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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 18h

If someone is telling me about their early career and they say, "I was working as a waitress (or waiter)..." I have to say, "in a cocktail bar"

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

Surely with his following, railing against Trump is better than cheerleading? There are plenty who haven't recanted...

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

Discuss...

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

Lawks. A bit different to the cuddly beasts in Trafalgar Square

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

And chooses Birmingham to traduce. The true heir of Enoch Powell. What a legacy

Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

"These strange, terrible children, dancing on the corpse of a party which was once home to Disraeli and Churchill..."

Powerful stuff from Dunt on Badenoch and the "tedious little bore" Jenrick

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

Sadiq Khan is low key but every time he makes an intervention it's timely and sensible

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

The Telegraph btw

Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 2d

Ridiculous "snub" headline with deliberate image echo of George W Bush's "America is under attack" moment - implying the decision is a threat to American values on a par with 9/11: the Nobel committee as Al-Quaeda

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 3d

Just to remind all my American friends that today is 10/10/25.

Not 10/10/25

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 7d

Supermarketman

Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 8d

My favourite is

Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 10d

The biggest question is what to do about the terrifyingly homophobic African members of the Anglican Communion - Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda (where the church enthusiastically endorses the death penalty for homosexuality). No archbishop wants to preside over schism but those guys are rough company

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 10d

This is her during Justin Welby's astonishing leaving speech in the Lords - he'd resigned over a decades-long child abuse scandal and decided he'd play it for laughs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hN6...

Bishop 'deeply disturbed' by Justin Welby's metaphor of 'rolling heads' in final Lords speech

YouTube video by ITV News

www.youtube.com

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 10d

I love the deliciously patronising "last time I checked"...

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 10d

This is brilliant

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

David Nihill
@davidnihill.bsky.social

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 11d

I've been to three and found them all inspiring

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 11d

Straitjacket. First horror movie I ever saw

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Jamie for a nice review - The Smart Traveller's Wine Guide is now 6 titles: Bordeaux, Rioja, Rhone Valley, Switzerland, Tuscany and Napa Valley - and more to come!
@jamiegoode.bsky.social

Book reviews: The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide: Rioja, Bordeaux and the Rhone Valley – wineanorak.com

wineanorak.com

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 14d

Is this a tautology or not?

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 18d

You don't take into account that Reform voters LIKE what he's done to American democracy and would love a dose of that here...

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 18d

Aside: I met several ppl in the US who thought Trump was a uniquely American problem, like a violently disagreeable but temporary aberration in the normal running of things, and in 4 years everything would be back as it was...

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 18d

No that's so true. Hitler was mocked as "the Austrian Corporal". I also note that all these horrors are symptoms of geopolitical movements & economic upheavals way bigger than they are. So Farage will vaporise but will be replaced by someone more dangerous and efficient altogether

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 18d

I may be wrong but I'm convinced that Farage will be a footnote. Ludicrous demagogues have taken over countries before, but Farage is so desperate & needy, with so little substance, so quick to snap, his lieutenants so obviously incapable of running anything, it can't hold

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Adam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 19d

Though not this time...

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