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Centrist dad.
Liberal snowflake.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”

I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Andrew does still have a title.
Clue: it’s pretty close to mine.
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This, btw, is what ICE operating in US communities looks like.

This is what Kemi Badenoch wants for the UK.

Every single journalist and media outlet in the UK should play this clip to Badenoch and ask her why she wants this for the UK on our streets.

bsky.app/profile/lord...
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN
A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.
www.cnn.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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People are too blind to realise
They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, paid holiday and sick leave.

It would make them tens of billions a year.

But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
September 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Asked by Newsweek whether she thought Tommy Robinson had been "unfairly demonised", Liz Truss says: “Yes, I do.” A Conservative Party serious about ever regaining power would have slung her out long ago.

www.newsweek.com/liz-truss-br...
Liz Truss: Britain faces its MAGA moment
Speaking to Newsweek, Truss is back, with a radical new message for a British right which could be on the cusp of transforming Britain.
www.newsweek.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker
Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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When I got the coroner report along with my funeral referral I was shocked at the litany of indifference and failures that pushed this man towards taking his life. Now that the inquest has finished, others can finally read about it too.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
‘My father came to the UK to find safety – but he died alone in an asylum hotel’
Victor Hugo Pereira Vargas killed himself in his hotel room at a Home Office asylum hotel in October 2023
www.independent.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The secret of comedy is timing. The best time to use comedy against autocrats is when they’re trying to suppress it. Mock these nazi ghouls relentlessly. They hate it, and it might be the only fun we get for a while.
September 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Is a Times sub deploying clumsy typography to signal what they really think of the story?
September 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Find your Woodhams name by taking the first name of a beloved SitCom character, your favourite music & memorable Bond villain.

Mine is Hyacinth Funk Goldfinger
Times births column today
September 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Face to fox ! Thank you @Em_Evergreen for today's #FoxOfTheDay
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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That slippery slope to authoritarian rule America where the Govt decides what jokes on TV are allowed.
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Bucks Fizz have let themself go.
September 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists 

But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.
Kemi Badenoch refusing to acknowledge that Tommy Robinson is "far-right", now on LBC, and refusing to condemn Elon Musk's words. In fact she says what Musk said *isn't* incitement. So what would be incitement then? How violent would his words have to be before he was deemed a threat to this country?
September 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM