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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 5m

Do you think he uses the chainsaw to slice his food?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 7m

President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Lunch with the President of the Argentine Republic

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1h

"cover up of murders"?

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

www.theguardian.com

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair I didn't really know a huge amount about him beforehand but now whenever I hear Colm Toibin talk all I can think about is him losing his temper with Adam Buxton.

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 5h

I do wonder if the Conservative party and its outriders having more time on their hands for wine fuelled lunches has led to this current conspiracy laden outlook?

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 5h

I've yet to see any strong evidence to back up this China stuff and yet the govt is being asked to disprove a supposed conspiracy rather than, you know, its critics proving one.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 9h

I also realise I've become fascinated by the use of the word "pressure" in political reporting. It's never specified whether it refers to pressure being applied or that being felt.

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 9h

"Continuing pressure" feels like a euphemism for "this is the top story in Westminster this morning but it's very unlikely to be at 5pm"

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 11h

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

The bit that gave away that "Trump's" peace plan was actually designed by Tony Blair was the proposal in it that Gaza should be governed by AI

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"I would go as far to say he was the architect."

Emily and Jon on their revelation that Tony Blair has been a pivotal player in the Gaza peace plan - much to the chagrin of civil servants.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

Is Jonathan Powell the new Lord Hermer? The conspiracy theorist's way of showing they're a political savant? Or indeed vice versa? Or is he the new donkey field? The memorable detail in a story that turns out to be bollocks?

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

A slap down to Mike Huckabee

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

The sun sets behind the house so recently the cats have taken to spending the early evenings in the kitchen where they can catch the last rays and apply silent, and occasionally not so silent, pressure to maybe hurry the hell up and feed them...

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

I find it interesting how someone utterly metal let Mike Huckabee whose normal journalistic role is to be the focus of "He said WHAT?!?" pieces can also be used to factcheck UK cabinet members.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 2d

'She's Delusional': US Ambassador Rejects Bridget Phillipson's Claim UK Played Key Role In Gaza Peace Deal

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/shes-d...

'She's Delusional': US Ambassador Rejects Bridget Phillipson's Claim UK Played Key Role In Gaza Peace Deal

Mike Huckabee said she could "thank Donald Trump anytime just to set the record straight".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Something I've been thinking about is how in all the recent talk around how doomed the Tories are nobody has suggested, as a solution, a completely implausible return of Johnson as leader. Which... feels like progress?

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 2d

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure why the whole bedhead and Barbour, posh wellies and a pooch Sunday morning thing winds me up so much but it does.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Having a cup of coffee in Gail's like a cliché Sunday morning twat.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone else has forgotten about Trump's shuttering of USAID but the experts the Nobel committee bring in to help them decide who should win the peace prize won't have and will be fully aware of the huge amount of damage it has caused.

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure "White House anger" merits a front page splash when they're already angry over the lack of North Sea drilling, the mayor of our capital, our crime rate, the recognition of a Palestinian state, off shore wind farms etc and it'll be a whole different set of issues next week.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 3d

When my daughter's primary ran a lockdown drill they told the kids they were practising in case a cow tried to break into the school. Then two of the teachers ran around outside, dressed up as cows, loudly mooing and trying to get in, while the kids hid under their desks. They had a brilliant time.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3d

Lockdown drills are becoming routine across the country, says Victoria Young. She asks the experts how parents should handle them

The latest US import? Preparing your child for a school attack

Lockdown drills are becoming routine across the country, says Victoria Young. She asks the experts how parents should handle them

www.thetimes.com

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 3d

It's notable how in politics, especially today, how those that seem almost hilariously bonkers are also the ones who are the most (darkly) consequential.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3d

And that’s not even the end of pope-related weird news today, because it’s also the 37th anniversary of Ian Paisley denouncing John Paul II as the Antichrist in the European Parliament and being ejected by a Habsburg crown prince who is alleged to have punched him...

Odd this day

11 October 1988

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 3d

The best example was Fern Brady's What a Combo where she asked her guests what their favourite food combo(?) was and even she lost interest in the format about 20 seconds after she'd explained it.

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