Jethro
@xjethrox.bsky.social
PhD Literature. Let’s not talk about the day job.
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I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.
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only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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Could Katie Lam identify the London schools where "more than three-quarters of children don’t speak English to a serviceable school standard". Well done to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for giving Lam + CPS the chance to substantiate this claim at the Tory fringe
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
Dave Hill: Katie Lam should learn London's language
Recent comments about the capital's school children's English skills suggest the Tory MP from Kent must try harder
www.onlondon.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Could Katie Lam identify the London schools where "more than three-quarters of children don’t speak English to a serviceable school standard". Well done to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for giving Lam + CPS the chance to substantiate this claim at the Tory fringe
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
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The National Audit Office estimates the overall cost of capping high gas prices in winter 22/23 alone at £69 billion. Higher than the £40bn quoted by Gov.
That's over a fifth of the entire cost of upgrading to a 21st Century fossil-free energy system.
That's over a fifth of the entire cost of upgrading to a 21st Century fossil-free energy system.
The UK Gov’s expert advisers have shown that investing to transiton from expensive gas to clean energy will save the UK nearly £40 billion every year!
Most people can’t afford the up-front investment, but the UK absolutely can.
Tackling climate change isn’t just about protecting people.
Most people can’t afford the up-front investment, but the UK absolutely can.
Tackling climate change isn’t just about protecting people.
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The National Audit Office estimates the overall cost of capping high gas prices in winter 22/23 alone at £69 billion. Higher than the £40bn quoted by Gov.
That's over a fifth of the entire cost of upgrading to a 21st Century fossil-free energy system.
That's over a fifth of the entire cost of upgrading to a 21st Century fossil-free energy system.
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Man arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated rape in Walsall
Man arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated rape in Walsall
Suspect, 32, apprehended in Birmingham after urgent appeal by police over alleged incident on Saturday
A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape after police believe a woman was the victim of a racially aggravated attack.
West Midlands police was called to the Park Hall area of Walsall just after 7.15pm on Saturday after a woman was reported to be distressed in the street. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Man arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated rape in Walsall
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another interesting thing about James Orr and his ilk is that they're symptoms both of failures of the intellectual mainstream, and products of an asymetry where only the right gets to be pompous: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
October 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
another interesting thing about James Orr and his ilk is that they're symptoms both of failures of the intellectual mainstream, and products of an asymetry where only the right gets to be pompous: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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If Pochin doesn't lose the whip - and she should - then Farage's party will be happy to have a racist on its benches.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If Pochin doesn't lose the whip - and she should - then Farage's party will be happy to have a racist on its benches.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Found out about this one from the Labour press release condemning it, and it was a real trip to learn that this wasn’t “a Labour staffer with a tape recorder at a private event” story but a “she just said it on national TV” story.
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Found out about this one from the Labour press release condemning it, and it was a real trip to learn that this wasn’t “a Labour staffer with a tape recorder at a private event” story but a “she just said it on national TV” story.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... The news that the Wagner Group is commissioning acts of terrorism on British soil appears… slightly undercooked, even in this article. Isn’t it a big thing?
Six Britons acting for Wagner group jailed for arson attack on UK warehouse
Judge says men imprisoned over fire at site storing Ukraine aid planned terrorist campaign in interests of Russia
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... The news that the Wagner Group is commissioning acts of terrorism on British soil appears… slightly undercooked, even in this article. Isn’t it a big thing?
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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
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A persistent insanity in political punditry is the way the left get henpecked to death by the press over the "how" of their policies, whereas the right get to just blurt out a "why" and receive a free pass on the "how" if the "why" seems compelling enough to divorced dads without visitation rights.
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A persistent insanity in political punditry is the way the left get henpecked to death by the press over the "how" of their policies, whereas the right get to just blurt out a "why" and receive a free pass on the "how" if the "why" seems compelling enough to divorced dads without visitation rights.
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In November 2022, Christopher Harborne (a.ka. Chakrit Sakunkrit) donated £1 million to "The Office of Boris Johnson Ltd", one of the biggest donations ever made to an individual British politician.
Boris Johnson awarded Harborne £80m MoD contract in January 2023.
Is there a name for this process?
Boris Johnson awarded Harborne £80m MoD contract in January 2023.
Is there a name for this process?
October 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
In November 2022, Christopher Harborne (a.ka. Chakrit Sakunkrit) donated £1 million to "The Office of Boris Johnson Ltd", one of the biggest donations ever made to an individual British politician.
Boris Johnson awarded Harborne £80m MoD contract in January 2023.
Is there a name for this process?
Boris Johnson awarded Harborne £80m MoD contract in January 2023.
Is there a name for this process?
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Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is.
It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...
It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...
How to Defeat Nigel Farage
The Reform leader is a deeply flawed politician who is leading an even more flawed political party. It's time for his opponents to finally start taking him on
www.adambienkov.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is.
It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...
It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
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Idi Amin deported 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972. So although the Conservatives want to propose the first mass deportation of legal migrants since Idi Amin - especially with the retrospective changes in ILR - Lam is proposing to deport 20 times as many people as Idi Amin.
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Idi Amin deported 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972. So although the Conservatives want to propose the first mass deportation of legal migrants since Idi Amin - especially with the retrospective changes in ILR - Lam is proposing to deport 20 times as many people as Idi Amin.
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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
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Excuse me
” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Excuse me
” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation
Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now
www.ft.com/content/ced8...