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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 7h

He'll come good eventually, but he could have made it easier by just training during the summer. It turns out that actions have consequences. His world cup hopes look shaky as well

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

I forgot that the doctor's response was: "so I'm Harold Shipman?!"

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

The best is still when they banished a doctor in the last series entirely because "it just makes sense. You save people by day, kill by night."

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is underappreciated, certainly in wider circles. People with 20-30 years of their working life ahead of them are going to be shut out of their profession. It's devastating

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

They should just be like football and most of the other team sports and not even try to catch dopers
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

‘We rewatched an Ajax match’: What really happens when tennis anti-dopers call

Remembering where to be 365 days a year, even if it means the doping control officer pressing the doorbell at 6am, can weigh heavily on players

www.theguardian.com

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

In the civilian series, anyone who presents as a bit clever gets immediately banished. This is just who we are as a people

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is showing us more of who he is, the politics he would pursue if he ever managed to get into government. We should take him at his word right now and not make the mistakes seen in the US. He will be the ruin of British democracy

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

America has gone. European leaders should be frantically preparing for what it means when the entire continent is left without its most powerful ally

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Almost certain he'll be back there at some point. It's a bit worrying that contract talks don't seem to be on the agenda yet. He deserves it. I don't think he's had a bad game in the last year. Even when the team is awful, he's a good 7/10

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. There have been anti-fascists for as long as there have been fascists

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Flashbacks to trying to explain to my Grandad why Vic and Bob are funny

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 3d

Best read in the voice of Rick, The People's Poet

Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to report that Keith is back on form with this important poem about ID Cards, and if I’m very much mistaken*, it’s to the tune of Stop by The Spice Girls.

*I am very much mistaken

YOUR POEMS
ID Card
by Keith J Furnival
STOP, ID card, where are you going, where have you been?
This photograph doesn't look like you, get it changed.
You are being reported, you will lose credits.
STOP, ID card, you can't buy that, cholesterol count too high, government warning.
Please do not ask why, rules are rules.
Do not question, just comply.
STOP, ID card.
this vehicle is out of zone, didn't you read today's app.
There will be a fine, credits will be deducted, your travel will be restricted.
Are you a nonconformist?
We will rectify that.
STOP, ID card, stay home and comply.
No need to go out, your card is your everything.
All will be delivered, the state will provide.
You will submit, we are watching you.

STOP, ID card.

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 3d

My secondary school had a narrow climbing wall that was never used during my entire time there. I assume the school was upsold it while buying equipment they were actually likely to use. The boys were also not allowed to use the javelins for what I think are quite prejudiced reasons

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 3d

The Truss budget broke many of them. Before that, you couldn't turn on the news without some talking head from the IEA lecturing us about the need to privatise the NHS, etc. Truss left them in ruins

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 3d

When you bring Peter Jackson in to shoot your photos
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Five Conservative councillors in Kent defect to Reform UK - BBC News

Reform UK welcomes one councillor from Medway Council and four from Gravesham Borough Council.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 3d

There'll keep going with it. Journalists are going to be in the group most affected. Solid, middle class professionals but not wealthy enough to absorb the VAT hit. It's a personal obsession rather than a relevant news story

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

If his aim is still the same as it was when he played for Newcastle, then I can be pretty certain he missed the target

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see Thiaw's form getting noticed. He looks to be an exceptional player and transformative for us to have someone who can run at CB

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

I think the point when the members didn't put James Cleverly into the final round of the leadership election was a sliding doors moment for the party. It left no sane, competent option on the ballot

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

Again, I want this read in the style of Mrs Doyle naming priests

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 4d

Reform announcing a series of Tory councillor defections as Kemi Badenoch begins her broadcast round. A sort of Rolling Chunder.

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

I think it's always worth reminding ourselves that half the US voted against this. He doesn't have overwhelming support. The problem right now is that the opposition is disorganised, weak and can't mobilise people effectively. Maybe they'll get their act together at some point

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 4d

I can't think of anyone who could have done a better job with the available resources. You do sometimes think what he could have achieved with, say, Man Utd's ability to spend on fees and wages

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