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Ian Raynes.

@ianraynes.bsky.social

Aged Brit, I worked in the Armed Forces, police, Prison Service and as a teacher , but still surprisingly liberal.

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For the first few banishments you are effectively playing the Weakest Link. Best to get rid of the players who are the worst at missions.

24.01.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The contrast with the other guy is just astonishing.

21.01.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We could always chicken out. SACO is just as much in play as TACO these days, given the u turns.

20.01.2026 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We might as well just hand it over to China directly and try to curry favour with a superpower run by a sane person.

20.01.2026 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He only wants one because Obama got one. If Obama gave his medal to Machado, we might avert disaster.

19.01.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Robert Jenrick posing as a Guardian Angel.

Robert Jenrick posing as a Guardian Angel.

One wonders who he was planning to defect to.

15.01.2026 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm confused. Has he come to play around at Prince Andrew's or play a round at St Andrew's?

26.07.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like the French watching the Nazis march into Paris.

15.06.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Judgement Day for the EHRC How the equality watchdog turned into a culture war campaign group

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group

iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

13.06.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 795    πŸ” 334    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 66

That makes Linford Christie, Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Naomi Campbell "White British" , which may or may not come as a welcome surprise to them.

It's a surprising U turn by the Telegraph. Wait a generation and the immigration problem disappears. I didn't think of them as champions of integration.

04.06.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dignity, Not Dark Yet, Blind Willy McTell.

28.05.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

10.05.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5647    πŸ” 2870    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 225

What’s really sad is that Sagan has been dead for nearly 30 years, and everything he says here is now 100x more true and more problematic than it was then, and thousands of online goons have devoted themselves to insisting it isn’t.

04.05.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

www.thetimes.com/article/33f2...

02.04.2025 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like a stag party playing Call of Duty.

26.03.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2016 Hegseth would be calling for the impeachment and imprisonment of 2025 Hegseth.

24.03.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3312    πŸ” 846    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 37
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One of my kids has dyslexia. After a lot of effort, she can and does read every day.
It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.

14.03.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1275    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 23

I agree, it's one of his best and I miss him too.

16.03.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 248    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

I used to teach in Further Education. Every year there would be at least one clever committed kid who had slipped through the entire school system with undiagnosed dyslexia, life chances stunted, opportunities closed off.

15.03.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few and a lot are opposites. Yet quite a few and quite a lot, mean the same thing.

15.03.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

10.03.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 60410    πŸ” 18064    πŸ’¬ 3515    πŸ“Œ 1551
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In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".

06.03.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6424    πŸ” 1488    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 101
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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

01.03.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 43133    πŸ” 12311    πŸ’¬ 730    πŸ“Œ 414
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"History will remember this dayβ€” when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

28.02.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 127932    πŸ” 34304    πŸ’¬ 3045    πŸ“Œ 1406
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'The only hero': Zelensky praised for holding own under Trump and Vance barrage Reaction to Friday's Oval Office shouting match that pitted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance has been one of disbelief and disgust. Trump and Zelensky were ...

"The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin's puppet. The vice president of the United States is a pogue and a coward who is Donald Trump's puppet” πŸ‘

www.rawstory.com/trump-zelens...

28.02.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1085    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 7
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America is rock bottom.

24.02.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 895    πŸ” 254    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 20
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

22.02.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 79236    πŸ” 17164    πŸ’¬ 1284    πŸ“Œ 1008
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Knowledge is power…

16.02.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 34802    πŸ” 13126    πŸ’¬ 1001    πŸ“Œ 699

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