Rootless Cosmopolitan
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books, films, music, politics, history. "this is a stupid conversation, and I'm not going to continue it".
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Trump doesn't want anyone to see this.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Trump doesn't want anyone to see this.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
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The UK goods deficit hit record high in 2025 (in values and volumes terms). This in part reflects the flatlining of goods exports over the last decade: "the volume of UK goods exports last year was still smaller than in 2014".
www.ft.com/content/870d...
www.ft.com/content/870d...
UK trade deficit for goods hits record high in 2025
Official figures show Britain also recorded historic services surplus
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The UK goods deficit hit record high in 2025 (in values and volumes terms). This in part reflects the flatlining of goods exports over the last decade: "the volume of UK goods exports last year was still smaller than in 2014".
www.ft.com/content/870d...
www.ft.com/content/870d...
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Has anyone asked Goodwin or Farage about this yet?
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Matt Goodwin’s Reform UK campaign manager said he ‘would never touch a Jewish woman’ - The Jewish Chronicle
Adam Mitula, who is canvassing for the party in Gorton and Denton, also tweeted that the six million who died in the Holocaust only included ‘some Jews’
www.thejc.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Has anyone asked Goodwin or Farage about this yet?
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
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Goodwin is employing a straight-up Holocaust denier.
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Goodwin is employing a straight-up Holocaust denier.
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Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism.
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
February 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism.
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
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If you loved the last conservative government this looks like the team for you
Reform’s new shadow cabinet team:
Leader: Nigel Farage
Chancellor: Robert Jenrick
Home: Zia Yusuf
Business, Trade & Energy: Richard Tice
Education & Skills: Suella Braverman
Chief Whip: Lee Anderson
Leader: Nigel Farage
Chancellor: Robert Jenrick
Home: Zia Yusuf
Business, Trade & Energy: Richard Tice
Education & Skills: Suella Braverman
Chief Whip: Lee Anderson
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 AM
If you loved the last conservative government this looks like the team for you
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We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.
February 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.
Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.
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Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
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Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
February 17, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
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Anyone who votes for these awful, grifting, reprehensible cunts is either racist or thick as shit. If you say, ‘I’m so disappointed in Labour that I’m supporting Reform,’ what you actually mean is ‘I’m a demented bigot’ or ‘I’m fucking stupid’.
Reform’s new shadow cabinet team:
Leader: Nigel Farage
Chancellor: Robert Jenrick
Home: Zia Yusuf
Business, Trade & Energy: Richard Tice
Education & Skills: Suella Braverman
Chief Whip: Lee Anderson
Leader: Nigel Farage
Chancellor: Robert Jenrick
Home: Zia Yusuf
Business, Trade & Energy: Richard Tice
Education & Skills: Suella Braverman
Chief Whip: Lee Anderson
February 17, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Anyone who votes for these awful, grifting, reprehensible cunts is either racist or thick as shit. If you say, ‘I’m so disappointed in Labour that I’m supporting Reform,’ what you actually mean is ‘I’m a demented bigot’ or ‘I’m fucking stupid’.
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Just gave a talk to a group of sixth formers from a state school in Shropshire. Many questions asked, along the lines of: will the UK rejoin? How can I work for the EU? etc. These young people had their future stolen from them by Brexit, and they want that future back. 💪
February 17, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Just gave a talk to a group of sixth formers from a state school in Shropshire. Many questions asked, along the lines of: will the UK rejoin? How can I work for the EU? etc. These young people had their future stolen from them by Brexit, and they want that future back. 💪
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The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...
I’m in Westminster where Nigel Farage is about to unveil his ‘shadow cabinet’ and the decor is slightly bonkers. Looks like he’s going to launch a Simon Cowell-era boyband instead.
February 17, 2026 at 10:39 AM
The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...
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This history of medicine: heroin, heroin, heroin, vaccines, heroin and cocaine, antibiotics, heroin, much stronger heroin.
February 17, 2026 at 11:16 AM
This history of medicine: heroin, heroin, heroin, vaccines, heroin and cocaine, antibiotics, heroin, much stronger heroin.
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Should the U.K. join the EU? A clear difference between people who want to move society forward, and those who wish to drag us backwards.
February 17, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Should the U.K. join the EU? A clear difference between people who want to move society forward, and those who wish to drag us backwards.
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Here's the UK age 16-24 unemployment rate compared to the European Union's unemployment rate (which is under age 25).
The UK's latest reading of 16.1% is now higher than the EU's most recent reading of 14.7% for the first time on record...
The UK's latest reading of 16.1% is now higher than the EU's most recent reading of 14.7% for the first time on record...
February 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Here's the UK age 16-24 unemployment rate compared to the European Union's unemployment rate (which is under age 25).
The UK's latest reading of 16.1% is now higher than the EU's most recent reading of 14.7% for the first time on record...
The UK's latest reading of 16.1% is now higher than the EU's most recent reading of 14.7% for the first time on record...
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Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.
YouGov Reform 24% (Reform + Cons 42% on the right) fits genereal pattern: Reform 2026 < Reform 2025.
Westminster Voting Intention:
REF: 24% (-3)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (=)
GRN: 17% (+1)
LDM: 13% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
OTH: 4% (+2)
Via @YouGov, On 15-16th February,
Changes w/ 8-9 February.
Westminster Voting Intention:
REF: 24% (-3)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (=)
GRN: 17% (+1)
LDM: 13% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
OTH: 4% (+2)
Via @YouGov, On 15-16th February,
Changes w/ 8-9 February.
February 17, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.
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Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born.
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
February 17, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born.
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
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'I would push an elderly lady out of a lifeboat, why won't pretty girls talk to me?'
-… then if you check table 6 it will tell you how many points you get for your age. Add those points to the ones from your Relatives-aboard cards and Family-elsewhere cards…
-Um, Eric, the water's getting pretty high.
-Then stop interrupting! Next, you'll need your dice and the saving throw chart.
-Um, Eric, the water's getting pretty high.
-Then stop interrupting! Next, you'll need your dice and the saving throw chart.
February 17, 2026 at 8:37 AM
'I would push an elderly lady out of a lifeboat, why won't pretty girls talk to me?'
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Reform's polling is ~the lowest its been since last year's local elections
February 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Reform's polling is ~the lowest its been since last year's local elections
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“…they don’t know why.”
It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.
It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.
February 17, 2026 at 8:41 AM
“…they don’t know why.”
It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.
It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.
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What does speeding up delays mean?
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM
What does speeding up delays mean?
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Painting by Nicole Parker
‘Are We Lost’
Oil on mounted linen.
Size 16 x 20 Inches.
nicole-parker-art.com
‘Are We Lost’
Oil on mounted linen.
Size 16 x 20 Inches.
nicole-parker-art.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Painting by Nicole Parker
‘Are We Lost’
Oil on mounted linen.
Size 16 x 20 Inches.
nicole-parker-art.com
‘Are We Lost’
Oil on mounted linen.
Size 16 x 20 Inches.
nicole-parker-art.com