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Bryn Roberts
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Aerospace engineer & Librivox narrator - not taking this lying down. All views my own etc.
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Harsh but fair. (Source: www.ft.com/content/11a8...)
December 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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"When I was quite a little boy
I used to savour them with joy;
And now my daughter, aged three,
Can tell the tale of Sam McGee;
While Tom, my son, that’s only two,
Has heard the yarn of Dan McGrew ....
Don’t think your stuff I’m not applaudin’ —
My taste is Eliot and Auden.”
--- Robert Service
Pullman Porter By Robert W. Service The porter in the Pullman car Was charming, as they sometimes are. He scanned my baggage tags: “Are you The man who wrote of Lady Lou?” When I said “yes” he made a fuss — Oh, he was most assiduous; And I was pleased to think that he Enjoyed my brand of poetry. He was forever at my call, So when we got to Montreal And he had brushed me off, I said: “I’m glad my poems you have read, I feel quite flattered, I confess, And if you give me your address I’ll send you (autographed, of course) One of my little books of verse.” He smiled — his teeth were white as milk; He spoke — his voice was soft as silk. I recognized, despite his skin, The perfect gentleman within. Then courteously he made reply: “I thank you kindly, Sir, but I With many other cherished tome Have all your books of verse at home. “When I was quite a little boy I used to savour them with joy; And now my daughter, aged three, Can tell the tale of Sam McGee; While Tom, my son, that’s only two, Has heard the yarn of Dan McGrew .... Don’t think your stuff I’m not applaudin’ — My taste is Eliot and Auden.” So as we gravely bade adieu I felt quite snubbed — and so would you. And yet I shook him by the hand, Impressed that he could understand The works of those two tops I mention, So far beyond my comprehension — A humble bard of boys and barmen, Disdained, alas! by Pullman carmen. Husky dogs pull a guy on a sledge in snow The Very Best of Robert Service Paperback 2002 by Robert W. Service, Jon Van Zyle (Illustrator)
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Oh
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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urbaneprofessor.bsky.social
now onto one of the greatest Christmas songs ever (and yes, you have to dance like that while listening to it)
youtu.be/00gXEn1ehDg?...
Peanuts Gang : Christmas Song "Linus & Lucy"
YouTube video by mano1971music
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December 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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The shifting stories of a serial liar when found out ...

meme via Angel Stroyan
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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viviane49.bsky.social
12 Labour announcements in the last few days. From crypto regulation through expanding colleges through to new study on inactivity in 16-24 year olds and record early years investment.

Labour are focused on our young people 👏👏👏
1. Major boost for millions of NHS dental patients. New changes will enable patients to access urgent care easier 2. Investigation into the causes of record unemployment and inactivity among 16 to 24 year olds 3. UK lands trade deal with South Korea to boost jobs and exports 4. Launch of Women in Tech task force 5. Nissan launches £450m next-generation LEAF in major vote of confidence in UK’s Industrial Strategy 6. Cutting edge cancer treatments set to be produced out of uranium 7. Major expansion of colleges to train next generation of workers 8. New £2.3m fund backs 30 farm tech trials testing lower emission machinery, digital tools and peat-free compost to boost productivity and sustainability. 9. Record £9.5bn early years investment 10. Over £1bn for victims of domestic abuse to access support & rebuild lives 11. New crypto rules to unlock growth and protect customers  12. Ministers are drawing up plans to ban cryptocurrency donations in politics. 13. Cryptocurrencies to be subject to the same regulation as traditional financial products such as stocks and shares
December 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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As someone who is still here five years later and had this type of chemotherapy for BC, and has looked (through my fingers) at the stats, in a very real sense ET IN ARCADIA EGO - an absolutely wonderful letter about how the human mind makes creative connections
harrywallop.co.uk Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 22d
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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viviane49.bsky.social
Trusted, independent Resolution Foundation put into an easy to understand chart why Labour are despised by the Media and their bosses. It’s time to stop listening to them.
Chart
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Net migration to UK drops 69% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Net migration to UK drops 69% year on year, ONS says
Figure of 204,000 in 12 months to June 2025 is lowest since 2021, statistics body says
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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With everything that has come out over the last few days, it’s surely time for British civil society and media to condemn as Farage an anti-Semite

We saw, rightly, the lens turned on the Labour Party. I hope, probably in vein, that equal scrutiny and criticism will now be turned on Farage
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Oct 1
Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.
From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt, At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened. You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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newsagents.bsky.social
“The amount of time and surgeries it’s taken to recover from one Taliban bullet… I can’t imagine the pain Afghan women and girls have suffered.”

Malala Yousafzai on fears becoming reality - the Taliban’s return has seen girls banned from education.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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If you want to find out what the Labour Government in the UK are ACTUALLY doing, then you need to be following them on social media.

My lists are updated (but still not complete).

They cover Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Youtube and I'm even starting with Tiktok!

1/2
Labour in government
docs.google.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Here's the Govt announcement on Ed Miliband's new carbon budget / net zero plan (since I don't imagine it will get the coverage it warrants)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Climate plan captures clean energy benefits and boosts investment
Working families and businesses will benefit from clean energy and climate action, as the government seizes the opportunities of the clean energy economy.
www.gov.uk
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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The arguments for the foundation of the NHS were as much about eliminating ‘money worries’ about medical bills as about improving health. Needs to be kept in mind when evaluating health care systems.
bubsdad.bsky.social Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · Oct 20
Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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warrenoates1.bsky.social
Ed on the BBC this morning...

..actually being allowed to talk about the Clean Energy Jobs Plan, aiming to recruit and train 400,000 in 31 key job types, listing loads of examples of it happening already.

Wonder why he was able to say all this unintereputed this week...I think you know why...
October 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Learned something new today! You can disable the *obnoxious* AI features (and corresponding interface destruction) in Acrobat by clicking "disable new Acrobat" in the hamburger menu (Windows). Huzzah!
Screenshot of the hamburger menu in Acrobat Reader, with the "disable new Acrobat" option highlighted.
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"She gave me a kiss and said, 'I'm glad you got that out of your system.'"

Watching his famous Battle with the Militant Left speech, Neil Kinnock becomes emotional, remembering his wife Glenys, who passed in 2023.
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM