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@swisskale.bsky.social

European, Swiss (Vaud), British. Irish OH. Lived many years in Brussels ❤️. #TheArchers follower. Heartbroken by brexit

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Nah - I suspect he will come out Ok out of this. #TheArchers

12.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump sues Everybody!

11.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 313    🔁 106    💬 6    📌 14
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we're working on getting search back up, hang tight

11.11.2025 20:40 — 👍 604    🔁 110    💬 14    📌 47

They might want Amber back in the fold, and will give George a job? #TheArchers

11.11.2025 20:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Only one card game for the castle, surely? #TheArchers

11.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

‘Babe + babe’… sounds weird. Do youngsters use that? #TheArchers

10.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kate and Jakob are really good value for #TheArchers

10.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

10.11.2025 18:40 — 👍 4053    🔁 1296    💬 73    📌 84

Incredible footage and story-telling. 👏 #Kingdom

09.11.2025 21:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

<ahem> I suspect you have misread my post.

09.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Damn! I have to put up with yet another week with the judges calling him ‘ le Voix’. It *hurts* to hear that. #Strictly

09.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast: 159: The Grand Old Duke Of Yuck Ian, Helen, Andy and Richard Brooks discuss the week’s royal fallout, the forthcoming Budget, and get an update on all the murky business on Teesside.

Link to full Page 94 episode (Teesside coverage from 31:13) ⬇️

Listen: pod.fo/e/34ae5a
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=saFY...

08.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 42    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Great episode! ❤️ Neil. Susan desperate. Who will be Esme’s tenant? 👏 #TheArchers

07.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Imo, #CelebrityTraitors wasn’t as good as the ordinary #Traitors.

07.11.2025 00:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was *sooo* annoyed by the outcome of #Celebritytraitors . The faithfuls really were useless ( ie, the traitors were *not* that good).

06.11.2025 23:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

03.11.2025 14:35 — 👍 6378    🔁 1488    💬 92    📌 152

Good call with President Zelenskyy.

Ukraine will not face this winter alone.

The EU stands with you, providing emergency energy support to help Ukraine through the coming months.

At the same time, we are working on options to ensure the necessary sustained financial assistance to Ukraine.

03.11.2025 18:34 — 👍 597    🔁 96    💬 22    📌 8

And v. Good response from Neil. Very emotional from both tonight. I am Team Neil fww/atm.. #TheArchers

03.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very poignant from Susan. #TheArchers

03.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

@newsagents.bsky.social Excellent, measured, conversation with Neil Basu tonight.

03.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A remarkable trend—one that runs fundamentally counter to the Swiss far-right’s portrayal of migrants as low-skilled:

Through the 2020s, Switzerland has become the only small country to rank among the world’s top 10 preferred destinations for highly educated young adults („the brightest and best“)

01.11.2025 08:48 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

That was a humdinger of an argument (lively discussion?) between you three. 👏

31.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

31.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 2666    🔁 858    💬 26    📌 34

Thanks for the explanation!

31.10.2025 09:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why is the US flatlining, and why is Switzerland bottom?

31.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Putting this out as a possibility: Pip is mown over (somehow). Really, almost no listeners like her (as a character) - and there would be endless SL possibilities afterwards #TheArchers

31.10.2025 00:29 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Map Of Tennis Court Density In Europe

brilliantmaps.com/tennis-co...

31.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Brexit sees another international institution abandon Britain for Europe The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has become the latest major international institution to announce plans to close its doors on its headquarters in the UK

Major global travel and tourism group to quit London HQ and move to Europe because of Brexit

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

29.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 259    🔁 124    💬 11    📌 8

Too much Pip 😡 #TheArchers

29.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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