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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 14h
Thank the lord I baled out when I did (that Xmas one in s2).
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 15h
Dodgy red card, but still we keep rolling along. Just the cheats and the champs ahead of us. #bhafc
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 15h
Bloody hell. Was just listening to him with Runciman this morning.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 16h
I like Beth but she's quite marmite.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 16h
Which columnist?
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18h
That's better. I can go back to polishing our 3-0 victory trophy now.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18h
Leeds are taking the shine off our humbling of the champions here. Enough now. A 1-1 draw would be a very good result for you.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 19h
Telling line here from Mark Thompson. No surprise the think-tank who brought us Liz Truss would get its sums wrong to the tune of 50%, only that the Tories and Spectator are still giving the IEA houseroom. (h/t @paulmcgee.bsky.social ) politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the-black-...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy has given up pretending to believe in Trump's bona fides
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You're not thinking this through. A multi-party system makes 'no result' more, not less likely.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, you're talking nonsense. People who know their side won't win can neutralise the result by staying home. No amount of fantasy 'sharpening minds' changes that.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But this policy is designed to reduce turnout further. You win (or at least prevent the other side from winning, which amounts to the same) by staying home.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An idiotic idea. Means supporters of a losing party are incentivised to stay home.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You should go on the show, state this before the presenter gets a word in, then walk off.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can the government launch a class action against Grok?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He needs to be in Russia though – easier for him to receive his orders there.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How's that gonna wash in Boatymcboatfaceland?
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Weird. His leaflet said he was in a 3-way race with Labour and Greens
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Invite the Trots to your party and you get the 'everything's a conspiracy' Trot worldview.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unless he specifies his 'wife' is human, I'm assuming she's a chatbot.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks Donald!
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Welcome to your future @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That's… not how selfies work?
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have you seen the state of our bins?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/10/2026
Everyone remember to say thank you - as.ft.com/r/869593f3-c...
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Iran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances
FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It reeks of someone who hasn't tested their arguments against a grown adult since forever.
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Rabbi Iris Richman @rabbir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Green Party didn’t want to get contaminated by the actual facts. “Beginning in 1879,[16] the compound word Antisemitismus was first used in print in Germany as a "scientific-sounding term" for Judenhass (lit. 'Jew-hatred')” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisem...
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Antisemitism - Wikipedia
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh no. That line's real first-year debate club shit. Unbelievable it should make it anywhere near a national policy doc.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch research contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus * Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground When the Sunday Times broke the news that David Reuben, one of the richest men in the UK, had apparently fled to the tax haven of Monaco, there was much pearl-clutching. Reuben had moved from his Holland Park house in London to live full-time in the principality. Labour’s tax regime was blamed, with fears that there would be a cascading effect across the economy with wealth draining from the UK. It was reported across the world that he had probably left because of potential taxes on wealth in the upcoming budget. Continue reading...
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cleaned the reversible windows yesterday, for the first time in a shamefully long time, and yes, a bird has already shat on one, thanks for caring.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
6. Conclude 1–5 are beyond your reach and start drinking pints onstage at 10.30am.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That will definitely win back all those Reform voters who only vote Farage cos he's a pisshead.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I didn't get beyond the NI series either. Still find it hard to believe that was s3 – it really tanked early.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I enjoyed SoA, but it was always a bit silly. And then it went to Northern Ireland and hooo, boy.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unusual to kid yourself it's an elite-class Rolls-Royce while doing so though.
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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 05/10/2026
The @europeangreens.eu are not happy with the English party.
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EGP position on Motion “Zionism is racism” at GPEW Congress
European Greens bring together national parties that share the same Green values, and who are active across the entire European continent - both within the European Union and beyond. We are striving f...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 05/10/2026
“While one side says Zionism equals racism, the other says anti-Zionism equals terrorism. Both take a word that means different things to different people, choose its worst possible meaning, and pin it on everyone who uses it”, writes David Davidi-Brown
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Almost everyone is wrong about Zionism and anti-Zionism
The Green party's move to equate Zionism with racism ignores the complexity of the term
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Didn't see the Aldi/Lidl split coming.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just Elon Musk endorsing this 4Chan case on why high status males [& the neurodivergent!] should have a say in democracy. (Women are not free to think; should not have voice/vote).
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He's the only one who was nakedly after Badenoch's job, so figures.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So much that's wrong about this, but his starting premise – that countries don't attack smaller/poorer countries cos they have nothing they want – is wrongest of the lot. HTF does he think empires are built?
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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yass!
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper
Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.
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