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Peter Savage.

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Retired TU Official. Interested in Law, Good food, Wine, Running and unfortunately Everton. Not necessarily in that order. I have friends everywhere.

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · Aug 12

Pinned post at the other place said. The correct response to about 95% of political tweets is "it's more complicated than that."

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 4h

Apparently "Faith Kipyegon won the mile, crossing the finish line in four hours 17.78 minutes." Suspect I could have beaten her #running www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

Keely Hodgkinson: Athlos 800m win in New York for British runner

Britain's Keely Hodgkinson ends her 800m season with victory at the all-female Athlos meet in New York on Friday evening.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 18h

Well! #running

Athletics Weekly @athleticsweekly.com · 18h

Femke Bol to switch from 400m hurdles to 800m.

In a major career change, the Dutch athlete will move to the 800m on a permanent basis from next season.

Femke Bol to switch from 400m hurdles to 800m - Athletics Weekly

In a major career change, the Dutch athlete will move to the 800m on a permanent basis from next season. Femke Bol has announced she is switching from the 4 ...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.

But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the relevant chart from the above report. It's rare to see such a clear, consistent slope in any social trend. That segregation is decreasing is perhaps the best evidence, least controversial social fact of modern Britain

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Oh to be a fly on the White House wall.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 1d

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Mental health: Everton fan Sam talks about support from club

Everton defender James Tarkowski speaks with lifelong fan Sam to discuss how the club are supporting members of the community with mental health challenges.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Law versus politics

Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution

By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

This is the crucial choice facing those both in the United Kingdom and the United States. What is to be the relationship between those with political power and the force of law?

In the United States it would seem that, at a federal level, both Congress and the Supreme Court are content to nod along with excessive use of presidential power. It is only the individual states themselves and the lower courts that are seeking to hold that executive power to account.

While in the United Kingdom there are louder political demands for the government to be free from the constraints placed by international law and supposedly activist judges. The implicit call is that ministers and officials should be able to do as they like to the rest of us without any possibility of a court ever saying otherwise.

What will happen in this contest between executive power and legal restraint cannot be predicted. The happy assumption of the Whig interpretation of history may not be well-grounded. From a liberal perspective things are not only getting worse, but could get a lot worse. The illiberals know what they are doing and they are doing it well.

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a Trump version of the MCU multiverse? If so somewhere it's possible.

Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Oh please!

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Parker was 15 when first introduced at the start of Amazing Fantasy 15 in 1962. This means that I'm younger than Spiderman. #SmallWins

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 2d

In an attempt to show Gary Neville how wrong he was to suggest that middle aged white men are putting flags up to make a point, some middle aged white men have put flags up outside his hotel to make a point.

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Probably??? I think the word I'm looking for to describe this bloke, following his pre match comments, is hypocrite. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/a...

Collin Morikawa: US Ryder Cup fans 'probably crossed line' in New York

The USA's Collin Morikawa criticises some fans' behaviour towards the Europe team during last month's Ryder Cup.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

The Geat X-Tinction.

From an in-house chat app to the most dangerous social media site in history.

The magical flight and tragic decline of twitter.

And why I left.

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

bylinetimes.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 3d

A staycation destination is your home. Otherwise you've gone on holiday somewhere.

Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 3d

I may never forgive myself for doing this so early but I've just looked up Christmas #parkruns. Turns out I'm so early the list isn't even up yet.

Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 3d

What he means is that he wants to be allowed to be racist if he hopes to beat Reform.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 4d

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

archive.ph/vQ7Tn

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 4d

Can I suggest the best scene in cinematic history. youtu.be/cOeFhSzoTuc?...

La Marseillaise Casablanca

YouTube video by Andrew Barbin

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Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 4d

Replay of dot.com bubble ahead.

Peter Savage. @pcsavage.bsky.social · 4d

Even Chris Mason has deserted the Tories for Reform.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bleak reality of opposition sets in for Conservatives

The Conservative Party, so often and for so long the dominating force in British politics, is a shrivelled version of its usual self.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 5d

Reality bites ReFuk in Kent that claimed to slash public spending in DOGE-like cuts during elections.

They can’t. They are “already down to the bare bones” and admits they will have to increase council tax

Words come easy when trying to win votes but governing is hard.

www.ft.com/content/277c...

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

www.ft.com

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