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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 49m

If I misidentified the "M" in TIME Magazine for a tiny crown on my head, I would delete my social media account and find all new friends who didn't know me, and this guy is just going to go back to being president tomorrow

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

Trump doesn’t like the photo lol

Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 16h

New from me in @thewinesociety.bsky.social October member newsletter: adding up the human cost of #wine for the workers who pick the grapes: www.thewinesociety.com/sustainabili...

The human cost of wine | The Wine Society

Who picked the grapes that went into the wine in your glass and how fairly were they treated?

www.thewinesociety.com

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah - just a bit alarming when it’s the US President

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

New from me in Club Oenoloqique: facing up to #wine’s biggest challenge, sustainability cluboenologique.com/story/rooted...

Facing up to wine’s biggest challenge

This extract from new book 'Rooted in Change' explains why it’s time for the wine industry to get to grips with sustainability – and what the future could look like

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

New from me in Club Oenoloqique: facing up to #wine’s biggest challenge, sustainability cluboenologique.com/story/rooted...

Facing up to wine’s biggest challenge

This extract from new book 'Rooted in Change' explains why it’s time for the wine industry to get to grips with sustainability – and what the future could look like

cluboenologique.com

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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 2d

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The message from Robert Jenrick has been clear. If you’re a far-right thug threatening migrants, refugees, or Muslims, then your rights to protest are to be protected at all costs. If you’re not then they won’t
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-descen...

The Descent of Robert Jenrick

The Shadow Justice Secretary's transformation from a 'Generic' moderate Conservative to the Great Hope of the far-right should alarm us all

www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 2d

You… you don’t mean he’s just a cowardly, bullshitting bully, surely?

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 2d

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 3d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 3d

New by me in The Drinks Business today: how Simpson’s Wine Estate are leading the way in English still #wine www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/10/simp...

Simpson's to dedicate 60% of its grapes towards English still wines

Kent producer Simpson's says the warmer weather this year has led to "riper and fuller flavours" that lend themselves especially well to producing still wines, writes Andrew Neather.

www.thedrinksbusiness.com

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3d

It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.

But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm… I was in press room in Blackpool for the Standard, writing our main final edition leader as he spoke. I checked in by phone with our v Tory ed when he finished speaking, said it was going to be highly critical. She was outraged by IDS’s feebleness and told me to make the leader even tougher!

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🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @touchtoomuch.bsky.social · 4d

Chris Mason is essentially the political equivalent of a gossip columnist or football commentator. There’s no substantive analysis or insight, it’s all predicated upon who’s up and who’s down. Utterly vacuous, shallow guff.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 4d

IDS in 2003? The Quiet Man speech was surely one of the most universally derided leaders’ speeches ever!

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4d

If somebody told you that a worm had eaten part of RFJ Jr's brain, you absolutely would believe them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d

‘Should Argentina fail, Uruguay would suffer the equivalent of a hurricane, presenting the coalition government with a serious challenge.’

Forrest Hylton on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Forrest Hylton | Across the Rio de la Plata

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to the...

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 4d

News from me in Drinks Retailing
News on a key sustainability issue: It’s time to switch from glass bottles for mass-market #wines drinksretailingnews.co.uk/opinion-its-...

Opinion: It’s time to switch from glass bottles - Drinks Retailing

Glass still dominates UK wine shelves, yet bottles account for around 40% of wine’s carbon footprint. With alternative formats gaining momentum, Andy Neather asks whether it’s time for the trade to br...

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 4d

For the record…

Truth social TOS says dms are not encrypted.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 4d

Astonishing piece about #Putin’s huge vanity #wine project, Krinitsa, just down the road from his vast and staggeringly vulgar Black Sea palace, Gelendzhik. The fruits of kleptocracy in a mafia state, on a grand scale theins.ru/en/inv/28560...

War and wine: While Russia bleeds money and battles drones, Putin's wine business is booming

The Krinitsa winery, just down the road from Putin's Gelendzhik palace, is estimated to be worth over 27 billion rubles ($330 million), making it Russia's most valuable winemaking operation. Plans are...

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 4d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

The National Union of Journalists condemns the Conservative Party's decision to ban myself and David Hencke from their conference as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 5d

My blog is out: The fight to take the chemicals out of Champagne: #Champagne remains one of French #wine's heaviest pesticide users. But organic producers have a different vision. Plus: my top @thewinesociety.bsky.social recommendations
aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

The fight to take the chemicals out of Champagne

Champagne remains one of French wine's heaviest pesticide users. But organic producers have a different vision. Plus: my top Wine Society recommendations

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