Pete Braham
@petebraham.bsky.social
Books, news, politics, art. ‘Suburban dad’. Buys own clothes. Possibly a working person but who knows? 🤷♂️
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We are now as far away from the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark as audiences in 1981 were from its setting of 1936
January 2, 2026 at 9:46 AM
We are now as far away from the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark as audiences in 1981 were from its setting of 1936
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"Maddeningly, voters want contradictory things: low prices when they shop, high wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy"
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
The truth about affordability
Voters in rich countries are angry about prices. Politicians could make things worse
www.economist.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:26 AM
"Maddeningly, voters want contradictory things: low prices when they shop, high wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy"
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
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In October, @helenlewis.bsky.social traveled to Saudi Arabia to attend the Riyadh Comedy Festival—and to find out what, exactly, stand-up comedy looks like in a theocracy.
If you missed her story from earlier this year, read it here: theatln.tc/FdZ3xwYV
If you missed her story from earlier this year, read it here: theatln.tc/FdZ3xwYV
December 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In October, @helenlewis.bsky.social traveled to Saudi Arabia to attend the Riyadh Comedy Festival—and to find out what, exactly, stand-up comedy looks like in a theocracy.
If you missed her story from earlier this year, read it here: theatln.tc/FdZ3xwYV
If you missed her story from earlier this year, read it here: theatln.tc/FdZ3xwYV
Fish restaurant: The Brine Directive.
Hungry like the Worf.
Natasha Yar's Steak Tartares
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Fish restaurant: The Brine Directive.
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"So it's like the Olympics but only for ex-British Empire countries, aside from Rwanda because Paul Kagame, and we sort of kept it going because of the Queen and now no one wants to host it so the UK is now paying for Glasgow to do so."
"Oh right. Still, at least it's free sport on TV, right?"
"Oh right. Still, at least it's free sport on TV, right?"
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"So it's like the Olympics but only for ex-British Empire countries, aside from Rwanda because Paul Kagame, and we sort of kept it going because of the Queen and now no one wants to host it so the UK is now paying for Glasgow to do so."
"Oh right. Still, at least it's free sport on TV, right?"
"Oh right. Still, at least it's free sport on TV, right?"
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Also, a slept on musical talent. youtu.be/iwY5o2fsG7Y?...
Biff's Question Song (Stand-up Comedy)
YouTube video by Tom Wilson
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Also, a slept on musical talent. youtu.be/iwY5o2fsG7Y?...
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'Stay Home: BT Tower in the Snow' by Edward Luper
edwardluperart.com
edwardluperart.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
'Stay Home: BT Tower in the Snow' by Edward Luper
edwardluperart.com
edwardluperart.com
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Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
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🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Dolores Previtali
December 9, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Dolores Previtali
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Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Good evening! This week's theme is South London.
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'Camberwell Flats by Night' (1983) by David Hepher
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
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'Camberwell Flats by Night' (1983) by David Hepher
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Good evening! This week's theme is South London.
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'Camberwell Flats by Night' (1983) by David Hepher
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
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'Camberwell Flats by Night' (1983) by David Hepher
(Guildhall Art Gallery)
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Centre for the Arts Jose de Guimarães, by Pitagoras Arquitectos, Guimarães, Portugal, 2012
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Centre for the Arts Jose de Guimarães, by Pitagoras Arquitectos, Guimarães, Portugal, 2012
John Singer Sargent - Capri Girl on a Rooftop 1878 (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Art Deco NiMo Building in New York c.1932
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Art Deco NiMo Building in New York c.1932
TikTok has gone too far. This is end of days behaviour.
Crazy world. Sheffield: 'Why I queued for almost 24 hours for a jacket potato'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Why I queued almost 24 hours in rainy Sheffield for a jacket potato'
Hundreds brave the rain in Sheffield for the opening of a potato-based social media sensation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TikTok has gone too far. This is end of days behaviour.
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What I most like in this graph from @britainelects.com is that they are all distinct journeys, albeit to roughly the same destination. Each graph tells a different story.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
What I most like in this graph from @britainelects.com is that they are all distinct journeys, albeit to roughly the same destination. Each graph tells a different story.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.
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I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
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I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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