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Ewan Hoyle

@ewanhoyle.bsky.social

Author of the Sprint for PR Substack: @ewanhoyle.substack.com Advocate for ranked preference polling and voting systems. Increasingly overwhelmed at being one of the few who have realised that AV was the solution to the far-right all along.

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Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d ago

A moment to note something. This work can’t be replaced by AI, however sophisticated. It can’t be replaced by content creators. It takes teamwork, painstaking often quiet work over long period, and fortitude and conviction to take on the legal risk. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Revealed: David Walliams accused of using celebrity status to prey on young women for sex

Guardian reports accusations after court rejects legal attempt to prevent publication. Walliams denies any wrongdoing

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Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 6d ago

My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

Photo of a bound folder labeled “Disfrustrating puzzles and diversions for people who don't have time for the hard ones"COIN ARRAY PUZZLE You have nine coins, arranged as shown below. Which coin can you remove, (being careful not to touch the others), so that only eight coins remain? [Drawing of nine coins]DISCONNECT THE DOTS PUZZLE If you very carefully erase the lines which connect the dots you will find a common household pet waiting to catch a mouse. Be sure you erase only the lines connecting consecutive numbers. (Hint: Start at number one.) [Puzzle art featuring lines and dots]ROPE AND PULLEY PUZZLE If Billy pulls down on the rope, will the 100 lb weight move up or down? [Drawing of a rope and pulley system]
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mahmood plans an absolute dog's breakfast. The whole thing was originally undertaken to get rid of care workers, but they will now mostly get ILR after 5-year, while others wait 10. Inexplicable on moral or practical terms. Many refugees left without security basically indefinitely.

John Bull@garius.eurosky.social · 2w ago

spoke to Blunt years ago when i was writing about the Pristina airport incident. Was genuinely struck by the level of moral clarity he had. Dude was very clearly prepared to face a court martial, rather than follow what he felt was an illegal and immoral attack order from an (American) general.

The troops at the airport had no idea that this was the cause of the delay, or that the advance had resumed. All they knew was that they were the only force on the scene, that they had been ordered to attack if necessary to secure the airport and that they were increasingly outnumbered. A Washington Post reporter, riding with the scout company, sensed the growing seriousness of the situation. Nervously, he asked where the US troops (who made up the majority of KFOR’s column) were. Blunt grinned. “Bringing up the rear.”The Blues and Royals decided to query their orders, claiming that the second part of the message had been garbled. For a second time, they were ordered to take the airport from the Russians. Instead, they decided to wait. “You have political agendas and they overshadow reality.” Blunt later said. “They were losing sight of what we were really supposed to be doing — stopping the aggression by the Serbs against the Albanians”“There are things that you do along the way in war that are right and those that you feel are absolutely wrong.” Blunt said. “That sense of moral judgement is drilled into us in the British Army.” Together, they made a choice: they would ask one final time for their orders to be clarified. If they were ordered to attack again though, then they agreed that they would collectively risk Courts Martial and refuse to carry it out.
Felicity Hannah@felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are plenty of national treasures that everyone seems to love but I don’t especially enjoy, like James Corden. But I cannot understand at all the antipathy to James Blunt. Even if you don’t like the music he’s so funny and charming. I genuinely don’t understand how so many people dislike him!

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social · 2w ago

Many years ago, I met Patrick Stewart. He’d read a piece I’d written about my difficult relationship with my dad. I was supposed to interview him about the film he’d just made but he didn’t care about that. He’d had a hard time with his dad too and the pair of us just talked about fathers and sons

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Politics.co.uk@politics.co.uk · 2w ago

“The perception that promises can subsequently be revisited by a political establishment removed from the realities of working communities has left lasting scars”, writes Labour MP @melanieonnmp.bsky.social 🗣️ EU free movement debate risks undermining voter trust www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/mela...

Stella Creasy MP@stellacreasy.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s terrifying how easily the premise whatever the issue the problem is immigrants and ergo to fix it we must make all immigrants lives harder has become normalised. Here it is being used not only to define the riots in France but then to justify penalising those on visas here in the uk. 1/4”

Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward.com · 4w ago

Labour stopped trying to out-Reform Reform. They're now up in the polls. The Tories stopped trying to out-Reform Reform. They're now up in the polls. Amazing what happens when you stop aping the worst people in the room.

Ewan Hoyle@ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm away in the campervan in Wales with my partner and the kids, and I've probably had the 2nd best view of the night sky in my life. I can see the dusty haze of the Milky Way and a couple of shooting stars. It's amazing to think of the ancient people who wove elaborate stories around the sights..

John MacLeod@mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Everybody’s dead, Dave.” “Edward the Confessor’s dead?” “Everybody’s dead, Dave.” “What about Harald Hardrada?” “He’s dead, Dave. Everybody’s dead, Dave.” “Not King Harold?” “Yes, Dave. King Harold’s dead, Dave. Everybody is dead, Dave.”

A post from BBC Lincolnshire with the headline “Digital reconstruction reveals Norman Conquest man’s face”. The digital reconstruction is an older, balding man’s face against a black background, and looks not unlike Norman Lovett playing Holly in Red Dwarf.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last mo.

If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.