Adam
@adamf23.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Obsessed with politics, history, equality, TV & theatre. Views my own. (He/Him)
Not me actually buying Doctor Who DVDs for the first time in a decade 😅🤣
Thanks to the DVD player I now have access to making it worth it 🙌🏻
Thanks to the DVD player I now have access to making it worth it 🙌🏻
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Not me actually buying Doctor Who DVDs for the first time in a decade 😅🤣
Thanks to the DVD player I now have access to making it worth it 🙌🏻
Thanks to the DVD player I now have access to making it worth it 🙌🏻
Pls 😭😭😭😭
I’m loving how much of an absolute mess “Your Party” always has and always will be 🤣😇
I’m loving how much of an absolute mess “Your Party” always has and always will be 🤣😇
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Pls 😭😭😭😭
I’m loving how much of an absolute mess “Your Party” always has and always will be 🤣😇
I’m loving how much of an absolute mess “Your Party” always has and always will be 🤣😇
Wow, Badenoch's remarks here really suck. Can't say I'm surprised.
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Wow, Badenoch's remarks here really suck. Can't say I'm surprised.
I really hope I enjoy #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea, but given how the Disney deal has gone, I hope we don't end up wishing those episodes were just absorbed into the main #DoctorWho seasons we just had instead.
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I really hope I enjoy #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea, but given how the Disney deal has gone, I hope we don't end up wishing those episodes were just absorbed into the main #DoctorWho seasons we just had instead.
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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This was a Budget born of political and intellectual weakness, not strength
Labour has to realise that moving the pieces on the board is not e enough. Affluence is essential for social democracy. And there isn't a plan to create it.
Latest from me 👇
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Labour has to realise that moving the pieces on the board is not e enough. Affluence is essential for social democracy. And there isn't a plan to create it.
Latest from me 👇
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A budget born of weakness, not of strength
Labour needs affluence to remake society. Yet it seems curiously uninterested in creating it.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This was a Budget born of political and intellectual weakness, not strength
Labour has to realise that moving the pieces on the board is not e enough. Affluence is essential for social democracy. And there isn't a plan to create it.
Latest from me 👇
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Labour has to realise that moving the pieces on the board is not e enough. Affluence is essential for social democracy. And there isn't a plan to create it.
Latest from me 👇
substack.com/home/post/p-...
This briefing extreme policies then partially retracting them at launch is a definite recent pattern. It makes them look weak and indecisive.
Anyone else think this is a cynical tactic? Promise the foul to soften people up for the dismal? on.ft.com/4p8l5I3
UK expected to scale back proposals to limit jury trials
Justice minister David Lammy’s push for more judge-only hearings for less serious crimes angers senior legal figures
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This briefing extreme policies then partially retracting them at launch is a definite recent pattern. It makes them look weak and indecisive.
So after all the hoohah about the Government breaking their manifesto pledge on tax yesterday, they’ve voluntarily broken their commitment to Day 1 unfair dismissal rights?? 😡
If they can’t even get the Employment Rights Bill through undiluted then where on earth are they going politically?
If they can’t even get the Employment Rights Bill through undiluted then where on earth are they going politically?
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So after all the hoohah about the Government breaking their manifesto pledge on tax yesterday, they’ve voluntarily broken their commitment to Day 1 unfair dismissal rights?? 😡
If they can’t even get the Employment Rights Bill through undiluted then where on earth are they going politically?
If they can’t even get the Employment Rights Bill through undiluted then where on earth are they going politically?
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A graduate tax at this rate would have been dead on proposal. Yet, it's been created by stealth and is a huge drag on young people.
Spot on. The terms of the plan 2 loan are utterly usurious. Notably the budget has not frozen just the threshold for repayments at a marginal rate of 9%, dragging more and more graduates into it, but it also freezes the interest of those loans which is as much as 6.2%! Which is ridiculous!!
I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A graduate tax at this rate would have been dead on proposal. Yet, it's been created by stealth and is a huge drag on young people.
I don't know if there are many Jewish people supporting Reform, but I can't think of any fellow Jews I know who would want to justify Farage's nasty hatred. It doesn't matter if it was in the past, it's just disgusting.
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I don't know if there are many Jewish people supporting Reform, but I can't think of any fellow Jews I know who would want to justify Farage's nasty hatred. It doesn't matter if it was in the past, it's just disgusting.
Jfc Kemi Badenoch was actually so patronising to Rachel Reeves in her #Budget response. It's just bullying language really.
It's undercutting some valid points she made.
It's undercutting some valid points she made.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Jfc Kemi Badenoch was actually so patronising to Rachel Reeves in her #Budget response. It's just bullying language really.
It's undercutting some valid points she made.
It's undercutting some valid points she made.
Today’s real MVP is Nusrat Ghani. This is her day 👑🤭
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Today’s real MVP is Nusrat Ghani. This is her day 👑🤭
There was such a tiny cheer over the triple lock increase 😬😬😬
MPs know it’s unsustainable
MPs know it’s unsustainable
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
There was such a tiny cheer over the triple lock increase 😬😬😬
MPs know it’s unsustainable
MPs know it’s unsustainable
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"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
Pretty unhappy with the pension contributions being tinkered with
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Pretty unhappy with the pension contributions being tinkered with
We need full proper council tax reform, as well as the announced mansion tax.
It is insane that we base it on perceived property values in 1991!
It is insane that we base it on perceived property values in 1991!
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We need full proper council tax reform, as well as the announced mansion tax.
It is insane that we base it on perceived property values in 1991!
It is insane that we base it on perceived property values in 1991!
None of the Plan 2 student loans are going to be paid off, get real!
The coalition government have truly fucked over whichever government is in power in the 2040s
The coalition government have truly fucked over whichever government is in power in the 2040s
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
None of the Plan 2 student loans are going to be paid off, get real!
The coalition government have truly fucked over whichever government is in power in the 2040s
The coalition government have truly fucked over whichever government is in power in the 2040s
One fiscal event a year is right I think. Avoids the farce of the reversed welfare cuts announced at Spring Statement
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One fiscal event a year is right I think. Avoids the farce of the reversed welfare cuts announced at Spring Statement
Did Rachel Reeves just make a Polanski hypnotits joke?? 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Did Rachel Reeves just make a Polanski hypnotits joke?? 🤣
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On the one hand, this is the perfect end to an amazingly chaotic Budget process. On the other, it makes it much easier to cover than having to actually listen to the speech.
BREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
On the one hand, this is the perfect end to an amazingly chaotic Budget process. On the other, it makes it much easier to cover than having to actually listen to the speech.
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OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity