Anna H
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'Give her a helmet and a sword, she'd look like a brave little Hobbit'
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“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” Alkanj recounted, before Ahmed tackled the shooter, taking his rifle.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” Alkanj recounted, before Ahmed tackled the shooter, taking his rifle.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
this guy, honestly. amazing.
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The full Mossbourne Report is here. It turns out that the SLT were quite fond of shouting at teachers too. Loss of pupils between Year 7 and Year 11 is 22%, national average is 7% chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
chscp.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The full Mossbourne Report is here. It turns out that the SLT were quite fond of shouting at teachers too. Loss of pupils between Year 7 and Year 11 is 22%, national average is 7% chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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And this is why Communism has never worked but social democracy has - and still does.
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
And this is why Communism has never worked but social democracy has - and still does.
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And here's Kamala Harris's response. This is the president you could have had, America.
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
And here's Kamala Harris's response. This is the president you could have had, America.
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If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
Trump going after Rob Reiner is ofc utterly foul and inhumane, but it is (equally ofc) also stupid: people love Reiner's films and the kindness, decency, integrity, craft and *humanity* that run through them. Attacking his memory is attacking those values.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump going after Rob Reiner is ofc utterly foul and inhumane, but it is (equally ofc) also stupid: people love Reiner's films and the kindness, decency, integrity, craft and *humanity* that run through them. Attacking his memory is attacking those values.
Holly • Seamus Heaney •
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Holly • Seamus Heaney •
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boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.
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There's a lot I miss by not being on Twitter but "Michael Gove and Katherine Birbalsingh debating if Jews are fifth columnists with an Internet Nazi, for the Spectator" is definitely a new one...
Tomlinson makes clear that "ban Jews from the civil service and parliament" is his position.
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
There's a lot I miss by not being on Twitter but "Michael Gove and Katherine Birbalsingh debating if Jews are fifth columnists with an Internet Nazi, for the Spectator" is definitely a new one...
How, /how/ is KB still a HT? Her pupils aren't a debating point, they're *people* and she shouldn't be giving her time and attention to anyone whose clearly stated view is that they and their families are lesser because of their faith:
Tomlinson makes clear that "ban Jews from the civil service and parliament" is his position.
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
It is a position that Harry Cole of the Sun & TalkTV will now promote as a legitimate contribution (albeit when emphasise banning Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, blacks and Asians + incidentally the Jews too)
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
How, /how/ is KB still a HT? Her pupils aren't a debating point, they're *people* and she shouldn't be giving her time and attention to anyone whose clearly stated view is that they and their families are lesser because of their faith:
Danny 'Call me Ishmael' Kruger
you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Danny 'Call me Ishmael' Kruger
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Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
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Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.
Reform MP Danny Kruger on pornstar/provocateur Bonnie Blue announcing her support for the party: "We’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue."
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
December 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.
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Racism isn’t a social class thing. That’s why it’s wrong to equate it with poverty & ignorance. One can be rich & highly educated and racist at the same time. One may not display overt racism but actively use their resources to strengthen structurally racist systems. We don’t talk about this enough.
December 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Racism isn’t a social class thing. That’s why it’s wrong to equate it with poverty & ignorance. One can be rich & highly educated and racist at the same time. One may not display overt racism but actively use their resources to strengthen structurally racist systems. We don’t talk about this enough.
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"If there is a Jewish Nobel for saving Jews, Ahmed al-Ahmed just won it
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
The Jewish world should honor, praise Ahmed al-Ahmed | The Jerusalem Post
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations."
www.jpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"If there is a Jewish Nobel for saving Jews, Ahmed al-Ahmed just won it
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations.""
Georgia O'Keefe • Barn with Snow •
December 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Georgia O'Keefe • Barn with Snow •
Sulho Sipilä • The Skating Rink •
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sulho Sipilä • The Skating Rink •
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Can we take a moment to admire Will Sharpe's costume here? It's fabulous.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘It’s fun to go to war with God’: Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany on their sweaty, sacrilegious take on Amadeus
Last time the fierce enmity between Mozart and Salieri was adapted for the screen, it won a best picture Oscar. Now a new TV version turns up the temperature several notches – but will its stars devel...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Can we take a moment to admire Will Sharpe's costume here? It's fabulous.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Am old enough to remember how in the *pre social media era*, Tony Blair - who I think we would agree was quite good at politics - issued statements about Dierdre being jailed on Coronation Street. I do think the current PM could say something about the Sun’s ex-political editor mainstreaming racism
Issue a statement criticising it, obviously. Exercise moral leadership. You know, that thing that all his predecessors have done on precisely this issue, and that the prime minister did last week about protecting a *modernist bus shelter*.
This interview came out yesterday afternoon. What do you want the PM to do about it?
December 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Am old enough to remember how in the *pre social media era*, Tony Blair - who I think we would agree was quite good at politics - issued statements about Dierdre being jailed on Coronation Street. I do think the current PM could say something about the Sun’s ex-political editor mainstreaming racism
Moonglow • Maurice Sapiro •
December 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Moonglow • Maurice Sapiro •
Miya Ando • Evening Blue • night Venticelli •
December 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Miya Ando • Evening Blue • night Venticelli •
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"Your company has been hacked. The clock is ticking. Here’s who to call" – in the wake of the Jaguar Land Rover, M&S and British Library hacks, I wrote about what happens in the hours after a major company learns it's been targeted. (£)
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Your company has been hacked. The clock is ticking. Here’s who to call
Marks & Spencer and Jaguar Land Rover lost millions this year after their systems were attacked by cybercriminals. James Ball meets the ransomware negotiators who are paid to limit the damage, get you...
www.thetimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Your company has been hacked. The clock is ticking. Here’s who to call" – in the wake of the Jaguar Land Rover, M&S and British Library hacks, I wrote about what happens in the hours after a major company learns it's been targeted. (£)
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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One of the interesting contradictions of our time is how, on the one hand, the politicians are terrified of the right-wing press but, on the other hand, nobody reads the right-wing papers anymore.
(One in a hundred people buys a copy of the Mail every day. It *so* doesn't matter what it says.)
(One in a hundred people buys a copy of the Mail every day. It *so* doesn't matter what it says.)
Their inaction would be understandable if they were free speech absolutists. But given that they support the arrest of 00s of pro-Palestine protesters they are not. That leaves the explanation that they're simply scared of the right-wing media. They're cowards.
Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
One of the interesting contradictions of our time is how, on the one hand, the politicians are terrified of the right-wing press but, on the other hand, nobody reads the right-wing papers anymore.
(One in a hundred people buys a copy of the Mail every day. It *so* doesn't matter what it says.)
(One in a hundred people buys a copy of the Mail every day. It *so* doesn't matter what it says.)
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I do actually think a leading journalist should push back against an assertion that non white people can never be British. It's just racism!
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CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I do actually think a leading journalist should push back against an assertion that non white people can never be British. It's just racism!
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.