Rick
@flipchartrick.bsky.social
Nottingham-born West Londoner. Author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog. Patient #NFFC supporter.
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It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red
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beginning to believe I would actually vote for a dead pigeon on a stick if it just promised to restore the fuel duty escalator
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
beginning to believe I would actually vote for a dead pigeon on a stick if it just promised to restore the fuel duty escalator
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Working on my new @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social column, working title: "Get Ready for the Worst World Cup Ever" 🙄
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Working on my new @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social column, working title: "Get Ready for the Worst World Cup Ever" 🙄
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Auntie In The Dock: my SKETCH of Today in People Who Love The BBC And Definitely Didn't Leak Anything To The Telegraph.
Auntie in the dock | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“I have been defined by these two years at Number 10,” Robbie Gibb complained, sounding for all the world like the chap in the joke who only shagged one sheep. How dare anyone suggest that this…
thecritic.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Auntie In The Dock: my SKETCH of Today in People Who Love The BBC And Definitely Didn't Leak Anything To The Telegraph.
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How Farage feels about Putin: in his own words | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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There's a really fantastic piece to be written on the way that social media makes some people believe they are in a customer service relationship with the people they are talking to online.
I want to make something very clear to everyone: I do not work for you. You don't sign my paychecks and the expectation that I do is frankly insane. Go away.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There's a really fantastic piece to be written on the way that social media makes some people believe they are in a customer service relationship with the people they are talking to online.
“This very beautiful party…”
He’s starting to talk like Trump.
He’s starting to talk like Trump.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“This very beautiful party…”
He’s starting to talk like Trump.
He’s starting to talk like Trump.
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Well that’s sunk what little might have been left of Chris Mason’s repution.
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Well that’s sunk what little might have been left of Chris Mason’s repution.
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🔴Nigel Farage’s ‘Project 2029’: The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage’s meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising him while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage’s meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising him while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain
Nigel Farage's 'Project 2029': The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage's meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising the Reform leader while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agen...
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🔴Nigel Farage’s ‘Project 2029’: The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage’s meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising him while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage’s meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising him while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain
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Imagine picking fights about duty and honor with this man.
They’re so fucking stupid.
They’re so fucking stupid.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Imagine picking fights about duty and honor with this man.
They’re so fucking stupid.
They’re so fucking stupid.
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But if governments keep steering policy by what IS popular today, they will sail in circles and never navigate to a better destination...
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
But if governments keep steering policy by what IS popular today, they will sail in circles and never navigate to a better destination...
Now we’re supposed to be taking Zack Polanski seriously, has anybody had a proper look at the Green Party’s tax policies? This ‘NI on investment income’ that will raise £6bn’ - does that include private pension income?
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Now we’re supposed to be taking Zack Polanski seriously, has anybody had a proper look at the Green Party’s tax policies? This ‘NI on investment income’ that will raise £6bn’ - does that include private pension income?
Get the government and public sector accounts off this toxic platform.
Now.
Now.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Get the government and public sector accounts off this toxic platform.
Now.
Now.
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In the 15 years Labour have entertained Glasman, I cannot think of one single occasion where he has publicly criticised attacks on working class people, shown working class people solidarity, supported a single working class struggle.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In the 15 years Labour have entertained Glasman, I cannot think of one single occasion where he has publicly criticised attacks on working class people, shown working class people solidarity, supported a single working class struggle.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
Though he helped to create the situation we’re now in.
Oh dear, God, Hannan said something sensible.
The one and only time Daniel Hannan has got something right
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Though he helped to create the situation we’re now in.
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Oh dear, God, Hannan said something sensible.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Oh dear, God, Hannan said something sensible.
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The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
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Martin Wolf on our essay. "So, what do I hope for from Wednesday’s Budget? Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy. I do not expect it. It may already be too late. But, without that, it is hard to be optimistic about the UK’s future."
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
How to get the UK out of its economic hole
Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Martin Wolf on our essay. "So, what do I hope for from Wednesday’s Budget? Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy. I do not expect it. It may already be too late. But, without that, it is hard to be optimistic about the UK’s future."
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
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Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
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 8:07 PM
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
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I ask again why any Government is still on X.
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I ask again why any Government is still on X.
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
Another cracker from @chrisdillow.bsky.social.
Despite the recent fall, the UK’s employment rate is still near its record high. To improve productivity growth and have any hope of meeting our Net Zero targets, we need labour reallocation.
Despite the recent fall, the UK’s employment rate is still near its record high. To improve productivity growth and have any hope of meeting our Net Zero targets, we need labour reallocation.
New substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-fiscal... The government's problem isn't merely how to raise tax: it's the more difficult one of reallocating labour.
The fiscal challenge
Reeves' problem isn't raising money: it's much more difficult than that.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Another cracker from @chrisdillow.bsky.social.
Despite the recent fall, the UK’s employment rate is still near its record high. To improve productivity growth and have any hope of meeting our Net Zero targets, we need labour reallocation.
Despite the recent fall, the UK’s employment rate is still near its record high. To improve productivity growth and have any hope of meeting our Net Zero targets, we need labour reallocation.
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Refreshing bluntness from @chrisdillow.bsky.social on why we need both higher taxes on the better off (not the rich) and for quite a lot of people to lose their jobs
open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...
open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...
The fiscal challenge
Reeves' problem isn't raising money: it's much more difficult than that.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Refreshing bluntness from @chrisdillow.bsky.social on why we need both higher taxes on the better off (not the rich) and for quite a lot of people to lose their jobs
open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...
open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...
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Never fails to make me smile the way politicians understand the problem of short time horizons and embrace the 'objective of getting government to think further forward' once they are.... no longer politicians. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Mend broken budgets or Britain goes bust
Our system of five-year OBR forecasts means chancellors don’t worry much what happens after, but that’s the road to ruin
www.thetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Never fails to make me smile the way politicians understand the problem of short time horizons and embrace the 'objective of getting government to think further forward' once they are.... no longer politicians. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point: