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Refugee from Twitter. Haven’t abandoned it yet. Musk free is nice

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@ottoenglish.bsky.social Miss you on Twitter, but respect your decision

04.10.2025 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We are in a surreal world where little makes sense.

07.03.2025 21:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m still on Twitter for now

12.02.2025 10:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Age of Unreason “Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” So said Thomas Paine in his seminal work “The Age of Reason” published…

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22.01.2025 14:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The drift at The Times started with the dreadful decision to appoint the odious Tony Gallagher as editor. While Tony, has pretty good tastes in food, his political views are Trumpian.

10.01.2025 14:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Times is not as far away from Musk and Zuckerberg as Hugo Rifkind would like us to think “With social media now on a path towards unmediated chaos, the hunger for publications with actual editorial standards — such as this one — really ought to grow.” Hugo Rifkind in The Times. Zuckerb…

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09.01.2025 08:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Now is not a time for Appeasement of the Right – we must fight it Mr Cowley’s piece neatly summarises the mess Western democracies are in but instead of seeking a way to counter the growing hegemony of the Right it endorses even welcomes it. Perhaps the author is…

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29.12.2024 08:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can the Centre regain its hold ? When in 2016 we went to vote in the EU Referendum there wasn’t a Centrist box to tick. It was a binary choice – In or Out. And that set the tone for what has happened since. Everything has be…

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28.12.2024 10:51 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christmas greetings to all my followers in this place. 🎄

25.12.2024 18:59 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

Not “probably” - certainly. Time to abolish the Whips.

29.11.2024 19:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Staggering how some Conservatives criticise the Government for things that all observers with half a brain can see were Labour’s inheritance from their incompetence.

27.11.2024 17:55 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Easy one innit ?

22.11.2024 10:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s the “Tall Poppy Syndrome” - but it’s far too early to judge Starmer or his government. But that doesn’t stop us. So we throw invective at him. The Left call him a “Tory” because he hasn’t nationalised anything yet. The Right call him a Marxist because he hasn’t sold off the BBC.

21.11.2024 08:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Let's assume that there are some people who will genuinely struggle from the IHT on farmers tax. Surely they can find a better spokesperson than fat cat "gentleman farmer" millionaire Clarkson who admits that his farm ownership is a tax dodge.

20.11.2024 11:46 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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20.11.2024 08:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Followers climbing! Long way to go to match Twitter though.

18.11.2024 12:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Found you !!

15.11.2024 08:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Followers building up nicely. Thank you.

14.11.2024 12:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not active yet.

12.11.2024 10:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0