Paul Stokes (@pstokes) — Bluesky Profile

1 month ago

Another reminder that the Telegraph's Allister Heath is a one-man Human Centipede of news reporting.

Then...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

Now...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

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5 months ago

Let’s be honest this team deserves to be relegated. This just abject surrender

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5 months ago

Getting a little bit concerned that purely going for occupation of the crease whilst not reducing the deficit at the same time will bite us on the backside.

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7 months ago

Do you think ECB will take a look?

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8 months ago

Matt Hancock stayed at the mansion of a Tory donor who owns Randox without declaring it. Hancock then awarded them £500m through the VIP PPE lane.

Will we hear about THIS at the Covid Enquiry?

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9 months ago

This is excellent, alarming & important.

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9 months ago

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

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9 months ago

Meat industry welcomes deal, saying Labour has achieved 'what previous government promised originally but didn't deliver'
The British Meat Processors Association has issued a statement strongly welcoming the deal with the EU. It says that, making access to the EU market easier for meat exporters, Keir Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”.

The association has also dismissed claims that the deal will mean the UK being a “rule taker” because it will aligned with the EU on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules. It says:

A common misunderstanding is that an SPS agreement will mean Britain becomes a ‘rule taker’. In reality, we must comply with the rules of any of our trading partners if we want to export to them – just like America must comply with British rules if they want to send us their products. This means we have been aligned with EU rules and standards all along. The difference this new deal will make is that Britain, unlike their other third country trading partners, will benefit from true, un-fettered access to their market and massively reduced trade friction. It will boost trade and make us more competitive.

Under the existing arrangement we have had to produce a mountain of paperwork to prove we comply, costing business a fortune but with no added value. This extra cost had to be absorbed somewhere in the supply chain, either through lower margins or higher prices, driving food price inflation and rendering UK businesses less competitive.

British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA

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1 year ago

memo to farmers protesting today, if you’re desperate to hand your farm to your offspring then give it to them while you’re still alive, panic over, so long as you live another 7 years there’s no inheritance tax

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1 year ago

Saw him play this in Leeds back in 2013. ❤️❤️❤️

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1 year ago

Book paragraph that reads, “It’s also important to remember that social media platforms are corporate products governed by algorithms and human beings who have repeatedly stifled leftist voices, obscured state violence, and facilitated right-wing radicalization. As important as these platforms are, overdependence on them weakens our movements. We need to practice a diverse spectrum of outreach methods in digital spaces and in physical spaces, and we need to do skill-building work in our movements around those methods. Sometimes, we need to be literal about meeting people where they are at. Think about all of the places people congregate in person and remotely where conversation is possible, from restaurants to schools, parks, porches, places of worship, street fairs, text message threads—and so many more.”

Rereading “Let This Radicalize You” by @prisonculture.bsky.social and I’m hanging on to this paragraph right here…

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1 year ago

Remember how much damage they did in the first 4 years, before we knew what they were capable of, that they would literally stop at nothing. The damage they will do now they understand the system is unfathomable.

We will not recognize our country in 4 years. We will have to fight on that basis.

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