Ben Dunnell
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Your mother’s in a care home and SHE’S BEEN DRUGGED? TO KEEP HER QUIET? FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE STAFF? (Personal account.)
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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Will we ever be able to tell if Nigel Farage has ever had contact with instruments of the Russian state? Impossible to know.
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Will we ever be able to tell if Nigel Farage has ever had contact with instruments of the Russian state? Impossible to know.
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The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
% who say each 2025 Budget policy was the 'right thing to do' (1/3)
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
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you call it diarrhoea I call it
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
you call it diarrhoea I call it
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They’ll have left a trail to follow
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
They’ll have left a trail to follow
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Difficult to square the fact that without the UKs independent (or in reality, very much not independent) nuclear deterrent, we would be a small player in even European defence - even more so now Germany is investing hundreds of billions in its manufacturing might for defence.
Btw I don't think it is good that UK voters and governments from both ex-main parties seem to care less and less about the effective practice of the military way rather than pantomime militarism.
But many need to stop kidding themselves about the state of UK defence politics
But many need to stop kidding themselves about the state of UK defence politics
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Difficult to square the fact that without the UKs independent (or in reality, very much not independent) nuclear deterrent, we would be a small player in even European defence - even more so now Germany is investing hundreds of billions in its manufacturing might for defence.
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VERY funny
A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
VERY funny
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
These people are, to use a technical term, fucking mad.
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
These people are, to use a technical term, fucking mad.
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It is fascinating how, of all the bigotries, transphobia does seem to be the one that means you never ever get to be normal again?
The man is beyond unhinged
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is fascinating how, of all the bigotries, transphobia does seem to be the one that means you never ever get to be normal again?
Labour MPs should be making exactly this case. Labour *ministers* should be making exactly this case. What are they for otherwise?
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Labour MPs should be making exactly this case. Labour *ministers* should be making exactly this case. What are they for otherwise?
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It needs saying over and over: this government is just so *insular*. At a time when Labour’s support is primarily made up of middle-class ‘Europeans’, it’s led by a tedious old bloke who’s anything but.
Abysmal, mindless, utterly zombified. You can't even call it policymaking because that implies a degree of thought which simply isn't present. Pretty soon they might actually hit Cameron's 'tens of thousands' target and then they'll shit themselves with horror at the consequences.
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It needs saying over and over: this government is just so *insular*. At a time when Labour’s support is primarily made up of middle-class ‘Europeans’, it’s led by a tedious old bloke who’s anything but.
There is a sense that Times readers are worse than Mail consumers in that they think they’re superior but really aren’t. I mean, one of its main columnists is a ping-pong player with ideas way above his station.
Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
There is a sense that Times readers are worse than Mail consumers in that they think they’re superior but really aren’t. I mean, one of its main columnists is a ping-pong player with ideas way above his station.
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There weren't any trains in the bible, dumb dumb
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There weren't any trains in the bible, dumb dumb
Anyone welcoming this is an idiot.
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Anyone welcoming this is an idiot.
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It's the "get everyone hooked on streaming so they don't own any music and have to keep streaming" model, but with cognitive atrophy.
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's the "get everyone hooked on streaming so they don't own any music and have to keep streaming" model, but with cognitive atrophy.
Disband BBC News and Current Affairs.
NEW: BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC News article & Media Show prevented from repeating Rutger Bregman’s corruption allegation in its coverage… of whether the BBC censored his speech!
BBC/Trump fallout continues
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC News article & Media Show prevented from repeating Rutger Bregman’s corruption allegation in its coverage… of whether the BBC censored his speech!
BBC/Trump fallout continues
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Disband BBC News and Current Affairs.
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This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
What a weird, *weird* framing to use about a Prime Minister with a massive majority. This is what governments are supposed to do!
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What a weird, *weird* framing to use about a Prime Minister with a massive majority. This is what governments are supposed to do!