@crypttext.bsky.social
Semi-retired civil engineer. Itinerant observer.
Happy Curmudgeon. Reader of books.
Lover of animals and grandchildren (in that order)
Knob with a job… (wife’s words, not mine)
🇺🇦603,628sq.km🇺🇦 🇵🇸 📎 🚫DMs
Happy Curmudgeon. Reader of books.
Lover of animals and grandchildren (in that order)
Knob with a job… (wife’s words, not mine)
🇺🇦603,628sq.km🇺🇦 🇵🇸 📎 🚫DMs
Tulip Siddiq…?
Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year
Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year
Refugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are ‘disappearing when most needed’
The number of refugees allowed to settle in the UK under UN-facilitated schemes has dropped by more than a quarter in a year, according to figures released by the Home Office.
Just 7,271 people were granted protection through refugee resettlement programmes in the year ending September 2025, about half of whom were Afghans whose lives were at risk after an accidental data breach by a UK defence official. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Tulip Siddiq…?
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‘I have been defeated’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from East Jerusalem
‘I have been defeated’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from East Jerusalem
Residents in Batn al-Hawa have all but given up hope and blame the Gaza war which, they say, has created ‘an atmosphere of hate’ towards them
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
‘I have been defeated’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from East Jerusalem
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Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years prison in absentia
Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years prison in absentia
Siddiq, who serves as an MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, has denied the allegations
A Bangladesh court has sentenced British MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail, in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a plot of land.
Siddiq, who serves as an MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, had denied the allegations and the trial was conducted in her absence. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years prison in absentia
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Bill Gates Epstein Files latest
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Bill Gates Epstein Files latest
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Agree or disagree?
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agree or disagree?
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Casio watch from 1989 calculate accurate travel distance on paper maps.
November 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Casio watch from 1989 calculate accurate travel distance on paper maps.
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Chaos in councils, links to Russia, allegations of racism, and incoherent policy messaging.
Seems like patience with Reform is ALREADY wearing thin... 👀
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/vot...
Seems like patience with Reform is ALREADY wearing thin... 👀
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/vot...
Support for Reform NOSEDIVES across several major polls
Blimey, this should set some alarm bells ringing. After a rough few weeks, Reform now find their advantage in the polls slipping.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Chaos in councils, links to Russia, allegations of racism, and incoherent policy messaging.
Seems like patience with Reform is ALREADY wearing thin... 👀
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/vot...
Seems like patience with Reform is ALREADY wearing thin... 👀
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/vot...
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I was just handed this leaflet at the bus stop about my local MP. I think it’s fair to say that Gaza continues to be a problem for Labour.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I was just handed this leaflet at the bus stop about my local MP. I think it’s fair to say that Gaza continues to be a problem for Labour.
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South Park destroys Pete Hegseth.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
South Park destroys Pete Hegseth.
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I preferred it when Rod Stewart sung
lovely songs such as ‘Sailing,’
‘Mull of Kintyre’ and ‘Margaret May.’
Now he’s become all radicalised, wallpapering his rooms in animal skin and sending back his gongs.
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lovely songs such as ‘Sailing,’
‘Mull of Kintyre’ and ‘Margaret May.’
Now he’s become all radicalised, wallpapering his rooms in animal skin and sending back his gongs.
😬
November 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I preferred it when Rod Stewart sung
lovely songs such as ‘Sailing,’
‘Mull of Kintyre’ and ‘Margaret May.’
Now he’s become all radicalised, wallpapering his rooms in animal skin and sending back his gongs.
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lovely songs such as ‘Sailing,’
‘Mull of Kintyre’ and ‘Margaret May.’
Now he’s become all radicalised, wallpapering his rooms in animal skin and sending back his gongs.
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Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
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Rachel Reeves is right to highlight that 60% of kids in poverty are in households where at least one parent works, & she goes on to cite the high costs of rent as one reason why these families are struggling.
So why haven't you introduced rent caps? #bbclaurak
So why haven't you introduced rent caps? #bbclaurak
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Rachel Reeves is right to highlight that 60% of kids in poverty are in households where at least one parent works, & she goes on to cite the high costs of rent as one reason why these families are struggling.
So why haven't you introduced rent caps? #bbclaurak
So why haven't you introduced rent caps? #bbclaurak
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He’s blocked me, but I’m sure Tommy Stephen Yaxley-Lennon Robinson is chuffed to feature in my ‘2025’ 1000 piece jigsaw
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www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...
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www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
He’s blocked me, but I’m sure Tommy Stephen Yaxley-Lennon Robinson is chuffed to feature in my ‘2025’ 1000 piece jigsaw
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www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...
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www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...
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Billionaires like Elon Musk hate empathy
which is incompatible with
obscene wealth condemning millions of people
to die of hunger, disease, climate change
#SocialistSunday
which is incompatible with
obscene wealth condemning millions of people
to die of hunger, disease, climate change
#SocialistSunday
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Billionaires like Elon Musk hate empathy
which is incompatible with
obscene wealth condemning millions of people
to die of hunger, disease, climate change
#SocialistSunday
which is incompatible with
obscene wealth condemning millions of people
to die of hunger, disease, climate change
#SocialistSunday
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Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
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The scale of the Brexit damage forces the less dishonest Brexiters to admit reality.
(Sunak, same paper, continues to delude himself and his readers)
(Farage would rip up any reset and plunge business into more costly uncertainty)
“Such evidence cannot be dismissed as Project Fear. It is data”
(Sunak, same paper, continues to delude himself and his readers)
(Farage would rip up any reset and plunge business into more costly uncertainty)
“Such evidence cannot be dismissed as Project Fear. It is data”
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The scale of the Brexit damage forces the less dishonest Brexiters to admit reality.
(Sunak, same paper, continues to delude himself and his readers)
(Farage would rip up any reset and plunge business into more costly uncertainty)
“Such evidence cannot be dismissed as Project Fear. It is data”
(Sunak, same paper, continues to delude himself and his readers)
(Farage would rip up any reset and plunge business into more costly uncertainty)
“Such evidence cannot be dismissed as Project Fear. It is data”
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If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
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The U.S. has signaled it's prepared to use force if Nicolás Maduro refuses to step down, according to WSJ. Venezuela’s response plan, per Reuters, includes guerrilla tactics. Another tactic whould would see Venezuela’s intelligence services and armed regime loyalists unleash chaos in Caracas.
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The U.S. has signaled it's prepared to use force if Nicolás Maduro refuses to step down, according to WSJ. Venezuela’s response plan, per Reuters, includes guerrilla tactics. Another tactic whould would see Venezuela’s intelligence services and armed regime loyalists unleash chaos in Caracas.
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I see that - like Cummings - we’re moving from “Morgan is a genius, his PowerPoint presentations are legendary, let’s print everything he sends us on WhatsApp as roaring banner front page headlines” to “What kind of fucking imbecile would ever listen to this clueless no-talent chump”.
The rise and fall of the superadviser, and the future of Morgan McSweeney | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I see that - like Cummings - we’re moving from “Morgan is a genius, his PowerPoint presentations are legendary, let’s print everything he sends us on WhatsApp as roaring banner front page headlines” to “What kind of fucking imbecile would ever listen to this clueless no-talent chump”.
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Or a library
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Or a library
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