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@richard-d.bsky.social

Emeritus Economics Prof. World traveller. Birdwatcher. 'Cynical liberal'.

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"And that was before Trump's war. We kept meeting dreadful expat residents".

04.03.2026 10:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is the 'that' here? (An economist asks..)

04.03.2026 09:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

True, but Trump won't be there forever. One hopes. Of course it shows Europe & Uk's dependence on US goodwill is no longer a strategy to pursue.

04.03.2026 08:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kissinger got the Nobel Prize for that. As Tom Lehrer said, satire died that day.

03.03.2026 20:39 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They are all Labour staffers who hate LibDems.

03.03.2026 20:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a Chelsea season ticket holder in 2004-05, I sat next to fans whose opinion was that 2-0 wins every home gain were 'boring'. I explained (1) it was not 1-0 (see Arsenal) and (2) we last won the league in 1954 or whenever. But they were still not happy...

03.03.2026 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Q: Commercial air travel is severely restricted in the Middle East. Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan?

TRUMP: Because it happened all very quickly

03.03.2026 17:06 — 👍 1524    🔁 430    💬 371    📌 228

Declining credibility v. grandiose statements.

03.03.2026 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

'Watch our dissection of the Russian bombing campaign against Ukraine - Putin's permanent war doctrine etc etc blah, blah' - oh sorry. Yanis, I'm not receiving that particular contribution from you....

03.03.2026 13:43 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starmer had a 'political strategist' then? News to me.

03.03.2026 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It does.

03.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Netanyahu said he's finally achieved what he's wanted for 40 years. Trump more interested in curtains.

03.03.2026 10:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Netanyahu says Trump fulfilled his dreams: In bombing Iran, Israel now has the "assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years"

01.03.2026 16:49 — 👍 555    🔁 251    💬 126    📌 285

First time LDs are official opposition?

02.03.2026 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

'We are crippled by being lawful citizens'. By the fraud who brought you 'don't listen to experts'. And this is the intellectual wing of the Conservative Party.....

02.03.2026 11:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starmer is not attacking Iran.

02.03.2026 07:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bonkersville indeed.

28.02.2026 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

'Great Yarmouth over London'. Nuff said.

28.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then you can call them losers and suckers, Trump.

28.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Operation Orange Rage.

28.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A simpler time for simpler pundits. Oh, those Kray brothers,they were so sweet. Salt of the earth.

28.02.2026 10:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's no way to greet an ex-Professor at UKC!

27.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

27.02.2026 06:22 — 👍 2734    🔁 705    💬 30    📌 24

Just to show silliness of 'uniform swing' models. How about a 'tactical vote' version?

27.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are normally too opionated, despite rumours to the contrary.

27.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An art historian writes....

27.02.2026 10:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

She's known a few.

27.02.2026 08:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Up there with '"you fool, I said a sealed train, not a trained seal".

26.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Continuation of the acclaimed Daily Mail random headline generator.

26.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Crypto age, maybe. A scam shortly to collapse after drifters made some money.

25.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0