Pechorin
@pechorin.bsky.social
A Probation Officer in the south of England, so interested in crime and our response to it. Part owner of Exeter City Fc. Also interested in food, league 1 football, Russia, and cats.
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Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
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Before buying her Cornish home Menabilly, Daphne Du Maurier was told a mysterious woman in blue had been seen staring from a window. Writing in the same room years later, the author happened to look out of the window while wearing a blue smock - and wondered, had she been the ghost?
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
Daphne du Maurier
~ Compton Collier (1932)
~ Compton Collier (1932)
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Before buying her Cornish home Menabilly, Daphne Du Maurier was told a mysterious woman in blue had been seen staring from a window. Writing in the same room years later, the author happened to look out of the window while wearing a blue smock - and wondered, had she been the ghost?
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
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🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
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😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
🧵
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
🧵
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
🧵
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?
October 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?
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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
September 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
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I'm old enough to remember when the Prime Minister felt it was important to give us a running commentary of his thoughts on the entire Glastonbury lineup
Keir Starmer's spokesman asked if the Government plans to remain on X, given its AI bot has been making antisemitic comments and endorsing Hitler, replies that this is an "internal" matter for the company
July 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I'm old enough to remember when the Prime Minister felt it was important to give us a running commentary of his thoughts on the entire Glastonbury lineup
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The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
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Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
May 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
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The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads
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The defeatism I see every day bothers me.
Learn from Ukrainians.
Learn to dig in.
I say this with love.
Learn from Ukrainians.
Learn to dig in.
I say this with love.
February 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The defeatism I see every day bothers me.
Learn from Ukrainians.
Learn to dig in.
I say this with love.
Learn from Ukrainians.
Learn to dig in.
I say this with love.
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A 'block news from USA' button would be really good.
January 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A 'block news from USA' button would be really good.
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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Supermarkets are a huge problem.
They force farmers to sell to them at rock bottom prices, while hiking up prices for all us at the other end to astronomical levels.
While supermarket profits soar, you know we’re just being pitched against one another by the rich again #r4today
They force farmers to sell to them at rock bottom prices, while hiking up prices for all us at the other end to astronomical levels.
While supermarket profits soar, you know we’re just being pitched against one another by the rich again #r4today
January 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Supermarkets are a huge problem.
They force farmers to sell to them at rock bottom prices, while hiking up prices for all us at the other end to astronomical levels.
While supermarket profits soar, you know we’re just being pitched against one another by the rich again #r4today
They force farmers to sell to them at rock bottom prices, while hiking up prices for all us at the other end to astronomical levels.
While supermarket profits soar, you know we’re just being pitched against one another by the rich again #r4today
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The pet I’ll never forget: I lost my mum, career, livelihood and hope – but Bertie the cat was determined to fix me
The pet I’ll never forget: I lost my mum, career, livelihood and hope – but Bertie the cat was determined to fix me
He was found under floorboards and it was as if his humble beginnings gave him extra empathy. When people around us died and I became homeless, he gave me a clear purpose
Bertie was found in 2005 under the floorboards of a building where homeless people…
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 11:09 AM
The pet I’ll never forget: I lost my mum, career, livelihood and hope – but Bertie the cat was determined to fix me
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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If you read one thread today, make sure it's this one and share it far and wide.
Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
November 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM
If you read one thread today, make sure it's this one and share it far and wide.
A brewing scandal. Usual suspects obtaining lucrative contracts they cannot deliver. No doubt Serco will be billing HMPPS for work that it is not delivering. And there are dangerous people out there not yet subject to the protective measures envisaged to manage the risk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Backlog of prisoners needing tags 'back to normal' - minister
Probation officers had told the BBC offenders were recalled to prison as tag fitters were not available.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 1:06 PM
A brewing scandal. Usual suspects obtaining lucrative contracts they cannot deliver. No doubt Serco will be billing HMPPS for work that it is not delivering. And there are dangerous people out there not yet subject to the protective measures envisaged to manage the risk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🔴The Powerful Interests Fighting Jeremy Clarkson’s Countryside Culture War to Avoid Inheritance Tax
Lobby groups are whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/01/t...
Lobby groups are whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/01/t...
The Powerful Interests Fighting Jeremy Clarkson's Countryside Culture War to Avoid Inheritance Tax
Lobby groups are accused of whipping up fears about Labour's inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:44 AM
🔴The Powerful Interests Fighting Jeremy Clarkson’s Countryside Culture War to Avoid Inheritance Tax
Lobby groups are whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/01/t...
Lobby groups are whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/01/t...