Bob Smith

#March

Yip!

Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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#Rock

#you

I think the 3rd in the 3rd group is Anthony Booth and in the final group that’s Walter Becker in the last photo.

#Fall

Considering this administration has blown up four boats, killing 21 people, claiming they were cartel drug-runners without presenting any evidence of such … we’re in a place where if they decide someone is a “bad guy” or “antifa” they feel no inhibition of just going ahead and killing them.

One small step… | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine “I thought you’d like that one!” Kemi Badenoch shouted as the Conservative Party rose to its feet to cheer. She chuckled happily. There’s nothing Tories like more than a tax cut, and she’d just…

One Small Step: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch, a leader unconstrained by reality.

#days

#master

#Lover

😄
#awesome

#Endo

The Lecturer’s Lament Woe! unto ye. Woe! Woe! Woe! for ye have hidden the chalk, and have omitted the dates from your exercises, and ye are all utterly condemned, save only Mr Brash, who hath gotten him full marks. Woe! unto ye. Woe! for the day of the final examination cometh, and all of ye stand unprepared except only Mr Brash, who hath full marks. Verily I say unto you, there shall be lamentation and great weeping, and many shall cry “Sir, Sir. Give unto me a class certificate,” and there shall be none given unto them. And there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Ye laugh and make merry; ye make a great tumult with your feet; and one among you hath smitten me with a pea. But woe unto Mr Russell, who sitteth on a back bench and doeth his mathematical exercise. Verily it shall be exceeding hard for him on the day of the examination. What came ye here for to see? Fain would I have shown you crystals of Perthalium Tetroxide, very beautiful. Yea, and the Rhomboidal crystals of Formaloid, like unto which there are none others, and ye would not; putting me to confusion with your tumult. And when I would have shown you Alums, very precious, ye mocked me, singing, “I care not for the stars that shine.” Depart ye far from me. Get ye hence unto monkey houses; depart ye unto breweries, for I, having suffered long, will tarry here no longer with you.

For anyone else who's two weeks into the term and wondering if it was ever thus.

This is "H2O", aka John Logie Baird, writing for his student magazine in November 1912.

#crazy

2 of my favourites so tricky choice but on the basis that UP is better known, I’m voting for the underdog
#TT

Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar If smoking was the cancer villain of the 20th century, eating ultra-processed food may be its 21st-century counterpart, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar

PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.

“I’m pleased to see that, after five years... some people involved in this national scandal are starting to face consequences. But we cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/f2e9

The good news: Michelle Mone's company ordered to pay back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE.
The bad news: the company has less than £1m and is about to go into administration.
This will cost Mone fuck all and she still has a peerage.

So NOTORIOUS is on a deal.

99p on Kindle, and that's a bona fide bargain.

I am so very proud of this book and really don't care how much you pay.

So please rob me!

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Help your local LOSER | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine We interrupt this sketch to bring you a charity appeal on behalf of the League Of Special Elected RepresentativeS. To many people, politics looks like a game of rough and tumble…

Help your local LOSER:
A special charity appeal

Very well said 👏👏👏

#gods

It’s Late is a better song than many people realise but it has to be
#Fat

Speaking of broken “promises”.

#Never

An advert for "Cocarettes" depicting a woman smoking on the front of the package, and a list of reasons to smoke them on the back.

The COCARETTE was a cigarette made with coca & tobacco leaves, c.1885. The company claimed that coca was “the finest nerve tonic and exhilarator ever discovered.”

This is from a couple of years back but @mrjamesob.bsky.social nails it 💯, and his point is even more valid after Starmer’s announcement yesterday that he will refuse us a referendum.

I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.