James Booth

James Booth

@jtjbooth.bsky.social

GP; safeguarding, LMC and BMA work. I like chess but I’m terrible at it. All of my hobbies I do from a sitting position.

692 Followers 2,761 Following 37 Posts Joined Aug 2024
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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

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Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Latest from me: By dint of its relationship with the trade unions alone, Labour still plays a vital role in our democracy – but it also looks dangerously like an archaic legacy party. Its old majoritarian dreams are over
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

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Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

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No more get-out clauses, no way back. It’s surely the end for Peter Mandelson, finally | John Crace The only question now is how it took this long for Labour’s greedy, reckless Prince of Darkness to meet his reckoning

Righteously brilliant from Crace on Mandelson’s disgrace

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Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them

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It is truly disgraceful.

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“With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.”
Lewis Goodall

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Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life... From the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday: Reform UK have announced plans for cuts to income tax in Scotland if they were to win the Scottish Parliament elections in May. They say they …

Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life and your family’s lives worse talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/28/d...

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"Apparently characters include Mikhail Minsk, Donetsk Duck and Pyotr (Five Year) Plan"

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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

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Robert Jedrick was Minister for Immigration.

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This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.

He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.

(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

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“Apparently he’s since decided to head further into Essex and film The Witham Man”

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“Apparently they’d been looking for LIDL Bo Peep…”

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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

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Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.

As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

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Hard to tell if this is an Epstein reaction or a cut scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey

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I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

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Well, social media has no place in a court. But I think it's the eternal nature of things for senior members of professions to think their younger colleagues aren't as good as they were...

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Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

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“Apparently their Government’s warned that the lack of flights is driving them Caracas”

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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

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However MAGA chooses to explain this away will be one of the most extreme examples of cognitive dissonance theory in the history of ever.

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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png

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4 months ago

“Learners have been warned they could soon end up failing with a Major…”

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