An Elegant Chaos
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Was I forced into this or was it given to me?
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I really think we should call elder trees 'they', unless we definitely know their biological gender. Since some trees produce both fruits and seeds, 'they' is both clearer and less anthropocentric.
The Bourton Oak, Bourton-on-the-water, England
We just whispered that he was 400+ years old. He seemed surprised
We just whispered that he was 400+ years old. He seemed surprised
December 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I really think we should call elder trees 'they', unless we definitely know their biological gender. Since some trees produce both fruits and seeds, 'they' is both clearer and less anthropocentric.
Normal in Kuennsberg land
Kinda wild that Laura Kuenssberg pulled together an all-transphobe panel: the vile Shabana Mahmood, the shameless Chris Philip, and the toxic Mary-Ann Stephenson.
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Normal in Kuennsberg land
Between the cunts, the bigots, the spineless lickspittles and those whose “services rendered” will now be outed, all hail this periodic demonstration of all that’s wrong with British politics.
Heffer's a cunt too.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Between the cunts, the bigots, the spineless lickspittles and those whose “services rendered” will now be outed, all hail this periodic demonstration of all that’s wrong with British politics.
You can tell what sort of year it’s been when Hedgefund & Son announce reunion gigs to inflict their nauseating gammon faux-folk on the great unwashed
December 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
You can tell what sort of year it’s been when Hedgefund & Son announce reunion gigs to inflict their nauseating gammon faux-folk on the great unwashed
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Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Amazing deflection. At no point did he say “no”
‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Amazing deflection. At no point did he say “no”
Now’s probably a good time to remind the world that the denials don’t stretch to Farage’s racism and pro-Russian talking points in the UKIP era and now. And time to share this interview with Alan Sked www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Now’s probably a good time to remind the world that the denials don’t stretch to Farage’s racism and pro-Russian talking points in the UKIP era and now. And time to share this interview with Alan Sked www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Want to know why everything’s fucked?
Same reason we’ve been saying for the last 10 years. Never forget.
Same reason we’ve been saying for the last 10 years. Never forget.
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Want to know why everything’s fucked?
Same reason we’ve been saying for the last 10 years. Never forget.
Same reason we’ve been saying for the last 10 years. Never forget.
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Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.
Been waiting to hear this for approximately 37 years….
Phloen Phromdaen - Klua Duang [Thailand, Luk Thung] – Thai folk song later appropriated by the Butthole Surfers for the 1987 track ‘Kuntz’
https://redd.it/b110f7
https://youtu.be/u-tqI0D1CAU
https://redd.it/b110f7
https://youtu.be/u-tqI0D1CAU
Phloen Phromdaen - Klua Duang [Thailand, Luk Thung] – Thai folk song later appropriated by the Butthole Surfers for the 1987 track ‘Kuntz’
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Been waiting to hear this for approximately 37 years….
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Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I am also disappointed to hear that the EHRC guidance has been delayed by a year, when it should have been thrown in a bin and set on fire.
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I am also disappointed to hear that the EHRC guidance has been delayed by a year, when it should have been thrown in a bin and set on fire.
Roky Erickson - Creature with the Atom Brain 1980
YouTube video by CherieO
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Except it’s missing Haverfordeast….
Edward Phillips posters have produced 'Mileage Chart' - a map taking in over 200 UK and Irish locations mentioned in #HMHB songs, including a key to which album each appear on. Methodical. www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Except it’s missing Haverfordeast….
At last, something vaguely sane is written about this shitshow.
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
At last, something vaguely sane is written about this shitshow.
Monday ambience
October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Monday ambience
Local Airbnb host goes for planning
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Local Airbnb host goes for planning
Can’t be unseen.
And for that reason, can be shared: widely.
And for that reason, can be shared: widely.
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Can’t be unseen.
And for that reason, can be shared: widely.
And for that reason, can be shared: widely.
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If Starmer wants to ban inflammatory chants I suggest he start with ‘Vote Labour’
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If Starmer wants to ban inflammatory chants I suggest he start with ‘Vote Labour’
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BREAKING: Shabana Mahmoud has clarified that British people are allowed to protest as long as they don't protest too often, their protests aren't seen by anyone, and they are completely ineffective. Anything else is un-British and basically terrorism x
October 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmoud has clarified that British people are allowed to protest as long as they don't protest too often, their protests aren't seen by anyone, and they are completely ineffective. Anything else is un-British and basically terrorism x
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I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”
The not-quite-correction is really funny. “A lot” rather than “a majority”.
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”
Never mind engaging with constituents, here’s the latest pearl of wisdom from possibly Britain’s most irrelevant MP.
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Never mind engaging with constituents, here’s the latest pearl of wisdom from possibly Britain’s most irrelevant MP.
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On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
benansell.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
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Woman who lives in a castle or on a yacht rants about "real life" 🤣
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”
J.K. Rowling Brands Emma Watson “Ignorant” in Lengthy Post Defending Anti-Trans Stance: “She Has So Little Experience of Real Life”
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Woman who lives in a castle or on a yacht rants about "real life" 🤣