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Lucy Abbotts
@lucyabbotts.bsky.social
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Words and humour. Not medicine but a tonic at least.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 4h
Exactly the write-up the mendacious buffoon deserves. May we never see his like again in any of the offices of state.
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“I understand the criticism that we should have planned better for school closures,” he eventually conceded, in the same bored tone one imagines he uses when mistresses ask him why he said he’d had a vasectomy." Chapeau @roberthutton.co.uk

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Boris’s children | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“My memory is now contaminated.” It was one of the more accurate statements we heard from Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning, though this is never a high bar. He was speaking, again…
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 5h
Stage 6: Nigel Farage says he’s never met you/you’re a bad apple/he’s stunned.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 5h
totes, and the big boy who did it and ran away should definitely fess up.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 5h
paging @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 5h
‘I’m the victim in all this, ok?’
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 14h
Even gophers observe the Queensberry Rules.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 15h
It’s actually stunning that any company would carry out this work. I imagine the hugely inflated amount they are no doubt receiving in payment, plus their ardent devotion to the cause, helps a little.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 15h
#BBCNews cannot believe that it has yet another manufactured story it can squeeze until the pips burst with which to smash Labour around the head.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 15h
It’s the Justin Webb school of devil’s advocacy. Ignore the blindingly obvious (and here actually gross) subtext and tease away at a tiny nicety, because it’s ‘interesting’. For people at the sharp end of such policy, there is nothing ‘interesting’ about it.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 15h
Low turnout is their best hope, and the absolute danger under FPTP.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 15h
He’s spouting off on #r4today now - Nick Robinson giving him a playful slap on the wrist.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 16h
‘Reform are feeling chipper because they anticipate arch-gullibility from voters in Caerphilly’ - fixed it for you, Chris Mason. #r4today #ObsessedWithReform
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 23h
That is some major side-eye.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 23h
Here’s a blow-by-blow account from another author. I’ve driven the section between Winchester and Petersfield, and it is stunning.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not obvious from the link, but there is a fun book all about this remarkable road.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Oh for shame it’s the A272!
(not actually so good at highbrow after all)

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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
It’s the A252 of the north-east.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
[two Spidermen (mans?) gif]
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Well done #BBCFrontRow for finding two interviewees who are evangelical about AI’s uses in music. No pushback whatever as the idea of people writing background music is pooh-pooed. ‘I can’t really sing but just listen to me go here!’
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Well… a lot of is is down to ex-colleagues positing that it’s a fair explanation of his transformation from a rational-ish sort to the slavering attack dog of today.

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Owen Jones has thoughts. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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'Robert Jenrick has been radicalised,' says Tory colleague
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Lewis Goodall who I think is bang on the money talks generally about the sense that Jenrick has been radicalised / he used to be a relatively sensible MP and has got madder and nastier. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/jenr...
'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents
Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make prac...
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Correct, apologies. Deleted. I was aiming for this point - legal rights are legal rights, and the suggestion that these should be winnowed away according to political dogma is grotesque.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Superb line.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Opinion is divided as to whether Jenrick is an opportunist mouthpiece or actually radicalised. Lam is definitely happy to fan those same flames whilst cosplaying intellectual sophistry. What an abject waste of a classy education.
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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 1d
Totally, it’s both and more!
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