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James Bottomley
@jamesbottomley.bsky.social
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UK-based older project consultant guy with history in both public and private sectors. Enjoys chatting about politics, society, culture, etc. Spent time in many countries, including working in the US, so moderately familiar with other lands.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 5h
They make all the serious money online. The high st shops made money when they were running high stakes betting machines but the regulator clamped down on those, at least to some extent.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 6h
Shows that the royals regard the police as working for them, to defend their private interests and corrupt activities. They must have good reason to hold that belief. There's clearly a long history of it.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, maybe if they increased it some more, they'd all close, although it would have to be on betting machines as well as they are the major earner for bricks and mortar bookies.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 6h
The economies of both Russia and China are in freefall.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 6h
Betfred says it will close all UK betting shops if gambling taxes go up. In other news, pigs have been seen flying over England.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax
The company's co-founder says it would be forced to close all its sites, putting 7,500 jobs at risk, if gambling taxes go up.
www.bbc.co.uk
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 7h
No sign they disapprove.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 8h
What's his comeuppance? Promotion to the GBN Sunday show?
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 8h
The Nuremburg Laws were written with the same language. Jews were to be excluded from fairness or decency.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 9h
I worry that they'll have to rename the Minster.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
If this is the flagship, I'd hate to see the run of the mill ones.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Psycho-killer, Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Stephen Miller walking across a car park looking thin and menacing
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Yes and in reality Cadbury's products are mostly vegetable oils (including the dreadfully destructive palm oil they stick in everything), sugar and emulsifiers with a bit of milk and a trace of chocolate. Basically flavoured sugar bars.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Part of the arc of national collapse is that as most in the country struggle to make ends meet, the activities of the hyper-rich become more and more degenerate and involve the most extremely corrupt. Welcome to the British Museum Pink Ball.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Champagne, celebs and artefacts: British Museum hosts first lavish ‘pink ball’ fundraiser
£2,000-a-ticket event, where 800 guests will hobnob among world’s treasures, could herald new reality in desperate arts funding climate
www.theguardian.com
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
If only they actually were socialists.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
They clearly aren't posting evidence AFAIK, but that's not my point, I was just reflecting that given we tolerate that, it's implausible we would care if some Tel Aviv fans are war criminals. I didn't think you were conflating issues.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Given that some British Jews living in the UK have been serving in the IDF and going backwards and forwards with impunity, this seems unlikely.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
For sure, Biden and Starmer and others greenlighted Bibi to carry out the most extreme acts of retaliation. Starmer apparently doesn't believe that human rights extend to Palestinians. These 'leaders' appear to regard Israeli arguments that Arabs are untermenschen as credible and true.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
You didn't pull the blinds down, like Queen Victoria?
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Always good to get the view from the Dubai penthouse.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Another of Paul Staines's nasty little elves from the Guido Fawkes hatestream. No surprise that Calgie comes out with this blatant racism. Also it seems like a hate crime, time for plod to be called in to interview him.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Sounds like what they used to call good old fashioned despotism. People fought wars to get rid of those kinds of rulers.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
He's got a very puncheable face.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
You can't expect our guys to face that kind of thing without armor.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
Does look bad. Send in the 101st Airborne right away.
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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 1d
The EU, rightly, refuses to allow Cadbury's to attempt to pass their products off as 'chocolate'.
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