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They rarely offer a full face shot
January 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
They rarely offer a full face shot
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If hypothetically, the decline in smoking was responsible for 70% of the decline in cancer deaths, that would mean other factors were only responsible for 30%, right?
Wrong! 🧵
Wrong! 🧵
December 13, 2024 at 1:14 AM
If hypothetically, the decline in smoking was responsible for 70% of the decline in cancer deaths, that would mean other factors were only responsible for 30%, right?
Wrong! 🧵
Wrong! 🧵
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This says a lot about Piers Morgan, doesn't it? Or then again, nothing we don't already know about his character.
Via Private Eye
Via Private Eye
September 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
This says a lot about Piers Morgan, doesn't it? Or then again, nothing we don't already know about his character.
Via Private Eye
Via Private Eye
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"The right wing is using this confected outrage as a tool to reframe their own rule-breaking and venality of the last decade, through false equivalence. This is especially so for Johnson fans - both individuals and newspapers. There is a huge effort to whitewash BoJo’s sins hanging on this peg."
👗NEW QUIET RIOT👓
THE LORD, THE FROCK, THE GLASSES, AND THE LOSS OF ALL PROPORTION
Midnight essay by @sturdyalex.bsky.social on this entirely confected non-scandal. A short calm rant, that may just change your mind.
APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/6PBO...
THE LORD, THE FROCK, THE GLASSES, AND THE LOSS OF ALL PROPORTION
Midnight essay by @sturdyalex.bsky.social on this entirely confected non-scandal. A short calm rant, that may just change your mind.
APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/6PBO...
THE LORD, THE FROCK, THE GLASSES, AND THE LOSS OF ALL PROPORTION
Alex goes on a (very calm and reasoned) MEGA RANT about the mass hysteria over a Labour peer giving a make-over to the top team for the election campaign. You d
podcasts.apple.com
September 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
"The right wing is using this confected outrage as a tool to reframe their own rule-breaking and venality of the last decade, through false equivalence. This is especially so for Johnson fans - both individuals and newspapers. There is a huge effort to whitewash BoJo’s sins hanging on this peg."
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This is so moving
23 years ago I wrote a story for the Guardian about a stowaway who had fallen from a plane and landed in a car park in Richmond, w London. Then, earlier this year, I received an email from his younger brother. This is their story
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
‘He wanted a better life’: the man who fell from a plane in search of a new start – and the brother who retraced his journey 20 years later
In 2001, a badly broken body was found in a London car park. Police said the man had tried to enter the UK by hiding in a plane’s landing gear. Two decades after the Guardian first told his tragic sto...
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2024 at 3:14 PM
This is so moving