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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Four. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Four - Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons
Art historian Dr Nina Ramirez reveals the codes and messages hidden in Anglo-Saxon art.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Four. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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Your reminder that the EU offered to freeze Brexit talks in 2020 so we could focus on Covid but Johnson said no. He then fucked up both: partying while 23,000 needlessly died & did a Brexit so shit the economic impact (-8% GDP) is worse than predictions he described as “the work of gloomsters”
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Your reminder that the EU offered to freeze Brexit talks in 2020 so we could focus on Covid but Johnson said no. He then fucked up both: partying while 23,000 needlessly died & did a Brexit so shit the economic impact (-8% GDP) is worse than predictions he described as “the work of gloomsters”
Lock him up
Johnson should be behind bars for mass murder.
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Lock him up
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Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
Tells you need to know about david cameron - no depth, no details, no effort, no originality
Cooking something that seems plausible, only to realise you haven't thought things through? My latest Recipe For Disaster is David Cameron's Porcine Pasta.
Recipes for disaster: David Cameron's porcine pasta
Politicians making a meal of it. This week: David Cameron's porcine pasta
www.politicshome.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Tells you need to know about david cameron - no depth, no details, no effort, no originality
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The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
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"what began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president, that is at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants" www.economist.com/interactive/...
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
Immigration agents are operating in cities with few legal constraints
www.economist.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"what began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president, that is at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants" www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Keir Starmer on Katie Lam and her migration views: "“I can’t tell you how much I disagree with her." Some fairly strong comments to ITV.
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Keir Starmer on Katie Lam and her migration views: "“I can’t tell you how much I disagree with her." Some fairly strong comments to ITV.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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September 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte:
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte:
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
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Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?
October 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
October 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
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ok so you go after black mayors and the only black member of the fed
And you send troops into majority black cities
And you try and stop blacks voting
Jim Crow would be proud
RAcism knows no bounds in Trump's America
And you send troops into majority black cities
And you try and stop blacks voting
Jim Crow would be proud
RAcism knows no bounds in Trump's America
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ok so you go after black mayors and the only black member of the fed
And you send troops into majority black cities
And you try and stop blacks voting
Jim Crow would be proud
RAcism knows no bounds in Trump's America
And you send troops into majority black cities
And you try and stop blacks voting
Jim Crow would be proud
RAcism knows no bounds in Trump's America
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Berlin in February 1989: A school history trip. If you had told us that the wall would fall in 9 months, we'd have laughed in your face. Nothing is permanent.
August 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Berlin in February 1989: A school history trip. If you had told us that the wall would fall in 9 months, we'd have laughed in your face. Nothing is permanent.
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Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
August 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
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Nigel Farage posts a video from 2015 in Greece and claims it is the UK today. What more proof is needed that this lying, grifting sack of shit will do anything to incite hatred and division?
August 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Nigel Farage posts a video from 2015 in Greece and claims it is the UK today. What more proof is needed that this lying, grifting sack of shit will do anything to incite hatred and division?
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The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
August 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
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35 years ago today, the official demolition of the Berlin wall began in several places, such as Bernauer Straße.
Later that month, the dismantling of all border security facilities in the inner city was agreed, except for some that were to be preserved as historic monuments.
Later that month, the dismantling of all border security facilities in the inner city was agreed, except for some that were to be preserved as historic monuments.
June 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
35 years ago today, the official demolition of the Berlin wall began in several places, such as Bernauer Straße.
Later that month, the dismantling of all border security facilities in the inner city was agreed, except for some that were to be preserved as historic monuments.
Later that month, the dismantling of all border security facilities in the inner city was agreed, except for some that were to be preserved as historic monuments.
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The Brexit mood music has changed. You can’t wang on about sovereignty and fish any more and expect people to care. Trade deals aren’t massively convincing either. People just don’t want hassle and higher bills. That’s all Brexit actually delivered. We’re very tired of the failure.
(Letters, Times)
(Letters, Times)
May 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The Brexit mood music has changed. You can’t wang on about sovereignty and fish any more and expect people to care. Trade deals aren’t massively convincing either. People just don’t want hassle and higher bills. That’s all Brexit actually delivered. We’re very tired of the failure.
(Letters, Times)
(Letters, Times)
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Mussolini’s Italy expelled university professors who opposed fascism.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Mussolini’s Italy expelled university professors who opposed fascism.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.