Alistair King
@alistairking.bsky.social
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Alistair King
@alistairking.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Nice to see my follower count rise. My policy is to follow back people I know from elsewhere and generally follow others after there's been a bit of interaction. If I haven't followed you back despite knowing you, it's probably because you're using a different photo. Just like this and I'll rectify.
What I said after an argument as a parting shot to Morten Harket and his mates when they were working as bouncers at a really shit pub:
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What I said after an argument as a parting shot to Morten Harket and his mates when they were working as bouncers at a really shit pub:
I'm not defending what I imagine is a flawed budget that everyone will hate for many often conflicting reasons but, just out of interest and as a genuine question to experts, what would be the key points of a budget that...?
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm not defending what I imagine is a flawed budget that everyone will hate for many often conflicting reasons but, just out of interest and as a genuine question to experts, what would be the key points of a budget that...?
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
- Is liked by Labour's base
- Liked by business
- Liked by voters at large
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Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
🎶 Ob-la-di, OBR
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎶 Ob-la-di, OBR
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
Life goes on, brah
La-la, how the life goes on
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I can't stop singing it.
1/2
Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
Dismissal of the mounting evidence against Farage - and witness accounts ARE evidence, at least in law - has moved into the realms of pigheaded denial. You can think he's changed - and who knows, maybe he has* - but batting the stories away as politically motivated just isn't good enough.
*Ha.
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During today’s Budget, all I ask is that just one MP stands up and shouts “that’s Numberwang!”
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
During today’s Budget, all I ask is that just one MP stands up and shouts “that’s Numberwang!”
Friends had SO many good lines, didn’t it? And I think it’s because they often have real-life applications.
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Friends had SO many good lines, didn’t it? And I think it’s because they often have real-life applications.
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
One that’s just popped into my head is Chandler, in quiet desperation, saying to Rachel: “I’m sure you’re right but WHY?”
It wasn’t very clear why it came to mind but then it occurred to me:
I found it, lads, on my cycle to work: a van with stickers that make the 'honk if you want a blowjob' one that Jay bought for Simon in The Inbetweeners look like T. S. Eliot. The one in the bottom left-hand corner is the nadir for me but you might suggest another contender.
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I found it, lads, on my cycle to work: a van with stickers that make the 'honk if you want a blowjob' one that Jay bought for Simon in The Inbetweeners look like T. S. Eliot. The one in the bottom left-hand corner is the nadir for me but you might suggest another contender.
Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
Imagine a British newspaper having a political position and then running a story it believes to be true that could serve that position. Whatever next?! No wonder Nigel Farage - who, unrelatedly, enjoys such prominence because of our tame and sometimes supportive media - is so pissed off. #r4today.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Imagine a British newspaper having a political position and then running a story it believes to be true that could serve that position. Whatever next?! No wonder Nigel Farage - who, unrelatedly, enjoys such prominence because of our tame and sometimes supportive media - is so pissed off. #r4today.
Six years ago today according to Facebook. This was the end of a work trip to Lisbon. The laughter of my colleague who filmed it is priceless.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Six years ago today according to Facebook. This was the end of a work trip to Lisbon. The laughter of my colleague who filmed it is priceless.
This is Percy, a sausage dog my colleague often brings into the office. A few minutes ago, while chatting to the same colleague, Percy wandered over. Trying to lift him on to my lap, I cackhandedly dropped him, before quipping that I'd become a Percy Thrower, a joke I feel deserves a wider audience.
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is Percy, a sausage dog my colleague often brings into the office. A few minutes ago, while chatting to the same colleague, Percy wandered over. Trying to lift him on to my lap, I cackhandedly dropped him, before quipping that I'd become a Percy Thrower, a joke I feel deserves a wider audience.
Neither of my children use capital letters that aren’t auto-generated or punctuation in text messages, and it’s rare - and unheard of, in the case of my son - for them to sign off with kisses. But apart from that, great scam!
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Neither of my children use capital letters that aren’t auto-generated or punctuation in text messages, and it’s rare - and unheard of, in the case of my son - for them to sign off with kisses. But apart from that, great scam!
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All this stuff about Farage peddling conspiracies with Alex Jones, people saying he was racist at school, his party is filled with Russian money, and he has questions to answer and fucking Hell, have we learned nothing? He won’t own up and no-one will make him, he’ll just glide off untouched, again
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
All this stuff about Farage peddling conspiracies with Alex Jones, people saying he was racist at school, his party is filled with Russian money, and he has questions to answer and fucking Hell, have we learned nothing? He won’t own up and no-one will make him, he’ll just glide off untouched, again
Interesting piece on a unification referendum: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n.... I’m with the Irish on flags. Imagine the abomination! Also, the orange in the tricolour already represents Protestants, which, as an aside, always amuses me when fans add it to Celtic kits to emphasise the Irishness.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Interesting piece on a unification referendum: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n.... I’m with the Irish on flags. Imagine the abomination! Also, the orange in the tricolour already represents Protestants, which, as an aside, always amuses me when fans add it to Celtic kits to emphasise the Irishness.
The same people who think vaccines cause autism think neurodivergence is over-diagnosed. Logically, these aren’t wholly incompatible beliefs, but do they not stop and question the irony?
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The same people who think vaccines cause autism think neurodivergence is over-diagnosed. Logically, these aren’t wholly incompatible beliefs, but do they not stop and question the irony?
'Choosing'... lol.
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
'Choosing'... lol.
Farage's assertion that there's 'no evidence' is factually inaccurate. A witness statement, in English law at least, IS evidence, even if it's not proof. Whether to believe it would be down to a court. Of course, this isn't yet a legal matter, but it would be if Farage sued for libel - and he won't.
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Farage's assertion that there's 'no evidence' is factually inaccurate. A witness statement, in English law at least, IS evidence, even if it's not proof. Whether to believe it would be down to a court. Of course, this isn't yet a legal matter, but it would be if Farage sued for libel - and he won't.
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Most of the public know what’s going on with flags on lamp posts.
Crucially for the government, 78% of its 2024 voters think anti-minority sentiment is involved in flying England flags (versus just 15% who think it’s just a national pride thing).
They are getting the politics of this all wrong.
Crucially for the government, 78% of its 2024 voters think anti-minority sentiment is involved in flying England flags (versus just 15% who think it’s just a national pride thing).
They are getting the politics of this all wrong.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Most of the public know what’s going on with flags on lamp posts.
Crucially for the government, 78% of its 2024 voters think anti-minority sentiment is involved in flying England flags (versus just 15% who think it’s just a national pride thing).
They are getting the politics of this all wrong.
Crucially for the government, 78% of its 2024 voters think anti-minority sentiment is involved in flying England flags (versus just 15% who think it’s just a national pride thing).
They are getting the politics of this all wrong.
‘Fish and chips just £14.25’, says a chalkboard outside an O’Neill’s pub on Euston Road. Maybe we should change the symbol for our currency to ‘Just£’ and we won’t feel the effects of inflation.
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
‘Fish and chips just £14.25’, says a chalkboard outside an O’Neill’s pub on Euston Road. Maybe we should change the symbol for our currency to ‘Just£’ and we won’t feel the effects of inflation.
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“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
Cute how, reporting on the owner of the Mail buying the the Telegraph, a Radio 4 newsreader has just described both papers as “right-leaning”. If I leant as far as they lean, I’d either fall over or have the strongest leg muscles in mammalian history.
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Cute how, reporting on the owner of the Mail buying the the Telegraph, a Radio 4 newsreader has just described both papers as “right-leaning”. If I leant as far as they lean, I’d either fall over or have the strongest leg muscles in mammalian history.
yesterday’s NYT Connections, which broke my 50-day streak. I got yellow and saw the cocktails connection but there were two false positives with that and the Pixar connection I suspected but didn’t know well enough. As for purple… Scarf? Fucking scarf? Even Americans don’t pronounce scoff like that.
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
yesterday’s NYT Connections, which broke my 50-day streak. I got yellow and saw the cocktails connection but there were two false positives with that and the Pixar connection I suspected but didn’t know well enough. As for purple… Scarf? Fucking scarf? Even Americans don’t pronounce scoff like that.