Mick Layhe
@micklayhe.bsky.social
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Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
December 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
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It gives me no pleasure to come to such a simplistic conclusion at this age but experience has taught me that the majority of rich people are dreadful and the ones that aren’t are a delightful surprise
also that even more than in the past the rich and powerful are looking for sycophants who can tell them they're actually brilliant, a trend that has worsened ever since the rich got mad at ordinary people on social media telling them they were shit.
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It gives me no pleasure to come to such a simplistic conclusion at this age but experience has taught me that the majority of rich people are dreadful and the ones that aren’t are a delightful surprise
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I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
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The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
The person charged with enforcing the laws is himself a law breaker. In such a state, do laws even have any legitimacy?
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
Terrorism arrests soar by 660% after Palestine Action ban
Official figures show 1,630, or 86%, of the 1,886 arrests for terrorism-related activity in the year to the end of September 2025 were linked to supporting the group.
news.sky.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
in the UK over the past year.
How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard?
news.sky.com/story/terror...
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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GRIN AND SHARE IT
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
GRIN AND SHARE IT
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America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. “We’ll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country.” [thebulwark.com]
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People
Stories about revealed preferences and who we really are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. “We’ll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country.” [thebulwark.com]
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Reminder that until George V’s reign the British Royals were not personally very wealthy - Victoria and Edward VII had been distinctly strapped for cash at times. What changed was a series of behind-closed-doors tax deals with HM Treasury that quietly made the Windsors minted.
David Dimbleby has raised an uncomfortable question: is it just possible that our royal family is....plain greedy ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarc...
The King and Prince William must open the books on their enormous riches
The senior royals have amassed a great fortune without any scrutiny. For most of their subjects, these are testing financial times—we must have transp...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reminder that until George V’s reign the British Royals were not personally very wealthy - Victoria and Edward VII had been distinctly strapped for cash at times. What changed was a series of behind-closed-doors tax deals with HM Treasury that quietly made the Windsors minted.
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Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
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“Whenever a black person appeared on a video shown to our geography class, he would loudly exclaim, ‘Are you English?’”
🔗 Graham Noble, a school contemporary, on Nigel Farage
https://bit.ly/4puviyy
🔗 Graham Noble, a school contemporary, on Nigel Farage
https://bit.ly/4puviyy
On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the ‘Belsen Bus’ | The Observer
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Whenever a black person appeared on a video shown to our geography class, he would loudly exclaim, ‘Are you English?’”
🔗 Graham Noble, a school contemporary, on Nigel Farage
https://bit.ly/4puviyy
🔗 Graham Noble, a school contemporary, on Nigel Farage
https://bit.ly/4puviyy
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The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.
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When you suddenly start caring about allegations of anti-semitism again
December 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
When you suddenly start caring about allegations of anti-semitism again
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
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Farage doesn't care about science. Farage doesn't care about your health either. He cares about clicks.
December 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Farage doesn't care about science. Farage doesn't care about your health either. He cares about clicks.
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Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish".
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish".
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
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So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Nigel Farage Accepts Another £135,000 From Gold Bullion Firm for Just 12 Hours Work
The Reform UK leader has pocketed £415,500 so far this year to act as the company's “Brand Ambassador”
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
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⚠️ Even the most ardent Brexiteers now accept the damage done by Brexit...
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
Kemi Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK
Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
⚠️ Even the most ardent Brexiteers now accept the damage done by Brexit...
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
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Also, this is an invitation to international criminals, just like these kinds of program are everywhere else
An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Also, this is an invitation to international criminals, just like these kinds of program are everywhere else
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Elon Musk is furious that people who were not born in America are able to cast a vote in American elections.
I wonder what his attitude is about people who were not born in America but spend billions of dollars influencing American elections.
I wonder what his attitude is about people who were not born in America but spend billions of dollars influencing American elections.
WATCH: Elon Musk is upset that Somalian Americans in Minnesota get to vote.
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Elon Musk is furious that people who were not born in America are able to cast a vote in American elections.
I wonder what his attitude is about people who were not born in America but spend billions of dollars influencing American elections.
I wonder what his attitude is about people who were not born in America but spend billions of dollars influencing American elections.