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Tom McEnroe
@tommcenroe.bsky.social
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Bikes are nice. Cycling commuter when an aging back allows it, gardener, photographer, amateur mixologist Rants about the state of the world, and the UK in particular, by appointment. https://www.flickr.com/people/tommce/
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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · Oct 10
A friend has a small library of books whose titles may not mean quite what they did when they were originally published - friends and family have been adding to it over the years.

Mr Pink Whistle features....
The cover of two books - Drummer Dick's Discharge, by Beatrix M de Burgh and Biggle Takes It Rough, by Captain WE Johns The covers of three books - Mr Pink Whistle Interferes by Enid Blyton, Dick of the Secret Service, by Robert Harding, and Gay Intruder, by Iris Bromige
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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 11h
Late roses #BloomSky #Roses #UkGardening 🌱🇬🇧
A late, single rose. Pinky red, with a darker center Several late roses, in various states, with the bush in the background
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 23h
Katie Lam's plan would mean parents with settled status who have children who are British citizens potentially being deported. Wouldn't it?
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22h
Turns out that for the last 24 hours the main link to become a subscriber and read the full story hasn’t actually being working! I tried to fire the finance, product and customer support teams for gross negligence but it turns out they’re all me.

So, er, if anyone wants another go today…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
Farage is doing a big media push to deny he has any links with Putin and Russia.

It’s obviously starting to hurt.
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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 1d
My first proper date with my wife was on an anti BNP demo in Welling, May 1993.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.
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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 1d
At last, the #WeekEnd

#Cocktails

An Elder Aviator
A chilled Martini glass standing in front of the ingredients - gin, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur, Gifford Fluer de Sureau Sauvage, lemon juice and, of course, topped off with maraschino cherry
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
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Ricardo 🇵🇸 @thoughtcat.bsky.social · 4d
“If Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors”
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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 3d
We marched passed my house on Wickham Lane, on to Welling, as we had done previously but didn't get any further than the cemetery. A lot of police and what felt like every single police horse in London and beyond. Hell of a day. A lot of windows bricked in around us that evening.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 3d
BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.
1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 4d
Flag around and find out, as the kids might say.

/He was, in fact, mainly fired because of his social media posts, and not the flags.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 4d
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: [email protected] @gazza-d.bsky.social · 4d
Good forbid that we expect drivers to have the same concern about driving around people as they do for others headgear.
And it's daylight. Of you can't see kids cycling in daylight then you should not be driving. It's that simple.
Tossbags.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 4d
London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4d
You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...
Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 4d
If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 5d
That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.
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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 5d
I work close to the Albert Hall, and it's been great seeing them out and about.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
www.theguardian.com
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d
Nigel Farage has finally admitted to it.

But now there's lots more questions especially considering Rupert Lowes intervention....

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...
Nigel Farage finally admits to knowing Nathan Gill after senior Reform figure repeatedly claimed he didn’t
Farage has admitted he knew Gill for 'a very long time' but claims he didn't know anything about his pro-Russia activities...
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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 6d
I've tried normal, it's very dull
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d
Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..
Tommy Robinson stopped at border driving Bentley with thousands in cash' Far-Right activist insulted police officers after being arrested for refusing to give them pin to his phone, court hears
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6d
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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