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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 14h

“Do you have a Pinterest or mood board?” asks the wedding planner.

Cue panicked signing up to Pinterest and an evening staring at photos of decor. Comfortably the most stressful part of the planning experience so far.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 20h

Presumably this is the reason Eritrea isn't at the bottom of that list as well.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 20h

You will be shocked to learn that one of the men sanctioned today for alleged involvement in massive fraud has purchased multiple flats in the new Nine Elms development. www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home...

UK sanctions scam network ‘masterminds’ who bought London properties

Both men were born in China but hold Cambodian, Cypriot and Hong Kong citizenship.

www.the-independent.com

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, this is entirely possible. I shall engage in some self-criticism.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 21h

So you get extra points for being an effective authoritarian regime?

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 21h

Hang on, how is North Korea scoring anything above a 0 on this?

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 1d

Some of us can't even get our 2025 takes quoted in 2025.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 1d

Correct

Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 5d

I think it’s sort of new age/christian self-help stuff, but it’s not entirely clear

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 5d

I have received an email praising my ability to write with “humility and conviction” and describing my work as a “luminous testament to the power of awareness, love and curiosity”.

Which would be great if they weren’t trying to contact an entirely different Christopher McKeon.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 6d

This is why I never post about politics (subs please check)

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 7d

(There was some language about China being a 'threat to economic security', but the review very pointedly stopped short of calling the country a threat to national security, opting for 'epoch-defining challenge' instead).

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 7d

Spoke to Kevin Hollinrake just before he went on stage - insisted the PM needs to explain himself to Parliament over the collapse of the Chinese spying case.

Also insisted the Tories had always called China a threat 'in certain areas', which is not my memory of the Integrated Review refresh

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 7d

Even where you can get a prescription for it, some pharmacies just refuse to stock it/claim they can’t get it from their suppliers. Difficult to see the point of a prescription a pharmacy won’t fill.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 7d

Today in things I didn't expect to hear or write at this conference: "Lettuce doesn't poo." www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home...

Reform would threaten ‘survivability’ of farmers with US trade deal, says Atkins

Victoria Atkins said chlorine-washed salad was not the same as chlorinated chicken because ‘lettuce doesn’t poo’.

www.the-independent.com

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 7d

Following today’s defections, Chris Philp tells one of my PA colleagues the Tories shouldn’t worry too much about Reform say because Farage “was boasting about MP defections during our conference, which has not happened.”

Feels a bit like a hostage to fortune that.

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Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 8d

A bit of drama in the Conservative Party conference hall earlier, as London Assembly member Andrew Boff heckled a 'gender critical' session he later said was ‘curated hatred’

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Conservative conference gender session ‘curated hatred’ – Tory politician

Andrew Boff claimed the gender identity session featuring former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies was ‘one sided’ and said it was ‘not a debate’.

www.independent.co.uk

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 8d

Fair to say, Kemi Badenoch's response to 20 Tory councillors joining Reform has not been universally popular here - one Tory source tells me it's made them "sound like a protest party", and there's a widespread assumption that there's more to come before her speech tomorrow.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 8d

Unhelpfully, the photo's from the party conference in Manchester

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 8d

If

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 8d

It's even older than that - looks like Mitt Romney was telling this joke c.2006

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 10d

Scenes from Tory conference, including a tractor, Margaret Thatcher’s wardrobe, “Labour’s Circus of Despair” and what appears to be an AI Winston Churchill

A JCB tractor in the exhibition hall at the Tory conference

Three of Margaret Thatcher’s most famous outfits - one purple, one blue, and a “fawn” one she wore in a tank

Labour’s Circus of Despair, featuring Rachel Reeves’ Wheel of Tax and Whack a Taxpayer

An AI Winston Churchill. No I don’t know why either.

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 14d

I must tell you that, having seen one Cabinet minister wandering over to him yesterday, I think some of these encounters might be staged

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 14d

If being out of touch makes you a bad person…I am concerned

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Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social · 14d

The guy, Max, does a TikTok thing called The Career Ladder where he interviews people while standing on a ladder and tries to guess their jobs in two minutes.

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