There are dysfunctional public bodies and then there’s Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley Authority and its wholly owned South Tees Development Corporation. 🧵1/3
Zero Squared
@zero-squared.bsky.social
A rather British blog in interesting times. Includes satirical content.
Blame Canada! Tickets to my Live Tour are available at JonathanPie.com youtu.be/cowIo-eTpLQ?...
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Burnham to tackle ‘subscription traps’ From the latest Private Eye, out now.
Mayor of London @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social Khan (2022), "What's quite clear to me and to us, is that the future of Ukraine should not be decided by Putin, but by the people of Ukraine themselves" August 24th is Ukraine's Independence Day 🇺🇦🙏 #SlavaUkraïni
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
"Dear Diary, Suella is on resignation watch, Jenrick is eyeing up my job, Zia is being a deluded maniac (no change there), Lee Anderson spends all day molesting bacon sandwiches and Ticey thinks we should be celebrating wildfires. What is it about Reform that attracts morons?"
How will we put out wildfires if we can't ask AI first?
Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 4d agoWith more rivers running dry and reservoirs getting dangerously empty as Britain sweltered in another heatwave, there was an urgent call today for people to stop using water for unnecessary purposes. From the new Private Eye, out now.
NEWS! Harry and Meghan to arrive on a small boat just for the fun of it newsthump.com/2026/08/21/h...
Harry and Meghan to arrive on a small boat just for the fun of it
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived back in the UK on a small boat, just for the sheer thrill of watching certain people absolutely lose their minds.
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“Dicky is ubiquitous these days…Perhaps he can’t resist the feeling of freedom he gets when not umbilically attached to Nige. It lets him believe he is a fully sentient independent being. Rather than one of the last clowns standing in the circus” Beautiful scorn. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK hates ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees – apprenticeships in dodgy crypto, anyone?
Dicky Tice recalls digging trenches with a JCB as a young man, omitting to say the firm he went on to run was founded by his grandfather
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Rupert Lowe claims to be a farmer, but doesn't know what happens when you pour lots of water onto baked, bone-dry land. The man is either a moron, or he assumes his potential supporters are. (Actually, these are not mutually exclusive)
Honoured and delighted to be accepted as a member of @cartoonmovement.com #trump #notfitforoffice #politicalcartoon
Trump: Do not worry, your president is SAFE! I’m inside an airport catering truck… New Private Eye on shelves now.
If there's a way to make it about immigration, I'll find it.
I'll end "something for nothing" Britain, insists public servant with £90,000 salary who repeatedly failed to vote in Commons' debates, held no constituency surgeries and triggered £250,000 by-election against a bin
Bad news for Nige. More in Common polling shows the public believes Nigel Farage should face another by-election if found to have breached Commons rules.
Eco chamber: climate emergency From the new Private Eye, out now.
Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.
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NEWS! Richard Tice confirms he prefers his wine, like his humans, 'English and white' newsthump.com/2026/08/19/r...
Richard Tice confirms he prefers his wine, like his humans, ‘English and white’
Richard Tice’s taste in wine is remarkably similar to his taste in humans, it has emerged.
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I don’t care if Natalie Harp is shtupping Trump or changing his diapers. Either way Trump is still destroying America faster than any enemy we’ve ever faced could
NEWS! Reform promises to restore British children's lungs to their traditional pollution-stunted size newsthump.com/2026/08/19/r...
Reform promises to restore British children’s lungs to their traditional pollution-stunted size
Reform UK has responded to new research showing that ULEZ has helped reverse stunted lung growth in London children by promising to put things right as soon as possible.
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This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.
Queen Mary University of London@qmul.bsky.social · 6d agoAir pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
Tim Montgomerie pointed out that I'm a thin-skinned crybaby who can't stand criticism, so I suspended him from Reform to prove that he was right.