Simon Broadley

Simon Broadley

@sjbof.uk

Petanque captain, EBU bridge director, House Sitter

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Mark Wallace
@wallaceme.bsky.social

A big part of the problem is that these riot fetishists are simultaneously extremely full of themselves and severely thick.

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Sam Freedman
@samfr.bsky.social

Another triumph for Starmer. I think firing Robbins without cause was the moment Whitehall completely lost faith in him.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Six-figure payout for senior civil servant sacked over Peter Mandelson vetting

theguardian.comSix-figure payout for senior civil servant sacked over Peter Mandelson vettingFormer head of Foreign Office Olly Robbins applied for judicial review after Keir Starmer dismissed him in April Olly Robbins, the former head of the Foreign Office sacked by Keir Starmer over his role in vetting Peter Mandelson, has received a more than six-figure payout from the government over his dismissal. Robbins had applied to the high court for a judicial review of the prime minister’s decision to remove him as the top civil servant at the Foreign Office after he was dismissed in April. Continue reading...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

We're constantly told that Donald Trump is playing three dimensional chess when, instead, he's just trying to play demential go-fish.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

time.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Morgan J Freeman
@mjfree.bsky.social

Replying to @mjfree.bsky.social

There is ZERO EVIDENCE the USA had anything to do with it yet Donald Trump's actually taking a victory lap for the Fairford arrests. HERE'S THE TRUTH BECAUSE IT MATTERS: UK police got a phone call at 12:45am about three suspicious vans heading toward RAF Fairford. Armed officers responded.

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Peter Smith
@redpeter99.bsky.social

Trump clearly saw the Fairford story developing and decided to fabricate a story with him at the centre. That's worrying enough, but watching politicians on both sides of the Atlantic indulge his fantasy is even even worse.

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Tom Wilson
@feedthedrummer.bsky.social

I don't actually believe they didn't know this. It's just social media massively incentivises parties to kick off at out of context headline stories as basically no one will ever bother looking up the context and it leans on certain voter's priors.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social

The Tories have attacked appointment of TUC chief Paul Nowak as a director of Bank of England, saying: "The last thing our country needs is a trade union leader helping to run the BofE." And yet it was a Tory government that in 2019 appointed the then TUC chief Frances O'Grady to the same role

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Josiah Mortimer
@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Replying to @josiahmortimer.bsky.social

As predicted, unions are going to be kicking themselves for opposing a donation cap. There is no way they can compete with this. One guy, giving more than 16x what the three biggest unions gave Labour over the past year, in one go. They don't stand a chance.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶
@dannychambers.bsky.social

Hospital wards across the country reached unbearable and dangerous temperatures over the summer. As part of a much bigger backlog of repairs for Winchester Hospital, we need to ensure that aircon and temperature regulation is in place to manage infection and keep patients and stafe safe.

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Jim Pickard
@pickardje.bsky.social

Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year, when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comRFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicateLetters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims

theguardian.comJason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claimsAcademic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday Jason Arday, the black academic who resigned last week as a professor at the University of Cambridge, has been found dead at his home in south London. The Metropolitan police said officers were called to Arday’s address by the London ambulance service after 3pm on Friday. Continue reading...

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cultauthor.bsky.social
@cultauthor.bsky.social

The British media will monster, bully and hound people to death because there’s money in it. They will then play shocked as they make more money covering the death they have caused. They do not reflect. They do not care. They look for the next victim. Do not claim to be surprised. You know this.

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James O’Brien
@mrjamesob.bsky.social

What's most sickening about Trump supporters (esp in the media) on both sides of the Atlantic is that they bought & amplified his bullshit about caring for families & service members when anybody unseduced by the racism & violence could see that he hates them at least as much as he hates himself...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.

meidasnews.comNot Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple ShipsSince MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service

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Count Binface
@countbinface.bsky.social

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Tom Hunter
@onelifestand87.bsky.social

BBC News literally sent a breaking news alert out to anyone with their app on their phones when Biden did this

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

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Leftie Squared
@southysouthpaw.bsky.social

Replying to @thetnholler.bsky.social

They brought the dog out AFTER he was down. Investigation on video. They all need fired and held to ground while bitten by a dog for a minute.

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Saddletramp🇪🇺
@saddletramp.bsky.social

Farage claimed that his phone, email, and bank accounts had been hacked by Russia, leaking the £5m. Labour gave him 24 hrs to report it to the authorities. He didn’t, so they did. It turns out, you’ll be surprised to lean, that Farage’s claim is “entirely unsubstantiated" and without any merit”.