Nigel Boor
@nigelboor.bsky.social
Ageing local government worker in south west UK. Interested in website accessibility and fairness in other aspects of life. Can't stand those who punch down.
Is anyone lobbying parliament to get the Equality Act amended so the wording can't be interpreted to exclude trans women?
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Is anyone lobbying parliament to get the Equality Act amended so the wording can't be interpreted to exclude trans women?
I endorse this opinion.
And add a surcharge on betting ads online and on TV/streaming.
And add a surcharge on betting ads online and on TV/streaming.
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I endorse this opinion.
And add a surcharge on betting ads online and on TV/streaming.
And add a surcharge on betting ads online and on TV/streaming.
I don’t think the warning from the gambling industry that increasing taxes will mean betting shops closing is quite the threat they think it is.
Problem gambling is up there with tobacco in societal harm.
Problem gambling is up there with tobacco in societal harm.
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I don’t think the warning from the gambling industry that increasing taxes will mean betting shops closing is quite the threat they think it is.
Problem gambling is up there with tobacco in societal harm.
Problem gambling is up there with tobacco in societal harm.
How about we boycott the TV coverage too?
I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Fifa agrees World Cup matches can be moved at Trump’s request
The president has been warning host cities under Democratic control that he will call on Fifa’s president to switch venues if he deems there is a problem
www.thetimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
How about we boycott the TV coverage too?
And damaged Trump's reputation so badly he won the presidential election.
Has he spent the last year cataloguing the ways he's been financially hurt?
Has he spent the last year cataloguing the ways he's been financially hurt?
Barely mentioned but that now notorious Trump Panorama *wasn’t made by the BBC*
It was an indie production (as so much is)
Even if was BBC, head of news or DG would wouldn’t have been involved in edits
It was an indie production (as so much is)
Even if was BBC, head of news or DG would wouldn’t have been involved in edits
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And damaged Trump's reputation so badly he won the presidential election.
Has he spent the last year cataloguing the ways he's been financially hurt?
Has he spent the last year cataloguing the ways he's been financially hurt?
Just been behind a guy in the emergency room talking about having had COVID and now coughing blood. No mask in sight.
November 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Just been behind a guy in the emergency room talking about having had COVID and now coughing blood. No mask in sight.
Seems to be saying they were right while paying damages for admitting they were wrong.
These two things seem incongruous:
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Seems to be saying they were right while paying damages for admitting they were wrong.
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Dear "news" web site owners: if your "news" article doesn't have in the first paragraph information about the actual thing I clicked through to learn about, I will block your entire domain henceforth, learn how to fucking write a news article god damn it
Nothing, You Loser GIF
Alt: Willy Wonka saying "You get nothing, you lose, good day sir"
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dear "news" web site owners: if your "news" article doesn't have in the first paragraph information about the actual thing I clicked through to learn about, I will block your entire domain henceforth, learn how to fucking write a news article god damn it
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I will keep banging on about this…
…because it is clear that the UK political & media class is utterly broken.
To the point whereby local democracy, trust in the police, quality analysis, honesty, and public safety are all being deliberately sacrificed.
…because it is clear that the UK political & media class is utterly broken.
To the point whereby local democracy, trust in the police, quality analysis, honesty, and public safety are all being deliberately sacrificed.
October 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I will keep banging on about this…
…because it is clear that the UK political & media class is utterly broken.
To the point whereby local democracy, trust in the police, quality analysis, honesty, and public safety are all being deliberately sacrificed.
…because it is clear that the UK political & media class is utterly broken.
To the point whereby local democracy, trust in the police, quality analysis, honesty, and public safety are all being deliberately sacrificed.
Trump is really simple. He doesn’t think very deeply. Trump’s brain is a “qian dao hu” – a lake with 1,000 islands, none of them connected.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
The long read: Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s p...
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Trump is really simple. He doesn’t think very deeply. Trump’s brain is a “qian dao hu” – a lake with 1,000 islands, none of them connected.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Raise them a bit higher then. Consider it a public health good.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes
Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Raise them a bit higher then. Consider it a public health good.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you
October 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Anyone trash talking "others" is part of the problem. Looking at you politicians and media pundits.
If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism
And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.
It’s really that simple.
(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.
It’s really that simple.
(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
October 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Anyone trash talking "others" is part of the problem. Looking at you politicians and media pundits.
And while you're at it sort out the transgender limbo and head off the EHRC shenanigans excluding people from toilets.
Right you miserable bunch of MPs.
Draw up a Bill and push it through Parliament to Strip Michelle Mone of her Peerage.
Hope that helps
I'm sick of this pish.
Just do it. Let justice prevail for the dead.
Draw up a Bill and push it through Parliament to Strip Michelle Mone of her Peerage.
Hope that helps
I'm sick of this pish.
Just do it. Let justice prevail for the dead.
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
And while you're at it sort out the transgender limbo and head off the EHRC shenanigans excluding people from toilets.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
What the hell is going on with Bluesky. There's no such thing as Antifa. It's a made up organisation that some people use to describe people they disagree with. 🙄
September 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What the hell is going on with Bluesky. There's no such thing as Antifa. It's a made up organisation that some people use to describe people they disagree with. 🙄
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I dearly wish the alleged "liberal Left" had bothered to listen to Popper.
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I dearly wish the alleged "liberal Left" had bothered to listen to Popper.
Just a thought. If you can’t pronounce “nuclear” you shouldn’t be in the cabinet.
September 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Just a thought. If you can’t pronounce “nuclear” you shouldn’t be in the cabinet.
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Rest in peace Robert Redford. You will be forever loved, never forgotten and always missed. Your star will shine bright for eternity.
#RobertRedford #Film
#RobertRedford #Film
September 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Rest in peace Robert Redford. You will be forever loved, never forgotten and always missed. Your star will shine bright for eternity.
#RobertRedford #Film
#RobertRedford #Film
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September 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
