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Nick
@finch4077.bsky.social
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Student of history, come for the football and Rugby stay for the history both remembered and forgotten. Also films and Detective fiction, and art, and stuff. I block AI firms, Crypto people of all genders and Traders so don't bother !
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finch4077.bsky.social
Out of curiosity. Is there an official verbatim record of the debate? Something akin to Hansard ? All I've ever read where summations such as the above which obviously doesn't give you much of a flavour of the arguments being advanced.
December 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
finch4077.bsky.social
In this case I genuinely feel sorry for his children. Hopefully they turn out like Musks and disown him fairly quickly.
December 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
finch4077.bsky.social
This is not the Barrier Committee you were looking for...
a man with a beard is wearing a hooded jacket and talking on a cell phone .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a hooded jacket and talking on a cell phone .
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December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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scb250.bsky.social
Just astonishing that Labour under Keir Starmer cannot even defend Sadiq Khan (a highly successful Labour candidate no less) in the face of racist abuse from aspiring foreign despots, let alone from bad-faith criticism from domestic opponents (ULEZ etc.).
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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garius.bsky.social
I suspect you'll appreciate Bellisario's explanation of how he created Higgins.

(From my history of Magnum: authory.com/JohnBull/A-m...)
To begin with, Bellisario had intended Magnum, Rick and T.C. to represent the core cast of characters. As he began writing, however, he began to suspect that Magnum needed some kind of regular foil — not a villain as such, for Bellisario was conscious of the need to keep the mood relatively light — but someone against whom the laid-back P.I. could butt heads. The answer came to him one day whilst watching the 1964 British film The Guns at Batasi. In the film, Richard Attenborough portrayed a stiff, career Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army, tasked with keeping order at a small military outpost in an African country on the brink of independence. Increasingly torn between the demands of the Army and his own idea of right and wrong, the film ends with Attenborough’s character cashiered out of the Army for choosing honour over orders. ““I’ll never forget Richard standing at the bar.” Bellisario explained to the AAT, when describing the film’s final scene. “He couldn’t believe this and he had a whisky and there was a picture of the Queen hanging behind the bar. He picked up the whisky and he flung it at the picture and he shattered the glass on the picture of the Queen — and then immediately was horrified at what he did.” He ran behind the bar and picked it all up and cleaned it all off and hung the picture back up on the wall. Then turned around, put his swaggerstick under his arm and walked off — that was the end of the film. I thought ‘he’s perfect! He’s the major-domo for Robin’s nest!’ And that was… Richard Attenborough was my pattern for that.” The character of Sergeant Major Jonathan Higgins, ex-British Army, with whom Magnum would form a classic love-hate relationship over the next eight seasons, had been born.
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
finch4077.bsky.social
I think a lot of American Foriegn Policy makes more sense when you remember Trumps mentor was a Mob Lawyer.
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
finch4077.bsky.social
Ironic considering he was a finance minister and he can't see either a)Trump and his cliche are trying to bilk everyone and b) the huge cost there would be in terms of refugees if Ukraine collapsed.
December 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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indy.bsky.social
I foolishly tried one of these products and the dryness was incredibly off-putting, but I suppose in retrospect, perfectly evokes the climate of Dubai.
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM