Martin
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Martin
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This is my new home
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Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Feeling a bit low today? That’s human.
Being told it’s the most depressing day of the year? That’s marketing.

Blue Monday is not an actual thing.
I should know. I wrote a book explaining why our brains fall for it.

The Idiot Brain - Million-selling 10th Anniversary edition out now.
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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A little reminder of what an arsehole Robert Jenrick is.
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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All of these accusations are disgusting.

Here are more.

That's 34 accusations now.

And yet there's Farage - out there - smirking his way about the place like some British Trump. Seemingly untouched by it all.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries say Reform leader often used antisemitic language and racial epithets
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country.

Well ours anyway…

So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
December 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Nigel Farage is a vile, thin skinned, little man.
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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There should be a tax on ridiculously bloated road boats registered in urban areas, because (a) they cause obvious problems in such areas (b) they are bad for the environment (c) they are dangerous for children (d) they are awful, and driving them should be expensive and socially stigmatised.
Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'.

Okay.
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Huge congrats to Rob Jetten, our D66 friends, and VVD in the Netherlands! 💛

Proof that hope, optimism and liberal values can beat the fear and division of the populist right.

Let’s do the same here in the UK and wipe the smile off Farage’s face at the local elections in May.
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Private Eye nailing it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
October 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Bee Brutalism r/brutalism
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.
September 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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What with hiring Russian stooges, violent criminals and having a sex pest in the family, you'd think Nigel Farage would be considered an utter disgrace that should be kept off all broadcast channels and struck from politics, not championed in any way at all.
🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...
Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle.

Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
August 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Perhaps, rather than the majority of us broadening our circle of friends to accommodate a minority of British people who are out and out xenophobes, that small group of bigots could learn to be less racist.

Just a thought
It's got to the stage where if 'you don't know anyone whose voting for Reform' you need to broaden your social circle.

Or, perhaps, reflect on what it is about your behaviour that means your friends don't feel able to be open with you about politics.
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Kudos to the BBC reporter for getting the Trump interview but, as a shallow egomaniac of limited cognitive abilities whose utterances are relentlessly repeated, nothing that Trump says is interesting or even surprising.
July 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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That’s one hell of an article title. And one hell of an image in the article.

“Call to drop Range Rover sponsorship of Wimbledon as SUVs 82% more likely to kill children.”

Good idea.

www.londondaily.news/call-to-drop...
July 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM