Andy Winter
@andywinter26.bsky.social
Against unnecessary seriousness. On here as well now apparently
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We’re now up to 22 ex-Tory MPs joining reform. It’s not subtle - every day clearer this is just a rebranding of the nutty fringe of the Conservative Party offering to rerun the Truss/Johnson omnishambles
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We’re now up to 22 ex-Tory MPs joining reform. It’s not subtle - every day clearer this is just a rebranding of the nutty fringe of the Conservative Party offering to rerun the Truss/Johnson omnishambles
Mo Salah has been a great player for Liverpool. He will be remembered in the record books for his on the field achievements. But his public statements demonstrate both a childishness and a selfishness that is, at best, unhelpful and at worst, pouring petrol on an already blazing bonfire
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Mo Salah has been a great player for Liverpool. He will be remembered in the record books for his on the field achievements. But his public statements demonstrate both a childishness and a selfishness that is, at best, unhelpful and at worst, pouring petrol on an already blazing bonfire
O pointy birds, o pointy pointy,
Anoint my head, anointy nointy
Anoint my head, anointy nointy
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
O pointy birds, o pointy pointy,
Anoint my head, anointy nointy
Anoint my head, anointy nointy
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
Always exciting to see someone out and about in a cloak
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Always exciting to see someone out and about in a cloak
@footballcliches.bsky.social unacceptable surely?
My football app genuinely just notified me that the ‘deadlock’ had been broken at the Etihad.
Is there a minute amount of time that qualifies as a deadlock?
Is there a minute amount of time that qualifies as a deadlock?
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@footballcliches.bsky.social unacceptable surely?
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Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
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 9:46 AM
Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
You cannot convince me that Your Party isn't some kind of Sasha Baron Cohen-esque, comedy-satire prank
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
You cannot convince me that Your Party isn't some kind of Sasha Baron Cohen-esque, comedy-satire prank
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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?
Dunt hitting the bullseye once again
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Dunt hitting the bullseye once again
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No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
Explain please how keeping half a million kids in poverty puts the country first? You absolute ghouls
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Explain please how keeping half a million kids in poverty puts the country first? You absolute ghouls
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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
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A little treat for fans of noughties rom coms & internecine socialist shenanigans
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A little treat for fans of noughties rom coms & internecine socialist shenanigans
It’s a damning indictment of the political class, of the failure of the last 20 years of political action, that a substantial number of voters now look at this absolute clown car and go, “Yeah, let’s put them in charge, can’t be any worse can it?”
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
Resignations, suspensions and infighting lead to party losing crown of highest number of seats in the county
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It’s a damning indictment of the political class, of the failure of the last 20 years of political action, that a substantial number of voters now look at this absolute clown car and go, “Yeah, let’s put them in charge, can’t be any worse can it?”
Love the term “slopaganda” - the campaign to get that to be word of the year starts here. Add it to the media literacy syllabus right now!
Gone down a weird rabbithole with far-right Facebook slopaganda* about celebrities cancelling things as a result of the New York election result.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Love the term “slopaganda” - the campaign to get that to be word of the year starts here. Add it to the media literacy syllabus right now!
I’m suing the BBC for $1bn because of the emotional harm they’ve caused by not having The Day Today on the iPlayer
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I’m suing the BBC for $1bn because of the emotional harm they’ve caused by not having The Day Today on the iPlayer
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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This whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society
@iandunt.bsky.social thanks for the talk at Wonkhe today Ian, really enjoyable and thought provoking- much appreciated!
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
@iandunt.bsky.social thanks for the talk at Wonkhe today Ian, really enjoyable and thought provoking- much appreciated!
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fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
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only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
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Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.