BradipoWayway
@alanwayman.bsky.social
Londoner 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Fully deserving to be as completely ignored here as I was at the other place
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Fully deserving to be as completely ignored here as I was at the other place
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BradipoWayway
@alanwayman.bsky.social
· Jan 7
We really are going to spend the next 4 years lamenting "Just 2 inches to the right..." aren't we
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“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”
September 30, 2026 at 5:44 AM
“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”
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Commentators reading the Premier League ruling on Manchester City.
September 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Commentators reading the Premier League ruling on Manchester City.
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Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point".
Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
September 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point".
Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
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This is very, very good.
‘What underlies the sense of affront is the assumption that the “people of England” are, as it were, a settled question, that the days of large-scale movements belong to the past, or ought to.’
Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This is very, very good.
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Democrats and their supporters are kidding themselves if they think the US can quickly back out of war with Iran and the Houthis after mid-terms or even after 2028
September 28, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Democrats and their supporters are kidding themselves if they think the US can quickly back out of war with Iran and the Houthis after mid-terms or even after 2028
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'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
September 28, 2026 at 7:35 AM
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
September 28, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Since I'm not going to Liverpool this year to discuss, a short state of play on UK EU relations and the Labour Party.
The very short version - they're terrified.
And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work.
The very short version - they're terrified.
And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work.
September 27, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Since I'm not going to Liverpool this year to discuss, a short state of play on UK EU relations and the Labour Party.
The very short version - they're terrified.
And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work.
The very short version - they're terrified.
And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work.
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The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.
September 26, 2026 at 3:10 PM
The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.
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Your regular reminder that UK taxes are average by western standards and low on middle-earners.
Labour figures, especially, should not fall into the trap of pretending that we have a “high” tax burden and that taxes are to blame for the living standards crisis. www.arguably.uk/p/the-tax-tr...
Labour figures, especially, should not fall into the trap of pretending that we have a “high” tax burden and that taxes are to blame for the living standards crisis. www.arguably.uk/p/the-tax-tr...
September 26, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Your regular reminder that UK taxes are average by western standards and low on middle-earners.
Labour figures, especially, should not fall into the trap of pretending that we have a “high” tax burden and that taxes are to blame for the living standards crisis. www.arguably.uk/p/the-tax-tr...
Labour figures, especially, should not fall into the trap of pretending that we have a “high” tax burden and that taxes are to blame for the living standards crisis. www.arguably.uk/p/the-tax-tr...
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The sheer stupidity of Brexit:
We made it harder and more expensive for high quality, fully traceable British food to reach our largest market, while creating a porous border through which illegal, rancid and potentially diseased meat can enter Britain.
meatmanagement.com/opinion/brex...
We made it harder and more expensive for high quality, fully traceable British food to reach our largest market, while creating a porous border through which illegal, rancid and potentially diseased meat can enter Britain.
meatmanagement.com/opinion/brex...
Brexit’s veterinary border theatre: when control becomes the risk
There comes a point when regulation ceases to protect the consumer and becomes an industry in its own right. Post-Brexit veterinary border controls risk crossing that line, says AIMS's Jason Aldiss.
meatmanagement.com
September 26, 2026 at 5:36 AM
The sheer stupidity of Brexit:
We made it harder and more expensive for high quality, fully traceable British food to reach our largest market, while creating a porous border through which illegal, rancid and potentially diseased meat can enter Britain.
meatmanagement.com/opinion/brex...
We made it harder and more expensive for high quality, fully traceable British food to reach our largest market, while creating a porous border through which illegal, rancid and potentially diseased meat can enter Britain.
meatmanagement.com/opinion/brex...
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Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create:
1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all.
2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person.
3. Businesses that operate without websites.
1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all.
2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person.
3. Businesses that operate without websites.
September 26, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create:
1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all.
2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person.
3. Businesses that operate without websites.
1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all.
2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person.
3. Businesses that operate without websites.
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It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...
‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
www.thenerve.news
September 26, 2026 at 6:24 AM
It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...
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I have blamed
The agents
That hacked
Your website
And which
You probably
Reasonably thought
I controlled
Forgive me
I am rich
And unaccustomed
To taking responsibility
The agents
That hacked
Your website
And which
You probably
Reasonably thought
I controlled
Forgive me
I am rich
And unaccustomed
To taking responsibility
September 25, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I have blamed
The agents
That hacked
Your website
And which
You probably
Reasonably thought
I controlled
Forgive me
I am rich
And unaccustomed
To taking responsibility
The agents
That hacked
Your website
And which
You probably
Reasonably thought
I controlled
Forgive me
I am rich
And unaccustomed
To taking responsibility
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Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches
City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.
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will say it again:
the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming.
So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming.
So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform.
Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts...
Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts...
Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
September 25, 2026 at 6:27 AM
will say it again:
the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming.
So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming.
So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group.
September 25, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group.
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1/23
Sorry, this will be long...
There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday.
So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric.
At sea, the starting point is simple:
Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
Sorry, this will be long...
There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday.
So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric.
At sea, the starting point is simple:
Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
September 22, 2026 at 8:48 PM
1/23
Sorry, this will be long...
There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday.
So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric.
At sea, the starting point is simple:
Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
Sorry, this will be long...
There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday.
So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric.
At sea, the starting point is simple:
Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Perfectly put.
(The whole thread’s very good.)
(The whole thread’s very good.)
UK politicians have spent much of the last 70 years fighting the European integration of their worst fears while the EU developed into the organisation that they claimed to want. Not helped by some appallingly bad commentary from the misinformed.
September 24, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Perfectly put.
(The whole thread’s very good.)
(The whole thread’s very good.)
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NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
September 24, 2026 at 11:55 AM
NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
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Brexit, the Sitcom
Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.
Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.
September 24, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Brexit, the Sitcom
Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.
Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.
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You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
September 24, 2026 at 1:19 PM
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
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- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s.
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
September 24, 2026 at 11:18 AM
- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s.
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
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