Stuart
@smuso.bsky.social
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Tom of Finland but mostly my boys.
Windsor/Carcassonne
Tom of Finland but mostly my boys.
Windsor/Carcassonne
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This really is an outstanding piece of political journalism.
How Morgan McSweeney's '0% strategy' failed to win over Reform voters while haemorrhaging Labour's own support base to the Greens
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
Morgan McSweeney’s 0% Strategy
The plot to block Andy Burnham's return to Westminster tells you everything you need to know about how Keir Starmer's Government got itself into this mess
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 11:23 AM
This really is an outstanding piece of political journalism.
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Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
Trumps rabid stream of consciousness speech reminds me of Dame Edna Everage in full flow.
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Trumps rabid stream of consciousness speech reminds me of Dame Edna Everage in full flow.
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Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
This is an excellent summary of where the UK is atvthe moment.
Excellent and frightening.
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem...
Excellent and frightening.
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem...
Enemies within and without
<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This is an excellent summary of where the UK is atvthe moment.
Excellent and frightening.
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem...
Excellent and frightening.
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem...
In a random moment it occurred to me that William Tyndales’ work probably wouldn’t have been approved by the House if Bishops.
Too controversial. Best kick it down the road for a while.
Too controversial. Best kick it down the road for a while.
January 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
In a random moment it occurred to me that William Tyndales’ work probably wouldn’t have been approved by the House if Bishops.
Too controversial. Best kick it down the road for a while.
Too controversial. Best kick it down the road for a while.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.
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Joan Sutherland died on this day fifteen years ago. Too many astonishing performances and recordings, really, to choose just one, but her 1965 Semiramide is simply staggering. Here's the Act II duet with Marilyn Horne.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
Rossini - Semiramide - Act II Arsace - Semiramide duet - Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne (1965)
YouTube video by vicmanu
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Joan Sutherland died on this day fifteen years ago. Too many astonishing performances and recordings, really, to choose just one, but her 1965 Semiramide is simply staggering. Here's the Act II duet with Marilyn Horne.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...
43 years together and I still haven’t persuaded him to stop playing with church!
October 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
43 years together and I still haven’t persuaded him to stop playing with church!
Conservative Party are a bunch of lunatic chancers now. A Brexit fuelled disintegration of a once mostly reasonable and competent organisation.
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Conservative Party are a bunch of lunatic chancers now. A Brexit fuelled disintegration of a once mostly reasonable and competent organisation.
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One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney
Murdoch’s royal welcome
Rupert goes to Windsor...
writesbright.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney
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Canada’s new government is creating an entirely new housing industry.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Canada’s new government is creating an entirely new housing industry.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.
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See the reply from Douglas Bader’s (WW2 hero) relatives
Superb!
Superb!
September 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
See the reply from Douglas Bader’s (WW2 hero) relatives
Superb!
Superb!
The farm shop is closed!
That’s all I’m saying
That’s all I’m saying
September 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The farm shop is closed!
That’s all I’m saying
That’s all I’m saying
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Mix of cowardice and failing to understand the way racists have forced the agenda. This has to come to an end.
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mix of cowardice and failing to understand the way racists have forced the agenda. This has to come to an end.
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This is spot on. There is much to be grateful for - and much overdone negativity to rebut - as I point out in my @bylinetimes.bsky.social comments. Please subscribe and read!
At the risk of sounding like a government spokesperson, I wonder if we're too gloomy. NHS waiting times are falling, as are net migration numbers. Growth hasn't been fast, but it's improved. Real wages are growing. Inflation is a bit sticky, but much reduced.
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is spot on. There is much to be grateful for - and much overdone negativity to rebut - as I point out in my @bylinetimes.bsky.social comments. Please subscribe and read!
Despite labour losing its way nothing on earth would encourage me to back the chaotic and random Corbin world of
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
September 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Despite labour losing its way nothing on earth would encourage me to back the chaotic and random Corbin world of
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
Utopian impractical policy.
Maybe the Greens, if Polanski can turn populism into realism and order. He says good things which are achievable. He needs people
around him to pin that down.
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It isn't mostly about the boats, it isn't mostly about the growth, it is rather a generalised feeling that the system is working against ordinary people.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
September 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It isn't mostly about the boats, it isn't mostly about the growth, it is rather a generalised feeling that the system is working against ordinary people.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
Populists find it easy to turn this into an exercise in scapegoating someone or something.
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This (Sun Times) is why the Reform clownshow feels unstoppable…
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
September 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This (Sun Times) is why the Reform clownshow feels unstoppable…
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
The media knows they’re a lying bunch of loons but insists Farage has “immense political skill”
FFS. He just shouts his mouth off and no one (certainly not The Times) holds him to account on anything.
That’s not skill.
It’s sponsorship.
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Never deleting this vid @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
September 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Never deleting this vid @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
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not seeing 'concerned mums' here, more like 'thugs threatening violence'
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
not seeing 'concerned mums' here, more like 'thugs threatening violence'
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I took thus screenshot from the State Department Twitter page. What a load of Christofascist horseshit.
September 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I took thus screenshot from the State Department Twitter page. What a load of Christofascist horseshit.