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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 41m

I was not prepared for how excited my mother and sister would be to visit a big Marks & Spencer’s (Shoreham). It’s like they had sugar high, the whites of their eyes gleaming.

My mother actually barged an old woman out the way to purchase 3x £30 Advent Calendars consisting of scented candles.

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 2h

Keep the customer satisfied

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 3h

Just once someone should just deck the contrarian prick.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 4h

But of course he does

Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 19h

"Is there anything to be said for another mass?”

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Macron reappoints Lecornu as French PM after days of turmoil

Sébastien Lecornu resigned on Monday after 26 days in the job and he said two days later his "mission is over".

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 22h

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Has all the hallmarks of a classic Nationalist policy, the opening sentence reading 'When the Britishers give us £50bn, we will then...'

Plaid promises free childcare if it wins Senedd election

Plaid will offer 20 hours of care for all families if it wins the next Senedd election, leader says.

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 22h

They’re both total grifters, this is all for the cash. Even Farage is in this for long term health sector payouts. Immigration is how he gets there.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Richard Tice accepted stay at French Riviera home of Tory donor

Reform deputy leader’s trip, worth £1,400, to Lubov Chernukhin’s property was for ‘discussing gas power in UK’ Reform UK’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, accepted a £1,400 stay at the French Riviera home of Lubov Chernukhin, a Conservative donor and the wife of Russia’s former deputy finance minister, new filings show. Tice enjoyed accommodation valued at £1,000 and meals worth £400 between 4 and 6 August at the Chernukhins’ property on the Mediterranean coast, listing the purpose as “discussing gas power in the UK”, according to the register of MPs’ interests. Continue reading...

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 23h

Superb

AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 1d

The seemingly neverending admiration for themselves as fearless, pioneering and obviously quite brilliant masters of the "transformative power of comedy" put me in mind of Peter Cook's comment about the "wonderful satirical Berlin cabarets, which did so much to stop the rise of Adolf Hitler".

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

Friday business

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 1d

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! Yes, Donald Trump, Tony Blair, Benjamin Netanyahu and a litany of private equity firms - it really would be the bleakest win.

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

Given the amount of Tory/Reform Wazzos that refer to him as 'that Muslim PM', I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he never comes back.

Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

This year, I was asked to procure some Matcha for my GF, and I made the mistake of picking up a large bag of the stuff off the shelf and taking it to the till. It was £60. I now feel like I got in early on Bitcoin.

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

This seems to be going well.
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Gen Z faces ‘job-pocalypse’ as global firms prioritise AI over new hires, report says

British Standards Institution study across seven countries found quarter of bosses believe entry-level tasks could be automated to reduce costs

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

It's Euromillions day, so naturally I took a quick look at Rightmove - I think this place near Stroud will do this week. The interior design is a little severe, but nothing some actual art and a staffy dog can't solve (naturally, no TV featured). www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

7 bedroom detached house for sale in The Green, Edge, Painswick, Gloucestershire, GL6 for £3,500,000. Marketed by Strutt and Parker, Cirencester

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

Something tells me the Guinness drama isn't going to get to the bit where the Guinnesses are firmly rooted in the English upper classes and end up with the Mitfords/Mosleys.

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

This guy?

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

#1 Glup Shitto

Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 1d

From the Original Trilogy to the Sequels and beyond, #StarWars is a franchise filled with iconic heroes and villains.

Join Team Empire as we run through 50 of the greatest characters from that galaxy far, far away...

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

The same guy who said it was gateway eugenics to object to incest on grounds of increased risk of heritable disease or disabili-... oh for goodness' sake what am I doing here, the man's just catastrophically mentally ill.

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

In many of his pieces he keeps reiterating a point about levels of desirability equating to worth. Missing the point that the equal worth of lives is about how we treat people, not about how pleasing it is to be deaf.

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 1d

If he is trying to make any overall point at all, it’s that a person's subjective quality of life is theirs to decide, but that has no bearing on sanctity of life? It's the insistence of equating "quality of life" with "worthiness of life" that sends him territory that any sane human finds repellant

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