Andy King

@2primates.bsky.social

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Occasionally posting up to 300 characters in the hope that some of them make sense. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, apparently.

Clement Attlee wrote this in 1920: Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
“Two years after Russia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine, [Boris Johnson] said the EU was a ‘force for instability’ after failing to stop the action. ‘It is the EU itself, and its anti-democratic tendencies that are now a force for instability and alienation,’ he said in 2016. He added: ‘If you want an example of EU policymaking on the hoof and EU pretensions to running defence policy that have caused real trouble, then look at what has happened in the Ukraine.’
“Andrew Tate's jaw width is described as perfectly proportioned to his facial width, contributing to a strong and balanced lower face that enhances his masculine facial aesthetics.” AI summary of Andrew Tate’s jaw.
“QUENTIN LETTS How UK will prosper out of EU as Brexit countdown is to a boom day not to Remainer MPs’ doomsday” Quentin Letts Published: 00:34, 27 Dec 2018
Boris Johnson Chris Mason & Laura Kuenssberg looking ecstatic & starstruck to be in the presence of Boris Johnson.
1. Encourage fracking, shortcut rules on planning consultation via emergency act. 2. Abolish the EU regulations that restrict vacuum cleaner power to 1400 watts. 3. Remove precautionary principle restrictions (for instance) on early use of experimental treatments for seriously ill patients and GM crops. 4. Abolish rules around the size of vans that need an operator's licence. 5. Abolish EU limits on electrical power levels of electrically assisted pedal cycles. 6. Allow certain medical professionals, such as pharmacists and paramedics, to qualify in three years. 7. Remove requirements for agency workers to have all the attributes of a permanent employee. 8. Simplify the calculation of holiday pay (eg 12.07 percent of pay) to make it easier for businesses to operate. 9. Reduce requirements for businesses to conduct fixed wire testing and portable application testing.
Andrew Tate being taken into custody while rocking an arresting combo of tight purple shirt with a plunging neckline & grey clam-digger slacks.
“Rees-Mogg. Man without a plan. Brexit Opportunities Minister Rees-Mogg asks Sun Readers for ideas. Surely after all this time, he must have some of his own?”
“He isn't going against the manifesto. He will sign off Jackdaw and Rosebank which were initially approved under the last govt. And he might allow expansion of existing fields. Not new licenses. This is so he can avoid the problem James outlines.” Sam Freedman on Bluesky
“FFS, the lettuce did not come from fucking Taco Bell. This is the fault of government health programs being killed off.”
Allister Heath, writing in September 2022, at the time of the mini-budget delivered by Liz Truss & her Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng: "This was the best Budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver, by a massive margin. The tax cuts were so huge and bold, the language so extraordinary, that at times, listening to Kwasi Kwarteng, I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that I hadn't been transported to a distant land that actually believed in the economics of Milton Friedman and FA Hayek.”
Photograph of Andrea Jenkyns in a canary-yellow dress giving the public the middle finger on the occasion of Boris Johnson’s resignation.
“Liz Truss refuses to pay £12,000 in missing bathrobes row: Former PM demands 'accurate invoice' after being asked to settle Cabinet Office bill for 'lost items' and wining and dining at grace and favour Chevening estate”
Photograph of Donald Trump & his Secretary of Defense (AKA “Secretary of War”, but only by idiots) Pete Hegseth,
Mail headline from 2023: “Spectator columnist Taki Theodoracopulos, 87, is handed 12-month suspended prison sentence in Switzerland for attempted rape”
Spectator article by Golden Dawn fan Taki Theodoracopulos: “In praise of Wehrmacht: The real story of D-Day is the heroism of the German soldiers who were vastly outnumbered but fought nobly and to the death.”
Article titled: “Neil the seal returns to sea, leaving trail if destruction” illustrated with a photograph of the seal next to a wildlife worker wearing a hi-viz. Photograph caption reads: “Neil the Seal converses with a local wildlife worker”.
Nigel Farage, photographed at an exclusive garden party, in the company of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Waiters with trays full of champagne glasses can be seen in the background.
“Lucy Connolly deserves human rights too” Headline above a Telegraph comment piece by Isabel Oakeshott dated 22 May 2025.
Photograph of London Mayor Sadiq Khan rocking a pair of shades.
1/72 scale model of a World War One Medium Mark A Whippet tank manufactured by EMHAR.
Daniel Hannan gives the toast to freedom at Atlas network's Freedom dinner 2017, praising chlorinated chicken
Vans carrying billboards telling illegal immigrants to 'go home'
“China is propping up the world economy by importing a lot less oil A sharp fall in China’s crude oil imports during the Iran war has been instrumental in holding down oil prices and keeping the global economy humming.” Rebecca Feng for the WSJ
Title page of YouTube video with the text “Do Animals Know They Exist?”
“ Cottrell was born in 7 October 1993 in London, England. His father, Mark Cottrell, a businessman and landowner from Gloucestershire, attended Gordonstoun School with Prince Andrew. His mother, Fiona Watson, a daughter of Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton (d. 2003), is a former glamour model and girlfriend of Charles III when he was Prince of Wales. His uncle Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh, who is married to his maternal aunt Claire Watson, was a senior Conservative Party politician before joining the UK Independence Party (UKIP).” Wikipedia
Nigel Farage, referring to his life after ceasing to be Ukip leader earlier in 2016: “I am not having to deal with low-grade people every day, I am not responsible for what our branch secretary in Lower Slaughter said half-cut on Twitter last night – that isn't my fault any more. I don't have to go to eight-hour party executive meetings. I don't have to spend my life dealing with people I would never have a drink with, who I would never employ and who use me as a vehicle for their own self-promotion.”
Photograph of two large male Western grey kangaroos boxing, capturing the moment when one kangaroo lands a massive kick to its opponent’s abdomen with its powerful hind legs.
'What happened was not funny' Liz Truss breaks silence after storming off stage following lettuce prank
“ Sutch returned to Britain (and to politics) during the 1980s. The Raving Loony name first appeared at the Bermondsey by-election of 1983.[9] A similar concept had appeared earlier in the Election Night Special sketch on the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the Silly and Sensible parties competed; and a similar skit by The Goodies, in which Graeme Garden stood as a Science Loony. A Science Fiction Looney candidate had also competed in the 1976 Cambridge by-election.” Wikipedia
Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting on board ship at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland on August 12, 1941, to map out the Atlantic Charter.
“Photograph of Harry Cole, at the front of the press pack on an aeroplane flight, leering over Boris Johnson”
In the years following World War II, British aviation expert Barnes Wallis -- the brilliant aircraft engineer credited with designing the "Dam Buster" bomb that helped cripple Germany's steel industry in 1943 -- turned his attention to more advanced aircraft designs, including variable wing (swing-wing) aircraft capable of supersonic flight. One of his most famous concepts was the "Swallow," an elegant tail-less plane he hoped would become the mainstay of Britain's commercial aviation industry. The plane had four engines mounted in pairs toward the tips of the wings, one above and one below the aerofoil. These pivoted along all three axes, serving in place of a rudder, ailerons and elevators. Although test models of the plane actually flew, the British government pulled its funding in the late 1950s, essentially killing this promising project.
Chris Worthing on Bluesky: “If only one candidate at the point nominations close the Acting/Deputy Returning Officer will post a notice saying that they've been returned unopposed.“
Chris Worthing on Bluesky: “If only one candidate at the point nominations close the Acting/Deputy Returning Officer will post a notice saying that they've been returned unopposed.“
David M Rubin (‪@six18sfoundry.bsky.social‬): “Thinking back to 2 months ago seeing Old Godzilla, a snapper, emerge from brumation”
Illustrations of a bright red space rocket, along with the cartoon character Tintin & his companions from Explorers on the Moon, the seventeenth volume of Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin.
“The National Party and apartheid in South Africa in History After its victory the National Party rapidly consolidated its control over the state and in subsequent years won a series of elections with increased majorities. Parliament removed Coloured voters from the common voters’ rolls in 1956. By 1969 the electorate was exclusively white: Indians never had any parliamentary representation, and the seats for white representatives of Blacks and Coloureds had been abolished.” Britannica
Cover art of the Penguin Classics edition of The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter.
“ ‪The Telegraph‬ ‪@telegraph.co.uk‬ · 5h The progressive version of Twitter offers a world of vicious, sneering odium that only those who see themselves as kinder humans dish out” The Telegraph’s Bluesky account trying to boost a piece by Stephen Pollard with the clickbait headline “Is there anything more pathetic than a Bluesky user?”
“War declared!! Friends of the South & justice to arms!!” 1861 Missouri flyer announcing the start of the American Civil War.
Donald Trump falling asleep at a maternal health event in the Oval Office, May 11, 2026.
“April 4th 1985. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank.” George Orwell 1984
“In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In politics we have bumbled along making the same sort of errors repeatedly.” Dominic Cummings
Screenshot of the early Metaverse, featuring legless avatars floating above a simplified landscape.
“Happy pride to the super bisexuals” Bluesky post referencing a Fox News caption about the Supergirl movie headlined “SUPER-BISEXUAL” in over-excited allcaps.
We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go, ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’” These were the immortal words of Donald Trump when he was one of several possible Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential election. “And I’m going to say: ‘I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning. We’re going to make America great again,’” he continued.
“Mr Galloway, a former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, is currently living in Russia in self-imposed exile. The former Labour Party politician was detained at Gatwick Airport by counter-terrorism police in September.”
Photographs of Nigel Farage & George Galloway getting chummy at a Westminster rally of the anti-EU “Grassroots”* Out campaign in 2016. *i.e. AstroTurf
“Empire Glory @m62jim.bsky.social 18 followers 55 following 172 posts We gave the world commerce, engineering, sport, the English language, universal education and equality before the law, then gave up our Empire to defeat fascism, twice”