Tom Davies
@tomdaviese17.bsky.social
One of them Legacy Fans. Working in Legacy Media. Trade unionist. Chartologist. Crisis correspondent - can sum it up in a word AND a sound. He/him. Views my own, blame no one else
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Brilliant news. The best place ever for a drink and a good conversation.
ICYMI: 🎉 We have added another award to our tally
🏆WINNER Football Supporters Club 2025🏆
We have retained our title at the @clubmirrormag Awards 2025. Here is a short article with some pics 🍻 🍾 #lofc #ClubAwards2025 #ClubMirror #AwardWinners
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🏆WINNER Football Supporters Club 2025🏆
We have retained our title at the @clubmirrormag Awards 2025. Here is a short article with some pics 🍻 🍾 #lofc #ClubAwards2025 #ClubMirror #AwardWinners
www.orientsupporters.org/losc-news/cl...
November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Brilliant news. The best place ever for a drink and a good conversation.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Anyway, congrats on your Thanksgiving dinner, America. In Britain we have that every weekend but crack on.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Anyway, congrats on your Thanksgiving dinner, America. In Britain we have that every weekend but crack on.
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But the trouble with Blue Labour is that while there is some intellectual groundwork there, it's (a) obscured by Glasman's idiotic braying and (b) leads the party to electoral toxicity
It's not that it's anti-intellectual, but that it doesn't work strategically (partly as it's morally abhorrent)
It's not that it's anti-intellectual, but that it doesn't work strategically (partly as it's morally abhorrent)
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
But the trouble with Blue Labour is that while there is some intellectual groundwork there, it's (a) obscured by Glasman's idiotic braying and (b) leads the party to electoral toxicity
It's not that it's anti-intellectual, but that it doesn't work strategically (partly as it's morally abhorrent)
It's not that it's anti-intellectual, but that it doesn't work strategically (partly as it's morally abhorrent)
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And when the centrists regained control of the party it was based on a flagrantly dishonest leadership campaign which didn't seek any more than a tactical departure from the most controversial elements of Corbynism, and justified on the need to get elected.
Blue Labour filled the vacuum.
Blue Labour filled the vacuum.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
And when the centrists regained control of the party it was based on a flagrantly dishonest leadership campaign which didn't seek any more than a tactical departure from the most controversial elements of Corbynism, and justified on the need to get elected.
Blue Labour filled the vacuum.
Blue Labour filled the vacuum.
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On the Labour side, the 2015 leadership election was telling. You had a strident leftist against three centre-to-soft-left candidates. And those three had risen through the party by patronage and had never had to fight their corner the way Blair and Brown had in the 80s/early 90s
Boy did it show
Boy did it show
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
On the Labour side, the 2015 leadership election was telling. You had a strident leftist against three centre-to-soft-left candidates. And those three had risen through the party by patronage and had never had to fight their corner the way Blair and Brown had in the 80s/early 90s
Boy did it show
Boy did it show
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Rape charges that triggered Ballymena race riots dropped
Rape charges that triggered Ballymena race riots dropped
Prosecutors cite ‘significant evidential developments’ in decision to end criminal case against Romanian boys
Prosecutors have dropped charges against two Romanian teenagers who were accused of raping a schoolgirl in Ballymena – an allegation that triggered race riots in Northern Ireland.
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) on Friday cited “significant evidential developments” in its decision to end criminal proceedings against the boys, aged 14 and 15. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Rape charges that triggered Ballymena race riots dropped
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Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
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For the 0.01% of germs not killed by bleach, the worst part is the crippling survivors guilt
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For the 0.01% of germs not killed by bleach, the worst part is the crippling survivors guilt
If the budget had imposed a tax on the playing of the UK's tiniest violins, we'd have cleared the deficit within days
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If the budget had imposed a tax on the playing of the UK's tiniest violins, we'd have cleared the deficit within days
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Kent Live: Barry, 82, is going to have to sell his second home in Devon as the costs have become “ludicrous” since the Budget. Good, sell it to a family in Devon who actually need a home to live in.
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Kent Live: Barry, 82, is going to have to sell his second home in Devon as the costs have become “ludicrous” since the Budget. Good, sell it to a family in Devon who actually need a home to live in.
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They are Black & Tan.
That probably isn't a coincidence.
That probably isn't a coincidence.
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
They are Black & Tan.
That probably isn't a coincidence.
That probably isn't a coincidence.
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The NUJ has expressed concern over the weakening of provisions in the Employment Rights Bill after the UK government removed the right to day one protection from unfair dismissal.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
NUJ statement on removal of day one protection from unfair dismissal
The NUJ has expressed concern over the weakening of provisions in the Employment Rights Bill after the UK government removed the right to day one protection from unfair dismissal.
www.nuj.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The NUJ has expressed concern over the weakening of provisions in the Employment Rights Bill after the UK government removed the right to day one protection from unfair dismissal.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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I see it’s “the entire mainstream media is against Labour!” time again even though the people saying that didn’t think that 2015-2019. Eat up.
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I see it’s “the entire mainstream media is against Labour!” time again even though the people saying that didn’t think that 2015-2019. Eat up.
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When bad bosses can unfairly dismiss workers from day one, workers must be protected from day one. That’s what we promised in our manifesto.
A Labour government must not turn its back on the very people we were elected to represent.
A Labour government must not turn its back on the very people we were elected to represent.
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
When bad bosses can unfairly dismiss workers from day one, workers must be protected from day one. That’s what we promised in our manifesto.
A Labour government must not turn its back on the very people we were elected to represent.
A Labour government must not turn its back on the very people we were elected to represent.
It's also a bit of a tell on Britain's productivity and sluggish-economy problem. If our country's venerable captains of industry think the right to unfairly sack people is so integral to their business model, might that business model's failings be part of the problem? Not a model for productivity
Young people face some truly appalling Ts and Cs in the modern workplace - some (not all) owners get away with blue murder in the way they treat junior staff. The Employment Rights Bill is a check on that - not a silver bullet by any means - but even that is too much for the CBI and co.
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's also a bit of a tell on Britain's productivity and sluggish-economy problem. If our country's venerable captains of industry think the right to unfairly sack people is so integral to their business model, might that business model's failings be part of the problem? Not a model for productivity
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Plenty of parents have got stories of how badly their kids have been treated at work. Cheering on the dilution of the bill goes against what some of their own children and families have experienced. And 'kids today have it too easy' apparently.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Plenty of parents have got stories of how badly their kids have been treated at work. Cheering on the dilution of the bill goes against what some of their own children and families have experienced. And 'kids today have it too easy' apparently.
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Young people face some truly appalling Ts and Cs in the modern workplace - some (not all) owners get away with blue murder in the way they treat junior staff. The Employment Rights Bill is a check on that - not a silver bullet by any means - but even that is too much for the CBI and co.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Young people face some truly appalling Ts and Cs in the modern workplace - some (not all) owners get away with blue murder in the way they treat junior staff. The Employment Rights Bill is a check on that - not a silver bullet by any means - but even that is too much for the CBI and co.
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Watched BBC2's very good 'Civilisations: Rome'. Aside from demonstrating the great value of the licence fee, it made for very interesting compare-and-contrast: despotic leadership, the 1% hoovering up wealth, the rest scrabbling a living, and foreigners demonised to deflect. Ring any bells?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Watched BBC2's very good 'Civilisations: Rome'. Aside from demonstrating the great value of the licence fee, it made for very interesting compare-and-contrast: despotic leadership, the 1% hoovering up wealth, the rest scrabbling a living, and foreigners demonised to deflect. Ring any bells?
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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Last time I get a coffee from Gail's.
Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, critical of lockdowns and is a climate skeptic criticises Labour's budget #BBCQT
"This is not how prosperous and happy societies become that way"
"This is not how prosperous and happy societies become that way"
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Last time I get a coffee from Gail's.
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This is the world the serious grown up moderates fought to preserve, and don't let them ever try to tell you otherwise.
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is the world the serious grown up moderates fought to preserve, and don't let them ever try to tell you otherwise.
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Absolutely unbelievable story of negligence and greed, with Barca signing a deal with a crypto firm that, while it may not be a fraud, it is so opaque that there's no way for fans to assure themselves that it's not.
www.ft.com/content/9fb4...
www.ft.com/content/9fb4...
FC Barcelona’s tie-up with Samoa-based crypto start-up sparks backlash
Heavily indebted club faces accusations of desperation over sponsorship deal with little-known firm Zero-Knowledge Proof
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Absolutely unbelievable story of negligence and greed, with Barca signing a deal with a crypto firm that, while it may not be a fraud, it is so opaque that there's no way for fans to assure themselves that it's not.
www.ft.com/content/9fb4...
www.ft.com/content/9fb4...
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Thanksgiving Guests Freeze In Disbelief After Teenager Informs Them Of Native American Genocide https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-1848076742/
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanksgiving Guests Freeze In Disbelief After Teenager Informs Them Of Native American Genocide https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-1848076742/
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No way?!?!
Well, I would have never guessed looking at the state of politics, the media, rivers, healthcare, education, poverty, climate etc
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well, I would have never guessed looking at the state of politics, the media, rivers, healthcare, education, poverty, climate etc
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
No way?!?!
Well, I would have never guessed looking at the state of politics, the media, rivers, healthcare, education, poverty, climate etc
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well, I would have never guessed looking at the state of politics, the media, rivers, healthcare, education, poverty, climate etc
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...