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Still Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.. Support Grimsby Town Football Club and Kent County Cricket Club. I know, it's complicated. Fan of Billy Bragg, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Knightley, Police Dog Hogan, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen etc.

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A separate point. But, having failed to renew my driving licence online because the details could not be matched with my passport details (which I renewed last year and on which the details are identical), I wonder how equipped the UK state is to roll this out?

14.10.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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a tesla cybertruck is parked in the desert ALT: a tesla cybertruck is parked in the desert

This machine funds fascists.

13.10.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
13.10.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And they pay him a fortune. Totally shameless.

13.10.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To regain credibility, pigs are going to have to learn to fly.

10.10.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, that wasn't aimed at you. But I think it was general consensus by February 24 that he wasn't going to last. As for Badenoch, she is clearly clueless, but resurrecting a corpse would be a challenge for anyone.

06.10.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Badenoch said: "Just look at David Artell. Everybody said he was a clueless idiot but they all love him, now....."

06.10.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I got kicked out of the Labour Party for nominating a personal friend to be a candidate as a TUSC candidate in a local election. But Glasman? Well, he can say and do what he likes.

02.10.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I imagine whoever wrote this will be spared in a cull of the intellectuals.

25.09.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much cognitive dissonance. I thought they wanted to harness the power of AI? And they need to get to grips with how to tackle the distribution of wealth in the economy this creates.

21.09.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Preferred the real Josh Lyman.

21.09.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe he lacks common sense? As well as basic decency.

15.09.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely. You would think these big brained strategists would have a bit more nous...

15.09.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Peas in the same pod?

15.09.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't get it. Worked for many organisations over the years, didn't see behaviour like that.
Accept can't see into people's minds and (as Dylan said) "And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine."
But to put it in writing!
And it seems endemic in these circles.

15.09.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel sure that a Government which is happy to contract with Palantir and Fujitsu will have no difficulty in determining that it is appropriate to contract with a right wing insurrectionist.

15.09.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, this is it. Can still accept it is very early days in terms of delivery. But the leaden footed approach on every matter of principle, the awful messaging, the failure to see that accepting gifts would make them look like the Tories are all inexcusable.

14.09.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Morgan McSweeny says it does not resonate with Blue Labour. And Keir agrees.

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Perhaps it's a bit of an unfair analogy: but people get kicked out of the Labour Party for liking the tweets of Green MPs: at the same time Mandelson's relationship with Epstein and numerous other indiscretions were in no way disqualifying.

11.09.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If a "prominent journalist" logs onto X and "assumes truth," it is a bit of a stretch to describe that person as a journalist.

11.09.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We visited Chambers Farm Wood in July and we were blown away by the numbers of butterflies we encountered. Triggered in my mind images of butterflies swarming in your "The Butterfly Isles." Also, driving home at twilight the other night, encountered more moths than for many years.

09.09.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is 100% going to be used to put ICE agents outside polling stations in areas where they want to suppress the vote.

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Cuyahoga

01.09.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Real Big Fish Last night isn’t about Manchester United’s declension. It's about Grimsby Town’s ascension.

I've spent the last three years researching Grimsby Town FC for my PhD.

So in the wake of last night, I wanted to write a piece on what makes #GTFC such a special club, and what Manchester United can learn from the supposed "little fish" of English football.

joshbland.substack.com/p/the-real-b...

28.08.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

Ian Leslie said something interesting? No, I really think you are mistaken. It's also complete bollocks.

22.08.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not a racist, but.....

22.08.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Morgan McSweeny will now be fretting: "Slightly more liberal" than Trump.

25.07.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're a lucky bastard! I am 70 in two months time and I still regularly get them.

25.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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