Captain Haddock
@realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social
The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place
Brexit is shite
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Brexit is shite
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‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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This alone should be a huge scandal
REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This alone should be a huge scandal
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
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you don't have to squint very hard to see the effect of that Truss interlude on this country. If she was responsible for half of that gap with the G7 average, that turns into tens of billions of debt interest. It could be ... 0.8% of GDP less? £24bn less?
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
you don't have to squint very hard to see the effect of that Truss interlude on this country. If she was responsible for half of that gap with the G7 average, that turns into tens of billions of debt interest. It could be ... 0.8% of GDP less? £24bn less?
Rats in a sack
Ushakov says his call with Witkoff was via WhatsApp. Throws under the bus Kirill Dmitriev, who in initial panic claimed the transcript was fake
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8231003?...
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8231003?...
Ушаков эксклюзивно прокомментировал «Ъ» острую ситуацию с утечкой переговоров с США
Подробнее на сайте
www.kommersant.ru
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Rats in a sack
So that’s a yes
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So that’s a yes
Labour leaning into more hard right, Tufton St myths and stereotypes
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Labour leaning into more hard right, Tufton St myths and stereotypes
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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey just called for a national investigation into Russian interference in British politics.
(PM doesn't commit but slams Nigel Farage's party for the Nathan Gill bribery scandal)
(PM doesn't commit but slams Nigel Farage's party for the Nathan Gill bribery scandal)
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey just called for a national investigation into Russian interference in British politics.
(PM doesn't commit but slams Nigel Farage's party for the Nathan Gill bribery scandal)
(PM doesn't commit but slams Nigel Farage's party for the Nathan Gill bribery scandal)
Questions being asked in the OBR today:
Who gets the job of pushing the knob?
That sort of responsibility you draw straws for if you’re mad enough
(The Stranglers)
That sort of responsibility you draw straws for if you’re mad enough
(The Stranglers)
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Questions being asked in the OBR today:
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OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
Totally fine
BREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Totally fine
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"Senior officials in the OBR must be thinking about their positions, since a worse release of data cannot be imagined." - @chrisgiles.ft.com here in the FT Live blog www.ft.com/content/d0a5...
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Senior officials in the OBR must be thinking about their positions, since a worse release of data cannot be imagined." - @chrisgiles.ft.com here in the FT Live blog www.ft.com/content/d0a5...
Oh
Well, the 4D chess version of events here would be someone leaked the OBR forecast as part of an effort to get it abolished.
The cockup version (usually the accurate one) would be this is the mother of all fuckups, and could be existential. This is the most market sensitive budget stuff imaginable.
The cockup version (usually the accurate one) would be this is the mother of all fuckups, and could be existential. This is the most market sensitive budget stuff imaginable.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Oh
Maurice Glasman on small boats
What a pr1ck
What a pr1ck
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Maurice Glasman on small boats
What a pr1ck
What a pr1ck
Glasman is a really unpleasant crank
It’s a tragedy that he was bequeathed a bully pulpit by Ed Miliband - another demonstration of MiliMinor’s terrible judgement
It’s a tragedy that he was bequeathed a bully pulpit by Ed Miliband - another demonstration of MiliMinor’s terrible judgement
If you think that’s bad read this www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Maurice Glasman On Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and Shabana Mahmood
Is a very British tech revolution on the cards? Blue Labour peer Lord Glasman talks to Sienna Rodgers about ‘big AI’ with the union jack on it, get...
www.politicshome.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Glasman is a really unpleasant crank
It’s a tragedy that he was bequeathed a bully pulpit by Ed Miliband - another demonstration of MiliMinor’s terrible judgement
It’s a tragedy that he was bequeathed a bully pulpit by Ed Miliband - another demonstration of MiliMinor’s terrible judgement
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New analysis by the House of Commons library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue, and the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head between £2,700 and £3,700.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New analysis by the House of Commons library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue, and the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head between £2,700 and £3,700.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
I am sure these are entirely spontaneous complaints and absolutely not Nigel and Zia’s troll farm in action
Viewers are complaining about GMB.
But wait, they're complaining because GMB spent time talking about the '50 year-old story' of Farage's bigotry, which these viewers saw as ancient, irrelevant news (about their hero).
Goes to show that GMB is 'GB News-lite'.
www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/g...
But wait, they're complaining because GMB spent time talking about the '50 year-old story' of Farage's bigotry, which these viewers saw as ancient, irrelevant news (about their hero).
Goes to show that GMB is 'GB News-lite'.
www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/g...
Good Morning Britain reaches a 'new low' as ITV show flooded with complaints
Good Morning Britain viewers were left feeling frustrated on Tuesday
www.mirror.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I am sure these are entirely spontaneous complaints and absolutely not Nigel and Zia’s troll farm in action
One can only speculate as to Witkoff’s motivations in all this
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
One can only speculate as to Witkoff’s motivations in all this
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…
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Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.