Rex Sandbach
@rexs.bsky.social
Retired company founder. Physicist & Passionate European. 40 years in international trade and high tech manufacturing.
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Rex Sandbach
@rexs.bsky.social
· Dec 4
I've felt many things as a "pro-immigration fanatic". Anger at the hate, division and bs spread by likes of the Telegraph mainly, but never "humiliation". The evidence is clear, and global, people move, people have always moved, people will always move, and that is an overwhelmingly positive thing.
Future us will look back and realise that the countries who figure out how to manage and use immigration for our benefit are the ones which did the best.
As someone who's enjoyed adjuvant chemotherapy I find this all strangely familiar.
Trump had some hefty bandages yesterday on the back of right hand -- the same one that is often discolored
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
As someone who's enjoyed adjuvant chemotherapy I find this all strangely familiar.
He's getting infusions of something and I don't think it's vitamin C.
the hand-aid thing is just gonna remain an eternal mystery huh.
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
He's getting infusions of something and I don't think it's vitamin C.
Just keep digging, Petey-boy.
So they went from it didn't happen, to it happened but it was someone else but it was legal to the "fog of war" prevented us from knowing there were survivors when we did conducted another strike on the wreckage.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just keep digging, Petey-boy.
And jolly good stuff it is too.
Christmas sorted. Prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
And jolly good stuff it is too.
If they wanted to step the war they'd stop attacking.
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If they wanted to step the war they'd stop attacking.
There's a reason for that.
Trump claims he's slashing drugs prices by "200 percent, 300 percent, 400 percent, 500 percent, 600 percent, 700 percent, 800 percent. Nobody has ever heard of it before."
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
There's a reason for that.
"Weighing"
🚨🚨NATO is weighing a shift toward a more assertive response to Russia’s cyber operations, sabotage, and airspace violations accordin to the alliance’s top military official Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, who chairs NATO’s Military Committee. 🧵
kyivindependent.com/nato-may-get...
kyivindependent.com/nato-may-get...
NATO may get 'more aggressive' in countering Russia’s hybrid attacks, top military official says
Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, who chairs NATO’s Military Committee, told the Financial Times that the alliance is reassessing how it confronts hybrid threats that have intensified across Europe.
kyivindependent.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"Weighing"
Reposted by Rex Sandbach
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
Dead eyes. He knows.
Steve Witkoff during today’s meeting with the Ukraine delegation.
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Dead eyes. He knows.
When they increased employer NI they could at least have justified it by describing it as an incentive to increase productivity.
@philmoorhouse.bsky.social this is brilliant from Torsten, there is a strategic plan but it needs communication.
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
When they increased employer NI they could at least have justified it by describing it as an incentive to increase productivity.
Radicalised by that dreadful Biden fellow, I'd warrant.
Authorities believe the National Guard shooting suspect was "radicalized" in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on "Meet the Press."
Noem says National Guard shooting suspect was 'radicalized' in the U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said the Trump administration would resume the asylum process after dealing with a backlog of cases.
nbcnews.to
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Radicalised by that dreadful Biden fellow, I'd warrant.
Lovely things too!
I'm not doing Black Friday discounts this year.
It’s just me in my Manchester studio. I can't compete with big brands slashing prices.
Every purchase keeps my tiny business going.
Shop independent this Christmas gailmyerscough.co.uk
It’s just me in my Manchester studio. I can't compete with big brands slashing prices.
Every purchase keeps my tiny business going.
Shop independent this Christmas gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Lovely things too!
It's like a scene from "Alien"
As Old Testament heads know, this is when the Angel of the Lord intervenes and tells you to order delivery
Let’s see what my son does in the oven
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It's like a scene from "Alien"
I was at the village post office to deposit the cash from a charity collection and the customer before me told the owner that 'traitor' Keir Starmer should be hung. The owner agreed, offering to do the hanging. What poison on social media are we not seeing for such a conversation to take place?
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I was at the village post office to deposit the cash from a charity collection and the customer before me told the owner that 'traitor' Keir Starmer should be hung. The owner agreed, offering to do the hanging. What poison on social media are we not seeing for such a conversation to take place?
"but I didn't inhale"
How Nigel Farage’s responses to allegations that he was a nasty racist as a schoolboy at Dulwich College have evolved over time.
Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline
Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"but I didn't inhale"
Twerp
Elon: so at a party and you want to be very popular, go uhhhh, so that is to say, your web browser, and so you type into Bing “naughty jokes for happy men”, and then ahaha you can, really quite epic, read results of what that is displayed
Rogan: that’s what’s so amazing about jokes is, you say them
Rogan: that’s what’s so amazing about jokes is, you say them
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Twerp
Looks like a Whopper too!
Sibelius saw Whopper Swans flying over him. This inspired the majestic main theme of the last movement of his 5th Symphony; emulating the majesty of swqn flight. Here is a Whooper Swan dabbling with bum in the air. Suppose he saw this instead. His swan theme may be different youtu.be/nJXll1UQfGs?...
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Looks like a Whopper too!
Isn't it time for a cold hard look at this whole issue without the politics? A royal commission etc?
- We could always just jump to the end and realise that we need an International plan to look at how the whole world is going to work out migration and its +ve and -ve effects.
- We could always just jump to the end and realise that we need an International plan to look at how the whole world is going to work out migration and its +ve and -ve effects.
Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Isn't it time for a cold hard look at this whole issue without the politics? A royal commission etc?
- We could always just jump to the end and realise that we need an International plan to look at how the whole world is going to work out migration and its +ve and -ve effects.
- We could always just jump to the end and realise that we need an International plan to look at how the whole world is going to work out migration and its +ve and -ve effects.
He needs a slap in the mush so badly..
Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
He needs a slap in the mush so badly..
Dear Mr Trump: what is insurance?
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Dear Mr Trump: what is insurance?
Legitimate concerns here.
Is Nigel Farage a fascist traitor to the UK?
I'm only asking questions.
I'm only asking questions.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Legitimate concerns here.
Hope they remember the engines.
A passenger aircraft that can complete make the journey without stopping is in the final stages of construction, Qantas has announced, releasing first images of the plane as it is assembled.
https://cnn.it/4qL6PpK
https://cnn.it/4qL6PpK
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hope they remember the engines.
It's so important to remember that the energy required to maintain a house at a certain temperature is *exactly equal* to the loss of heat to the environment. That's why insulation is so important.
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It's so important to remember that the energy required to maintain a house at a certain temperature is *exactly equal* to the loss of heat to the environment. That's why insulation is so important.
He's so old and pathetic.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
He's so old and pathetic.
If she's sincere then it's certainly a good starting point.
MTG: "I'm trying to lead by example to talk to everyone in kindness. We don't all have to agree but that's being an American. And thank goodness for that. Our freedom of speech, our 1A rights, allows us to do that. My personal belief is that I need to set an example by speaking nicely to everyone."
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If she's sincere then it's certainly a good starting point.