Of course not. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What would Socrates have done with the new Dyson toothbrush? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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What would Socrates have done with the new Dyson toothbrush?
No one needs two and a half million photographs of their back molars
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Why Andy Burnham should say: Jackdaw yes, Rosebank no - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Why Andy Burnham should say: Jackdaw yes, Rosebank no
Despite the UK’s best efforts, its energy system will require natural gas for decades to come
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Shameful.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The difficult truth about Jason Arday - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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The difficult truth about Jason Arday
From the beginning, investigations were accompanied by a cloud of excessive references to his race
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Perhaps he's discovering slowly and belatedly that the company he's been keeping - Orban, leaving the Tories for Reform etc - and his whole Gay Christian Brexit conservative thing is a complete irreconcilable mess.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It is his masterpiece...whatever fans of the 5th, Leningrad or others may say, it's the masterpiece of concentrated despair in Soviet Russia.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The shocking and totally inadequate state of English liability law laid bare: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims
Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And Jeremy Corbyn went along with this, even suggesting the notice to leave be sent before May had become PM.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Manchester’s towering ambition shows in its new skyline - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Manchester’s towering ambition shows in its new skyline
The city’s economic confidence draws critics as eyes turn to Burnham’s power base
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Presumably Clemenceau,who don't forget was a left wing radical and who remarked around 1922 while touring the construction of New Delhi 'this will be a magnificent ruin'
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
90 years ago Jesse Owens made a mockery of Nazi race theories by winning Gold at Hitler's Olympics. He'd surely be smiling today at a Black German winning the Marathon at the European Athletics www.espn.com/olympics/tra...
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Amanal Petros sets records with men's marathon win at European championships
Amanal Petros won the men's marathon at the European championships by a whopping 7 seconds.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Except when you added up all the extras for speedy boarding, checked in bags, a bottle of water onboard etc they never ended up that cheap either!
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
All true...a very odd target for private equity. Airlines are notoriously capital-intensive and have to contend with uncontrollable volatile fuel costs. Growth is constrained by airport capacity too. Whether there is a market for more premium airline seats questionable.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Spiralling food prices, water rationing and power cuts are possibly only weeks away. They do seem to be in an air-conditioned bubble.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
There has never been a more massive, destructive Anti-Business measure than leaving the EU -
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Blair Gambling Act was an appalling mistake. There is little, if any, evidence it has ever 'boosted growth' but on the contrary increased gambling addiction with all its social & economic harm.
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Tom Brown @twbrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Where's the Minister for the Drought? Doesn't he know when Callaghan appointed one in August 1976, it rained immediately!
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