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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 11h

I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not

My column www.ft.com/content/f086...

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 10h

If the experience of my planning reforms is anything to go by I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about these PX proposals making the statute book.

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 11h

I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not

My column www.ft.com/content/f086...

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 9h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 20% full.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Prediction: Danny Kruger and Nigel Farage will fall out by Christmas and Kruger will either form his own party or be an independent by this time next year.

It's called "Carswell's law."

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Rupert @roopth.bsky.social · 1d

Are you... [Light cough]... writing something?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

The Times has fallen so far. While it still has many great writers, it is increasingly a vehicle for its Mail-brained editor’s obsessive prejudices

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses.

Needs a new editor badly.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

Increasingly I think the point of a wealth tax is not to raise money but to create space for raising income tax. The lethal thing in politics is when the compliant middle class feels like they have been taken for mugs; if you want to get money out of them, someone else needs to pay more too.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Sorry I can't get over this but it's just so funny to say "The test starts off with giraffes and elephants but the questions get way harder than that"

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 2d

Chonk

Leona Scream @editor.scot · 2d

the National Trust said it’s an unprecedented year for acorns and I love this for him

A very rotund squirrel holding an acorn in his paws and looking very happy. He is surrounded by piles of acorns

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Rupert @roopth.bsky.social · 2d

Au contraire...

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Angus Mmmbrains @angusmain.bsky.social · 3d

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

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Lucky Dog Hot Sauce @luckydoghotsauce.bsky.social · 3d

A drawing in the Romanesque style, showing an image that looks like Keith Richards smoking a cigarette and playing a loot with the caption “the earliest known image of Keith Richard C.1140 CE”

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 4d

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 4d

Happy Oven Clock Telling The Right Time Again Day to all who celebrate.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 4d

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 4d

"MINEFIELDS AHEAD" umm, I think you might have stepped on a few blatantly racist ones already Tim.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

Montie gives Pochin the benefit of his wisdom.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 4d

I found a capybara pebble🤎

Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen

A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

Found out about this one from the Labour press release condemning it, and it was a real trip to learn that this wasn’t “a Labour staffer with a tape recorder at a private event” story but a “she just said it on national TV” story.