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thorntonjones.bsky.social
South-east London: politics, prisons and road trips.
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"It was said of Margaret Thatcher that she hoped her policies would produce more men like her father, but she ended up producing more men like her son."

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Anatomy of a fake scandal

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More people need to do this.

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"So, with just a quick “Michael”, a little nod, or a discreet little side eye, you know, that’s all it needs. You don’t need to punish the child. And he can go onto the next lesson positively and get on with his learning without internalising why he’s the problem.”

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Fabulous story about Hot Lips Houlihan. What a dame.

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An excellent hire by Starmer.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Four schools are closing in my borough this year iirc and one that I drive past daily closed down last year. It'd been going since 1685.

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Alex on the fish business is excellent.

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There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

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I had to check this and if Google's AI is to be believed, this is true. What a fabulous statistic: registered yoga instructors in the UK 15,000; registered fishermen/women in the UK 10,000.

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Unless I’m very mistaken, which past form would suggest reasonably likely, it’s twenty years ago today that The Thick of It was first broadcast. This means that Ollie Reader is now 43 and, I would imagine, writing speeches about immigration for Keir Starmer.

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So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been “interesting” And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers” Why? Well this week started with Natural England launching a new map naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...

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Loved Joe Don Baker. youtu.be/SlV45HbJm4c?...

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This, by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social, is really good on the Peter Sullivan miscarriage of justice and how he was monstered by the media.

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open.substack.com/pub/londonce... ‘They have heard nothing from building owner Arinium Limited and received just one email from the building management, Block Management UK, saying that “they had fulfilled their obligation to us and had nothing more to say”.’

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new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

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How, in the name of all that is holy, could this happen in 21st Century Britain? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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