@therecusant.bsky.social
Appalling guitar player, Arsenal season ticket holder and badly behaved dog owner (sic).Unconservative by nature.
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The Guardian, July 2016
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The Guardian, May 2025
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The Guardian, July 2016
The article:
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The Guardian, May 2025
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May 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The Guardian, July 2016
The article:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian, May 2025
The article:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian, July 2016
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian, May 2025
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Compliments to the Times today
May 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Compliments to the Times today
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"An Eagle for an Emperor, a Gyrfalcon for a King; a Peregrine for a Prince, a Saker for a Knight, a Merlin for a Lady; a Goshawk for a Yeoman, a Sparrowhawk for a Priest, a Musket for a Holy water Clerk, a Kestrel for a Knave."
(From the Boke of St Albans, 1486.)
(From the Boke of St Albans, 1486.)
April 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"An Eagle for an Emperor, a Gyrfalcon for a King; a Peregrine for a Prince, a Saker for a Knight, a Merlin for a Lady; a Goshawk for a Yeoman, a Sparrowhawk for a Priest, a Musket for a Holy water Clerk, a Kestrel for a Knave."
(From the Boke of St Albans, 1486.)
(From the Boke of St Albans, 1486.)
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Perfectly captured.
February 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Perfectly captured.
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do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
February 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
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My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
January 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
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This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.
January 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.
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The difference between equality and equity. Excellent.
Sometimes you have to treat people differently in order to treat them equally.
Sometimes you have to treat people differently in order to treat them equally.
December 4, 2024 at 5:10 AM
The difference between equality and equity. Excellent.
Sometimes you have to treat people differently in order to treat them equally.
Sometimes you have to treat people differently in order to treat them equally.
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My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️
December 3, 2024 at 10:47 AM
My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️
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"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers.” 💰🧐
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 7:29 AM
"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers.” 💰🧐
Hello Edinburgh...a Black Five has just rocked up...😍
November 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Hello Edinburgh...a Black Five has just rocked up...😍
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Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
November 27, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
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What a difference Captain fantastic makes….!
November 26, 2024 at 10:13 PM
What a difference Captain fantastic makes….!
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Now this is an interesting story via Reuters.
Quietly, without fanfare, several British police forces have largely withdrawn from X as concerns over the promotion of violence & extreme content persist.
Reuters surveyed Police & found 8 different forces have hugely scaled back presence on X.
Quietly, without fanfare, several British police forces have largely withdrawn from X as concerns over the promotion of violence & extreme content persist.
Reuters surveyed Police & found 8 different forces have hugely scaled back presence on X.
UK police forces quietly withdraw from X platform amid content concerns
Several British police forces have largely withdrawn from Elon Musk's X social media platform as concerns over its role in promoting violence and extreme content persist, a Reuters survey of forces' social media output showed.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Now this is an interesting story via Reuters.
Quietly, without fanfare, several British police forces have largely withdrawn from X as concerns over the promotion of violence & extreme content persist.
Reuters surveyed Police & found 8 different forces have hugely scaled back presence on X.
Quietly, without fanfare, several British police forces have largely withdrawn from X as concerns over the promotion of violence & extreme content persist.
Reuters surveyed Police & found 8 different forces have hugely scaled back presence on X.
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Starmer cannot survive this
November 24, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Starmer cannot survive this
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Ian Hislop, "Farmers didn't pay inheritance tax at all, and now they're going to pay half of what everybody else pays.. Jeremy Clarkson who originally bought his farm in order to avoid paying any tax on it"
HIGNFY play the clip where Jeremy Clarkson denies buying his farm to avoid paying IT
HIGNFY play the clip where Jeremy Clarkson denies buying his farm to avoid paying IT
November 24, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Ian Hislop, "Farmers didn't pay inheritance tax at all, and now they're going to pay half of what everybody else pays.. Jeremy Clarkson who originally bought his farm in order to avoid paying any tax on it"
HIGNFY play the clip where Jeremy Clarkson denies buying his farm to avoid paying IT
HIGNFY play the clip where Jeremy Clarkson denies buying his farm to avoid paying IT
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It’s all in the telling.
November 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM
It’s all in the telling.
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Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”
November 22, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”
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Yesterday Northvolt, the great hope of European battery manufacturing, filed for bankruptcy.
Today the CEO resigned.
Yet more evidence that
a) making batteries is hard
b) competing with China is hard and
c) Europe has a real challenge in the coming years www.reuters.com/technology/n...
Today the CEO resigned.
Yet more evidence that
a) making batteries is hard
b) competing with China is hard and
c) Europe has a real challenge in the coming years www.reuters.com/technology/n...
Sweden's Northvolt files for bankruptcy, in blow to Europe's EV ambitions
Northvolt, the Swedish maker of battery cells for electric vehicles, said on Thursday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., dealing a blow to Europe's hopes that its most developed battery player would reduce Western car makers' reliance on Chinese rivals.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Yesterday Northvolt, the great hope of European battery manufacturing, filed for bankruptcy.
Today the CEO resigned.
Yet more evidence that
a) making batteries is hard
b) competing with China is hard and
c) Europe has a real challenge in the coming years www.reuters.com/technology/n...
Today the CEO resigned.
Yet more evidence that
a) making batteries is hard
b) competing with China is hard and
c) Europe has a real challenge in the coming years www.reuters.com/technology/n...
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What's more, other research found a key factor in incentivising children to take on the family farm is taking control of it earlier in life. If they can't do that, they get other jobs. So using tax to incentivise only passing it on after death is working AGAINST keeping farms family owned.
Preventing young farmers from leaving the farm: Investigating the effectiveness of the young farmer payment using a behavioural approach
The number of young farmers has decreased over recent decades in several developed countries such as the United States and European countries. A recen…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM
What's more, other research found a key factor in incentivising children to take on the family farm is taking control of it earlier in life. If they can't do that, they get other jobs. So using tax to incentivise only passing it on after death is working AGAINST keeping farms family owned.
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Many people have fled X, but still valued the political insight on the platform. Good news! Many big accounts have now arrived on Bluesky.
Here is a starter pack with the Top 50 UK Political Commentators, based on their follower numbers.
Hopefully helpful for new arrivals here. Feel free to share.
Here is a starter pack with the Top 50 UK Political Commentators, based on their follower numbers.
Hopefully helpful for new arrivals here. Feel free to share.
November 18, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Many people have fled X, but still valued the political insight on the platform. Good news! Many big accounts have now arrived on Bluesky.
Here is a starter pack with the Top 50 UK Political Commentators, based on their follower numbers.
Hopefully helpful for new arrivals here. Feel free to share.
Here is a starter pack with the Top 50 UK Political Commentators, based on their follower numbers.
Hopefully helpful for new arrivals here. Feel free to share.