Hercules Poirot
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Brundlehorse, Poison Popcorn, things, Shetland dweller. Gradually fucking off twitter
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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After threatening the International Criminal Court and doing nothing to uphold arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Attorney General Lord Hermer says:
"The United Kingdom is a resolute supporter of international law, accountability and the International Criminal Court."
"The United Kingdom is a resolute supporter of international law, accountability and the International Criminal Court."
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
After threatening the International Criminal Court and doing nothing to uphold arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Attorney General Lord Hermer says:
"The United Kingdom is a resolute supporter of international law, accountability and the International Criminal Court."
"The United Kingdom is a resolute supporter of international law, accountability and the International Criminal Court."
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And here we go again. Banks play casinos and the public get to pay the debts.
Ain't unregulated capitalism wonderful?
Ain't unregulated capitalism wonderful?
BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements.
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements Ahead of Review
The Bank of England has cut its estimate of how much capital the UK’s banking sector needs for the first time in a decade, and signaled a consultation that could free up extra lending and higher payou...
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
And here we go again. Banks play casinos and the public get to pay the debts.
Ain't unregulated capitalism wonderful?
Ain't unregulated capitalism wonderful?
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
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To say the entire press taking this utterly cynical, vexatious horseshit and ramping it up into national terror amounts to a big thumb on the scales of democracy significantly undersells just how serious this stuff is. It raises questions about whether we’re a democracy in any meaningful sense.
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
To say the entire press taking this utterly cynical, vexatious horseshit and ramping it up into national terror amounts to a big thumb on the scales of democracy significantly undersells just how serious this stuff is. It raises questions about whether we’re a democracy in any meaningful sense.
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Like, it was very obvious it was a heavily choreographed campaign of bullshit and shenanigans, but even I assumed it was *at least somewhat organic* and not just the country’s most tiresome reactionary crackpots meeting up offscreen and agreeing to all scream the same drivel in unison.
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Like, it was very obvious it was a heavily choreographed campaign of bullshit and shenanigans, but even I assumed it was *at least somewhat organic* and not just the country’s most tiresome reactionary crackpots meeting up offscreen and agreeing to all scream the same drivel in unison.
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The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
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It took a two year campaign of digital deep mining, bullshit and screeching to convince the public Old Jezza had a racism issue. This government is straight out wearing black in front of a billowing sixty-foot Union flag like Norsefire, promising to fuck up the migrants. These things are different.
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It took a two year campaign of digital deep mining, bullshit and screeching to convince the public Old Jezza had a racism issue. This government is straight out wearing black in front of a billowing sixty-foot Union flag like Norsefire, promising to fuck up the migrants. These things are different.
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These things would be equivalent if Old Jezza had made the acceptability of big nose caricatures the core of his appeal to the electorate. They are not even slightly comparable if he didn’t do that, and it is IMO impossible to miss this unless you are determined to miss it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
These things would be equivalent if Old Jezza had made the acceptability of big nose caricatures the core of his appeal to the electorate. They are not even slightly comparable if he didn’t do that, and it is IMO impossible to miss this unless you are determined to miss it.
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I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.
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This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
Danish Social democrats suffered a massive defeat in Copenhagen last night. They incurred similar defeats across the country and there will be a general election in the next year. In Copenhagen the far-left Enhedslisten (the unity list) won the most mandates followed by the socialist people's party.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
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For those who asked for a breakdown of what it all means:
Panama Papers (2016) – A huge set of leaked documents (about 11 million files) from the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama.
Panama Papers (2016) – A huge set of leaked documents (about 11 million files) from the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama.
In the months leading up to his murder, Khashoggi was reportedly researching a story that linked senior Saudi officials—including members of the royal family—to offshore accounts revealed in the Panama Papers.
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
For those who asked for a breakdown of what it all means:
Panama Papers (2016) – A huge set of leaked documents (about 11 million files) from the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama.
Panama Papers (2016) – A huge set of leaked documents (about 11 million files) from the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama.
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This story about a Reform councillor in Northumberland has about three different massive stories in it.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
Blyth Reform councillor Barry Elliott's property firms owe customers £140,000
Property companies owned or run by Barry Elliott owe tens of thousands of pounds to customers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This story about a Reform councillor in Northumberland has about three different massive stories in it.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
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Highliting this as there will be more and more 'concerned Labour MPs' pretending to be against Starmer.
It's self-preservation, pure and simple. Anyone running in a progressive constituency is scared of being Thangum Debonaire'd and need to rebrand as members of an imagianary Labour Left.
It's self-preservation, pure and simple. Anyone running in a progressive constituency is scared of being Thangum Debonaire'd and need to rebrand as members of an imagianary Labour Left.
For anyone wondering why there was a sly pop at Green during a question about Starmer's far-right policies.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Highliting this as there will be more and more 'concerned Labour MPs' pretending to be against Starmer.
It's self-preservation, pure and simple. Anyone running in a progressive constituency is scared of being Thangum Debonaire'd and need to rebrand as members of an imagianary Labour Left.
It's self-preservation, pure and simple. Anyone running in a progressive constituency is scared of being Thangum Debonaire'd and need to rebrand as members of an imagianary Labour Left.
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What was I saying two years ago? I said: there is no plan here, they think they’ll win then everyone will be so happy at being governed by them that the economy will boom. Because that’s what happened last time, isn’t it. That’s what all the chat about the imminent sunny optimism and Good Vibes was.
Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank
Keir Starmer accused of failing to adequately strategise while in opposition, leading to uncoordinated policymaking
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
What was I saying two years ago? I said: there is no plan here, they think they’ll win then everyone will be so happy at being governed by them that the economy will boom. Because that’s what happened last time, isn’t it. That’s what all the chat about the imminent sunny optimism and Good Vibes was.
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June: ‘We’re an island of strangers’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
June: ‘We’re an island of strangers’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’
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The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
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Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
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