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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 10m

I've just realised how cynical that might sound to a Zack supporter but....

La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 15m

Yes. Though if the MSM attack him and not the gvt they may be doing us a favour. Also he can open some doors about dodgy rw goings on so people are aware without the gvt alienating people who don't need alienating . So therefore useful.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2h

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

Daniel Hannan

Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside

The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave.

Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law.

I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution.

The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 1d

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Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 1h

More of this,please

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags - BBC News

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.com

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 1h

Jo - please.....

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 2h

Gordon Brown gave a chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children

The former Prime Minister slatedat the cruel cuts pledged by Ref UK and explained that they would be the equivalent of shutting down the NHS while closing schools.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Gordon Brown’s chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children

The former Prime Minister hit out at the cruel cuts pledged by Reform UK and explained this would be the equivalent of shutting down the NHS while closing schools

www.mirror.co.uk

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Tracey @2300.bsky.social · 2h

But how can they improve them when there is a msm brick wall stifling every positive achievement?
If there were a party political broadcast every week people would just switch off. They can scroll past the many posts on social media. They are fed soundbite crumbs on TV. Newspapers are RW propaganda

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 1h

Which unfinished novel do I finish first... 🙃🤣?

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yes...the unfinished jumper, the half done patchwork, not just novels... glad it's not just me!

La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 2h

#NovelWriting people - what do you do when you find a chunk of half finished novel in a file you'd forgotten about, so you read it and think wow!! wtaf was that - and why tf didn't I finish it....? Am I going to have to do something with this now? Help!

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3h

BULLCALF
O Lord, sir, I am a diseas’d man.

FALSTAFF
What disease hast thou?

BULLCALF
A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 3h

Calls for transparency on political funding after first crypto donation made to UK party trib.al/nim2EPT

Calls for transparency on political funding after first c...

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is understood to have been handed to Reform UK

trib.al

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Naz Shah MP @nazshahbfd.bsky.social · 3h

If you try to stir up racial hatred and spread your poisonous worldview through misinformation, you deserve to be called out.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 8h

I suspect Labour's plan to #RejoinEU is to
🇪🇺 prepare the electorate for change
🇪🇺 avoid giving Reform the debate it wants
🇪🇺 rebuild relationships with EU Leaders who will ultimately decide
🇪🇺 go for it in a second term Labour Government

All four [and more] are necessary.
🇪🇺🙂

Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 11h

Starmer blaming #Brexit for tax rises may be accurate but when only 37% of a now disproportionately dead electorate voted for it almost 10 yrs ago, based on undeliverable lies, the questions are why should the rest of us stomach it & where is Labour’s plan to change that? archive.ph/2025.10.10-2...

archive.ph

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 5h

Yusuf in September: “People in the senior leadership team have never really heard of Gill.”
Farage now: “I’ve known Gill for 20 years.”
How many of Reform UK’s Kremlin rats have taken terrorist-state Russian bribery? #ukpolitics

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

"Eye-catching..." is kinda how much of the West has ended up in this clown car hurtling towards authoritarianism. I think it's time to acknowledge that.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3d

Strong speech from Badenoch. Well delivered. Sharp critique of government. Focussed on politically fertile territory on the economy. Eye catching policy which will get a lot of v positive press attention.

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 5h

Monica's back! 😀
And still on the good side!
🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 4h

Ratrapper is a wonderful verb! "Ne rattrappe guere" from "Dis, quand reviendras-tu" is a favourite song line ever ....

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 4h

I like the idea of a fridge that reminds you. As someone who is having to contemplate having hearing aids, - and who religiously checks fridges and freezers (and taps) for misbehaviour - it may be possible to develop a fool proof system. 🙃🙃

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AnEasierAffair @aneasieraffair.bsky.social · 10h

We hear a lot from Farage about crime and immigrants but not enough about crime against refugees. This is shocking

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alfie Franco jailed for 23 years for murder of Syrian refugee

The 20-year-old has been sentenced for the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old in Huddersfield.

www.bbc.co.uk

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 4h

Ok, that's interesting to know.

La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 5h

Are the domestic problems caused by a hostile press or by unpleasant factions at home beating him up? Or both ? My worry is that Keir Starmer is developing a similar profile over here...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12h

The Reform UK Councils that are considering raising Council tax (one even by 10%):

Kent
Durham
West Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
Leicestershire
Worcestershire
Staffordshire
Lincolnshire

TBC:
Derbyshire
Lancashire

Eight Reform UK councils likely to raise tax next year

Despite Nigel Farage’s promises to cut waste and ‘save a lot of money’, senior officials have now admitted they will likely have to resort to tax rises

www.thetimes.com

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