Steve Gedge
@stevegedge.bsky.social
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One of the most bizarre ministerial resignations was that of Hugh Dalton over the 1947 budget leaking minutes before its delivery
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
One of the most bizarre ministerial resignations was that of Hugh Dalton over the 1947 budget leaking minutes before its delivery
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When people wonder how an unengaged British public were persuaded that Brexit wasn't going to change their lives.......
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
When people wonder how an unengaged British public were persuaded that Brexit wasn't going to change their lives.......
See, #ncfc, it is possible to sack a sporting director and a CEO in the middle of the season if they've wasted millions and the club is being badly run...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Rangers sack CEO Patrick Stewart & sporting director Kevin Thelwell
Rangers remove chief executive Patrick Stewart and sporting director Kevin Thelwell from their posts with immediate effect.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
See, #ncfc, it is possible to sack a sporting director and a CEO in the middle of the season if they've wasted millions and the club is being badly run...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Like anyone else who went to Harlow College, I see this as the end of an era.
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/co...
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/co...
Harlow College blames NCTJ for axeing of journalism course - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
Course had 'national and international reputation'
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Like anyone else who went to Harlow College, I see this as the end of an era.
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/co...
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/co...
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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Devastating article from @eastangliabylines.co.uk
Leaving Europe was, and remains, a very bad idea. Let's hope the UK is returning to rationality.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
@peterthurlow.bsky.social
@annadamski.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
Leaving Europe was, and remains, a very bad idea. Let's hope the UK is returning to rationality.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
@peterthurlow.bsky.social
@annadamski.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Devastating article from @eastangliabylines.co.uk
Leaving Europe was, and remains, a very bad idea. Let's hope the UK is returning to rationality.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
@peterthurlow.bsky.social
@annadamski.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
Leaving Europe was, and remains, a very bad idea. Let's hope the UK is returning to rationality.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
@peterthurlow.bsky.social
@annadamski.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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I'll also send one of these and a print entirely for free to one person who reposts this.
I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost.
I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win.
Many thanks for any shares.
I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost.
I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win.
Many thanks for any shares.
If you would like a signed Everything Will Swallow You hardback for RRP + P&P, I have a fabulous selection of art by my mum, Jo, which I'm sending out for free (one linoprint with each book). Let me know your address via [email protected] while stocks last.
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I'll also send one of these and a print entirely for free to one person who reposts this.
I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost.
I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win.
Many thanks for any shares.
I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost.
I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win.
Many thanks for any shares.
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This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
Bottom five of the Championship on the morning of Nov 24, 2007.
Cardiff 15 19-23 15
Preston 16 15-20 15
QPR 15 14-24 15
C Palace 16 16-20 14
Norwich 16 10-26 9
Then somehow Glenn Roeder fashioned this run: W-W-L-W-W-D-W-D-D-D-W-D-W-W-W-D.
Need the same sort of turnaround if #ncfc are to survive.
Cardiff 15 19-23 15
Preston 16 15-20 15
QPR 15 14-24 15
C Palace 16 16-20 14
Norwich 16 10-26 9
Then somehow Glenn Roeder fashioned this run: W-W-L-W-W-D-W-D-D-D-W-D-W-W-W-D.
Need the same sort of turnaround if #ncfc are to survive.
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Bottom five of the Championship on the morning of Nov 24, 2007.
Cardiff 15 19-23 15
Preston 16 15-20 15
QPR 15 14-24 15
C Palace 16 16-20 14
Norwich 16 10-26 9
Then somehow Glenn Roeder fashioned this run: W-W-L-W-W-D-W-D-D-D-W-D-W-W-W-D.
Need the same sort of turnaround if #ncfc are to survive.
Cardiff 15 19-23 15
Preston 16 15-20 15
QPR 15 14-24 15
C Palace 16 16-20 14
Norwich 16 10-26 9
Then somehow Glenn Roeder fashioned this run: W-W-L-W-W-D-W-D-D-D-W-D-W-W-W-D.
Need the same sort of turnaround if #ncfc are to survive.
BBC Six O'Clock News not doorstepping Nigel Farage or Reform tonight. Funny that. Imagine if it had been a Labour MEP...
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
BBC Six O'Clock News not doorstepping Nigel Farage or Reform tonight. Funny that. Imagine if it had been a Labour MEP...
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It’s hard to read this stuff from doctors without cringing at how wildly out of touch it sounds (and how little self-awareness). £100k+ income is, to most of the public, beyond our dreams. Entitlement and class privilege is not the best way to win people over to your cause!
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It’s hard to read this stuff from doctors without cringing at how wildly out of touch it sounds (and how little self-awareness). £100k+ income is, to most of the public, beyond our dreams. Entitlement and class privilege is not the best way to win people over to your cause!
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Another day & another appearance on the #BBC by Spiked: the attention seeking right-wing contrarians who came from the Revo Communist Party & who include the Claire Fox Academy/Institute of Ideas. Tonight: Ella Whelan on #bbcqt: a group who add nothing positive to public debate.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The stupidly enthusiastic and over-the-top Grand Designs: House of the Year presenters could fill Private Eye's Pseuds Corner for the next year with their witterings about what are mostly vanity projects. The Sussex national park effort looks like a 1970s holiday-camp residential block!
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The stupidly enthusiastic and over-the-top Grand Designs: House of the Year presenters could fill Private Eye's Pseuds Corner for the next year with their witterings about what are mostly vanity projects. The Sussex national park effort looks like a 1970s holiday-camp residential block!
Ben Knapper: "We've not won anywhere near enough games and we've lost way too many. For this club to be sat in the position that we're in now is completely unacceptable and that's on me."
If he was anywhere other than #ncfc he'd have (rightfully) been fired by now.
If he was anywhere other than #ncfc he'd have (rightfully) been fired by now.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Ben Knapper: "We've not won anywhere near enough games and we've lost way too many. For this club to be sat in the position that we're in now is completely unacceptable and that's on me."
If he was anywhere other than #ncfc he'd have (rightfully) been fired by now.
If he was anywhere other than #ncfc he'd have (rightfully) been fired by now.
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
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Labour's Clive Lewis, "We were more exposed than any other country in the 2008 financial crash"
"Brexit has clobbered us financially, we all accept that"
"Covid has smashed us harder, we've not recovered compared to many of our OECD competitors"
"We're in a bad place"
"Brexit has clobbered us financially, we all accept that"
"Covid has smashed us harder, we've not recovered compared to many of our OECD competitors"
"We're in a bad place"
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Labour's Clive Lewis, "We were more exposed than any other country in the 2008 financial crash"
"Brexit has clobbered us financially, we all accept that"
"Covid has smashed us harder, we've not recovered compared to many of our OECD competitors"
"We're in a bad place"
"Brexit has clobbered us financially, we all accept that"
"Covid has smashed us harder, we've not recovered compared to many of our OECD competitors"
"We're in a bad place"
Would Clive Lewis really do it???
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Would Clive Lewis really do it???
"Luke Akehurst says he would happily serve in government and that it’s no secret he’d like to be defence secretary. Although he doesn’t have a military background, he believes he could bring a more 'holistic' approach to the job."
😂 😂 😂
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
😂 😂 😂
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Luke Akehurst: Starmer vs Streeting would be “fratricidal self-destruction”
The notorious party loyalist on infighting, Israel and what social democracy means to him
www.newstatesman.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"Luke Akehurst says he would happily serve in government and that it’s no secret he’d like to be defence secretary. Although he doesn’t have a military background, he believes he could bring a more 'holistic' approach to the job."
😂 😂 😂
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
😂 😂 😂
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am seeing increasing evidence that a huge number of foreign nationals are taking driving tests for other migrants - this is a scandal.<br><br>With staff unwilling to challenge someone’s identity for fear of being called racist. I am taking t
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am seeing increasing evidence that a huge number of foreign nationals are taking driving tests for other migrants - this is a scandal.<br><br>With staff unwilling to challenge someone’s identity for fear of being called racist. I am taking t
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Part of the problem here is they keep hiring comms people from newspapers who know how to pitch stuff to their former colleagues - but these tricks don't work anymore.
This does seem to be a relevant question. Reading the Sun and Guardina pieces side by side it is hard to believe they are describing the same policy. That kind of spin might have worked in 1990s but in a social media ecosystem where anger goes viral is is likely to generate own goals
And once again, I ask whether Ministers and No10 realise that the readership of one paper can in fact read the contents of another.
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Part of the problem here is they keep hiring comms people from newspapers who know how to pitch stuff to their former colleagues - but these tricks don't work anymore.
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When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.
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A Labour government saying this. A Labour government. Soon they’ll be checking to see if they have any gold fillings in their teeth.
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A Labour government saying this. A Labour government. Soon they’ll be checking to see if they have any gold fillings in their teeth.
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What would 2015 Shabana think of 2025 Shabana?
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
What would 2015 Shabana think of 2025 Shabana?
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I'd be fucking horrified if Tommy Robinson was cheering me on
They must be proud with this endorsement, they worked hard for it.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'd be fucking horrified if Tommy Robinson was cheering me on