General Boles
@generalboles.bsky.social
Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
If I was running the Beeb I'd be happy to defend Panorama against Trump in court on the basis that nobody even watches it these days.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If I was running the Beeb I'd be happy to defend Panorama against Trump in court on the basis that nobody even watches it these days.
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Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
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I'm so old I remember PEx starting out as a Cameroon, liberal Tory, modernising think tank. It's a funny old world, as Lady Thatcher once said.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I'm so old I remember PEx starting out as a Cameroon, liberal Tory, modernising think tank. It's a funny old world, as Lady Thatcher once said.
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The old Green Party Achilles heel.
![Clip art icons in silhouette: Tiny hedgehog holding a small fork, labelled “Greens”, about to be obliterated by an incoming ballistic missile labelled ‘HOSTILE STATE’.
[Context: image after comments by Sara Parkin in an interview with Brian Walden in 1989 describing Green Party defence policy as ‘a little prickly hedgehog that no one would want to invade’].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jqt2kxibs5wkhdqbep3kdibl/bafkreidrwbqoqqo7xngj6vh7brnrxlnmfjzgicnajniuo3vcjwognrleku@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The old Green Party Achilles heel.
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Lovely bit of side eye from Liz there
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Lovely bit of side eye from Liz there
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‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’
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Our expectations were low but fucking hell. "The Irish", is it
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Uh huh
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our expectations were low but fucking hell. "The Irish", is it
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Accidentally stumbled across this in the archive - a devastating satirical swipe at Ed Miliband and Ed Balls's unrealistic 2015 spending pledges through the medium of The Magic Porridge Pot
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Accidentally stumbled across this in the archive - a devastating satirical swipe at Ed Miliband and Ed Balls's unrealistic 2015 spending pledges through the medium of The Magic Porridge Pot
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'Going to go diagonally first, then across'
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'Going to go diagonally first, then across'
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It will never not be funny that Truss is going to spend more time doing “stuff you have to do as a former PM” than she spent as actually being PM.
She was PM for 1176 hours. With the Queen’s funeral, the Coronation, three Remembrance Sundays (there’s a lunch) she’s up to about 48 already.
She was PM for 1176 hours. With the Queen’s funeral, the Coronation, three Remembrance Sundays (there’s a lunch) she’s up to about 48 already.
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It will never not be funny that Truss is going to spend more time doing “stuff you have to do as a former PM” than she spent as actually being PM.
She was PM for 1176 hours. With the Queen’s funeral, the Coronation, three Remembrance Sundays (there’s a lunch) she’s up to about 48 already.
She was PM for 1176 hours. With the Queen’s funeral, the Coronation, three Remembrance Sundays (there’s a lunch) she’s up to about 48 already.
Lovely bit of side eye from Liz there
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Lovely bit of side eye from Liz there
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Just bought my poppy
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just bought my poppy
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Happy World Town Planning Day for those who celebrate!
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Happy World Town Planning Day for those who celebrate!
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#NationalTrust #NT members have followed the board's recommendations and elected sane candidates to the NT's Council at the 2025 AGM
The right-wing #RestoreTrust candidates were defeated again.
The right-wing #RestoreTrust candidates were defeated again.
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#NationalTrust #NT members have followed the board's recommendations and elected sane candidates to the NT's Council at the 2025 AGM
The right-wing #RestoreTrust candidates were defeated again.
The right-wing #RestoreTrust candidates were defeated again.
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oh come on, the round table would stop discussing who the traitors might be after five seconds to spend the rest of the episode arguing about property tax
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
oh come on, the round table would stop discussing who the traitors might be after five seconds to spend the rest of the episode arguing about property tax
The most difficult jobs in Britain are Chancellor of the Exchequer and #CelebrityTraitors series 2 casting director
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The most difficult jobs in Britain are Chancellor of the Exchequer and #CelebrityTraitors series 2 casting director
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
Did someone say beveragino?
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Did someone say beveragino?
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
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Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government).
It just doesn't normally make the news
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It just doesn't normally make the news
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How many prisoners are released by mistake?
Politicians and the public have reacted with fury after it emerged a second and third prisoner had been released in error from HMP Wandsworth - but it's not as rare as some might think.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government).
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
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"What will you do when Jesus returns?"
"Move St. John to the right wing".
"Move St. John to the right wing".
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"What will you do when Jesus returns?"
"Move St. John to the right wing".
"Move St. John to the right wing".
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