Giles Wright
@gilesw.bsky.social
Techie Dad in the North East of England. Cybersecurity/InfoSec, Northumberland, Dogs and stuff.
Pinned
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'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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I’ve been running an assertiveness training course for ten years and no one’s ever complained so it’s either brilliant or awful.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I’ve been running an assertiveness training course for ten years and no one’s ever complained so it’s either brilliant or awful.
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - "I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others.... Obviously the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well."
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - "I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others.... Obviously the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well."
Aurora over Bamburgh, Northumberland last night.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Aurora over Bamburgh, Northumberland last night.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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This is excellent data journalism from Sky about something a lot of us on here have known for a long time. It's a shame the BBC doesn't have the courage for this kind of work anymore (& It is untenable for the government to remaIn on there, but they will anyway).
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This is excellent data journalism from Sky about something a lot of us on here have known for a long time. It's a shame the BBC doesn't have the courage for this kind of work anymore (& It is untenable for the government to remaIn on there, but they will anyway).
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Did you know that Great North Museum: Hancock once had its own live condor? Us neither, until our brilliant volunteer Julia found it in our Society Transactions: www.nhsn.org.uk/that-condor-...
That Condor Moment
NHSN library and archive volunteer Julia Black explores the life and legacy of the Hancock Museum's very own condor While preparing the Summary for one of the recently digitised NHSN Transactions, I w...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Did you know that Great North Museum: Hancock once had its own live condor? Us neither, until our brilliant volunteer Julia found it in our Society Transactions: www.nhsn.org.uk/that-condor-...
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October 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
And a hotplate….
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
And a hotplate….
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BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’
September 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’
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*Stormtrooper on death bed*
Hang on, those were the droids I was looking for! Shit! Ugh….
Hang on, those were the droids I was looking for! Shit! Ugh….
September 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
*Stormtrooper on death bed*
Hang on, those were the droids I was looking for! Shit! Ugh….
Hang on, those were the droids I was looking for! Shit! Ugh….
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The lack of urgency shown by the Paw Patrol when alerted to a situation will lead to loss of life. I hate to say it but Ryder is not right for the leadership role and should be stripped of his duties
September 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The lack of urgency shown by the Paw Patrol when alerted to a situation will lead to loss of life. I hate to say it but Ryder is not right for the leadership role and should be stripped of his duties
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The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
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August 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.
Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.
July 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.
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Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!
July 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!
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Peter Benchley's Jaws (Eric Carle version) for @mitchbenn.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Peter Benchley's Jaws (Eric Carle version) for @mitchbenn.bsky.social
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July 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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