Paul
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I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour.
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Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.
Reform MP Danny Kruger on pornstar/provocateur Bonnie Blue announcing her support for the party: "We’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue."
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
December 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.
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Reading this again (I have re-read it loads as I can barely believe any human would write it)
Aside from the narcissistic view that he presumes Rob Reiner was murdered for his views on Trump he goes on to refer to Reiner’s views as “crazy” but there’s no condemnation at all for the murderer!
Aside from the narcissistic view that he presumes Rob Reiner was murdered for his views on Trump he goes on to refer to Reiner’s views as “crazy” but there’s no condemnation at all for the murderer!
December 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reading this again (I have re-read it loads as I can barely believe any human would write it)
Aside from the narcissistic view that he presumes Rob Reiner was murdered for his views on Trump he goes on to refer to Reiner’s views as “crazy” but there’s no condemnation at all for the murderer!
Aside from the narcissistic view that he presumes Rob Reiner was murdered for his views on Trump he goes on to refer to Reiner’s views as “crazy” but there’s no condemnation at all for the murderer!
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Yeah my boss was so compassionate when I phoned into say that my mother in law was dying and my 25 year old nephew had died unexpectedly. Her exact words are ingrained on me -
But you will be in tomorrow won’t you?
But you will be in tomorrow won’t you?
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Yeah my boss was so compassionate when I phoned into say that my mother in law was dying and my 25 year old nephew had died unexpectedly. Her exact words are ingrained on me -
But you will be in tomorrow won’t you?
But you will be in tomorrow won’t you?
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners”
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners”
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
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How much more suffering are they expected to take?
And who can honestly keep ignoring this and think they are a good person?
And who can honestly keep ignoring this and think they are a good person?
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
How much more suffering are they expected to take?
And who can honestly keep ignoring this and think they are a good person?
And who can honestly keep ignoring this and think they are a good person?
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There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
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Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
Dark days.
Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Dark days.
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What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
@pimlicat.bsky.social: "Multiple studies show that ramping up ever-harsher rhetoric on immigration and asylum never wins over Reform-curious voters. The government would be wiser to make the case for the international institutions and protections we all depend on.”
https://bit.ly/49YBJVD
https://bit.ly/49YBJVD
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
Pathetic and risible. What a country. People shouting at flags and Labour desperately wanting to become Farage’s plaything.
So we probably won't take your wedding rings from you, but we might place you into indentured servitude
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Pathetic and risible. What a country. People shouting at flags and Labour desperately wanting to become Farage’s plaything.
Following Reform is so idiotic and a disaster for Labour I feel.
“On that point of reviewing people’s cases every two and a half years which is much more than they are now the Refugee council has done some sums and they’ve told us that would mean more than 60,000 people being reassessed..a bureaucratic nightmare”
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Following Reform is so idiotic and a disaster for Labour I feel.
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Watching a number of Labour supporters defend Mahmood and this government over their sickening anti-immigration/asylum rhetoric when they would have been hollering against it if it was the Tories or Reform saying it. It doesn't matter which party it is doing this, it should be condemned. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC
Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Watching a number of Labour supporters defend Mahmood and this government over their sickening anti-immigration/asylum rhetoric when they would have been hollering against it if it was the Tories or Reform saying it. It doesn't matter which party it is doing this, it should be condemned. 1/
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Very long-winded way of answering ‘Yes’ to that question.
Not sure how that sits then with Mahmood’s previous demands that refugees must integrate and contribute to their communities. Much harder to do that if you never know how long you can stay.
Depressing in its dull-witted cruelty.
Not sure how that sits then with Mahmood’s previous demands that refugees must integrate and contribute to their communities. Much harder to do that if you never know how long you can stay.
Depressing in its dull-witted cruelty.
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Very long-winded way of answering ‘Yes’ to that question.
Not sure how that sits then with Mahmood’s previous demands that refugees must integrate and contribute to their communities. Much harder to do that if you never know how long you can stay.
Depressing in its dull-witted cruelty.
Not sure how that sits then with Mahmood’s previous demands that refugees must integrate and contribute to their communities. Much harder to do that if you never know how long you can stay.
Depressing in its dull-witted cruelty.
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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Kuenssberg asks about a refugee who’s been here for 19 years, ie they’ve been granted asylum. Mahmood answers “we have to tackle illegal migration”
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Kuenssberg asks about a refugee who’s been here for 19 years, ie they’ve been granted asylum. Mahmood answers “we have to tackle illegal migration”
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.