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Iain Clucas
@iain.clucas.uk
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Left leaning vegetarian living in The Midlands. Interests include Music, Films, Sunderland AFC and travel. Worked all over Europe and thinks Brexit is an utter waste.
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This years new bauble is a Fortnum’s balloon.
Close up of a Christmas bauble on a tree. Bauble is shaped like a hot air balloon in blue and white with the words Fortnum & Mason across the middle. Below the balloon is basket
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Tree’s up
Fully decorated Christmas tree with baubles, tinsel and lights
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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One property within 30 miles of Kidderminster currently on sale that would be affected
RightMove search results for a anything above £2 million within 30 miles of Kidderminster. There is one result of a 286 acre farm with a grade two mansion on it
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The Russian long game. Written in plain sight in Alexander Dugins book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundat...
The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from the European Union.[9]
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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As its #NathanGill day, it might be worth seeing what others have said about Putin
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFDD Group. – "Mr President, amongst the long list of foreign policy failures and contradictions in the last few years, including of course the bombing of Libya and the desire to arm the rebels in Syria, has been the unnecessary provocation of Vladimir Putin. This EU empire, ever seeking to expand, stated its territorial claim on the Ukraine some years ago. Just to make that worse, some NATO members said they would like the Ukraine to join NATO. We directly encouraged the uprising in the Ukraine that led to the toppling of President Yanukovych; that led in turn to Vladimir Putin reacting; and the moral of the story is: if you poke the Russian bear with a stick, do not be surprised when he reacts. Now just to continue with that, today we are rushing through, at undue speed, an Association Agreement with the Ukraine, and as we speak there are NATO soldiers engaged in military exercises in the Ukraine. Have we taken leave of our senses? Do we actually want to have a war with Putin? Because if we do, we are certainly going about it the right way. Perhaps we ought to recognise that the West now faces the biggest threat and crisis to our way of life that we have seen for over 70 years. The recent beheadings of the British and American hostages graphically illustrates the problem, and we have our citizens from our own countries engaged in that struggle too. In the war against Islamic extremism, Vladimir Putin, whatever we may think of him as a human being, is actually on our side. I suggest we grow up. I suggest we recognise the real threat facing all of our countries, communities and societies, stop playing war games in the Ukraine and start to prepare a plan to help countries like Syria, Iraq, Kenya, and indeed Nigeria, to try and help them to deal with the real threat that faces us. Let us not go on provoking Putin, whether we like him or not."
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I stand by my view back then that we should have put Brown in charge.
Can we have a grown-up like Gordon Brown back in charge until this Coronavirus stuff gets sorted?
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Lets confiscate all the assets of some boat people.
A woman in a black swimsuit stands on the deck of a sailing yacht which appears to be moored just of the coast os what looks like a hot coastline.
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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My first ever attempt at a Genoise Sponge yesterday resembled a pancake. Today I tried the recipe from @nigella.bsky.social and it looks so much better.
Two layered Genoise Sponge cake with cream in middle and on top. There are also strawberry slices on top. Cake is on a plate in front of a toaster.
November 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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@tomcollinsworcs.bsky.social this is a shocking states of affairs. What has happened at the top of the party? This is pushing thousands away from supporting the party and they won’t come back.
Tweet from Tommy Robinson on Nov 15, 2025 "The Overton window has been obliterated , well done patriots" Quote tweeting Politics UK "🚨 NEW: Shabana Mahmood is set to announce asylum seekers can only stay temporarily in the UK They will be deported when their home country is deemed safe "
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I’m sure the story doesn’t back up the headline but it would be ironic.
Opening from a Huff Post article that reads: Nigel Farage Admits 'Brexit Has Failed' In Astonishing Newsnight Clash The former UKIP leader accused the Conservatives of failing to take advantage of the decision to leave the EU. By Kevin Schofield
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Ikea product page for a Sofa called GROK.
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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There once was a vision of a computer in every home.
Maybe we should have a remote network of mini data centres in every home that use the heat produced to heat our homes.
Mockup image of a household electric heater using GPUs to provide the heat
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Very simplistic set of calculations but it is clear that someone at basic rate has more taken out of their salary to get to the same pension pot after 20 years. Surely that isn't fair.

Obviously: I might have made errors with the calculation which might make this statement wrong.
Screen shot of an excel spreadsheet that shows 4 rows for different levels of tax payer, 1 Basic, 2 Higher and 1 additional rate. Columns contain their salaries, a pension contribution (all set at £500), what their take home would be without any pension contribution, what their takehome would be with the pension contribution and the difference between the two. Final two columns are the predicted pot after 20 years of contributions and a growth of 6% along with the deductions to get to that figure.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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As opposed to the guy that just resigned who actually stood for the Tories
Table showing to the results in a local council election that shows that former BbC Director general Tim Davie came third for the Conservative Party with 707 votes
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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British Union of Fascists was operational in the 1930s in UK
Fascist Meeting 29th July 1939: A meeting of the British Union of Fascists, at Earl's Court, London, where Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley (1896 - 1980), founder of the BUF makes a two hour speech. Original Publication: Picture Post - 187 - Fascist Meeting - pub.1939 (Photo by Humphrey Spender/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I need one of these linked to HM Treasury modelling computer
A railway signalman stood in front of an array of signal levers. About 25 levers coloured white, red and blue.
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I did a couple for my most recent gigs. I really this this great. Looking at my physical collection I am sure we will see more templates.

I like ticket template number 4 but it doesn't line up that good.
Gig ticket stub from The Hare and Hounds in Birmingham for The Beat featuring Ranking Junior, Date is 30th Jan 2025 Gig ticket stub from Birmingham Town Hall for Rumor Date is 13th Oct 2025
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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From www.gov.uk/tax-on-your-...

It's more likely she would reduce the limit to £40,000 per annum.

This would not affect anyone but those that would be able to shoulder it.

These headlines are deliberately decisive.
Annual allowance Your annual allowance is the most you can save in your pension pots in a tax year (6 April to 5 April) before you have to pay tax. You’ll only pay tax if you go above the annual allowance. This is £60,000 this tax year.
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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The character Begbie from Trainspotting with slicked back hair, a white t shirt and denim jacket
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Chris Mason writes in such a strange way
Good morning from No 9 Downing Street. It’s not often us reporters find ourselves in here almost before dawn. And it’s not often a chancellor chooses to give a speech and a news conference just three weeks before the Budget. There is a simple reason she has decided to do this: to soften us up for tax rises being announced three weeks tomorrow. We won’t get any announcements this morning – they will have to wait another three weeks – but we will get the argument that will attempt to justify those announcements
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Back in the 1930s the Nazis put a price that "your money" paid to support less healthy people.

In time for poppy season
"Lest we forget" suggests "We forgot"
Advertising poster for the monthly magazine "Neues Volk" (The New People) published by Nazi Party's "Racial Policy Office," ca. 1938. The "Racial Policy Office" propagated Nazi "racial doctrine" in a variety of ways. In posters and publications, it contrasted the ideal of the healthy, capable, and "racially pure" German with the grossly distorted, biologistic and socially racist image of the unproductive sick and disabled who burdened the "productive Volk community" as "ballast existences." The poster text reads, "This hereditary defective costs the Volk community 60,000 RM [Reichsmark] over his lifetime/ German comrade (Volksgenosse) that is your money/Read Neues Volk..
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Their racism had parallels. Very bad parallels.
"A people helps itself!" Poster appeal from German People's Winter Relief, design by Max Reimer.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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@annaturley.bsky.social is 100% correct - this is a grotesque, dehumanising policy and anyone giving it any credence should hang their head in shame.
Anna Turley, the Labour party chair, said: “It’s utterly grotesque that the Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’. This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities. That’s Tory party policy and shows how far the party has fallen. The Tories haven’t learned a thing.”
October 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Can I join the club?
12 inch single of The Cutter by Echo and three Bunnymen
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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CCTV at the scene capture prime suspect
Image of Omar Sy playing Lupin stood outside the illuminated glass pyramid of the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM