Matthew Brooke
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
Outstanding Guardian caption
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Outstanding Guardian caption
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
1. Dissuade talented, hardworking people from coming to the UK
2. Encourage talented, hardworking people to leave the UK
3. ???
4. Economic growth!
2. Encourage talented, hardworking people to leave the UK
3. ???
4. Economic growth!
Net migration to UK drops 69% year on year, ONS says
Net migration to UK drops 69% year on year, ONS says
Figure of 204,000 in 12 months to June 2025 is lowest since 2021, statistics body says
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Net migration to the UK was an estimated 204,000 in the 12 months to June 2025, down 69% year on year and the lowest annual figure since 2021, the Office for National Statistics said.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
1. Dissuade talented, hardworking people from coming to the UK
2. Encourage talented, hardworking people to leave the UK
3. ???
4. Economic growth!
2. Encourage talented, hardworking people to leave the UK
3. ???
4. Economic growth!
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
I guess my question is just "how does politics work?", but: why is Wes Streeting popular? Who supports him? Why would you want him to be in charge?
Operation Save Big Dog By Giving His Main Rival A Chance To Show He’s Better At Politics is going well www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wes Streeting denies plotting to oust Keir Starmer as prime minister
Health secretary dismisses claims as ‘unhelpful’ and ‘self-defeating’ after reports that PM’s job could be under threat
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I guess my question is just "how does politics work?", but: why is Wes Streeting popular? Who supports him? Why would you want him to be in charge?
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imagine John Wayne Gacy, fully integrated into society, followed awkwardly by a robot that looks like the Greendale Human Being and grabs him whenever he lurches towards a young boy
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
imagine John Wayne Gacy, fully integrated into society, followed awkwardly by a robot that looks like the Greendale Human Being and grabs him whenever he lurches towards a young boy
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
Buying anything (electric toothbrush today) is now a choice between a £12 Temu plastic crapbox that'll break after exactly two uses, or a £250 massively overengineered turbogadget that has wifi for some reason and wants me to use AI features. There is no inbetween.
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Buying anything (electric toothbrush today) is now a choice between a £12 Temu plastic crapbox that'll break after exactly two uses, or a £250 massively overengineered turbogadget that has wifi for some reason and wants me to use AI features. There is no inbetween.
Hey @theguardian.com, FYI, your 'key takeaways' from an American mayoral debate aren't news that justifies waking people with a push notification at 3.59am
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Hey @theguardian.com, FYI, your 'key takeaways' from an American mayoral debate aren't news that justifies waking people with a push notification at 3.59am
That wallpaper is sending pathos levels through the roof
Early last year, a group of British neo-Nazis were working towards a terror attack against targets including immigrants and Muslims
The men had already armed themselves and they were becoming impatient. But some members of their group were not all they seemed
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...
The men had already armed themselves and they were becoming impatient. But some members of their group were not all they seemed
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
That wallpaper is sending pathos levels through the roof
It's easy for this stuff to become background noise, but it's important to note that it's absolutely fucking mad
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It's easy for this stuff to become background noise, but it's important to note that it's absolutely fucking mad
Admittedly a niche issue this, but why the fuck has NordPass @nordvpn.bsky.social gone back to using a font that doesn't distinguish between O/0 and l/I (little L/big i)?! It's a password manager FFS
October 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Admittedly a niche issue this, but why the fuck has NordPass @nordvpn.bsky.social gone back to using a font that doesn't distinguish between O/0 and l/I (little L/big i)?! It's a password manager FFS
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It's really important to understand that anyone who says we should be like the UAE fundamentally hates every principle western society has held or attempted to uphold since the French Revolution.
And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.
And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
October 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's really important to understand that anyone who says we should be like the UAE fundamentally hates every principle western society has held or attempted to uphold since the French Revolution.
And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.
And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.
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The whole time that Trump has been saying dumb shit about vaccines, which goes back well before he got into politics, his big issue has always been that The Needle Is Too Big, and that there's too much stuff in it. They're putting dozens, hundreds of things in the needle, it's too big for babies.
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The whole time that Trump has been saying dumb shit about vaccines, which goes back well before he got into politics, his big issue has always been that The Needle Is Too Big, and that there's too much stuff in it. They're putting dozens, hundreds of things in the needle, it's too big for babies.
I can't tell you how often I think about this blog
www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
I Should Be Able to Mute America
The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss
www.gawkerarchives.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I can't tell you how often I think about this blog
www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
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this is insanity and the speed with which 'sensible people' have decided this is normal discourse is completely terrifying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in ‘rudimentary prisons’
Shadow justice minister, seen as nurturing Tory leadership hopes, criticises Reform’s immigration plans as too weak
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
this is insanity and the speed with which 'sensible people' have decided this is normal discourse is completely terrifying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and failed to sign Emiliano Buendia
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and failed to sign Emiliano Buendia
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and faile
#lufc
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and failed to sign Emiliano Buendia
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and faile
#lufc
September 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and failed to sign Emiliano Buendia
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and failed to sign Emiliano Buendia
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and faile
#lufc
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and failed to sign Emiliano Buendia
You wake up, "I got you, babe" playing on the radio, Leeds have tried and faile
#lufc
Jesus, fuck off! Who is asking for this, honestly
September 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Jesus, fuck off! Who is asking for this, honestly
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🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo)
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea inform Bayern Munich they will not be proceeding with proposed loan of Nicolas Jackson after injury to Liam Delap. 24yo striker travelled to Germany for #FCBayern move but #CFC requested Senegal int’l returns to London 🚨
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Chelsea inform Bayern Munich they will not proceed with Nicolas Jackson loan after Liam Delap injury
Delap sustained a hamstring injury during Saturday's victory over Fulham.
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo)
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
Extremely this
August 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Extremely this
Who could've seen this coming, I ask you
In a year of Labour putting major restrictions on legal immigration to appease immigration focussed voters they have gone from 35% to 19% in polls, immigration is now a higher profile issue, and both right opposition parties have moved to calling, either as leaders or as MPs, for mass deportations.
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Who could've seen this coming, I ask you
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on the one hand, no they cannot. on the other, we asked some dumb assholes for answers other than ‘no they cannot’
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
on the one hand, no they cannot. on the other, we asked some dumb assholes for answers other than ‘no they cannot’
Watching Instagram stories of someone who went out & had fully *15* pints yesterday. I genuinely believe that would kill me
August 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Watching Instagram stories of someone who went out & had fully *15* pints yesterday. I genuinely believe that would kill me