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michaeltaggart.bsky.social
Wallfacer, Swordholder, and Humanity’s Final Gravekeeper. Seriously though, I half-own and fully manage MDTea, the Brighton-based purveyor of fine teas (www.mdteashop.co.uk).
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"Our client was breaking his promises so regularly, it sometimes felt like some absurd performance art." I wrote my latest small business column about my company first bad payer (and what we did about it), and my mum's death. www.linkedin.com/pulse/diary-...

Pay off your mortgage?

This is my mum, who died over Christmas, after a long illness. It's her 1970 graduation pic and is – in my humble view – a lovely photo by which to remember her. I wrote about her in (of all things!) my monthly business column for Mouthy Money => www.mouthymoney.co.uk/earning/diar...

#Truss doesn’t seem to possess a shame gland.

These trainspotters have aged pretty well. 27 years between the two pics, apparently.

This is my mum, who died over Christmas, after a long illness. It's her 1970 graduation pic and is – in my humble view – a lovely photo by which to remember her. I wrote about her in (of all things!) my monthly business column for Mouthy Money => www.mouthymoney.co.uk/earning/diar...

Zuck the Cuck sways like a reed in the breeze. What a silly little man. news.sky.com/story/zucker...

Anyone want to know what I'm eating rn?

Just in case you haven't heard this. Happy New Year, all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

Fun fact: the Americans who wrote nearly all of the Christmas classics were Jewish. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Quality trolling from @gbnewsonline.bsky.social. They pick presenters based not on talent but on how likely they are to trigger people who don't watch GB News, which should be no-one but is, in fact, a lot of people.

If you think it’s not possible to dislike Steve Baker more than you do, you’re wrong. All you have to do is read this article. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The idea that Israel should risk a potential Al-Qaeda breakaway – implacably opposed to Israel’s existence – having a full arsenal of weapons, including chemical weapons, a few miles away is crazy. There’s no country that would choose to run that risk.

Sandwiches are woke.

America’s having another totally normal, humdrum day, I see. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/u...

Well, well, well. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is an extraordinarily weird thing to say about someone whose intelligence forces tortured children to death. #Syria

Incredible scenes in #Syria. Both Iran and Russia are evacuating. It’s like the fall of Saigon. ISIS sweeping in from the East. Terrible times ahead for Christians, Kurds, Alawites, Yazidis – basically all non-Sunni minorities. History being made today.

I’ve listened to this incredible cover of Creep by #Radiohead 200 times in a month & can sing the Hindi part word perfect but I don’t understand what it means! Are there any #Hindi speakers here who understand the words? Is it about shopping or paying council tax? Hope not 🙏 youtu.be/nZoHuoFQyrI?...

Two weeks left of this crap and then the days start getting longer again. Bring on the long, light evenings!

Do these people really have no self-awareness? I mean, none at all? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Hope the police catch up with this creep. Be interested to know why @itvnews.bsky.social felt the need to protect his identity. www.itv.com/news/granada...

Good to see a senior journalist pushing back against Jones’s chippy vendetta against his own trade. pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...

You've probably seen this as it's currently going viral. Well worth a watch if you haven't. youtu.be/nZoHuoFQyrI?...

Thanks but I’d rather do a night swim in the East Siberian Sea with a 20kg weight attached to my scrotum with a rusty fishing hook.

According to this fascinating article, there will one day be evidence our planet existed, even if it is gobbled up by our swelling sun. www.sciencefocus.com/space/sun-ex...

Interesting! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...