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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 12h

Thought Sting had been boasting again, as I scrolled along

Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 16h

Some remarkable Nonu facts after his try scoring feats at the weekend 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 16h

It’s really odd because I’m of the right age and musical inclination, but something has never just clicked. Not in a don’t like way, more a doesn’t make the pulse race way. I do wonder if it’s because my early punk leanings went down the Crass/Conflict route.

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 17h

He must be huffing on a copium pipe so big you can see it from space

Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 17h

Still the only Clash song I will stop and listen to.

Can’t put my finger on why, but I have just never really got them.

BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social · 18h

BBC Radio 6 Music
Huw Stephens

Now Playing
The Clash
Train In Vain

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 18h

*laughs in Welsh rugby*

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 19h

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 22h

That will be *checks notes* German born Paul Thorburn.

Imagine still giving this prick the time of day

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Coogan casually dropping into Partridge during a 6Music interview to say “Cashing a cheque of sadness” made me laugh so hard.

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

Calm the fuck down Powys

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely astonishing stuff.

Also very, very funny

Kemi Badenoch’s future in doubt as shadow ministers consider coup

www.thetimes.com/article/e5c0...

Kemi Badenoch’s future in doubt as shadow ministers consider coup

The Tory leader tried to rebuff Robert Jenrick’s simmering challenge at conference — but some think she is heading for a poor performance in the May elections

www.thetimes.com

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

Probably also looking to provide a bit of distance if things get legal quickly, from their ‘clarification’

Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

A headline and subhead that nicely sums up where Wales find themselves.

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

Read a piece about it a couple of weeks ago and amongst the least surprising things was…...I hope they mysteriously get smashed into dust during the move

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm

archive.ph/GAehH

Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 1d

Posthumously

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 1d

How Trump really could win the Nobel Peace Prize trib.al/oDWdfZw

How Trump really could win the Nobel Peace Prize

There remains no international honour that the US leader craves more

trib.al

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 2d

A classic of the genre

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 2d

Le Tache’s filleting of the whole sham enterprise was the best thing he’s written in ages

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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 2d

*Shaggy this isn’t weed*

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Tories say Reform ‘marching to the left’ but will voters buy it?

Kemi Badenoch has turned her fire on Nigel Farage as the Conservatives search for a way to head off the populist party and win back right-leaning voters