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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 6d

Of course much of this was devolved out to the East India Company which only managed to administer it by virtue of becoming the biggest corporation in the world and terrible cruelty to the people they oversaw. Is this a clue as to their preferred direction?

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 6d

Look. The point I was making is that the English football team has gone DEI mad and is now unrepresentative of British society as a whole. There should be more overweight, middle-aged, unfit, clumsy, one-footed Scottish numpties like me

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 6d

(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 6d

That a judge feels the need to say this to a head of law enforcement shows how batshit mental America has become. Best stay clear and hope there is enough resistance to force a vote in 4 years time

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6d

"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 6d

I have a friend who claims that he ordered a Dry Martini in a bar in Germany and was handed three of them

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 7d

In fairness to Sarah Pochin it must have been very difficult for her to phrase her racist views less clumsily under the pressures of a live programme

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 8d

Roasted a chicken for lunch and now the carcass is bubbling away to make a stock. I don’t know a more soothing smell

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 9d

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9d

Montie gives Pochin the benefit of his wisdom.

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 12d

I’m not an expert in judge led inquiries but I note that the last one into child sexual abuse took over 8 years to conclude

Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 12d

For context, the Tories would have wanted to deport my Mother who fell in love with and married my Father, a Scotsman, and lived here for 60 years, never working but raising three sons before she died. Horrible racists cunts. I’m beyond angry

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it

But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 14d

Harveys Old Ale

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 15d

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 17d

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?

Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

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Scotland Rugby News @scotlandrugbynews.bsky.social · 17d

Glasgow Warriors make nine personnel and three positional changes to the side that beat Dragons for a trip to Bridgend to face Ospreys on Saturday.

For al the team news 👉 shorturl.at/pfluy

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 17d

Given what was learnt from tragedies like Heysel, Hillsborough and elsewhere I think it would be wise for politicians to steer clear of operational decisions about safety at sporting events

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20d

Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture.

The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.

A graphic reporting: fewest homicides in London since monthly records began. The number of homicides in London between January to September 2025 is the lowest in the first 9 months of any year since monthly records began in 2003.

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 24d

Far right politician is surprised to find that most people are not as extreme in their views as he is

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 24d

The new "enemy within".

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 26d

Let them eat cake

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 26d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 26d

Finally something to nod along to in Badenoch’s speech. Stamp Duty is not a great tax. I don’t know how much it raises, but there are better ways to raise that amount.

Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 27d

UAE population is over 85% immigrant vs around 15% in UK. This is a quite an about turn for the deputy leader of Reform

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 27d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · 29d

I second both of these if you need a fancy cocktail

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · Oct 2

Trump will definitely slap tariffs on goods imported from Albania in retaliation for this.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Oct 2

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

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Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · Oct 2

Many of the companies in my line of work (distilling) used their stocks of alcohol to make hand sanitiser that was in short supply. Most donated this for free

Jamie Baxter @jamiebaxter.bsky.social · Oct 2

COVID was scary when it hit and nobody knew how it would work out. I suppose the government was justified in trying to get companies with contacts to secure PPE and equipment but why did those “patriotic” businesses have to profit from the contracts?

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