Gwdihw Racing
@gwdihwracing.bsky.social
System bettor to Betfair SP since 2021. Not the best (losing runs and drawdowns, including one now), not the worst (+400pts profit and +ve A/E). Goody-hoo.
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August 2025: results
On this channel, I post daily qualifiers from a range of betting systems which I think over time might outperform the Betfair Exchange Starting Price (Betfair SP/BSP).
gwdihwracing.substack.com
Results for August 2025
Bets: 131
Returned: 177 points
ROI: 33%
Strike rate: 16%
Actual vs Expected: 0.96
Thoughts here: gwdihwracing.substack.com/p/august-202...
Bets: 131
Returned: 177 points
ROI: 33%
Strike rate: 16%
Actual vs Expected: 0.96
Thoughts here: gwdihwracing.substack.com/p/august-202...
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god this reminded me of the incredibly daft list I wrote up two years ago for my newsletter, or the worst/best/funniest things to include in your will: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/where-ther...
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
god this reminded me of the incredibly daft list I wrote up two years ago for my newsletter, or the worst/best/funniest things to include in your will: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/where-ther...
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"my mother died in labour, turning blue in the process, and you want to help elect a Blue Labour government?!?!"
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"my mother died in labour, turning blue in the process, and you want to help elect a Blue Labour government?!?!"
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Right after my second birth, I had a postpartum hemorrhage. This happens in about 1% of births. Whenever I talk about this, free birth advocates ask what interventions I had in the hospital that caused the hemorrhage. None. There wasn't time. I gave birth 30 minutes after being admitted.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Right after my second birth, I had a postpartum hemorrhage. This happens in about 1% of births. Whenever I talk about this, free birth advocates ask what interventions I had in the hospital that caused the hemorrhage. None. There wasn't time. I gave birth 30 minutes after being admitted.
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UK housing policy is permenantly stuck with the assumption that every high rise housing development must be like del and rodney's flat instead of frasier crane's.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
UK housing policy is permenantly stuck with the assumption that every high rise housing development must be like del and rodney's flat instead of frasier crane's.
I'd never seen an interview with Jane Williams (winner of the first at Warwick with La Luna Artista) before. Refreshingly honest, insightful and lovely interview with @racingtv.com.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I'd never seen an interview with Jane Williams (winner of the first at Warwick with La Luna Artista) before. Refreshingly honest, insightful and lovely interview with @racingtv.com.
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A perpetual quirk of voter psychology (and one I'm not really sure you can 'solve') is people automatically assuming that all punitive measures will apply to them. See ULEZ in London for another example
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
A thing that I remember vividly from GE2015 is when you'd knock on the door of a never-gonna-be-hit-by-the-mansion-tax house that was never going to be hit by a mansion tax who really thought their house's inflated price meant it might be close to it. Turns out that has spread to officials!
I sometimes feel like I am going mad.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A perpetual quirk of voter psychology (and one I'm not really sure you can 'solve') is people automatically assuming that all punitive measures will apply to them. See ULEZ in London for another example
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be
Trying to imagine ITV and Racing TV's coverage of the Grand National if this rule was brought in...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian cricket great Glenn McGrath dropped by the ABC over betting agency links
National broadcaster says it has ‘mutually parted ways’ with the former fast bowler, who was due to commentate the Ashes
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trying to imagine ITV and Racing TV's coverage of the Grand National if this rule was brought in...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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When I was a young boy, the next word out of Goodwin’s mouth here would be “blacks”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
When I was a young boy, the next word out of Goodwin’s mouth here would be “blacks”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
I don’t particularly see it as any type of progress that now it will be some euphemism for “Muslims”.
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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Scotland! Congratulations. Fantastic.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Scotland! Congratulations. Fantastic.
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This description very much sums up what people who support Trump mean by "respect the office."
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This description very much sums up what people who support Trump mean by "respect the office."
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Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
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And that's it. Overall impressions are
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And that's it. Overall impressions are
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
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The excessive "hesitancy" around deporting children + families obviously refers to the 2010-24 governments.
It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher
It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The excessive "hesitancy" around deporting children + families obviously refers to the 2010-24 governments.
It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher
It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher
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This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
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THIS MORNING's AKBets The Racing Room podcast is now live; www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXjp...
The Racing Room - White On White
YouTube video by AK BETS
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
THIS MORNING's AKBets The Racing Room podcast is now live; www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXjp...
Had the day off today. Thought I'd have a nice little placepot at Plumpton. Got the fav beat in Race 1. Now got two horses who didn't run.
Farcical.
Farcical.
November 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Had the day off today. Thought I'd have a nice little placepot at Plumpton. Got the fav beat in Race 1. Now got two horses who didn't run.
Farcical.
Farcical.
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It is weird how much travelling in this country is just making a short term interest free loan to a train company/government.
train to Oxford yesterday and from Oxford today both cancelled, lovely free weekend trip thanks to Delay Repay, love travelling on British trains
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It is weird how much travelling in this country is just making a short term interest free loan to a train company/government.
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I agree with this, but I think if the BBC were better led, it would make fewer culpable errors and it would both directly and indirectly be better placed to fight the real and concerted campaign against it.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I agree with this, but I think if the BBC were better led, it would make fewer culpable errors and it would both directly and indirectly be better placed to fight the real and concerted campaign against it.
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Which is a long way round of saying: a lot of the pieces I’m reading on the crucial role of the BBC massively overweight news and underplay the wider role of 50 odd radio stations, a dozen TV stations and the vast majority of its output.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Which is a long way round of saying: a lot of the pieces I’m reading on the crucial role of the BBC massively overweight news and underplay the wider role of 50 odd radio stations, a dozen TV stations and the vast majority of its output.
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Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
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What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I remember having my phone stolen and the thief offered to sell it back to me. When I told Avon & Somerset Police, they said that sounded like a good deal and I should pay the money.
One of my less happy days.
One of my less happy days.
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I remember having my phone stolen and the thief offered to sell it back to me. When I told Avon & Somerset Police, they said that sounded like a good deal and I should pay the money.
One of my less happy days.
One of my less happy days.
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"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social