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jrwatson.bsky.social
Writer/editor. Manufactures words about law, tech & telecoms and arranges them, nicely, on a page. Also books, films, music, usual blokey gubbins. Recovering academic (history). #Arsenal since 1978 but spend more time at Plough Lane these days #COYG #COYD
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The NYT 'morning briefing' notes there are 'tensions between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine'. Ah yes, 'tension'. The mot juste 🙄

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I am relieved to learn there are still some people who use the expression 'go spare' - feel like I haven't heard it for ages

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Matriarch Productions ‘go out of their way to ensure a “no twats” policy on set’. Wish more companies would adopt recruitment policies like this www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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The Secret Diary of Dominic Cummings, aged 53 1/4. ‘Measured my “thing”. Doesn’t seem to be getting any longer. Was just checking it thoroughly (to make sure it wasn’t broken) when Mum came in. Told her it was all part of my master plan to take over the Tories. Mum quiet for the rest of the evening’

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‘Fans who managed to secure tickets in the scramble were celebrating on Friday, while those less fortunate tried not to feel too "paranoid".´ GROAN 🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'If Americans can survive ten years of Greta #Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive ten minutes of Elon #Musk' - loathsome stuff from #Vance

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‘Family, community, country’? Definite echoes of #Vichy France there… ‘Work, family, fatherland’ (‘Travail, famille, patrie’). Makes sense I guess. Such similarities are not considered shameful any more. Or even embarrassing. Reform probably think Petain was one of the good guys.

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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords, I reckon

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‘Victory against either Liverpool or Spurs at Wembley would ensure legendary status for manager Howe and his players’ - err this is the league cup, guys??

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Another existential crisis solvable only by global collaboration, difficult choices and evidence led policy making. While populists spout comforting lies about greatness/borders/woke.

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Happy #Brexit anniversary everyone - I think this has now been established as the traditional celebration

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'Où va la gauche?' asks right-on French mag Politis. 'Nulle part' is the only possible reply. Is @rentouljohn.bsky.social still compiling his list of 'questions to which the answer is no'? If so, there should be sub-categories—questions to which the answer is nowhere, nothing, no one etc #QTWTAIN

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Yep - I have paid my tax bill and dry January is almost over. Happier times ahead. Possibly.

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Very Saka-esque goal from #Nwaneri… reckon they worked on that together in training…

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Do follow @mindcharity.bsky.social on here. It does hugely important work, and it's important that charities can rebuild their communities after leaving X.

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Brilliant www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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@punksagainsttrump.bsky.social This song is dedicated to Trump & Musk! youtu.be/-MkRuV0aCcI?... Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

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Band members include 'Terence Butler' apparently 😂

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God I’m old. Although I was actually living in France at the time, so I kind of missed the full extent of the hysteria. My main source of UK news in those days was the copy of the Sunday Times you could read in the Pompidou Centre ‘médiathèque’ (as long as no one else got hold of it first 😡)

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Seems a bit unfair that #PSG have to play three teams #championsleague #UCL

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Thank you for screaming into the void. Your scream is very important to us. Unfortunately we are experiencing an exceptionally high volume of screams right now. You may wish to scream into the void later.

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Couldn’t face the Trump coverage on #Radio4 #Todayprogramme so switched over to ‘Tennis 🎾 breakfast’ on #R5SX where the big news was that Annabel Croft has never seen ‘Only Fools and Horses’

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Amused by the notion of 'testosterone autism' from Olga Tokarczuk's 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/drive-...

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Also we always seem to play like 💩 every time we wear that white kit #ARSMUN #FACUP

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Raya jumped so far out of the way of those penalties. It was like he actually wanted them to go in #ARSMUN

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Nick Kyrgios has sworn at line judges, threatened a player with physical violence, spat at fans, verbally abused opponents, admitted assaulting a former girlfriend and is a fan of misogynist Andrew Tate. BBC: 'colourful authenticity' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis...

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Bit of an underreaction if you ask me

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A war criminal, a racist, a man who proudly said he thought the races were unequal and shoved a political opponent up against a wall, a Holocaust denier, a corrupt manipulator. Reuters: “pugnacious”.

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Meghan Markle’s dog has died. Apparently this counts as news in the world of the BBC, where journalism consists of copying and pasting an Instagram post…

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Chortle! @davidsquires.bsky.social on the life of England manager Thomas Tuchel www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

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Amol Rajan is reading out Musk’s latest tweets live on air. Why? #today #todayprogramme #bbcradio4

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