General Boles
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Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
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Watched the Blair docs. Here's the quote – from Cherie – that has stayed with me:
“He is an amazing politician. As a husband and as a human being, that’s a different matter. But that’s really between me and him.”
What does she *mean*?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
“He is an amazing politician. As a husband and as a human being, that’s a different matter. But that’s really between me and him.”
What does she *mean*?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
Tony Blair’s never-ending legacy tour
A new documentary reminds us of what a consummate politician he was - and how much his achievements are tarnished by Iraq
www.thenewworld.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Watched the Blair docs. Here's the quote – from Cherie – that has stayed with me:
“He is an amazing politician. As a husband and as a human being, that’s a different matter. But that’s really between me and him.”
What does she *mean*?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
“He is an amazing politician. As a husband and as a human being, that’s a different matter. But that’s really between me and him.”
What does she *mean*?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
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ahhhh my mate helped organise some of the Chinese gigs in that piece, totally fascinating, they explained that if you're the sort of band that's only going to be loved by 0.001% of the public but you apply that to a country of 1bn people then suddenly you've gone from the Brudenell to concert halls.
February 17, 2026 at 10:42 AM
ahhhh my mate helped organise some of the Chinese gigs in that piece, totally fascinating, they explained that if you're the sort of band that's only going to be loved by 0.001% of the public but you apply that to a country of 1bn people then suddenly you've gone from the Brudenell to concert halls.
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Gonna request Church House provide this decor for #Synod next time
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 10:41 AM
Gonna request Church House provide this decor for #Synod next time
I want to make a joke about us exporting our landfill for other countries to deal with but I fear only 3 people would get it. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
‘It’s a nice surprise to be treated like kings!’ Why are mid-level British indie bands massive in China?
My group, Swim Deep, plays to crowds of hundreds across the UK – but in China, we play to tens of thousands. And we’re not the only ones
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I want to make a joke about us exporting our landfill for other countries to deal with but I fear only 3 people would get it. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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I am, once again, reposting my only Wuthering Heights shitepost to cash in on all that sweet, sweet hate-watch brouhahattention.
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Heathcliff, it's me, clean energy
For your home, it's so cold
Triple-glaze your window
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Heathcliff, it's me, clean energy
For your home, it's so cold
Triple-glaze your window
🎶
February 17, 2026 at 9:54 AM
I am, once again, reposting my only Wuthering Heights shitepost to cash in on all that sweet, sweet hate-watch brouhahattention.
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#RecipeOfTheDay is, as it must be on Pancake Day, obviously enough, pancakes and, specifically, crêpes. These are the pancakes of my childhood and, furthermore, I have to eat them with just sugar and lemon juice. But that’s me: you go as wild as you want! www.nigella.com/recipes/crepes
Crepes
Although thick, fluffy American pancakes seem to predominate in my house, I couldn't let Pancake Day pass without making a batch of these: it would seem a sin against tradition, nature and greed. They...
www.nigella.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is, as it must be on Pancake Day, obviously enough, pancakes and, specifically, crêpes. These are the pancakes of my childhood and, furthermore, I have to eat them with just sugar and lemon juice. But that’s me: you go as wild as you want! www.nigella.com/recipes/crepes
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar... @nbcnews.com
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar... @nbcnews.com
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Beef stock?
Is that like investing in gold bouillon?
Is that like investing in gold bouillon?
February 17, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Beef stock?
Is that like investing in gold bouillon?
Is that like investing in gold bouillon?
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Church historians now believe that St Pancake was not actually martyred by being flattened by a series of increasingly heavy weights, but rather was burnt alive in a giant pan. The former death is now attributed to Pseudo-Pancake the Areopagite, as attested in the Codex Libum of Nicomedia.
February 17, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Church historians now believe that St Pancake was not actually martyred by being flattened by a series of increasingly heavy weights, but rather was burnt alive in a giant pan. The former death is now attributed to Pseudo-Pancake the Areopagite, as attested in the Codex Libum of Nicomedia.
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More essential castle journalism from me – featuring Raby Castle and Lord Barnard’s array of spare rooms containing cupboards of OE ties still covered in food, broken kettles, loos and computers and another full of generations of horsehair mattresses... bonkers
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/40fd676...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/40fd676...
‘We have a whole room filled with broken loos’: The reality of running a castle
As comedian Alan Carr reveals plans to buy his own castle, we spoke to owners about the pros and cons of living in one
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 9:31 AM
More essential castle journalism from me – featuring Raby Castle and Lord Barnard’s array of spare rooms containing cupboards of OE ties still covered in food, broken kettles, loos and computers and another full of generations of horsehair mattresses... bonkers
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/40fd676...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/40fd676...
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The Danes would like a word about a few centuries of casting for the role of Hamlet
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw?
Wuthering Heights is inseparable from its landscape – but northern actors seldom get the lead role, instead are pigeonholed as stereotypical or supporting characters. This Bradford-born actor objects
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:26 AM
The Danes would like a word about a few centuries of casting for the role of Hamlet
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Now I'm not a fancy psephologist from the big city but it occurs to me that recruiting MPs from a party that's as popular as smallpox might not be the key to electoral success.
February 17, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Now I'm not a fancy psephologist from the big city but it occurs to me that recruiting MPs from a party that's as popular as smallpox might not be the key to electoral success.
That's it, I'm calling the peak, sell everything 📉 www.ft.com/content/4252...
Japan’s largest toilet maker is undervalued AI play, says activist investor
Toto should invest more in its sideline in the chip supply chain, Palliser urges
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:17 AM
That's it, I'm calling the peak, sell everything 📉 www.ft.com/content/4252...
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"The Green Party has a habit of supporting things in principle and opposing them in practice. It wants environmentally friendly transport, then opposes HS2. It wants clean energy, but opposes wind farms locally. It supports affordable housing, but opposes almost every building project it sees."
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Green councillors are making North London housing even more expensive
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February 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
"The Green Party has a habit of supporting things in principle and opposing them in practice. It wants environmentally friendly transport, then opposes HS2. It wants clean energy, but opposes wind farms locally. It supports affordable housing, but opposes almost every building project it sees."
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"A 25th anniversary 4K restoration of A Knight’s Tale opens in UK cinemas on 20 February." Oh God, book me in, it's not like I've done enough sobbing in the cinema this year. 😂
February 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
"A 25th anniversary 4K restoration of A Knight’s Tale opens in UK cinemas on 20 February." Oh God, book me in, it's not like I've done enough sobbing in the cinema this year. 😂
GUYS!!! WE'RE ON RADIO 2!!! WE MADE IT
February 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
GUYS!!! WE'RE ON RADIO 2!!! WE MADE IT
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the comments = that escalated quickly
February 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
the comments = that escalated quickly
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It is so perfect, apart from the heroine is horrible so the romance doesn’t work. I wish he would bin her off and get with the hot lady blacksmith. But the rest of it is spectacular. Including the arse shot
February 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
It is so perfect, apart from the heroine is horrible so the romance doesn’t work. I wish he would bin her off and get with the hot lady blacksmith. But the rest of it is spectacular. Including the arse shot
I love this film so much and not just because of the gratuitous Paul Bettany arse shot www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
‘Heath Ledger knocked my tooth out jousting with a broom’: how we made A Knight’s Tale
‘The lances were made of balsa wood and filled with uncooked spaghetti – so that when they broke, there’d be an explosion of what looked like splinters’
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I love this film so much and not just because of the gratuitous Paul Bettany arse shot www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
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Matt Goodwin is currently running in a seat that is 43% non-white and three months ago shared a platform with a man who doesn't consider those people to be British.
This looks like one of those posters for a tour by one hit wonder bands from several decades ago, where a session musician who played on the B-side has the performance rights.
February 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Matt Goodwin is currently running in a seat that is 43% non-white and three months ago shared a platform with a man who doesn't consider those people to be British.
How did they get planning permission for the slope?
When ski jumping came to Hampstead Heath — in pictures
When ski jumping came to Hampstead Heath — in pictures
www.thetimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
How did they get planning permission for the slope?