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Graham Phillips

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Superannuated consultant, company director, lapsed politician, recidivist old house restorer, reader, food, wine, arts, humanitarian wokerato, fulminateur


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Peter Sturdgess 's avatar Peter Sturdgess @petersturdgess.bsky.social
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Labour haemorrhaging votes on the right to Reform and on the left to Green. They have been the beneficiaries of a huge amount of tactical votes. Unless they start recognising those tactical votes and throw them a bone they will lose the tactical vote next time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Mairi Hedges's avatar Mairi Hedges @hedgesbackward.bsky.social
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Rogart. Lucky says she was glad for her woolly coat in yesterday's rain (though she's seen worse). Today is grey & breezy. The harebells/ bluebells have begun appearing. Slender stems supporting unlikely purple trumpets. Yarrow, in varying degrees of white/ pink is about too...

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Graham Phillips's avatar Graham Phillips @ferryoons.bsky.social
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Yeah, well, but think of the oil companies’ profits … and on it goes.

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Suella Braverman's comments are beginning to make more sense as the basis of leading defecting MPs with far right sympathies out of the Conservative Party than a bid to lead it

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Rogart. Waiting for the rain to come. Making cheese & pickle in a gloomy unelectrified kitchen before heading out for pig & bottle lamb breakfasts. Heading back across the hay park. Swirling clouds of siskins, linnets, meadow pipits & goldfinches lifting & moving ahead of me...

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Rogart. 10.30pm. Pink light coming in through the window. Rainy day for tomorrow. Goodnight...

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Rogart. Walking past the shed earlier, during a sunny interlude. Cat put me in mind of a dragon guarding a hoard. He was sleeping in an old nest that is now too close to the front of the bale to be used. The treasure was in the nest behind him.

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Rogart. 7am. There's a chill in the air. Damp & lightly midgey. Wet knees on trousers & soggy spiky cat fur. Things are disappearing under the green tangle. I shall have to unearth some blackcurrant bushes & small willows. Swallows dart in & out of the back window of the ruin...

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Monpsyvite 's avatar Monpsyvite @monpsyvite.bsky.social
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Je rediffuse ce dessin car j’ai encore un peu mal….

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