Larry Cuffe
@cuffe1.bsky.social
Retired Ad. photographer. Scottish by birth, Irish by blood. Socialist art lover.
Hi Robert, I haven't seen any of your posts for ages; my fault. It's well past time we had lunch, certainly before you leave for Egypt on my birthday!
Well it is now official if nothing happens to my health ( only one more MOT check to be done in May.
I have this morning booked a Flight to Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 departing Glasgow 6th June until 3rd September.
I will arrive and stay in Cairo for possibly 5 nights before travelling around. Nothing planed🍜🍽️✅
I have this morning booked a Flight to Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 departing Glasgow 6th June until 3rd September.
I will arrive and stay in Cairo for possibly 5 nights before travelling around. Nothing planed🍜🍽️✅
March 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hi Robert, I haven't seen any of your posts for ages; my fault. It's well past time we had lunch, certainly before you leave for Egypt on my birthday!
Starmer and his government are the closest in Europe to Trump and his chaos in the US. Labour has not been socialist since before Thatcher.
Lots of media speculation at the moment, but reports suggest they are considering cuts to both PIP and UC. An announcement is expected early next week.
March 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Starmer and his government are the closest in Europe to Trump and his chaos in the US. Labour has not been socialist since before Thatcher.
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Fingers crossed this will continue. Not least because it will bury the dead end that is the BSW.
YouGov's final MRP sees Die Linke continuing to surge. A Bundestag like this would probably result in a Union/SPD coalition:
February 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Fingers crossed this will continue. Not least because it will bury the dead end that is the BSW.
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Column. On the mad right-wing ARC conference, and how peculiarly frightened they all seem to be of completely made up things, while somehow never really mentioning real things at all.
www.thetimes.com/article/25dc...
www.thetimes.com/article/25dc...
February 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Column. On the mad right-wing ARC conference, and how peculiarly frightened they all seem to be of completely made up things, while somehow never really mentioning real things at all.
www.thetimes.com/article/25dc...
www.thetimes.com/article/25dc...
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West Cork, Ireland
A striking black-and-white photograph of a solitary, windswept tree bending gracefully under a dramatic, cloudy sky.
#Nature #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Windswept #Solitude #Art #Scenic #Monochrome #Sky
A striking black-and-white photograph of a solitary, windswept tree bending gracefully under a dramatic, cloudy sky.
#Nature #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Windswept #Solitude #Art #Scenic #Monochrome #Sky
February 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
West Cork, Ireland
A striking black-and-white photograph of a solitary, windswept tree bending gracefully under a dramatic, cloudy sky.
#Nature #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Windswept #Solitude #Art #Scenic #Monochrome #Sky
A striking black-and-white photograph of a solitary, windswept tree bending gracefully under a dramatic, cloudy sky.
#Nature #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Windswept #Solitude #Art #Scenic #Monochrome #Sky
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“Trump’s election was a response to the cruel failures of neoliberalism, but it will also be their ultimate expression. It was a response to the corruption of the political system by private money. And it will be the system’s ultimate corruption” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏👏👏
Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot
Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Trump’s election was a response to the cruel failures of neoliberalism, but it will also be their ultimate expression. It was a response to the corruption of the political system by private money. And it will be the system’s ultimate corruption” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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“That’s a nice little TikTok you have there. It would be a shame if someone didn’t give your favorite president 50% of it.”
January 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“That’s a nice little TikTok you have there. It would be a shame if someone didn’t give your favorite president 50% of it.”
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Thank you Larry. I miss it so much. And my traditional Pork Pie.
My mutton with capers was my second favourite after the pork pie.
Sad no company in Scotland 🏴 or england was willing to help me.
Keep well and see you next month. 🙏🍷🍷🍷🍽️🍜✅
My mutton with capers was my second favourite after the pork pie.
Sad no company in Scotland 🏴 or england was willing to help me.
Keep well and see you next month. 🙏🍷🍷🍷🍽️🍜✅
January 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Thank you Larry. I miss it so much. And my traditional Pork Pie.
My mutton with capers was my second favourite after the pork pie.
Sad no company in Scotland 🏴 or england was willing to help me.
Keep well and see you next month. 🙏🍷🍷🍷🍽️🍜✅
My mutton with capers was my second favourite after the pork pie.
Sad no company in Scotland 🏴 or england was willing to help me.
Keep well and see you next month. 🙏🍷🍷🍷🍽️🍜✅
January 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thank you Larry. I miss it so much. And my traditional Pork Pie.
My mutton with capers was my second favourite after the pork pie.
Sad no company in Scotland 🏴 or england was willing to help me.
Keep well and see you next month. 🙏🍷🍷🍷🍽️🍜✅
My mutton with capers was my second favourite after the pork pie.
Sad no company in Scotland 🏴 or england was willing to help me.
Keep well and see you next month. 🙏🍷🍷🍷🍽️🍜✅
I'm told that the food bank was closed for 2 days, for security, and that the billionaire arrived by helicopter. How many ways can you be crass! (It wasn't a question).
This makes me queasy on so many levels. Tax dodger extraordinaire visits food bank. 🤮
news.sky.com/story/large-...
news.sky.com/story/large-...
Large crowd turns out to welcome King Charles to Alloa food bank
King Charles was on the receiving end of an enthusiastic hug on his visit to The Gate in Clackmannanshire on Thursday.
news.sky.com
January 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I'm told that the food bank was closed for 2 days, for security, and that the billionaire arrived by helicopter. How many ways can you be crass! (It wasn't a question).
A fond memory Robert, I loved that pie.
Yes Stornaway black pudding changed once his daughters took over and changed the recipe. Also sometimes not mixed enough so was to oniony
Andrew Ramsay was the 1st to win 3* for black pudding in the Smithfield show 2012 👍👋👋👋🍜🍽️🏴🥃🥃
I bought it for the pie for Turin 2012 and history was made in a crust
Andrew Ramsay was the 1st to win 3* for black pudding in the Smithfield show 2012 👍👋👋👋🍜🍽️🏴🥃🥃
I bought it for the pie for Turin 2012 and history was made in a crust
January 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A fond memory Robert, I loved that pie.
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Opportunistic, uninformed, haphazard, confused, shameless, contradictory, ideological, petty, misleading, vindictive and insane: Another week in the life of Kemi Badenoch iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...
One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch
She might be the single worst opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama.
iandunt.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Opportunistic, uninformed, haphazard, confused, shameless, contradictory, ideological, petty, misleading, vindictive and insane: Another week in the life of Kemi Badenoch iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...
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This company likes to portray itself as akin to numerous small local brewers. It is, in fact, a giant corporation backed by a US private equity firm.
James Watt Brewdog's CEO is worth £262,000,000 he is refusing to raise the wage of his staff in London by the £1 an hour to keep them at the National Living Wage.
Brewdog is apparently a 'nice' company, but wage freezes don't seem very nice.
Do they?
Brewdog is apparently a 'nice' company, but wage freezes don't seem very nice.
Do they?
January 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This company likes to portray itself as akin to numerous small local brewers. It is, in fact, a giant corporation backed by a US private equity firm.
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"I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify.. Because I think very carefully about what I say" - Kemi Badenoch
January 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify.. Because I think very carefully about what I say" - Kemi Badenoch
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NEW: The Lib Dems launch a new attack ad on Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch
A good week for the party
A good week for the party
January 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
NEW: The Lib Dems launch a new attack ad on Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch
A good week for the party
A good week for the party
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It’s really hard to fathom that come Monday, a convicted felon, rapist, and insurrectionist, will become president of America 🇺🇸 Authoritarianism looms large!
January 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It’s really hard to fathom that come Monday, a convicted felon, rapist, and insurrectionist, will become president of America 🇺🇸 Authoritarianism looms large!
A distopian nightmare come true. I am old; I grew up seeing the world get steadily better... until the Reagan/Thatcher right wing assault changed everything. That was the start of the rot. The rot is accelerating.
It’s really hard to fathom that come Monday, a convicted felon, rapist, and insurrectionist, will become president of America 🇺🇸 Authoritarianism looms large!
January 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A distopian nightmare come true. I am old; I grew up seeing the world get steadily better... until the Reagan/Thatcher right wing assault changed everything. That was the start of the rot. The rot is accelerating.
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Fascism and Oligarchy have joined forces. Their aim is to destroy our democracies so they can rule like feudal lords. Only a strong EU can counter that. The best way to make the EU and Britain stronger is to reverse Brexit – so that we can all stand united again on the barricade against tyranny.
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Here's the Chancellor candidate of the German Greens, Robert Habeck, stating what everyone needs to know. Namely that a strong EU is the best counterweight to authoritarians like Musk and Trump. Which is why they support those parties that want to weaken the EU.
[with English subtitles]
[with English subtitles]
January 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Fascism and Oligarchy have joined forces. Their aim is to destroy our democracies so they can rule like feudal lords. Only a strong EU can counter that. The best way to make the EU and Britain stronger is to reverse Brexit – so that we can all stand united again on the barricade against tyranny.
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This about sums it up!
January 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This about sums it up!
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You've almost got to admire the thought process behind seeing how spectacularly badly Labour's winter fuel payments policy has gone down with pensioners and then thinking "let's come up with something even more unpopular"
January 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You've almost got to admire the thought process behind seeing how spectacularly badly Labour's winter fuel payments policy has gone down with pensioners and then thinking "let's come up with something even more unpopular"
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Still think this is true. It doesn't mean I don't think Labour won't lose seats or even end up in a coalition or however it plays out. But looking at the numbers and the various ways it can play out, it's still more likely than not that Labour is in power next time.
Genuinely, I don't believe Farage will ever be PM. Keep seeing posts on here thinking that he can do it, but if you thought tactical voting was a Big Thjng in getting rid of the Tories i think it would be on steroids if there was a prospect a Farage PM on the other side of an election.
January 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Still think this is true. It doesn't mean I don't think Labour won't lose seats or even end up in a coalition or however it plays out. But looking at the numbers and the various ways it can play out, it's still more likely than not that Labour is in power next time.
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🚨 NEW: Spending cuts would be ‘political suicide’ and turn voters to Reform, McDonnell warns Reeves
“I actually think that the earliest decisions taken not just by Rachel Reeves but by Keir as well, I think tied our hands unnecessarily” , McDonnell said
Story ⤵️
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
“I actually think that the earliest decisions taken not just by Rachel Reeves but by Keir as well, I think tied our hands unnecessarily” , McDonnell said
Story ⤵️
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Spending cuts would be ‘political suicide’ and turn voters to Reform, McDonnell warns Reeves - Politics.co.uk
Early decisions taken by the Labour leadership “tied” the party’s hands “unnecessarily”, John McDonnell has said. The former shadow chancellor and frontbench colleague of the prime minister insisted t...
www.politics.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🚨 NEW: Spending cuts would be ‘political suicide’ and turn voters to Reform, McDonnell warns Reeves
“I actually think that the earliest decisions taken not just by Rachel Reeves but by Keir as well, I think tied our hands unnecessarily” , McDonnell said
Story ⤵️
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
“I actually think that the earliest decisions taken not just by Rachel Reeves but by Keir as well, I think tied our hands unnecessarily” , McDonnell said
Story ⤵️
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...