Andrew Perks
@amperks.bsky.social
Scottish Polis Inspector. Also retired. Also concerned about things.
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my dad worked 18 hours a day to put food on the table. great man, terrible cook
January 16, 2026 at 4:49 PM
my dad worked 18 hours a day to put food on the table. great man, terrible cook
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This is simply a lie. There was no “open borders experiment” and what he’s talking about affected legal migration, not illegal. The attack seems to be that this racist used to be insufficiently racist
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 AM
This is simply a lie. There was no “open borders experiment” and what he’s talking about affected legal migration, not illegal. The attack seems to be that this racist used to be insufficiently racist
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You’d think Labour might want to sit back and pretend to be reasonable while Jenrick and Badenoch knock lumps out of each other, but they decided to try and outflank them in the other direction by regurgitating a far right trope
January 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
You’d think Labour might want to sit back and pretend to be reasonable while Jenrick and Badenoch knock lumps out of each other, but they decided to try and outflank them in the other direction by regurgitating a far right trope
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This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers.
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
!["And this is what Keir Starmer’s press secretary has said about Robert Jenrick at the lobby briefing this morning.
[Highlighted] Robert Jenrick was the immigration minister in a government that presided over an open borders experiment [Highlighted], a health minister who left people stuck on waiting lists, and a Treasury minister during the worst decline in living standards on record.”
While Reform continues to welcome failed Tory retreads, this Labor government is putting the country back on track."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cixgmtrg7nzy4gkmyfeosaox/bafkreibe3jczrmbmzfnhj2adl4qe432lbpmcbn6m6qrentwih7vxj4fu7y@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
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And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.
January 15, 2026 at 9:11 AM
And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.
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The quotes and replies to this are an absolute joy.
BREAKING: The UK is sending a single military officer to Greenland at the request of Denmark to participate in a multi-nation exercise
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The quotes and replies to this are an absolute joy.
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If you're not familiar with the story of gigs at Minsthorpe and you can't wait for the film to come out this is a good little piece about how it all came about.
January 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
If you're not familiar with the story of gigs at Minsthorpe and you can't wait for the film to come out this is a good little piece about how it all came about.
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Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
January 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
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I understand the traditional Finnish approach is not to announce but to let you find out when they’re good and ready for to find out they’re around.
January 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I understand the traditional Finnish approach is not to announce but to let you find out when they’re good and ready for to find out they’re around.
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The full list of World Cup qualifying nations swept up in the US visa ban - Iran, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Algeria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Tunisia, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia & Uruguay.
15 out of 42.
+ Bosnia, Albania & Kosovo, who are still in the UEFA play-offs.
15 out of 42.
+ Bosnia, Albania & Kosovo, who are still in the UEFA play-offs.
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The full list of World Cup qualifying nations swept up in the US visa ban - Iran, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Algeria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Tunisia, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia & Uruguay.
15 out of 42.
+ Bosnia, Albania & Kosovo, who are still in the UEFA play-offs.
15 out of 42.
+ Bosnia, Albania & Kosovo, who are still in the UEFA play-offs.
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Nice one, Wes
Going to get Jordan Peterson to address officials overseeing dietary guidelines next? Have Jeremy Clarkson set the environmental agenda?
Might as well do at this point. They've all sold loads of books too, that's all the qualifications you need, right?
#socialmediaban #badscience
Going to get Jordan Peterson to address officials overseeing dietary guidelines next? Have Jeremy Clarkson set the environmental agenda?
Might as well do at this point. They've all sold loads of books too, that's all the qualifications you need, right?
#socialmediaban #badscience
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Nice one, Wes
Going to get Jordan Peterson to address officials overseeing dietary guidelines next? Have Jeremy Clarkson set the environmental agenda?
Might as well do at this point. They've all sold loads of books too, that's all the qualifications you need, right?
#socialmediaban #badscience
Going to get Jordan Peterson to address officials overseeing dietary guidelines next? Have Jeremy Clarkson set the environmental agenda?
Might as well do at this point. They've all sold loads of books too, that's all the qualifications you need, right?
#socialmediaban #badscience
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This is daft of the provincial mayor, but the annoying underlying point is that the DfT didn't provide every local official (of all parties) with a personalised media kit for their region to use, and that Labour HQ didn't do the same with partisan messaging. Sheer, non-ideological, incompetence.
January 14, 2026 at 12:55 PM
This is daft of the provincial mayor, but the annoying underlying point is that the DfT didn't provide every local official (of all parties) with a personalised media kit for their region to use, and that Labour HQ didn't do the same with partisan messaging. Sheer, non-ideological, incompetence.
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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration…
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration…
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
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The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights
![[Cartoon strip pastiche of the Highway Code, with illustrations describing the text]
[Title panel]:
The Highway Code
Rule number 112b:
LED headlights
In recent years, many
new cars have been fitted with extra-bright LED headlights.
LED headlights increase safety by illuminating every detail of the road ahead
Including the face of the person driving a metal box towards you at a combined speed of 80mph
Whom you have just blinded with your LED headlights.
LED headlights must be fitted at eye-level on a great big murderous wall of car.
[Show a car crumpling into the front of a high-fronted SUV, bathed in light from the blinding headlamps]
They must be permanently on full beam, because you are insane.
And they should be bright enough to make other drivers think they are ascending into a blinding vortex of alien light
Like them old people in the classic Ron Howard film, Cocoon (1985).
[Show illustration of the final scene where the older people on the boat are being yoinked up into the blindingly-illuminated cloaca of the big spaceship]
So remember: you must use LED headlights
To prevent everyone from not crashing into you.
[Image shows this happening]
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January 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights
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I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this.
All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN.
Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration
All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN.
Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration
January 11, 2026 at 10:56 AM
I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this.
All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN.
Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration
All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN.
Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration
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“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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This is an extraordinary human failure from a supposedly progressive government. Jaw dropping www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
This is an extraordinary human failure from a supposedly progressive government. Jaw dropping www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Road casualties are utterly normalised in political debate, but in England and Wales alone, on average around 80 people are killed or suffer injuries which could change their lives forever *every single day*. More should be done.
January 7, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Road casualties are utterly normalised in political debate, but in England and Wales alone, on average around 80 people are killed or suffer injuries which could change their lives forever *every single day*. More should be done.
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The “freedom of speech” argument here is extremely confused and also an absolute gift to the government’s opponents should it ever stop using X (which even purely for pragmatic reasons, it should have done months ago, as its messaging there just isn’t working and is a waste of resources).
The government minister says she believes in using X "because of freedom of speech". (There are many platforms - 4chan, Stormfront - which it does not use).
The government is being asked to
(i) uphold the law
(ii) undertake a good faith review of its own guidelines for govt communications
The government is being asked to
(i) uphold the law
(ii) undertake a good faith review of its own guidelines for govt communications
January 5, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The “freedom of speech” argument here is extremely confused and also an absolute gift to the government’s opponents should it ever stop using X (which even purely for pragmatic reasons, it should have done months ago, as its messaging there just isn’t working and is a waste of resources).
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Amazing: I am a little squealing bitch for the world’s emperor, just as every British Prime Minister before me has always been a kneepad nympho for whatever it is the American President wants this week. If you don’t like it, fuck you. This is the only way that the world can ever be ordered.
January 4, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Amazing: I am a little squealing bitch for the world’s emperor, just as every British Prime Minister before me has always been a kneepad nympho for whatever it is the American President wants this week. If you don’t like it, fuck you. This is the only way that the world can ever be ordered.
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Side Gallery in Newcastle is now permanently closed, despite the fundraising campaign, and the building has become a health and wellness centre. End of an era and immensely disappointing for anyone who loves documentary photography.
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Newcastle's former Side gallery site turned into Pilates studio
The collective which ran the Side says it is not
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January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Side Gallery in Newcastle is now permanently closed, despite the fundraising campaign, and the building has become a health and wellness centre. End of an era and immensely disappointing for anyone who loves documentary photography.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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