General Boles
@generalboles.bsky.social
Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
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this is sensational: Tchenguiz is a renowned chancer
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
this is sensational: Tchenguiz is a renowned chancer
I don't want to come over all @instituteforgovernment.org.uk but I'm fairly sure it's the Chancellor who does this not an 80s ska / pop band
‘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 8:37 AM
I don't want to come over all @instituteforgovernment.org.uk but I'm fairly sure it's the Chancellor who does this not an 80s ska / pop band
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“OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top.”
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top.”
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Psi - if you haven’t seen Serpent Queen go watch it. It’s now on C4. Cracking period of French history and Samantha Morton is excellent.
Minnie Driver as Elizabeth I in series II is just, well, amazing.
Note - it’s not entirely accurate yeah whatever.
Minnie Driver as Elizabeth I in series II is just, well, amazing.
Note - it’s not entirely accurate yeah whatever.
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Psi - if you haven’t seen Serpent Queen go watch it. It’s now on C4. Cracking period of French history and Samantha Morton is excellent.
Minnie Driver as Elizabeth I in series II is just, well, amazing.
Note - it’s not entirely accurate yeah whatever.
Minnie Driver as Elizabeth I in series II is just, well, amazing.
Note - it’s not entirely accurate yeah whatever.
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There will come a day when I tire of reading about the Your Party uncivil war.
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There will come a day when I tire of reading about the Your Party uncivil war.
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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[I apologise in advance]. Fifteen years of prime ministerial travel ruined me for the real world. Planes held for you if there was traffic on the M25. No safety rules. When I flew on a real plane after a couple of years, I caused an incident because I'd forgotten you can't stand up on landing.
The one time I got to travel on a Prime Ministerial plane, the thing that sticks in my mind is that it turns out to be entirely OK to stand around chatting over a glass of champagne *while taxying to the runway*, so long as you sit down for the actual take-off. Any safety announcement? Forget it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
[I apologise in advance]. Fifteen years of prime ministerial travel ruined me for the real world. Planes held for you if there was traffic on the M25. No safety rules. When I flew on a real plane after a couple of years, I caused an incident because I'd forgotten you can't stand up on landing.
Can't believe they let that tasteless bird in the White House briefing room
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Can't believe they let that tasteless bird in the White House briefing room
It's my sad duty to announce they've reimagined Kind Hearts & Coronets with Glen Powell in the Dennis Price role www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBo...
How to Make a Killing | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It's my sad duty to announce they've reimagined Kind Hearts & Coronets with Glen Powell in the Dennis Price role www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBo...
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If you want the inside track on what’s been going on with Your Party, there is no one better than @meganekenyon.bsky.social
And as their inaugural conference looms this weekend, here she is getting to the bottom of what Jeremy Corbyn thinks about it all
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And as their inaugural conference looms this weekend, here she is getting to the bottom of what Jeremy Corbyn thinks about it all
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you want the inside track on what’s been going on with Your Party, there is no one better than @meganekenyon.bsky.social
And as their inaugural conference looms this weekend, here she is getting to the bottom of what Jeremy Corbyn thinks about it all
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And as their inaugural conference looms this weekend, here she is getting to the bottom of what Jeremy Corbyn thinks about it all
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
I was going to make a contrived joke about Mel & Kem challenging for number 1 but frankly I'm better than that conservativehome.com/2025/11/25/s...
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I was going to make a contrived joke about Mel & Kem challenging for number 1 but frankly I'm better than that conservativehome.com/2025/11/25/s...
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Something very sweet and also cognitively dissonant about this
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Something very sweet and also cognitively dissonant about this
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We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map
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Since I’m English, I don’t go in for Thanksgiving myself, but it’s a feast I happen to love, and this week I have a few suggestions for it, kicking off with the Turkey Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries that is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/turk...
Turkey Breast Stuffed With Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries
I know it might sound a bit of a faff, but take it from me that stuffing a whole double breast joint is very much easier than stuffing and rolling a single breast joint, as is more commonly found in s...
www.nigella.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Since I’m English, I don’t go in for Thanksgiving myself, but it’s a feast I happen to love, and this week I have a few suggestions for it, kicking off with the Turkey Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries that is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/turk...
We Used To Be A Proper Country (part 4,356) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Two-sip martinis – and IV infusion drips: Soho House’s CEO on how wellness replaced hedonism
It used to be all boozy lunches and late-night carousing. Now it’s hyperbaric chambers and longevity chat. Andrew Carnie, CEO of the private club, explains how life and trends have changed since the C...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
We Used To Be A Proper Country (part 4,356) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
There will come a day when I tire of reading about the Your Party uncivil war.
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There will come a day when I tire of reading about the Your Party uncivil war.
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Today is not that day.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
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Become an indentured labourer?
Dubai on a budget: How to visit the winter sun destination for less
Dubai on a budget: How to visit the winter sun destination for less
Dubai on a budget: How to visit the winter sun destination for less
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Become an indentured labourer?
"thank you all for coming, in a minute we'll show you the 'Wine Time Friday' rooms and as you'll see, we still haven't managed to get all the stains out of the carpet"
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"thank you all for coming, in a minute we'll show you the 'Wine Time Friday' rooms and as you'll see, we still haven't managed to get all the stains out of the carpet"
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Excellent work from @direthoughts.com and team, exposing serious misconduct resulting in a lengthy suspension for these two peers
NEW: Lord Dannatt and Lord David Evans of Watford face suspension of 4mo/5mo respectively from the House of Lords after a parliamentary watchdog ruled they had broken lobbying rules. Reports from the conduct committee follows Guardian investigations into the peers.
w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social
w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social
Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules
Lord Dannatt and Lord Evans of Watford were filmed breaking rules in undercover footage recorded by Guardian
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excellent work from @direthoughts.com and team, exposing serious misconduct resulting in a lengthy suspension for these two peers
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Stranger Things fill BBC Front Row tonight: The Duffer Brothers on the end of their hit drama; Plus I talk to Adam Buxton about the eerie phenomenon of fake AI biographies on Amazon. 715pm R4 or link after. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stranger Things fill BBC Front Row tonight: The Duffer Brothers on the end of their hit drama; Plus I talk to Adam Buxton about the eerie phenomenon of fake AI biographies on Amazon. 715pm R4 or link after. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🎶 GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME 🎶
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🎶 GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME 🎶
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Meta’s data-center accounting gets the Jon Weil treatment:
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Meta’s data-center accounting gets the Jon Weil treatment:
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
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Mood of UK political Bluesky, 2 days before the Budget: We're discussing about how we guarantee our own deaths in a nuclear war.
Things are going well.
Things are going well.
Yes, as a zone one dweller, I am maybe...against nuclear power if it takes away the central London guarantee of 'ending up a shadow on the wall' quite frankly.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Mood of UK political Bluesky, 2 days before the Budget: We're discussing about how we guarantee our own deaths in a nuclear war.
Things are going well.
Things are going well.