maryjolley.bsky.social
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Jenrick saying he's "put aside personal ambition" too join Reform is the single most shameless statement I've ever heard.

If he "put aside personal ambition" he'd disappear. That's all there is.
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo
January 15, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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A huge chunk of our political class has "book-you-see-in-an-airport" brain.

Just no interest in rigour.
Banning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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So rugby league
January 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Doesn’t feel coincidental that all of the ‘women’ in the advert look to have barely reached adulthood. If that.
"And I never say no"

We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.

We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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It’s all so pathetic isn’t it
December 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Always enjoy the slow descent of 6Music at this time of year, they hold out as long as they can but by Xmas Eve they’ll be playing Wham just like everyone else
“2000 Miles” by Pretenders #nowplaying #6music
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I wish the Brexit dinosaurs would stop this "Erasmus is for posh kids" crap. Half the young population goes to university, these days, in UK and most of EU. And most of the half that doesn't is also eligible for Erasmus+, which covers schools, further education, adult learners and in-work training.
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Trump has done so many terrible things, but something about that deranged and hideous response to a man and his wife being brutally murdered has taken things to an appalling new level. There is a genuine psychopath in the Oval Office.
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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oh piss off
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Farage: I won’t do a deal with the Tories because they were dishonest and incompetent.

Also Farage: We’re recruiting as many Tory MPs as we can.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Why is British politics so lousy with people who have no interest in solving problems?
Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply.

It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?
December 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I just can't get over the fact that the guy who gave this quote is 45. It would be embarrassing for all involved if this quote came from the *current* under-14 chess champion, but from an adult...I worry I've ruptured something from cringing so hard.
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Running out of words to describe what’s happening in America.

How about fucking outrageous.
October 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t.

That’s…not a sustainable position.
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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No, no, there's no boys club, insists the government that has full confidence in the best pal of Jeffrey Epstein, whilst Rayner, Haigh and Gray all had to depart because they were too much of a distraction!
September 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Funny how this keeps happening?
EXCLUSIVE | A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is now part of a group of vigilantes, who have been ‘patrolling’ Belfast's streets and claim to be protecting women and children from migrants
Thug convicted of bid to murder child is part of far right ‘save our children’ vigilante group in east Belfast
A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is part of a far-right vigilante ‘save our children’ group patrolling Belfast’s streets.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
September 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Each day I am astounded and mortified by this country’s descent into open and brazen racism

I am equally astounded and mortified that rather than push back on the malign forces taking us to these dark places - an elected Labour government appears more interested in trying to learn from them
September 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM