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A quick one
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December 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A quick one
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A man needs a hobby…
Picked up the Christmas veg, and delighted to be supporting Scottish agriculture and crime writing @ianrankin1.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A man needs a hobby…
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Farage’s past racist comments are revealing - but ultimately become secondary to the larger issue:
The party he's built from the ground up to incubate rotten apples.
The party he's built from the ground up to incubate rotten apples.
Reform UK Doesn’t Just Have a Racism Problem - It Has a Racism Infrastructure
Why focusing on Farage’s past misses how racism is incentivised, normalised and repeatedly rewarded in the present
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Farage’s past racist comments are revealing - but ultimately become secondary to the larger issue:
The party he's built from the ground up to incubate rotten apples.
The party he's built from the ground up to incubate rotten apples.
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Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄
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Imposed against the council’s will, Lord Houchen’s MDC has collapsed, leaving wasted millions and unanswered questions | Andy McDonald
Houchen’s £200mn vanity project collapses, leaving Middlesbrough to pick up the pieces
Imposed against the council’s will, Lord Houchen’s MDC has collapsed, leaving wasted millions and unanswered questions
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Imposed against the council’s will, Lord Houchen’s MDC has collapsed, leaving wasted millions and unanswered questions | Andy McDonald
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Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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December 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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As promised, a thread of nautical canines! Here’s ‘HMV’, rescued from floating wreckage in the Atlantic by the sloop HMS Freetown in 1944. His unusual name came from the way he was sitting when rescued, which resembled the dog used in the record company’s advertising.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As promised, a thread of nautical canines! Here’s ‘HMV’, rescued from floating wreckage in the Atlantic by the sloop HMS Freetown in 1944. His unusual name came from the way he was sitting when rescued, which resembled the dog used in the record company’s advertising.
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He’s not sacking the candidate because, say it with me, Farage and Reform UK are foundationally racist. Removing that scaffolding of bigotry would cause the party to collapse into incoherent press conferences and fantasy economics.
December 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
He’s not sacking the candidate because, say it with me, Farage and Reform UK are foundationally racist. Removing that scaffolding of bigotry would cause the party to collapse into incoherent press conferences and fantasy economics.
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Cartoon by Morten Morland
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Cartoon by Morten Morland
Off to Greece tonight with kelftico, from Jasmin Khans wonderfull book Ripe Figs, with some leaves & feta. Yamas!
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Off to Greece tonight with kelftico, from Jasmin Khans wonderfull book Ripe Figs, with some leaves & feta. Yamas!
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I’ve been out walking when a so called trail hunt turned up. It was very clear they were chasing a real fox. I heard the poor creature’s screams as it was torn apart by hounds. You never forget that. The idea these people can pose as countryside lovers is ridiculous and insulting.
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’ve been out walking when a so called trail hunt turned up. It was very clear they were chasing a real fox. I heard the poor creature’s screams as it was torn apart by hounds. You never forget that. The idea these people can pose as countryside lovers is ridiculous and insulting.
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I’ve lived in the countryside for three decades and I don’t knows anyone who hunts. They’re all from elsewhere. And if you think they’re animal lovers in some way ask what happens to hounds when they’re too old to be of use.
They’re shot.
They’re shot.
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’ve lived in the countryside for three decades and I don’t knows anyone who hunts. They’re all from elsewhere. And if you think they’re animal lovers in some way ask what happens to hounds when they’re too old to be of use.
They’re shot.
They’re shot.
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I had an entire hunt in my garden once and only just managed to save our own wire fox terrier. The hounds were completely out of control and when I gave the master of the hunt a piece of my mind I suspect he’d have used his whip on me if there weren’t police and sabs around. Ban it.
December 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I had an entire hunt in my garden once and only just managed to save our own wire fox terrier. The hounds were completely out of control and when I gave the master of the hunt a piece of my mind I suspect he’d have used his whip on me if there weren’t police and sabs around. Ban it.
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There are country people who daren’t speak out about hunting. Those who do it are part of the land owning class who can cause you trouble. One of the minions during my run in with them said ‘We know where you live!’
The brainiac was standing in my drive at the time. Class eh? It never goes away
The brainiac was standing in my drive at the time. Class eh? It never goes away
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There are country people who daren’t speak out about hunting. Those who do it are part of the land owning class who can cause you trouble. One of the minions during my run in with them said ‘We know where you live!’
The brainiac was standing in my drive at the time. Class eh? It never goes away
The brainiac was standing in my drive at the time. Class eh? It never goes away
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The good news is I never see them near us these days for one simple reason: pretty much every land owner round here has sent them legal letters banning them from their fields. Shows how much they’re loathed.
December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The good news is I never see them near us these days for one simple reason: pretty much every land owner round here has sent them legal letters banning them from their fields. Shows how much they’re loathed.
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“The White House’s dead-eyed shark has monetised his presidency so well that he can pay whatever it costs to discredit institutions that may threaten him.” Stewart Lee this week on Trump and the BBC lawsuit.
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“The White House’s dead-eyed shark has monetised his presidency so well that he can pay whatever it costs to discredit institutions that may threaten him.” Stewart Lee this week on Trump and the BBC lawsuit.
Good.
Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned
Trail hunting sees a scent laid out for the hunt to follow rather than a real animal, and was introduced as a replacement for fox hunting, which was banned by Labour in 2004
www.mirror.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Good.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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🙌👑ALL HAIL👑🙌
December 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🙌👑ALL HAIL👑🙌
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Private Eye reveals Teesside Airport boss Phil Forster’s ties to a Miami firm eyeing land beside a debt-hit airport | Ray Casey
Teesside Airport and the property developers
Private Eye reveals Teesside Airport boss Phil Forster’s ties to a Miami firm eyeing land beside a debt-hit airport
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Private Eye reveals Teesside Airport boss Phil Forster’s ties to a Miami firm eyeing land beside a debt-hit airport | Ray Casey
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Take away from this morning's news?
People harming women: powerful, successful, cishet white men
People not harming women: immigrants, people of colour, trans women
But hey, we knew that
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
People harming women: powerful, successful, cishet white men
People not harming women: immigrants, people of colour, trans women
But hey, we knew that
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Take away from this morning's news?
People harming women: powerful, successful, cishet white men
People not harming women: immigrants, people of colour, trans women
But hey, we knew that
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
People harming women: powerful, successful, cishet white men
People not harming women: immigrants, people of colour, trans women
But hey, we knew that
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Radio 3 have just had the London Vegatable Orchestra on which means that Christmas is nearly here!
December 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Radio 3 have just had the London Vegatable Orchestra on which means that Christmas is nearly here!
Good.
Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
Exclusive: Ministers also expected to announce trail-hunting ban in sweeping changes to animal welfare law
Shooting hares in England will be banned for most of the year as part of sweeping changes to animal welfare law.
At the moment, it is legal to shoot the animals during their breeding season, with pregnant hares left to bleed out, and leverets – their young – often orphaned as a result. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Good.