@craigguk87.bsky.social
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A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
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The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
Rachel Reeves to curb bike purchases through salary sacrifice in Budget
Introduction of new cap comes after retailers warned some higher-rate taxpayers were exploiting the perk
on.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
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Gonna be honest here and say as a journalist working in Westminster this makes me want to cry
My grandparents had to deal with this crap and now we are, it’s so wrong
How are we here where politicians feel so emboldened to say things that are so obviously racist?
My grandparents had to deal with this crap and now we are, it’s so wrong
How are we here where politicians feel so emboldened to say things that are so obviously racist?
October 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Gonna be honest here and say as a journalist working in Westminster this makes me want to cry
My grandparents had to deal with this crap and now we are, it’s so wrong
How are we here where politicians feel so emboldened to say things that are so obviously racist?
My grandparents had to deal with this crap and now we are, it’s so wrong
How are we here where politicians feel so emboldened to say things that are so obviously racist?
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I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.
😂😂😂 these people…
"We’ve got to rebuild, and that is difficult. It takes time.”
Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge admits to @cathynewman.bsky.social that it's a tough road ahead for the Conservatives but Kemi Badenoch is doing brilliantly as leader.
Read and watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/we-have...
Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge admits to @cathynewman.bsky.social that it's a tough road ahead for the Conservatives but Kemi Badenoch is doing brilliantly as leader.
Read and watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/we-have...
‘We have proved we can run the economy’: Conservative MP
Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge speaks to Cathy Newman at the Conservative party conference,
www.channel4.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
😂😂😂 these people…
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Christian fundamentalist morality police. If these guys were Muslims this would be a national panic.
bsky.app/profile/mike...
bsky.app/profile/mike...
October 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Christian fundamentalist morality police. If these guys were Muslims this would be a national panic.
bsky.app/profile/mike...
bsky.app/profile/mike...
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imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
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I may have said it before, but my God, I hate that man.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
“Unless we act we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day,” said Boris Johnson as he forced the nation into lockdown for the second time.
A day later he hosted a secret dinner for the Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street flat
A day later he hosted a secret dinner for the Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street flat
Boris Johnson had dinner in lockdown with peer funding flat refit, files suggest
Apparent meeting with David Brownlow is one of several potential further lockdown breaches revealed in Boris Files
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I may have said it before, but my God, I hate that man.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.
Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.
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"For whatever reason" - how about: "because Vladimir Putin has been waging a brutal and illegal war of aggression against his neighbour"? Trump's continued belief that Putin wants the war ended is extraordinary, and has no basis in reality.
Trump: "A lot of people were killed last week for whatever reason. A big number. A lot of soldiers. On both sides ... I believe Vladimir Putin wants to see it ended."
August 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"For whatever reason" - how about: "because Vladimir Putin has been waging a brutal and illegal war of aggression against his neighbour"? Trump's continued belief that Putin wants the war ended is extraordinary, and has no basis in reality.
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July 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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To all the weirdos marching around with clipboards, deciding who is and isn't English based on where their grandparents were living... THIS is England! ⬇️
July 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
To all the weirdos marching around with clipboards, deciding who is and isn't English based on where their grandparents were living... THIS is England! ⬇️
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I gather this has the same project managers as HS2.
July 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I gather this has the same project managers as HS2.
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The Royal Family celebrates Pride Month with a performance of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club.”
July 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The Royal Family celebrates Pride Month with a performance of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club.”
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Really interesting and I think very insightful thread on Mumsnet about just how entirely different the intergenerational financial experience has been:
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Really interesting and I think very insightful thread on Mumsnet about just how entirely different the intergenerational financial experience has been:
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Charts that will be studied by historians, an occasional series
May 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Charts that will be studied by historians, an occasional series
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“What a sad little life, Dean”
May 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“What a sad little life, Dean”
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May 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Crystal Palace stun Manchester City to win FA Cup amid drama and Henderson controversy
Crystal Palace stun Manchester City to win FA Cup amid drama and Henderson controversy
It was a day that will live forever in the hearts of everyone connected to Crystal Palace; history made, legends created. The south London club were on a mission to avenge previous Wembley pain – the FA Cup final defeats against Manchester United from 1990 and 2016 – and to win a first major trophy. They put their supporters through the wringer because it is written that they must suffer. But when the final whistle blew, the joy was boundless. Who knows when it will feel real?
The goalscorer was Eberechi Eze, Palace’s sorcerer-in-chief, and it came in the 16th minute from an assist by Daniel Muñoz, who was irrepressible up and down the right. But the real hero was surely Dean Henderson, who saved a penalty just after the half-hour from Omar Marmoush, and it was hardly the goalkeeper’s only vital intervention. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Crystal Palace stun Manchester City to win FA Cup amid drama and Henderson controversy
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Everyone wants welfare reform until their niece's PIP is cut. Everyone wants fewer universities until their grand kid's gets closed mid-degree.
May 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Everyone wants welfare reform until their niece's PIP is cut. Everyone wants fewer universities until their grand kid's gets closed mid-degree.
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Think my new provocative bit might be saying "if you want to give young people something to belong to, middle aged men need to get off their phones and start running stuff in their community".
May 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Think my new provocative bit might be saying "if you want to give young people something to belong to, middle aged men need to get off their phones and start running stuff in their community".
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Real opportunity for a vigorous young man of 80 here.
April 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Real opportunity for a vigorous young man of 80 here.
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Shut down the youth clubs.
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."
April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Shut down the youth clubs.
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."
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The Conservatives have a big problem: they no longer like the country they seek to run
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
April 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Conservatives have a big problem: they no longer like the country they seek to run
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory