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There is v warm coverage of the late Jeffrey Archer on Radio 4 Today focusing on book sales & chsrity with fraud, perjury & disgrace mainly as something to bounce back from. He probably got more second, thitd & fourth chances that anybody else in British public life in the last half century.
October 6, 2026 at 6:23 AM
There is v warm coverage of the late Jeffrey Archer on Radio 4 Today focusing on book sales & chsrity with fraud, perjury & disgrace mainly as something to bounce back from. He probably got more second, thitd & fourth chances that anybody else in British public life in the last half century.
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Labour MPs don't have the time to condemn fascist blackshirts terrorising anyone who isn't white but they do have time to report the Green party to the cops because they don't like a policy
October 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Labour MPs don't have the time to condemn fascist blackshirts terrorising anyone who isn't white but they do have time to report the Green party to the cops because they don't like a policy
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Not only was Jeffrey Archer a perjurer, insider trader, thief, plagiariser, coup financer and racist, it’s important to remember he was also a shit novelist
Read all about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...
Read all about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...
Jeffrey Archer - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Not only was Jeffrey Archer a perjurer, insider trader, thief, plagiariser, coup financer and racist, it’s important to remember he was also a shit novelist
Read all about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...
Read all about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...
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Bleak stuff here: the fascist international in country after country judging that they don’t even have to pretend any more that they aren’t farcically corrupt criminals, and they may well be correct.
Brazil election moves to runoff after Lula and Bolsonaro fail to garner majority vote, electoral court says.
Brazil heads to runoff election after Bolsonaro, Lula fail to garner majority vote
Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off on Oct. 25 in a runoff for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy.
bit.ly
October 5, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Bleak stuff here: the fascist international in country after country judging that they don’t even have to pretend any more that they aren’t farcically corrupt criminals, and they may well be correct.
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This is one of the most basic, practical and obvious bits of common sense you will find in politics. If people lie to you and then joyfully fuck you over, you should automatically assume that everything they say in future is suspect and said in bad faith. Because it probably is.
October 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM
This is one of the most basic, practical and obvious bits of common sense you will find in politics. If people lie to you and then joyfully fuck you over, you should automatically assume that everything they say in future is suspect and said in bad faith. Because it probably is.
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Rugby League - pah!
October 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Rugby League - pah!
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maybe i'm naive but maybe it would actually be Good if you can clearly establish to investors "we enforce the law and ensure people are treated fairly" because it, you know, means they in turn can trust they'll be treated fairly? if some bad actors are robbing you blind it's not good for the rest!
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports.
This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
October 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
maybe i'm naive but maybe it would actually be Good if you can clearly establish to investors "we enforce the law and ensure people are treated fairly" because it, you know, means they in turn can trust they'll be treated fairly? if some bad actors are robbing you blind it's not good for the rest!
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My dad is in a care home. He's 77. His formative years were in the late 60s. He liked the Rolling Stones
But all the pictures in his care home are of Charlie Chaplin, Rita Hayworth and Spitfires - way before his time!
People have a very skewed idea of what 'old' is!
But all the pictures in his care home are of Charlie Chaplin, Rita Hayworth and Spitfires - way before his time!
People have a very skewed idea of what 'old' is!
October 2, 2026 at 8:25 AM
My dad is in a care home. He's 77. His formative years were in the late 60s. He liked the Rolling Stones
But all the pictures in his care home are of Charlie Chaplin, Rita Hayworth and Spitfires - way before his time!
People have a very skewed idea of what 'old' is!
But all the pictures in his care home are of Charlie Chaplin, Rita Hayworth and Spitfires - way before his time!
People have a very skewed idea of what 'old' is!
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Despite what people may say, paticularly the Red cartel fans, the following 2things can be true
1) City broke the rules on an industrial scale and should be hammered with a punishment.
2) The rules aren't fit for purpose, and they suit the interests of the few inserting a glass ceiling for others
1) City broke the rules on an industrial scale and should be hammered with a punishment.
2) The rules aren't fit for purpose, and they suit the interests of the few inserting a glass ceiling for others
October 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Despite what people may say, paticularly the Red cartel fans, the following 2things can be true
1) City broke the rules on an industrial scale and should be hammered with a punishment.
2) The rules aren't fit for purpose, and they suit the interests of the few inserting a glass ceiling for others
1) City broke the rules on an industrial scale and should be hammered with a punishment.
2) The rules aren't fit for purpose, and they suit the interests of the few inserting a glass ceiling for others
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There were almost no food banks when I was a kid, I don’t remember hearing the term until the 2010s and the Big Society. Cuts are just cuts, they have no moral value and anyone telling you “It’s unfair that Group (x) gets too much” is hoping they can play on your spite until nobody gets anything.
October 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM
There were almost no food banks when I was a kid, I don’t remember hearing the term until the 2010s and the Big Society. Cuts are just cuts, they have no moral value and anyone telling you “It’s unfair that Group (x) gets too much” is hoping they can play on your spite until nobody gets anything.
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I think it's bad for public discourse and the reputation of journalism that newsrooms continue to give people like Linehan fuzzy puff-pieces, while turning a blind eye to their abhorrent conduct online
It is, if nothing else, a double-standard compared with how other public figures are treated
It is, if nothing else, a double-standard compared with how other public figures are treated
Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.
October 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I think it's bad for public discourse and the reputation of journalism that newsrooms continue to give people like Linehan fuzzy puff-pieces, while turning a blind eye to their abhorrent conduct online
It is, if nothing else, a double-standard compared with how other public figures are treated
It is, if nothing else, a double-standard compared with how other public figures are treated
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look, I was here through every other round of benefit cuts, benefit conditionality youth employment schemes, crack downs, new criteria etc. since the 1990s. At no point did reducing support or making it harder to get have some transformative effect in the targeted population.
September 28, 2026 at 10:35 AM
look, I was here through every other round of benefit cuts, benefit conditionality youth employment schemes, crack downs, new criteria etc. since the 1990s. At no point did reducing support or making it harder to get have some transformative effect in the targeted population.
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I will believe all the sad-eyed stuff about NEETs, lost generations, opportunity crisis etc. when the people saying it are talking about in terms of investment rather than cuts
September 28, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I will believe all the sad-eyed stuff about NEETs, lost generations, opportunity crisis etc. when the people saying it are talking about in terms of investment rather than cuts
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The wild thing is that this stuff *is* always a local issue. "The king is off doing foreign adventures while the kingdom is falling into ruin" is hardly a new kind of complaint.
BBC Host: "Zacks talked a lot about Gaza. Thats not a local issue is it. Thats not going to improve peoples lives there"
Saying that genocide is bad & we shouldn't be funding, arming or supporting the regime doing it. What a terrible person! How dare he, right?
Saying that genocide is bad & we shouldn't be funding, arming or supporting the regime doing it. What a terrible person! How dare he, right?
September 27, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The wild thing is that this stuff *is* always a local issue. "The king is off doing foreign adventures while the kingdom is falling into ruin" is hardly a new kind of complaint.
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Strange that the Starmer government was completely fucked up by their failure to push through benefit cuts, since they are so very popular with the public
September 24, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Strange that the Starmer government was completely fucked up by their failure to push through benefit cuts, since they are so very popular with the public
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DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
Perhaps you’ve ditched algorithmically curated playlists for vinyl and enjoy DVDs rather than streaming
Are you embracing low-tech ways to enjoy music and movies?
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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The public have been disenfranchised until now, states do little but hand out favours and contracts to allies and intensify or relax crackdowns. The only means people have for influence are withholding their votes, or withholding their custom. So of course, that shit needs cracking down on too.
September 24, 2026 at 10:54 AM
The public have been disenfranchised until now, states do little but hand out favours and contracts to allies and intensify or relax crackdowns. The only means people have for influence are withholding their votes, or withholding their custom. So of course, that shit needs cracking down on too.
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Forcing people to vote for parties they don’t like, in a country where politics has got visibly uglier, nastier and more cruel every year for two decades, so that we can stunt the electoral system into empowering Sensible Moderates nobody likes or wants? What could go wrong
September 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Forcing people to vote for parties they don’t like, in a country where politics has got visibly uglier, nastier and more cruel every year for two decades, so that we can stunt the electoral system into empowering Sensible Moderates nobody likes or wants? What could go wrong
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Yeah this is what Rachel Reeves means when she’s talking about bats and newts. Further deregulation so builders can build homes without infrastructure and if you look at the price of these houses hardly “helping young families get on the ladder” is it
July 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Yeah this is what Rachel Reeves means when she’s talking about bats and newts. Further deregulation so builders can build homes without infrastructure and if you look at the price of these houses hardly “helping young families get on the ladder” is it
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… skim off the nation’s profits via their Duchies [state land of about 180,000 acres as well as urban & commercial enterprises & the sea bed!]. Nice corruption if you can get it. When you think up to 1 in 4 peasant children go to bed hungry it’s quite a lot of wool to pull over the public’s eyes!
Hunger in the UK 2025 | Trussell
The latest report in our flagship Hunger in the UK research series provides a ‘state of the nation’ look at the scale and drivers of food bank provision and food insecurity across the UK.
www.trussell.org.uk
September 22, 2026 at 11:24 AM
… skim off the nation’s profits via their Duchies [state land of about 180,000 acres as well as urban & commercial enterprises & the sea bed!]. Nice corruption if you can get it. When you think up to 1 in 4 peasant children go to bed hungry it’s quite a lot of wool to pull over the public’s eyes!
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*Brits are taught that they have a constitutional monarch despite [a] having no constitution [as BoJo demonstrated] & [b] the monarch being able to secretly object to any laws that impact them & having massive taxpayer subsidies & other influence behind the scenes. Not to mention being able to …
September 22, 2026 at 11:20 AM
*Brits are taught that they have a constitutional monarch despite [a] having no constitution [as BoJo demonstrated] & [b] the monarch being able to secretly object to any laws that impact them & having massive taxpayer subsidies & other influence behind the scenes. Not to mention being able to …
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The big question for me about the Lib Dems’ pro-oil-lobby policy is whether the leadership know anything about their voters at all.
September 21, 2026 at 10:54 AM
The big question for me about the Lib Dems’ pro-oil-lobby policy is whether the leadership know anything about their voters at all.
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The world’s best and smartest people spent a dodecajillion dollars on magic beans that don’t grow beanstalks and now they are going to destroy the world economy, again, and you - who did nothing wrong, again - are going to pay for it, again.
September 20, 2026 at 9:13 AM
The world’s best and smartest people spent a dodecajillion dollars on magic beans that don’t grow beanstalks and now they are going to destroy the world economy, again, and you - who did nothing wrong, again - are going to pay for it, again.
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Bob Vylan, Kneecap, Macklemore- not just bans but police "terrorism" investigations(!) I don't think there has been music censorship like this since the 1990s/"Parental Advisory "/Cop Killer /2LiveCrew era. There was an Iraq War bit (Dixie Chicks), but not like this. Born of establishment fear imo
September 20, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Bob Vylan, Kneecap, Macklemore- not just bans but police "terrorism" investigations(!) I don't think there has been music censorship like this since the 1990s/"Parental Advisory "/Cop Killer /2LiveCrew era. There was an Iraq War bit (Dixie Chicks), but not like this. Born of establishment fear imo
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Do you notice how you heard nothing out of these dorks for decades, until they started repeating and endorsing the newspapers’ nasty bullshit
September 20, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Do you notice how you heard nothing out of these dorks for decades, until they started repeating and endorsing the newspapers’ nasty bullshit