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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 20h

The “Revolting” door

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 20h

Why didn’t Biden release the Epstein Files when in office?

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 20h

Would you support or oppose Prince Andrew (Duke of York) being stripped of his dukedom?

Support: 80%
Oppose: 6%

Via @yougov.co.uk, 21 Oct.

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 20h

One of the strangest ground developments. “I know, let’s build a supermarket in the corner of the away end”

“You only sing when you’re shopping”

Burnden Park - home of Bolton Wanderers FC

Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 1d

It is not “heat” but hot air that rises. The elderly should just live above politicians😜

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps he will have “cultural immunity?” I am sure her “racial purity laws” will have exemptions

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 1d

Or the UK? Monarchy or politician? Though I suppose we did chop a King’s head off once!

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 1d

Given all the blitzes we have had over the years there surely cannot be any red tape left😛

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 1d

The latest

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting GB team with no-one from Wigan Selected. That must be a rarity.

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 1d

Bread Knife is cockney rhyming slang for wife - not sure what relevance that has but shared anyway.

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 2d

Running a business is nothing like running a government. Nor is government the same as running a household budget!

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 2d

Here come the latest distraction tactic

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Christ alive. If we, as a nation, can’t do better than this nasty, stale-breathed, stale-minded, racist misogynist prick, then what the hell are we doing? Leading in the polls??
FFS. Sort yourself out, UK.

Photo of Farage being interviewed by Mishal Husain.

Because he feels uncomfortable about his position on Putin, he replies to her…

‘Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard….’

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 4d

Not to mention football hooliganism at its most virulent from the mid 1970s.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 5d

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 4d

Projection

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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 4d

Things that are simultaneously true:

Antisemitism exists in U.K. & must end

Maccabi fanbase incl a hardcore racist hooligan faction

U.K. policing has been substantially under-resourced for years

PMs & Home Secs should stay out of operational decisions made by police forces

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4d

How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 6d

But does suggest the need to refocus employability and in and out of work employment support for those in receipt of disability and sickness related benefits.

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 6d

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 6d

What a ridiculous half baked and completely uninformative report on BBC news from Mason just now. The absolute antithesis of quality journailism. Bumbling, unintelligible gibberish.

#bbcnews

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 7d

Keir Starmer calling Kemi Badenoch's bluff over the China spy case in PMQs: she's made serious allegations, govt clearly thinks she can't stand them up, & so far the vibe is fairly 'person on X who doesn't know the law, arguing with a lawyer'

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milominder @milominder.bsky.social · 7d

Badenoch: Cheese or ham?

Starmer: Cheese

Badenoch: Ahhh, but is it cheese or ham? I smell a stitch-up!?

Starmer: Cheese.

Badenoch: But which is it?

Starmer: Cheese

Badenoch: At last, an answer. But I'm still unclear?

Starmer: Cheese

*continues forever*

She's such a brainless moron. #PMQs

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