Mobile Relic
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Militant liberal, remorseless traveller, irredeemably irascible, relentless shameless virtue signaller 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸🇸🇩🇺🇦🇬🇪
Not even a mention of his appalling openly racist rant about "low IQ" Somalis that, shamefully, none of the press picked him up on? Oh Americans, what have you become?
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Not even a mention of his appalling openly racist rant about "low IQ" Somalis that, shamefully, none of the press picked him up on? Oh Americans, what have you become?
I entirely agree that it is not a good thing to monster immigrants under any circumstances but sadly succeeding in politics at the moment favours a lot of immoral and unethical behaviours...
January 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM
I entirely agree that it is not a good thing to monster immigrants under any circumstances but sadly succeeding in politics at the moment favours a lot of immoral and unethical behaviours...
Fair enough.....but it is good politics to undermine Jenrick with Reform supporters (who are mostly low information) exposing the shabbiness of the whole defection charade and Farage's chops as a political outsider, the basis of much of his appeal
January 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Fair enough.....but it is good politics to undermine Jenrick with Reform supporters (who are mostly low information) exposing the shabbiness of the whole defection charade and Farage's chops as a political outsider, the basis of much of his appeal
Temu Tories is the best I saw...
January 15, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Temu Tories is the best I saw...
It says immigrant visas...wouldn't affect visitor visas
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
It says immigrant visas...wouldn't affect visitor visas
She's known only for being an unhinged Putinista
January 9, 2026 at 10:53 AM
She's known only for being an unhinged Putinista
Nice conspiracy which might make more sense if Trump's other policy actions were not significantly undermining the dollar. And regardless of their reserves Venezuela's consistently decreasing ability to actually extract oil means they were no imminent threat to anyone or anything.
January 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Nice conspiracy which might make more sense if Trump's other policy actions were not significantly undermining the dollar. And regardless of their reserves Venezuela's consistently decreasing ability to actually extract oil means they were no imminent threat to anyone or anything.
That is an apposite summary but there is a significant corollary that much of the population was not just uninformed but substantially (and deliberately) misinformed by the media, primarily - but far from entirely - malevolent newspapers
January 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
That is an apposite summary but there is a significant corollary that much of the population was not just uninformed but substantially (and deliberately) misinformed by the media, primarily - but far from entirely - malevolent newspapers
See also: Got to Get You Into My Life by Earth, Wind & Fire and (the sadly now obscure) Arc of a Diver by Philip King
December 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
See also: Got to Get You Into My Life by Earth, Wind & Fire and (the sadly now obscure) Arc of a Diver by Philip King
Volvo has been Chinese owned for many years now
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Volvo has been Chinese owned for many years now
No, not the same at all. Alf Garnett's atagonists in the show confound his stereotypes of them. Fawlty's antagonists generally confirm them. But this does illustrate sharply that it is not necessary to succomb to stereotypes to find the comedy.
September 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
No, not the same at all. Alf Garnett's atagonists in the show confound his stereotypes of them. Fawlty's antagonists generally confirm them. But this does illustrate sharply that it is not necessary to succomb to stereotypes to find the comedy.
Of course; but that neither explains nor excuses so many secondary characters written as lazy racist and misogynistic (Sybil, the shrill harridan...) stereotypes. This undermined the genuinely comedic moments, even back then. It was always overrated, well before utterly failing the test of time.
September 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Of course; but that neither explains nor excuses so many secondary characters written as lazy racist and misogynistic (Sybil, the shrill harridan...) stereotypes. This undermined the genuinely comedic moments, even back then. It was always overrated, well before utterly failing the test of time.
Not a popular opinion, but I view this as the most over-rated show in British broadcasting history. Even at the time the regular racist tropes were cringe inducing - as an Irish kid, I was diagusted by the awful Irish builder stereotype and consistently bewildered by the hateful portrayal of Mañuel
September 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Not a popular opinion, but I view this as the most over-rated show in British broadcasting history. Even at the time the regular racist tropes were cringe inducing - as an Irish kid, I was diagusted by the awful Irish builder stereotype and consistently bewildered by the hateful portrayal of Mañuel
I think they did last weekend
September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I think they did last weekend
While I love Eurovision and the idea that it was set up to foster peace etc, actually it was established for much more banal technical reasons to test new broadcasting capabilities by the EBU. Obviously it outgrew that fairly quickly.
September 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
While I love Eurovision and the idea that it was set up to foster peace etc, actually it was established for much more banal technical reasons to test new broadcasting capabilities by the EBU. Obviously it outgrew that fairly quickly.
Missing the point: simply pursuing these costly resource-consuming apparently frivolous suits (which will probably end up being settled) is a very effective way of ensuring media are defanged as, from a business perspective, they will attempt to avoid future hassle
September 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Missing the point: simply pursuing these costly resource-consuming apparently frivolous suits (which will probably end up being settled) is a very effective way of ensuring media are defanged as, from a business perspective, they will attempt to avoid future hassle
Does your ex-wife know?
September 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Does your ex-wife know?
Do they wilfully ignore that the ECHR underpinning is in the GFA precisely because no other party to the agreement (including most of the Unionists) trusts the British government? What do they think that even having this discussion is doing to that trust?
September 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Do they wilfully ignore that the ECHR underpinning is in the GFA precisely because no other party to the agreement (including most of the Unionists) trusts the British government? What do they think that even having this discussion is doing to that trust?
Xenophobic? Why not just plain racist...
August 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Xenophobic? Why not just plain racist...
And he was actually Puerto Rican....
August 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
And he was actually Puerto Rican....
It's straight peoples' idea of gay choreography. That's the only explanation. Though I do recall enjoying this immensely as a deeply closeted teenager in 1982
August 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's straight peoples' idea of gay choreography. That's the only explanation. Though I do recall enjoying this immensely as a deeply closeted teenager in 1982