Jonty Bloom (@jontybloom)

The price of populism While many parties are jumping on the band wagon, Reform is calling for a cut in fuel duty to be paid for by ending all green subsidies and commitments to net zero.

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11.03.2026 07:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The wise men Yesterday I finished a brilliant, informative and monumental book written in1986, it is called “The Wise Men, Six friends and the world they made” by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas.

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10.03.2026 07:45 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Laugh or cry? It takes a nano second or even shorter to Google “Telegraph, Blair, Iraq, lies” to find endless articles from that tower of truth and journalism about how Tony Blair lied to the world in order to take...

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09.03.2026 10:43 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Made in Europe There is no knowing how it will end but this is an ominous week for the UK car industry.

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06.03.2026 07:33 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Churchillian, moi? It always used to make we laugh the way that Margaret Thatcher used to refer to Sir Winston Churchill as “Winnie”.

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05.03.2026 07:31 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Once more into the breach... The right wing press is, as should be expected, furious that the UK is not invading Iran, or rescuing tax dodgers from the Gulf or sending in the gunboats or some such.

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03.03.2026 08:51 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Rouge male Rogue Male is an excellent British thriller about a posh English gent who tries to assassinate Hitler.

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02.03.2026 09:14 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The time bomb Having torn up a treaty with Iran, then “destroyed” its nuclear weapons programme and then demanding a new identical treaty with Iran, Trump has now launched an all out attack on Iran, with Israeli su...

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28.02.2026 08:32 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

A death sentence So the by-election results are in and as predicted the headlines are that this is a disaster for Labour, which it is.

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27.02.2026 07:11 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

A simple solution I always find it a bit cynical when parties like the Greens and the Lib Dems ask for Labour to stand aside so that they can beat the Tories or Reform.

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26.02.2026 07:56 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

AI and the future I am giving a talk at a school on the world of work today.

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25.02.2026 07:58 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The future is orange As someone said on social media, watching Lord Mandelson being arrested is the greatest thing they have seen since Margaret Thatcher was driven away from Downing Street in tears.

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24.02.2026 07:31 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Delusions I only know of two films about ice hockey.

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21.02.2026 06:28 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

On the map I got a little depressed the other day because of a map.

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20.02.2026 07:08 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Happy endings? As more and more money and more and more power is concentrated in the hands of a small group of the ultra wealthy, you have to ask yourself, “ How do they think this is going to end?”

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19.02.2026 08:18 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Compare and contrast Compare and contrast was always one of my least favourite exam questions and that is a very long list.

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18.02.2026 08:08 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Priced out The news of the latest rise in UK unemployment this morning was immediately followed by some instant analysis from the NIESR, a very reputable economic organisation.

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17.02.2026 07:44 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Fight back If Sir Kier wants to fight back politically he could do little better than bringing forward huge levels of increased defence spending, today.

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16.02.2026 09:04 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Why Sir Jim Ratcliffe is right When Man United’s co-owner talks about being "colonised by immigrants”, does he mean Monaco?

When Man United’s co-owner talks about being "colonised by immigrants”, does he mean Monaco?

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12.02.2026 13:05 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Dare you I see Sir Jim ratcliffe has those same PR advisors who always come up with ways of NOT apologising.

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13.02.2026 06:39 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Sir Jim is right I am sorry to have to admit it but Sir Jim Ratcliffe is right, his country has been “colonised by immigrants”, they have flooded the country and make virtually no contribution to its society.

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12.02.2026 07:44 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Oh Canada Trump is threatening to ban the opening of a new bridge between Windsor in Canada and Detroit, a bridge that he approved last time he was at the White House.

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11.02.2026 07:55 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Be radical The Labour party is up to its old tricks again.

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10.02.2026 08:03 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Coming soon Hong Kong’s so called High Court is sending media tycoon Jimmy Lai to prison for 20 years on the trumped up idea that supporting democracy is treason.

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09.02.2026 07:53 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Good news? Bad news! If their is any good news out of the Epstein affair it is that in Europe the findings and revelations have caused serious damage to numerous people, as they should and should continue to do.

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07.02.2026 08:33 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Truth sometimes changes nothing One of my readers commented recently that he was fed up with being taxed up to the eyeballs for very little return.

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06.02.2026 07:37 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Another couple of hits like this.... The ever reliable NIESR brought out some research yesterday which will get very little publicity but which should be leading the debate on where the country is headed.

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05.02.2026 07:42 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The way ahead The trouble with the “Britain is broken” message, is that it is pushed hardest by the people who have done the most damage and whose “solutions” would destroy the country.

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04.02.2026 09:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An opportunity Given the current libel laws in this country I will refrain from giving my opinion of Peter Mandelson, except to say whoever thought bringing him back and giving him the most senior diplomatic positio...

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03.02.2026 08:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mothballed ambitions I hear that the Kennedy centre is to close for two years for “refurbishment”.

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02.02.2026 09:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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