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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 14h

Brilliant!

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Fish-slapping dance saved Michael Palin in Venezuela

The actor, writer and traveller told the Cheltenham Literary Festival that guards holding him at gunpoint let him go after looking up his Monty Python sketches online

www.thetimes.com

chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 2d

Really good to hear this and sounds like a tragedy was averted - it’s a very remote part of the world

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 2d

I get invited to an increasing number of “fireside chats”. Were these ever actually a thing in the days when buildings had fireplaces?

chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 4d

Great piece but very sad to replay what happened to the once wonderful platform

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

bylinetimes.com

chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 7d

Flag makers in China, presumably

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7d

"Flaggy" as an adjective (as in "We never used to be a particularly flaggy nation....")

Blessed are the flagmakers as the UK pivots to patriotism

Intensified competition to prove devotion to king and country has ushered in good times for those in the business

www.ft.com

chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 8d

And this on the same day…

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit

In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the "last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave".

www.bbc.com

chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 9d

Kemi you’re an idiot

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d

Badenoch pledges to ditch flagship UK climate change law on.ft.com/4nY4qWv

Badenoch pledges to ditch flagship UK climate change law

Tory leader reaches out to voters hit by high energy bills but faces backlash from business and within the party

on.ft.com

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 13d

Let’s go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 13d

The Sunday Times: I think we can pull this round, says Starmer #TomorrowsPapersToday

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 20d

In an article riddled with spelling mistakes. Has Newsweek gone downhill too?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Owning inarticulate liberal kids in mass audience settings for the sake of producing viral videos isn’t real engagement, much less education,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes about Charlie Kirk. “Did Kirk ever lose an argument, at least in his own mind?”

Opinion | Our Vanishing Culture of Argument

What the University of Chicago might have taught Charlie Kirk — and the rest of us.

nyti.ms

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 26d

“It was Ted Heath, then the Conservative leader of the opposition, who sacked Enoch Powell in 1968 — at a time when 74 per cent of the public agreed with Powell’s sentiments”

www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong

A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

www.ft.com

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · 27d

Second imagine walking along a street in the first place

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 11

10 months late to this very good thread

Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · Nov 13

That’s me in the hard hat, in front of the bucket of a terrifyingly enormous digger.
What you can’t really tell from the picture is that my head was spinning.
I’d just had one of those moments that change your life forever.
It would set me off on a journey around the world…!🧵

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 10

“What we so often describe as politics is, in fact, a series of shoves: splenetic, emotional and with a wilful blindness to consequence that can be exploited by those with a clear destination in mind” - chilling but important read from @jonathanliew.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew

The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tried U for United Kingdom. Then B for Britain. Then G for Great Britain. Was about to give up then finally noticed this….

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think a Mr Benn approach would be better. We can all go through a magic door into a world we want to live in (and not interfere with people trying to make a success of the actual world)

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 7

Disgraceful.

Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · Sep 7

“A former fracking executive, Mr. Wright said the focus in the United States to transition away from fossil fuels had hurt the country.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

www.nytimes.com

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 6

What a great dream! Hope he played a standard-issue 3hr long Cure set!

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Despite ethical concerns”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 5

Breaking News: President Trump said that next year’s Group of 20 summit would be held at the resort he owns, the Trump Doral, in Florida, despite ethical concerns.

G20 Summit in 2026 to Be Held at Trump’s Club Near Miami, President Announces

www.nytimes.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 5

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 5

"We are the patriotic party" says Nigel Farage, who just spent the past few days slagging off his own country to a foreign superpower, while encouraging them to impose sanctions on our economy if we don't do what they say

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Have I understood these new UK road markings correctly?

chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 4

I also went straight to the Sky News website and found nothing. (Tried to @ them but they’re not on here…)

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chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Obviously in the interests of impartiality this should be considered alongside an opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Sep 4

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

chasbuduo @chasbuduo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Another natural resource where humanity is living beyond its means: alarming

Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · Sep 3

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Humanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drier

Research shows vast portions of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. Groundwater depletion accounts for two-thirds of the continents' water losses, contributing to rising oceans.

www.latimes.com