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John FP Lane
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Narrative designer, writer, atheist, left-leaning and fast tipping into Green, lifelong Doctor Who fan. Husband and father.
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John FP Lane @jfplane.bsky.social · Jan 17
I’ll usually follow back, but if you have zero posts and you almost immediately DM me, I’ll be ignoring you.
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Oh fuck, MAGA, go back far enough and it looks like Epstein created YOU! How’s that for some deep conspiracy shit, ya fucking knuckleheads?
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First Thing: Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign
Text messages released by US House show convicted sex offender coaching Maga influencer on political messaging. Plus, readers’ favourite photo booth moments 100 years after its invention
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November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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You don’t even need to finish the question. The answer is always yes.
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Have Reeves and Starmer missed the chance to ditch stealth taxes? | Phillip Inman
Retreat from plans to increase income tax means Labour is unlikely to make system fairer and more coherent
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November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Another MAGA hero representing everything they are supposed to hate. It’s almost as if the entire movement is based on nothing but bullshit.
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Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show
Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people
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November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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A useful listen for raw milk nut jobs.
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Raw Milk
Episodio de podcast · Maintenance Phase · 13/11/2025 · 1 h 6 min
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November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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If there’s a decision, Starmer’s Labour is on the wrong side of it.
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Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Ca...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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😂 These fuckers!
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Trump ends support for Marjorie Taylor Greene amid growing Epstein feud
President turns on ‘Wacky Marjorie’ after congresswoman criticizes effort to block release of key Epstein documents
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November 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Labour literally shit their briefs this week.
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Another nail in the coffin of ‘Nobody’s Party’.
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MP Adnan Hussain quits Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’
Blackburn MP criticises ‘struggle for power’ amid tensions between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
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November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I think the Labour leadership can expect to fuck off.
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No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
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November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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They’re a fucking shambles.
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Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn
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November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Starmer was never meant to be Labour’s prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson
His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
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November 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Specificity is important. The Democratic Party didn't cave. Eight fucking Democrats caved. The whole thing should forever and always be put on the shoulders of these eight fucks.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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How the fuck was Starmer so successful as a lawyer? He’s an absolute fucking disaster area. Every step is a misstep, every read of the room is a misread, every decision wrong. Nature abhors a vacuum and Keir Starmer, both a moral and character vacuum, is naturally abhorred. I wish him all the worst.
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Starmer in opposition: poverty is morally wrong!
Starmer in power: it’s grown up to suffer.
Wanker.
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I like it.
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Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires | Zoe Williams
The singer is giving away millions – but the parameters for criticising the super-rich are very narrow, and hardly anyone qualifies, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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November 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Labour’s Darren Jones said the Greens are making unfeasible promises. “It’s their responsibility to explain…how they would actually choose what to do if they were in government, as opposed to just promising things that are undeliverable.”
The fucking hypocrisy!
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Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons | Rafael Behr
A declining sense of collective identity is corroding trust in our institutions and undermining democratic politics, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Yep, but sadly everywhere, our elected representatives would rather cater to the profits of a few than take care of the well-being of those they owe their positions to.
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The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Football fans should do themselves a favour and fuck these leeches by taking just one year out and refusing to buy tickets. All teams. Everywhere. Just opt out. FIFA cares only about money, so hit them where it hurts.
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The Guardian view on Fifa’s new ‘peace prize’: Gianni Infantino should concentrate on the day job | Editorial
Editorial: The president of world football’s governing body should abandon geopolitical networking and address criticisms over World Cup ticketing
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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Yeah, that money is needed for rich people’s bonuses!
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Reeves rejects plea for £1bn of extra cash to cover NHS redundancy payouts
Health secretary Wes Streeting lobbied behind the scenes for emergency funds to pay off 18,000 staff losing their jobs
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November 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
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November 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Hard to imagine him having allies, being the head of a cult of zero personality.
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Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
Exclusive: No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections
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November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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'What's the new evidence'?

'Keir Starmer's popularity polls'
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BREAKING: The Labour Government will reconsider its block on compensation for Waspi women

Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden has told the Commons the U-turn comes after 'evidence' which had not been considered in the initial decision
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge
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November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Mamdani & Dems SMASHED Trump & Republicans in The 2025 Elections... How Do We Do it in 2026?
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM