Robbie Bett

Quite moved that people who followed me on the old place, have followed me back on here. Thank you, you beautiful people.

What's the difference between Manchester City and every other football club? Manchester City had their private emails hacked. #CreativeBookingIsEndemicInBusiness&Football #MCFC

UK parents - is your child using Bluesky after 8:30? LOL - Let’s Overanalyse Laughs WTF - Where Twitter Followers? IDGAF - I Daily Glimpse Alf Filth JFC - Jay, Former CEO BTW - Blocked, Takes Weak LMAO - Like My ATProto Opinion STFU - Share Trump Funnies Unceasingly

Great, spot-on piece in the FT by Ed Luce on the world's far right trillionaire-to-be and his attempt to stoke civil war in the UK "a country in which he has never lived and of which he is galactically ignorant". www.ft.com/content/77af...

My first in a series of World Cup collages for @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

Also, umm, another big reason not to allow US-hosted AI tools to become a core feed into production because they can be turned off at whim.

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

Weird how no one in the media ever seemed to ask why the popular Labour candidate for Clacton was dumped with no real explanation when it looked like he was going to walk it

I have questions.

But you said AI was never sick :(

91 free zones in the UK. £64bn of public money. Zero parliamentary debate on the detail. Zero press coverage of the process. Each zone is a statutory instrument, becoming law in 40 days. No vote required. Zone Fever, the silent scandal that must be exposed. open.substack.com/pub/european...

YouTube is now practically 'Jackanory tell me an AI story' filled with endless scam ads

They’re burning wood to power data centres in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/05/29/k...

(Labour didn't get it badly wrong on inheritance tax for farmers – it's ended up reinstating a tax loophole that means working tenant farmers have to compete with billionaires seeking tax breaks to buy farmland. It's also why farmland's value is inflated vs its revenue capacity.)

Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Please, please start putting iced buns on lampposts

Briton Teespirit has been exiled from 'Rothermere Bog Roll' @dailymail.co.uk cos he said something they disagreed with & wouldn't gift him loads of benefits for giving a critical voice that didn't blow smoke up their/pointless columnist Hitchens arse. More contrived BS as we get it. #PotholeFillers

In his latest ring-piece @teespirit.bsky.social in 'Rothermere Bog Roll' rightly states how being a columnist is the ultimate non-job that produces nothing of value, how columnists should be on minimum wage and be made to fill pot-holes for 35 hours per week for a real societal benefit. #ProperOpEd

Cut to Farage getting free wall-to-wall coverage of him saying 'The wokeist, leftist, socialist Westminster elite are forcing me to grass on my friends' the Faragista consequently lap it up as yet more 'proof' Nigel is against corruption and is anti-establishment. 🙄 #GriftformLLC

Lots of nostalgia for Tony Blair. But all those mainly Conservative commentators praising him have yet to account for his involvement in the brazen corruption of Trump’s Peace Council scam. Utterly discrediting and discreditable

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"The lefty woke are against us putting our flag up anywhere nowadays." It's illegal to attach flags to lampposts and other street furniture under section 132 of the Highways Act 1980. This act was passed under Margaret Thatcher's Government, a Conservative hero of Nigel Farage...

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Titanic Completes Mostly Successful Maiden Voyage

The most dangerous wrong ideas in public policy are the ones that sound so intuitively true that any attempt to push back or even nuance them can be sneeringly dismissed as academic foolishness that flies in the face of 'common sense'. I... may have written a book about this. 👀

I wonder how those targeted by ICE, including violently, using Palantir technology feel about the company's alignment with "public safety". And honestly, the British business secretary should devote far less time to delivering Palantir's sales pitch. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

@mancity.com If there's a trophy presentation at the stadium for the final game, it might be a nice touch to invite Villa to bring theirs to show their fans?

Look, I don't understand quantum computing, but I do know funny when I see it as.ft.com/r/b9c435d5-c...

Here's Johnny

Correction 115 allegations of financial breaches (lots doubled up,actual unique allegations ~40 most, if not all, were covered by UEFA's [broadly failed] case). Southampton=simplier case. But maybe S will eventually get a blind eye job like Liverpool? www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Southampton football club committed the cardinal sin of not being Liverpool when it comes to shady dealings, FA and @migueldelaney.bsky.social will never let it go. #IndefiniteQuestionsToAnswer www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Someone tell cadet bonespurs (aka the arrogant-ignorant twerp in the WH) we're sitting some way behind the hotel booking lines. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I want to buy a new Porsche. But first I need to lie about throwing a fire extinguisher at the Capitol on Jan 6.

Putting former Barclays bankers in charge of financial regulators usually ends in disaster. Worth remembering the role of ex Barclays investment banker Sir Callum McCarthy, a man who didn't actually believe in financial regulation, as chair of the FSA from September 2003 to September 2008.

Arsenal's title is tainted due to the fact they cheated to get in to the top flight in 1919. #TheGamesGone #NoHistory #KronkeClub #BSDiscreditingFootballFanWarpedLogic

Shhh, don't tell anyone, but if all the Beeching lines were kept open (& loss making at the same rate as when they were ordered closed) we'd still be ~£40bn better off. We'd have a better train connected country [with fewer LDN feeder lines](but fewer nice cycle paths) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

Let's get this straight, UK gov is concerned people aren't saving enough for pensions? Is this the same UK gov who want more people under 60 gambling their ISA cash on stocks&shares, because they'd rather that money gets laundered by companies to be hidden in tax haven accounts of those companies?🤔

"Blessed are the pissmakers"

Finally, not being funny is starting to pay dividends 🥳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Me explaining what the £5 million was for.

Wes Streeting, Angela Raynor, and Andy Burham prepare for Labour leadership fight.

Quick, spend 4 figures + to be on a bobbing petri dish for 2 weeks or more. 🕺

"I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasn't easy But nothing is, no"