Peter Sketch
@petersketch.bsky.social
Dragonfly-obsessed environmental consultant
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It turns out that when you start attacking Reform, instead of just briefing a few hacks that you are going to and then doing no follow up, it has an effect. Imagine that.
New Survation poll. Have Reform peaked?
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It turns out that when you start attacking Reform, instead of just briefing a few hacks that you are going to and then doing no follow up, it has an effect. Imagine that.
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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Honestly, there is no better rugby writer out there than @bloodandmud.bsky.social. This preamble is a work of art. #WALvRSA
www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Honestly, there is no better rugby writer out there than @bloodandmud.bsky.social. This preamble is a work of art. #WALvRSA
www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...
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It is the worst holiday I have ever had.
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It is the worst holiday I have ever had.
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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Which one?
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Which one?
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Under Kemi Badenoch the Conservatives have ceded both the answer to 'what's the lever I pull to get the left out of power' to Reform and are rapidly on their way to ceding 'what's the least nutty option available to me on the right?' to Reform too.
No response from the Conservative party to my questions about this and the post still remains on her account.
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
The Conservative Party's leader in London, Susan Hall, just shared this Islamophobic disinformation about Sadiq Khan, after it was posted on X by a racist troll
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Under Kemi Badenoch the Conservatives have ceded both the answer to 'what's the lever I pull to get the left out of power' to Reform and are rapidly on their way to ceding 'what's the least nutty option available to me on the right?' to Reform too.
A very clever bloke and also very funny. RIP.
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A very clever bloke and also very funny. RIP.
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Want an example of how populism at home leads to strategic corruption from abroad?
Can’t be clearer than this.
The rule of law doesn’t just protect citizens from their own rulers.
It also protects them from foreign corruption and countries like Russia that specialise in it.
Can’t be clearer than this.
The rule of law doesn’t just protect citizens from their own rulers.
It also protects them from foreign corruption and countries like Russia that specialise in it.
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Want an example of how populism at home leads to strategic corruption from abroad?
Can’t be clearer than this.
The rule of law doesn’t just protect citizens from their own rulers.
It also protects them from foreign corruption and countries like Russia that specialise in it.
Can’t be clearer than this.
The rule of law doesn’t just protect citizens from their own rulers.
It also protects them from foreign corruption and countries like Russia that specialise in it.
Great news!! It's officially Christmas!
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
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November 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Great news!! It's officially Christmas!
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"What part of 'what you do for the least among you, you do for me' do you not understand?"
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"What part of 'what you do for the least among you, you do for me' do you not understand?"
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Increasingly sure this whole fiasco is in fact a long-running postmodern art/immersive theatre project designed to give us all something to laugh at in these difficult times. Perhaps put on by the Judean Popular Front's theatre collective.
Huge cheers as a speaker at Your Party conference shouts "no witch hunts, no expulsions" on stage and calls for all members of other socialist/communist groups to be allowed into the party (many have been booted out in recent weeks)
Many are astounded Corbyn's allies have expelled many Trotskyists.
Many are astounded Corbyn's allies have expelled many Trotskyists.
November 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Increasingly sure this whole fiasco is in fact a long-running postmodern art/immersive theatre project designed to give us all something to laugh at in these difficult times. Perhaps put on by the Judean Popular Front's theatre collective.
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General Post Office poster, 1960
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
General Post Office poster, 1960
Well this is interesting news. This logo was on the side of my GWR train and, believe it or not, the wifi actually worked. This was one of the very few things I've ever badgered my MP about and I was told Labour would be leaning on the rail industry to sort out the problem routes. Woohoo!
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Well this is interesting news. This logo was on the side of my GWR train and, believe it or not, the wifi actually worked. This was one of the very few things I've ever badgered my MP about and I was told Labour would be leaning on the rail industry to sort out the problem routes. Woohoo!
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If you want to go back to a world where my mum was forced to leave school at 15 you can just fuck right off.
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
If you want to go back to a world where my mum was forced to leave school at 15 you can just fuck right off.
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Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
I'm not in the business of defending the SWP but given the way Your Party was set up I think they could be forgiven for assuming Trotskyite entryists would be welcome.
Many things to love about it all but my favourite is Trotskyite entryists complaining they have been barred for being Trotskyite entryists
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I'm not in the business of defending the SWP but given the way Your Party was set up I think they could be forgiven for assuming Trotskyite entryists would be welcome.
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A fact being ignored even more than usual: 70% of the money from abolishing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work (via @ippr.org).
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A fact being ignored even more than usual: 70% of the money from abolishing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work (via @ippr.org).
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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The photographer and reporter - so polite to the old! - are gone less than a minute before I throw off wig, purple pullover and cravat through six cavernous rooms to a secret, seventh vestibule. “Yes, comrade,” I tell the figure on a wall-sized screen. “We continue to accelerate the contradictions.”
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The photographer and reporter - so polite to the old! - are gone less than a minute before I throw off wig, purple pullover and cravat through six cavernous rooms to a secret, seventh vestibule. “Yes, comrade,” I tell the figure on a wall-sized screen. “We continue to accelerate the contradictions.”
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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This is why it is good that financial literacy is going to be taught in schools. On average, if you are 20, you should save in an index fund and not worry about it for decades, and he should know this!
Josh Hall, 20, is 'worried' about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is why it is good that financial literacy is going to be taught in schools. On average, if you are 20, you should save in an index fund and not worry about it for decades, and he should know this!
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The prosecution are genuinely going to show this clip in court in a few years when they’re trying to demonstrate that World Rugby don’t give a shit about player safety.
That is the closest a decision has come to making me break the no ref chat policy in the full eight years doing this. The referee has a duty of care to these guys.
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The prosecution are genuinely going to show this clip in court in a few years when they’re trying to demonstrate that World Rugby don’t give a shit about player safety.
That didn't take long, then. They haven't even chosen a name for the party and they've already got people calling for the Jews to be expelled.
The Palestinian Youth Movement speaker on the panel with Sultana calls for the expulsion of any Your Party member who has a connection to "Zionist organisations"
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
That didn't take long, then. They haven't even chosen a name for the party and they've already got people calling for the Jews to be expelled.
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New strategy for Rachel Reeves: massive broad based tax rises but also a special levy on Agas to distract the press
One of the arguments in favour of the mansion tax, which I admit I did not anticipate, is that it would be like the private school lobby in that it would send media people insane and cause them to not focus on anything else because they're so busy running completely unrelatable case studies
Her *6* bedroomed house in North Kensington. 6!
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New strategy for Rachel Reeves: massive broad based tax rises but also a special levy on Agas to distract the press