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.)
All this calls for a really cutting use of “self-styled” to be inserted somewhere.
This is how the BBC is reporting Matt Goodwin's selection as Reform's candidate in Gorton and Denton.
He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.
He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
All this calls for a really cutting use of “self-styled” to be inserted somewhere.
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This is who Reform are putting up to represent a parliamentary seat in one of Europe's most diverse major cities
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
This is who Reform are putting up to represent a parliamentary seat in one of Europe's most diverse major cities
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Do you think maybe now he will be described on TV shows as a political activist for Reform rather than a neutral "academic"?
NEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
January 27, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Do you think maybe now he will be described on TV shows as a political activist for Reform rather than a neutral "academic"?
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Just what Manchester needs in an MP. A racist from Hertfordshire.
NEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Just what Manchester needs in an MP. A racist from Hertfordshire.
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Roses are red
A dog is for life
A dog is for life
January 27, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Roses are red
A dog is for life
A dog is for life
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
“Oh but I feel so safe in it and when you’ve got kids that’s important”. OH FUCK OFF.
Dangerous, grotesque and unnecessary. Get them out of our cities and towns. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:04 PM
“Oh but I feel so safe in it and when you’ve got kids that’s important”. OH FUCK OFF.
I would say “Don’t give up the day job”, but actually, go ahead.
Keir Starmer makes fun of Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses at comedy show
Keir Starmer makes fun of Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses at comedy show
Keir Starmer makes fun of Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses at comedy show
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I would say “Don’t give up the day job”, but actually, go ahead.
No matter what you think of his obvious bias, Mason is just a terrible journalist and can’t write for toffee. This is the least important “recurring question” of Farage.
In fact it’s a revised feature, not just concentrating on how exciting it all is, featuring this stunning prose
January 27, 2026 at 7:24 AM
No matter what you think of his obvious bias, Mason is just a terrible journalist and can’t write for toffee. This is the least important “recurring question” of Farage.
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This sucks
These should be taxed to oblivion
These should be taxed to oblivion
Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows
Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
The number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads has almost doubled in the past 10 years, data shows.
The vehicles are more environmentally damaging than ordinary cars, and more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. Campaigners have said the extra-large vehicles, which are often too big for UK streets and parking spaces, are built like “battering rams”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 AM
This sucks
These should be taxed to oblivion
These should be taxed to oblivion
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I think what’s fascinating about this is how well it demonstrates that you can take over the free world but still be literally unable, even when you burn millions on trying, to be even slightly culturally relevant in a positive sense outside your bubble. Not EVEN the Reform weirdos bothering here.
UK cinemas being paid to play Amazon's pro-Trump propaganda film to near empty rooms
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
January 27, 2026 at 7:13 AM
I think what’s fascinating about this is how well it demonstrates that you can take over the free world but still be literally unable, even when you burn millions on trying, to be even slightly culturally relevant in a positive sense outside your bubble. Not EVEN the Reform weirdos bothering here.
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Incredible to think that John Craven has been on television for *half of television*.
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Incredible to think that John Craven has been on television for *half of television*.
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a proper, grown-up media would have taken Farage apart some time ago for all that surrounds him, not swoon over his latest regression project
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
a proper, grown-up media would have taken Farage apart some time ago for all that surrounds him, not swoon over his latest regression project
I wouldn’t open with it.
January 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I wouldn’t open with it.
For when the Lib Dems are somehow still too dangerously radical for you.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM
For when the Lib Dems are somehow still too dangerously radical for you.
“Come here, you lucky, lucky lady.”
January 26, 2026 at 4:16 PM
“Come here, you lucky, lucky lady.”
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One of those statements that suddenly becomes a draft when people start criticising it.
They've now sent out a new version of the statement with the mental health part deleted...
"A draft version of our response to the Suella Braverman defection was sent out in error earlier. With apologies, please find the correct final statement below"
"A draft version of our response to the Suella Braverman defection was sent out in error earlier. With apologies, please find the correct final statement below"
January 26, 2026 at 4:05 PM
One of those statements that suddenly becomes a draft when people start criticising it.
Snooker time in Berlin.
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Snooker time in Berlin.
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"One of our most unpopular Home Secretaries has resigned and joined our opponents."
"Excellent, put out a statement calling her mad."
"What?"
"Be very, very clear that we tried to help her with her mental health, but we will now publicise them to score points."
"Kemi.."
"Those. Exact. Words."
"Excellent, put out a statement calling her mad."
"What?"
"Be very, very clear that we tried to help her with her mental health, but we will now publicise them to score points."
"Kemi.."
"Those. Exact. Words."
January 26, 2026 at 1:58 PM
"One of our most unpopular Home Secretaries has resigned and joined our opponents."
"Excellent, put out a statement calling her mad."
"What?"
"Be very, very clear that we tried to help her with her mental health, but we will now publicise them to score points."
"Kemi.."
"Those. Exact. Words."
"Excellent, put out a statement calling her mad."
"What?"
"Be very, very clear that we tried to help her with her mental health, but we will now publicise them to score points."
"Kemi.."
"Those. Exact. Words."
Kemi Badenoch.
Who currently is the person you'd most expect to defect from the Conservatives to Reform who hasn't?
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Kemi Badenoch.
This is a great shame for those of us hoping Reform would be a beacon for a fresh, new type of racism. Instead it’s just the same tired old racists as before.
Suella Braverman becomes latest Tory MP to defect to Reform UK ft.trib.al/3J7EaHl
Suella Braverman becomes latest Tory MP to defect to Reform UK
Former Conservative home secretary announced move at rally for military veterans
ft.trib.al
January 26, 2026 at 12:46 PM
This is a great shame for those of us hoping Reform would be a beacon for a fresh, new type of racism. Instead it’s just the same tired old racists as before.
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Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit
January 26, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit