David Wilkins
@davidjwilkins.bsky.social
Decrepit slow-living Fenlander trying to cram less and less into each day. Interested in the usual politics, economics and world affairs stuff. Also Germany.
But I'm mostly done arguing, so I'll probably just be cats and cars over here.
But I'm mostly done arguing, so I'll probably just be cats and cars over here.
Reposted by David Wilkins
Simca is best known for its smaller cars but from 1954-61 sold the Vedette series, a Detroit-styled 2.5-litre V8 model it inherited when it took over Ford France's operations and its factory at Poissy. This brochure includes the luxurious Présidence model and the Marly estate car. #weirdcarbs
January 31, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Simca is best known for its smaller cars but from 1954-61 sold the Vedette series, a Detroit-styled 2.5-litre V8 model it inherited when it took over Ford France's operations and its factory at Poissy. This brochure includes the luxurious Présidence model and the Marly estate car. #weirdcarbs
Reposted by David Wilkins
Im very lucky to have 2 Rover P6s at home. But less lucky they both broke before Christmas. Can I get them both fixed for spring time for £10? Or at all?
Link in the comments
Link in the comments
January 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Im very lucky to have 2 Rover P6s at home. But less lucky they both broke before Christmas. Can I get them both fixed for spring time for £10? Or at all?
Link in the comments
Link in the comments
Reposted by David Wilkins
The Japanese take a different approach to luxury limousine travel, forget over blown, cramped SUVs, they made MPVs awesome with things like this Toyota Alphard.
Link in the comments
Link in the comments
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
The Japanese take a different approach to luxury limousine travel, forget over blown, cramped SUVs, they made MPVs awesome with things like this Toyota Alphard.
Link in the comments
Link in the comments
Reposted by David Wilkins
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
Reposted by David Wilkins
Reposted by David Wilkins
Factoid: Just a cool graphic of the W201 190 compared with the W126 S-Class & W123 stablemates, the latter being 12in longer than the compact Merc (the factoid ‘nugget’ of this post)…
(📸: Autocar)
(📸: Autocar)
December 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Factoid: Just a cool graphic of the W201 190 compared with the W126 S-Class & W123 stablemates, the latter being 12in longer than the compact Merc (the factoid ‘nugget’ of this post)…
(📸: Autocar)
(📸: Autocar)
Reposted by David Wilkins
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Reposted by David Wilkins
The last car to be marketed as a DKW in Europe, the 1964 F102 had an attractively modern body. It also had the distinction of being the final West German two-stroke, using an 1175cc three-cylinder unit, albeit one fitted with a sophisticated 'fresh oil injection' system. #weirdcarbs
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The last car to be marketed as a DKW in Europe, the 1964 F102 had an attractively modern body. It also had the distinction of being the final West German two-stroke, using an 1175cc three-cylinder unit, albeit one fitted with a sophisticated 'fresh oil injection' system. #weirdcarbs
Reposted by David Wilkins
"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Reposted by David Wilkins
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
Reposted by David Wilkins
This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.
Reposted by David Wilkins
Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Reposted by David Wilkins
Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
September 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
Reposted by David Wilkins
Reposted by David Wilkins
Here's Gloucestershire, a new uni I mentioned in my @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social rant about Higher Ed... What mickey mouse made-up stuff are they pushing? Why, they're expanding... dentistry! We don't need that sort of cultural Marxism here! 😡 (1/2) www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/glouces...
Dentistry could feature in next stage of City Campus redevelopment
'We are already in conversations with the NHS around part of one of the top floors in terms of what we could do around dentistry'
www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Here's Gloucestershire, a new uni I mentioned in my @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social rant about Higher Ed... What mickey mouse made-up stuff are they pushing? Why, they're expanding... dentistry! We don't need that sort of cultural Marxism here! 😡 (1/2) www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/glouces...
Reposted by David Wilkins
"Siri, show me the last thing anyone would do if they wanted to convey a message of stability to Kyiv and European leaders". He's literally trolling them now.
August 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Siri, show me the last thing anyone would do if they wanted to convey a message of stability to Kyiv and European leaders". He's literally trolling them now.
Reposted by David Wilkins
July 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reposted by David Wilkins
Reposted by David Wilkins
I've never really understood why some people consider food in #Germany to be boring.
Seems like a good variety to me...I can't pronounce half of it, but still.
Seems like a good variety to me...I can't pronounce half of it, but still.
June 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I've never really understood why some people consider food in #Germany to be boring.
Seems like a good variety to me...I can't pronounce half of it, but still.
Seems like a good variety to me...I can't pronounce half of it, but still.
Reposted by David Wilkins
I asked ChatGPT to generate images of typical supporters of different UK political parties. I will be repeating this exercise, using the same prompt, at regular intervals / when I remember, to see how things change - if at all.
I guess this is 1/?
(Turns out only some of them can correctly spell)
I guess this is 1/?
(Turns out only some of them can correctly spell)
June 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I asked ChatGPT to generate images of typical supporters of different UK political parties. I will be repeating this exercise, using the same prompt, at regular intervals / when I remember, to see how things change - if at all.
I guess this is 1/?
(Turns out only some of them can correctly spell)
I guess this is 1/?
(Turns out only some of them can correctly spell)
Reposted by David Wilkins
A *fascinating* paragraph in Kemi Badenoch's piece for ConHome this morning. The event that fell between the Tories getting 9% in May 2019 and winning the election of 2019 was, of course, firing their leader....
May 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A *fascinating* paragraph in Kemi Badenoch's piece for ConHome this morning. The event that fell between the Tories getting 9% in May 2019 and winning the election of 2019 was, of course, firing their leader....
Reposted by David Wilkins
Reposted by David Wilkins
Got round to reading Farage two page “manifesto” in yesterday’s Mail. Populist slogans/unfunded promises strung together in a piece designed to portray 🇬🇧 as third world. But how about this for nerve from Mr Brexit? “The casual lies and careless attitudes of our political class have let people down”.
May 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Got round to reading Farage two page “manifesto” in yesterday’s Mail. Populist slogans/unfunded promises strung together in a piece designed to portray 🇬🇧 as third world. But how about this for nerve from Mr Brexit? “The casual lies and careless attitudes of our political class have let people down”.
Reposted by David Wilkins
Politics is broken in the UK. The only responses to the Indian trade deal appear to be outrage from the right about a national insurance provision which is in almost every trade deal we've ever struck, and outrage from the left that this deal doesn't make up for Brexit, as if someone said it would.
May 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Politics is broken in the UK. The only responses to the Indian trade deal appear to be outrage from the right about a national insurance provision which is in almost every trade deal we've ever struck, and outrage from the left that this deal doesn't make up for Brexit, as if someone said it would.