Gareth0108
@gareth0108.bsky.social
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gareth0108.bsky.social
or after getting electrocuted his insurance would cover and ambulance or a hearse (gawd bless our NHS)
gareth0108.bsky.social
government by tabloid headline
gareth0108.bsky.social
Have you tried changing your name to bob wade?
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
www.monbiot.com
gareth0108.bsky.social
Iain M Banks culture series are some of the best espionage novels ever written
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
gareth0108.bsky.social
Just have a cheese and marmite toastie and stop faffing about
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peterjukes.bsky.social
This goes even higher up. Forget Medvedchuk. Forget Medvedev

According to former Brexit Party MEP and defected Reform MP Rupert Lowe, the individuals at Gill's meetings claimed to be "close to Putin"
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paulbernal.bsky.social
I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4
gareth0108.bsky.social
It's the manufacturing robot redundancies all over again but this time it's going to hit white collar workers and traditional professions like law are right in the firing line
gareth0108.bsky.social
that’s a great description almost all the jobs in our service economy,Royal mail could not survive to send the important stuff without junk mail & unless clerks are adding junk to spreadsheets no one will read more than once our entire fake system collapses that’s why people are scared of AI
gareth0108.bsky.social
Deeply depressing to read the usual suspects in economic reporting writing the usual guff based on the idea that lawson and Greenspan are unassailable yea PJ the economist I'm looking at you

Economics is not a force of nature other ideas may work much better
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defencebrief.bsky.social
It was Tory ministers who allowed these people get where they did. If I were Badenoch I'd shut the feck up.

BBC News - Badenoch demands PM address 'unanswered' China spy case questions
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Badenoch demands PM address 'unanswered' China spy case questions
In a letter to Starmer, the Tory leader claimed his government's account of the collapsed case had "changed repeatedly".
www.bbc.com
gareth0108.bsky.social
Particularly the PPE so beloved of would be politicians
gareth0108.bsky.social
She is so amazingly bad at every part of the job
gareth0108.bsky.social
Britain’s problems will start to be resolved when a Government has the courage to admit Nigel Lawson’s reforms were known to be risky and have proven to be disastrous and we need to start the reversal process now!
gareth0108.bsky.social
labour didn’t even have the courage to force the Tufton St mob to show their funding, restart Leveson and go deeper into Russian interference in our political life . the manifesto was pathetic in its lack of ideas and courage why would anyone be interested in how much of it they’ve achieved?
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ehijacked.bsky.social
It’s time to drag this story out of the shadows.
It’s time that Russia’s malign influence on British politics was properly investigated.
Agree? Add your name here.

@writesbright.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
It’s time for a REAL Russia report
Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.
open.substack.com
gareth0108.bsky.social
let’s be honest here the public are struggling financially,the public are having to receive benefits to survive and you’re shouting at boats arresting grannies at protests and calling your own supporters scroungers while fiddling around the economic edges like blair did.
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Political journalists didn’t set out to become clients of power – they just slipped into it. Half-truths, soft questions and silence bought with access. Read this analysis on how deference has turned to complicity ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social
How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight
We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.
gareth0108.bsky.social
what 5 events defined your childhood

thatcher the milk
snatcher

miners strike

falklands war

IRA bombs

winter of discontent
paulbernal.bsky.social
What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Thatcher stealing my milk
Vietnam war
Star Wars
The Clash
topsyscatmum.bsky.social
What five events defined your childhood?

Poll tax riots
Brixton riots
Fall of the Berlin wall
Sex Pistols
Jaws/Grease/Poltergeist
gareth0108.bsky.social
It turned out that while all the look out crows could cry "car" "car" none of them could say "lorry" or "bus " or even "coach"