Stu
@stuartlilly.bsky.social
Sarf Londoner passionate about culture, politics, and the charity sector. Long-suffering fan of Fulham FC.
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Is it because you write about it in the Daily Mail? Oh - it actually is.
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Is it because you write about it in the Daily Mail? Oh - it actually is.
An excellent piece on another dismal England performance:
“[…] Barely a week and yet a three-and-a-half-year project to make dreams for a lifetime is already being pulled apart before we have even got to the third Test.”
www.espncricinfo.com/story/englan...
“[…] Barely a week and yet a three-and-a-half-year project to make dreams for a lifetime is already being pulled apart before we have even got to the third Test.”
www.espncricinfo.com/story/englan...
England at breaking point as Ashes dreams dismantled
Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum tried to protect their players, but it has left them exposed when it mattered most
www.espncricinfo.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
An excellent piece on another dismal England performance:
“[…] Barely a week and yet a three-and-a-half-year project to make dreams for a lifetime is already being pulled apart before we have even got to the third Test.”
www.espncricinfo.com/story/englan...
“[…] Barely a week and yet a three-and-a-half-year project to make dreams for a lifetime is already being pulled apart before we have even got to the third Test.”
www.espncricinfo.com/story/englan...
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they think it's all OBR, it is now
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
they think it's all OBR, it is now
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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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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
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We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
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It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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As a Bluesky user in good standing obviously I love TheModernHouse.com. The best bit is working out where the TV normally sits, which they've removed for the pictures. Bonus points here for proving it with an accidental glimpse in the fourth pic
July 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
As a Bluesky user in good standing obviously I love TheModernHouse.com. The best bit is working out where the TV normally sits, which they've removed for the pictures. Bonus points here for proving it with an accidental glimpse in the fourth pic
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Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?
October 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?
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David Cross folks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
David Cross folks.
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Carl Benz has an idea
![[Scene is a 19th century drawing room with a sign outside saying TRANSPORT INVENTORS CLUB. Inside, the German Engineer KARL BENZ is addressing a meeting of gentlemen about his new transport idea]
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KARL BENZ:
OK guys - you’re gonna love this
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KARL BENZ:
So it’s like, a box made of metal that goes at up to 120 miles an hour, yeah?
[Karl shows them a diagram of a car]
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KARL BENZ:
And your drive it down one side of the road, and the boxes going the other way go on the opposite side, so we don’t need to build two roads!
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OTHER GUY:
What’s down the middle?
KARL BENZ:
A white line.
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OTHER GUY:
So like, a white barrier…
KARL BENZ:
No a white line. Drawn on the floor.
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OTHER GUY:
And who’s piloting these machines?
KARL BENZ:
I was thinking: random members of the public.
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[Pause, the other guys all look with concern at Karl]
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OTHER GUY:
Karl are you OK
KARL BENZ:
No listen it’s fine
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OTHER GUY:
You know we’re worried about you, don’t you?
KARL BENZ:
No really it’ll work -
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KARL BENZ:
Once hundreds of millions of people have died and the world’s started ending because of the fumes it’ll all be normal.
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OTHER GUY:
Is that normal like the ‘commuter travel device’ you brought in last week which was just…
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OTHER GUY:
…an iron maiden fired from a catapult?
[The other guy displays a diagram of an iron maiden being fired from a catapult]
KARL BENZ:
THAT WOULD’VE WORKED!
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September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Carl Benz has an idea
“About 60 miles in, the self-driving Tesla hit a metal girder lying in the road. It was a very visible piece of debris that the car’s cameras completely ignored. […] The suspension was wrecked, and the sway bar bracket was broken.”
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
Tesla Bros Attempt Coast-to-Coast Trip in Self-Driving Mode, Crash Right Away
There’s an aura of failure lingering around Elon Musk and the Tesla brand right now. A stink of mediocrity. Maybe even the funk of impotence.
www.vice.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
“About 60 miles in, the self-driving Tesla hit a metal girder lying in the road. It was a very visible piece of debris that the car’s cameras completely ignored. […] The suspension was wrecked, and the sway bar bracket was broken.”
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
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Also economically. The argument is explicitly 'New Labour's economic approach was wrong'. Okay, Keir...what is yours? Do you have one?!
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Also economically. The argument is explicitly 'New Labour's economic approach was wrong'. Okay, Keir...what is yours? Do you have one?!
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charging at my boyfriend in the bedroom and he screams "olé!" as I crash into the wall instead
Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.
Stephen Miller's Wife Drops Cringe-Inducing Sexual Brag
Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.
trib.al
September 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
charging at my boyfriend in the bedroom and he screams "olé!" as I crash into the wall instead
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Swedish 2010s macroeconomic history explained in meme format:
September 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Swedish 2010s macroeconomic history explained in meme format:
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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
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It’s the politicisation of the midlife crisis and I’m only half joking. Loneliness, divorce, redundancy/not getting the deference they feel is due at work, loss of power + seeing that decline reflected in your town. What’s more startling in a way is the over-50 female reform shift
September 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It’s the politicisation of the midlife crisis and I’m only half joking. Loneliness, divorce, redundancy/not getting the deference they feel is due at work, loss of power + seeing that decline reflected in your town. What’s more startling in a way is the over-50 female reform shift
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Re-reading Jonathan Powell's excellent book, 'The New Machiavelli' (skip the first two chapters in which he justifies the framing, they work better as an afterword than a foreword IMO), and it's bleakly funny just how many of the asides could have a jump cut to the current Labour government.
August 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Re-reading Jonathan Powell's excellent book, 'The New Machiavelli' (skip the first two chapters in which he justifies the framing, they work better as an afterword than a foreword IMO), and it's bleakly funny just how many of the asides could have a jump cut to the current Labour government.
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wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.