Gwdihw Racing
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System bettor to Betfair SP since 2021. Not the best (losing runs and drawdowns, including one now), not the worst (+400pts profit and +ve A/E). Goody-hoo.
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August 2025: results
On this channel, I post daily qualifiers from a range of betting systems which I think over time might outperform the Betfair Exchange Starting Price (Betfair SP/BSP).
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Results for August 2025
Bets: 131
Returned: 177 points
ROI: 33%
Strike rate: 16%
Actual vs Expected: 0.96
Thoughts here: gwdihwracing.substack.com/p/august-202...
Bets: 131
Returned: 177 points
ROI: 33%
Strike rate: 16%
Actual vs Expected: 0.96
Thoughts here: gwdihwracing.substack.com/p/august-202...
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This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?
Comments are like wow great journalism, TikTok influencer, whose “rabbit hole” consisted of screenshotting someone else’s article
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?
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Shout out to club photographer Serena Taylor for this magnificent snap.
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Shout out to club photographer Serena Taylor for this magnificent snap.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Who is hosting Sky Sports Racing tonight? Callum Helliwell excellent at Wolverhampton, but the main host is so abrasive, talking dismissively about everything (whether human or horse).
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Who is hosting Sky Sports Racing tonight? Callum Helliwell excellent at Wolverhampton, but the main host is so abrasive, talking dismissively about everything (whether human or horse).
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"you guys ever see Martin Roberts do the invisible piano on Homes Under The Hammer?"
December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"you guys ever see Martin Roberts do the invisible piano on Homes Under The Hammer?"
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Please enjoy the Spectator not only eating shit after trying to destroy a Hope Not Hate researcher who exposed the activities of a bunch of fash but also hilariously trying to salvage a win out of it
An apology to Hope Not Hate and Harry Shukman
In August, The Spectator began to investigate allegations that Harry Shukman, a 33-year-old freelance journalist, had used a fake British passport as part of a two-year undercover investigation into t...
www.spectator.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Please enjoy the Spectator not only eating shit after trying to destroy a Hope Not Hate researcher who exposed the activities of a bunch of fash but also hilariously trying to salvage a win out of it
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Excellent to see this from The Economist. We are slow walking into a constitutional crisis driven by the electoral system, and very few people are taking it seriously enough yet.
Welcome to slot-machine Britain! Our cover this week is on First Past the Post, the voting system that turns multi-party politics into a lottery.
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Excellent to see this from The Economist. We are slow walking into a constitutional crisis driven by the electoral system, and very few people are taking it seriously enough yet.
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I'm a late convert to test cricket but now absolutely love it.
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I'm a late convert to test cricket but now absolutely love it.
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end
#Ashes2025
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Total banger www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Total banger www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
I agree with some of this, disagree with some of it, unsure about plenty of it.
But lovely to see politicians sharing information reasonably and clearly like this.
But lovely to see politicians sharing information reasonably and clearly like this.
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I agree with some of this, disagree with some of it, unsure about plenty of it.
But lovely to see politicians sharing information reasonably and clearly like this.
But lovely to see politicians sharing information reasonably and clearly like this.
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*slams print out of post on table*
"This is what we believe!"
"This is what we believe!"
It is genuinely insane how intensely developed the major stations are in Japan
There’s a huge amount below this and probably just as much either side. 7-8 stories of *stuff*
There’s a huge amount below this and probably just as much either side. 7-8 stories of *stuff*
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
*slams print out of post on table*
"This is what we believe!"
"This is what we believe!"
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Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
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The Chancellor's interviews today are the definition of the performance of scrutiny - it looks dogged and aggressive, but there was absolutely no chance that it was going to reveal anything important or in any way actually probe the decisions in a budget built on sand!
It is *flabbergasting* that we’ve had a budget delivered that increases borrowing in the short term, when costs are very high, and depends on spending cuts and tax rises in election year to hit its overall targets, and the broadcast media are more interested in inane process stories.
It’s an indictment of our media that more time is being spent on whether Reeves lied about the need to raise taxes than on the actual substance of the policies announced on Wednesday.
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The Chancellor's interviews today are the definition of the performance of scrutiny - it looks dogged and aggressive, but there was absolutely no chance that it was going to reveal anything important or in any way actually probe the decisions in a budget built on sand!
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Maybe we should build HS2 in full and increase capacity on the network. It was never just about speed.
Soon-to-be-axed 7am Manchester-London train will still run – but without passengers
Soon-to-be-axed 7am Manchester-London train will still run – but without passengers
Exclusive: Rail regulator pulls Avanti service from timetable from mid-December but it is needed for staff travel
The good news for rail travel between Manchester and London is that a morning train will continue to link England’s biggest cities in under two hours. The bad news: passengers will no longer be able to get onboard.
The rail regulator has axed one of Britain’s fastest and most lucrative intercity services, the 7am Avanti West Coast from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston, as part of a timetable shake-up that will take effect in mid-December. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Maybe we should build HS2 in full and increase capacity on the network. It was never just about speed.
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I know I rant about this all the time but the rabid - and omnipresence - anti immigrant line on BBC 6 music news is so jarring
Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted
Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I know I rant about this all the time but the rabid - and omnipresence - anti immigrant line on BBC 6 music news is so jarring
Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted
Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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god this reminded me of the incredibly daft list I wrote up two years ago for my newsletter, or the worst/best/funniest things to include in your will: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/where-ther...
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
god this reminded me of the incredibly daft list I wrote up two years ago for my newsletter, or the worst/best/funniest things to include in your will: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/where-ther...
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"my mother died in labour, turning blue in the process, and you want to help elect a Blue Labour government?!?!"
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"my mother died in labour, turning blue in the process, and you want to help elect a Blue Labour government?!?!"
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Right after my second birth, I had a postpartum hemorrhage. This happens in about 1% of births. Whenever I talk about this, free birth advocates ask what interventions I had in the hospital that caused the hemorrhage. None. There wasn't time. I gave birth 30 minutes after being admitted.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Right after my second birth, I had a postpartum hemorrhage. This happens in about 1% of births. Whenever I talk about this, free birth advocates ask what interventions I had in the hospital that caused the hemorrhage. None. There wasn't time. I gave birth 30 minutes after being admitted.
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UK housing policy is permenantly stuck with the assumption that every high rise housing development must be like del and rodney's flat instead of frasier crane's.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
UK housing policy is permenantly stuck with the assumption that every high rise housing development must be like del and rodney's flat instead of frasier crane's.
I'd never seen an interview with Jane Williams (winner of the first at Warwick with La Luna Artista) before. Refreshingly honest, insightful and lovely interview with @racingtv.com.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I'd never seen an interview with Jane Williams (winner of the first at Warwick with La Luna Artista) before. Refreshingly honest, insightful and lovely interview with @racingtv.com.
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A perpetual quirk of voter psychology (and one I'm not really sure you can 'solve') is people automatically assuming that all punitive measures will apply to them. See ULEZ in London for another example
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
A thing that I remember vividly from GE2015 is when you'd knock on the door of a never-gonna-be-hit-by-the-mansion-tax house that was never going to be hit by a mansion tax who really thought their house's inflated price meant it might be close to it. Turns out that has spread to officials!
I sometimes feel like I am going mad.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A perpetual quirk of voter psychology (and one I'm not really sure you can 'solve') is people automatically assuming that all punitive measures will apply to them. See ULEZ in London for another example
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
Trying to imagine ITV and Racing TV's coverage of the Grand National if this rule was brought in...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian cricket great Glenn McGrath dropped by the ABC over betting agency links
National broadcaster says it has ‘mutually parted ways’ with the former fast bowler, who was due to commentate the Ashes
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trying to imagine ITV and Racing TV's coverage of the Grand National if this rule was brought in...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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When I was a young boy, the next word out of Goodwin’s mouth here would be “blacks”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
When I was a young boy, the next word out of Goodwin’s mouth here would be “blacks”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party