Mr Pecksniff's Diary
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Pecksniff: Courage or chaos? Burnham does it his way
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Reform hoped for a reset. Instead, financial shenanigans & violence in conference hall dominated headlines.
Masked protesters, attacks on police & threats against RNLI staff – why did it take so long for govt to respond?
The answer may be more politically uncomfortable than the disorder itself.
Masked protesters, attacks on police & threats against RNLI staff – why did it take so long for govt to respond?
The answer may be more politically uncomfortable than the disorder itself.
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As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
September 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
September 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Danny Tommo has decided to visit Piddington. If they welcome someone jailed for kidnapping at knife point to their village, it should show everyone their supposed concern for women and girls is just a cover for racism.
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‘Danny Tommo’, leader of the balaclava-clad blackshirt rallies, says he will travel to Piddington “in the coming days” following the Parish Council’s stunt referendum: “I want to hear about safety concerns for their women and children.” Tommo was jailed for two years in 2016 for a knifepoint kidnap.
September 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Danny Tommo has decided to visit Piddington. If they welcome someone jailed for kidnapping at knife point to their village, it should show everyone their supposed concern for women and girls is just a cover for racism.
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This is going to end so badly for Piddington. It was so naive. Now, every figure on the far right is young to invade and use the village for their own purposes, the village itself will split over the consequences and villagers will begin to hate each other.
Wow.
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
September 17, 2026 at 8:19 AM
This is going to end so badly for Piddington. It was so naive. Now, every figure on the far right is young to invade and use the village for their own purposes, the village itself will split over the consequences and villagers will begin to hate each other.
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Wow.
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
September 17, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Wow.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Electoral Commission is officially looking into the luxury hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior party figures during their trip to Dubai last January. Transparency in politics matters—and key questions are now being raised. #FarageSleaze #ReformSleaze
September 17, 2026 at 12:47 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The Electoral Commission is officially looking into the luxury hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior party figures during their trip to Dubai last January. Transparency in politics matters—and key questions are now being raised. #FarageSleaze #ReformSleaze
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The law says Cabinet must act within 21 days — but who chose day one?
Timing matters when legality is on the line.
The law is clear - here is a helpful explainer.
Councillor Martin Cook writes.
Timing matters when legality is on the line.
The law is clear - here is a helpful explainer.
Councillor Martin Cook writes.
The rarest report in local government has arrived in Suffolk; here is how to read it
At Suffolk County Council, in accordance with the law, a procedural emergency cord has been activated
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September 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
The law says Cabinet must act within 21 days — but who chose day one?
Timing matters when legality is on the line.
The law is clear - here is a helpful explainer.
Councillor Martin Cook writes.
Timing matters when legality is on the line.
The law is clear - here is a helpful explainer.
Councillor Martin Cook writes.
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New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products:
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
September 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products:
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
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RIP 847 years ago Hildegarde von Bingen, abbess, mystic, theologian, musical composer, astronomer, pharmacist and doctor, and among many other things inventor/discoverer of the sacred language “Lingua ignota”, who died #onthisday in 1179 CE.
(Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")
(Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")
September 17, 2026 at 6:59 AM
RIP 847 years ago Hildegarde von Bingen, abbess, mystic, theologian, musical composer, astronomer, pharmacist and doctor, and among many other things inventor/discoverer of the sacred language “Lingua ignota”, who died #onthisday in 1179 CE.
(Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")
(Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")
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I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all.
This is 1930s level stuff.
This is 1930s level stuff.
September 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all.
This is 1930s level stuff.
This is 1930s level stuff.
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Should funding higher defence spending mean cutting housing benefit?
Kemi Badenoch says private renters who can’t afford their rent would have to move.
But where would they go—and at what cost?
Bob Cronk reports.
Kemi Badenoch says private renters who can’t afford their rent would have to move.
But where would they go—and at what cost?
Bob Cronk reports.
National security vs social security
Kemi Badenoch would cut housing benefit to fund defence. But do we really want to abandon social security so easily. Kemi Badenoch would cut housing benefit to fund defence. But do we really want to a...
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September 17, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Should funding higher defence spending mean cutting housing benefit?
Kemi Badenoch says private renters who can’t afford their rent would have to move.
But where would they go—and at what cost?
Bob Cronk reports.
Kemi Badenoch says private renters who can’t afford their rent would have to move.
But where would they go—and at what cost?
Bob Cronk reports.
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There is a hegemony of stupidity among the mainstream economic commentators in this country at present, none of whom appears to have the imagination to ask, “Why does it have to be like this?”
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
Why does it have to be like this?
The Guardian has reported that:
UK inflation has returned above 3% as soaring fuel and transport prices triggered by the Iran war heap renewed pressure on British households.
Figures from the Office ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
September 17, 2026 at 6:59 AM
There is a hegemony of stupidity among the mainstream economic commentators in this country at present, none of whom appears to have the imagination to ask, “Why does it have to be like this?”
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
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Piddington, you reap what you sow
‘Danny Tommo’, leader of the balaclava-clad blackshirt rallies, says he will travel to Piddington “in the coming days” following the Parish Council’s stunt referendum: “I want to hear about safety concerns for their women and children.” Tommo was jailed for two years in 2016 for a knifepoint kidnap.
September 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Piddington, you reap what you sow
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It seems that women MPs, MSPs, MSs, Councillors
don't yet realise that the Reform Wales leader
arrested for domestic abuse is a typical example
of Reform Councillors & members with past convictions
as rapists, paedophiles, domestic violence abusers ...
don't yet realise that the Reform Wales leader
arrested for domestic abuse is a typical example
of Reform Councillors & members with past convictions
as rapists, paedophiles, domestic violence abusers ...
September 16, 2026 at 8:54 AM
It seems that women MPs, MSPs, MSs, Councillors
don't yet realise that the Reform Wales leader
arrested for domestic abuse is a typical example
of Reform Councillors & members with past convictions
as rapists, paedophiles, domestic violence abusers ...
don't yet realise that the Reform Wales leader
arrested for domestic abuse is a typical example
of Reform Councillors & members with past convictions
as rapists, paedophiles, domestic violence abusers ...
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If Totnes decided, in an unofficial referendum, to join the EU, I wonder how many pages of coverage the BBC would give to a cat that can play a banjo?
September 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
If Totnes decided, in an unofficial referendum, to join the EU, I wonder how many pages of coverage the BBC would give to a cat that can play a banjo?
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Today is State of the European Union day - aka the day of Ursula von der Leyen’s big speech at the European parliament. And it looks like we will get (the proposal for) a European Security Council
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Von der Leyen to call for ‘European Security Council’ in SOTEU text | Euractiv
The potential rival to NATO will come with a call for an ‘Alliance for the future’ with Canada, according to a draft
www.euractiv.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Today is State of the European Union day - aka the day of Ursula von der Leyen’s big speech at the European parliament. And it looks like we will get (the proposal for) a European Security Council
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
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We can do it better. We need public ownership. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...
Water Belongs to All of Us - Back the People's Plan for Water!
Privatisation has broken our water system.
Evidence shows public ownership can bring fairer, cleaner and cheaper water.
That’s why I'm backing the People’s Plan for Water.
Join me:
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September 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
We can do it better. We need public ownership. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...
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For me, it comes down to this: when compounding crises threaten our water supply, do we want corporations and billionaires in control of it?
September 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
For me, it comes down to this: when compounding crises threaten our water supply, do we want corporations and billionaires in control of it?
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"Palantir uses AI to generate a massive kill lists for the IDF. Lavender identified over 37,000 Palestinians to be executed. The software is built to look for Gazans in their homes. Israelis called this system ‘Where’s Daddy?’ presumably a reference to the cries of newly orphaned Gazan children."
Peter Thiel: From Gaza AI War Criminal to White House Puppet Master
By Alan MacLeod - Oct 9, 2024
The screams of babies as buildings collapse in Gaza. Terrified parents carrying the remains of their children away in plastic carrier bags. These scenes – altogether to...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"Palantir uses AI to generate a massive kill lists for the IDF. Lavender identified over 37,000 Palestinians to be executed. The software is built to look for Gazans in their homes. Israelis called this system ‘Where’s Daddy?’ presumably a reference to the cries of newly orphaned Gazan children."
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🔴 NEW
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
By @nafeez.bsky.social
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
By @nafeez.bsky.social
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
Cottrell's partner is the sister of two men indicted over an alleged operation involving 5,670 kilograms of cocaine, who are tied to one of the most powerful organised crime groups in the Balkans
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September 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
🔴 NEW
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
By @nafeez.bsky.social
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Inner Circle Hosted Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
By @nafeez.bsky.social
Read below. ↓
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Declassified documents show UK aware of Israeli war crimes for 24 years
Declassified documents show UK aware of Israeli war crimes for 24 years
UK Foreign Office files, public since 2024, record warnings about Israeli violence and rights abuses since 2002.
www.aljazeera.com
September 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Declassified documents show UK aware of Israeli war crimes for 24 years
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THIS IS URGENT. Wales is considering culling badgers, scapegoating them for being responsible for the spread of bovine TB.
England has slaughtered ¼ million badgers but STILL has a higher incidence of cattle TB breakdowns than Wales.
NO BADGER CULL IN WALES! Add your name!
England has slaughtered ¼ million badgers but STILL has a higher incidence of cattle TB breakdowns than Wales.
NO BADGER CULL IN WALES! Add your name!
September 13, 2026 at 10:30 AM
THIS IS URGENT. Wales is considering culling badgers, scapegoating them for being responsible for the spread of bovine TB.
England has slaughtered ¼ million badgers but STILL has a higher incidence of cattle TB breakdowns than Wales.
NO BADGER CULL IN WALES! Add your name!
England has slaughtered ¼ million badgers but STILL has a higher incidence of cattle TB breakdowns than Wales.
NO BADGER CULL IN WALES! Add your name!
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Important otter tummy content:
September 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Important otter tummy content:
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Mr Pecksniff considers a PM prepared to make difficult decisions rather than merely talk about them * Reform’s schisms deepen as Farage’s grip weakens * And what could possibly be bringing the Tory old guard back together?
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Pecksniff: Courage or chaos? Burnham does it his way
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Mr Pecksniff considers a PM prepared to make difficult decisions rather than merely talk about them * Reform’s schisms deepen as Farage’s grip weakens * And what could possibly be bringing the Tory old guard back together?
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