Jacqueline French
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Academic editor. Russian PhD. Love literature, languages, travel, sport. Spurs fan - so often low at weekends.
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We live in the golden age of stupid.
And Trump is it's undisputed emperor
And Trump is it's undisputed emperor
December 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We live in the golden age of stupid.
And Trump is it's undisputed emperor
And Trump is it's undisputed emperor
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The author ends up writing a balanced piece once he tests his assumptions with his daughters. The comment desk decided to stick with the headline, standfirst that was not informed by that
This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
I’m a father of teen girls. I don’t want misogyny lessons for boys
The government is planning classes to combat prejudice against women. Andrew Billen isn’t sure it will work
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December 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The author ends up writing a balanced piece once he tests his assumptions with his daughters. The comment desk decided to stick with the headline, standfirst that was not informed by that
The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
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KB, as ever, takes an issue that's 'structurally complex, emotionally charged & uncomfortable, strip it of its timelines, causality & evidence & then relocates all responsibility elsewhere ... somewhere ... "foreign”'
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KB, as ever, takes an issue that's 'structurally complex, emotionally charged & uncomfortable, strip it of its timelines, causality & evidence & then relocates all responsibility elsewhere ... somewhere ... "foreign”'
The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to blame violence against women on migrants doesn’t just collapse under scrutiny - it actively distracts us from where the harm really happens, and who is actually responsible.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
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KB, as ever, takes an issue that's 'structurally complex, emotionally charged & uncomfortable, strip it of its timelines, causality & evidence & then relocates all responsibility elsewhere ... somewhere ... "foreign”'
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KB, as ever, takes an issue that's 'structurally complex, emotionally charged & uncomfortable, strip it of its timelines, causality & evidence & then relocates all responsibility elsewhere ... somewhere ... "foreign”'
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It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
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How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference
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Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With Foreign Interference Inquiry
As Reform opens the door to crypto donations, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign financial interference in our politics, reports Adam Bienkov
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December 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference
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If the rumours turn out to be true, Trump will declare war on Venezuela in a little under 3 hours time.
That will tip the USA into a whole new level of Trump Derangement Syndrome because a nation at war, and led by a fanatic, can do away with many if not all the normal niceties of democracy.
That will tip the USA into a whole new level of Trump Derangement Syndrome because a nation at war, and led by a fanatic, can do away with many if not all the normal niceties of democracy.
December 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If the rumours turn out to be true, Trump will declare war on Venezuela in a little under 3 hours time.
That will tip the USA into a whole new level of Trump Derangement Syndrome because a nation at war, and led by a fanatic, can do away with many if not all the normal niceties of democracy.
That will tip the USA into a whole new level of Trump Derangement Syndrome because a nation at war, and led by a fanatic, can do away with many if not all the normal niceties of democracy.
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26 former students and staff at Dulwich College have signed an open letter calling for Nigel Farage to apologise for his alleged racist and antisemitic behaviour while a pupil at the top London private school.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
26 former students and staff at Dulwich College have signed an open letter calling for Nigel Farage to apologise for his alleged racist and antisemitic behaviour while a pupil at the top London private school.
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Interesting “warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be” from Tom Baldwin
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A warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be | Tom Baldwin
Leave support is falling. That’s an opportunity the PM should seize before pro-Europe challengers for the Labour leadership do, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer, The Biography
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December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interesting “warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be” from Tom Baldwin
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On this, the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, we wondered how she might regard East Anglia Bylines. Our answer may be found in a most diverting pastiche. Let us know how you think we did!
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A review of East Anglia Bylines, as conceived by Miss Jane Austen
On the occasion of her 250th birthday, we invited Miss Jane Austen to cast a critical eye over our work. We are grateful for her kind attention
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December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
On this, the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, we wondered how she might regard East Anglia Bylines. Our answer may be found in a most diverting pastiche. Let us know how you think we did!
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The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
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T's monstrous actions, rhetoric, and impact feature in almost all top stories in my UK news round-up
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T's monstrous actions, rhetoric, and impact feature in almost all top stories in my UK news round-up
The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
A view from our neighbor
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December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
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T's monstrous actions, rhetoric, and impact feature in almost all top stories in my UK news round-up
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T's monstrous actions, rhetoric, and impact feature in almost all top stories in my UK news round-up
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ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
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Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
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Starmer had some festive advice for Reform MPs at PMQs: "If mysterious men from the east appear bearing gifts, this time report it to the police."
Cheeky fucker.
Cheeky fucker.
December 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Starmer had some festive advice for Reform MPs at PMQs: "If mysterious men from the east appear bearing gifts, this time report it to the police."
Cheeky fucker.
Cheeky fucker.
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London is looking spectacular in its Christmas decorations. I've honestly never seen it look so wonderful. Makes those "they've cancelled Christmas" people look like absolute clowns.
Here's Covent Garden's tree.
Here's Covent Garden's tree.
December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
London is looking spectacular in its Christmas decorations. I've honestly never seen it look so wonderful. Makes those "they've cancelled Christmas" people look like absolute clowns.
Here's Covent Garden's tree.
Here's Covent Garden's tree.
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For 5 years Britain has tiptoed around Europe, afraid to admit what was lost.
Erasmus+ is the first honest step towards rebuilding trust – through people, not tariffs.
More in our latest article ⤵️
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Erasmus+ is the first honest step towards rebuilding trust – through people, not tariffs.
More in our latest article ⤵️
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Why Erasmus matters more than any customs fix
Britain’s debate over tariffs misses the point: people, not paperwork, determine whether Europe feels shared again
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December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
For 5 years Britain has tiptoed around Europe, afraid to admit what was lost.
Erasmus+ is the first honest step towards rebuilding trust – through people, not tariffs.
More in our latest article ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Erasmus+ is the first honest step towards rebuilding trust – through people, not tariffs.
More in our latest article ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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This is what seasoned diplomats call a "WTAF moment."
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is what seasoned diplomats call a "WTAF moment."
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
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Very well said Richard.
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
Six years after it was scrapped, Erasmus+ is coming back. As our Campaigns Manager, Richard Kilpatrick, explains, this goes far beyond university exchanges, supporting schools, youth programmes, vocational training and deprived communities across the UK.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very well said Richard.
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
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I love that American nationalists think other countries should give America their oil.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I love that American nationalists think other countries should give America their oil.
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Amusing and insightful
🚨NEW - My latest piece for The New Yorker.
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
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Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
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Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
A New Yorker Profile
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December 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Amusing and insightful
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🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
An utterly new model.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
An utterly new model.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
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December 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
An utterly new model.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
An utterly new model.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Trump hopeful land attacks on Venezuela will distract from release of Epstein files
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"CIA warns such action cld result in Russian-made missiles sinking US aircraft carriers, but T's ...willing to sacrifice US personnel to save his own skin. That’s patriotism for ya"
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"CIA warns such action cld result in Russian-made missiles sinking US aircraft carriers, but T's ...willing to sacrifice US personnel to save his own skin. That’s patriotism for ya"
Trump hopeful land attacks on Venezuela will distract from release of Epstein files
President Trump has decided to launch land strikes against Venezuela to stop people talking about the embarrassing stuff in the Esptein files.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Trump hopeful land attacks on Venezuela will distract from release of Epstein files
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"CIA warns such action cld result in Russian-made missiles sinking US aircraft carriers, but T's ...willing to sacrifice US personnel to save his own skin. That’s patriotism for ya"
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"CIA warns such action cld result in Russian-made missiles sinking US aircraft carriers, but T's ...willing to sacrifice US personnel to save his own skin. That’s patriotism for ya"
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🚨 #GVerse #BreakinNews
Pam Bondi PANICS after DOJ whistleblower Ryan Crosswell - who QUIT when #Shit4Brain’s DOJ tried to shut down prosecutions for his allies -
- says he’s running for Congress to NOT ONLY expose her corruption in the record, but to ALSO hold her accountable.
This is huge. 🔥
Pam Bondi PANICS after DOJ whistleblower Ryan Crosswell - who QUIT when #Shit4Brain’s DOJ tried to shut down prosecutions for his allies -
- says he’s running for Congress to NOT ONLY expose her corruption in the record, but to ALSO hold her accountable.
This is huge. 🔥
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🚨 #GVerse #BreakinNews
Pam Bondi PANICS after DOJ whistleblower Ryan Crosswell - who QUIT when #Shit4Brain’s DOJ tried to shut down prosecutions for his allies -
- says he’s running for Congress to NOT ONLY expose her corruption in the record, but to ALSO hold her accountable.
This is huge. 🔥
Pam Bondi PANICS after DOJ whistleblower Ryan Crosswell - who QUIT when #Shit4Brain’s DOJ tried to shut down prosecutions for his allies -
- says he’s running for Congress to NOT ONLY expose her corruption in the record, but to ALSO hold her accountable.
This is huge. 🔥
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Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
Trump's response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner says it all
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It does. Beyond disgusting.
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It does. Beyond disgusting.
Trump's response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner says it all
Friends,
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December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Trump's response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner says it all
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It does. Beyond disgusting.
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It does. Beyond disgusting.