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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘We’re not about left and right,’ says Badenoch, ‘we’re about right and wrong’ then says how fond she was of perjurer Jeffery Archer #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no such thing as ‘pure evil’. It is an archaic idea used to help simply, for stupid people, the many complex causes of why some people do terrible things #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tonight’s Panorama strongly suggests Brexit has increased the UK population’s chances of getting cancer. Whereas the EU is working to reduce cancer causing nitrates and nitrites in processed meat, the UK is less concerned. Why, I wonder? #panorama #cancer #brexit

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I often used to get my kids to sleep by playing them some Mozart. Trouble is I usually woke them up again taking the piano back downstairs.

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If David Aaronovitch was living in France during the Nazi occupation would he object to a musician speaking out in favour of the Resistance? #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If, by 2028, AI will be entering a phase of ‘recursive self-improvement’ making newer and newer versions of itself, it will soon be beyond human understanding. If it is beyond understanding it will be beyond control. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fuck off Laffer, you hideous shit. Privileged son of a man who made his money from defence contracts, presided over right wing economic policies that have seen a small group of people get enormously wealthy while the vast majority scrape around to make a living. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘This is just incoherent’ says Badenoch. She’s right about that. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interesting that the BBC is quick to tell us who is behind Verbatim, but rarely, if ever, delves into the funding of the IEA, or the Centre for Policy Studies etc etc #reform #verbatim #c4

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I love jazz. Especially extreme free form avant-garde jazz that doesn't sound like jazz but sounds more like silence

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A spell of rain - the hills throb again, their pulse radiating through fragile bodies of bees and the bones of birds into human hearts gathering in the square to drag the climate denying mayor from his foul chambers and lower him into the empty well, dangling there until he begs for forgiveness

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

How do we help our farmers? asks Amol Rajan. Farmers have made the UK one of the most nature depleted in the world. Farmers also tend to vote Tory and the right haven’t exactly embraced climate change. How do we help them? Suggest they become vegans, maybe. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

On this Bloomsday remember that Ulysses contains the word ‘yes’ and it is the last word of that great book. #bloomsday #joyce #ulysses open.spotify.com/episode/2Sru...

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The Omphalos, Sandycove

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We’ve been hearing this mantra for decades ‘we need growth before we can tackle inequality’ - but when we did get growth, when equality could be tackled, it wasn’t. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s obvious but I need to write it down: Farage led the charge towards Brexit, it was a disaster; he’s since pointed the finger at migrants; if he becomes PM and realises the solutions are too complex, he will have to find one scapegoat after another. Who or what next? #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Graduate jobs down 30%? Yet in Cardiff, Bristol and Bath there are huge developments for student accommodation. Something isn’t right. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Compare this morning’s R4 interview with Anthony Slaughter with Farage’s earlier this week - there is a vast difference in the nature and tone of questioning, Farage was treated with reverence; Slaughter subjected to a far tougher few minutes, interrupted, harassed to give answers. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I recall one of Richard Harries’ Today programme contributions, berating the greed of capitalism - meanwhile Christchurch Cathedral shop was doing a roaring trade in tea towels, mugs and other Christian knick-knacks and the cathedral’s property portfolio remained vast, worth millions. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

‘Climate change in Europe is having an impact right now,’ says Justin Webb. Odd then that he chose not to ask Farage one question about this urgent, life-threatening issue. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A feeble, fawning interview with Farage. No mention of Nathan Gill, of Farage’s adoration at the throne of Trump, nothing on Tice’s tax affairs, nothing on health, education, nothing, nothing, nothing. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The axolotl found living wild in south Wales reminds me how fond we British are of amphibians in cavities: eg toad in the hole, frog in the throat and now, if it were sufficiently curious, axolotl in a bottle. #axolotl #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It’s bin day. Blue bag for paper and card; red bag, metal and plastic. Blue bin for glass. Red bin for radioactive substances and rage. Yellow bin: mustard, custard and cowardice. White bin: ignorance and stupidity. Emerald for esoteric arts, sacred knowledge and lost wisdom. Save the planet.

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Live in Wales? This is the new voting system: you get 1 vote - for a party. The party with most votes has a candidate elected - then a seat at a time is removed until only 1 person is left - they are crowned ‘Gravy Boss’ + given no money to run a country so shafted only a miracle can save us. #wales

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

what reporting of the Mandelson story sounds like to me: when did and how the foreign office and Olly Robbins who his appointment he who and then why vetting and ticking the box and sacking nevertheless the ‘agrément’ because number 10, with concerns and UKS paperwork who the why and #bbcwato

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I didn’t say I wanted a cake, you thought I said cake, I came in here for a roll but just because I looked at the cake you assumed that I wanted a cake. You should resign. I don’t want your bread rolls. They look stale. I don’t care about the queue. (Kemi Badenoch goes to the baker) #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hello BBC Today editors. Maybe, once in a while, instead of talking money, share prices and investments you could have a similar run down on the state of the environment, on the number of lapwings or bumblebees in the UK, or God help us, fish in our rivers and seas. But you won’t will you? #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This morning, thank insects and John Lubbock, banker and parliamentarian who, at 8 years old, was a neighbour and protege of Charles Darwin. As an MP Lubbock needed more time to do what he loved most, study insects, so he proposed the Bank Holidays Act of 1871.

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Artemis ll will send humans further than they’ve ever been, except that without getting out of bed, my father, in his 96 years, had been further through space than any astronaut, a passenger on this sphere whirling around the Milky Way at half a million miles an hour. #artemis #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Reminder: Nick Robinson earns between £410,000 and £414,999 pa. #r4today #residentdoctors

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Manchester - where Marx and Engels plotted the overthrow of capitalism, Dr Dee summoned Satan and Ernest Rutherford saw inside the atom. A weird isles episode featuring some appropriately fragmented guitar playing from my pal Tim. (also on Soundcloud, Apple etc etc) open.spotify.com/episode/3cmK...

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Of course Earth will not be part of this planetary array as the other planets think we’re a bunch of racist c**ts. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Why does it matter if a politician or any guest on a news programme is reading? Someone with a good memory can learn and repeat party lines, but reading is seen as cheating. Nick Robinson is fatuous, bigoted arse. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Plumber came over yesterday, fixed my boiler, moaned that he paid too much tax, then asked to be paid in cash. As much as I am thrilled by Hannah Spencer’s success, I can’t see many her profession voting for higher taxes. #greens #gortonanddenton #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Some context please, Justin Webb: Luke Johnson is the son of historian Paul Johnson, isn’t a stranger to privilege and supported Brexit, which, surprisingly, he didn’t mention as a cause of one of the UK’s slow growth. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Farage, in support of Ratcliffe, says immigration has caused, for example, ‘worse roads’ - he doesn’t mention how someone like Ratcliffe, who as a tax exile has left the exchequer £4 billion worse off, has led to a decline in public services. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Radcliffe’s comments are obnoxious: he grew up housed and educated by the state, went to university before fees, but felt it ok to become a tax exile to avoid tax (around £4 billion). This is typical of the Reform universe: avoid tax, let public services rot, blame immigrants. #radcliffe #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

What I’ve learnt from today’s news so far: humans are far less intelligent than we assumed; cows are more intelligent than we assumed. Conclusion: stop eating cows, start eating humans. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

How I agree with John Lanchester. School put me off Shakespeare and Jane Austen, two authors I took decades to come back to and now adore. The UK education (and exam) system kills so much joy. And I was a headteacher. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Athelstan’s tomb lies in a dusty corner of Malmesbury Abbey, almost overlooked. But then he never had a Bayeaux Tapestry. #r4today open.spotify.com/episode/0cyI...

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My album of the year: ‘Drones’ by Workhouse Disko. Almost nothing happens. It’s like an evening sky, a desert at dawn, the smell of fresh laundry, or floating out on a boat on a bay and waking up to the roar of a helicopter over your head, miles from land.

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Celebrity ‘In Our Time’? Is nothing sacred?

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

For all this celebration of Jane Austen, I rarely hear mention of how Darcy, or any of her wealthy protagonists, made their money. #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

And it should never be forgotten that at around the same time Dawn Sturgess died, the leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, was taking bribes from the same murderous regime that was responsible for her death. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Putin ‘morally responsible’ for Dawn Sturgess’s novichok death, inquiry finds

‘Overwhelming’ evidence that Russian state planned attack on former spy Sergei Skripal that led to Sturgess’s death in 2018, says chair

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Michael Gove suggests inequality made Britain more susceptible to the virus. And whose fault is that? #r4today

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Andrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Excellent news that the government will make it illegal to resell a concert ticket for higher than the original price. Why not apply this to housing? A landlord cannot charge more rent than the property costs to buy. #bbcwato

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