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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1h

Residents of the northern wastes who can no longer expect a modernised rail system may rejoice that the real people have a brand new clock thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/fash...

The Curmudgeon: Fashionably Late

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2h

Corporate buccaneers defying Health and Safety red tape is all very well until some rich people get killed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule

NTSB report finds OceanGate company did not adequately test submersible before 2023 voyage to wreck of Titanic

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 3h

When you're looking more and more like a one-term government, it's all the more important to safeguard those future directorships www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows

Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 3h

The kind of decision that opponents of assisted dying presumably wish had gone the other way www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK woman who travelled with husband to assisted dying clinic will not face charges

Louise Shackleton faced ‘excruciating pressure’ while awaiting decision of CPS, which said prosecution not in public interest

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 3h

Ditty dozen thejudge.me.uk/Raves/Raves_...

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

Astoundingly enough, it appears that liars, swindlers and thieves may on occasion bilk their creditors thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/debt...

The Curmudgeon: Debt of Honour

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

Well of all the surprising things

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 1d

People are losing trust in politicians and it's all the immigrants' fault www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood

Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migration

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

"a forensic examination of the shenanigans, rules flouting, and, in some cases, potential law breaking by Morgan McSweeney and the people around him"

Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

"... what Holden has accomplished is a detailed, meticulous exposure of right wing perfidy. It sounds like a dossier of damnation, and one whose evidence could form the basis of civil and legal cases against the Labour Party in general, and McSweeney and his boys in particular."

Uncovering Starmer's Fraudulent Politics

I was privileged enough to score an invite to Tuesday morning's presser for Paul Holden's The Fraud , a forensic examination of the shenanig...

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

Doubtless the CEO of Team Starmer will soon be recommending him for the Victoria Cross www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President granted the US’s highest civilian award to the far-right commentator who was assassinated in September

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 2d

One of the Farage Falange councillors who fell prey to sudden indisposition in the face of the work involved appears to have surfaced in Wales thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/poli...

The Curmudgeon: Political Animal

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently the juvenile who was put in charge of Warwickshire county council after the original leader found himself lacking in patriotic pluck and gumption has complained of being pushed in Nuneaton thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/poli...

The Curmudgeon: Political Rough and Tumble

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 3d

"could be asked" - sounds dashed robust www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 3d

For those who came in late, a minister of the Church of England confirms that God doesn't care about aptitude or value in His henchmen t.co/gRzhVfsnIs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/13/orthodoxy-and-women-in-the-anglican-church

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

A corpse and a robber baron fighting over a wasteland

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

Alongside pride and hatred, perhaps the most obtrusive Christian virtue is the ability to see past the beam in one's own eye in order to point out the mote in someone else's thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/bear...

The Curmudgeon: Bear Witness Unto the Truth

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

Just do what normal people do and bite your damn nails www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

‘Rashes, pain, blisters and bleeding’ … are we glossing over the dangers of manicures?

Gel and acrylic varnishes have been blamed for a host of unpleasant side-effects, stretching far beyond the fingertips. Some ingredients have been banned – but will that be enough to make the process ...

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

Besides the devastating originality of the joke, Graun cartoonist uses saltire sweatshirt to make Scotland part of England www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon

The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

A question of priorities, evidently

Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

You'll burn for ever if you don't do as you're told, but a slain and resurrected fundamentalist preacher might be able to help www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

"When the costume department tried to steer her in a different direction, Woody Allen intervened, telling them: 'Leave her. She’s a genius. Let her wear what she wants.'" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton’s style: she dodged the stamp of the machine

A world-class beauty who didn’t lead with her looks, she broke all the rules of celebrity dressing with a sunny smile

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

Rah www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK

Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 4d

Since the lawsuit is apparently over copyright, not "offence", it looks as if a) Forde's entire comment is a total irrelevance, and b) they could easily have got away with it by calling him Victoria Bore and changing the colour of the hat www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Spitting Image comics decry lawsuit over depiction of Paddington Bear

Al Murray and Matt Forde say action over portrayal as foul-mouthed drug addict is attack on freedom of expression

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 5d

"For the first time the right are open and honest about what they're about, and it's best for us to face them as they are ... There are no good Tories. Only class conscious defenders of a decaying system."

What Happened to One Nation Conservatism?

The jamboree of delusion and extremism that was Conservative Party conference birthed a small, fleeting genre of political centrist-to-soft...

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Philip Challinor @pchallinor.bsky.social · 5d

Britain's independence from the Strasbrussels dictatorship may not yet have brought quite the advertised benefits, but nearly half of His Majesty's subjects are still charitable enough to try and muddle through thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/even...

The Curmudgeon: Even A Border May Be Too Strong

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