Bill Thompson
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Bill Thompson
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Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
Pretty restrained, I’d say
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
How very much deserved! Massive congratulations to you all and especially you @bengoldacre.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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We just have to do what we can to stay sane and stand up for each other, and remind all these fuckholes that in the end they’ll be exposed for the assholes they are, and will be begging us for forgiveness.
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Like in this case legal reasoning led to the reversal of the intention of those writing the law.

There's a mechanical explanation of how that's happened, but the democratic response should be to see it as the result of a flawed process that then needs other actors to get involved.
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Why Labour's cruel Reform-style refugee policies will backfire for the Government www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
And yet they walk among us
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It’s now a different and more costly franchise. £1 more than the OTO window.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM