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I'm no hero, that's understood. The only redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. He/Him https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · Jun 23

Going to keep plugging this for now, but after years of just food posting into the ether I have made an Instagram of my food pictures as well as tips for recipes etc.

www.instagram.com/tpgeats

Some example photos here, but please follow if of interest:

Mezze of flatbreads, fattoush, hummus and adana kabab

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1m

Rewatching it on the flight back, and utterly struck by how funny it is as well?

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1m

It's also just very funny?

"There are certain parts of New York I'd advise you not to invade?"

"I was misinformed."

"Your winnings sir."

"Are my eyes brown?"

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2m

There's layers and layers, the original love story itself culminating in Rick's sacrifice, the later reading of whether Ilsa actually ever means anything with Rick, the film itself as a metaphor for American involvement in the war...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 6m

I've made a lot of jokes about it, having just been there, but God Casablanca is a great film.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3h

As time goes on I do get more and more resentful that we have to pretend these people have sincere concerns

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

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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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Flashing back to the Triggernometry episode where she tries to outline her immigration policy three times and every time it's recited back to her, she disagrees.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

Marvellous column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social that absolutely nails Kemi Badenoch - who clearly very deeply believes that the mere act of 'well, I'm saying it' means that something must be thoughtful, even if it is just a more innumerate and caustic echo of Nigel Farage:

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Why are you just hovering in the aisle? If you must insist on getting up, at least then move back and let others retrieve their baggage.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Okay, having now flown again for the first time in years, I do get why you all hate the freaks who stand up straight away.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 7h

Well done again to Lee Child

Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

1 minute until people embarrasingly quickly google the Nobel Prize for literature winner

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 9h

I think there is a practical argument "austerity was broadly a center right project and it failed on its own merits" but that also requires accepting the form of austerity pursued was part and parcel with a centre right ideology, and...eh?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 9h

I have mixed views on this, because whilst I think there is a fundamental point that the legacy of the centre right is one of failure, I also think a lot of what the 2010-2024 government's did was also pretty radical, including bits of the coalition.

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 3d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 11h

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10h

Still, the towels Corey, the towels.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10h

It doesn't say great things that Charlie is arguably one of the more normal sounding activists in the piece

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, and it turns out the guy with the umbrella is definitely a new breed of activist

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10h

I am just confused how she washes say, towels, or whites if everything just goes straight in

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10h

Rare win for the man in the straight couple genre of these pieces

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

You be the judge: should my boyfriend get rid of his laundry basket?

Anita thinks dirty clothes can go straight in the machine. Jayden believes the laundry hamper serves a purpose. Who’s the basket case? You decide

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10h

Always feel like a lot of cancel culture discussion could better be summarised as "I do not like that people can criticise my morally questionable decisions."

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 10h

is the answer "because they paid me a boatload of money"?

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 11h

A grim, ostensibly left-wing political entity but in reality a national chauvinist one, dominated by decaying, heavy industry and run by a cabal of feuding non-entities, Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11h

Ironically, I think for all you can focus in on the UKIP answer, the Lib Dem ones aren't great...

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 13h

I feel the need to draw everyones attention to this truely cursed bit of polling

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12h

I do think the fact this article accepts as a premise that young men break Reform in any meaningful numbers is to its detriment because it leaves them discussing emulating Farage and not, as may actually help, pursuing policies young people like.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 17h

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

Where's the downside? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

However, critics are warning that the planned liberalisation of the alcohol licensing regime in England and Wales will erode local councils’ right to decide on opening hours, hand the drink industry unprecedented power and limit the ability of people affected by late night openings to object.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Nute.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1d

You were in power for 14 years.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1d

It's the new sunglasses

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Well thank you