Simon Robert H K
@simonpostsdog.bsky.social
(Bloody Aussie). NHS 30 years plus. MELB/SYD/NYC/LDN
Essendon/Mets/Essex CCC
Fender NewPorter/Telecaster🎼🎼
Standard Schnauzers 🇦🇺🦘🦘🇬🇧🇺🇸
Essendon/Mets/Essex CCC
Fender NewPorter/Telecaster🎼🎼
Standard Schnauzers 🇦🇺🦘🦘🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Farage's protégés, colleagues & close friends.
Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.
Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Farage's protégés, colleagues & close friends.
Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.
Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.
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The thread of all threads. Just what you need on a wet Sunday evening before the once great dancing thing comes on
I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The thread of all threads. Just what you need on a wet Sunday evening before the once great dancing thing comes on
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"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down"
uk politics in a nutshell
uk politics in a nutshell
There is an actual interesting little deceit in the budget, namely ther have the OBR still forecasting based on increasing net immigration back to 300-350k whilst the Home Secretary is promising to bring it down from 200k, which does dissolve about half the headroom, but somehow we're doing vibes.
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down"
uk politics in a nutshell
uk politics in a nutshell
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Oh to be a fly– or another kind of bug – on the wall of the emergency Starmer, Zelensky, Merz and Macron meeting in London tomorrow. European leaders have been obsequious about Trump’s zigzags in public; but much more honest in private if last week’s leak to Der Spiegel can be believed. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Oh to be a fly– or another kind of bug – on the wall of the emergency Starmer, Zelensky, Merz and Macron meeting in London tomorrow. European leaders have been obsequious about Trump’s zigzags in public; but much more honest in private if last week’s leak to Der Spiegel can be believed. 1/
You wait all year for one Santa to show up…
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You wait all year for one Santa to show up…
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❗️Prime Minister of Poland Tusk: Dear American friends, Europe is your closest ally, not your problem. And we have common enemies. At least that's how it has been in the last 80 years. We need to stick to this, this is the only reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed.
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
❗️Prime Minister of Poland Tusk: Dear American friends, Europe is your closest ally, not your problem. And we have common enemies. At least that's how it has been in the last 80 years. We need to stick to this, this is the only reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed.
Aw the birthday girl reserved us a table at the pub today #schnauzer. It’s her birthday
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Aw the birthday girl reserved us a table at the pub today #schnauzer. It’s her birthday
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I thought that What Three Words gave unique locations around the world. Yet when I entered "England. Batting. Collapse" into the app, it showed several places in Australia.
#Ashes
#Ashes
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I thought that What Three Words gave unique locations around the world. Yet when I entered "England. Batting. Collapse" into the app, it showed several places in Australia.
#Ashes
#Ashes
Yeah well, good luck with this. Europe won’t play ball.
The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism:
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yeah well, good luck with this. Europe won’t play ball.
Opinion | I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing - The Guardian
This will define the UK. IMO Farage will get off easy because the media is racist. And the public in general like it.
This will define the UK. IMO Farage will get off easy because the media is racist. And the public in general like it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Opinion | I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing - The Guardian
This will define the UK. IMO Farage will get off easy because the media is racist. And the public in general like it.
This will define the UK. IMO Farage will get off easy because the media is racist. And the public in general like it.
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#DieHard is on Film4 tonight @9pm. We just need Where Eagles Dare and #Christmas can officially start.
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#DieHard is on Film4 tonight @9pm. We just need Where Eagles Dare and #Christmas can officially start.
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This abject fawning to someone whose Government only today announced that they want to promote ethnic-nationalism in Europe and are impatient at the unwillingness of Europe to allow Russia to grab want it wants by force is utterly mortifying. It is soul-cringeing.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This abject fawning to someone whose Government only today announced that they want to promote ethnic-nationalism in Europe and are impatient at the unwillingness of Europe to allow Russia to grab want it wants by force is utterly mortifying. It is soul-cringeing.
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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
They better not serve that in my locals!!!!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
They better not serve that in my locals!!!!
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Which they have now backtracked on. More delay. More spineless decisions
BREAKING: Angela Rayner confirms plans new elected mayors for 'Greater Essex', Hampshire and Solent, Sussex including Brighton & Hove. First mayoral elections planned for May 2026, as part of government's fast-track scheme for English devolution.
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Which they have now backtracked on. More delay. More spineless decisions
Great read
You know, I thought I might watch the World Cup draw tomorrow but reading articles like https://apple.news/AKM_jL9jtQ2ebkHkAaAJbAg make me wonder if I should even watch the World Cup. And Rio and Gianni can definitely F off with their draw spectacle! #fedifc
[Opinion] Examining every word of self-titled 'man of the people' Rio Ferdinand on World Cup tickets — Football365
Having to sell an organ to buy a ticket? Don't worry about it Rio Ferdinand says, everything is part of the plan.
apple.news
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Great read
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The World Cup draw sounds incredible, cannot wait for the peace prize and the village people
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The World Cup draw sounds incredible, cannot wait for the peace prize and the village people
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If only our vox pops had been like that, rather than the outpourings of ignorant nonsense (like the ‘now we can make our own laws’ bollox) that we were regularly subjected to.
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If only our vox pops had been like that, rather than the outpourings of ignorant nonsense (like the ‘now we can make our own laws’ bollox) that we were regularly subjected to.
Stop helping people with young children you Bastard Bolsheviks!
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Stop helping people with young children you Bastard Bolsheviks!