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This is called right wing political bias…in favour of a right-wing corrupt president. So much for freedom of speech, and good on Bregman for blowing the whistle...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is called right wing political bias…in favour of a right-wing corrupt president. So much for freedom of speech, and good on Bregman for blowing the whistle...
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This is so embarrassing for the BBC. Journalists, MPs, public should be calling this out. We desperately need a strong, independent, ambitious BBC! Let this humiliating episode be the turning point
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is so embarrassing for the BBC. Journalists, MPs, public should be calling this out. We desperately need a strong, independent, ambitious BBC! Let this humiliating episode be the turning point
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Defenders of Israels war crimes often remind us that October 7 was the equivalent of twelve 9/11s, and that therefore, Israel had no other choice.
You never hear them do the math for Palestinians, who have now endured the equivalent of at least 2,500 9/11s.
You never hear them do the math for Palestinians, who have now endured the equivalent of at least 2,500 9/11s.
July 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Defenders of Israels war crimes often remind us that October 7 was the equivalent of twelve 9/11s, and that therefore, Israel had no other choice.
You never hear them do the math for Palestinians, who have now endured the equivalent of at least 2,500 9/11s.
You never hear them do the math for Palestinians, who have now endured the equivalent of at least 2,500 9/11s.
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My study day on 19th-Century Mental Health History is now booking: hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My study day on 19th-Century Mental Health History is now booking: hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
It’s at Highgate Lit & Sci on Sat 13 Dec, and among the contested diagnoses we’ll explore are: ‘moral insanity’, monomania, hysteria, melancholia, post-natal psychosis, ‘general paralysis of the insane’
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Don't think this is a silver bullet but we have to keep up exposing his rotten core keeping his defensive, he's not used to being called out so keep pushing making him look shifty and creepy
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Don't think this is a silver bullet but we have to keep up exposing his rotten core keeping his defensive, he's not used to being called out so keep pushing making him look shifty and creepy
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Also he always trades* on his background and upbringing and is happy to bathe in its kudos, so he can't conversely try to dodge his poisonous formative behaviour either.
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
When Farage was singing Fascist songs etc (in the mid 70's-80's) they weren't a click away or a few minutes on Google. He would have to seek them out and make an effort to learn the lyrics etc. This wasn't schoolyard bantz
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
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Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
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November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Also he always trades* on his background and upbringing and is happy to bathe in its kudos, so he can't conversely try to dodge his poisonous formative behaviour either.
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
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Just saw a collision of centuries on the streets of Florence: at night in the rain, a portly, bearded young monk in white robes stood on the sidewalk outside the door to the monastery of San Marco, awaiting what turned out to be a Glovo food delivery (the Florentine equivalent of DoorDash).
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just saw a collision of centuries on the streets of Florence: at night in the rain, a portly, bearded young monk in white robes stood on the sidewalk outside the door to the monastery of San Marco, awaiting what turned out to be a Glovo food delivery (the Florentine equivalent of DoorDash).
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I want him ( Johnson) to be arrested and charged. Anything else is a slap in the face for ordinary people.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I want him ( Johnson) to be arrested and charged. Anything else is a slap in the face for ordinary people.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
It will defy comprehension if nothing significant is done.
As for those who lost loved ones - I can’t even imagine how they must be feeling.
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And therein lies the rub: Robbie Gibb thinks he's 'impartial', when he just means everyone who thinks the same as he does. He should get out more. And preferably out of the BBC. It's been ruined by the Tories bending over for the far right.
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
And therein lies the rub: Robbie Gibb thinks he's 'impartial', when he just means everyone who thinks the same as he does. He should get out more. And preferably out of the BBC. It's been ruined by the Tories bending over for the far right.
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First sighting of a proof in the wild
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Very excited to get stuck into this @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social !
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— The Jan Carson Few and Far Between proof? Yeah I am.
Very excited to get stuck into this @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social !
@doubledayuk.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
First sighting of a proof in the wild
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Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Last five days of writing residency - do I prioritise writing like a demon or completing the enormously complicated jigsaw I started last weekend? (I think we all know the correct answer here)
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Last five days of writing residency - do I prioritise writing like a demon or completing the enormously complicated jigsaw I started last weekend? (I think we all know the correct answer here)
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Toxic masculinity will never resolve until we have universal basic income, free healthcare, and affordable housing. Men on average are too emotionally stunted to be reasoned with; capitalism wants them that way. Perhaps through meeting everyone's basic needs men can learn kindness.
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Toxic masculinity will never resolve until we have universal basic income, free healthcare, and affordable housing. Men on average are too emotionally stunted to be reasoned with; capitalism wants them that way. Perhaps through meeting everyone's basic needs men can learn kindness.
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Such a useful quantity the “drove”. How many entrepreneurs does it take to form a stampede? Don’t worry, you don’t have to say!
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
Entrepreneurs are leaving the UK in droves, minister admits
The business secretary says tax rises have led to an exodus of the wealthy but he claims others are attracted to Britain because of ‘excitement’ in the economy
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Such a useful quantity the “drove”. How many entrepreneurs does it take to form a stampede? Don’t worry, you don’t have to say!
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
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How to hide an Empire is an excellent book! Full of vital American history that you’ll likely never get in a classroom
December 11, 2024 at 9:10 PM
How to hide an Empire is an excellent book! Full of vital American history that you’ll likely never get in a classroom
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Feeling a bit Monday morning today. But then I saw this and cheered up. Clickbait advertising — a never-failing spring of comedy.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Feeling a bit Monday morning today. But then I saw this and cheered up. Clickbait advertising — a never-failing spring of comedy.
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Beating the November / Blues Fun in Greek Sun suggestion #2: hold an impromptu party and a wine bowl balancing competition. Cup by Douris, circa 490 BCE
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Beating the November / Blues Fun in Greek Sun suggestion #2: hold an impromptu party and a wine bowl balancing competition. Cup by Douris, circa 490 BCE
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Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
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Play Shuffalo: Monday, November 24, 2025
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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‘— Alors ç'a été comme une vraie illumination, tu vois, dit-elle au baron. On peut les tuer. Les gros cons, on peut les tuer. D'autre part je voulais de l'argent mais je n'avais pas envie de travailler.’ Brilliant. From Fatale by J.-P. Manchette
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
‘— Alors ç'a été comme une vraie illumination, tu vois, dit-elle au baron. On peut les tuer. Les gros cons, on peut les tuer. D'autre part je voulais de l'argent mais je n'avais pas envie de travailler.’ Brilliant. From Fatale by J.-P. Manchette
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Has the Archer’s editor been kidnapped by the Blackpool Tourist Board?
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Has the Archer’s editor been kidnapped by the Blackpool Tourist Board?
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A Paris le 4 décembre: www.mal217.org/fr/agenda/ph...
Les Grands entretiens de la Maison de l'Amérique latine - Maison de l'Amérique latine
Rencontre à l'occasion de la parution du livre de Philippe Sands 38, rue de Londres. De l'impunité, Pinochet et le nazi de Patagonie (Albin Michel).En compagnie de Bruno Patino, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A Paris le 4 décembre: www.mal217.org/fr/agenda/ph...
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"Mahmood is not a novelty, just an addition to the ranks of Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel & Rishi Sunak, who...used their identities to dictate what the correct immigration & race politics should be... Mahmood is just the first Labour politician to do so."
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November 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"Mahmood is not a novelty, just an addition to the ranks of Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel & Rishi Sunak, who...used their identities to dictate what the correct immigration & race politics should be... Mahmood is just the first Labour politician to do so."
| Nesrine Malik
| Nesrine Malik