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@redpeter99.bsky.social

Recovering X and Twitter addict. Looking for a funnier, more intelligent place. Lifelong Leeds United supporter. I block racists. Elderly white hippie and proud.

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Although Harold Wilson didn't see active service in WW2 Healey, Callaghan and others in the Labour government had.
A factor in Wilson refusing UK participation in Vietnam.

02.03.2026 06:50 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I'm a big fan of SOME of his work. The early stuff, the mid 70s mainly.
Much of the rest leaves me cold..

02.03.2026 06:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The throwaway "that's the way it is" at the end of Trump's address to the US is beyond obscene.
The only life he's concerned with is his.

02.03.2026 06:32 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

My favourite Bob Dylan album. My favourite album ever.
Perfection.

01.03.2026 20:44 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

What is it about the obscenely rich that makes them so ugly?

01.03.2026 19:12 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 1

If the weather forecaster dressed as a farmer on Countryfile is a new policy by the BBC will weather on BBC Breakfast be presented by an unshaven bloke in a dressing gown with Frosties all down the front?

01.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

The Fulham crowd are bizarrely relaxed. Not for them the neck vein pulsing stress of home fans at Elland Road.
#FLUTOT #lufc

01.03.2026 15:56 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

It's a dilemma watching Spurs. You want them to lose but not for Archie Gray to be responsible.
#FULTOT #lufc

01.03.2026 14:54 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

For those in the UK that's around one and a half Aberfans.

01.03.2026 14:25 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

Good old Harry Wilson. If his goal results in a win bonus it'll affect the pound in his pocket.
#FULTOT

01.03.2026 14:12 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Going from Ibrox to Craven Cottage is quite a change of atmosphere.

01.03.2026 13:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Broken Britain doesn't quite seem so broken now, does it?

01.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1

The first half of the Old Firm derby has been terrific. Rangers are all over Celtic.
Credit to the referee. In the English Premier League there would be a stoppage every 20 seconds.

01.03.2026 12:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Farage is conflating foreign born with foreign. Matt Goodwin shares his view.
Doubt Farage is talking about, say, Boris Johson or Cliff Richard.

01.03.2026 11:27 — 👍 170    🔁 29    💬 21    📌 1

Agree.

01.03.2026 09:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hannah Spencer has made an excellent analysis but without a credible solution it's just empty words.

01.03.2026 09:34 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 13    📌 0

Plucky Isabel Oakeshott is bearing up on X.
Beauty salons, Malls open which must be a relief to the pony club Katie Hopkins.

01.03.2026 09:09 — 👍 39    🔁 5    💬 6    📌 0

My TL contains loads of football fan comment.
It is rare for the Leeds United fanbase to be the happiest. Very rare.
#lufc

01.03.2026 08:22 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You'd think one would Ayatollah H Khameini like Harry H Corbett did to distinguish himself from the Sooty guy.

01.03.2026 07:39 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Thirty odd years ago I worked in a school in Middlesbrough. One of my workmates was a young PE teacher.
I left in 1990 and the PE teacher left few years later and emigrated to Australia.
Fast forward to 2026 and his son is next into bat for Australia.
Small world.

01.03.2026 07:26 — 👍 47    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

I bet Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott are evacuating, too. Just hope their gaff has more than one toilet.

01.03.2026 06:36 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 0
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You don't know the credible intelligence. It goes to a different school.

01.03.2026 06:28 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

When Trump's father was suffering from dementia they rigged up a dummy office so he'd think he was still in charge of the business.
It's a pity the same can't be done for his son.

01.03.2026 06:23 — 👍 35    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0

Did bombing London in 1940 work? Vietnam in the 1960s? Iraq? Afghanistan?
You cannot impose a government from the air.

01.03.2026 05:44 — 👍 60    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 0

The attack on Iran is to provide amusement to a deeply flawed, deeply compromised cruel man.
There's no guard rails.

01.03.2026 05:41 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Hearing a Neil Sedaka song makes you feel better.
That's not a bad legacy.

01.03.2026 05:02 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Weatherspoons in Skegness is suddenly very appealing.

28.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 49    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0
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Not now, Arthur...

28.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Anyone who has a word of criticism for the players or Farke is wrong. All operated at the ceiling of their ability.
That was a helluva display against a team assembled for the cost of the GDP of a medium sized European country.
Onwards to Tuesday and our friends from up the A19.
#lufc

28.02.2026 19:38 — 👍 80    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 0

They're looking for a plumber in Gorton and Denton.

28.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0