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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7h

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder what he’d have called his dog if he was a proctologist?

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 5h

Add the uneaten walnuts, and make a cake?

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 5h

What’s your excuse? “Events, dear boy, events”?

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 5h

What puzzles me is that it probably wouldn’t even cost much - Thames is functionally bankrupt, and they could just say No to their bleating for price hikes or pollution derogations, and watch it go into administration. McQuarie at al have already made a shit-ton of money out of it.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps the big breweries or their lobbyists, who presumably are the ones who have ministers’ ears, think this is a good idea, but I’ll bet the licensees don’t - it’s longer hours probably for no more money, and even more staffing issues.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 7h

Read thd article. It is intended to stop people *driving* in - limiting parking is a well-tested way of doing that. Also well tested is the notion that the city is more attractive to *people* if there are fewer *cars*.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 19h

Personally I think the German city of Hamburg should demand they all cease using the term for a product which wasn’t invented in or by the town.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 19h

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 20h

When JFK announced that “Ich bien ein Berliner” he was telling his German audience that he was a donut.
And a hamburger never did contain ham - it was a ground beef sandwich carried as a packed lunch by American bomber crew on bombing raid over Hamburg (hence the name) in the 1940s.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

stochastic terrorism [ stuh-kas-tik ter-uh-riz-uhm ]
noun

the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act,
which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted:
The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 2d

WOW! This Mail column about diversity in adverts is wild.

Click for subs

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social

Edward Burke @edwardburke.bsky.social · 1d

“Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews”
www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

All sounds a bit Cultural-Revolutionary.
And we all know how that went.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

Did you read this? Exquisite. But terrifying.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 3d

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

What do you think?

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

And if you’re going to sneer at my “flags”, it’s a block I’m afraid.
At least I’m not painting St George crosses on roundabouts.

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

Anecdata may be the lived experience of one person - you. Data on the other hand is scientifically collected and evaluated lived experience of many hundreds or thousands of subjects. As a science graduate and former accountant I know which I prefer.

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

Yes - and?

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Recent drone incidents and other airspace violations show Europe is facing hybrid warfare to which it must respond with measures that go beyond traditional defence, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said

EU needs response to hybrid warfare threats - EU chief

Recent drone incidents and other airspace violations show Europe is facing hybrid warfare to which it must respond with measures that go beyond traditional defence, EU Commission President Ursula von ...

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

It’s what I believe they call anecdata.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

Well - they would.
Wouldn’t they?

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

The Spiritan Order has denied deliberately delaying or obstructing progress on a redress scheme for victims and survivors of abuse.

Spiritan Order denies delaying progress on redress scheme

The Spiritan Order has denied deliberately delaying or obstructing progress on a redress scheme for victims and survivors of abuse.

www.rte.ie

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

Reductio ad absurdum.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 1d

So I see the Brownshirts are masking their faces these days.