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Tom Rawstorne

@rawsty.bsky.social

Journalism-loving journalist with a lifelong love of cricket, a new-found penchant for padel and an interest in rural affairs and politics.

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What’s next for Peter Mandelson? Got to be a podcast. With an ‘amusing counterpart’, I’m thinking Ann Widdecombe or Nicky Hallam.

03.02.2026 09:31 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 8    📌 5

Mandelson only really left with one option now - to switch to Reform

03.02.2026 12:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let he who hasn't been photographed in a pair of Y Fronts in the home of an internationally infamous paedophile cast the first stone, say I...

03.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They should throw the kitchen sink at Mandelson - criminal investigations for misconduct in public office, insider dealing and HMRC probe into his tax affairs.

02.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m watching final episode of #TheNightManager solely because I’ve invested so much time in what I can only describe as a sub-par Slow Horses featuring a sub-par Bond who’s only sexual activity thus far has been a bit of over-the-jeans frottage.

01.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Two otters waiting for food in Buckfastleigh, Devon

Two otters waiting for food in Buckfastleigh, Devon

My favourite part of a visit to an otter sanctuary is the bit where the otters stand respectfully in silence for their national anthems.

01.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 617    🔁 91    💬 16    📌 10

Decent team though

01.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m watching final episode of #TheNightManager solely because I’ve invested so much time in what I can only describe as a sub-par Slow Horses featuring a sub-par Bond who’s only sexual activity thus far has been a bit of over-the-jeans frottage.

01.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascinating how the water companies brief journalists about future water shortages when the reality is there is no shortage of water just a shortage of infrastructure to meet demand. The last six months - not just this winter - wetter than average.

01.02.2026 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So does The Guardian, The Times and The Mail. I guess more eye-catching. And the fact that less people today recall Mandelson’s then-partner.

31.01.2026 13:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Great to see Banton playing for England again. Great credit to him to getting back into the team #SIvEng

30.01.2026 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump criticising nations for trading with China is like a publican hiking his prices and then complaining that his customers are drinking in the next door pub.

30.01.2026 07:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The cook, the sausage, his wife and her lover

29.01.2026 21:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I always find this bombastic rhetoric so silly, mate you're stepping out of a Vauxhall Astra to have lunch with a journalist not a Higgins boat onto Normandy

28.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 103    🔁 21    💬 9    📌 0

‘’Suella Braverman! Nadine Dorries! Nadhim Zahawi! Danny Kruger! Robert Jenrick! Lee Anderson! Maggie Thatcher - can you hear me, Maggie Thatcher! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!"

26.01.2026 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the time it’s taken for England to win an overseas ODI, Donald Trump has stopped at least eight wars and cured autism #SLvEng

24.01.2026 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I know it's not within the hundred most awful things here, but... the nearest penguins to Greenland are in the Galapagos, five thousand fucking miles away

24.01.2026 11:19 — 👍 830    🔁 162    💬 103    📌 28

Crawley, Duckett, Bethell, Root, Brook....hmmm...hoping their preparation in Australia helps them hit their straps in Sri Lanka..#SLvEng

22.01.2026 10:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A statement from Ryanair saying that their CEO has called a press conference about Musk criticising them and saying he's thinking about purchasing their airline.

A statement from Ryanair saying that their CEO has called a press conference about Musk criticising them and saying he's thinking about purchasing their airline.

The Musk/Ryanair battle seems unfair. In one corner you've got generational talent shitposters, while in the other corner you've got the guy who thought that literally turning up with a sink to Twitter HQ when he bought it (*let that sink in! Geddit?*) was cutting edge satire.

20.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 349    🔁 74    💬 11    📌 15
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"Look, I get it, he's mental but what the fuck do you want me to do?"

- Labour +45%

20.01.2026 10:31 — 👍 682    🔁 141    💬 6    📌 1

He who hasn't fallen out with their family in a row over charitable donations for displaced dogs cast the first stone, say I...

20.01.2026 10:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t know much about the High North but sounds the sort of place that should be ruled by someone like Begbie.

18.01.2026 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Incredible wins.While England’s individual super stars fail trying to ‘just go harder’, Kiwis just put in team performance after team performance

18.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watching New Zealand beat India in India (again) can’t help feeling England got the wrong Kiwi.

18.01.2026 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

15.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 1231    🔁 607    💬 37    📌 32
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Correct

15.01.2026 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you think South East Water have got a grip on chaos think again. More schools shut in Tonbridge today. They’re in meltdown.

15.01.2026 07:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Donald Trump, Cristiano Ronaldo, Elon Musk, Ricky Gervais, Ed Sheerhan

Donald Trump, Cristiano Ronaldo, Elon Musk, Ricky Gervais, Ed Sheerhan

this, from West Ham's Freddie Potts, is the single worst "five famous people you'd invite to dinner" I've ever seen

13.01.2026 18:23 — 👍 895    🔁 289    💬 69    📌 141

Classic England Test series in which Captain Fantastic injures himself in a vain cause because the team he picks isn’t able to deliver more than one decent performance in a row #ashes

08.01.2026 09:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Watching the cricket highlights and this would appear to be the least skill-ful display of bowling by an England team that I can remember in my life #ashes

06.01.2026 18:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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