Author - The New Snobbery, Little Platoons, The Future Habit. Co-founder Pharos Futures, North Easterner, SAFC, Durham CCC, racing, cricket, darts.

Joined April 2009
David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
Tens of millions died in the Chinese Great Famine in Mao's Great Leap Forward.
'Leaving the European Union was the biggest act of economic self harm any country has ever committed' Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told #BBCBreakfast Andy Burnham 'is spot on' about having an "honest discussion" ove the prospect of returning to free movement between the UK and European Union bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e3…
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
Betting markets are not gospel - example 962
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
It turns out David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Boris Johnson, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher & Harold Wilson all appeared on TV programmes. #bbclaurak
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
This was an argument advanced to great acclaim by Norman Angell in his book The Great Illusion. His thesis was that economic interdependence would guarantee peace, and it was published in 1909.
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Probably the biggest confirmation of a trend so far.
NEW headline voting intention from Ipsos 📊Labour on 32% with a lead of +8 – the largest Labour lead Ipsos have recorded this parliament 📊Conservatives take second place the first time since June 2025 📊Reform UK down 3 points and Greens down 5
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This is Mrs Thatcher appearing on Saturday Superstore. Idea that past politicians didn’t do anything beyond news interviews is just nostalgia.
When Thatcher was Prime Minister, she reportedly slept for 4 hours per night, worked up until 2am and didn’t like going on holidays. Fast forward 30+ years and our current Prime Minister has enough time to do a softball interview on LADbible and appear on Googlebox. Decline.
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Little doubt that @JamesCleverly is the outstanding candidate. This is one of the biggest and most important directly elected offices in Europe. A globally great city needs a big hitter as Mayor.
🔵 The Conservative shortlist for London mayor is: + Festus Akinbusoye + Alex Challoner + James Cleverley + Sara Gezdari They will be interviewed on Sat 31 October, & reduced to three names to be voted on by the members.
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
A new IPPR report says we should stop publishing school performance measures. I thought it was weird for the IPPR to endorse an obviously destructive idea. But, oh look, the report is funded by a trade union sock puppet. Shame on IPPR for taking the shilling from the wreckers.
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This is pretty shitty towards an all round legend. As Dwight Yoakam told Colombia Records CEO when they dropped Johnny Cash, “that guy built your f*cking studio”.
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It’s fascinating how French politicians have a much longer shelf life than British ones. Chirac and Mitterrand were around for years before becoming President. Le Pen has been running since 2012.
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
Peter Sellers tells a very funny Michael Caine story, switching from one perfect accent to another, on Gay Byrne's 'Late Late Show', broadcast in Ireland, in October 1971
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
.@ruhawksley recently in the @spectator on ‘Can the gambling industry survive Labour’s prohibitionists?’
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In truth, these guys are prohibitionists not reformers. Terrible finger wagging campaign to tell working class people what they’re allowed to do.
It’s time to raise tax on harmful, high-risk gambling machines. Explaining our campaign on @ITVNews 🎙️📺
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
There is no way that these machines can be made less “harmful” by increasing the tax on them. This campaign is fundamentally dishonest.
It’s time to raise tax on harmful, high-risk gambling machines. Explaining our campaign on @ITVNews 🎙️📺
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
A nation almost entirely united on this one with *100%* of over 75s saying it’s not ok to play music out loud on a train.
🚨 NEW: The Government has announced headphone dodgers on trains will face fines of up to £1,000 as a nationwide campaign launches today
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Should we dish out fines for people playing music on trains and buses? It's an issue that drives people mad. But now if you're caught playing loud audio without headphones, you could be slapped with a hefty fine. Will it work?
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
No explanation - for example they detect association with other accounts, trading tools etc etc. Just a dismissal. Their systems are advanced enough to provide a explanation Then when all the bets are expired (it is suggested only then) can they withdraw via customer services. Rather than making a withdrawal via the site as usual People tell me this firm an example of the ultimate success in betting. But their utter dismissal of any kind of value for the customer marks. Bet365, and those alike, as simply business. Not good business. And certainly not a paragon of good management And whilst those in 365 can, and will, treat this view with disdain (look at our number of customers, bottom line etc) if this was a publicly traded company? Their share value in the last few years would have tanked. And who, pray, is going to defend gambling with companies like this?
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David Skelton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 retweeted
Less than six months to go until the first round of the French Presidential election. The outcome is arguably more significant and impactful for UK than the US mid terms. Please could we have more coverage and analysis of what it means for the UK.
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This is relegation form now. Badly need to sort it out.
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